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actifan

noun
/ˈæk.tɪˌfæn/

Etymology

Blend of active + fan.

  1. derived from *h₂weh₁-✻
  2. derived from vannus
  3. inherited from fann
  4. inherited from fan
  5. compounded as actifan — “active + fan”

Definitions

  1. A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity.

    • If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.
    • Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for actifan. 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