puppeteer

English

Etymology

puppet +‎ -eer

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

puppeteer (plural puppeteers)

1. A person who uses a puppet.

   Synonym: puppet master

   Hyponym: sock puppeteer

2. (figurative) Someone who is manipulative and thus able to get people to do what they want or events to develop in the way they want, respectively, in a puppet-like manner.

Synonyms

• (person responsible for another's actions): organ grinder

Derived terms

• puppeteering
• sock puppeteer

Translations

person who uses a puppet

• Azerbaijani: kuklaçı
• Belarusian: ля́лечнік m (ljálječnik)
• Bulgarian: куклово́д m (kuklovód)
• Czech: loutkoherec m, loutkář m
• Dutch: poppenspeler (nl) m
• Esperanto: marionetisto, marionetistino
• French: marionnettiste (fr) m or f
• German: Puppenspieler (de) m, Puppenspielerin (de) f
• Greek: μαριονετίστας (el) m (marionetístas), κουκλοπαίχτης (el) m (kouklopaíchtis)
• Hungarian: bábjátékos (hu)
• Indonesian: dalang (id)
• Italian: burattinaio m, burattinaia f, marionettista m, puparo (it) m
• Kyrgyz: куурчакчы (kuurçakçı)
• Macedonian: куклар m (kuklar)
• Polish: lalkarz (pl) m, lalkarka f, animator (pl) m, animatorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: marionetista m or f, fantocheiro m
• Romanian: păpușar (ro) m, marionetist (ro) m (rare), marionetistă f (rare)
• Russian: куклово́д (ru) m (kuklovód), ку́кольник (ru) m (kúkolʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лу̏тка̄р m

  Roman: lȕtkār (sh) m

• Slovak: bábkar (sk) m, bábkoherec m
• Slovene: lutkar (sl) m, lutkarica f
• Spanish: titiritero (es) m, muñequero m, marionetista m or f
• Swedish: dockspelare c, marionettspelare c
• Turkish: kuklacı (tr)
• Ukrainian: лялька́р m (ljalʹkár)

someone who is manipulative

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 控制狂

• French: manipulateur (fr) m
• Italian: manipolatore (it) m, burattinaio m
• Romanian: manipulant (ro) m, manipulator (ro) m

Verb

puppeteer (third-person singular simple present puppeteers, present participle puppeteering, simple past and past participle puppeteered)

1. To control a person, event, or organisation.

Translations

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Further reading

• puppeteer at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “puppeteer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• "puppeteer" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.