Meanings
alternative woman-slaughter
- uncountableThe killing of a woman, especially femicide.
I thought about it, but what would they do? Lock me up. Drag me through the courts. Accuse me of womanslaughter, then lock me up again. I don't have time for all that.
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This disparity in conceptualization is simultaneously predicated on, and reinforcing of, stereotypes about the brutality of Muslim men and the subordination of Muslim women, so preventing seeing both kinds of violence as forms of womanslaughter.
2013, Maleiha Malik, Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Past and Present (page 72)
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Origin
women + slaughter, modelled on manslaughter.
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womanslaughter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/womanslaughter
“womanslaughter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/womanslaughter. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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