whipping boy meaning in Tamil
அடிதாங்கி
whipping boy in Tamil: அடிதாங்கி. In English, whipping boy means a boy who was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince in early modern Europe.
Tamil words for whipping boy
- அடிதாங்கி
English meaning of whipping boy
- noun A boy who was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince in early modern Europe.
- noun Someone punished for the errors of others.
whipping boy in a sentence
- As the whipping boy, he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat.
Synonyms of whipping boy
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Questions about whipping boy in Tamil
- What is the meaning of whipping boy in Tamil?
- Whipping boy in Tamil is அடிதாங்கி.
- whipping boy என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Whipping boy: அடிதாங்கி.
- What does whipping boy mean in English?
- Whipping boy means a boy who was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince in early modern Europe.
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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: whipping boy (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: whipping boy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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