woman-slaughter
informal
noun
The murder or killing of a woman; manslaughter involving a female victim.
- Chiefly used as a conscious and sometimes humorous alternative to manslaughter..
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Taylor (1578–1653), poet.
- disputatious
- disputatiously
- disputatiousness
- disputative
- dispute
- disputer
- disqualification
- disqualify
- disquiet
- disquieting
- disquietingly
- disquietude
- disquisition
- disquisitional
- Disraeli, Benjamin
- disrate
- disregard
- disregardful
- disrelish
- disremember
- disrepair
- disreputable
- disreputableness
- disreputably
- disrepute