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doggicide

doggicide is the alternative spelling of dogicide.

Meaning of dogicide

Noun

dogicide (countable and uncountable, plural dogicides)

  1. (nonce-word) The killing of a dog.
    • HORRIBLE CASE OF DOGICIDE―WE were informed the neighbourhood of the Isle of Dogs was thrown into a state of considerable excitement yesterday afternoon, at about 22 minutes past 3, by a report relative to that distinguished ornament to his species (the canine), familiarly known as the Fireman's dog...1849, Punch, volume 17, London, page 94
    Synonyms:
    canicide, caninicide

Forms of doggicide

pluraldoggicides

Questions about doggicide

What is doggicide the alternative spelling of?
Doggicide is the alternative spelling of dogicide.

Words near doggicide in the dictionary

  1. doggeth
  2. doggets
  3. Doggett
  4. Doggettfic
  5. Doggetts
  6. doggicide
  7. doggicides
  8. doggie
  9. doggie bag
  10. doggie bags
  11. doggie biscuit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doggicide (page history and authors); dogicide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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