Twifan

English

Etymology

Blend of twilight +‎ fan.

Noun

Twifan (plural Twifans)

  1. (fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.
    • 2010, "To tide over the Twi-hards", Daily News (South Africa), 8 April 2010:
      Naff ending and slow pacing notwithstanding, you can't really call this swoonfest a terrible movie (unless you want to be tweeted to death by Twifans).
    • 2010, Amanda McGuire Rzicznek, "'Twilight' cookbook adds spice", The BG News (Bowling Green State University), Volume 104, Issue 159, 7 July 2010, page 8:
      There are even goodies, too, for Twifans whose love of cooking is just as strong as their love for vampires and werewolves.
    • 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      As any Twifan could tell you, long before Snowqueens Icedragon changed some names in her popular fic “Master of the Universe” and published it as Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, the wank surrounding her, her attitudes, and her relationship to the fandom had already reached epic proportions.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Twifan.

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