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English Idioms :: whipping boy
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whipping.html - {n. phr.} The person who gets punished for someone else's mistake. * /"I used to be the whipping boy during my early days at the company," he musingly remembered./ |
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Traditional English :: whipping
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whipping.html - n. 1 a beating, esp. with a whip. 2 cord wound round in binding. whipping-boy 1 a scapegoat.
2 hist. a boy educated with a young prince and punished instead of him. whipping-cream cream suitable for whipping. whipping-post hist. a post used for public whippings. whipping-top a top kept spinning by blows of a lash. |
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English Idioms :: whipping boy
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whipping.html - {n. phr.} The person who gets punished for someone else's mistake. * /"I used to be the whipping boy during my early days at the company," he musingly remembered./ |
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Traditional English :: whipper-in
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whipping.html - n.
a huntsman's assistant who manages the hounds. |
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Traditional English :: whippersnapper
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whipping.html - n.
1 a small child.
2 an insignificant but presumptuous or intrusive (esp. young) person. [perh. for whipsnapper, implying noise and unimportance] |
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Traditional English :: whippet
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whipping.html - n.
a cross-bred dog of the greyhound type used for racing. [prob. f. obs. whippet move briskly, f. whip it] |
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