decapitatee
English
Etymology
From decapitate + -ee.
Noun
decapitatee (plural decapitatees)
- One who is decapitated.
- 1912 July 16, “Taft the Beheader”, in The Gadsden Daily Times-News, volume VI, number 132, Gadsden, Ala.:
- The appointee is a Taft man—the decapitatee is a bull moose.
- 2006, Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 285:
- On the clouds in the background stand little baby sans-culottes and blood-spouting decapitatees; disconcertingly, they are comically drawn, as if Gillray couldn’t sustain the print’s epic ambition.
- 2007, Adam Roberts, Land of the Headless, Orion Books, →ISBN, page 20:
- Have you not, my fellow decapitatees, given thought to the matter?
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Synonyms
- beheadee
- decapitee
Coordinate terms
- decapitator