lynchee

English

Etymology

From lynch +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪnˈt͡ʃiː/

Noun

lynchee (plural lynchees)

  1. The victim of a lynching.
    • 2004, Peter M. Birkeland, Franchising Dreams: The Lure of Entrepreneurship in America, page 126:
      The lynchee's agony is not merely a convenient trope for romantic despair here: it is a preexisting condition, a racewide image of abjection that the loss of a lover serves to reactivate.
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