ailourophobic
English
Etymology
Adjective
ailourophobic (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of ailurophobic.
- 1963 November 6, Joe Nagelschmidt, “Dog May Be Man’s Best Friend, But . . .”, in James Shumaker, editor, The Chapel Hill Weekly, volume 41, number 88, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Chapel Hill Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2-B, column 4:
- Cat enthusiasts are by no means limited to withdrawn, frustrated individuals. People in all walks of life, especially in the professions, lean heavily toword[sic] feline pets. Unfortunately, large numbers of these cat enthusiasts harass landlord[sic] (and ailourophobic neighbors!) with their over-sized cat “families,” especially in the urban areas.
- 1963 November 8, Love Cruikshank, “Love Notes”, in The Evening Tribune, volume LXV, number 258, Albert Lea, Minn., →OCLC, page 6, column 4:
- I and my kin—despite the variableness of humans, who worship us as gods in one era and burn us as devils in another—have managed to retain a sense of humor, too. If you don’t believe me introduce The Cat of Your Household into a room that contains one lone ailourophobic guest (that’s one of those strange creatures who gets all goosepimply in the presence of a member of our family) and enjoy the spectacle.
- 1998, “Greek Derivatives”, in FJCL State Latin Forum 1998[1], Pensacola, Fla.: Florida Junior Classical League, archived from the original on 20 October 2020:
- Ailourophobic people would hate to be in an enclosed space with this animal.
- 1998, Morris B. Holbrook, “The katatche of catology in research on marketing: Breakfast at Tiffany’s stereography, subjective personal introspection, and cat”, in Irish Marketing Review, volume 11, number 2, Dublin: Mercury Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
- Thus, when spooked by the spectre of SPI, defenders of the tradition have responded with attacks on its purported devotion to ‘anarchy and paroxysms of self-expression’ (Calder and Tybout, 1987, p. 139) – hence the term ‘cat slinging’. Those of us who value the potential contributions from catologically flavoured varieties of subjective personal introspection have defended SPI against such ailourophobic assaults (Gould, 1995; Holbrook, 1995a).
- 2012 March 22, @catcalls_jane, Twitter[2] (post), archived from the original on 15 November 2025:
- Cat Chat 4. Many folks who've tried for World Domination were Ailourophobic ( afraid of cats ) Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler........
- 2021 December 7, u/catalyptic, “meow_irl”, in r/MEOW_IRL[3] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 7 December 2021:
- That seems to be a rat, proof that cats guarded ailourophobic Medieval humans from the plague. And what did the noble Cat get in return for their generosity? The Spanish Inquisition, that's what!