lynchee

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/lɪnˈt͡ʃiː/

noun

The victim of a lynching.

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Meanings

nounlynchee (plural lynchees)

plural lynchees

  1. The victim of a lynching.

    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.

    2004, Peter M. Birkeland, Franchising Dreams: The Lure of Entrepreneurship in America, page 126

Origin

From lynch + -ee.

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APA

lynchee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lynchee

MLA

“lynchee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lynchee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lynchee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lynchee.

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