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pluckee en · NOUN

Etymology

From pluck + -ee.

Meanings

  1. One who is plucked, or from whom something is plucked.
    • It was always easier being the plucker than being the pluckee. 2015, Emmett R. Dixon, Big Red Rocks, Little Red Devils: A Moab Story, page 41:
    • Of course, once the law was enforced there had to be twice as many people missing an eye, one for each plucker and one (of course) for each pluckee. 2006, Phil Wells, Try the Veal, page 63:

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