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A whipping boy, in feudal times, was a boy who served at noble families as a substitute spankee who was punished for the misdeeds of one of their sons.
Noble families faced the problem that their sons were too high in standing to be beaten by anyone below their father, who was often unavailable. So the solution was to have a boy of the same age as the noble boy, but with a lower rank, who was raised together with him as his playmate. Whenever the prince misbehaved or slacked in his studies, the other boy was
whipped (or spanked, or otherwise punished) in his place - hence the name whipping boy.
There were, it seems, no "whipping girls", as literature mentions boys only. A possible explanation is that noble girls may have been low enough in standing to be punished by their teachers and educators (or their mother), so no "whipping girl" was required.(more...)
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