infracaninophile

== English == === Etymology === Pseudo-Latin plus a suffix, from infra- +‎ canine +‎ -phile. An early twentieth-century coinage by American writer Christopher Morley. === Noun === infracaninophile (plural infracaninophiles) (rare) A person who loves or admires underdogs. 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. === References === Elster, Charles Harrington. There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, Gallery Books, 1997.