doggicide

English

Noun

doggicide (countable and uncountable, plural doggicides)

  1. (nonce word) Alternative spelling of dogicide.
    • 1838 June 9, “The Thames Water Again”, in Figaro in London‎[1], volume 6, number 339, page 86:
      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.
    • 1869, [Henry] Hawley Smart, Breezie Langton; A Story of Fifty-Two to Fifty-Five‎[2], London: R. Bentley, page 138:
      " […] Have you shot a dog or killed a keeper? Which are you flying from, doggicide or homicide; or are you merely convicted of incompetence? […] "
    • 2000 August, Elizabeth Counihan, “Mean Time in Greenwich”, in Interzone‎[3], volume 158, page 48:
      "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.
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