-oomer

suffix

-oomer

suffix

/uːmə(ɹ)/

Etymology Back-formation from boomer.

1

Internet, Morpheme Used to form the names of Wojak characters, or, by extension, caricaturized personifications of a given trait/quality.

  • game + -oomer → goomer (“video game addict”)
  • cum + -oomer → coomer (“masturbation addict”)
2 more examples
  • consume + -oomer → consoomer (“consumerist”)
  • The -oomer family extends even further, into dozens of oddly specific and niche types—an entire visual vocabulary for young people who want to make fun of happy idiots and stereotype themselves as particular shades of down-and-out.2020 February 3, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Misogynistic Joke That Became a Goth-Meme Fairy Tale”, in The Atlantic:

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