greetee

plural greetees

1. One who is greeted.

   They greeted the others with some kind of rhythmical hand gestures ending with leaning one shoulder into the greetee.

   2010, Sunny Kreis Collins, Kill the Clock, page 123

   2 more examples

   Too early an enquiry results in forcing the greetee into a conversation, but waiting too long results in a verbal collision or in missing your target.

   1996, Richard T. Arndt, David Lee Rubin, The Fulbright Difference, 1948-1992, page 343

   The greetee could have responded with a request for delay after part of the process (as in "oh hi, give me a minute," and then attending to another matter).

   2006, Jan van Kuppevelt, Laila Dybkjær, Niels Ole Bernsen, Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, page 64