| 单词 | anglophobe |
| 释义 | anglophobe (once / 114751 pages) n An anglophobe is someone who deeply dislikes England or English people. If your friend refuses to buy a plane ticket to India because the flight stops in London on the way, it might be because she's an anglophobe. If you distrust someone purely because of his British accent, you're an anglophobe, and if you refuse to buy products made in England just because you hate the country, you're also an anglophobe. A British politician might accuse a Scot who favors independence from the UK of being an anglophobe. The word has two roots, the Latin angli, "the English," and the Greek phobia, or "a panicked fear of." WORD FAMILYanglophobe: anglophobes+/Anglophobia: Anglophobic, anglophobe USAGE EXAMPLESThe level of Anglophobe vitriol here is something to behold. BBC(Jun 06, 2014) When he has no arguments he loses his head and calls me Anglophobe. Economist(Oct 19, 2012) "He is a French secret agent—an Anglophobe to his finger-tips." Le Queux, William, Spies of the Kaiser—Plotting the Do...(2010) n a person who hates England and everything English Hyper hater a person who hates |
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