jokee

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English

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Etymology

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From joke +‎ -ee.

Noun

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jokee (plural jokees)

  1. The person who is the subject of a joke.
    • 1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 41, page 403:
      We doubt not that most of our readers have acted like ourselves, on former anniversaries of a similar kind, in the double capacities of jokers and jokees, and have been alternately the victims as well as the victimisers; []
    • 2014, Becky Bartness, How to Die and Live to Tell About It:
      Plus, jokers don't, as a rule, shoot at the jokees.