SCAPEGOAT

scapegoat, whipping boy

(noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (someone punished for someone else's error(s)): fall guy, patsy, whipping boy; see also scapegoat

Verb

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

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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

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