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Patsy

/ˈpætsi/

A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

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A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

🔄 Synonyms of "Patsy"

11 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
marknoun	(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
foolnoun	(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
suckernoun	A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
chumpnoun	(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
gullnoun	A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
soft touchnoun	(idiomatic) A person or group that is sympathetic, accommodating, easily overcome, or easily persuaded, especially one that loans or readily gives money to another.
shlemielnoun	Alternative form of schlemiel. [A loser or a fool.]
mugnoun	A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
fall guynoun	(informal, sometimes derogatory) A scapegoat.
schlemielnoun	A loser or a fool.
fishnoun	(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Patsy"

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Word	Definition
shlemielnoun	Alternative form of schlemiel. [A loser or a fool.]
suckernoun	A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
soft touchnoun	(idiomatic) A person or group that is sympathetic, accommodating, easily overcome, or easily persuaded, especially one that loans or readily gives money to another.
schlemielnoun	A loser or a fool.
chumpnoun	(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
foolnoun	(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
gullnoun	A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
fall guynoun	(informal, sometimes derogatory) A scapegoat.
mugnoun	A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
fishnoun	(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
marknoun	(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
mrsnoun	Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.
scapegoatnoun	Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
sapnoun	(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
idiotnoun	(derogatory) A person of low general intelligence.
pigeonnoun	(countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
dovenoun	(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
victimnoun	One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceit, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:
scapegoatingnoun	The act of making somebody a scapegoat.
culpritnoun	The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.