Buffyite

English

Etymology

Buffy + -ite

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, 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 Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), McFarland & Company (2009), →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.

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