decapitatee

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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, 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?

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