aunticide

English

Etymology

From aunt +‎ -icide.

Noun

aunticide (uncountable) (rare)

1. The killing of an aunt.
   • 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:

     Dear Aunt Louie: […] Criticism on my part would be rather like aunticide would it not?

   • 1929 February 6, Punch, or The London Charivari, page 159, column 2:

     And then, as I say, in a fit of irritation he committed great-aunticide.

   • 1966, Saturday Review, page 40, column 3:

     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.

   • 2000, Art Shay, Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century, Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, page 21:

     After I composed myself, I considered matricide followed by cousin and aunticide.

   • 2005, Claire McNab, The Quokka Question, published 2020, →ISBN:

     “ […] 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?

   • 2015, Delilah S. Dawson, chapter 23, in Wicked Ever After, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Star Books, →ISBN:

     “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.”

Coordinate terms

• avunculicide, unclecide