whipping-boyn.

Brit.

/ˈwɪpɪŋbɔɪ/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)wɪpɪŋˌbɔɪ/

A boy educated together with a young prince or royal personage, and flogged in his stead when he committed a fault that was considered to deserve flogging. Hence allusively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > scapegoat

wispa1450

whipping-boy1647

scapegoat1824

whip-boy1845

whipping-girl1896

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Tim. v. 20) Rebuke before all: yet not as if they were whipping boyes.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 59 William Murray of the bed-chamber, that had been whipping boy to King Charles the first.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. vi. 150 Sir Mungo had been..attached to Court in the capacity of whipping-boy..to King James the Sixth.

1841 A. Helps On Choice of Agents in Ess. The choice of agents is a difficult matter,..for you have to choose persons for whose faults you are to be punished; to whom you are to be the whipping-boy.

1914 W. M. F. Petrie in Anc. Egypt 32 With some writers..Manetho is the whipping-boy, who must always be flogged whenever anything is not understood.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	whipping-boy
释义	whipping-boyn. Brit. /ˈwɪpɪŋbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpɪŋˌbɔɪ/ A boy educated together with a young prince or royal personage, and flogged in his stead when he committed a fault that was considered to deserve flogging. Hence allusively. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > scapegoat wispa1450 whipping-boy1647 scapegoat1824 whip-boy1845 whipping-girl1896 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Tim. v. 20) Rebuke before all: yet not as if they were whipping boyes. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 59 William Murray of the bed-chamber, that had been whipping boy to King Charles the first. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. vi. 150 Sir Mungo had been..attached to Court in the capacity of whipping-boy..to King James the Sixth. 1841 A. Helps On Choice of Agents in Ess. The choice of agents is a difficult matter,..for you have to choose persons for whose faults you are to be punished; to whom you are to be the whipping-boy. 1914 W. M. F. Petrie in Anc. Egypt 32 With some writers..Manetho is the whipping-boy, who must always be flogged whenever anything is not understood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1647
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