English Dictionary

manikin

/ˈmænɪkɪn/

noun

Alternative spelling of mannequin. / A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). / A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.

The store had a display of manikins wearing the latest fashion trends.

意味（1）

Alternative spelling of mannequin.

Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window.

意味（2）

A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment).

This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.

意味（3）

A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.

[…] he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the color of a three days’ old Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be.