dupe

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'You need not be afraid of anything,' said he, 'as I myself will take you to the casino where the dupe will be awaiting you, and I will come and take you back to your imaginary convent towards the end of the night.

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  1. noun An easily deceived person.
  2. noun A person who functions as the tool of another person or power.
  3. transitive verb To deceive (an unwary person). See Synonyms at deceive.

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  • Oh, what a dupe is a man's pride! —  Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
  • Such a dupe was my understanding to my heart, and so foolishly did I imagine I could be master of a flame to which I was every day adding fuel O, Miss Matthews! —  Amelia — Complete
  • 'You need not be afraid of anything,' said he, 'as I myself will take you to the casino where the dupe will be awaiting you, and I will come and take you back to your imaginary convent towards the end of the night. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
  • Oh, what a dupe is a man's pride! what a fool his wisdom! —  Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
  • said Jasper quietly, inwardly irritated that his dupe should be absent, even for a day, without telling him of his intention and plans. —  Adrien Leroy
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French, from Old French, probably alteration of huppe, hoopoe (from the bird's stupid appearance); see hoopoe.

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  1. from French dupe, a dupe, from Old French dupe, duppe, French dial. dube, duppe, a hoopoe, a bird regarded as stupid: see hoopoe and Upupa. For similar examples of the application of the names of (supposed) stupid birds to stupid persons, cf. booby, goose, gull, and (in Portuguese) dodo. Cf. Breton houperik, a hoopoe, a dupe.
  2. from French duper, dupe, gull, take in; from the noun.
 

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