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effigy
[ ef-i-jee ]
noun
- a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.
- a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
effigy
/ ɪˈfɪdʒɪəl; ˈɛfɪdʒɪ /
noun
- a portrait of a person, esp as a monument or architectural decoration
- a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang in effigy )
Derived Forms
- effigial, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·ھ·· [ih-, fij, -ee-, uh, l], adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of effigy1
Idioms and Phrases
- in effigy, in public view in the form of an effigy:
a leader hanged in effigy by the mob.
More idioms and phrases containing effigy
see in effigy .Example Sentences
The golden bruins emblazon the state flag and seal, live on in cartoonish effigy as university mascots, and roll off the tip of our tongue in place names like Grizzly Flats and Big Bear Lake.
Protesters in Panama City on Friday burned effigies of Trump and Rubio.
In July 1901, an effigy hanging near the entrance of the home bore on its chest a placard reading “1/4 master” — quartermaster, the man in charge of survival basics such as food and water.
Each society spends months producing an effigy - or tableau - which are paraded through the streets and then burned at the bonfire sites.
Six different bonfire societies are holding processions through the East Sussex town and spectators will watch as huge effigies are paraded through the streets.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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