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perdricide

perdricide noun: someone who kills partridges.

Noun

perdricide (countable and uncountable, plural perdricides)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who kills partridges.
    • What the poor shall drink—how they shall drink it[…]all these great questions depend upon little clumps of squires and parsons gathered together in alehouses in the month of September—so portentous to publicans and partridges, to sots and sportsmen, to guzzling and game.
      "I am by no means a friend...1826 September, Thomas Edwards, “A Letter to the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey, on the Misconduct of Licensing Magistrates, and the consequent Degradation of the Magistracy”, in The...
  2. (obsolete) The killing of partridges.
    • Ashes form the most valuable description of dust[…]for the right to remove them, dust-contractors pay considerable sums to the parishes[…]The abstracting of ashes is viewed by a dust-contractor as perdricide by a rural squire, and, to say the least of it, with quite as much reason.1849, “Sanitary Reform”, in The British Quarterly Review, volume 9, page 50

Forms of perdricide

pluralperdricides

Origin of perdricide

From French perdrix (“partridge”) + -cide.

Questions about perdricide

What does perdricide mean?
Perdricide means someone who kills partridges.
What part of speech is perdricide?
Perdricide is a noun.
What is the plural of perdricide?
The plural of perdricide is perdricides.

Words near perdricide in the dictionary

  1. perditionable
  2. perditions
  3. perditious
  4. Perdomo
  5. Perdomos
  6. perdricide
  7. perdricides
  8. perdu
  9. perdue
  10. perduellion
  11. perdues

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