jokee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jokee (plural jokees)
- The person who is the subject of a joke.
- 1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 41, page 403:
- We doubt not that most of our readers have acted like ourselves, on former anniversaries of a similar kind, in the double capacities of jokers and jokees, and have been alternately the victims as well as the victimisers; […]
- 2014, Becky Bartness, How to Die and Live to Tell About It:
- Plus, jokers don't, as a rule, shoot at the jokees.