rodentophobia

noun

Etymology

From rodent + -o- + -phobia.

Definitions

  1. The fear of rodents.

    • The CS was a rat, which initially didn’t produce any “fear” in Little Albert. After a few pairings of sudden noise and rat, however, merely seeing the rat was enough to make Little Albert cry. Voilà—“rodentophobia.”
  2. The avoidance of using a computer mouse.

    • All mouse and menu activities have equivalent commands in the command window; very important if you suffer from rodentophobia, or have arrived at the amiga from an IBM clown environment.
    • Rodentophobia? Here’s How to Do It with the Keyboard
    • If you have rodentophobia, you can also do the mouse tricks explained in this section by pressing the following key combinations: […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rodentophobia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA