| Main Entry: | patsy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall guy |
Synonyms: |
boob*, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark, fool, goat, gull, pigeon, pushover, sap*, scapegoat, schmuck, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object of joking |
Synonyms: |
chump, clay pigeon, derision, dupe*, easy mark, fall guy, fool, goat, jestee, joke, laughingstock, mark, patsy, pigeon, sap, setup, sitting duck, softie, subject, sucker, target, turkey, victim |
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is fooled |
Synonyms: |
butt*, chump, easy mark, fish*, fool, mark*, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap*, sitting duck, sucker, victim |
Antonyms: |
cognizant |
| Main Entry: | fall guy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy victim |
Synonyms: |
boob, can-carrier, chopping block, chump, dupe, easy mark, easy touch, fool, goat, lamb to the slaughter, mark, patsy, pigeon, prize sap, sacrifice, sap, scapegoat, schlemiel, schmuck, sitting duck, soft touch, stooge, sucker, trusting soul, victim, whipping boy |
| Main Entry: | naive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, trusting |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green*, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed |
Antonyms: |
experienced, leery, skeptical, wise |
| Main Entry: | pawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is a fool |
Synonyms: |
creature, dupe*, instrument, mark*, patsy, pigeon, puppet, stooge, sucker, tool, toy, victim |
| Main Entry: | puppet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or toy manipulated by another |
Synonyms: |
creature, doll, dupe*, figurehead, figurine, instrument, jerk*, manikin, marionette, moppet, mouthpiece, patsy, pawn, pushover, schlemiel, servant, soft touch, stooge, tool*, victim |
| Notes: | the word puppet originally meant 'doll' and a puppet usually goes on the hand and arm, while a marionette (or string puppet) is a jointed figure with strings or wires |
| Main Entry: | sap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid person |
Synonyms: |
chump, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, jerk, nitwit, patsy, pigeon, simpleton, sucker, weakling |
| Main Entry: | scapegoat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes blame for another's action |
Synonyms: |
boob, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fool, goat, gull, mark, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sacrifice, sap, schmuck, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
| Main Entry: | stooge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dupe |
Synonyms: |
chump, easy mark, fall guy, flunky, fool, lackey, patsy, pawn, pigeon, puppet, pushover, sap*, sucker, victim |