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• weaboo

語源

A nonce word in "Weeaboo", a 2005 Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, used later that year as a wordfilter replacement for the abusive term wapanese on the message board 4chan, from which its current sense derived and spread. Now sometimes reclaimed as a self-description by anime and manga fans. According to Gurewitch, the word originated from a dream had by his sister.

発音

• enPR: wēʹəbo͞o, IPA: /ˈwiː.ə.buː/
• Homophone: ouiaboo

名詞

weeaboo (plural weeaboos)

1. (fandom slang, derogatory) A non-Japanese person, stereotypically an unsociable white male, who is overly infatuated with Japanese culture; a loser Japanophile.
   • 2007 May 3, Kai, “Return of an old-timer and H. Naoto review”, in alt.gothic.fashion‎ (Usenet), message-ID <23836-4639551F-204@storefull-3118.bay.webtv.net>:

     I remember you distinctively because I once responded in grand detail to one of your posts about a kimono only to have you completley ignore it. Welcome back. The clothing sounds good but I tend to desire a non-weeaboo opinion. People who are head over heels about Japanese culture tend to be a bit “biased” in their reviews.

   • 2010 January 24, Pisces, “ROB IS REALLY”, in alt.slack‎ (Usenet), message-ID <5ca8c049-ad60-4ec3-ba74-1326fa02ff3d@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>:

     But its all over. Too bad. I suppose the boychild had hoped for some little Weeaboo boy who would fuck him up the ass in his mothers basement. He just really wanted to play dirty Gohan/Goku with someone like him.
     He is pretty sure Weeaboo’s hate halfassed black kids with cumstained sweatshirts though.

   • 2022 April 18, Steph Cha, “Down the Rabbit Hole”, in The New York Times, Fiction:

     Ingrid has been with Stephen, a Japanese translator and blatant weeaboo, for five years, and yet is shocked when she finds evidence that all of his ex-girlfriends are Asian.

2. (fandom slang, sometimes positive) A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.

同意語

• wapanese
• weeb

上位語

• Japanophile (nonpejorative), egg (white), race traitor, loser
• (obsessive anime or manga fan): fan, obsessive, otaku

派生語

• Koreaboo, Slavaboo, weeb, -aboo (see there for more derived terms)
• weeabooism

関連する語

• skub
• otaku

派生した語

• → Bulgarian: уийб (uijb)
• → Indonesian: wibu
• → Polish: łibus

参照

• Gurewitch, Nicholas. "Weeaboo", Perry Bible Fellowship, 2005.
• Stryker, Cole. Epic Win for Anonymous, Overlook Press, →ISBN, 2011, p. 29.
• Gurewitch, Nicholas. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2plhgn/comment/cmxwez4/ , 2014