asinicide

Noun

asinicide (uncountable)

1. (humorous, rare) The killing of an idiot.
   • The Sheldon Progress pays the following touching tribute to the Fessenden editors: The citizens of Fessenden held a mass meeting in the butcher shop and organized a cemetery association with “Sandy” Smith and Editors Maskery and Stickley on the board. There can no longer be any doubt as to the...1898 May 13, “Editorial and Clippings”, in The Griggs Courier, volume 16, number 18, Cooperstown, Griggs County, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, columns 1–2
   • “The three kings of Washington Irving,” broke in Beano. “Bah, I guessed what you were driving at long ago, but hoped you’d have the good grace to sheer off. This is no weather for a lecture on history. So, if you’re found murdered here, blame yourself. If I’d been Carter, and Chard and Waters had...1926 July 22, “The Crow’s-Nest”, in The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily, volume 6, number 172, Hamilton, Bermuda, →OCLC, page 3
2. (humorous, rare) The killing (including by self) of an ass or donkey.
   • The fact that there are two racing associations in the Mississippi Valley, the old Western Turf Congress and the new Western Jockey Club—both weaker and more offensive in smell than dish and ditch-water combined—are struggling for ascendency with a prospect of mutual asinicide, helps along the Bush...1901 December 9, “Charleston Racing Will Have the Call. Not the Slightest Danger that the New Orleans Winter Gambling Game Will Attempt Any Ex Parte Outlawry. Charleston Programme for Three Days.”...
   • Last night a mule belonging to Maria Long, a negress, in the northern part of town, went wild from some cause. The mule kicked the stable all to pieces, jumped out of the wreck, ran to Cross creek, jumped in and drowned himself. Was it a case of asinicide?1906 December 21, “Fayetteville Mule, Tired of Life, Ends All in Creek”, in The Daily Industrial News, volume II, number 64, Greensboro, N.C., page 3, column 2