arachnophobiac

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arachnophobiac (plural arachnophobiacs)

  1. A person who suffers from arachnophobia
    • 2012 March 22, Peter Aven, Road Stories: The Experiences of a Traveling Musician, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 127:
      The sight of this king spider dangling and squirming in midair would have been enough to make an arachnophobiac die immediately of a stroke or faint dead away. I found myself hoping and praying that my bass player would not take a whack []
    • 2014 January 7, Tamar Myers, PennDutch Mystery Series Box Set 1-3, NYLA, →ISBN:
      Neither Mama nor Papa would have, for even a second, considered sending an arachnophobiac down into a cellar swarming with spiders. But so help me, some people deserve what they get. Jeanette had already volunteered to make a vegetarian []
    • 2023 April 9, Steve Hutchison, Decades of Terror 2020: 1970s Horror Movies, Tales of Terror, →ISBN:
      Sure, it [Kingdom of the Spiders] could use more characters, more suspense, more build-up, but it's an arachnophobiac's worst nightmare and that counts for something.