Etymologies
- From Japanese おたく ("geek, nerd"). Originally refers to one's household. Considered pejorative when used in Japanese. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I found myself drawn towards Japanese anime, prompting my transformation into an "otaku", a Japanese word for a person obsessed with anime.”
The Huffington Post: Daniyal Noorani: Animated Dialogue Between The West And The Muslim World
“• Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, an avowed otaku, is calling upon manga, anime, fashion and video games to help pull his country out of a recession.”
“They have something I call otaku -- it's a great Japanese word.”
“No wonder the word otaku earns you such dirty looks sometimes.”
“But at the library, they identify as otaku - Japanese slang for manga aficionados - and their divisions run purely along manga lines.”
“Of course, I doubt Frankfurt has knowledge of contemporary Japanese subculture, or the phenomenal increase and subsequent media exposure of the beings we call otaku, but his work is just as accurate in painting a picture of our lives as Azuma Hiroki's seminal work”
“We also saw some misuse of the word otaku too, which we almost overlooked the first few times around.”
“I can understand the desire to move away from using the word otaku, but the terms”
“But the area is also a haven for "otaku" -- Japan's anime-inspired geek subculture.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘otaku’.
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Useful
parkour, diegetic, callipygian, dasypygal, hypnagogic, hypnopompic, antejentacular, postprandial, perspicuity, perspicacity, föhn, traceur and 115 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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karyotype's Words
weltschmertz, weltanschauung, atavistic, otaku, unguiculation, osculate, heresiarch, hikikomori, genki, maieutic, pamir, osmotheque and 2 more...
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Geek Culture
geek, dork, nerd, gafiate, filk, concom, fanboy, fandom, geekosphere, grok, hacker, leet and 26 more...
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Tomanian
humdudgeon, bounden, limitrophe, autarkic, bemute, janissary, camarilla, bastion, barbican, machicolation, abacinate, donjon and 28 more...
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adricv's Words
pedantic, unscrupulous, viscuous, humour, colour, monetise, painstakingly, devoid, corpuscule, phenolphthalein, disenfranchised, crumbly and 26 more...
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Derived from other languages
quid pro quo, deus ex machina, rigor mortis, esprit d'escalier, prima facie, banzai, schadenfreude, sakura, touché, risqué, crème de la crème, coup de grace and 3 more...
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Words that amuse me with their meanin...
scalawag, google, shenanigans, angst, anime, parlay, banzai, sesquipedalian, hornswoggle, balderdash, cockamamie, fiddlesticks and 25 more...
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karyotypic's Words
weltanschuang, weltschmerz, otaku, karyotype, transkaryotic, transhumanism, onanism, feuille, transoxiana
Tweets
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apsalar In Japan, an otaku is a person with an obsession about something. i.e. anime, video games, trains, idols, etc. It can range from knowing all the information about a subject to creating a collection. In North America, the term refers to someone who likes Japanese anime or manga. Jul 19, 2009