ichthyophobe

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noun

A person afflicted with ichthyophobia.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

nounichthyophobe (plural ichthyophobes)

plural ichthyophobes

  1. A person afflicted with ichthyophobia.
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    To-day, when fish no longer inhabited its tanks, it was a by-word; it was a failure in every other direction; it was despised by its owners. So abject was its condition that recently efforts had actually been made by a hardened and determined ichthyophobe named Clayton to convert it into a garage for char-à-bancs.

    1922 September 20, E. V. L., “The Fishes’ Revenge”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 163, page 286

Origin

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APA

ichthyophobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ichthyophobe

MLA

“ichthyophobe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ichthyophobe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ichthyophobe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ichthyophobe.

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