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Tatee vs Tutee - What's the difference?

tatee | tutee |

As nouns the difference between tatee and tutee

is that tatee is aunt; auntie while tutee is a student of a tutor.

tatee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Southern US) aunt; auntie.
  • (Southern US) a person having the qualities of a trusted and honest confidant (without intimate interactions implied).

    • tutee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A student of a tutor.
  • * 1927 , Edwin Deller, "The Contributors Column: Americanisms," American Speech , vol. 2, no. 4, p. 214,
    • [Tutor and] tutee . English "pupil." I met this queer coinage in two academic publications.
  • * 2007 , Julie Winkelstein, " Libraries help everyone into Internet age," Contra Costa Times (Califoronia), 23 Nov.,
    • To make sure the pairings were good ones, both tutor and tutee filled out an application, indicating interests, computer proficiency, and even language.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----