different between scapegoat vs pasty

English

Etymology

From scape +? goat; coined by Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew ????????? (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from ???? (ez, “goat”) and ????? (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /?ske?p??o?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ske?p????t/

Noun

scapegoat (plural scapegoats)

1. In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5

     alluding herein unto the heart of man and the precious bloud of our Saviour, who was typified by the Goat that was slain, and the scape-Goat in the Wilderness

2. Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.

   He is making me a scapegoat.

   • 1834, Thomas Babington Macaulay, "William Pitt, Earl of Chatham" [1]

     The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a scapegoat to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.

Synonyms

• (someone punished for someone else's error(s)): fall guy, patsy, whipping boy; see also Thesaurus:scapegoat

Translations

Verb

scapegoat (third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)

1. (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
   • 1975, Richard M. Harris, Adam Kendon, Mary Ritchie Key, Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction, p66

     They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
2. (transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.

Translations

Related terms

• scapegoater
• scapegoating (noun)
• scapegoatism

See also

• blame Canada
• blameshift
• escape
• look for a dog to kick
• stool pigeon, stoolie
• whipping boy

English

Etymology 1

From paste +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: p?st'i, IPA^(key): /?pe?sti/
• Homophone: pastie
• Rhymes: -e?sti

Adjective

pasty (comparative pastier, superlative pastiest)

1. Like paste, sticky.

   These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.

2. pale, lacking colour, having a pallor

   He is pasty-faced.

   (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.

   Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.

3. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned
   • 2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games (page 184)

     He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!"

   • 2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout (page 107)

     “So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.

Synonyms

• (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid

Translations

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.

Translations

Related terms

• paste

Etymology 2

From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty.

Alternative forms

• pastie

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: p?st'i, IPA^(key): /?pæsti/
• Rhymes: -æsti
• (General Australian) enPR: päst'i, IPA^(key): /?p??sti/
• Rhymes: -??sti

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

Usage notes

The spelling pasty is preferred in the United Kingdom, but in Australia pastie is more common.

Derived terms

• Cornish pasty
• nasty pasty
• party pasty
• Pastygate
• pasty tax

Translations

See also

• meat pie
• sausage roll
• BBC: Who, What, Why: What exactly is a Cornish pasty?

Anagrams

• Patsy, Tyaps, patsy

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.st?/

Noun

pasty f

1. inflection of pasta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural