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German
Etymology
Compound of Prügel (“beating”) + Knabe (“boy; lad”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Prügelknabe m (weak, genitive Prügelknaben, plural Prügelknaben)
- whipping boy
2019 May 1, “Datenschutz bei Facebook: Zuckerberg macht auf Privatsphäre”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:Vom Prügelknaben der Datenschützer und Politiker will Facebook jetzt also zum Vorreiter in Sachen Datenschutz und Privatsphäre werden.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Prügelknabe
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