Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to a fan; characteristic of fandom.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated, fandom slang, often, derogatory) More interested in fandom than in the subject of that fandom; of or pertaining to faans.

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, year = 1966 , date = November , first = Dean A. , last = Grennell , authorlink = , title = A Pilgrim in Never-Never Country , volume = , issue = 4 , page = 19 , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-19.html , passage = 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, modern medical science is totally at a loss to suggest). Today: pfft: nobody a-tall. }}

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, year = 1969 , first = Harry , last = Warner, Jr. , authorlink = Harry Warner, Jr. , title = , page = 41 , passage = "Faanish " originally was pronounced with a bleat indicated by the double vowel, becasue Tucker invented it to symbolize the sheeplike follow-the-leader habits of lots of fans. Now it usually sounds just like fan and means simply one whose hobby is fandom, not science fiction. }}

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, year = 1980 , first = Lester , last = del Rey , authorlink = Lester del Rey , title = The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976: The History of a Subculture , page = 320 , passage = A faanish fan is considered lacking in serious interest by some other fans, whom he regards as humorless and stuffy. }}