Meanings
nounboyslaughter (uncountable)
- informaluncountableThe killing of a boy.
Will those children there get out of the way in time, or is he — the rider — to have the burden of boyslaughter upon his soul?
1890, Charles Dickens, "On Walking" (in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 67, page 295)
Origin
boy + slaughter, modelled on manslaughter.
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