Rupophobic

//ɹu.pəʊˈfəʊ.bik// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.

    "His letters home from the voyage describe none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoire, Going Solo: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss Trefusis."

Synonyms

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mysophobic

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"His letters home from the voyage describe none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoire, Going Solo: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss Trefusis."

Etymology

From rupophobia + -ic.

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