Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as lyssophobia.
- n. A morbid fear of dogs.
Wiktionary
- n. An irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a morbid fear of dogs
Etymologies
- cyno- + -phobia (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For adults: 1. Animal phobias, such as arachnophobia (of spiders), ophidiophobia (of snakes) and cynophobia (of dogs)”
“Well then, of the 10 most common phobias arachnophobia, ophidiophobia, acrophobia, cynophobia, trypanophobia, pteromerhanophobia, and mysophobia shouldn't be counted as they're all pretty rational phobias.”
“In each case, I leave it to the reader to supply the words "fear of." acarophobia mites, parasites entonophobia ticks aelurophobia cats galeophobia sharks apiophobia bees hippophobia horses arachnephobia spiders musophobia mice bacilliphobia bacilli myrmecophobia lice bacteriaphobia bacteria soleciphobia worms batrachophobia frogs, toads swinophobia swine cynophobia dogs taeniophobia tapeworms eisoptrophobia termites taurophobia bulls A much smaller cluster of fears is centered on the plant world.”
“From tiny, purse-size pups to buff German shepherds, any flavor of man’s best friend can scare the pants off some who suffer from cynophobia, or extreme fear of dogs.”
Top 10 Fears and Phobias That Really Scare People | Impact Lab
“After nyctophobia, however, came cynophobia, the fear of dogs specifically, his grandfather’s two attack-trained Dobermans, as I recall, which the grandfather cured by making him sleep in the kennel—and beating him, of course.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cynophobia’.
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phrontistery - c
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Words as I learn them.
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Nice.007
avalanche, cougar, Déjà vu, gargantuan, cynophobia, boudoir, existentialism, awing
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