arachibutyrophobia

noun

Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.

Scrabble 35

Meanings

nounarachibutyrophobia (uncountable)
  1. humorousrareuncountableFear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.

    Imagine the situation had this bear suffered from arachibutyrophobia!

    2012, Manish Gupta, English Bites!, →ISBN
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    Odds and ends I've come across in the course of an education: That arachibutyrophobia is an unnatural fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. I have no idea how many people suffer from this.

    1977 March 31, Ball State Daily News, page 4

    Her ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA had been getting worse lately. She finally chose a jar of creamy style peanut butter, knowing it would never be opened once she got it home.

    1981, John E. Readence, Thomas W. Bean, R. Scott Baldwin, Content Area Reading: An Integrated Approach, →ISBN, page 67

    Do you suffer from Arachibutyrophobia? Or does peanut butter just freak you out?

    2003, Richard Waters, Phobias: Fear and Loathing Revealed and Explained, →ISBN

    He took a bite of sandwich, chewed, and grinned at her. "Arachibutyrophobia. Look it up."

    2005, Lawana Blackwell, A Table By the Window, →ISBN

    Look, if people can suffer from arachibutyrophobia, which is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, then I have no doubt there's a clinical name for being afraid to leave your baby with a sitter for a half hour while you run to 7-Eleven.

    2006, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom, →ISBN, page 88

Origin

  1. Latinarachis“peanut”
  2. Englisharachibutyrophobia

From Latin arachis (“peanut”) + butyro- (“butter”) + -phobia.

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