prenticeciden.
/ˈprɛntᵻs(s)ʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈprɛn(t)əsˌsaɪd/ Now rare and historical.
A person who kills an apprentice.The quots. all relate to the case of Martha Brownrigg, a midwife who reportedly flogged one of her apprentices to death in the 1760s.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of other specific types
deicide1653
magistricide1670
modernicide1760
prenticecide1797
giganticide1806
nigger-killer1856
1797 G. Canning et al. in Anti-Jacobin 20 Nov. 7 (heading) Mrs. Brownrigg, the ‘Prentice-cide’.
1841 Times 30 Dec. 3/5 When the notorious 'prenticide, Martha Brownrigg, ‘Whipped her female 'prentices to death’,..the remedy adopted..against the recurrence of such a crime was simply the suspension of Martha Brownrigg.
1888 R. Browning Let. 23 Feb. (1933) 289 My Grandfather told me that in consequence of the notoriety of Mrs. Brownrigg ‘the Prenticecide’, most of those unlucky enough to be her name-sakes changed r and g to a couple of ns, and so apparently increased our tribe.
1925 H. Walker Eng. Satire & Satirists xi. 249 The well-known lines [by Canning and Frere] on the 'Prenticecide Mrs. Browning [sic], which travesty Southey's on the regicide Henry Marten.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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