furry – English noun declension

English noun forms of furry

Noun: furry
Singularfurry
Pluralfurries

Sample Sentences

  • What percentage of furries are wolves?
  • The furry had designed an elaborate costume.
  • Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit. [2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:]
  • While members of the fandom seem to use "fandom" in a formal capacity explicitly to describe particular interest in forms of art, it is also used less formally to refer to all members of the furry community regardless of artistic involvement and commitment to a fursona. [2020 September 25, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN, page 245:]
  • 24 per cent of respondents of the 1,011 results did not have a fursona at all. This shows that having a fursona is still in the majority but it opens up questions as to why a significant minority do not have them but still consider themselves a Furry. [2021 August 26, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 57:]
  • Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity. Some niche communities, such as furries, anime fans, and fetish groups, who were once mocked on social media, have since amassed cultural power that has launched them into the mainstream. [2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *fōdrą
4. Frankish *fōdrbor.
5. Anglo-Norman fuerrebor.
6. Middle English furre
7. English fur
8. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
9. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
10. Proto-West Germanic *-g
11. Old English -iġ
12. Middle English -y
13. English -y
14. English furry
15. From fur + -y.

Verbs referencing "furry"

Dutch Nouns furry, French Nouns furry, Swedish Nouns furry, Catalan Nouns furro, Portuguese Nouns furro.