greetee
nounEtymology From greet + -ee.
1
One who is greeted.
- 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:
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- 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: