effigy
English
editEtymology
editFrom French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editeffigy (plural effigies)
- A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
- In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned.
- A likeness of a person.
- 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods[1], London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:
- All around, terrace by terrace, there went marble lawns well guarded by onyx lions and carved with effigies of all the gods striding amid the symbols of the worlds.
Synonyms
editCoordinate terms
edit- (crude representation of a person): caricature
Derived terms
editTranslations
editdummy or other crude representation
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likeness of a person
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