A life-size dummy used to display clothes

• Any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior
• A woman who wears clothes to display fashions

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manakin \Man"a*kin\, n. A dwarf. See Manikin . --Shak.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin , manikin , mannikin , fashion model , model ] a life-size dummy used to display clothes [syn: mannequin , manikin , mannikin , form ] any of numerous ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The manakins are a clade ( Pipridae ) of unique small suboscine passerine birds . The group contains some 60 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch mannekijn "little man" (also the source of the different bird name ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several small, passerine, South American birds of the family Pipridae.