fujo

Clipping of fujoshi, from Japanese 腐女子 (ふじょし, fujoshi, literally “rotten girl”).

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fujo (plural fujos or fujo)

1. (informal, fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction.
   • 2010, Dienfang Chou, “Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender”, in Intercultural Communication Studies, volume 19, number 1, page 82:

     They consider themselves “Fujo” (Yaoi readers or creators are referred as “Fujoshi” in Japanese) and they have been reading Yaoi for more than five years.

   • 2019 October 25, mahi alina (@noctupavo), Twitter‎:

     people be like “fujos suck and fetishize gay men” and then talk about their favorite BL 😳😳

   • 2022, Kota Nozomi, translated by Tristan K. Hill, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, Volume 1, unnumbered page:

     "So, while I'm personally self-aware of the fact that I'm a fujoshi," she continued, "I would still be upset if someone were to say, 'You're into that fujoshi crap?' or call me a 'nasty fujo' to my face. […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fujo.

• fujoshi
• fujoshit (vulgar, derogatory)

• fujo out
• fujobait

fujo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fugir

fujo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふじょ

fujo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fugir

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fujo class IX (plural fujo class X)

1. disturbance, riot, disorder, chaos