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▪ I. patsy, n. slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈpætsɪ|
[Origin unknown.]
A person who is ridiculed, deceived, blamed, or victimized.
1903‘H. McHugh’ Back to Woods 68 I'm the Patsy, oh, maybe! 1920Ade Hand-Made Fables 76 Sometimes they ask him to come back and be the Village Patsy once more. 1927[see build-up a]. 1953Wodehouse Performing Flea 205 That gentle pity which the kind-hearted always feel when they regard the fellow whom Fate has called upon to be the Patsy, the Squidge or, putting it another way, the man who has been left holding the baby. 1954J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday vii. 45 She's making a patsy of you. 1960Analog Science Fact/Fiction Oct. 151/1 We had to have a patsy—some one to put the blame on. 1967Punch 8 Feb. 211/3 Blamey blunders about, the perfect patsy, while we watch the real sex-maniac at work. 1970J. H. Gray Boy from Winnipeg 57, I had grown somewhat more able to take care of myself and hence had ceased to be the school patsy. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Nov. 1467/3 The police are what they would call ‘the patsies’, the focus for popular discontent. 1974Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 1/8 [He] said yesterday he was not going to be turned into a scapegoat. ‘Whatever happens I am not going to be the patsy in this business.’ 1977Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 32/2 He felt Silkwood had possibly been a pawn or a patsy. 1977Time 9 May 24/1 Or would the politically inexperienced Frost prove a patsy and let Nixon filibuster with those same skillful diversions that always seemed to be the answers but never were?
▪ II. patsy, a. U.S. slang.|ˈpætsɪ|
[Origin unknown.]
Satisfactory, all right.
1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 457/1 Patsy, all right. ‘The mutt offices patsy and we walk into a collar.’ 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 86/1 Patsy, satisfactory; O.K.; when high pressure salesmen guarantee stock purchaser not to lose and get back money invested with profit in (90) days. 1941J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 42 Patsy, all right. 1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 153/1 Patsy, a. (Rare) All right; okay; trustworthy. |