Definitions

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  • noun An animal character used to represent oneself online or in furry role-playing.

Etymologies

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Blend of furry and persona

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Examples

  • The character is my "fursona", ZelKwin; a furry alias sort of, hence my username.

    Progressive U - The new media voice for students 2009

  • Ai has herd ob dem after ai maded mai fursona– iz Celine, meh as a kitteh.

    I’m not blocking the view – - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I knew this decision needed to be made from the moment the fursona shift started happening, knew it after Kadin and I last played, have known it for a long long time.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006

  • I don't mind that you have a fursuit, or a fursona.

    Pop Crunch 2010

  • "Sultry Sergals" and the Herald office favorite "Therion x Crux", suggest there is sure to be something for nearly every fursona on the grid. romantic glances

    The Alphaville Herald 2010

  • The creature is actually my fursona that I created a while back, and I finally decided that I want a plushie version of him, after he's been an important part of my life for so long. en Español

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • This will allow any users who are knowledgable of how RGB works to take full advantage of the entire "computer color wheel" to further make a fursona their own.

    unknown title 2008

  • But I don’t have a fursona, at least not one that is separate somehow from my usual self in some remarkably different way — I’m as queer in costume as I am out of it, in other words.

    american furry « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

  • In the furry world — the people who wear suits to dress up like anthropomorphic animals — drawing yourself as an animal is called a “fursona”.

    The nostalgia onion Ryan Broderick 2021

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  • fursona, n.

    The Guardian, 4 February 2016:

    To this day, Dee has brought more than 300 “fursonas” (furry personas) to life – including Baltoro the Fox, realistic with taxidermy eyes, hand-molded silicon paws and muzzle and digitigrade hind legs; Zeke the Hyena, cartoonish with hand-stitched stripes and airbrushed abs; and Blaze, a vixen with flirty eyelashes and curvaceously padded chest.

    February 29, 2016

  • fursona, n.

    aramis, 27 August 2018:

    fuck a soundcloud link look at my fursona

    December 31, 2018