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patsying

patsying is the present participle and gerund of patsy.

Meaning of patsy

Verb

patsy (third-person singular simple present patsies, present participle patsying, simple past and past participle patsied)

  1. (informal, transitive) To treat (a person) as a patsy or sucker; to pin the blame on.
    • Patsying me! Where the hell does he come off? Who ever heard of him? He can patsy the leaders in those night club dives but he can't do that here and get away with it.1939, Arthur Kober, Pardon Me for Pointing, page 124
  2. (informal, intransitive) To mess around; to waste time.
    • I was in no mood for patsying around, and I let him have it with both barrels.2013, Tony Kelly, Red Card: The Soccer Star Who Lost it All to Gambling, page 105

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Questions about patsying

What is patsying the present participle and gerund of?
Patsying is the present participle and gerund of patsy.

Words near patsying in the dictionary

  1. patsies
  2. patsoc
  3. patsocs
  4. Patsuezu
  5. patsy
  6. patsying
  7. patt
  8. patta
  9. pattable
  10. pattadar
  11. pattadars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patsying (page history and authors); patsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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