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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - patsy

 
 

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Patsy

patsy
(patsies) If you describe someone as a patsy, you mean that they are rather stupid and are easily tricked by other people, or can be made to take the blame for other people’s actions. (AM INFORMAL) Davis was nobody’s patsy... = mug N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
   noun  (plural patsies)  Etymology: perhaps from Italian pazzo fool  Date: 1903 a person who is easily manipulated or victimized ; pushover ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
  n. (pl. -ies) esp. US sl. a person who is deceived, ridiculed, tricked, etc. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn. PATTEN n. hist. a shoe or clog with a raised sole or set on an iron ring, for walking in mud etc. Etymology: ME f. OF patin f. patte paw ...
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  1. ам. сл. трус, ничтожество; слабый человек 2. ам. сл. слабый, плохой игрок 3. ам. сл. простофиля; простак to play smb. for a patsy —- обвести кого-либо вокруг пальца; надуть (одурачить) кого-либо I do not pretend I am some kind of a patsy —- я не прикидываюсь простачком 4. ам. сл. козел отпущения ...
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  noun coll.  1) простофиля; простак  2) козел отпущения ...
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  ~ n AmE informal someone who is easily tricked or deceived, especially into taking the blame for someone else's crime ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
  - 1903, of unknown origin, possibly an alteration of It. pazzo "madman," or south It. dial. paccio "fool." Another theory traces it to Patsy Bolivar, character in an 1880s minstrel skit who was blamed whenever anything went wrong. ...
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