phobia = "neurotic symptom; neurosis; mania"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Mon Aug 18 17:40:48 UTC 2008

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Call it a blunder, but this is the meaning I and others attached to it NYC ca1960.
 
1930 "Anonymous" [? John Jacob Niles] _One Woman's War_ (N.Y.: Macauley) 112: His craving for ham and eggs was something of a phobia.
 
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