Thesaurus:scapegoat
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: someone punished for the error(s) of someone else edit
Synonyms edit
- escapegoat
- fall guy
- folk devil (idiomatic)
- goat (informal)
- Joe Soap (British)
- patsy
- scapegoat
- whipping boy
Hypernyms edit
Holonyms edit
See also edit
- Thesaurus:dupe (gullible person)
Further reading edit
- “147. substitution” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “scapegoat” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.