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whipping girls

whipping girls is the plural of whipping girl.

Meaning of whipping girl

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

Questions about whipping girls

What is whipping girls the plural of?
Whipping girls is the plural of whipping girl.

Words near whipping girls in the dictionary

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

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