Anglophobe

American  

[ang-gluh-fohb] / ˈæŋ gləˌfoʊb /

noun

1. a person who hates or fears England or anything English.

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Anglophobe British  

/ ˈæŋɡləʊˌfəʊb /

noun

1. a person who hates or fears England or its people

2. a person who hates or fears Canadian Anglophones

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Other Word Forms

• Anglophobia noun
• Anglophobic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Anglophobe

First recorded in 1865–70; Anglo- + -phobe

Explanation

An anglophobe is someone who deeply dislikes England or English people. If your friend refuses to buy a plane ticket to France 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."

Example Sentences

When he has no arguments he loses his head and calls me Anglophobe.

From Economist • Oct. 19, 2012

Anglophobe Admiral Fran�cois Jean Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces, made a flying tour of French African bases.

From Time Magazine Archive

The result was a lively column about Prime Minister Churchill, when he was the house guest of Anglophobe Colonel McCormick 25 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a bitter Anglophobe.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Germany incompletely beaten means an Anglophobe Germany.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various