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faaanish

faaanish is the alternative form of faanish.

Meaning of faanish

Adjective

faanish (comparative more faanish, superlative most faanish)

  1. (dated, derogatory, often, slang) More interested in fandom than in the subject of that fandom; of or pertaining to faans.
    • The state of Wisconsin, once one of the cooler hotbeds of faanish endeavor, today lies fallow, barren and all but devoid of the faintest crepitance of crifanac. In the days when mastadons the ilk of Bloch lumbered across its frozen tundra, upward of 6% of all FAPA resided within its limits (why...1966 November, Dean A. Grennell, “A Pilgrim in Never-Never Country”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 19

Forms of faaanish

comparativemore faaanish
superlativemost faaanish

Questions about faaanish

What is faaanish the alternative form of?
Faaanish is the alternative form of faanish.

Words near faaanish in the dictionary

  1. fa'afafine
  2. fa-la
  3. fa-las
  4. faa
  5. faaan
  6. faaanish
  7. faaans
  8. FAAB
  9. Faadhoo
  10. Faadhoohuraagan'du
  11. Faafu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faaanish (page history and authors); faanish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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