stooge
pronunciation
How to pronounce stooge in British English:
UK [stu:dʒ]
How to pronounce stooge in American English:
US [studʒ]
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- Noun:
- a person of unquestioning obedience
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
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- Verb:
- cruise in slow or routine flights
- act as the stooge
- act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner
Word Origin
- stooge (n.)
- 1913, "stage assistant, actor who assists a comedian," of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of student (with the mispronunciation STOO-jent), in sense of "apprentice." Meaning "lackey, person used for another's purpose" first recorded 1937. The Three Stooges film slapstick act debuted in movies 1930, originally as "Ted Healy and His Stooges."
Example
- 1. Those close to tsai eng-meng deny that he is beijing 's stooge .
- 2. Saudi arabia 's king abdullah was described as saying he viewed iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki as an iranian stooge .
- 3. At this year 's election in february , yanukovych - once tagged a russian stooge - scored a stunning victory to become ukraine 's fourth president .
- 4. But mr chaudhry has also been at odds with the new administration-so much so that president asif ali zardari 's men have painted him as a stooge of the army .
- 5. The iranians , for their part , want mr obama to assure them he will not try to replace the out-of-favour president hamid karzai , whom they helped install , with an american stooge , far less make terms with dissidents from the viscerally anti-iranian taliban ; mr obama recently hinted at such an approach .