pullicide — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The killing of a chicken.

   Usage

   • Rare
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   gallicide

   Examples

   Verily, I put myself in mind of Gay's sick fox, who, after preaching to his young kin against pullicide, cries, […] A chicken, too, might do me good.

   More examples (2)

   […] was also given to "gallicide," "pullicide," and every kind of 'cide, and a good deal of Warre's correspondence is full of apologies for the misdeeds of both dogs.

   In one of the more broadly comic touches, for example, Cicero illustrates the Stoic claim that all crimes are equal by equating parricide with untimely pullicide: "And the man who strangles a poultry-cock when it is not necessary does no less wrong than the man who strangles his father"