Dictionary

decapitee en · NOUN

Etymology

From decapit(ate) + -ee.

Meanings

1. One who is decapitated.
   • Wicker has not been used at all this season, but his great work of the last two years seems to preclude the posibility^([sic]) of Bob’s being the decapitee. 1905 May 29, “Better Times Expected by Frank Selee’s Colts: The Chicago Team Is Strong in Fielding and Has a Superfluity of Good Pitchers, But Has Batted Poorly Up to Date”, in The Pittsburg Press, volume 22, number 148, Pittsburg, Pa., page four:
   • Pilgrims may still visit her head, along with the skulls of many other holy men and virgins in the church of the classic decapitee, John the Baptist, at Lumiar. 2009, Lisa M. Bitel, “Relics”, in Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe, Oxford University Press, page 199:
   • Moreover, instead of murder, the act of decapitation contains no malice or evil intent. It is a purely impersonal mater—except to the decapitee. 1933 August 2, Marshall Evening Messenger, fifty-seventh year, number 39, Marshall, Tex., page four:
   • For, observe: “Ko-Ko” reels off a “little list” of eligible victims (regardless of his subsequent statement that “flirting is the only crime punishable with decapitation”), and then apparently forgets all about it when “Pooh-Bah” and “Pish-Tush” assure him that he himself is the obvious decapitee. 1931, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert: A Topsy-Turvy Adventure, page 5:
   • The most interesting (and clearest) was one of a decapitation carried out in the presence of a mandarin and an appreciative crowd of villagers. The utility of the queue was noteworthy. The decapitee was kneeling. 1929, Time, page 6:

Forms

Coordinates

decapitator

Synonyms

beheadee · decapitatee