Childrearing for dummies

[nq:1]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a binky. I gather that this is another name for a ... teat" according to OED (which defines a pacifier as a baby's dummy, leaving me wondering what an adult's dummy is.)[/nq]
Or a ventriloquist's dummy.
When adults spit something here, it's usually the dummy, though someone I know says "spit the proverbial nana", and how that came to

[nq:1]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a binky. I gather that this is another name for a ... teat" according to OED (which defines a pacifier as a baby's dummy, leaving me wondering what an adult's dummy is.)[/nq]
According to my mother, they used to call her father's pipe his dummy(1). I presume that, when she and her sister told him that, she used the Dutch word for pacifie

[nq:2]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a ... baby's dummy, leaving me wondering what an adult's dummy is.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Or a ventriloquist's dummy.[/nq]
Or a crash test dummy.
There are various sense-disambiguating qualifiers like these. Another example is as in "university degree". I'm just trying to think of some good other examples..
[nq:1]When adults spit someth

[nq:1]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a binky. I gather that this is another name for a pacifier.[/nq]
Are you sure it isn't a security blanket?

SML
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[nq:2]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a ... baby's dummy, leaving me wondering what an adult's dummy is.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Or a ventriloquist's dummy.[/nq]
I'm with you so far.
[nq:1]When adults spit something here, it's usually the dummy, though someone I know says "spit the proverbial nana", and how that came to be I've no idea.[/nq]
Nope, sorry. Completely baffled.

[nq:2]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a binky. I gather that this is another name for a pacifier.[/nq]
[nq:1]Are you sure it isn't a security blanket?[/nq]
That's a "blankie". The "binky" goes in the mouth.

[nq:2]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a binky. I gather that this is another name for a pacifier.[/nq]
[nq:1]Are you sure it isn't a security blanket?[/nq]
My correspondent refers to a blankie later in the message and I assumed from the context that that was a security blanket. Perhaps my correspondent is using family-specific expressions?

Laura
(emulate St.

[nq:2]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a ... baby's dummy, leaving me wondering what an adult's dummy is.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Or a ventriloquist's dummy. When adults spit something here, it's usually the dummy, though someone I know says "spit the proverbial nana", and how that came to be I've no idea.[/nq]
I have read this sentence several times but I still have no idea what it

[nq:2]Are you sure it isn't a security blanket?[/nq]
[nq:1]My correspondent refers to a blankie later in the message and I assumed from the context that that was a security blanket. Perhaps my correspondent is using family-specific expressions?[/nq]
You malign your correspondent, and he or she is probably most undeserving of such implications of doubt.
See:

Laura F Spira filted:
[nq:1]A recent email from a Leftpondian friend refers to a binky. I gather that this is another name for a ... dummy, leaving me wondering what an adult's dummy is.) Are there other words in other places for the same object?[/nq]
I'm told mine was called the "golly" (from the sound I made when I used it), and there are those who call a "nuk" after the brand name..