giganticide

English edit

giganticide (countable and uncountable, plural giganticides)

The killing of a giant.
- 1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor:
  As they scarce make a capital crime of infanticide, / There can't be any harm in a little giganticide.
One who kills a giant.
- 1863, Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air:
  […] tore through the briers, and plunged through the punk of trees older than history, now rotting where they fell, slain by Time the Giganticide.
- 1887, George Dawson, Georges St Clair, Biographical Lectures:
  […] the wonderful tales of the giganticide of old, of the German mythology, and our own rich nursery lore […]