puppet

     

A puppet is a representational figure manipulate by a puppeteer. It is usually but not always a depiction of a human character and is used in a play or a presentation. The puppet undergoes a process of transformation through being animated, and is normally manipulated by one, or sometimes more than one, puppeteer. Some puppets can be moved electronically. There are lots of different things that puppets are used for. Some for entertainment, some for Politics and some for Culture.

Trivia about puppet

  • Kukla or Ollie, but not Fran
  • A quocker-wodger is a wooden one of these children's toys with strings
  • In the ballet "Petrouchka", the ballerina is one of these doll-like toys, as is Petrouchka himself