Someone who is punished for the errors of others.

synoniem: whipping boy.

Roget 147: substitution, commutation; supplanting etc. v.; metaphor, metonymy etc. (figure of speech) 521.    [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller [Fr.], stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.    representative etc. (deputy) 759; palimpsest.    price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 952: atonement, reparation; compromise, composition; compensation etc. 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.    amends, apology, amende honorable^†, satisfaction; peace offering, sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice.    penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration^†; purgation, purgatory.    ... meer laten zien

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