whipping girl

noun

The female equivalent of a whipping boy.

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nounwhipping girl (plural whipping girls)

plural whipping girls

  1. The female equivalent of a whipping boy.

    “Arabella herself may well have been raised with a whipping girl to receive her punishments for her.” “I know I was.” Sherzal smiled. “How my tutors used to beat poor Susi. I never did seem to learn my lesson though.”

    2018, Mark Lawrence, Red Sister, Penguin, →ISBN, page 268
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    Anthony Quayle was another, directing at the Haymarket, only his was a whipping girl, a young actress to whom he was so abusive one day that it was all I could do to control myself and he suddenly knew it because he looked at me and ...

    2008, Glyn Idris Jones, No Official Umbrella, Douglas Foote, →ISBN, page 273
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Chicago

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