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thwartee

thwartee noun: someone whose plans are thwarted or frustrated.

Noun

thwartee (plural thwartees)

  1. Someone whose plans are thwarted or frustrated.
    • Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump."2025 October 2, Dwight Garner, “Book Review: 'Shadow Ticket,' by Thomas Pynchon”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of thwartee

pluralthwartees

Origin of thwartee

From thwart + -ee.

Questions about thwartee

What does thwartee mean?
Thwartee means someone whose plans are thwarted or frustrated.
What part of speech is thwartee?
Thwartee is a noun.
What is the plural of thwartee?
The plural of thwartee is thwartees.

Words near thwartee in the dictionary

  1. thwartable
  2. thwarted
  3. thwartedly
  4. thwartedness
  5. thwartedst
  6. thwartee
  7. thwartees
  8. thwarten
  9. thwartened
  10. thwartening
  11. thwartens

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