patsy[noun]Synonyms: scapegoat, fall guy, goat, whipping boy, fool, chump, dupe, gull, mark, pigeon, sap, sucker, victim
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Patsy a character in the humorous British television programme
Absolutely Fabulous, played by the actress Joanna
Lumley. Patsy Stone is an
upper class woman and works for a fashion magazine but spends most of her time drinking alcohol, taking drugs, and shopping in expensive clothes shops.
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pat‧sy /ˈpætsi/
noun (
plural patsies)
[countable] especially American English informal[
Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: Perhaps from Italian pazzo 'stupid person']
someone who is easily tricked or deceived, especially so that they take the blame for someone else’s crime
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