dummy it

English

Noun

Examples
  • It is raining.
  • It was lonely there all by myself.
  • They're living it up in New York.
  • The kids were pushing it by ignoring their parents' lights-out command.
  • Cheese it!

dummy it (plural dummy its)

  1. (grammar) The pronoun "it" used without any referent, serving only to satisfy rules of syntax.
    Synonyms: ambient it, empty it
    Hypernyms: dummy pronoun < pronoun
    Hyponym: weather it
    Coordinate term: anticipatory it
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