English
sweatee
From sweat + -ee.
Formed from sweat + -ee
Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- ‘to sweat’
Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- ‘to sweat’
Proto-Germanic *swait-
Old English swāt
Middle English swete ‘blood’
English sweat
Today it means
noun A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “sweatee”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / sweatee