decapitatee

English

Etymology

From decapitate +‎ -ee.

Noun

decapitatee (plural decapitatees)

1. One who is decapitated.
   • 1912 July 16, “Taft the Beheader”, in The Gadsden Daily Times-News‎^[1], volume VI, number 132, Gadsden, Ala.:

     The appointee is a Taft man—the decapitatee is a bull moose.

   • 2006, Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 285:

     On the clouds in the background stand little baby sans-culottes and blood-spouting decapitatees; disconcertingly, they are comically drawn, as if Gillray couldn’t sustain the print’s epic ambition.

   • 2007, Adam Roberts, Land of the Headless, Orion Books, →ISBN, page 20:

     Have you not, my fellow decapitatees, given thought to the matter?

Synonyms

• beheadee
• decapitee

Coordinate terms

• decapitator