Etymology

perdricide

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Today it means: Someone who kills partridges. Full definition →

French perdrix
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromperdrix“partridge”
  2. English todayperdricide

From French perdrix (“partridge”) + -cide.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.