spadassinicide
/ˌspɑd.əˈsɪ.nɪ.seɪd/
spadassinicide noun: the act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
Noun
spadassinicide (plural spadassinicides)
- The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
- One who performs such an act.
- Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.1921, Rafael Sabatini, “Chapter VI”, in Scaramouche, book III
Forms of spadassinicide
| plural | spadassinicides |
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Origin of spadassinicide
From spadassin + -icide, from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”).
Questions about spadassinicide
- What does spadassinicide mean?
- Spadassinicide means the act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
- What part of speech is spadassinicide?
- Spadassinicide is a noun.
- How do you pronounce spadassinicide?
- Spadassinicide is pronounced /ˌspɑd.əˈsɪ.nɪ.seɪd/ (US).
- What is the plural of spadassinicide?
- The plural of spadassinicide is spadassinicides.
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