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arachibutyrophobia

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  • Slice site, I learned that arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

    Peanut Butter Slices 2008

  • I should think most people would agree, for instance, that arachibutyrophobia would be an example of the latter the word defines the fear of peanut butter's sticking to the roof of your mouth.

    "I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words." Ann Althouse 2008

  • As to the above, in ordinary speech, I'd consider lapidary, but withhold eristic and arachibutyrophobia.

    "I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words." Ann Althouse 2008

  • My favorite is arachibutyrophobia -- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

    Phobias and Free Speech Matt Johnston 2007

  • I also learned by exploring the P.B. Slices site that arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth. to comment, but it's easier if you do so.

    Neatorama 2008

  • Even spellchecker rejects it, but then spellchecker rejects a lot of perfectly good words so its a worse judge for word-acceptability than my brother and me, and arachibutyrophobia because the listener would certainly get the phobia part but not the arachibutyro part and so they'd know I was talking about fear of something, probably akin to spiders, because of its closeness to arachno, like mites or something, which is just as bad as misunderstanding because fear of peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth is comic and fear of mites is serious, thus the humor would be entirely forfeit.

    "I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words." Ann Althouse 2008

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  • Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

    July 31, 2008

  • Fear of peanut butter becoming stuck to the roof of your mouth

    January 6, 2009

  • So which is it: sticking, or becoming stuck?

    January 6, 2009

  • Moreover, its etymology suggests "fear of peanut butter" only...

    January 6, 2009

  • Hmmmm. Perhaps it might be polite to allow pinkpop268, an apparently new visitor to Wordie, a chance to look around and get the feel of the site before pouncing with such apparent alacrity.

    I always thought it was the fear of spider butter getting stuck to the roof of one's mouth. It must be my letant dylsexia.

    January 6, 2009

  • JM is truly staggered by the discovery that there is a condition of arachibutyrophobia – so much so that he can’t think of anything to say about it at all!

    May 5, 2009

  • hey yarb, its sticking to the roof of the mouth, not becoming stuck.

    October 29, 2010