イッフィー

Japanese

Etymology

First appears in Japanese in 1991 after coinage by Fortune magazine.

From English yiffie, from an acronym standing for young, independent, free (or some variant, such as free-minded), and few; used as a label for the generation after the yuppies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iɸʲːiː]

Noun

イッフィー • (iffī) 

1. a yiffie: a member of the generation after the yuppies

References

• DataPal (electronic version), Shogakukan 1998. In Japanese.