pupaphobia

pupaphobia noun: the fear of puppets.

Noun

pupaphobia (uncountable)

(rare) The fear of puppets.
- Adie watched in horror: shadowy lives playing against living shadows. A sudden pupaphobia overtook her as she watched the boy volley, step out, recompile a few new lines of code, step back in and volley again.2000, Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark: A Novel, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page unknown
- I explain to Brian—and Megan and her roommate Darren, who are also listening—that I ran into A. at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, where we’d just seen a puppet show. I’d confessed to A. that I had a mild, though not very committed, case of pupaphobia when he asked me how I liked...2010 Summer, Jill Margo, “Getting Textual”, in Geist, volume 19, number 77, →ISSN, page 25

பாவை வெருளி

I’d confessed to A. that I had a mild, though not very committed, case of pupaphobia when he asked me how I liked the show.2010 Summer, Jill Margo, “Getting Textual”, in Geist, volume 19, number 77, →ISSN, page 25:
When I first heard of pupaphobia, I thought it was a joke.2013 April 16, Benny4urThoughts, “Re: Typical Leftists: Party to celebrate Thatcher's death.”, in tx.guns (Usenet):
For anyone with coulrophobia (fear of clowns), pupaphobia (fear of puppets) or who merely wants a nights-are-getting-longer novel, here's one that'll chill you good.2016 October 15, Terri Schlichenmeyer, “New novel tells creepy tale of horror”, in Daily Corinthian, volume 120, number 249, page 5:
Hey kids, the word of the week is "pupaphobia"![2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando...

From Latin pūpa (“doll, puppet”) + -phobia.

What does pupaphobia mean?: Pupaphobia means the fear of puppets.
What is pupaphobia in Tamil?: Pupaphobia in Tamil is பாவை வெருளி. See Pupaphobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pupaphobia in a sentence?: I’d confessed to A. that I had a mild, though not very committed, case of pupaphobia when he asked me how I liked the show.
What part of speech is pupaphobia?: Pupaphobia is a noun.

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