Contextualizebeta

fandumb

noun

Etymology

From fan + dumb, as a homophonous pun on fandom.

  1. derived from dom
  2. derived from dumm
  3. inherited from *dʰewbʰ-✻
  4. inherited from *dumbaz✻
  5. inherited from *dumb✻
  6. inherited from dumb — “silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”
  7. inherited from dumb — “silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”
  8. compounded as fandumb — “fan + dumb”

Definitions

  1. Fandom, especially one considered unintelligent or irrational.

    • That p.o.s. is being released because it has boob-jiggles, and the Brains at ADV assume that North American fandumb still consists solely of teens looking for animated boob-jiggles.
    • We've already got several in the running for this month's awards and are hoping they bring yet more (dis)honor and (in)glory to Michael Jackson fandumb.
    • I don't know what it is about fandumb that gives rise to such rabid, irrational "shipper-ism," but I'm assuming that chunks of this episode were written to cater to the segment of the fanbase clamoring for Buffy and Spike to get together.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fandumb. 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