Crossword clues for patsy
patsy
- Con target
- Swindler's victim
- Jerry Lewis film (with "The")
- Easy prey
- Swindler's easy mark
- "Absolutely Fabulous" character
- "Crazy" singer Cline
- Easily swindled sort
- Cline who sang "Crazy"
- Cline of country
- "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline
- Willie Nelson did "Crazy" before this Cline
- Swindler's mark
- Sweet Dreams role
- She helped Loretta and Dottie get started
- One taking a fall
- Miss Kelly, comedienne
- Metaphorical sucker
- Legendary country singer Cline
- Film award for animals
- Easy scapegoat
- Easily deceived sort
- Country singer Cline
- Cline of song
- 1964 Jerry Lewis film with The
- "Crazy" name
- "Crazy" Cline
- 'Crazy' singer Cline
- Stooge
- Fall guy
- Easy mark
- Singer Cline
- Unwitting victim
- Sap
- Good April fool target
- Object of an April Fools joke
- One easily pushed over
- A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- Scapegoat
- Pushover
- Sucker
- Victim of a scam
- Comedienne Kelly
- Actress Kelly from Brooklyn
- ___ Mink, Hawaii's first Congresswoman
- Gullible one
- Girl's nickname
- Soft touch
- Gullible guy
- Gullible person
- Easily bamboozled sort
- Gullible sort
- Easy victim
- Sitting duck
- Easily duped sort
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fall guy, victim of a deception," 1903, of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of Italian pazzo "madman" (see patch (n.2)), or south Italian dialectal paccio "fool." Another theory traces it to Patsy Bolivar, character created by Billy B. Van in an 1890s vaudeville skit who was blamed whenever anything went wrong.\n\n"Poor Rogers," Vincent said, still smiling, "he is always the 'Patsy Bolivar' of the school."\n
\n"Yes," Frank answered, "if there are any mistakes to be made or trouble to fall into, Rogers seems to be always the victim."
["Anthony Yorke," "A College Boy," 1899]
Wiktionary
n. (context informal derogatory English) A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Patsy is a character in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the musical Spamalot. He is played by Terry Gilliam in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Serving as King Arthur's assistant, he only has a few simple tasks throughout the entire film, such as using two halves of a coconut to simulate the hoofbeats of Arthur's nonexistent horse.
He also announces King Arthur's arrival by trumpet, as when Arthur's group approaches a castle inhabited by French soldiers early in the movie. Patsy has only one line in the film: "It's only a model," said when the Knights of the Round Table first catch sight of the castle at Camelot.
Patsy's fate is left ambiguous in the film; he disappears after King Arthur encounters Tim the Enchanter, and is not seen again.
In the 2005 musical, Spamalot, Patsy has a bigger role with many more lines, and he sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from Monty Python's Life of Brian to King Arthur, and they later sing "I'm All Alone". As in the film, Patsy follows King Arthur everywhere and bangs coconuts together to simulate Arthur's horse. In the original Broadway production, he was played by Michael McGrath, who impersonated Terry Gilliam's role in the film. McGrath's role in the musical was praised in reviews, and he was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Spamalot. In the musical, Patsy is half Jewish. He didn't mention this at first because "it's just not the kind of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian." King Arthur also refers to him as "family."
Patsy is a given name often used as a diminutive of the feminine given name Patricia or sometimes the masculine name Patrick, or occasionally other names containing the syllable "Pat" or "Pet" (such as Cleopatra, Patience, or Patrice). Among Italian-Americans, it is often used as a pet name for Pasquale.
Patsy is a feminine (sometimes masculine) given name or nickname.
Patsy may also refer to:
- Patsy Cline, stage name of American country and pop music singer Virginia Patterson Hensley (1932–1963)
- Patsy Montana, stage name of American country and western music singer Ruby Rose Blevins (1908–1996)
- Patsy Palmer, Eastenders actress born Julie Anne Harris (born 1972)
- Tropical Storm Patsy, various storms, typhoons and hurricanes
- 3310 Patsy, a main-belt asteroid
- The Patsy (1928 film), directed by King Vidor
- The Patsy (1964 film), starring Jerry Lewis
- PATSY Award, the Picture Animal Top Star of the Year
- Patsy's, a New York City restaurant
- Patsy, a doll line created in 1928 by Bernard Lipfert, owned by the Effanbee Doll Company, which was bought by the Tonner Doll Company, Inc.
Usage examples of "patsy".
The Parapsychic teams were volubly and embarrassingly thanked for preventing a major disaster, and by cocktail time everyone was pleased by the denouement, especially Patsy Tucker and Terry Cle.
What are the implications of Patsy saying that she did not feed her daughter, nor did she see JonBenet eat, cut pineapple on the night she died?
And Pops, late in life when he and Sweetheart had despaired of having a child, begat Patsy.
Patsy thought that if she was a mother she would be an adult, and Pops and Sweetheart would give her freedom and money.
But there was an endless procession of young men to the back garage to play guitar and drums for Patsy -- and I knew Pops hated them -- and when I played outside I crept close to the garage stealthily, not wanting Pops to see me, so I could hear Patsy wailing away with the band.
They had an echo for me somewhere, and I felt a potent curiosity about Patsy, and I wanted to ask Pops what he meant.
The impression made upon me was that Patsy was my friend suddenly, and I thought she was very pretty, I always had thought she was very pretty, but I loved Pops too and could never choose between the two.
If that were the case, we would have seen profound evidence of psychopathology from Patsy by now, and we have not.
Anna was passing the Administration Building, Patsy Silva flagged her down.
Before he could question him, Silva had been let out on bail, paid not by Patsy but by Ted Greeley.
On the day after Christmas, Verlin and Patsy went to the Museum of Modern Art to have a look at the Airstream turkey.
Patsy marched over to Ajo and gave him a sturdy whack upon the back that nearly knocked him over.
This arrangement sent Patsy to the front seat outside, with Maurie and Ajo, although her uncle strongly protested that she had no right to expose her precious life so wantonly.
Clarette turned to drive the children away and in the act allowed Patsy and Ajo to glance past her into the hut.
For Patsy he bought a handsome modern flat building located at 3708 Willing Square, and installed her and the Major in its cosiest apartment, the rents of the remaining flats giving the Doyles an adequate income for all time to come.