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fanspeak

noun
/ˈfæn.spiːk/

Etymology

From fan + -speak, modeled after Newspeak.

  1. derived from *h₂weh₁-✻
  2. derived from vannus
  3. inherited from fann
  4. inherited from fan
  5. suffixed as fanspeak — “fan + speak”

Definitions

  1. The jargon used by science fiction fans.

    • fanspeak: The language, typography, and cliches of fandom. Term is derived from "newspeak," the language of the future, in George Orwell's 1984.
    • The "lack" in the narrative's central relationship produces UST (fanspeak for "unresolved sexual tension") and more, a space for sublimated discourse about body and gender politics...

  2. The jargon used by fans of any genre of fiction or popular culture in general.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fanspeak. 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