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bluebeetle commented on the word vapulequimortiphobia
"vapulequimortiphobia (from Latin vapulare, to beat, equus, horse, and mortuus, dead), the fear of listening to someone beat a dead horse." - Charles Harrington Elster, The Grandiloquent Gumshoe ("There's a Word for It," Pocket Books 1996)
March 9, 2007
samuraizack commented on the word vapulequimortiphobia
If it is the fear of "listening" to that, shouldn't there be some form of the Latin word audire (to hear) in there?
May 23, 2007