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faan

  • /fæn/

Sounds like fan, fanne · Rhymes with -æn

noun faans · faaan

  1. dated, derogatory, often, slang A fan who is more interested in fandom than in the subject of that fandom. In 1953 neofan Richard Eney mentioned casually (in the course of describing life as a faan in the Army) that he carried in the pocket of his lab jacket a notebook in which he was collecting subjects for a revised Fancyclopedia. [...] in Minneapolis, Belfast, and the wilds of central Hokkaido diligen

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@misc{faan_2026,
  title = {faan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}