unclecide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mac. Shoot me through the head! / Ben. What, commit unclecide! become a George Barnwell! murder my uncle—never!"
- "This novel did no good, for the NewgateCalendar^([sic]) for the following quarter presented many extra cases of abduction, seduction, and reduction, five of forgery, and eight of Unclecide."
- "The production of Schiller’s ‘Don Carlos’ was long forbidden, because Don Carlos loved his stepmother; in ‘The Robbers,’ the Father was turned into an uncle, and a stupendous effect was produced by the cry of “Unclecide,” substituted for Parricide."
- "“Where’s Glen?” Kathy said, “I’m going to kill him.” / And off she went to commit Unclecide."
- "As is well known to one and all, while patricide and matricide are matters for tragedy, uncle-cide or auntie-cide are at best the stuff of third-rate melodrama or comedies of manners verging on farce."
- "I love Sean. I really do. Most of the time. But I’d moved out two years ago for a reason. The same reason I currently considered uncle-cide as a viable life choice. / Okay, faux uncle-cide."
Etymology
From uncle + -cide.