dummy vs twerp

dummy

noun
  • A stupid person. 

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To feint. 

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

adv
  • Extremely. 

twerp

noun
  • A fool, a twit. 

  • A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. 

  • A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). 

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