Citations:ranidaphobia

English citations of ranidaphobia

Noun: "the fear of frogs"

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• 2001, Kathy Antoniotti, "Make a frog from papier machie and Styrofoam", Rome News-Tribune, 22 May 2001, page T1:

  Now, you have no reason to suffer from ranidophobia – the fear of frogs.

• 2010, David Rish, "20 questions with Catherine Freeman", Inside Teaching, Volume 1, Number 2, June 2010, page 31:

  I'm sure I experience ranidaphobia, meaning that I have a fear of frogs.

• 2011, "Scouting Spotlight", The Baylor County Banner, Volume 115, Number 40, 17 March 2011, page 10:

  Or would they succumb to the fears known as ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), ranidaphobia (fear of frogs), or arachnophobia (fear of spiders)?

• 2013, Nick Haslam, "What are phobias?", in The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums, CSIRO Publishing (2013), →ISBN, page 231:

  One published case documented a woman who developed ranidaphobia, as it is known, after running over a knot of frogs with a lawn-mower.

• 2013, Derek Prall, "Man sues town over plague of frogs", American City & County, 10 April 2013:

  However Marinaccio's ranidaphobia may soon be quieted, as Clarence, N.Y., recently awarded him a $1.6 million settlement after he sued both the town and development firm Kieffer Enterprises for diverting the water runoff from a nearby development onto his land.

• 2014, "Meet The Editorial & Office Staff", JTAC News (Tartleton State University), 10 February 2014, page 3:

  Suffers from ranidaphobia: the fear of frogs.