-cel

A clipping derived from incel. A highly-productive suffix; compare the more offensive -fag, which may have partly inspired it. First attested in c. late 2010s.

Possibly influenced by honorific Japanese suffixes associated with anime and manga culture (as with 4chan suffix above), like -kun, -chan, etc.

-cel

1. (incel slang) Denoting a type of incel (often through a stereotype).

   ‎curry + ‎-cel → ‎currycel (“an Indian incel”)

   ‎rice + ‎-cel → ‎ricecel (“an Asian incel”)

   ‎gym + ‎-cel → ‎gymcel (“an incel who works out”)

2. (Internet slang, loosely, ironic) Used tongue-in-cheek for a wide range of effects unrelated to romance.

   ‎word + ‎-cel → ‎wordcel (“someone with high writing skills and verbal intelligence”)

   ‎theory + ‎-cel → ‎theorycel (“someone interested in extremely academic and abstract ideas”)

   • 2022 November 22, @EverydayWarren, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 29 September 2023:

     we're in our deep sleep arcs, we're such snoozepilled napcels.

   • 2022 December 5, u/BaronDornier, “My mom asked me if I wanted some coffee and I said yes and she served me these tiny tiny cottagecore japanese cup that I don't know how to hold”, in Reddit‎, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 29 September 2023:

     I'm a full ceramicpilled coffeecel, going tiny mug mode rn

   • 2023 May 8, @Freyjihad, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 29 September 2023:

     I'm such a sandwichmaxxing lunchmoder. I'm a foodpilled hungrycel.

   • 2023 June 28, u/Ok_Capital_2927, “everyone needs to shut the fuck up when they find something useful or cool”, in Reddit‎, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 29 September 2023:

     shushmaxxed secretcel

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

-cel

1. (case suffix) assimilated harmonic variant of -val/-vel (“with”)

   ‎perc (“minute”) + ‎-cel → ‎perccel (“with [a] minute”)