Shipwreckee

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is shipwrecked.

    "Evidently his real charge was not to help Perez in his linguistic difficulties but to spy on him. But the malign shipwreckee was at the same time a spy..."

Example

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"Evidently his real charge was not to help Perez in his linguistic difficulties but to spy on him. But the malign shipwreckee was at the same time a spy..."

Etymology

From shipwreck + -ee.

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