weeaboo

Etymology
A nonce word in "Weeaboo", a 2005 Perry Bible Fellowship comic by, used later that year as a wordfilter replacement for the abusive term on the message board , from which its current sense derived and spread. Now sometimes reclaimed as a self-description by anime and manga fans.

Noun

 * 1)  A non-Japanese person, stereotypically an unsociable white male, who is overly infatuated with Japanese culture; a loser Japanophile.
 * 2)  A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.
 * 1)  A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.
 * 1)  A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.
 * 1)  A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.

Derived terms

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Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 死宅 or
 * French: ,
 * German: Weeaboo, Weebo, Weeb
 * Indonesian:
 * Luxembourgish: Weebo
 * Malay: wibu
 * Marathi: वीआबू
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: