lynchee
noun/lɪnˈt͡ʃiː/
Etymology From lynch + -ee.
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: