Teutophobe

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who harbors intense hatred or fear of Germans, their nation, or their culture
2. Someone who feels strong animosity or dread toward the German people and everything associated with them
3. One who holds an irrational aversion to Germany and German people, often rooted in prejudice

Etymology: Teutophobe is built from "Teuto-", a combining form drawn from "Teutonic" (itself from Latin "Teutonicus", relating to the Teutons, a Germanic people), and "-phobe", from Greek "phobos", fear, with the agent sense of one who has the fear. Put together, it names someone with a hatred or fear of Germans, or of things German. The first half is where the interest lies. In English, "Teuton" originally named an ancient Germanic people, but across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it became a general label for Germans, often with a heavy and sometimes mocking tone. "Teutophobe" therefore carries that charged association: it describes a person opposed to the German nation rather than to a historical tribe. The word is a plain compound with no folk story attached. Its formation follows the familiar pattern of words such as "Anglophobe" and "Francophobe", which pair a national or ethnic name with the Greek suffix.

Synonyms: Germanophobe

Antonyms: Teutophile, Germanophile