brony

Blend of bro +‎ pony, the earliest documented use dates to the 25th of October 2010 on the 4chan image boards.^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊni/
• Rhymes: -əʊni

brony (plural bronies)

1. (fandom slang) A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult male.
   • 2011 September 7, Jaime Weinman, “Men who love ‘My Little Pony’”, in Maclean's‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."

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

Due to various controversies, such as prominent members of the brony fandom being members of alt-right or fascist groups, or hostility towards feminists and minority fans, some progressive-aligned or leftist fans of MLP:FiM use the terms "pony fan", "MLP fan", "My Little Pony fan" instead of "brony".

• anti-brony

• bronydom
• pegasister (female fan)
• MLP fan, pony fan
• clop, clopper

• Bryon, Byron, Norby, Robyn, yborn

Borrowed from English brony.

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brony m (plural bronies)

1. (fandom slang) a brony

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔnɨ/

brony f

1. inflection of brona:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔ.nɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɔnɘ
• Syllabification: bro‧ny

brony f or f pl

1. inflection of brona:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural