What does "dumrnies " mean?
I started read "The October Country by Ray Bradbury" and I can't understand the meaning of this word. I even can't find this word in dictionaries. Here is the sentence from the book with this word:
"The managers of the various carnival pitches stood , like melting wax dumrnies , eyes staring blindly , not talking , all down the line"

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What does "dumrnies " mean?
I started read    "The October Country by Ray Bradbury"  and I can't understand the meaning of this word. I even   can't find this word in dictionaries. Here is  the sentence from the book with this word:
"The managers of the various carnival pitches stood , like melting wax dumrnies , eyes staring blindly , not talking , all down the line"

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The word is "dummies'. In this context it means manequins. A life-size model of the human form, usually used in shop windows to display clothing. Dummies (plural of dummy) has other meanings, including people who are not very intelligent; a nipple-shaped object given to babies to suck on - Americans call these pacifiers - and finally, a  substitute for a real item - a dummy pistol is a fake/replica pistol that does not actually shoot bullets.

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Looks like a typo should be spelt Dummies.
If you are not sure of the analogy have you heard of Madame Tussauds?  It is a wax museum in London.  They make life like wax dummies of famous people.

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It looks like a typo to me. I would read this as "dummies" which would also make sense in this sentence.

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In this context, the word, 'dummies' means people having no conviction. The managers here were just like mannequins who were just pushed and shoved by their higher-ups.

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