whipping girl
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The female equivalent of a whipping boy.
Example Sentences
- "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 ..."
- "“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.”"