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Nomophobe 

A nomophobe is a person suffering from nomophobia. You know the people I mean, the ones with a mobile phone stuck to their ear. If they aren’t talking on it they’re fiddling with it in some bizarre form of electronic masturbation. If they stop for more than five seconds, a strange glazed look comes over them, starting at their eyes but gradually taking over their whole face until they either start chattering rubbish to somebody or fiddling with the thing like Nero on steroids. When you next see one take a really good look as they are a dying species, too busy playing with their phones to breed.
Nomophobe, a sad act constantly pissing about with a mobile phone.
Nomophobe by AKACroatalin April 28, 2015
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germophobe 

noun: one who suffers from spermatophobia, or a person who obsesses about avoiding contact with germs.
Harry is such a germophobe. He's stuck in the bathroom again until someone opens the door for him.

Poor Sally, she's a germophobe. Her hands are raw red from washing them so much. Why did she take that job at the free clinic?
germophobe by shoots-the-moon March 7, 2010

gnomophobia 

An irrational fear of Garden Gnomes
Person 1: Hey look, it's a garden gnome!
Person 2: OH MY GOD GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!
Person 1: Well someone has a bad case of gnomophobia...

Lawn-Gnomaphobe 

Someone whom is afraid of lawn orinaments particularyly the gnome forms.
Lawn-Gnomaphobe by Anonymous September 23, 2003

gnomaphobia 

the fear of lawn/garden gnomes. commonly mis-spelled as gnomophobia.
person one: did you hear that the girl down the street has gnomaphobia?

person two: yeah, isnt that the fear of gnomes?

Person one: yes it is.
gnomaphobia by gnomaphobia September 25, 2011

Germophobe 

Mort Goldberg is a serious germophobe: he is even terrified of Heinz ketchup
Germophobe by Cemmop January 17, 2018

gnomaphobia 

The fear and/or hatred of lawn and garden gnomes.

Closely related to pediophobia (a fear of dolls.)

The psychological theory:

The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud claimed that children fantasize about dolls coming to life. Psychologist Ernst Jentsch theorized that uncomfortable or uncanny feelings arise when there is an intellectual uncertainty about whether an object is alive or not, and also when an object that one knows to be inanimate resembles a living being enough to generate confusion about its nature. Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori expanded on Freud and Jentsch's theories to develop the "uncanny valley" hypothesis, which predicts that as a robot's appearance becomes increasingly human-like, a human will have an increasingly positive response to that robot, until a point is reached where the response changes quickly to one of repulsion. If an object is obviously enough non-human, its human characteristics will stand out, and be endearing. However, if that object reaches a certain threshold of human-like appearance, its non-human characteristics will stand out, and be disturbing. Although Mori was concerned particularly with robots, his theory has been seen as applicable to all inanimate objects that sufficiently seem as though they might be animate.
person1- I hate lawn gnomes, they creep me out

person2- Sounds like you have gnomaphobia
gnomaphobia by evilgnome November 16, 2011