fujo

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See also: fujō, and fūjō

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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[1]:
      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.

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Catalan

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Verb

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fujo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fugir

Japanese

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Romanization

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fujo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ふじょ

Portuguese

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fujo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fugir

Swahili

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fujo (n class, plural fujo)

  1. disturbance, riot, disorder, chaos