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Japanese
Etymology
First appears in Japanese in 1991 after coinage by Fortune magazine.
From English yiffie, from an acronym standing for young, independent, free (or some variant, such as free-minded), and few; used as a label for the generation after the yuppies.
Pronunciation
Noun
イッフィー • (iffī)
- a yiffie: a member of the generation after the yuppies
References
- DataPal (electronic version), Shogakukan 1998. In Japanese.