单词 | ailurophobic |
释义 | > as lemmasailuroˈphobic ailuroˈphobic adj. having an intense fear of or aversion to cats. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > having irrational fears hydrophobous1748 necrophobic1857 pantophobic1857 agoraphobic1878 claustrophobic1889 pantophobous1893 phobic1897 ailurophobic1905 claustrophobiac1934 scotophobic1936 phobiac1944 mycophobic1957 school-phobic1960 aquaphobic1968 ochlophobic1976 computer-phobic1983 arachniphobe1984 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [adjective] > afraid of cats ailurophobic1905 1905 A. Lang in Morning Post 16 June 4/3 Finding a lady, rather ailurophobic, in a low dress at dinner Tippoo suddenly leaped up and alighted on her neck. He was never so friendly with non-ailurophobes. 1920 C. Van Vechten Tiger in House iii. 62 In one of his Spectator papers Addison tells how a lover won his lady from an ailurophobic rival with the assistance of a ‘purring piece of tortoise-shell’. 1960 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 31 Aug. 22/7 Ailurophobic Nikita Khrushchev's summit blasts included some derogatory remarks about cats. 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 15 Jan. 14 I'm not ailurophobic—I neither fear nor detest cats. < as lemmas |
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