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quotee

noun

Etymology

From quote + -ee.

  1. derived from quotus — “which, what number (in sequence)”
  2. derived from quotāre — “to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”
  3. derived from coter
  4. inherited from quoten
  5. suffixed as quotee — “quote + ee”

Definitions

  1. Somebody whose words are being quoted.

    • Or it can summarize the inner thoughts of either the quoter or the quotee (“She’s like, yeah, as if I’d be caught dead in them!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quotee. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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