Phobe

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:54:55AM -0800, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>   2. Has it (yet) been applied to other "phobics," i.e. xenophobes, "commitment-phobes," etc.

We have a few British examples of it in the sense
"Euro-phobe", i.e. one who opposes British integration into
the EU (etc.), from the mid-1990s onwards.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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