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dukicide

dukicide noun: the killing of a duke.

Noun

dukicide (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The killing of a duke.
    • Lady Lindsay, with that appetite for shrouds which is inborn in the female mind, kills Mary’s husband (a novelist should think twice before unnecessary dukicide) for no earthly reason; and the part of Dr. Jackson is awkward.1891 June 6, George Saintsbury, “New Novels”, in The Academy. A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art., volume XXXIX, number 996, London: Publishing Office: […], page 535, column 1
    • One of the problems of being a duke was any that number of one’s followers might get it into their head they could be duke just as well as you, and succeed to the dukedom by dukicide.c. 1994, Andrei Codrescu, editor, Exquisite Corpse, page 46, column 2

Origin of dukicide

From duke + -icide.

Questions about dukicide

What does dukicide mean?
Dukicide means the killing of a duke.
What part of speech is dukicide?
Dukicide is a noun.

Words near dukicide in the dictionary

  1. dukhaun
  2. dukhauns
  3. Dukhobor
  4. Dukhobors
  5. Dukhobortsy
  6. dukicide
  7. Dukinfield
  8. duking
  9. duking in
  10. duking it out
  11. duking out

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