🐶🍽️ Trump's Oikeiophagy Slur
🐶🍽️ What's the Scientific Term for "Eating Pets"?
As per Trump's infamous accusation... is there a clinical term?
🔬 TL;DR:
There’s no scientific term for “eating pets” — because pets aren’t a biological category, and scientists generally don’t write papers about consuming Fido.
🧠 Greek Check: Is there a Word for “Pet”?
Not really.
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Ancient Greeks didn’t do pets. They had working animals, not cuddle buddies.
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No single classical word = “pet.”
Closest you get:
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ὁικείος (oikeios) — “of the household” 🏠
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θῆλυμμα (thêluma) — “darling” (but metaphorical, not zoological)
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Modern Greek: κατοικίδιο ζώο = “domestic animal” — still kinda cold.
🧪 Let's Build a Term:
If you want a realistic-sounding, pseudo-scientific adjective to describe this alleged behavior, go with:
👉 Oikeiophagous
(adj.) characterized by the consumption of household animals
Why it slaps:
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✅ Sounds Greek (because it is)
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✅ Dead serious, faintly ominous
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✅ Suggests domestic betrayal and culinary depravity in one word
🧠 Bonus Variants:
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Oikeiophagy — the noun (the act itself)
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Oikeiophage — the eater (e.g., “a known oikeiophage”)
🎯 In Use:
“His campaign peddled oikeiophagous hysteria—dog whistles with actual dogs on the menu.”
“No evidence of oikeiophagy has ever been found, despite the moral panic.”
💡 Summary:
Trump’s dog-eating slur was never meant to be scientific—it was a xenophobic trope. But if you need a term that sounds like it came from a UN ethics tribunal or a canceled anthropology textbook…
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