massacree

plural massacrees

1. alternativedialectalAlternative form of massacre.

   The Fourth of July, by the way, also offers tempting possibilities for a massacree. I know a man in Rhode Island whose father used to go out and shoot a deer every time the date came around, on the safe assumption that the game warden would think the shot part of the celebration.

   1952, Abbott Joseph Liebling, Chicago, the second city, page 136

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   For several years after they ravaged many places with fire and sword, committing many horrible barbarities, as their; countrymen settled here, joined them on all occasions, till Æthelred ordered a general massacree of them, which was executed November 13, 1002, which was severely revenged afterwards;

   1810, Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of the Borough of Colchester in the County of Essex, page 32

   Four years before his death on the Washita, Cheyenne chief Black Kettle had survived the infamous massacree at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory. Colonel J. M. Chivington, a former Methodist minister and commander of the Military District of Colorado, led the attack on November 30, 1864.

   2007, Ralph Compton, The Dodge City Trail: The Trail Drive

2. dialectalA bizarre and improbable sequence of events creating great confusion and fuss.

present singular third person massacrees · participle present massacreeing · participle past massacreed · past massacreed

1. alternativedialectalAlternative form of massacre.

   I don't allow to rescue you none if she massacrees you," the world's champion announced, grinning.

   1921, William MacLeod Raine, Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story, page 136

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   they never make their dromedaries gallop, but after having lost a battle, and when they are anxious to escape from a conquering and enraged enemy who would massacree them without mercy if they were overtaken.

   1808, Sylvain Meinrad Xavier de Golbéry, Travels in Africa

   don't they keep a hunderd or two o' great nasty bull-niggers a piece, jess to sharpen their knives on—without a rag to kiver 'em, starvin' 'em most to death all the time, an' lettin' their women folks and babies slash 'em up with case-knives, for jess nothin' at all, an massacree 'em most to death, when there's company to dinner, jess to shew 'em what they can do?

   1833, John Neal, The Down-easters, page 65

   Notice to hostile Injuns — Next time you massacree this settlement, bring back the pail, and don't leave the covers off the milk pans.

   1903, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages

plural massacrees

1. One who has been killed in a massacre.

   The battle scene with himself in the role of massacree was not overly inviting.

   1921, Octavus Roy Cohen, Highly Colored, page 269

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   Suffice it to say, that no very pleasant feelings existed (as indeed may easily be believed) between the families of the massacrors, and the massacrees.

   1851 June, “Gleanings after the Spanish Arabs”, in University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, volume 37, number 222, page 776

   In the prologue to Black Lamb, West wrote of foreign travellers 'who return with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer', adding: ...

   2014, Marcus Tanner, Albania's Mountain Queen: Edith Durham and the Balkans, page 236