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.

   • 2018 March 7, Chewie, “Artsploitation Acquires ‘A Taste of Phobia’”, in ScareTissue‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 August 2022:

     Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).

Derived terms

• mageirocophobic