infracaninophile

英語

詞源

源自infra- +‎ canine +‎ -phile，由美國作家Christopher Morley在20世紀初所鑄的新詞。

名詞

infracaninophile (複數 infracaninophiles)

1. 喜愛弱者、失敗者的人
   • 1940, Michael J. Bradley, National Labor Relations Act: hearings before the Special Committee to Investigate National Labor Relations Board, Volume 29, page 7775:

     But I do quarrel with those who under the guise of friendship for labor assume the role of infracaninophiles and then proceed to sabotage everything that means anything to labor.

   • 1976, Samuel Krislov, Representative Bureaucracy, Prentice-Hall, page 46:

     'A lover of the upper-dog', as distinguished from today's infracaninophiles.

   • 2007, Ulric Neisser, "Ulric Neisser", in Gardner Lindzey and William McKinley Runyan, eds., A History of Psychology in Autobiography, American Psychological Association, Volume 9, page 276:

     I was already a committed infracaninophile, and Gestalt psychology was clearly the underdog in a department that included B. F. Skinner.

參考資料

• Elster, Charles Harrington. There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, Gallery Books, 1997.