ichthyophobe

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ichthyo- +‎ -phobe.

Noun[edit]

ichthyophobe (plural ichthyophobes)

  1. A person afflicted with ichthyophobia.
    • 1922 September 20, E. V. L., “The Fishes’ Revenge”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 163, page 286:
      To-day, when fish no longer inhabited its tanks, it was a by-word; it was a failure in every other direction; it was despised by its owners. So abject was its condition that recently efforts had actually been made by a hardened and determined ichthyophobe named Clayton to convert it into a garage for char-à-bancs.