rushee

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A student who is trying to join a fraternity or sorority

noun
/ˈruːʃi/

Jargon

: candidato

Each rushee attended several events during Greek Week.

Examples

During the recruitment weekend, the sorority members met with several rushees interested in joining.
As a rushee, she was excited to meet members of different sororities.
The fraternity interviewed every rushee before making their final selections.
The rushee impressed everyone during the interview.
Many rushees attended the recruitment event last night.
The event was designed to help rushees learn more about the fraternity and decide if they wanted to apply.
As a rushee, she felt anxious but excited to meet new friends and explore the sorority.

Surface Forms

rushee singular

rushees plural

Morphology

rushee = rush (transparent) = rush + ee

Formed by the productive suffix '-ee' added to 'rush' meaning 'person who is rushed'; the meaning is directly derivable (though domain-specific to fraternity recruitment).

Etymology

Rushee comes from the campus event rush, when groups try to 'recruit' new members, plus the ending -ee, which marks the person who receives an action, as in employee. So a rushee is someone being 'rushed', a person being considered for membership in a fraternity or sorority.