Dog Words

I offer this list of dog-oriented words, over which many of these I have recently been in several discussions and debates.

cynolatry
  n. Dog-worship. Treating dogs like people or kids and having them groomed once a week does not count. That is obsession, not worship.

cynophobia   n. A morbid fear of dogs; an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.

cynophilist   n. A lover of dogs. If you talk to dogs, sleep with dogs and plan their meals along with your, you might be a candidate.

cynography   n. A history of the dog; a treatise on the dog.

cynoginist   n. A person who hates dogs. Usually also hates everyone and everything else.

cynanthropy   n. A kind of madness in which the afflicted person imagines himself to be a dog, and imitates its voice and actions. Some say this is the clinical diagnosis of weredogs. Many disagree, that there is no madness involved in being werefolk. Not to be confused with lycanthropy.

lyssophobia   n. A nervous state or extreme fear of dogs produced by morbid dread of rabies. The result is, and is nearly indistinguishable to, cynophobia.