weeaboo
nounEtymology
A nonce word in "Weeaboo", a 2005 Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, according to whom the word originated from a dream his sister had. It was used later that year as a wordfilter replacement for the abusive term wapanese on the message board 4chan, from which its current sense derived and spread.
Definitions
A non-Japanese person, stereotypically an unsociable white male, who is overly infatuated…
A non-Japanese person, stereotypically an unsociable white male, who is overly infatuated with Japanese culture; a loser Japanophile.
- Ingrid has been with Stephen, a Japanese translator and blatant weeaboo, for five years, and yet is shocked when she finds evidence that all of his ex-girlfriends are Asian.
A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.
The neighborhood
- synonymwapanese
- synonymweeb
- neighborskub
- neighborotaku
- neighborJapanophile
- neighboregg
- neighborrace traitor
- neighborloser
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for weeaboo. 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