pullicide

Noun

pullicide (uncountable)

1. (rare) The killing of a chicken.
   • Verily, I put myself in mind of Gay's sick fox, who, after preaching to his young kin against pullicide, cries, […] A chicken, too, might do me good.1866, Horace Walpole, “1338. To Sir Horace Mann”, in Peter Cunningham, editor, The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, volume 5, London: Henry G. Bohn, page 282
   • […] was also given to "gallicide," "pullicide," and every kind of 'cide, and a good deal of Warre's correspondence is full of apologies for the misdeeds of both dogs.1922, Charles Robert Leslie FLetcher, Edmond Warre, D.D., C.B., C.V.O., Sometime Headmaster and Provost of Eton College, J. Murray, page 223

   Synonyms:

   gallicide