Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pullicide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pul-li-cide
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The killing of a chicken.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Verily, I put myself in mind of Gay's sick fox, who, after preaching to his young kin against pullicide, cries, […] A chicken, too, might do me good."
"[…] was also given to "gallicide," "pullicide," and every kind of 'cide, and a good deal of Warre's correspondence is full of apologies for the misdeeds of both dogs."
"In one of the more broadly comic touches, for example, Cicero illustrates the Stoic claim that all crimes are equal by equating parricide with untimely pullicide: "And the man who strangles a poultry-cock when it is not necessary does no less wrong than the man who strangles his father""

Etymology

From Latin pullus + -icide.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pullus

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

gallicide

Questions

What does pullicide mean?: The killing of a chicken.
Where does pullicide come from?: From Latin pullus + -icide.

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