Meanings
- rareuncountableThe killing of a duke.
One of the problems of being a duke was any that number of one’s followers might get it into their head they could be duke just as well as you, and succeed to the dukedom by dukicide.
c. 1994, Andrei Codrescu, editor, Exquisite Corpse, page 46, column 22 more examples
Lady Lindsay, with that appetite for shrouds which is inborn in the female mind, kills Mary’s husband (a novelist should think twice before unnecessary dukicide) for no earthly reason; and the part of Dr. Jackson is awkward.
1891 June 6, George Saintsbury, “New Novels”, in The Academy. A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art., volume XXXIX, number 996, London: Publishing Office: […], page 535, column 1HAMLET. What be this? Miching Malicho? / FAUSTUS. Miching Malicho. It means “mischief.” Lurid tales of murder and mayhem among the upper classes. That’s last week’s edition — juicy story of dukicide in Vienna. Enjoy.
2010, David Davalos, Wittenberg: A Tragical-Comical-Historical in Two Acts, Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, act one, page 24
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