Passee

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is passed.

    "To keep the people who are doing the passing sensitive to the pesron being passed […], you might want to ask them to hum or chant or whisper sweet nothings. The passee, aside from worrying about being dropped, might also spend a lot of her time worrying, more rightfully, about being touched, as they say, “inappropriately.”"

  2. 2
    Obsolete form of Parsi. alt-of, obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    out of fashion wordnet

Example

More examples

"To keep the people who are doing the passing sensitive to the pesron being passed […], you might want to ask them to hum or chant or whisper sweet nothings. The passee, aside from worrying about being dropped, might also spend a lot of her time worrying, more rightfully, about being touched, as they say, “inappropriately.”"

Etymology

From pass + -ee.

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