Swedophobe

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English

Etymology

From Swedo- +‎ -phobe.

Noun

Swedophobe (plural Swedophobes)

  1. (rare) One who dislikes Sweden or the Swedes.
    • 1878, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine:
      Everything is slightly sweet: even green peas are sugared, as well as the innumerable tea- and coffee-cakes, so that long before the unhappy tourist has finished his tour he is a hopeless dyspeptic or a raging Swedophobe.
    • 1977, Michael Roskin, Other Governments of Europe: Sweden, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, and East Germany:
      Swedophobe Roland Huntford, for example, claims, "Like Fascist Italy, Sweden is today a corporate State."