mageirocophobia

English

Noun

mageirocophobia (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of mageiricophobia: fear of cooking.
   • 2007, Grace Fox, Moving from Fear to Freedom, Harvest House, →ISBN, page 17:

     I'm writing this after 5:00 p.m., and I still don't know what to fix for dinner. Perhaps I should plead mageirocophobia tonight!

   • 2010 September 9, Susan Albers, "Overcoming Mageirocophobia, Psychology Today:

     I love to cook, but I didn't always like it. Like many people, I suffered from a mild version of mageirocophobia—the fear of cooking.

   • 2010 September 9, Amy Scherzer, “New South Tampa Restaurants Satisfy International Tastes”, in Tampa Bay Times:

     I am a mageirocophobic. There, I've said it. My mother has mageirocophobia, and her mother wasn't so hot in the kitchen either.

   • 2011, Counter Space, Museum of Modern Art, →ISBN, page 67:

     It evokes a gamut of emotions, fostering creativity and genuine pleasure as well as anxiety—manifested in the extreme as mageirocophobia, the fear of cooking.

Derived terms

• mageirocophobic