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murderee|mɜːdəˈriː|
[f. murder v. + -ee1.]
A person who is murdered. Also, a person whose character and disposition suggest the passive qualities of an easy victim of murder.
1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love ii. 32 It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee. And a murderee is a man who is murderable. 1925New Yorker 28 Mar. 13/2 Some day, somebody is going to write a mystery story in which the murderee will be a swell guy. 1928F. T. Jesse Trial of S. H. Dougal 4 The potential murderer has met the born murderee. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xii. 209 He's the real type of murderee..the obvious victim; he fairly invites maltreatment. 1939― After Many a Summer 20 You're probably the sort of person that invites persecution. A bit of a murderee..as well as a scholar and a gentleman. 1958S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xii. 59, I don't know who the murdered man, the ‘murderee’, was. 1970Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 883/1 This one hinges on the killing of one of those fiendishly attractive girls who, fictionally at least, are so often murderees. 1973K. Giles File on Death vi. 151 Title wasn't much chop however you look at him, a murderee if ever I investigated one. 1974Sunday Times 31 Mar. 52/3 TV Film{ddd}about Elizabeth Montgomery set up as possible next murderee in a storm. |