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aunticide

aunticide noun: the killing of an aunt.

Noun

aunticide (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The killing of an aunt.
    • Dear Aunt Louie:[…]Criticism on my part would be rather like aunticide would it not?1894 June 15, Rudyard Kipling, To Louisa Baldwin; republished as “At Home in Vermont, 1894–96”, in Thomas Pinney, editor, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, volumes 2, “1890–99”, Iowa City, Iowa...
    • And then, as I say, in a fit of irritation he committed great-aunticide.1929 February 6, Punch, or The London Charivari, page 159, column 2

Examples of aunticide in a sentence

  • Philadelphia private eye (why fare so far?) gets summons from New Hampshire village to trail female tagged for aunticide; chase takes in Florida, Panama.1966, Saturday Review, page 40, column 3:
  • After I composed myself, I considered matricide followed by cousin and aunticide.2000, Art Shay, Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century, Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, page 21:

Origin of aunticide

From aunt + -icide.

Questions about aunticide

What does aunticide mean?
Aunticide means the killing of an aunt.
How do you use aunticide in a sentence?
Philadelphia private eye (why fare so far?) gets summons from New Hampshire village to trail female tagged for aunticide; chase takes in Florida, Panama.
What part of speech is aunticide?
Aunticide is a noun.

Words near aunticide in the dictionary

  1. aunt-in-law
  2. auntcest
  3. auntdom
  4. aunters
  5. aunthood
  6. aunticide
  7. auntie
  8. auntie arm
  9. auntie arms
  10. Auntie Beeb
  11. Auntie Flo

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