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Puppe — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • babe noun A baby or very young child.
  • chrysalis noun The hard protective case a caterpillar forms around itself while it transforms into a butterfly.
  • doll noun A toy made in the likeness of a human figure, often a child's plaything.
  • dummy noun A model or replica of a person or object, used as a stand-in.
  • effigy noun A crude model or figure made to represent a person or group, often so it can be mocked, burned, or destroyed in protest.
  • mole noun A small, raised, often dark spot on the skin.

Senses

Puppe is used for these senses in English:

  • babe (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
  • chrysalis The pupa of a butterfly or moth, particularly bare and hanging or girdled, as opposed to enclosed in a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.
  • dummy A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  • effigy A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
  • pupa (entomology) An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.

babe — full definition

  1. noun A baby or very young child.
  2. noun An informal, often affectionate term for a romantic partner or attractive person.

chrysalis — full definition

  1. noun The hard protective case a caterpillar forms around itself while it transforms into a butterfly.
  2. noun A stage of sheltered transformation or growth, used figuratively.

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