vulpicide

English

Alternative forms

• vulpecide

Etymology

From Latin vulpēs or vulpis (“fox”) + -cide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd/

• Audio (UK):

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• Hyphenation: vul‧pi‧cide

Noun

vulpicide (countable and uncountable, plural vulpicides)

1. 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, published 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.’

2. The killing of a fox

Related terms

• vulpicidal