husbando

husbando

English

Etymology

From husband + -o suffix to make it resemble a genuine Japanese word. The correct Japanese transliteration is ハズバンド (hazubando, “husband”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʌzˈbændəʊ/, /hʌzˈbɑːndəʊ/

Noun

husbando (plural husbandos or husbandoes)

1. (fandom slang) A fictional male character from non-live-action visual media (typically an anime, manga, or video game) to whom one is attracted and/or whom one considers their significant other.

   Levi will always be my husbando!

   • 2018 July 5, “Kaye: Your Happy Pill”, in Bliss Digital Arts Batch 2018‎, archived from the original on 5 November 2021, page 131:

     Just don't frequently mention her husbandos around her though, she'll be rendered speechless for hours. *cough* Loki *cough*

   • 2019, Dale Beren, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office‎, page (unnumbered):

     For example, the otaku had popularized body pillows, a human-size pillow imprinted with the image of one's waifu (“wife”) or husbando (“husband”), the anime girl or boy to which the otaku imagines he or she is married.

   • 2021, Stephen Reysen; Courtney N. Plante; Daniel Chadborn; Sharon E. Roberts; Kathleen C. Gerbasi, Transported to Another World: The Psychology of Anime Fans‎, page (unnumbered):

     Those with waifus or husbandos are also more likely to feel a greater sense of belongingness to the anime fandom, a fandom which they're also more likely to consider to be unique compared to other fandoms.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:husbando.

Hypernyms

• soulbond

Coordinate terms

• waifu

Translations

a fictional character that one is attracted to

Chinese: Mandarin: 老公 (zh) (lǎogōng) Japanese: 嫁 (ja) (よめ, yome), 婿 (ja) (むこ, muko)

See also

• mai (“my”)