snake-phobia

Noun

snakephobia (uncountable)

1. Fear of snakes.
   • His mother “never could abide” the serpent; its Freischutzian tones were unearthly in the old lady’s ears, and seemed to fret her bowels into fiddle strings, and positively turn her inside out, as the old lady declared just before her death, which occurrence was doubtless hastened by the violence...1839 October, William E[vans] Burton, “Mister Richard Doddicombe”, in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly Review, volume V, number IV, Philadelphia, Pa., page 176

   Synonyms:

   ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, snake fear, snake-fright