Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or practice of feeding on horse-flesh.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.

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  • noun The eating of horsemeat.

Etymologies

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hippo- + -phagy

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Examples

  • Boer bread and porridge _exclusively_ on the other, it occurred to the seceders that even horse blood is thicker than water; so they passed under the yoke of hippophagy with perfect composure.

    The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

  • Although the failure of his rat meat campaign was followed by other attempts to amend the eating habits of the poor – ‘in my humble opinion, hippophagy has not the slightest chance of success in this country,’ he wrote after a disastrous dinner in which every dish, from the soup to the jelly, had been prepared from the carcass of a knackered old cab horse – it was in his role of inspector of salmon fisheries, to which he was appointed by the Home Office in 1867, that Frank Buckland finally made his mark on the British diet by introducing stockbreeding methods to the rearing of salmon and trout.

    Richard Hamblyn · Simply Putting on Weight: Salmon · LRB 25 February 2010 Richard Hamblyn 2019

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  • (n): the eating of horses, by a hippophage,

    January 7, 2009