"whipping boy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: whipping boys [plural]
Etymology: First recorded in 1647. Head templates: {{en-noun}} whipping boy (plural whipping boys)
  1. (historical) A boy that was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince. Tags: historical
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  2. (transferred sense) Someone punished for the errors of others. Synonyms: scapegoat, scapegoat Translations (someone punished for the errors of others): մտրակող տղա (mtrakoġ tġa) (Armenian), 替罪羊 (tìzuìyáng) (Chinese Mandarin), piske dreng (Danish), zondebok [masculine] (Dutch), vipanta knabon (Esperanto), peksupoiss (Estonian), syntipukki (Finnish), lampiste [feminine, masculine] (French), pigeon [masculine] (French), souffre-douleur (French), Prügelknabe [masculine] (German), נער מלקות (náar malkót) [masculine] (Hebrew), pofozógép (Hungarian), bűnbak (Hungarian), capro espiatorio [masculine] (Italian), plāgipatida [masculine] (Latin), chłopiec do bicia [masculine] (Polish), bode expiatório [masculine] (Portuguese), țap ispășitor [masculine] (Romanian), ма́льчик для битья́ (málʹčik dlja bitʹjá) [masculine] (Russian), козёл отпуще́ния (kozjól otpuščénija) [masculine] (Russian), крайний (krajnij) [masculine] (Russian), стре́лочник (stréločnik) [masculine] (Russian), chivo expiatorio [masculine] (Spanish), strykpojke [common-gender] (Swedish), strykgosse [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-whipping_boy-en-noun-gY1j9p-g Disambiguation of 'someone punished for the errors of others': 1 99

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.