Patsy

Noun

 * 1)  A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

Thesaurus
babe, boob, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fish, fool, goat, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, innocent, leadpipe cinch, mark, monkey, pigeon, plaything, prize sap, pushover, sap, saphead, scapegoat, schlemiel, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, toy, trusting soul, victim, whipping boy

Etymology
The term dates back at least to the 1870s in the United States, close to the peak of Irish migration. The OED's recent revisions link Patsy with Pat and Paddy, the stereotype of the bogtrotter just off the boat. The American Heritage Dictionary and Online Etymology Dictionary quotes the OED it may derive from the Italian pazzo ("madman" ), and south Italian dialect paccio ("fool"). Another possibility is the term derives from Patsy Bolivar, a character in an 1880s minstrel skit who was blamed whenever anything went wrong, in Broadway musical comedies, for example in The Errand Boy [1904] and Patsy in Politics [1907].

Translations

 * Bulgarian: карък
 * Finnish: syntipukki, lavastuksen uhri
 * French:, , dindon de la farce


 * Hebrew: פראייר (frayer)
 * Serbo-Croatian: žrtva, ovca

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