patsy

Other forms of patsy

plural

patsies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about patsy

What does patsy mean?

patsy means "a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of".

How many syllables are in patsy?

patsy has 2 syllables: pat-sy. The stress falls on "pat". In IPA it is /ˈpætsi/.

What is another word for patsy?

Close synonyms include chump, fool, gull, mark, fall guy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patsy a common word?

patsy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.