"whipping girl" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Glyn Idris Jones, No Official Umbrella, Douglas Foote, page 273",
          "text": "Anthony Quayle was another, directing at the Haymarket, only his was a whipping girl, a young actress to whom he was so abusive one day that it was all I could do to control myself and he suddenly knew it because he looked at me and ...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Mark Lawrence, Red Sister, Penguin, page 268",
          "text": "“Arabella herself may well have been raised with a whipping girl to receive her punishments for her.” “I know I was.” Sherzal smiled. “How my tutors used to beat poor Susi. I never did seem to learn my lesson though.”",
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        "The female equivalent of a whipping boy."
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          "whipping boy",
          "whipping boy"
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  "word": "whipping girl"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2008, Glyn Idris Jones, No Official Umbrella, Douglas Foote, page 273",
          "text": "Anthony Quayle was another, directing at the Haymarket, only his was a whipping girl, a young actress to whom he was so abusive one day that it was all I could do to control myself and he suddenly knew it because he looked at me and ...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Mark Lawrence, Red Sister, Penguin, page 268",
          "text": "“Arabella herself may well have been raised with a whipping girl to receive her punishments for her.” “I know I was.” Sherzal smiled. “How my tutors used to beat poor Susi. I never did seem to learn my lesson though.”",
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        }
      ],
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        "The female equivalent of a whipping boy."
      ],
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          "whipping boy",
          "whipping boy"
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