fangirl

plural fangirls

1. slanglifestyleA female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media).

   It's often an all or nothing world for the fangirl who has yet to learn to bridle the imagination. She is notorious for being incapable of passively enjoying stories.

   2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN

   Synonyms: fanne, femfan, femme fan

present singular third person fangirls · participle present fangirling · participle past fangirled · past fangirled

1. intransitiveTo behave like a fangirl; to be obsequious, star-struck, boy crazy, etc.

   I bought the magazines, ran home after work, filmed myself flipping through the pages—half legitimately fangirling over the boys, half making fun of people like myself who fangirl over the boys.

   2015, Tyler Oakley, Binge, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

   1 more example

   Letterboxd, armed with the tri-colour microphone which has become their viral go-to, recently attended the red carpet of the BAFTAs. As one TikToker put it, on seeing the famous mic, Paul Mescal fangirled.

   2024 February 29, Jack King, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ