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vampiroid

noun
/ˈvæm.paɪ.əˌɹɔɪd/

Etymology

From vampire + -oid, coined by paranormal investigator Stephen Kaplan.

  1. derived from *ōpur✻ — “glutton, witch, evil spirit”
  2. derived from *ǫpyrь✻
  3. derived from vàmpīr//ва̀мпӣр
  4. derived from Vampir
  5. borrowed from vampire
  6. suffixed as vampiroid — “vampire + oid”

Definitions

  1. A person who emulates the imagined lifestyle of a vampire, generally as part of a…

    A person who emulates the imagined lifestyle of a vampire, generally as part of a subculture or alternative lifestyle.

    • His estimate of the number of vampiroids — people who think they are vampires, or have similar characteristics — is less precise, but he reckons there are between 10,000 and 20,000 resident in North America […]
    • A vampiroid is a human who embraces and identifies with what he or she assumes is a vampiristic lifestyle based largely on what is depicted in films and literature. Vampiroids become totally seduced by the vampire mythology […]
    • Despite the high proportion of relatively harmless vampiroids that exist, there are those that portray psychotic behaviour and will go to great extremes to carry out their beliefs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vampiroid. 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