puppeteer
(pʌpɪˈtɪə(r))
[f. puppet n. + -eer.]
One who operates puppets; spec. one whose occupation is the creation, management, or exhibition of puppet-shows; also fig. (cf. puppet n. 3 b).
| 1930 A. Gerstenberg Comedies All 175 (play-title) The puppeteer. 1934 Church Times 30 Nov. 614/4 Every puppeteer has his own whimsies. Mr. William Simmonds..makes as well as manipulates his own puppets. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Oct. 5/4 A cartoon in the Communist party newspaper Pravda today pictured the United States as a puppeteer manipulating votes of delegates in the United Nations. 1958 Times 10 July 4/5 The Rumanian and Polish puppeteers, at least, are set on their own underivative ways towards truly creative expression. 1969 A. R. Philpot Dict. Puppetry 8 The compiler of the Dictionary has had around forty years as a professional puppeteer, some twenty years as an instructor and nearly as long as editor of a puppetry magazine. 1972 M. Sheppard Taman Indera 69 A puppeteer and a group of musicians were maintained by many northern Malay rajas in the nineteenth century. 1979 West Lancs. Even. Gaz. 23 Nov. 25 (Advt.), Puppeteers available—International Cabaret Puppeteers, Scarborough. |