different between confan vs confab

English

Etymology

con (“convention”) +? fan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nfæn/

Noun

confan (plural confans or confen)

1. (dated, fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) A science fiction fan primarily interested in conventions.
   • Wake up fandom, not everyone here is large. If the equal rights of the slim are not recognized we could find ourselves in a mud-slinging contest that will make the zinefan vs. confan fight look like a sand-box squabble.

Usage notes

Where a person is specified as a confan it is often in opposition to being a zinefan (fan of fanzines) within science fiction fandom.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nfæb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?fæb/, /k?n-/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /k?n?fæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: con?fab

Etymology 1

Clipping of confabulation, from Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin conf?bul?ti?nem, from c?nf?bul?r? + -ti?nem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); see further at etymology 2.

Noun

confab (countable and uncountable, plural confabs)

1. (informal) Clipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).

   Synonym: conflab

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Etymology 2

Clipping of confabulate, from Latin c?nf?bul?r? + English -ate (suffix forming verbs with the sense of acting in the specified manner). C?nf?bul?r? is the present active infinitive of c?nf?bulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + f?bulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from f?bula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)).

Verb

confab (third-person singular simple present confabs, present participle confabbing, simple past and past participle confabbed)

1. (intransitive, informal) Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”).

   Synonym: (obsolete, rare) confable

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