puppeteer

English

Etymology

puppet +‎ -eer

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

puppeteer (plural puppeteers)

1. A person who uses a puppet.
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.

Derived terms

• puppeteering
• sock puppeteer

Translations

person who uses a puppet

• Azerbaijani: kuklaçı
• 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
• Hungarian: bábjátékos (hu)
• Indonesian: dalang (id)
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• Italian: burattinaio m, burattinaia f, marionettista m, puparo (it) m
• Polish: lalkarz (pl) m
• 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)
• Spanish: titiritero (es) m
• Swedish: dockspelare c, marionettspelare c
• Turkish: kuklacı (tr)

someone who is manipulative

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 控制狂

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• 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.