wolfaboo

English

Etymology

wolf +‎ -aboo.

Noun

wolfaboo (plural wolfaboos)

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) Someone who is obsessed with wolves and identifies with them, especially a furry or otherkin.
   • 2014 November 8, Betsy Marston, “Heard around the west”, in Lewiston News-Argus, volume 132, number 127, page 4:

     Undaunted, Bridges has continued telling his story, thanking “all of you wolf loving fools” for gaining him new followers on his Wolf Control website. “I only had to ban 150 or so wolfaboos,” he crowed. “You people are your own worst enemies ... please, please, keep it up.”

   • 2018, Scary Garry SG1, 99, unnumbered page:

     Last year I came across a forum where wolfaboos believed that they were "special snowflakes" who where blessed with the ability to physically shape shift into wolves.

   • 2019, Devin Proctor, "On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space", dissertation submitted to George Washington University, page 243:

     Frustration with fluff and wolfaboos is understandable: at stake in Otherkin representation is not merely an opinion about how the community should be characterized, but the very idea that Otherkin identification is a viable way to exist in the world.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wolfaboo.