Pullicide

Quick meaning: Pullicide is a noun meaning The killing of a chicken.

Meaning

The killing of a chicken.

Example Sentences

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"

Synonyms for pullicide

Depending on context, synonyms include gallicide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pecking, chickling, peck, cockcrowing, chicken, fusillade.

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