hydrophobistn.
/hʌɪˈdrɒfəbɪst/ 1. One who treats cases of hydrophobia.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > in other fields
searcher1597
snake-doctor1800
resuscitator1810
hydrophobist1855
narcologist1878
phthisiotherapeutist1899
phthisiotherapist1907
pulmonologist1912
chemotherapist1925
oncologist1925
allergist1928
cancerologist1935
physiatrist1946
orthotist1951
neuropharmacologist1957
1855 W. White Suffolk Direct. 740 Underwood Dan, Farmer and Hydrophobist.
2. One who has a dread of or aversion to water.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears > person
hydrophobist1840
phobist1883
acrophobe1894
agoraphobe1894
agoraphobic1898
ailurophobe1905
claustrophobe1911
phobiac1911
phobic1911
arachnophobe1925
claustrophobiac1934
claustrophobic1953
mycophobe1957
aerophobe1966
necrophobe1973
computerphobe1974
aerophobic1978
computer-phobic1983
toxiphobiac-
1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 215 A learned hydrophobist addressing himself to those whom he styles the Antichristian Sect, vulgarly and illiterately calling themselves tea-totalers.
1898 Voice (N.Y.) 31 Mar. 4/1 The hydrophobists who hurled whisky bottles against the sides of the Kentucky, as she was launcht.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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