英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

marionette (plural marionettes)

1. A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
   • 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

     If you think we are worked by strings,
     Like a Japanese marionette,
     You don't understand these things:
     It is simply Court etiquette.

2. (obsolete) The buffel duck.

派生語

動詞

marionette (third-person singular simple present marionettes, present participle marionetting, simple past and past participle marionetted)

1. (transitive) To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.

参考

• manipulator

参照

• marionette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Marionettes in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• metanorite, ortetamine, temeration