misslaughter

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ slaughter

Verb

misslaughter (third-person singular simple present misslaughters, present participle misslaughtering, simple past and past participle misslaughtered)

1. To slaughter improperly.
   • 2003, Barbara Green, How Are the Mighty Fallen?, page 460:

     When the battle progresses well, Saul misspeaks, misclaims the battle as his, misvows, his son miseats and the hungry men misslaughter.

   • 2011, Jonathan Boyarin, Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul, page 168:

     There are also allegations of ill-treatment of animals (a video ofa shackled animal being badly misslaughtered by Rubashkin's was circulated a couple of years ago by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and even— rumor has it, I didn't even read the articles—a methamphetamine lab in the slaughterhouse.

   • 2014, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons, page 5:

     To put that into context, while there is no nice way for an animal to die, sadly there are many instances in which animals are mis-stunned and mis-slaughtered.

   • 2014 November, M.M. Farouk, H.M. Al-Mazeedi, A.B. Sabow, A.E.D. Bekhit, K.D. Adeyemi, A.Q. Sazili, A. Ghani, “Halal and kosher slaughter methods and meat quality: A review”, in Meat Science, volume 98, number 3:

     However birds can be mis-slaughtered (other parts of the body are cut instead) or missed (not slaughtered) by the machine.

Noun

misslaughter (plural misslaughters)

1. An instance of misslaughtering.
   • 2015, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore), page 262:

     His subsequent misslaughter of an animal in the following legend reveals a high degree of incompetence in the economic arena.

   • 2018, College of St. George, On-Farm and Local Slaughter Consultation:

     Each of these methods carries risks of mis-stun or mis-slaughter which cause distress and suffering to the animal.

   • 2019, Indana Resti, Overview of Broiler Chicken Slaughtering Result Sold at Tradisional Markets in Jombang. (Undergraduate Thesis, IPB University):

     This study was aimed to determine the misslaughter of the broiler chicken slaughtering process sold at traditional market of Jombang, East Java.