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One who hates children...

A misogynist hates women.
Is there a word for a person who hates children?
  

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[/nq] Misopedist. Dena Jo (Email: Replace TPUBGTH with denajo2)

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[nq:1]Is there a word for a person who hates children?[/nq]
Misopedist.

Dena Jo
(Email: Replace TPUBGTH with denajo2)
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[nq:2]Is there a word for a person who hates children?[/nq]
[nq:1]Misopedist.[/nq]
Isn't that someone who hates feet?
How about "W.C. Fields"?

Bob Lieblich
The subject looks like a straight line
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[nq:2]Misopedist.[/nq]
[nq:1]Isn't that someone who hates feet? How about "W.C. Fields"?[/nq]
I thought he liked them parboiled.
\\P. Schultz
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Dena Jo
[nq:2]Is there a word for a person who hates children?[/nq]
[nq:1]Misopedist.[/nq]
Parent
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[nq:1]A misogynist hates women. Is there a word for a person who hates children?[/nq]
Herodes.
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Saludos cordiales
Javi
Mood conjugation:
I've been to **** and back
You've taken a wrong turn
He is a loser
(Craig Brown)
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[nq:1]A misogynist hates women. Is there a word for a person who hates children?[/nq]
Given the meaning drift in similar words, I nominate "pedophobe".

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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[nq:1]A misogynist hates women. Is there a word for a person who hates children?[/nq]
Yes.

denny
Some people are offence kleptomaniacs whenever they see an offence that isn't nailed down, they take it ;-) David C. Pugh, in alt.callahans
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[nq:1]Misopaed?[/nq]
As Dena Jo has already posted, probably "misopaedist/-pedist". (In the OED.)

Cheers, Harvey
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[nq:1]As Dena Jo has already posted, probably "misopaedist/-pedist". (In the OED.)[/nq]
I say we coin from the German ... how about a 'hassenkinder'?

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