perdricide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What the poor shall drink—how they shall drink it[…]all these great questions depend upon little clumps of squires and parsons gathered together in alehouses in the month of September—so portentous to publicans and partridges, to sots and sportsmen, to guzzling and game. "I am by no means a friend to the multiplication of public-houses," says a plump perdricide gentleman in loose mud-coloured gaiters, bottle-green jacket and brass buttons. Perhaps not; but you are a friend to the multiplication of inns."
- "Ashes form the most valuable description of dust[…]for the right to remove them, dust-contractors pay considerable sums to the parishes[…]The abstracting of ashes is viewed by a dust-contractor as perdricide by a rural squire, and, to say the least of it, with quite as much reason."
Etymology
From French perdrix (“partridge”) + -cide.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: perdrix