spadassinicide

[prettygoodword]

spadassinicide (spad-uh-SI-ni-said) - n., the act of goading someone with weaker swordsmanship into initiating a duel and then killing them; someone who does this.


A way of committing, in places and times where duels are permitted, a legal murder. I'd accuse the internet of making this up, but there are citations to Rafael Sabatini. The root of the coinage is Italian spadaccino, swordsman.


Thanks, WikiMedia!

---L.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

There are quite a few people who do this in internet fights.

[prettygoodword]

Heh. Yeah, those guys are a kind of extension of the concept.