framecel

English

Etymology

From frame (“the structure of a person's body”) +‎ -cel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

framecel (plural framecels)

1. (incel slang) An incel with the skeletal structure of an adolescent boy.
   • 2019, "Nicotene", quoted in Alva Svenning & Moa Åkne, "'Normies don't know hardship': Incels och kvinnoförakt på digitala forum", thesis submitted to Lund University, page:

     Being a framecel/wristcel is fucking killing me.

   • 2020, incel forum thread title, quoted in Ida Lewenhaupt, "Passive radicalisation without mobilisation: A narrative of collective identities and emotions as driving forces of online radicalisation", thesis submitted to Swedish Defence University, page 58:

     Blackpill Brainlets to Framecels; How the contrasting imperatives between natural selection and sexual selection may have helped create incels

   • 2020, anonymous, quoted in Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 54:

     Gymceling helps you look more robust if you are a framecel

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:framecel.