doggicide

plural doggicides

1. alternativecountablenonce worduncountableAlternative spelling of dogicide.

   "[…] Have you shot a dog or killed a keeper? Which are you flying from, doggicide or homicide; or are you merely convicted of incompetence? […]"

   1869, [Henry] Hawley Smart, Breezie Langton; A Story of Fifty-Two to Fifty-Five, London: R. Bentley, page 138

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   That every body who drinks the London water does eventually die is such a startling fact that we wonder that every family does not immediately plug up its cistern, cut off the connection with the company's main, and give the turncock into custody, as an accessory before the fact, in a long list of homicides, femicides, girlicides, boyicides, doggicides, caticides and horseicides.

   1838 June 9, “The Thames Water Again”, in Figaro in London, volume 6, number 339, page 86

   "Ask Tart here. Her dog nearly got added to someone's cow stew before she got here." Tart clutched at her own tubby little pooch and scowled at me like I was guilty of doggicide.

   2000 August 29, Elizabeth Counihan, “Mean Time in Greenwich”, in Interzone, volume 158, page 48