bullyee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bully +‎ -ee

Noun[edit]

bullyee (plural bullyees)

  1. (informal) A victim of bullying.
    • 1989, Damian Randle, Teaching Green: A Parent's Guide to Education for Life on Earth, page 31:
      A boy is charged for bullying and reprimanded by the meeting. At the next meeting he brings up a trumpery charge against the bullyee.
    • 2009, John Barrowman, Anything Goes:
      Even at nine years old, I knew that bullying happens for lots of reasons, ones that are usually more complicated for the bully than for the bullyee, but knowing this never made the face-flicking and the chest-sitting any less painful.
    • 2013, Becca Kline, Power to the Aspies, page 61:
      [] basically isolating the “bullyee” and allowing the bully to continue to play and dominate the playground.