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sweatee

noun

Etymology

From sweat + -ee.

  1. inherited from *swoyd-✻ — “to sweat”
  2. inherited from *swait-✻
  3. inherited from swāt
  4. inherited from swete
  5. suffixed as sweatee — “sweat + ee”

Definitions

  1. A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.

    • If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

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