strikee

English

Etymology

From strike +‎ -ee.

Noun

strikee (plural strikees)

1. The recipient of a strike, especially a physical blow; one who has been struck.
   • 1823 July, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Monthly Magazine‎^[1], volume 14, number 78, page 71:

     On which the man […] putting forth his sinister bunch of fives, saluted the youngster under the ear with a blow that projected him about seven feet six inches across the street, deposited him in a place of safety in the sink, and sent the blood gushing forth, with the most fluent liberality, from mouth, nose, and ears. “Now,” said the striker, “I’m Neat; what dost thee say to that?”—“Nothing at all,” replied the strikee, “only that I am satisfied.”

   • 1910, Agnes Deans Cameron, chapter 12, in The New North‎^[2], New York: Appleton, page 231:

     Each man is allowed to strike his adversary a number of blows, the recipient of the buffeting being bound by the laws of the game to stand quiescent and take what is coming to him. Then striker and strikee change places and reverse the courtesy.

Anagrams

• Keister, keister, kerites, kiester