dummy vs piccolo

dummy

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

  • A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move. 

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

  • A stupid person. 

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

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

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

  • A word serving only to make a construction grammatical. 

  • An unused parameter or value. 

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

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

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

adv
  • Extremely. 

verb
  • To feint. 

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

piccolo

noun
  • A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox. 

  • A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle. 

  • A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher. 

  • A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant. 

  • An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute. 

adj
  • Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments. 

How often have the words dummy and piccolo occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )