Blennophobe

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who has blennophobia. rare

    "If the thought of crab-walking with an oozing, mucous-like mud sucking at your boots and gloves makes you think that caving might not be the sport for you, you might be a blennophobe, someone who is afraid of slime."

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"If the thought of crab-walking with an oozing, mucous-like mud sucking at your boots and gloves makes you think that caving might not be the sport for you, you might be a blennophobe, someone who is afraid of slime."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βλέννα (blénna, “mucus, slime”) + -phobe, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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