decoy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdiːkɔɪ/
decoy (plural decoys)
- A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
- A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
- French: leurre, appât
- German: Lockvogel, Köder
- Italian: esca, richiamo
- Portuguese: chamariz
- Russian: прима́нка
- Spanish: señuelo, carnada (colloquial)
- French: leurre
- German: Lockvogel
- Italian: zimbello
- Portuguese: chamariz
- Russian: мано́к
- Spanish: señuelo, carnada (colloquial), cimbel
decoy (decoys, present participle decoying; past and past participle decoyed)
- (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
- to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net
- E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, / The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
- (intransitive) To act as, or use, a decoy.
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