monkeycide
nounEtymology From monkey + -cide.
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The killing of a monkey.
- I do not think I could commit Monkeycide myself. They look, as lady Macbeth says, so like our Fathers.1834, Thomas Hood, “Summer.—A Winter Eclogue.”, in The Comic Annual, London: Charles Tilt, […]:
- This consideration, together with our having nobler game in view, prevented us from committing monkeycide, although the temptation was always in sight.1839, Major E. Napier, “The Perkhal Lake—The Stirrup Cup—Sport in the Jungle—[…]”, in Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1840, pages 5–6:
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- But happily the reflection, ‘What would Professor Huxley say?’ joined with a certain ‘am-I-not-a-man-and-a-brother’ expression about the creature, checked me in time, and saved me from a crime worse than even monkeycide; for here there was no tail that I could have pleaded in excuse.1864, John Ormsby, “A Ramble with the Lion-Hunters”, in Autumn Rambles in North Africa, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, pages 198–199:
- “MONKEYCIDE.” Harris, an assayer of Gold Hill, Nev., had a pet monkey […] Tenderly Harris nursed his little pet, but he could not save him. Jocko drank a gallon of water, rolled up his queer little eyes, and died. The Gold Hill News, which tells this bright little story, coins the word “monkey[-]cide.”1877 March 16, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XXXI, Chicago, Ill., page 3, column 5:
- The only consolatory or redeeming feature in the case, if by any stretch of fancy it can be called such, was founded upon the hypothesis that “burglary”—and not science was the object of the visitors, when “justifiable monkeycide” would be a legitimate verdict, even though according to the requirements of a late Chief Justice, the burglars in this case “had not all the instruments of their avocation visible upon them.”1880, John Francis Fisher, “Notes to Chapter IX”, in The Future of the Human Race. Some of the Latest Fruits of Darwinism: The Subjects Associated Therewith Treated from a Social, Logical, Political and Satirical Point of View with Notes and References., London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Liverpool: Edward Howell, page 76:
- He was shockingly boy[-]like, but without stopping to decide whether it were a case of homicide, or merely monkeycide, I pressed him with difficulty into the bag and stealthily started for my room, attempting the while to allay my compunctions of conscience by believing my motif to be in the interest of science.1890 October, James Ricalton, “The Summer Capital of India”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, […], page 415, column 1: