See -aboo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "From weeaboo, a nonce word invented by Nicholas Gurewitch in a Perry Bible Fellowship comic, later arbitrarily used by the 4chan website as an automated replacement for wapanese in users' posts.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "-aboo (noun-forming suffix)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "suffix", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English 4chan slang", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English noun-forming suffixes", "English suffixes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "A suffix combined with a noun to create a word for a person with an intense and/or unhealthy fixation on the referent of the noun." ], "links": [ [ "suffix", "suffix#English" ], [ "noun", "noun#English" ], [ "fixation", "fixation#English" ], [ "referent", "referent#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) A suffix combined with a noun to create a word for a person with an intense and/or unhealthy fixation on the referent of the noun." ], "tags": [ "informal", "morpheme" ], "wikipedia": [ "4chan", "Perry Bible Fellowship" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "-boo" } ], "word": "-aboo" }
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