Meanings
- rareuncountableThe irrational fear of eggs.
In my Favorite Sin's case, extreme ovophobia would be the cause.
1999 September 13, E*Borg Someday We'll All Assimilate This Way, “Long Pointless Rant to get something off my chest.”, in alt.callahans (Usenet)3 more examples
Phobics can choose to cope, even in bizarre ways, with their problem. Actors working for Alfred Hitchcock, to take just one example, would tell each other that the one sure way to drive him out of his mind was to stub out a cigarette in an eggshell, as he was phobic about eggs (suffering from ovophobia) and had a big hatred going against cigarettes.
2011, Terry Prone, The Fear Factor, Dublin: Londubh, page 22Alfred Hitchcock, whose 1963 film The Birds terrified ornithophobics, hated eggs (ovophobia).
2013, Daniel Allen, The Nature Magpie: A Cornucopia of Facts, Anecdotes, Folklore and Literature From the Natural World, London: Icon Books, page 54Mine is ovophobia: I have an irrational fear of eggs, particularly the hard-boiled variety.
2017, Killian Fox, The Gannet's Gastronomic Miscellany, London: Mitchell Beazley, page 136
Origin
From ovo- (“egg”) + -phobia (“fear”).
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