aibohphobia

发音

其它 /aɪ.bəʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
US /aɪ.bəʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An irrational fear of palindromes.

    幽默 不可数

词源

Deliberately constructed to be a palindrome, combining the suffix -phobia with its reversed spelling. First appeared as a response to National Challenge #36, in a newspaper column written by J Baxter Newgate. The challenge was to invent a phobia. The column did not identify the entrant. (Source: Orlando Sentinel, Oct 22, 1977)

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