Citations:genuphobia

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English citations of genuphobia

  • Matthew Sweet (2001) Inventing the Victorians:The joke is essentially unchanged. suggesting that most American readers would find this genuphobia as ridiculous as those in England.
  • Andrew Pschirrer (2017 January) Foggy Notions: Memorandum of a Man-in-the-Making, Fulton Books, page 60:
    I can almost still feel the joint-crushing physical inability I endured trying to walk from the battleground to the parking lot after a ninety-minute match, crawling along in the mimicking manner of a sixty-five-year-old with severe arthritis. [] In retrospect, genuphobia, the fear of knees, would have compounded my misery. So I am grateful for being blessed with the lack of that.
  • Catriona McPherson (2020 July) Scot Free, Severn House Publishers, page 159:
    “I'm afraid of kneecaps,” she said. “Genuphobia. I’m truly sorry to have caused you distress.”
    “Is that why you went into entomology?” said Kathi. It seemed a silly question to me, but what did I know?