Meanings
plural arachnophobiacs
- A person who suffers from arachnophobia.
Sure, it [Kingdom of the Spiders] could use more characters, more suspense, more build-up, but it's an arachnophobiac's worst nightmare and that counts for something.
2023 April 9, Steve Hutchison, Decades of Terror 2020: 1970s Horror Movies, Tales of Terror, →ISBN2 more examples
The sight of this king spider dangling and squirming in midair would have been enough to make an arachnophobiac die immediately of a stroke or faint dead away. I found myself hoping and praying that my bass player would not take a whack[…]
2012 March 22, Peter Aven, Road Stories: The Experiences of a Traveling Musician, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 127Neither Mama nor Papa would have, for even a second, considered sending an arachnophobiac down into a cellar swarming with spiders. But so help me, some people deserve what they get. Jeanette had already volunteered to make a vegetarian[…]
2014 January 7, Tamar Myers, PennDutch Mystery Series Box Set 1-3, NYLA, →ISBN
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