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Tweet n. 1. See mannequin. 2. A subservient or insignificant person. [From obsolete layman, from Dutch leeman, variant of ledenman : obsolete Dutch led, limb (from Middle Dutch lit) + man, man (from Middle Dutch; see MANIKIN).] |
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