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  • noun neologism One who receives a piercing.

Etymologies

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pierce +‎ -ee

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Examples

  • Nose and lip piercings which look bad enough on a healthy person but which I cannot bear to visualise were a said piercee to be suffering from flu/cold/or more persistent catarrh ….

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Nose and lip piercings which look bad enough on a healthy person but which I cannot bear to visualise were a said piercee to be suffering from flu/cold/or more persistent catarrh ….

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Should one accidentally rip through the membranes, then CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) would leak out and the patient would die within minutes, or, should one rupture a blood vessel accidentally, then the piercee would either haemorrhage out (to death?) or into their skull, thus compressing the brain and resulting in coma, death, seizures, etc., etc.

    BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News 2008

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