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Living Language Phrase of the Week: Bullycide

05.20.2007

bullycide

–noun
1.The suicide of a child that occurs after that child has been bullied or harassed.

Earliest Citation:

"Co-authors, Neil Marr and Tim Field, spent three years researching 'Bullycide' — they coined the word to describe the situation, when bullied children choose suicide rather than face another day of bullying, harassment or abuse."

— "Bullied to death," Sunday Life, February 4, 2001

 

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