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whipping girl

whipping girl noun: the female equivalent of a whipping boy.

Noun

whipping girl (plural whipping girls)

  1. The female equivalent of a whipping boy.
    • 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
    • “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

Forms of whipping girl

pluralwhipping girls

Questions about whipping girl

What does whipping girl mean?
Whipping girl means the female equivalent of a whipping boy.
What part of speech is whipping girl?
Whipping girl is a noun.
What is the plural of whipping girl?
The plural of whipping girl is whipping girls.

Words near whipping girl in the dictionary

  1. whipping cream
  2. whipping creams
  3. whipping down
  4. whipping frog
  5. whipping frogs
  6. whipping girl
  7. whipping girls
  8. whipping in
  9. whipping into shape
  10. whipping it on
  11. whipping off

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