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meetee

noun

Etymology

From meet + -ee.

  1. derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to come, meet”
  2. inherited from *mōtijaną✻
  3. inherited from *mōtijan✻
  4. inherited from mētan
  5. inherited from meten
  6. suffixed as meetee — “meet + ee”

Definitions

  1. A person who is met.

    • There are also established examples of this type: is a meetee the object or the subject of the meeting, i.e., can the meetee also be the meeter?
    • […] being five minutes earlier than his judgement of when whoever he was meeting would arrive, which could have become confusing for the meeter if the meetee had twigged to the tactic and adjusted his timepiece by another five minutes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA