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weeaboo
[ wee-uh-boo ]
noun
- Slang: Disparaging. a non-Japanese person viewed as being obsessed with Japanese culture and media.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of weeaboo1
Coined in 2005 by U.S. cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch (born 1982) as a nonsensical term in a strip of his webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship; shortly thereafter repurposed by users of the website 4chan to replace the slur Wapanese (either w(hite) ( def ) or w(annabe) ( def ) + Japanese ( def ) )
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