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Chris -- 2025-05-10
“This home was built for an upper-middle-class family and would feel less boxy and cluster phobic in the interior layout.” From a comment on a picture on Facebook.
A Google search reveals some 4,000 examples, including one on TripAdvisor complaining about a “cluster phobic boutique” hotel with small rooms. According to the poster, the hotel also offers “happy hour with free bear before 6:30.” (Although it’s not an eggcorn, I offer the free bear as an extra treat.)
Obviously, if you are cluster phobic you object to things clustering around you.
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Excellent eggcorns eventually form clusters. Another eggcornista overlooked the previous submission of clusterphobic (presumably because it didn’t include the acorn) when posting clusterphobia. A comedy of acorns, I think.
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