Meanings
plural framecels
- derogatoryoffensiveincel slangAn incel with the skeletal structure of an adolescent boy.
Being a framecel/wristcel is fucking killing me.
2019, "Nicotene", quoted in Alva Svenning & Moa Åkne, "'Normies don't know hardship': Incels och kvinnoförakt på digitala forum", thesis submitted to Lund University, page2 more examples
Blackpill Brainlets to Framecels; How the contrasting imperatives between natural selection and sexual selection may have helped create incels
2020, incel forum thread title, quoted in Ida Lewenhaupt, "Passive radicalisation without mobilisation: A narrative of collective identities and emotions as driving forces of online radicalisation", thesis submitted to Swedish Defence University, page 58Gymceling helps you look more robust if you are a framecel
2020, anonymous, quoted in Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 54
Origin
From frame (“the structure of a person's body”) + -cel.
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