Doggicide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of dogicide. alt-of, alternative, countable, nonce-word, uncountable

    "That every body who drinks the London water does eventually die is such a startling fact that we wonder that every family does not immediately plug up its cistern, cut off the connection with the company's main, and give the turncock into custody, as an accessory before the fact, in a long list of homicides, femicides, girlicides, boyicides, doggicides, caticides and horseicides."

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canicidecaninicide

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"That every body who drinks the London water does eventually die is such a startling fact that we wonder that every family does not immediately plug up its cistern, cut off the connection with the company's main, and give the turncock into custody, as an accessory before the fact, in a long list of homicides, femicides, girlicides, boyicides, doggicides, caticides and horseicides."

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