Associations to the word «Marionette»

Wiktionary

MARIONETTE, noun. A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
MARIONETTE, noun. (zoology) The buffel duck.
MARIONETTE, verb. (transitive) To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.

Dictionary definition

MARIONETTE, noun. A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope