booru

English

Etymology

Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard software product. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “not sure about this”)

Noun

booru (plural boorus)

1. (Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
   • 2021 February, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021‎^[1]:

     If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.

   • 2019 February, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter‎^[2]:

     We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.

   • 2018 December, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser‎^[3]:

     I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Anagrams

• buroo