rhabdophobia

English

Etymology

From rhabdo- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

rhabdophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The fear of being beaten with a rod.
    • 2008 January 10, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail‎[1]:
      Some of the other conditions it identifies are stenophobia (fear of narrow things or places) and rhabdophobia (fear of being severely punished, beaten by a rod or severely criticised).

Quotations

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