Meanings
- 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!, →ISBN5 more examples
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 4Her 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 67Do you suffer from Arachibutyrophobia? Or does peanut butter just freak you out?
2003, Richard Waters, Phobias: Fear and Loathing Revealed and Explained, →ISBNHe took a bite of sandwich, chewed, and grinned at her. "Arachibutyrophobia. Look it up."
2005, Lawana Blackwell, A Table By the Window, →ISBNLook, 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
- Latinarachis“peanut”
- Englisharachibutyrophobia
From Latin arachis (“peanut”) + butyro- (“butter”) + -phobia.
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