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patsy

/pat-see/US // ˈpæt si //UK // (ˈpætsɪ) //

帕特西,帕特森,帕蒂,帕特里克

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pat·sies.Slang.

    • : a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
    • : a person upon whom the blame for something falls; scapegoat; fall guy.
    • : a person who is the object of a joke, ridicule, or the like.

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Examples

  • Patsy McGarry is the Religious Affairs Correspondent for The Irish Times.

  • Matt Bevin is a Louisville businessman and Tea Party favorite who sees the five-term senator as a patsy and a squish.

  • Patsy went right to the phone to line up a wedding photographer.

  • “Mom, you ought to write to Senator Helms about Mark,” Patsy Clarke quotes Judy as saying.

  • Patsy Cline singing the devastating “I Fall to Pieces” before dying in a plane crash at the age of 30.

  • It made me smile to remember how mature Patsy had been when I meekly ran her errands and gladly wore her yoke in the old days.

  • I joined the group and through a window beheld Patsy in animated conversation with what women could crowd inside.

  • “But the boys only wanted Patsy to see how the Injuns git ready for war,” defended Mrs. Davis.

  • Patsy had dismissed me, and there was scarcely room for me without my presence giving her annoyance.

  • Perhaps Patsy was the first white woman she had seen whose freshness suggested her own youth.