单词 | questionee |
释义 | questioneen. A person who is questioned. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > person questioned demandee1603 questionee1838 1838 T. Carlyle Lett. (1923) lix. 164 Your answer is according to your question, and your questionee,—‘as the fool thinks the bell clinks’. 1866 Sat. Rev. 12 May 564 Questioner and questionee will soon lose each other in the wilderness of words. 1953 Rep. Sel. Comm. Delegated Legislation 27/2 in Parl. Papers 1952–3 IV. 115 I am not sure that the questioner could not answer that rather better than the questionee. 1971 J. Wainwright Last Buccaneer ii. 183 He..murmured his questions in a very low voice. This forced the questionee consciously to listen. 2000 Evening Standard (Nexis) 8 Mar. 31 Granted, some of the questionees were women, but they all voted for their boyfriends, so they don't count. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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