Thesaurus:dupe

Thesaurus

dupe

English

Noun

Sense: a gullible person

Synonyms

• chump
• chumpion
• cousin (cant, obsolete)
• cull
• cully
• dupe
• dotterel
• easy mark
• fall guy
• fish    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gudgeon (archaic)
• gull
• juggins
• live one
• mark
• mug
• muggins
• pigeon
• rube
• sap
• saphead
• schlemiel
• sheep    [⇒ thesaurus]
• simp
• Simple Simon
• soft touch
• steamer
• stiff
• stooge
• sucker

Various

• patsy
• scapegoat    [⇒ thesaurus]
• taking the fall

Hypernyms

• fool    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• beginner    [⇒ thesaurus]
• naive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deceiver    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “547. dupe” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “dupe” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.