Other forms: pacifiers
A pacifier is the rubber teat a baby sucks to stay calm. Give the baby a pacifier, drop the pacifier, wean off the pacifier.
It is the American word; Britain says dummy and Australia says dummy too. The name is the honest one of the three, since the whole purpose of a pacifier is to settle a baby who is not hungry.
1nounpacifierThe rubber teat a baby sucks to stay calm.
“The baby stopped crying as soon as his mother gave him his pacifier.”
pacifier is a teat.
Also accepted in games: dummy
Latin
pāx — peace
Middle French
pacifier
English
pacify
English, today
pacifier
Built from
From pacify + -er. pacify comes from Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“to do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA