Etymology

fujo

F4U1J8O1

Today it means: A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction. Full definition →

Japanese 腐女子
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The story

  1. Japanese · derived from腐女子
  2. English todayfujo

Clipping of fujoshi, from Japanese 腐女子 (ふじょし, fujoshi, literally “rotten girl”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.