Snapewife

English

Etymology

Snape +‎ wife

Noun

Snapewife (plural Snapewives)

1. (fandom slang) A female adherent of the mid-2000s new religious movement Snapeism.
   • 2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 257:

     The Snapewives are an extreme facet of a much larger fandom milieu.

   • 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

     But the story of the Snapewives is inseparable from the story of the rise of Internet fan culture as a whole: the story of how we as a broader culture have transformed the way we insert ourselves—our loves, our wants, our desires, our chosen narratives—into the stories we consume.

   • 2022, Andrew Monteith, "Transhumanism, Utopia, and the Problem of the Real in Ready Player One", The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2022, page 10:

     Although Brony tulpas and Snapewives may practice a unique kind of fandom, one might consider that fan fiction writings across a range of imaginary worlds do similar work by speculating what it might be like to interact with favourite characters.

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