booru

Etymology

Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard website that uses an image of a brown cardboard box as its logo. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “not sure about this”)

Noun

booru (plural boorus)

(Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
- 2021 February, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021‎:
  If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.
- 2019 February, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter‎:
  We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.
- 2018 December, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser‎:
  I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).

References

Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

External links

A site map of the Danbooru website featuring the cardboard box logo in its header: https://danbooru.donmai.us/static/site_map

Anagrams

buroo