-aboo

suffix

A suffix combined with a noun to create a word for a person with an intense and/or unhealthy fixation on the referent of the noun.

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Meanings

suffix-aboo (noun-forming suffix)

alternative -boo

  1. informalA suffix combined with a noun to create a word for a person with an intense and/or unhealthy fixation on the referent of the noun.

Origin

From weeaboo, a nonce word invented by Nicholas Gurewitch in a Perry Bible Fellowship comic, later arbitrarily used by the 4chan website as an automated replacement for wapanese in users' posts.

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Cite this entry
APA

-aboo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-aboo

MLA

“-aboo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-aboo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-aboo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-aboo.

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