decapitatee en · NOUN
Etymology
From decapitate + -ee.
Meanings
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One who is decapitated.
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.
2006, Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 285:The appointee is a Taft man—the decapitatee is a bull moose.
1912 July 16, “Taft the Beheader”, in The Gadsden Daily Times-News, volume VI, number 132, Gadsden, Ala.:Have you not, my fellow decapitatees, given thought to the matter?
2007, Adam Roberts, Land of the Headless, Orion Books, →ISBN, page 20:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| decapitatees | Number=Plur | lexicographic |