aunticide

Dear Aunt Louie:[…]Criticism on my part would be rather like aunticide would it not?

1894 June 15, Rudyard Kipling, To Louisa Baldwin; republished as “At Home in Vermont, 1894–96”, in Thomas Pinney, editor, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, volumes 2, “1890–99”, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1990, →ISBN, pages 130–131

Girl on the Run. By Hillary Waugh. Crime Club. $3.95. Philadelphia private eye (why fare so far?) gets summons from New Hampshire village to trail female tagged for aunticide; chase takes in Florida, Panama.

1966, Saturday Review, page 40, column 3

After I composed myself, I considered matricide followed by cousin and aunticide.

2000, Art Shay, Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century, Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, page 21

“[…]Filicide is killing a pastry.” Harriet shot me an incredulous look. “Killing a pastry? You’re kidding me.” I had a bit of a giggle over filo pastry. “I am,” I admitted. “That would be filocide. Filicide is killing a son or daughter.” For some reason my Aunt Millie popped into my mind. Was there an aunticide?

2005, Claire McNab, The Quokka Question, published 2020, →ISBN

“Because I’ve got a score to settle, and I’m guessing my grandmother wouldn’t agree with what I’m about to do.” / Hepzibah cocked her head. “Sororicide? Aunticide? You don’t scare me, kid. Besides, you glanced on my death. You know how it’ll end.”

2015, Delilah S. Dawson, chapter 23, in Wicked Ever After, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Star Books, →ISBN