fangirl
English
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Doctor Who fangirls cosplaying the TARDIS
Etymology
fan + girl
Noun
fangirl (plural fangirls)
- (fandom slang) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media).
- Synonyms: fanne, femfan, femme fan
- Coordinate term: fanboy
- 2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN:
- It's often an all or nothing world for the fangirl who has yet to learn to bridle the imagination. She is notorious for being incapable of passively enjoying stories.
Derived terms
- fangirlish
- fangirlism
Translations
someone devoted to a single subject
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Verb
fangirl (third-person singular simple present fangirls, present participle fangirling, simple past and past participle fangirled)
- (intransitive) To behave like a fangirl; to be obsequious, star-struck, boy crazy, etc.
- 2015, Tyler Oakley, Binge, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- I bought the magazines, ran home after work, filmed myself flipping through the pages—half legitimately fangirling over the boys, half making fun of people like myself who fangirl over the boys.
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Anagrams
- farling, flaring