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bullyee en · NOUN

Etymology

From bully + -ee.

Meanings

  1. (informal) A victim of bullying.
    • […] basically isolating the “bullyee” and allowing the bully to continue to play and dominate the playground. 2013, Becca Kline, Power to the Aspies, page 61:
    • Even at nine years old, I knew that bullying happens for lots of reasons, ones that are usually more complicated for the bully than for the bullyee, but knowing this never made the face-flicking and the chest-sitting any less painful. 2009, John Barrowman, Anything Goes:
    • A boy is charged for bullying and reprimanded by the meeting. At the next meeting he brings up a trumpery charge against the bullyee. 1989, Damian Randle, Teaching Green: A Parent's Guide to Education for Life on Earth, page 31:

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