Fanboi vs Fanboy - What's the difference?
fanboi | fanboy | Alternative forms |
* 2007 , Greg Vederman in PC Gamer (July 2007)
* 2007 , Ravi Jayagopal, No Business Like E-Business
* 2009 , Chris McDonald, Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown
(label) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1988
, month = August
, title = Comics
, first = Bart
, last = Bull
, magazine =
, issn = 0886-3032
, volume = 4
, issue = 5
, page = 41
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAZuVTiu8yMC&pg=PA41&dq=fanboys
, passage = (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy' obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two ' fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1998
, month = September
, title = Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side
, first = Brian
, last = Doherty
, magazine =
, issn = 0886-3032
, volume = 14
, issue = 9
, page = 108
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-5EbyHNqgkwC&pg=PA108&dq=fanboys
, passage = Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.
}}
* {{quote-news
, date = 2008-12-10
, title = What's so great about Macs?
, first = Tim
, last = Barribeau
, newspaper = (The Sydney Morning Herald)
, issn = 0312-6315
, url = http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/whats-so-great-about-macs-20090615-cb42.html
, accessdate = 2012-10-20
, passage = Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.
}}
Fanboy is a alternative form of fanboi.
As nouns the difference between fanboi and fanboy
is that fanboi is an alternative spelling of lang=en while fanboy is a male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).fanboi
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...I believe he only thinks the strip is so amusing because he and his fellow fanbois are suffering from a mass Garfield -like delusion.
- I'm one of Google's biggest proponents. I sign up for most Google services the day they are beta?launched. But my Google-fanboi status notwithstanding, I am predicting that Adsense's effectiveness is only going to decline...
- One representation is the “fanboy” or “fanboi ,” an unflattering stereotype of the male adolescent who is naively enthusiastic, extreme in his views...
