Thesaurus:scapegoat
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: someone punished for the error(s) of someone else[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- escapegoat
- fall guy
- folk devil (idiomatic)
- goat (informal)
- Joe Soap (British)
- patsy
- scapegoat
- whipping boy
Hypernyms[edit]
Holonyms[edit]
See also[edit]
- Thesaurus:dupe (gullible person)
Further reading[edit]
- “147. substitution” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “scapegoat” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.