Niche internet/fandom slang meaning to react with intense enthusiasm to Boys' Love (BL) manga, anime, or media, as a self-identified fujoshi fan would.
To get extremely excited and gush about boys' love stories or male characters in romantic pairings, the way a devoted BL fan does.
One main meaning — here's how to use it.
To enthusiastically and intensely engage with Boys' Love content or male-male romantic pairings, expressing the excited behaviour typical of a fujoshi fan.
"I completely fujoshi'd out when my favourite characters finally had a romantic scene — I couldn't stop rewatching it."
'Fujoshi' (腐女子) literally means 'rotten girl' in Japanese and is used (sometimes self-referentially) to describe female fans of Boys' Love media. This phrasal verb is used almost exclusively in anime and manga fan communities online. Unknown outside fandom contexts. Can carry a self-deprecating or humorous tone when used by fans about themselves.
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