-aboo

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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-aboo (noun-forming suffix)

  1. (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

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English terms suffixed with -aboo

References

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  1. ^ Nicholas Gurewitch, "Weeaboo", Perry Bible Fellowship
  2. ^ Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page
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