Gallicide

Quick meaning: Gallicide is a noun meaning The killing of a chicken, especially the former sport of cock-throwing; or, humorously, the killing of a Frenchman.

Meaning

The killing of a chicken, especially the former sport of cock-throwing; or, humorously, the killing of a Frenchman.

Example Sentences

"Smith had no idea that gallicide would soon become a regular staple of the global poultry trade."

"-cide: the killing or destruction of; or a killer of; or related to the killing of... [gallicide] fowl, especially chicken or turkeys; also gallinicide"

"To paraphrase the ecologist Garett Hardin: If an embryo or fetus is a human being, then an acorn is an oak tree, and an egg a chicken. Scrambling an egg is then gallicide, and crushing acorns, deforestation."

"A Cock has the Misfortune to be called in Latin by the same Word which signifies a Frenchman: So that nothing could so well represent, or be represented by the One as the Other.... Gallicide, or Cock-Throwing, was first introduced by way of contempt to the French, and to exasperate the Minds of the People against that Nation..."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pullicide, ansericide, garotting, birdicide, regicide, cockthrowing.

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