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Ineffable Husbands

Ineffable Husbands proper noun: the ship of characters Aziraphale and Crowley from the novel Good Omens and its television adaptation.

Proper noun

the Ineffable Husbands pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) The ship of characters Aziraphale and Crowley from the novel Good Omens and its television adaptation.
    • Known as the "Ineffable Husbands," their dynamic easily lends itself to being read as queer within the initial novel as well as in the miniseries, with the pairing significantly outpacing any other Good Omens pairing on the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own.2023, Erin Giannini, Amanda Taylor, “In the Beginning: Nice and Accurate Analyses of Good Omens”, in Amanda Taylor, Erin Giannini, editors, Deciphering Good Omens: Nice and Accurate Essays on the...
    • Aziraphale and Crowley’s duality of personalities and complex approaches to life and morality means that you can tell almost any kind of story at almost any point in human history and find a way to shoehorn the Ineffable Husbands into the fray.2023, Grey D. Mangan, "The Internet Isn’t Forever: Early Internet Fan Archives, Their Stewards, Lifespans, and the Political Nature of the Deaths of Their Queer Communities", thesis submitted to the...

Origin of Ineffable Husbands

From a description of the plans of God as "ineffable" in the original novel (1990) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett.

Questions about Ineffable Husbands

What does Ineffable Husbands mean?
Ineffable Husbands means the ship of characters Aziraphale and Crowley from the novel Good Omens and its television adaptation.
What part of speech is Ineffable Husbands?
Ineffable Husbands is a proper noun.

Words near Ineffable Husbands in the dictionary

  1. ineducation
  2. inee
  3. ineffabilities
  4. ineffability
  5. ineffable
  6. Ineffable Husbands
  7. ineffableness
  8. ineffables
  9. ineffably
  10. ineffaceability
  11. ineffaceable

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