scapegoat, whipping boy
(noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scapegoat (plural scapegoats)
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
• (someone punished for someone else's error(s)): fall guy, patsy, whipping boy; see also scapegoat
scapegoat (third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)
(transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
(transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
Source: Wiktionary
Scape"goat`, n. Etym: [Scape (for escape) + goat.]
1. (Jewish Antiq.)
Definition: A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.
2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 May 2025
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