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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Commonwealth spelling of pedophobe (“a person who dislikes children”)..
I'm no paedophobe, but I'm quite relieved that the children are back at school.
To explain. A paedophobe is one who rants endlessly about paedophiles yes, but also foreigners taking our jobs, yobs, gays. the liberal elite, the goody goody nanny state and the fact that teachers can't torture children anymore.
> It's left as an exercise for the reader why this practice is to be > discouraged. > Is it because it might confound the expectation of the Paedophobe on the Clapham omnibus?
Clinical studies have shown that rabid paedophobes such as you are, more often than not, closet paedophiles themselves.
Use paedophobe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Paedophobe means Commonwealth spelling of pedophobe (“a person who dislikes children”)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I'm no paedophobe, but I'm quite relieved that the children are back at school.
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