-aboo

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

-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
English terms suffixed with -aboo

References
  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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