shipwreckee

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English

Etymology

From shipwreck +‎ -ee.

Noun

shipwreckee (plural shipwreckees)

  1. One who is shipwrecked.
    • 1955, Gregorio Marañón, Charles David Ley, Antonio Pérez, "Spanish Traitor":
      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...
    • 2001, David Spedding, Shipwrecked International:
      There is a chapter devoted to each shipwreckee, including their own photographs, drawings, cartoons, extracts from journals and other writings.

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