Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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.
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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