Talk:mageirocophobia

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Another phobia. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 17:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

The OED has (deprecated template usage) mag(e)iric(s), (deprecated template usage) mag(e)irist(ic), and (deprecated template usage) mag(e)irology, (deprecated template usage) mag(e)irological, (deprecated template usage) mag(e)irologist, all of which ultimately derive from the Ancient Greek μάγειρος (mágeiros, “cook”), whence I would take this phobia's name to derive. The (deprecated template usage) -oc- bit stumps me, though; however, I wouldn't prescribe *(deprecated template usage) mag(e)irophobia (which'd probably mean "the fear of chefs" or something) in its place. The reference in the entry points to this quiz, which gives eleven more phobias, viz. (deprecated template usage) ablutophobia ("the fear of washing or bathing"; from the Latin (deprecated template usage) ablūt- (the perfect passive participial stem of abluō (“I wash away”, “I cleanse”)) + -phobia), (deprecated template usage) agliophobia [sic] ("the fear of pain"; from the Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), (deprecated template usage) aichmophobia ("the fear of needles or pointed objects"; from God-only-knows-where), (deprecated template usage) ailurophobia ("the fear of cats"; from the Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros, “cat”, “weasel”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia); (deprecated template usage) bathmophobia ("the fear of stairs or steep slopes"; from the Ancient Greek βαθμός (bathmós, “step”, “threshold”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), (deprecated template usage) chorophobia ("the fear of dancing"; from the Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “dance”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), (deprecated template usage) tonitrophobia [sic] ("the fear of thunder"; from the Latin tonitrus (“thunder”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), (deprecated template usage) ecclesiophobia ("the fear of church"; from the Ancient Greek ἐκκλησίᾱ (ekklēsíā, “assembly”, “church”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), (deprecated template usage) gymnophobia ("the fear of nudity"; from the Ancient Greek γῠμνός (gumnós, “naked”, “bare”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), (deprecated template usage) ichthyophobia ("the fear of fish"; from the Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + (deprecated template usage) -phobia), and (deprecated template usage) methyphobia [sic] ("the fear of alcohol"; probably from methyl + (deprecated template usage) -phobia); I wouldn't regard such a source as particularly authoritative. As for direct attestation, the only legitimate use of an English word with this spelling that I could find was this one, though it seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with cooking (no matter: I'll add it to Citations:mageirocophobia). It is likely that this term will fail RFV.  — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 19:15, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh_TALK 03:40, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Citation is gibberish

The Earls citation on the citations page seems to be gibberish. It comes from an entire passage that misuses words deliberately. Equinox ◑ 19:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Probably true. I have no idea what the book is talking about. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 23:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

I don't even know if we accept the other one because it's not Usenet (I think). —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 23:07, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah...

This whole entry is misspelled. I know people have been using it since ~2006, but the etymon is mageirikos and Google Books shows uses of the correctly derived mageiricophobia going back to the mid-20th-century at least. It's a now common misspelling, not a proper term. — LlywelynII 11:47, 9 March 2020 (UTC)