Cumberbabe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of Cumberbatch + babe.
Noun[edit]
Cumberbabe (plural Cumberbabes)
- (slang, fandom slang) A female fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
- 2012 March 29, Beverley Watts, “Calling all Cumberbitches! Is it Benedict Cumberbatch who's irresistible or is it Sherlock?”, in Now:
- So is the fantasy to put warmth and cuddly love into this weird detective's life - or is Benedict such a Cumberbabe magnet because he's just a brilliant actor and easy on the eye?
- 2013 March 8, Tom Cole, “Benedict Cumberbatch's Star Trek costumes are so tight 'you can almost see what religion I am'”, in Radio Times:
- Cumberbabes: brace yourselves. Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that some of his Star Trek Into Darkness costumes are so tight that, in his words, “you can almost see what religion I am.”
- 2013, Liz Ferguson, "Twenty years of Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock! What do you think, Cumberbabes?", The Gazette (Montreal), 13 March 2013 (only used in title)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cumberbabe.
Synonyms[edit]
- Cumberbitch (vulgar), Cumberlady