vulpicide
English
Alternative forms
- vulpecide
Etymology
From Latin vulpēs or vulpis (“fox”) + -cide.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: vul‧pi‧cide
Noun
vulpicide (countable and uncountable, plural vulpicides)
- Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds
- 1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book:
- Some of the foxes found dead on railway lines, by the way, have been put there after death by vulpicides.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 121:
- ‘Seven months I've been worriting my guts out in London, and all on the off-chance of getting a seat in the office of that sanctimonious old vulpicide.’
- 1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book:
- The killing of a fox
Related terms
- vulpicidal