Meanings
plural blennophobes
- rareA person who has blennophobia.
'Welcome,' he oozes, and it's perhaps as well I'm no blennophobe because he's one slimy fuckbucket.
2010, Bill Thunder, The Bastardizer, page 312 more examples
If the thought of crab-walking with an oozing, mucous-like mud sucking at your boots and gloves makes you think that caving might not be the sport for you, you might be a blennophobe, someone who is afraid of slime.
2005, Terry Owens, Extreme Marriage Mastering the Ever-Changing, Life-Long Adventure, page 220This strange organism is created when millions of single-celled animals come together to form a slimy puddle—not good for a blennophobe.
2011, Joel Levy, Phobiapedia: All the Things We Fear the Most!, page 61
Origin
- Ancient Greekφόβος“fear”
- Ancient Greekβλέννα“mucus, slime”
- Englishblennophobe
From Ancient Greek βλέννα (blénna, “mucus, slime”) + -phobe, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
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