whipping boy
English
Etymology
Middle English wippen "flap violently", from Proto-Germanic wipp-, from Proto-Indo-European wib- "move quickly". Whipping boy first recorded 1647.
Noun
whipping boy (plural whipping boys)
Synonyms
Translations
someone punished for the errors of others
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