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English
Etymology
From weeaboo, a nonce word invented by Nicholas Gurewitch in a Perry Bible Fellowship comic,[1] later arbitrarily used by the 4chan website as an automated replacement for wapanese in users' posts.[2]
Suffix
-aboo (noun-forming suffix)
- (informal) A suffix combined with a noun to create a word for a person with an intense and/or unhealthy fixation on the referent of the noun.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nicholas Gurewitch, "Weeaboo", Perry Bible Fellowship
- ^ Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page