-cel
Denoting a type of incel (often through a stereotype).
Suffix
- Denoting a type of incel (often through a stereotype).
- curry + -cel → currycel (“an Indian incel”)
- rice + -cel → ricecel (“an East Asian incel”)
- gym + -cel → gymcel (“an incel who works out”)
- Used tongue-in-cheek for a wide range of effects unrelated to romance.
- word + -cel → wordcel (“someone with high writing skills and verbal intelligence”)
- theory + -cel → theorycel (“someone interested in extremely academic and abstract ideas”)
- we're in our deep sleep arcs, we're such snoozepilled napcels. - 2022 November 22, @EverydayWarren, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2023:
Origin
A clipping derived from incel. A highly-productive suffix; compare the more offensive -fag, which may have partly inspired it. First attested in c. late 2010s.