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whipping girl en · NOUN
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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: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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