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plural arctophiles
Someone who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them. quotations examples
On the other hand I am appalled by the ways these "arctophiles" seem to feel for their childhood friends not an informed, reminiscent emotion, but exactly what they felt at 6 with no development at all.
1969 October 15, Gillian Tindall, “The bear facts”, in The Guardian (Woman’s Guardian section), London: Guardian News & Media, page 7, column 2, “Love letters”