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whipping girl

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whipping girl (複数形 whipping girls)

1. The female equivalent of a whipping boy.
   • 2008, Glyn Idris Jones, No Official Umbrella, Douglas Foote (→ISBN), page 273:
     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 ...
   • 2018, Mark Lawrence, Red Sister, Penguin (→ISBN), page 268:
     “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.”

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