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huntee

huntee noun: one who is hunted.

Noun

huntee (plural huntees)

  1. One who is hunted.
    • The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.1924, Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
    • If I had learned anything that summer, other than Boy Scout stuff, it was that I needed to be the sexual hunter rather than the huntee.2004, R. G. Andersen-Wyckoff, Musings: About Growing Up, an Anecdotal Autobiography, page 287

Forms of huntee

pluralhuntees

Origin of huntee

From hunt + -ee.

Questions about huntee

What does huntee mean?
Huntee means one who is hunted.
What part of speech is huntee?
Huntee is a noun.
What is the plural of huntee?
The plural of huntee is huntees.

Words near huntee in the dictionary

  1. hunted the gowk
  2. hunted up
  3. hunted where the ducks are
  4. hunted where the ducks were
  5. huntedly
  6. huntee
  7. huntees
  8. hunter
  9. hunter eyes
  10. hunter green
  11. hunter greens

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