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Patsy   /pˈætsi/   Listen
Patsy

noun
1.
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.  Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker.






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"Patsy" Quotes from Famous Books



... not as wise as seven owls, but his courage could throw a shadow as long as the steeple of a cathedral. There were men on Cherry Street who had whipped him five times, but they all knew that Patsy would be as ready for the sixth time as ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... shy at first, but they soon picked up their courage, and Patsy fell to accumulating a mass of incongruous blossoms whose colours fought each other tooth and nail. Little Biddy, more modest, as beseemed her inferior rank in the scale of being, fixed her heart upon a single flame-flower which absolutely refused to reconcile itself with ...
— A Bookful of Girls • Anna Fuller



Words linked to "Patsy" :   victim, dupe



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