Buffyite

English

Etymology

Buffy +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

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Noun

Buffyite (plural Buffyites)

1. (slang) A fan of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
   • 1998 May 25, Georg McLaughlin, “Re: Newbie (ages ?)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[1] (Usenet):

     46 and proud to be a Buffyite. One of the best shows on the tube.

   • 2005, Rhonda Wilcox (quoting Eric Alterman), Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Buffyites [felt] the show had slipped this year, falling into a very administration-like (and un-Buffy-like) us vs. them moral schema.

   • 2009, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Buffy, Angel, and the Creation of Virtual Communities”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 18:

     Although Internet communities are virtual, it is the hypothesis of this paper that the virtcom can become a real community, by means of which Buffyites and Angelites can regularly interact.

Synonyms

• Buffaholic, Buffian, Buffista, Buffyholic,

Hypernyms

• Whedonite