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.