"aunticide" meaning in All languages combined

See aunticide on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From aunt + -icide. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|aunt|icide}} aunt + -icide Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} aunticide (uncountable), {{tlb|en|rare}} (rare)
  1. The killing of an aunt. Tags: rare, uncountable Coordinate_terms: avunculicide, unclecide
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          "ref": "1894 June 15, Rudyard Kipling, To Louisa Baldwin; republished as “At Home in Vermont, 1894–96”, in Thomas Pinney, editor, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, volumes 2, “1890–99”, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1990, →ISBN, pages 130–131:",
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          "ref": "1929 February 6, Punch, or The London Charivari, page 159, column 2:",
          "text": "And then, as I say, in a fit of irritation he committed great-aunticide.",
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          "ref": "1966, Saturday Review, page 40, column 3:",
          "text": "Girl on the Run. By Hillary Waugh. Crime Club. $3.95. Philadelphia private eye (why fare so far?) gets summons from New Hampshire village to trail female tagged for aunticide; chase takes in Florida, Panama.",
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          "ref": "2000, Art Shay, Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century, Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "After I composed myself, I considered matricide followed by cousin and aunticide.",
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          "text": "“[…]Filicide is killing a pastry.” Harriet shot me an incredulous look. “Killing a pastry? You’re kidding me.” I had a bit of a giggle over filo pastry. “I am,” I admitted. “That would be filocide. Filicide is killing a son or daughter.” For some reason my Aunt Millie popped into my mind. Was there an aunticide?",
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          "ref": "2015, Delilah S. Dawson, chapter 23, in Wicked Ever After, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Star Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Because I’ve got a score to settle, and I’m guessing my grandmother wouldn’t agree with what I’m about to do.” / Hepzibah cocked her head. “Sororicide? Aunticide? You don’t scare me, kid. Besides, you glanced on my death. You know how it’ll end.”",
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