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Synonyms for patsy

  • noun

Most common

soft touch chump scapegoat

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Chump

chump, fool, sucker, mug, gull, mark, soft touch

2. By being blamed

scapegoat, fall guy informal, whipping boy

Other

live one informal, dupe, pigeon, gudgeon

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A person who is easily manipulated, victimized, or made to take the blame for something.

  2. n. 2

    A conspirator, secretly designated by co-conspirators to take full blame and punishment for a wrongdoing, particularly an assassination; a fall guy.

Forms

Plural
patsies → chumps, fools, suckers, mugs…

Example sentences

  • chump Tom may think he's a champ, but in actuality he's but a chump.
  • scapegoat Sami selected Layla to be the scapegoat.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
patsyrising
chumprising
scapegoatsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
mug1
4 letters
mark1, fool1, gull1, dupe1
5 letters
chump1
6 letters
sucker2, pigeon2
7 letters
gudgeon2
9 letters
scapegoat2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sucker2 = 2 syllables).