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/duːp/ · /djuːp/
Someone who has been tricked, especially someone who was used to help with something dishonest or illegal without knowing what was really going on.
受騙的人、冤大頭
複數 dupes
核心畫面
One way to hold this dupe: a person is handed a false picture of things, believes it, and then acts on it themselves. Nobody twists their arm. They walk into it, and someone else gets what they wanted. The word can name that person or name the act, and both keep the same centre — belief that was made false on purpose.
這個 dupe 可以想成這樣一個畫面：有人被塞了一張假的圖像，他信了，然後自己照著去做。沒有人逼他。他是自己走進去的…更多收起
這個 dupe 可以想成這樣一個畫面：有人被塞了一張假的圖像，他信了，然後自己照著去做。沒有人逼他。他是自己走進去的，而另一個人拿到了想要的東西。這個字可以指那個人，也可以指那個動作，中心都一樣——那份被人刻意弄假的相信。From the word’s history
Dupe came into English from French duper. The packet traces that back to a Middle French form linked to huppe, the hoopoe, a bird taken to be easily fooled. If that link holds, the word began by naming the one who is fooled, not the one who fools.
dupe 從法語 duper 進到英文。來源把它再往回追到中古法語裡和 huppe（戴勝鳥）有關的一個變體——那種鳥被認為好騙。如果這條線成立，這個字一開始指的是「被騙的那一位」，不是騙人的那一位。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:209054530:14562): from French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (hoopoe), from Latin, onomatopoeic.