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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'whipping boy' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions whipping boy noun  Someone punished for the errors of others. "As the , he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat." Translations:  Etymology: w:Middle English, Middle English wippen "flap violently", from w:Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic wipp-, from w:Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European wib- "move quickly". Whipping boy first recorded w:1647, 1647.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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