walkee

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English

Etymology

From walk +‎ -ee.

Noun

walkee (plural walkees)

  1. (rare) One who is walked.
    • 1986, Maggie MacKeever, Lady Sherry and the Highwayman, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Crest, →ISBN, page 17:
      Accompanying her was Prinny, who was made very happy by this intimation that he was to be taken for a walk, an undertaking for which the servants generally drew lots, the dog’s mass being so considerable and energetic that the walker inevitably became the walkee.
    • 2009, Yvonne Sherwell, “Her Dog”, in Paranoid Pip, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 29:
      Consequently, he had developed a new variation on an old habit. That of grabbing the leash between his teeth and pulling as hard as he could, making it look as if he were the walker, and the walker the walkee.
    • 2013, Teresa Lynn Paris McDonnell, The Diet God, : [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 96:
      I remember that walking a dog is a good way to get both the walker and the walkee in shape.

Chinese Pidgin English

Etymology

From English walk +‎ English -y, with the suffix spelled as -ee.

Verb

walkee

  1. to go

References

  • Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 109: “Walkee: to go (in any way) “He man wear two piece watch. Wha-fo? Supposee one makee sick, other piece walkee.””

Manx

Noun

walkee m

  1. genitive singular of walkey
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