nonce-wd. [f. CATCH v. + -EE.] One who is caught: the correlative of catcher.
1837. Public Ledger, 20 Dec., 2/5. I dreamed I was at the Police Office on Monday morning, not as one of the catched, nor as a catchee, but merely as a looker-on.
1839. Fraser’s Mag., XX. 339. An uncomfortable ‘catch’; the old god being the catchee, instead of the catcher.
1861. Daily Milwaukee Press & News, 12 March, 1/2. Three miles and a short additional distance brings catcher and catchee cheek by jowl.
