fangirl
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
fangirl (plural fangirls)
- (fandom slang) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media).
- 2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
someone devoted to a single subject
Verb edit
fangirl (third-person singular simple present fangirls, present participle fangirling, simple past and past participle fangirled)
- (intransitive) To behave like a fangirl; to be obsequious, star-struck, boy crazy, etc.
- 2015, Tyler Oakley, Binge, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 2024 February 29, Jack King, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ[1]:
- 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.