booru
English edit
Etymology edit
Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard software product. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “not sure about this”)
Noun edit
booru (plural boorus)
- (Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
- 2021 February, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021[1]:
- If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.
- 2019 February, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter[2]:
- We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.
- 2018 December, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser[3]:
- I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).
References edit
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN