hydrophobe

Noun

hydrophobe (plural hydrophobes)

1. A hydrophobic compound or material.
2. Someone who is affected by hydrophobia (a fear or aversion to water).
   • The shock of the meeting triremes was tremendous, and in a moment the poor little hydrophobes were spluttering in the pond: […]1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1
   • If I talk to 10 people, there is usually a fellow hydrophobe among them. It is hard to pick them out, because a person who is afraid of water looks very much like a normal person. But, from talking with fellow hydrophobes, I have discovered something we almost all share: more times than not, our...2006 July 2, Frank Gannon, “The Deep”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2018

   Synonyms:

   aquaphobe, waterfunk