ichthyophobe
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ichthyophobe (plural ichthyophobes)
- A person afflicted with ichthyophobia.
- 1922 September 20, E. V. L., “The Fishes’ Revenge”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 163, page 286:
- 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.