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patsy
 
SYLLABICATION:pat·sy
PRONUNCIATION:  pts
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. pat·sies
Slang A person easily taken advantage of, cheated, blamed, or ridiculed.
ETYMOLOGY:Perhaps from Italian pazzo, fool, from Old Italian paccio.
 
 
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