Definition of "mannikin" [mannikin]

• Variant of manikin. (noun)

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• "A robot dolphin is not a real dolphin, any more than a mannikin is a man."
• "The daughter, nine years old, and not above forty feet high, was very good natured, became my schoolmistress, and called me Grildrig, which imports in English, mannikin."
• "Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind."