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Seek vs Weeaboo - What's the difference?

seek | weeaboo |

As a verb seek

is to try to find, to look for, to search.

As a noun weeaboo is

a white person who behaves in a stereotypically Japanese manner or seeks to appear stereotypically Japanese.

seek

English

Verb

  • (lb) To try to find, to look for, to search.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • (label) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xi. 16
  • *:Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
  • *1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :
  • *:“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.
  • (lb) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  • :
  • *1880 , , :
  • *:But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.
  • *1886 , Constantine Popoff, translation of (Leo Tolstoy)'s :
  • *:I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
  • :
  • *, Bk.V:
  • *:Ryght so he sought towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes
  • (lb) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
  • *:
  • *:Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
  • *1726 (tr.), (Alexander Pope), ''(Homer)'s (Odyssey), Book II, line 33
  • *:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains
  • Quotations

    Synonyms

    * look for * search

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    weeaboo

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, derogatory) A white person who behaves in a stereotypically Japanese manner or seeks to appear stereotypically Japanese.
  • * 2007 May 3, Kai], [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.gothic.fashion/topics?hl=en alt.gothic.fashion (Google group)]: [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.gothic.fashion/browse_thread/thread/f2eec3bb7b78b3b5/a24e414f7c91221c?hl=en&q=%22weeaboo%22 Return of an old-timer and H. Naoto review :
  • I remember you distinctively(SIC) because I once responded in grand(SIC) detail to one of your posts about a kimono only to have you completley(SIC) ignore it. Welcome back. The clothing sounds good but I tend to desire a non-weeaboo opinion. People who are head over heels about Japanese culture tend to be a bit “biased” in their reviews.
  • * 2008 February 22, Thurdust], [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.religion.kibology/topics?hl=en alt.religion.kibology (Google group)]: [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_thread/thread/643b09b781c0194d/bdcb4aa1f7e585bc?hl=en&q=%22weeaboo%22 venture into anime :
  • The line between anime fan and weeaboo is getting blurrier and blurrier with every passing day.
  • * 2010 January 24, 9FEmssiLmwyaEWxy9LPEfEQ Pisces], [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.slack/topics?hl=en alt.slack (Google group)]: [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.slack/browse_thread/thread/29d8dccd47f7d93b/c468b0ae0b9ac412?hl=en&q=%22weeaboo%22 ROB IS REALLY :
  • But its(SIC) all over. Too bad. I suppose the boychild had hoped for some little Weeaboo' boy who would fuck him up the ass in his mothers(SIC) basement. He just really wanted to play dirty Gohan/Goku with someone like him.
    He is pretty sure '
    Weeaboo’s
    (SIC) hate halfassed black kids with cumstained sweatshirts though.

    Synonyms

    * Japanophile * wapanese (also derogatory)

    Hypernyms

    * egg (mildly pejorative)

    See also

    * wigger English 4chan slang