英和和英

語源

From APA (“amateur press association”) +‎ -n (“of or pertaining to”).

名詞

apan (plural apans)

1. (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
   • 1990 August, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa‎, number 8, page 4:

     The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.

   • 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎ (Usenet), retrieved 13 June 2018, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:

     Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).

   • 2006 May, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon‎, volume 1, number 4:

     I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

同意語

• apahack

下位語

• biapan, multiapan, omniapan

関連する語

• apazine

アナグラム

• paan, Napa, NAPA, napa, Pana