plane fright
English
Alternative forms
- plane-fright
Etymology
From plane + fright.
Noun
plane fright (uncountable)
- (rare) Fear of planes, especially fear of air-travel on planes.
- 1975, Wilfrid Sheed, Muhammad Ali, page 89:
- Ali craves motion (although he used to have drastic plane fright) and during his exile he had to keep going even though there was no place to go, like a retired businessman starting for the office.
- 1998, Jordan Cray, Dead Man's Hand, page 27:
- By the time we arrived at the hotel, Nick had recovered from his plane-fright.