mycophoben.adj.
/ˈmʌɪkə(ʊ)fəʊb/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkoʊˌfoʊb/ A person who is wary of eating mushrooms. Also occasionally as adj.: = mycophobic adj.
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claustrophobic1953
mycophobe1957
aerophobe1966
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1957 V. P. Wasson in V. P. Wasson & R. G. Wasson Mushrooms, Russia & Hist. I. p. xvii We suggest to the anthropologists that they will do well to include always in their cultural valuations the question whether a given people is ‘mycophile’ or ‘mycophobe’.
1957 V. P. Wasson & R. G. Wasson Mushrooms, Russia & Hist. II. v. 337 The Finns present an interesting pattern. By tradition mycophobes, they still reject most mushrooms.
1984 Sports Illustr. (Nexis) 14 May 98 ‘Anglo-Saxons have always been mycophobes,’ says Dr. Alexander Hanchett Smith.
1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. v. 6 This is a good place to go if mycophobes are mixed with mycophagists; there's a ‘Taste of Italy’ section on the menu.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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