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relationshipper

noun

Etymology

From relationship + -er. Emerged in early online fandom of the television series The X-Files as a term for fans who supported the possibility of a Mulder/Scully romance. First attested on alt.tv.x-files in January 1996, but it was seemingly already in use by then.

  1. derived from relātiō
  2. derived from relacion
  3. derived from relacioun
  4. inherited from relacion
  5. formed as relationship — “relation + -ship”
  6. formed as relationshipper — “relationship + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or…

    A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.

    • I don’t care what the relationshippers say, it’s just so OBVIOUS to try to get the two of them together and the X-Files has never been obvious.
    • There were the relationshippers whose focus was on Mulder and Scully’s relationship, or the MSR as it was called (with a possible emphasis on romance).

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