Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of cynophobia.
Dave Parker’s encounter with the savage hound would not give him canophobia, which would stay with him for the rest of his life.
1995, Stewart, Paul, Bubble and shriek, Puffin, page 632 more examples
I’ve got canophobia,’ she said. ‘And no one else does in this whole country.’ Is it a racial characteristic, she wondered. Pioneers and cowboys who had conquered a whole continent wouldn’t worry about dogs.
1979, Feinstein, Elaine; Weldon, Fay, New stories, Hutchinson, page 68Simple phobias are those of clearly circumscribed situations such as exposure to dogs (canophobia), cats (felophobia), high buildings (acrophobia), spiders (arachnophobia),
1997, Tyrer, Peter J, Drug treatment in psychiatry : a guide for the community mental health worker, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 217Synonyms: cynophobia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of cynophobia.
Origin
From cano- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of cynophobia.
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