| 词条 | Patsy |
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| name = Patsy |image= |imagesize= |caption= | pronunciation = PAT-see | gender = Female; sometimes Male | meaning = "Noble" (i.e. a patrician) | region = north England, Scotland, & Ireland | origin = Latin Patricius | related names = Patricia (fem), Patrick (masc) | footnotes = }}{{toc right}} A namePatsy 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.[1]In older usage, Patsy was also a nickname for Martha or Matilda, following a common nicknaming pattern of changing an M to a P (such as in Margaret → Meg/Meggy → Peg/Peggy; and Molly → Polly) and adding a feminine suffix.[1][2] President George Washington called his wife Martha "Patsy" in private correspondence. President Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha was known by the nickname "Patsy", while his daughter Mary was called "Polly".{{cn|date=October 2018}} People with the nameFemale
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A victim of deceptionThe popularity of the name has waned with the rise of its, chiefly North American,[3] meaning as "dupe" or "scapegoat".[1] Fact, Fancy and Fable, published in 1889, notes that in a sketch performed in Boston 'about twenty years ago' a character would repeatedly ask ‘Who did that?’ and the answer was ‘Patsy Bolivar!’.[4] It may have been popularized by the vaudevillian Billy B. Van, whose 1890s character, Patsy Bolivar, was more often than not an innocent victim of unscrupulous or nefarious characters.[5] Van's character became a broad vaudeville "type," imitated by many comedians including Fred Allen who later wrote, "Patsy Bolivar was a slang name applied to a bumpkin character; later, it was shortened to Patsy, and referred to any person who was the butt of a joke."[6] Lee Harvey Oswald, after assassinating president John Kennedy, denied he was responsible for the murder, and stated: "No, they are taking me in because of the fact that I lived in the Soviet Union. I'm just a patsy!"[7][8]Byron Smith, after killing Haile Kifer, and her cousin, Nicholas Brady, in self defense, also claimed he was a patsy.[9] References1. ^1 2 {{cite news|work=edgarbook|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021141021/http://geocities.com/edgarbook/names/p/patsy.html|title= Names: Patsy|access-date= 16 November 2007}} {{given name}}2. ^{{cite web| url=http://genealogy.about.com/library/bl_nicknames.htm |title=Common Nicknames & Their Given Name Equivalents|website=About.com|access-date= 16 November 2007}} 3. ^{{cite news|authors=Soanes, Catherine & Stevenson, Angus (ed.) |date=2005| work=Oxford Dictionary of English|edition= 2nd revised|title=Patsy|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Oxford, New York|page=1291|isbn=978-0-19-861057-1}} 4. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s-G_VVq2A-kC&pg=PA275|title=Balderdash & Piffle|last=Games|first=Alex|publisher=Random House|year=2010|isbn=9781446415054|location=|pages=275}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Patsy|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=patsy|website=Online Etymology Dictionary|accessdate=7 August 2016}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Bader, Robert S.|title= Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers On Stage|publisher= Northwestern University Press|date= 2016|page= 103}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/oswald/|title=Oswald's Ghost |work= American Experience |publisher=PBS|language=en|access-date=2018-05-13}} 8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/jfk-assassination.html|title=A J.F.K. Assassination Glossary: Key Figures and Theories|date=October 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/02/ng.01.html|website=CNN.com |title= Transcripts|language=en|access-date=2018-07-15}} 6 : English feminine given names|Irish masculine given names|Scottish feminine given names|English masculine given names|Scottish masculine given names|Lists of people by nickname |
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