husbando

From husband + -o suffix to make it resemble a genuine Japanese word. The correct Japanese transliteration hazubando. See also Japanese ハズバンド (hazubando, “husband”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Isn't it a loan from the same, as opposed to a pseudo-Japonism?”)

• IPA^(key): /həzˈbændəʊ/, /həzˈbɑːndəʊ/

husbando (plural husbandos or husbandoes)

1. (fandom slang) A fictional male character from non-live-action visual media (typically an anime, manga, or video game) to whom one is attracted and/or whom one considers their significant other.

   Levi will always be my husbando!

   • 2018 July 5, “Kaye: Your Happy Pill”, in Bliss Digital Arts Batch 2018‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 November 2021, page 131:

     Just don't frequently mention her husbandos around her though, she'll be rendered speechless for hours. *cough* Loki *cough*

   • 2019, Dale Beren, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office‎^[2], unnumbered page:

     For example, the otaku had popularized body pillows, a human-size pillow imprinted with the image of one's waifu (“wife”) or husbando (“husband”), the anime girl or boy to which the otaku imagines he or she is married.

   • 2021, Stephen Reysen, Courtney N. Plante, Daniel Chadborn, Sharon E. Roberts, Kathleen C. Gerbasi, Transported to Another World: The Psychology of Anime Fans‎^[3], unnumbered page:

     Those with waifus or husbandos are also more likely to feel a greater sense of belongingness to the anime fandom, a fandom which they're also more likely to consider to be unique compared to other fandoms.

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

• soulbond

• waifu

• mai (“my”)

Unadapted borrowing from English husbando.

• IPA^(key): /xusˈbando/ [xuzˈβ̞ãn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ando

husbando f (plural husbandos)

1. (fandom slang, Internet slang) husbando

   Coordinate term: waifu