ranicide

Noun

ranicide (uncountable)

1. The killing of a frog.
   • Although the bereaved family—the brothers and sisters, for anything we know to the contrary, of the ill-fated flirt who perished so suddenly in the bloom of his youth and in his opera hat—had pleaded with tears for a verdict of ranicide, and a big deodand on the ox, no honest frog could have...1872, S[amuel] Reynolds Hole, “Mr Chiswick on Bedding-Out”, in The Six of Spades: A Book about the Garden and the Gardener, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, pages 147–148
   • At any rate, Warden Fred Hottle told Riddell—not in precisely these words—that unlicensed ranicide is illegal in Virginia.1955 July 22, Alex Preston, “Frog Legs at $17.75 a Pair: Is Unlicensed Ranicide Illegal?”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, number 172, Fort Worth, Tex., page 6, column 4