Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slayer of oxen; a butcher.
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- noun The
killing of acow . - noun One who kills cows.
Etymologies
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See bovine, -cide.
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Examples
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But let not my Occidental reader reproach me with having meditated such an atrocity as bovicide.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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