fujo
See also: fujō and fūjō
English
Etymology
Clipping of fujoshi, from Japanese 腐女子 (ふじょし, fujoshi, literally “rotten girl”).
Noun
fujo (plural fujos or fujo)
- (informal, fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction.
- 2010, Dienfang Chou, "Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender", Intercultural Communication Studies, Volume 19, Number 1, page 82:
- They consider themselves “Fujo” (Yaoi readers or creators are referred as “Fujoshi” in Japanese) and they have been reading Yaoi for more than five years.
- 2019 October 25, mahi alina (@noctupavo), Twitter:
- people be like “fujos suck and fetishize gay men” and then talk about their favorite BL 😳😳
- 2022, Kota Nozomi (trans. Tristan K. Hill), When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, Volume 1, unnumbered page:
- "So, while I'm personally self-aware of the fact that I'm a fujoshi," she continued, "I would still be upset if someone were to say, 'You're into that fujoshi crap?' or call me a 'nasty fujo' to my face. […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fujo.
- 2010, Dienfang Chou, "Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender", Intercultural Communication Studies, Volume 19, Number 1, page 82:
Synonyms
- fujoshi
- fujoshit (vulgar, derogatory)
Derived terms
- fujobait
Catalan
Verb
fujo
- first-person singular present indicative form of fugir
Japanese
Romanization
fujo
- Rōmaji transcription of ふじょ
Portuguese
Verb
fujo
- first-person singular present indicative of fugir
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
fujo (n class, plural fujo)
- a disturbance or riot