gallicide
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The killing of a chicken, especially the former sport of cock-throwing; or, humorously, the killing of a Frenchman.
— "A Cock has the Misfortune to be called in Latin by the same Word which signifies a Frenchman: So that nothing could so well represent, or be represented by the One as the Other.... Gallicide, or Cock-Throwing, was first introduced by way of contempt to the French, and to exasperate the Minds of the People against that Nation..."
词源
From Latin gallus (“rooster”) + -cide.
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