• Phobe

    Origin

    From -phobe.

    Full definition of phobe

    Noun

    phobe

    (plural phobes)
    1. A person who experiences a phobia.
      • 1972, Paul Gallico, Honorable Cat, page 10:If you are not a phobe, it is almost impossible not to stroke a cat that comes within range.
      • 1995, John B. Sanford, A Book of American Women, page 140:What would she have felt about such philes of themselves and phobes of the rest, all those lovers of Jesus and haters of the Jews?
      • 2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens (ISBN 0738745065):"You're telling me you're gay?" I put my hand on his leg. When he glances at it, I jerk it away. "Oh. Sorry," I blurt out. "That was totally innocent. I'm not, you know, like that." Kollin rolls his eyes. "Don't be such a phobe, Michaels."
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