What does pullicide mean?
Pullicide means The killing of a chicken..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
[…] 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.
In one of the more broadly comic touches, for example, Cicero illustrates the Stoic claim that all crimes are equal by equating parricide with untimely pullicide: "And the man who strangles a poultry-cock when it is not necessary does no less wrong than the man who strangles his father"
Use pullicide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pullicide means The killing of a chicken..
Common synonyms include gallicide.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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