shipwreckee
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
shipwreckee (plural shipwreckees)
- 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.