a person who is tested, as by a scholastic examination
Word origin
[1930–35; test1 + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boondoggle, cloverleaf, hypercorrection, preset, technical foul-ee is a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is theobject or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); more recent formations also mark the performer of an act, with the base being anintransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee)