Did you actually discover what a "fangirl" was @steveTu ? I've never listened to WHour (which is perhaps just as well ). No doubt sleepless nights are ahead trying to work that out never mind the verb usage
Only by what they were saying. I thought a fan was a fan - genderless - but a fangirl is a person (female) that is maybe over enthusiastic about a thing. An example would be those lasses who are crying and screaming over the Beatles or some such band in those black and white films from the 60s. To fangirl then is to behave in such an enthusiastic (? - read that as barking mad) manner. There is also fanboy - fangirl (googling it) appears to be an old term according to the Huffpost site.
Fangirling seems a bit distasteful to me - read what you like into this extract taken from that Google search of fangirl:
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What does it mean to Fangirl over someone?
fangirled. DEFINITIONS1. to be a very enthusiastic female fan of a band, actor, type of entertainment, product etc. fangirl over: I was actually quite surprised at how much I fangirled over him!
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Surely that's obscene?
Edited to add: @B3 Nooooooooooooooooooooo. You have to be hip to use the term without sounding like you're some kind of pervert.
I was watching crows (rooks?) flying over the garden last night in great sweeping arcs and thinking what a silly expression ‘as the crow flies’ is.
And more in the spirit of the thread, why do I slightly tense up with the neologisms newbies, biggies and pretties? I suppose because they are new words and I am living in the 1950s.
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No-one seems to just do the job they are paid to do anymore, they are all 'working tirelessly'.
No doubt sleepless nights are ahead trying to work that out never mind the verb usage
And more in the spirit of the thread, why do I slightly tense up with the neologisms newbies, biggies and pretties? I suppose because they are new words and I am living in the 1950s.