blennophobe
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βλέννος (blénnos, “mucus, slime”) + -phobe, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Noun
[edit]blennophobe (plural blennophobes)
- (rare) A person who has blennophobia.
- 2005, Terry Owens, Extreme Marriage Mastering the Ever-Changing, Life-Long Adventure[1], page 220:
- 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.
- 2010, Bill Thunder, The Bastardizer[2], page 31:
- 'Welcome,' he oozes, and it's perhaps as well I'm no blennophobe because he's one slimy fuckbucket.
- 2011, Joel Levy, Phobiapedia: All the Things We Fear the Most![3], page 61:
- This strange organism is created when millions of single-celled animals come together to form a slimy puddle—not good for a blennophobe.