whipping girl
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Noun[edit]
whipping girl (plural whipping girls)
- The female equivalent of a whipping boy.
- 2008, Glyn Idris Jones, No Official Umbrella, Douglas Foote, →ISBN, page 273:
- 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 ...
- 2018, Mark Lawrence, Red Sister, Penguin, →ISBN, page 268:
- “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.”