English

Alternative forms

• vulpecide

Noun

vulpicide ‎(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 2013, page 121:

     ‘Seven months I've been worriting^[sic] my guts out in London, and all on the off-chance of getting a seat in the office of that sanctimonious old vulpicide.’