groyper

Unclear overall. First attested in c. 2015. A common hypothesis seems to be a combination of goy (“non-Jewish person; a Gentile”) and griper (“person who complains naggingly or frequently”). Other conjectures include an alteration of grope (“To touch sexually”), as well as being based on names apparently befitting an amphibian, such as Frogger, the root *groyp- being onomatopoeia for a toad's croak (compare Italian gracidare (“to croak”), Bulgarian кря́кам (krjákam, “croak, etc.”)). Or possibly a nonsense term; multiple elements may be combined here. The first attestations (almost always accompanied with a cartoon frog distinct from Pepe the Frog illustration, on 4chan) predate associations with Nick Fuentes, so it is unclear if the first is a case of folk etymology.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔɪ.pɚ/

groyper (plural groypers)

1. (Internet slang) A large, green, cartoon toad with a strange mischievous expression, similar to Pepe the Frog.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Groyper (“member of certain political groups”).
   • 2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2025:

     You look at the groypers, you look at Nick Fuentes, you look at people who are by any measure white supremacists and people we would have called the kooky Nazi right, with their Pepe the Frog memes — they all felt very ill at home in Mitt Romney’s Republican Party. […] For a lot of these groypers — Nick Fuentes is one example, but there are a lot of people on the young right who feel this way to varying degrees and with varying levels of Holocaust revisionism — a definition of Americanism is more about your history here, your ethnonationalism, your connection to an Anglo-Protestant culture.

• gropery