Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

Crazy phobia words

Fear of amphibians--batrachophobia

Fear of beards--pogonophobia

Fear of falling satellites--keraunothnetophobia

Fear of being tied up--merinthophobia

Fear of being tickled with feathers--pteronophobia

Fear of sharks--selachophobia

Fear of opening one's eyes--optophobia

Fear of clowns--coulrophobia

Fear of colors--chromatophobia

Fear of foreign languages--xenoglossophobia

Fear of doctors--iatrophobia

Fear of hair--trichopathophobia

Fear of going to school (we all have that!)--didaskalenophobia

Fear of snow--chionophobia

Fear of wasps--spheksophobia

Fear of gravity--barophobia

Fear of ghosts--phasmophobia

These are just a few. The list I got these from is in Schott's Original Miscellany (I was at a friend's house this afternoon and he has that) and there are more there. If you want the etymological roots of any of them, go to the Merriam-Webster site and type them in. You should get the etymology there. They're really funny!

P.S. Emma, take a look at this!