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-cel

suffix

Etymology

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.

Definitions

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

    • curry + -cel → currycel (“an Indian incel”)
    • rice + -cel → ricecel (“an East Asian incel”)
    • gym + -cel → gymcel (“an incel who works out”)

  2. 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”)
    • we're in our deep sleep arcs, we're such snoozepilled napcels.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -cel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA