porcophobia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin porcus (“pig”) + -phobia
Noun
[edit]porcophobia (uncountable) (rare)
- A fear or dislike of pigs.
- 2007 September, Christopher Hitchens, “God is not great”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), A Short Digression on the Pig; or, Why Heaven Hates Ham:
- Porcophobia and porcophilia—thus probably originate in a nighttime of human sacrifice and even cannibalism at which the “holy” texts often do more than hint.