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fanboying

fanboying is the present participle and gerund of fanboy.

Meaning of fanboy

Verb

fanboy (third-person singular simple present fanboys, present participle fanboying, simple past and past participle fanboyed)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
    • James has a tendency to fanboy when something he likes is done wrong.2013, Rowan Lake Jr, Heaven Fighter Angelon

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Questions about fanboying

What is fanboying the present participle and gerund of?
Fanboying is the present participle and gerund of fanboy.

Words near fanboying in the dictionary

  1. fanbois
  2. fanbook
  3. fanbooks
  4. fanboy
  5. fanboyed
  6. fanboying
  7. fanboyish
  8. fanboyishly
  9. fanboyism
  10. fanboys
  11. fanbrat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanboying (page history and authors); fanboy (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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