The difference between Dummy and Oaf

When used as nouns, dummy means a silent person, whereas oaf means a person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton.


Dummy is also verb with the meaning: to make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dummy and Oaf

  1. Dummy as a noun:

    A silent person; a person who does not talk.

  2. Dummy as a noun:

    An unintelligent person.

    Examples:

    "Don't be such a dummy!"

  3. Dummy as a noun:

    A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

  4. Dummy as a noun:

    Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

    Examples:

    "To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop."

  5. Dummy as a noun:

    A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.

  6. Dummy as a noun:

    A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

    Examples:

    "The hammer and drill in the display are dummies."

  7. Dummy as a noun (AU, UK, NZ):

    A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.

    Examples:

    "The baby wants her dummy."

  8. Dummy as a noun (card games, chiefly, bridge):

    A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

  9. Dummy as a noun (UK):

    A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.

  10. Dummy as a noun (linguistics):

    A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

    Examples:

    "The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy."

  11. Dummy as a noun (programming):

    An unused parameter or value.

    Examples:

    "If <code>flag1</code> is false, the other parameters are dummies."

  12. Dummy as a noun (sports, mostly, rugby, soccer):

    A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

  1. Dummy as a verb:

    To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

    Examples:

    "The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals."

  2. Dummy as a verb:

    To feint

  1. Oaf as a noun (pejorative):

    A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton; an idiot.

    Examples:

    "Ouch! You dropped that box on my feet, you lumbering oaf!"

  2. Oaf as a noun (obsolete):

    An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child.