lynchee

English

Etymology

lynch +‎ -ee

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.