shipwreckee

noun

shipwreckee

noun

Etymology From shipwreck + -ee.

1

One who is shipwrecked.

  • Evidently his real charge was not to help Perez in his linguistic difficulties but to spy on him. But the malign shipwreckee was at the same time a spy...1955, Gregorio Marañón, Charles David Ley, Antonio Pérez, "Spanish Traitor":
  • There is a chapter devoted to each shipwreckee, including their own photographs, drawings, cartoons, extracts from journals and other writings.2001, David Spedding, Shipwrecked International:
Synonyms
castaway, maroon

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