Here are some citations for English nouns in -ee:
| best wishee | "...who has one lovable father, one lovable mother, one sick somebody, one successful somebody, one good-deed-doer, one poor pen pal, one best wishee, and two birthday celebrants for every nine letters you send." Washington Post, 15 July 1987, style section, page C5. |
| festschriftee | "This bibliography attempts to cover all books and articles written, co-authored or edited by the festschriftee..." Joergen Dines Johansen and Harly Sonne, edds. (1986) Pragmatics and Linguistics, Festschrift for Jacob L.~Mey, Odense University Press, Odense p. 248. |
| firee | "Some executives would rather begin by reciting the employee's virtues and recalling his contributions to the company. But one executive who tried that says the 'firee' interrupted him to ask for a raise." Wall Street Journal, 20 March 1987 |
| laughee | "Another device DeKoven uses is the Meetings Meter, a piece of software that functions like a taxi meter, displaying a continuing tally on how much the meeting is costing. The inspiration for the device came at a meeting with his attorney when DeKoven realized he wasted $11 telling a long joke to the $300-an-hour laughee." San Francisco Chronicle 6 October 1993 page D7 |
| beatee | "You are the beater; I am only the beatee." (1860!!) |
| editee | "Now I must edit myself. Actually it has been many years since I considered my prose inviolable, and even as an editee I now consider editing a good and necessary thing." (1987) |
| bitee | Among the nine or so leech compounds under study are ... a local anesthetic (which prevents the bitee from knowing the leech is there) ..." (1989) |
| expellees | The neo-Nazi NPD party has probably rendered a service in drawing off the hard-core expellees. (1967) |
For further discussion: "Episodic -ee in English: A Thematic Role Constraint on New Word Formation." Chris Barker,