slayage

noun

Etymology

From slay + -age.

  1. derived from *slak- — “to hit, strike, throw
  2. inherited from *slahaną — “to hit, strike; to kill
  3. inherited from *slahan
  4. inherited from slēan — “to hit, punch, strike; to kill
  5. inherited from sleen
  6. suffixed as slayage — “slay + age

Definitions

  1. slaughter

    • Filling Jason's hockey mask since the seventh installment, Hodder has raised the art of slayage to a savage level.
    • “To aid in the quest for monster footage and subsequent monster slayage,” Simon corrected.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slayage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA