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-aboo
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English
Alternative forms
en -boo
Etymology
From en weeaboo, a nonce word invented by Nicholas Gurewitch in a Perry Bible Fellowship comic,Nicholas Gurewitch, "Weeaboo", Perry Bible Fellowship later arbitrarily used by the 4chan website as an automated replacement for en wapanese in users' posts.Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), 9781590207383, unnumbered page
Suffix
en 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, usually a foreign culture.
Derived terms
en
References
en 4chan slang productive suffixes