"-ee" meaning in English

See -ee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Etymology: From Middle English -ee, -ē, from Anglo-Norman and Old French -ee, French -é, -ée, endings forming past participle of verbs ending in -er. Doublet of -ate. More distantly related to inherited English -ed. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|-ee}} Middle English -ee, {{m|enm|-e|-ē}} -ē, {{der|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{der|en|fro|-ee}} Old French -ee, {{der|en|fr|-é}} French -é, {{m|fr|-ée}} -ée, {{m|fr|-er}} -er, {{doublet|en|-ate}} Doublet of -ate, {{cognate|en|-ed}} English -ed Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -ee, {{en-suffix}} -ee
  1. Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (i.e., to whom or to which an action is done). Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -ed
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-tVg6DTFa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English links with redundant target parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 16 9 14 13 16 Disambiguation of Middle English links with redundant target parameters: 22 22 23 8 25
  2. Less commonly added to intransitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (that is, who or that does an action). Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-OVs4Rjrk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English links with redundant target parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 16 9 14 13 16 Disambiguation of Middle English links with redundant target parameters: 22 22 23 8 25
  3. (law) Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-MA06NJ2x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English links with redundant target parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 16 9 14 13 16 Disambiguation of Middle English links with redundant target parameters: 22 22 23 8 25 Topics: law
  4. (medicine) Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical procedure. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-Y1f3wwz5 Topics: medicine, sciences
  5. Irregularly added to nouns to mean a person somehow associated with the object denoted by the noun. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-eEsnEbhL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English links with redundant target parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 16 9 14 13 16 Disambiguation of Middle English links with redundant target parameters: 22 22 23 8 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done): -të (Albanian), -atë (Albanian), -ato (Esperanto), -tu (Finnish), [masculine] (French), -ée [feminine] (French), -e [feminine] (German), -es [neuter] (German), -en [plural, strong] (German), -e [weak] (German), -ato (Ido), -ario (Ido), -ato [masculine] (Italian), -ata [feminine] (Italian), (hi-) [prefix] (Japanese), -ado [masculine] (Spanish), -ada [feminine] (Spanish), -ai (Welsh) Translations (forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied): -eur [masculine] (French), -euse [feminine] (French), -tore [masculine] (Italian), -trice [feminine] (Italian)
Etymology number: 1 Disambiguation of 'forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done': 25 20 21 22 11 Disambiguation of 'forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied': 22 22 22 23 11

Suffix

Etymology: Perhaps a variation on -ie and -y Etymology templates: {{m|en|-ie}} -ie, {{m|en|-y}} -y Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -ee, {{en-suffix}} -ee
  1. Used to form diminutives. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: mini- [affix, diminutive], micro- [affix, diminutive], nano- [affix, diminutive], -ette [affix, diminutive], -y [affix, diminutive], -icle [affix, diminutive], -cule [affix, diminutive], -ule [affix, diminutive], -ole [affix, diminutive] Derived forms: bootee, goatee, settee Translations (used to form diminutives): -cska (Hungarian), -cske (Hungarian), -etto (Italian), -ino (Italian)
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-mqhYS7pk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 16 9 14 13 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Suffix

Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -ee, {{en-suffix}} -ee
  1. (offensive, derogatory) Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese. Tags: derogatory, morpheme, offensive Related terms: no tickee, no washee
    Sense id: en--ee-en-suffix-p90xdbxv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 16 9 14 13 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

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          "text": "respond + -ee → respondee",
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        },
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          "text": "stand + -ee → standee",
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          "text": "assign + -ee → assignee",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "legate + -ee → legatee",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "mortgage + -ee → mortgagee",
          "type": "example"
        }
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          "text": "laryngectomy + -ee → laryngectomee",
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          "text": "barge + -ee → bargee",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "tender + -ee → tenderee",
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        },
        {
          "text": "venereal + -ee → venerealee",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-të"
    },
    {
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-atë"
    },
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ato"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-tu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-é"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ée"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "ge- (prefix) + -er m",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-e"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "-es"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "strong"
      ],
      "word": "-en"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "weak"
      ],
      "word": "-e"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ato"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ario"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-ato"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ata"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hi-",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "prefix"
      ],
      "word": "被"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-ado"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ada"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "25 20 21 22 11",
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ai"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "22 22 22 23 11",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-eur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "22 22 22 23 11",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-euse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "22 22 22 23 11",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-tore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "22 22 22 23 11",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-trice"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ee"
}

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      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "super-"
    },
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      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "supra-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "hyper-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "ultra-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "uber-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "macro-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "arch-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "over-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "mega-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "giga-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "-zilla"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "grand"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
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          "_dis": "16 16 16 9 14 13 16",
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        {
          "word": "bootee"
        },
        {
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        }
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        {
          "text": "goat + -ee → goatee",
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          "text": "settle + -ee → settee",
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          "word": "mini-"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "micro-"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "nano-"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "-ette"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "-y"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "-icle"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "-cule"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "-ule"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "affix",
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "-ole"
        }
      ],
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        "morpheme"
      ],
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "used to form diminutives",
          "word": "-cska"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "used to form diminutives",
          "word": "-cske"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "used to form diminutives",
          "word": "-etto"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "used to form diminutives",
          "word": "-ino"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ee"
}

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        "cat3": "",
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    }
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
          "ref": "1897, The Outlook, volume 56, page 1044",
          "text": "\"No stealee. You no thinkee? Chinaman no thinkee stealee!\" he said, earnestly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Minnesota Journal of Education, volume 19, page 52",
          "text": "A Chinaman had a toothache, and phoned a dentist for an appointment. Doctor: \"Two-thirty all right?\" Chinaman: \"Yes, tooth hurtee, all light. What time I come?\"",
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        "Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese."
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        "(offensive, derogatory) Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese."
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}
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English suffixes",
    "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "Middle English links with redundant target parameters",
    "Requests for review of Slovak translations"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "-ē"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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        "2": "xno",
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        "2": "fro",
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        "2": "fr",
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      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
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      },
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        "1": "en",
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        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
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        {
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "interview + -ee → interviewee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "train + -ee → trainee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "employ + -ee → employee",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        [
          "object",
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        ],
        [
          "verb",
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        {
          "word": "-ed"
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        "morpheme"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "absent + -ee → absentee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "respond + -ee → respondee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "stand + -ee → standee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "post + -ee → postee",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Less commonly added to intransitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (that is, who or that does an action)."
      ],
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          "verb#English"
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
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        "en:Law"
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        {
          "text": "assign + -ee → assignee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "legate + -ee → legatee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "mortgage + -ee → mortgagee",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
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        [
          "contract",
          "contract#Noun"
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        [
          "transaction",
          "transaction#English"
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          "-or",
          "-or#English"
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        "(law) Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or."
      ],
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        "morpheme"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "laryngectomy + -ee → laryngectomee",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical procedure."
      ],
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        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "undergo",
          "undergo#English"
        ],
        [
          "medical",
          "medical#English"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure#English"
        ]
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        "(medicine) Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical procedure."
      ],
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        "morpheme"
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      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
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        {
          "text": "barge + -ee → bargee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "tender + -ee → tenderee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "venereal + -ee → venerealee",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Irregularly added to nouns to mean a person somehow associated with the object denoted by the noun."
      ],
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        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-të"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-atë"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ato"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-tu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-é"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ée"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "ge- (prefix) + -er m",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-e"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "-es"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "strong"
      ],
      "word": "-en"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "weak"
      ],
      "word": "-e"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ato"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ario"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-ato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hi-",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "prefix"
      ],
      "word": "被"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-ado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ada"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person to whom or a thing to which an action is done",
      "word": "-ai"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-eur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-euse"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-tore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forming words meaning a person who or a thing that does an action, especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-trice"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ee"
}

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    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "super-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "supra-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "hyper-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "ultra-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "uber-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "macro-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "arch-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "over-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "mega-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "giga-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "-zilla"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "grand"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"diminutive affix\"",
      "word": "great"
    }
  ],
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English suffixes"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bootee"
    },
    {
      "word": "goatee"
    },
    {
      "word": "settee"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ie"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-y"
      },
      "expansion": "-y",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps a variation on -ie and -y",
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      "name": "head"
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-ee",
      "name": "en-suffix"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
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    {
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        {
          "text": "boot + -ee → bootee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "goat + -ee → goatee",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "settle + -ee → settee",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to form diminutives."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "mini-"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "micro-"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "nano-"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "-ette"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "-y"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "-icle"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "-cule"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "-ule"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "affix",
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "-ole"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "used to form diminutives",
      "word": "-cska"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "used to form diminutives",
      "word": "-cske"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to form diminutives",
      "word": "-etto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to form diminutives",
      "word": "-ino"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ee"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English suffixes"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-ee",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-ee",
      "name": "en-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "no tickee, no washee"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, The Outlook, volume 56, page 1044",
          "text": "\"No stealee. You no thinkee? Chinaman no thinkee stealee!\" he said, earnestly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Minnesota Journal of Education, volume 19, page 52",
          "text": "A Chinaman had a toothache, and phoned a dentist for an appointment. Doctor: \"Two-thirty all right?\" Chinaman: \"Yes, tooth hurtee, all light. What time I come?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(offensive, derogatory) Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "morpheme",
        "offensive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ee"
}

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