canophobia

English

Etymology

From cano- +‎ -phobia. Piecewise doublet of cynophobia.

Noun

canophobia (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of cynophobia.
    • 1979, Feinstein, Elaine; Weldon, Fay, New stories‎[1], Hutchinson, page 68:
      I’ve got canophobia,’ she said. ‘And no one else does in this whole country.’ Is it a racial characteristic, she wondered. Pioneers and cowboys who had conquered a whole continent wouldn’t worry about dogs.
    • 1995, Stewart, Paul, Bubble and shriek‎[2], Puffin, page 63:
      Dave Parker’s encounter with the savage hound would not give him canophobia, which would stay with him for the rest of his life.
    • 1997, Tyrer, Peter J, Drug treatment in psychiatry : a guide for the community mental health worker‎[3], Butterworth-Heinemann, page 217:
      Simple phobias are those of clearly circumscribed situations such as exposure to dogs (canophobia), cats (felophobia), high buildings (acrophobia), spiders (arachnophobia),
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