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dumpee

dump·eeUK /ˈdʌmpiː/noun

dumpee is a noun meaning “One who is dumped (rejected romantically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-U-M-P-E-E and has 2 syllables (dump·ee), and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dumpee is dumpees.

What does dumpee mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalOne who is dumped (rejected romantically).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce dumpee?

  • UK /ˈdʌmpiː/

Dumpee has 2 syllables, split dump·ee in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dumpee.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dumpee

  • dumpees plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is dumpee?

Dumpee appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does dumpee come from?

From dump + -ee.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).