jest

head

jest (definite accusative jesti, plural jestler)

jesti (accusative definite)
jestler (plural)
jest (nominative singular)
jestler (nominative plural)
jesti (accusative definite singular)
jestleri (accusative definite plural)
jeste (dative singular)
jestlere (dative plural)
jestte (locative singular)
jestlerde (locative plural)
jestten (ablative singular)
jestlerden (ablative plural)
jestin (genitive singular)
jestlerin (genitive plural)
jestim (first-person nominative singular)
jestlerim (first-person nominative singular)
jestin (nominative second-person singular)
jestlerin (nominative second-person singular)
jesti (nominative singular third-person)
jestleri (nominative singular third-person)
jestimiz (first-person nominative plural)
jestlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
jestiniz (nominative plural second-person)
jestleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
jestleri (nominative plural third-person)
jestimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
jestlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
jestini (accusative definite second-person singular)
jestlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
jestini (accusative definite singular third-person)
jestlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
jestimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
jestlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
jestinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
jestlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
jestlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
jestime (dative first-person singular)
jestlerime (dative first-person singular)
jestine (dative second-person singular)
jestlerine (dative second-person singular)
jestine (dative singular third-person)
jestlerine (dative singular third-person)
jestimize (dative first-person plural)
jestlerimize (dative first-person plural)
jestinize (dative plural second-person)
jestlerinize (dative plural second-person)
jestlerine (dative plural third-person)
jestimde (first-person locative singular)
jestlerimde (first-person locative singular)
jestinde (locative second-person singular)
jestlerinde (locative second-person singular)
jestinde (locative singular third-person)
jestlerinde (locative singular third-person)
jestimizde (first-person locative plural)
jestlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
jestinizde (locative plural second-person)
jestlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
jestlerinde (locative plural third-person)
jestimden (ablative first-person singular)
jestlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
jestinden (ablative second-person singular)
jestlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
jestinden (ablative singular third-person)
jestlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
jestimizden (ablative first-person plural)
jestlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
jestinizden (ablative plural second-person)
jestlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
jestlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
jestimin (first-person genitive singular)
jestlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
jestinin (genitive second-person singular)
jestlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
jestinin (genitive singular third-person)
jestlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
jestimizin (first-person genitive plural)
jestlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
jestinizin (genitive plural second-person)
jestlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
jestlerinin (genitive plural third-person)


hilarious

en-adj

hilarious (comparative more hilarious, superlative most hilarious)

more hilarious (comparative)
most hilarious (superlative)

→ Cebuano: hilaryos

Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).

der

Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."

1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60:

Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:


pun

en-verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

puns (present singular third-person)
punning (participle present)
punned (participle past)
punned (past)

From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

der

We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.


interpreter

interpreters (plural)
interpretour (alternative)
enterpretour (alternative)
enterpretor (alternative)

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪɾɚ/

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɚ/

/ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtə/

From Middle English interpreter, interpretour, etc., from Old French interpreteur, interpreteeur, etc., from Late Latin interpretātōr, from classical Latin interpretātus (“explained, translated”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from interpretārī (“to explain, to translate”), from interpres (“go-between, translator”) + -ārī (“to be ~ed”), q.v. In reference to divine emissaries, a calque of Mercury's Latin epithet interpres divum (“go-between of the gods”). In reference to the rhetorical device, a calque of Latin interpretatio. Equivalent to interpret + -er.
Displaced native Old English wealhstod.

... one of the foremost interpreters of Beethoven's piano works ...

A person or thing that interprets the meaning of something for another, particularly:

(music, theater) A performer who presents a piece of art in a distinct style, particularly so as to make older works relevant to their audience.


length

en-noun

length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)

From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).

[…] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]

1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club, page 38:

The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]

1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre, page 45:

(theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.


turn

→ Japanese: ターン (tān)

Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin turnus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn.

պտույտ

movement about an axis ending up with the same orientation

360° turn

movement about an axis returning to the original orientation

the first turn of the screw pays all debts

Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.

1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:

(circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.

numero

circus, theatre: short skit, act, or routine


zany

en-adj

zany (comparative zanier, superlative zaniest)

zanier (comparative)
zaniest (superlative)

From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni. Doublet of Zanni, John, and Giovanni.


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.

(theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.


humour

en-noun

humour (usually uncountable, plural humours)

→⇒ Chinese:

Cantonese: 幽默 (jau¹ mak⁶)

Mandarin: 幽默 (yōumò)

→ Danish: humor

→ Icelandic: húmor

→ Dutch: humor

→ Esperanto: humuro

desctree

→ French: humour
→ Romanian: humor, umor
→ Turkish: humor

→ German: Humor (semantic loan)

→ Polish: humor

→ Yiddish: הומאָר (humor) (probably)

→ Greek: χιούμορ (chioúmor)

→ Italian: humour

→ Japanese: ユーモア (yūmoa)

→ Korean: 유머 (yumeo)

→ Norwegian: (also via German)

Bokmål: humor

Nynorsk: humor

→ Russian: ю́мор (júmor), гу́мор (gúmor)
→ Azerbaijani: yumor

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: ху̀мор

Latin script: hùmor

→ Swedish: humor (semantic loan)

From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”).
The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".

She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.

The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended.

Merry VVhitefoord, farevvel! for thy ſake I admit / That a Scot may have humour, I had almoſt ſaid vvit: […]

1774, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Postscript”, in Retaliation: A Poem. […], 5th edition, London: […] G[eorge] Kearsly, […], →OCLC, page 22:

A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.

1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.

1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.


arc

→ Irish: arc

→ Maltese: ark

→ Welsh: arc

Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.

der

For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.

2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:


drama

en-noun

drama (countable and uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

→ Arabic: دْرَامَا (drāmā)

Gulf Arabic: دْراما (drāma)

→ Cebuano: drama

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: ड्रामा (ḍrāmā)

Urdu: ڈراما (ḍrāmā)

→ Japanese: ドラマ (dorama)

→ Korean: 드라마 (deurama)

→ Malay: drama

→ Punjabi: ਡ੍ਰਾਮਾ (ḍrāmā)

From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”). Doublet of dorama.

der

en:all theatrical scripts, tragic or comic, as mass noun

(uncountable) Theatrical plays in general.


drama

la-noun

drāma n (genitive drāmatis); third declension

drāma (canonical neuter)
drāmatis (genitive)
drāma (nominative singular)
drāmata (nominative plural)
drāmatis (genitive singular)
drāmatum (genitive plural)
drāmatī (dative singular)
drāmatibus (dative plural)
drāma (accusative singular)
drāmata (accusative plural)
drāmate (ablative singular)
drāmatibus (ablative plural)
drāma (singular vocative)
drāmata (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: дра́ма (dráma)

→ Catalan: drama

→ Czech: drama

→ Dutch: drama
→ Indonesian: drama

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→ English: drama
→ Arabic: دْرَامَا (drāmā)
Gulf Arabic: دْراما (drāma)
→ Cebuano: drama
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: ड्रामा (ḍrāmā)
Urdu: ڈراما (ḍrāmā)
→ Japanese: ドラマ (dorama)
→ Korean: 드라마 (deurama)
→ Malay: drama
→ Punjabi: ਡ੍ਰਾਮਾ (ḍrāmā)

→ Finnish: draama

→ French: drame

→ German: Drama

→ Hungarian: dráma

→ Icelandic: drama

→ Irish: dráma

→ Macedonian: драма (drama)

→ Norwegian: drama

→ Polish: dramat

→ Portuguese: drama

→ Romanian: dramă

→ Russian: дра́ма (dráma)

→ Serbo-Croatian: дра̏ма / drȁma

→ Spanish: drama

→ Swedish: drama

→ Ukrainian: дра́ма (dráma)

→ Welsh: drama

→ Yiddish: דראַמע (drame) (through some Romance language)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).


drama

drama (nominative singular)
dramy (nominative plural)
dramy (genitive singular)
dram (genitive plural)
dramie (dative singular)
dramom (dative plural)
dramę (accusative singular)
dramy (accusative plural)
dramą (instrumental singular)
dramami (instrumental plural)
dramie (locative singular)
dramach (locative plural)
dramo (singular vocative)
dramy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French drame, from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). First attested in 1728. Doublet of dramat.

ref

Wiesław Morawski (13.06.2019) “DRAMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(drama) drama (composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue)

(literary, theater) drama (type of play)


drama

From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).Doublet of dorama.


double

en-verb

double (third-person singular simple present doubles, present participle doubling, simple past and past participle doubled)

doubles (present singular third-person)
doubling (participle present)
doubled (participle past)
doubled (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

When, therefore, Briggs, the sedate, middle-aged individual, who in the Markham household doubles the roles of butler and valet, makes his appearance, his master affects to be in a great hurry, looks at his watch, and says : […]

1878, lady Isabella Emma E. Schuster, Hands Not Hearts, page 141:

Miss Theby doubles in the part of Rose and the native girl in the Philippines. This is a problem plot in which a young man leaves the girl of his choice because she has had an affair in her earlier years. He goes to the Philippines, […]

1916, The Moving Picture World, page 335:

In On the Beat he doubles the parts of a constable and a gang-leader. Norman was all over the place.

1997, Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN:

In his case the matter is simplified by the fact that the head of his Deception Staff doubles the roles of author and producer. The Commander therefore tells him what sort of deception he needs, examines the plans produced for him […]

2013, Hy Rothstein, Barton Whaley, The Art and Science of Military Deception, Artech House, →ISBN, page 164:

(theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).


antagonist

From Latin antagonista, from Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνιστής (antagōnistḗs, “opponent”) (ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”)), from ἀνταγωνίζομαι (antagōnízomai, “to antagonize”).

der

ἀνταγωνιστής

So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being / I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme

2022, Will Wood (musician) (lyrics and music), “The Main Character”, in In case I make it,, performed by Will Wood:

(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.


Witz

de-noun

Witz m (strong, genitive Witzes, plural Witze, diminutive Witzchen n)

Witzes (genitive)
Witze (plural)
Witzchen (diminutive neuter)
Witz (nominative singular)
Witze (definite nominative plural)
Witzes (genitive singular)
Witze (definite genitive plural)
Witz (dative singular)
Witze (dative singular)
Witzen (dative definite plural)
Witz (accusative singular)
Witze (accusative definite plural)

→ Bulgarian: виц (vic)

→ Danish: vits

→ Finnish: vitsi

→ Hungarian: vicc

→ Low German: Witz

→ Macedonian: виц (vic)

→ Norwegian: vits

→ Saterland Frisian: Wits

→ Serbo-Croatian: vic

→ Polish: wic

→ Silesian: wic

→ Slovene: vic

→ Swedish: vits

→ Ukrainian: віц (vic)

From Middle High German witz, from Old High German wizzi, from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).
Cognate to English wit, archaic Dutch wit, akin to Old Saxon giwit.


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

ghosts (plural)
ghoast (alternative)
gost (alternative)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.


once upon a time

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Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a beautiful princess.

There was once upon a time a charcoal-burner who had a son, and he was also a charcoal-burner.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 308:

Once upon a time, there was a Goblin Queen
And she lived in a grand palace...

2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 138:

A long time ago; at some time in the past (a traditional beginning of children's stories, especially fairy tales).

agwa

traditional beginning of children’s stories, especially fairy tales

iq̇o da ara iq̇o ra, ɣvtis uḳetesi ra ikneboda

იყო და არა იყო რა, ღვთის უკეთესი რა იქნებოდა


lore

lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)

→ Russian: лор (lor)

→ Ukrainian: лор (lor)

From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre, Swedish lära and Danish lære. See also learn.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

lure (some accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles; / They heare him not, they have forgot his lore / But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

saviesa

all the facts and traditions about a particular subject

Coordinate term: canon

You might have stumbled upon discussions of Bloodborne's lore - there are plenty of discussions about Bloodborne's lore - which can be more than a little dense and, to the outsider, off-putting.

2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer:

(chiefly fandom slang) The backstory, especially for a character or setting, created around a fictional universe.

univers

the backstory created around a fictional universe


lore

He’s sticky and encrusted on one side below his beak and amongst the lores around his eyes by the pips and juices he has dined upon, the pith and pulp of feeding.

2022, Jim Crace, eden, Picador, page 40:

(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.


special

From Middle English *special, especial, especiall, from Old French especial (whence also French spécial), from Latin speciālis (from speciēs). In this sense displaced native Old English synderlīċ. Doublet of especial.

Coordinate term: spotlight

In addition to followspots, there will be three frontlight specials on Autoyokes hung on the truss to provide frontlight specials.

2009, Steven Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 132:

The first is a special—a single lighting instrument that lights a particular spot on the stage. Specials generally have no color, or a more saturated color, allowing them to stand out through other lighting onstage.

2009, Jennifer Bringle, Lighting, page 23:

(theater) A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.


annual

First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.

Excellent work has been done by the Playgoers' Club in connection with its Christmas Pantomime Fund. Thousands of children who possibly otherwise would have little chance of witnessing one of the hardy annuals have been annually taken […]

1919, Lionel Carson, The Stage Year Book, page 67:

From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […]

1949, Albert Edward Wilson, The Story of Pantomime, page 61:

(theater) A pantomime taking place once a year.


truck

truck (countable and uncountable, plural trucks)

Belizean Creole: chrok

→ Bengali: ট্রাক (ṭrak)

→ Bislama: trak

→ Cebuano: trak

→ French: truck

→ Hindi: ट्रक (ṭrak)

→ Indonesian: truk

→ Japanese: トラック (torakku)

→ Korean: 트럭 (teureok)

→ Maguindanao: trak

→ Malay: trak

desctree

→ Spanish: troca
→ Southeastern Tepehuan: trooka

→ Polish: trak

→ Tagalog: trak

→ Taos: tròkiʼína

→ Tausug: tarak

→ Tok Pisin: trak

→ Urdu: ٹْرَک (ṭrak)

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).

(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.


tableau

Unadapted borrowing from French tableau, from Old French tablel (“a surface which is used primarily for painting”).

der

[…] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into one tableau […]

1994, Gerda Taranow, Sarah Bernhardt: The Art Within the Legend, page 158:

As creative as it might have been, it appeared disjointed, with the sense of many things happening simultaneously, and the promenading performances jumping from one idea to the next – from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.

2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(theater) A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.


tableau

Haitian Creole: tablo

→ English: tableau

→ German: Tableau

desc

→ Greek: ταμπλό (tampló), ταμπλώ n (tampló)

→ Romanian: tablou

→ Russian: табло́ (tabló)

→ Turkish: tablo

→ Ukrainian: табло́ (tabló)


opero

eo-head

opero (accusative singular operon, plural operoj, accusative plural operojn)

operon (accusative singular)
operoj (plural)
operojn (accusative plural)


opero

Borrowed from Esperanto opero, English opera, French opéra, German Oper, Italian opera, Russian о́пера (ópera), Spanish ópera.


dress

en-verb

dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past dressed, past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest)

dresses (present singular third-person)
dressing (participle present)
dressed (past)
dressed (participle past)
drest (obsolete participle past)
dress (infinitive)

→ Sranan Tongo: dresi

PIE word
 *dwís
The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *directiare, from Latin dīrēctus, the perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“to arrange in lines, direct, steer”), from dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart; asunder; in two’) + regō (“to govern, manage”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, right”). Doublet of direct.
The noun is derived from the verb.

aantrek

to put clothes on (oneself or someone, etc.) — see also clothe

self aantrek

to put on clothes — see also get dressed

koristaa

to adorn or ornament (something) — see also adorn, ornament

siistiä

to fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose — see also get ready

whakahuene

referring to preparing rough sawn timber

To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.

Mallory, all night long, single-handedly painted and dressed the set so that at eight o'clock Sunday morning when we arrived to make breakfast in the kitchen, there she was sound asleep on the davenport in the set, every prop in place.

2012, Marvin Silbersher, chapter 22, in A Fistful of Stars, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 106:

To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.

lavastaa

to prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.


dress

en-noun

dress (countable and uncountable, plural dresses)

→ Japanese: ドレス (doresu)

→ Korean: 드레스 (deureseu)

→ Norwegian: dress

→ Pennsylvania German: Dress

→ Scottish Gaelic: dreasa

(film, television, theater) Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.


practical

en-adj

practical (comparative more practical, superlative most practical)

more practical (comparative)
most practical (superlative)

theoretical

antonym(s) of “based on practice or action”

impractical

antonym(s) of “likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation”

From Middle English practical, practicale, praktycall, from Medieval Latin practicālis.

(theater, not comparable) Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.


practical

Practicals are used onstage as they would be used in real life. If the sound cue is to be from a radio or television, give qualities to the recording that will maintain the sense of the medium.

2013, Deena Kaye, James LeBrecht, Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art & Technique of Design:

(theater) A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.


er was eens

(used at the beginnings of fairytales) once upon a time there was


traveller

travellers (plural)
traveler (alternative)

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]

1977, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews, volumes 38-39, page 134:

(television, theater) A rail or track for a sliding curtain.


canon

en-noun

canon (countable and uncountable, plural canons)

From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon and Old English canon, both from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew קָנֶה (qane, “reed”) and Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane, cannon, canyon, canal.

der

A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.


wit

en-noun

wit (countable and uncountable, plural wits)

From Middle English wit, from Old English witt (“understanding, intellect, sense, knowledge, consciousness, conscience”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge, reason”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).
Cognate with Dutch weet, German Witz, Danish vid, Swedish vett, Norwegian Bokmål vett, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”), Latin vīdī (“see (pf.)”), Bulgarian вям (vjam), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ), Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā). Compare wise.

остроу́мие

Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly

The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.

Wit is just as much put upon—blamed for a thousand impertinences over which it would not have held for a moment its glittering shield; it is like the radiant fairy doomed to wander over earth, concealed and transformed, and only allowed on rare occasions to shine forth in its true and sparkling form. It is well that wit is an impalpable and ethereal substance, or it must long since have evaporated in indignation at that peculiarly wretched and mistaken race, its imitators.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 152:

The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Evelyn Peters: "Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing".

1996 February 4, Jennifer Crittenden, “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 14, production code 3F13:

[…] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 26:

Humour, especially when clever or quick.


responsible

From Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondere. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible.

[…] first appeared on August Bank Holiday, 1901, at Grand Theatre, Llandudno, playing "responsibles" with Edward Compton; […]

1907, The Green Room Book; Or, Who's Who on the Stage, page 9:

'Well, the Cardinal is the heavy part, isn't it?' 'I know.' 'Then,' said I, 'you'd better go'; and one of the Responsibles took it on, and was perfect on the night.

(theater) An actor taking on the lesser roles in repertory theatre.


joey

From Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837), a popular English entertainer.


reveal

From Middle English revēlen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”), from vēlum (“a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning, sail”) (whence also English veil, English unveil, English voile, Russian вуаль (vualʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ, “to veil”) (compare typologically)).
Also compare typologically English uncloak, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije), срыва́ть покро́вы (sryvátʹ pokróvy) (покро́в (pokróv, “cover, covering”)).

cog

завуали́ровать

m+

разобла́чать

The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.

A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal. A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed.

2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, →ISBN:

Once you find out what’s going on—the girl is a “hungry,” this film’s term for zombies—it’s still interesting enough, if not quite as powerful. That’s basically what you’re in for with this British postapocalyptic survival horror tale, which starts off strong but dilutes its impact with every consecutive reveal.

2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:

Even Westworld—based on a science-fiction novel where robots run amok—ended its second season with the ultimate reveal: human beings are simpler and more predictable than the artificial intelligences we create.

2019, Douglas Rushkoff, “Survival of the Richest”, in Extinction Rebellion, editor, This Is Not A Drill, London: Penguin, →ISBN:

(cinematography, narratology, comedy, usually informal) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story.


gig

The etymology of the noun is unknown, but compare Old French gigue (“a fiddle”). The verb is derived from the noun.

I caught one of the Rolling Stones’ first gigs in Richmond.

Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?

Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.

حَفْلَة

performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer


gig

en-verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

gigs (present singular third-person)
gigging (participle present)
gigged (participle past)
gigged (past)

The Rolling Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time.

(film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

keikkailla

to engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

მუსიკალურ წარმოდგენაში მონაწილეობა


non sequitur

en-noun

non sequitur (plural non sequiturs or non sequuntur)

non sequiturs (plural)
non sequuntur (plural)
non-sequitur (alternative)
nonsequitur (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin phrase nōn sequitur (“it does not follow”).

what does that have to do with the price of tea in China

Having a costumed superhero abduct the vicar was an utter non sequitur in the novel.

Non sequiturs, gratuitous acts, frustrating ellipses, ambiguities, a dearth of emotion: Miss [Lillian] Hellman avails herself of all these current techniques in telling a story that she keeps telling us may not be a story at all.

1980 May 13, Anatole Broyard, “Books of The Times”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.

Gedankensprung

any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence


Noh

Noh (countable and uncountable, plural Nohs)

Nohs (plural)
No (alternative)
Nō (alternative)

An irregular romanization of Japanese 能 (nō, literally “[performing] skill, talent”).

bor

(uncountable) A kind of classical Japanese musical drama.


kid

en-noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.

der

is that what the kids are calling it these days

I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:


acting

en-noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.


spot

(cinematography, theater) spotlight, spot


joker

From joke + -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.


Laurel and Hardy

From the name of a famous American comedy duo from the 1920s and 1930s.

We put a Laurel and Hardy thing together. With ordinary actors I've tried this, and it's like playing music without an instrument, but these guys could do anything.

2000, Patrick McGilligan, Film Crazy: Interviews with Hollywood Legends, page 89:

Then about a hundred yards ahead, two men, one rotund the other thin and spare, leaped over a gate onto the road. They had the appearance of a Laurel and Hardy duo.

2012, Patrick C. Reidy, A Cocktail of Tales, page 14:

The session quickly devolved into a Laurel-and-Hardy skit, as an NRC bureaucrat named Lawrence Kokajko was grilled by the commissioners, particularly Hamilton, a man used to having bureaucrats tremble before him.

2012, Richard Martin, SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, page 180:

[…] when someone has a Laurel and Hardy moment where they slip on a banana skin […]

2012, The Black & White Photography Book:

She was heavy: not fat, but solid, and it looked good on her; still, we must have seemed a Laurel and Hardy match, the two times we would have been observed together in public, me being whichever comedy star was the lanky one.

2013, David Hale Smith, Dallas Noir, page 211:

When he got up to answer, I noticed the boy at the other end of the desk was partially standing. This happened every time. So I quietly walked around and noticed that the long bench they were sitting ^([sic]) had a leg missing at the end. Sensing a Laurel-and-Hardy situation, I could not resist the temptation.

2014, Paul "Monty" Choy, The Flying Dragon, page 45:

Variety (February 22)reported, “Ward and Scott have sketched out plans for the production of Green Hopper, a 30 minute show revolving around a frog, wolf and bear; Simpson and Delaney—a Laurel and Hardy animated duo, and Super Chicken.

2014, Keith Scott, The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose:

Any duo who are so inept at practical tasks as to be humorous.


red herring

red herring (plural red herrings or red herring)

red herrings (plural)
red herring (plural)

(figurative): One possible origin of the idiom was that red herring were used to train dogs to track scents. This was true, but the modern meaning of a false trail may have been popularized in a news story by English journalist William Cobbett, c. 1805, in which he claimed that as a boy he used a red herring (a cured and salted herring) to mislead hounds following a trail; the story served as an extended metaphor for the London press, which had earned Cobbett's ire by publishing false news accounts regarding Napoleon. The OED has another possible earlier origin in the legacy of clergyman Jasper Mayne in 1672 when he misled a servant by leaving him "Somewhat that would make him Drink after his Death" in a large trunk. When the trunk was opened, the contents were found to be red herring.
(soldier): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; soldier is, reciprocally, a slang term for the fish.

neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring

red herring prospectus
red herring prospectus


sketch

→ German: Sketch

→ Italian: sketch

desc

→ Portuguese: esquete (Brasilian), sketch (European)

→ Turkish: skeç

From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.

скеч

brief musical, dramatic or literary work etc.

I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.

A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.


antic

Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.

The Grave-maker, like the professional fools and Falstaff, and like Hamlet himself, is an antic, a grotesque, one who demonstrates to men how foolish and

1978, Walter C. Foreman, The Music of the Close: The Final Scenes of Shakespeare’s Tragedies, page 90:

A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.


piste

→ Catalan: pista

→ Dutch: piste

→ English: piste

→ German: Piste

→ Greek: πίστα (písta)

→ Persian: پیست (pist)

→ Turkish: pist

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).


drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

piisk

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

piisk

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) item dropped by a defeated enemy

langemine

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level

La Cage's upstage drops include two of the St. Tropez harbor (one for the day and another for the night), [... an] ocean drop (used in an Act I dream sequence), and an abstract chandelier drop (used in the second act[…]).

1983, Theatre Crafts, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Crafts Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61, column 1:

In The Rover, one of these esthetically important elements was the arrangement of the upstage drops. Originally the drop was split into three sections, with obvious and blatant seams between them.

2007, Michele Fields, Designing The Rover (unpublished M.F.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin–Madison, →OCLC:

(theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.


description

en-noun

description (countable and uncountable, plural descriptions)

From Middle English descripcioun, from Old French description and its etymon, Latin dēscrīptiō, noun of action of dēscrībō (“I describe”).

(linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.

kuvailu

linguistics: act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage


pong

en-verb

pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)

pongs (present singular third-person)
ponging (participle present)
ponged (participle past)
ponged (past)

(slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

[…] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as "ponging."

2016, Jim Davis, European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900:

(slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.


meme

Shortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime + -eme.
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.

coin

This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.

I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.

(Internet) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.


redhead

Coordinate term: blonde

Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63:

(film, television, theater) A kind of 800-watt lamp.


narrative

en-noun

narrative (countable and uncountable, plural narratives)

The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:

(creative writing) A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.


panic

panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).

der

(countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.


premiéra

premiéra (nominative singular)
premiéry (nominative plural)
premiéry (genitive singular)
premiér (genitive plural)
premiéře (dative singular)
premiérám (dative plural)
premiéru (accusative singular)
premiéry (accusative plural)
premiéro (singular vocative)
premiéry (plural vocative)
premiéře (locative singular)
premiérách (locative plural)
premiérou (instrumental singular)
premiérami (instrumental plural)

(theater) premiere (of a play or performance)


loma

loma (nominative singular)
lomas (nominative plural)
lomas (genitive singular)
lomu (genitive plural)
lomai (dative singular)
lomām (dative plural)
lomu (accusative singular)
lomas (accusative plural)
lomu (instrumental singular)
lomām (instrumental plural)
lomā (locative singular)
lomās (locative plural)
loma (singular vocative)
lomas (plural vocative)

spēlēt lomu

lomas teksts

mācīties lomu no galvas

tēlot galveno lomu

loma bez vārdiem

sadalīt lomas

(theater, cinematography) role, part, character


stage

→ Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

cog

The band returned to the stage to play an encore.

Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.

1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:

Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.

(theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.


prop

They used the trophy as a prop in the movie.

(theater, film) An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.

реквизит

item placed on a stage to create a scene


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.


Aufzug

de-noun

Aufzug m (strong, genitive Aufzuges or Aufzugs, plural Aufzüge)

Aufzuges (genitive)
Aufzugs (genitive)
Aufzüge (plural)
Aufzug (nominative singular)
Aufzüge (definite nominative plural)
Aufzuges (genitive singular)
Aufzugs (genitive singular)
Aufzüge (definite genitive plural)
Aufzug (dative singular)
Aufzuge (dative singular)
Aufzügen (dative definite plural)
Aufzug (accusative singular)
Aufzüge (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ūfzuc, verbal noun of ūfziehen.

Im dritten Aufzug kommt die große Überraschung.

In the third act comes the big surprise.


pasta

pasta (nominative singular)
pasty (nominative plural)
pasty (genitive singular)
past (genitive plural)
paście (dative singular)
pastom (dative plural)
pastę (accusative singular)
pasty (accusative plural)
pastą (instrumental singular)
pastami (instrumental plural)
paście (locative singular)
pastach (locative plural)
pasto (singular vocative)
pasty (plural vocative)

(Internet slang) copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else)


appoggiatura

(theater) a strong emphasis in intonation on the key word of a joke


off

(older Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɔːf

From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“from, off, back”). Doublet of of.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots of, af (“off, away”), West Frisian af, ôf (“off, away”), Dutch af (“off, from”), German Low German of (“off, from”), German ab (“off, from”), Danish af (“of, off”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish av (“of, off”), Icelandic af (“of, off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others.

inh

noises off


off

(theater) off-Broadway; minor-league; small-time


super

For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.

1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

Short for supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.


reboot

(narratology) The restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity.

reboot

the restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity


prima donna

en-noun

prima donna (plural prima donnas or prime donne or (nonstandard) primae donnae)

prima donnas (plural)
prime donne (plural)
primae donnae (nonstandard plural)

/ˌpɹiːməˈdɒnə/

From Italian prima donna (“first lady”).

The truth is, the inhabitants of that languid and luxurious city wanted some little variety; and the minister ... supported a favourite actress in the range of first-rate characters in the Opera—supported her against the united musical opinion of Naples. One night she sang worse than ever; and the next morning half the city rose up, demanding liberty and a new prima donna.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 255–256:

(opera) The principal female singer or the leading lady.


bowl

Bislama: bol

→ Esperanto: bovlo

desctree

→ French: bol
→ Catalan: bol
→ Greek: μπολ (bol)

→ German: Bowle, → Bowl

→ Hungarian: bólé

→ Ido: bolo

→ Irish: bolla

→ Japanese: ボール (bōru)

→ Latvian: bole (probably via German)

→ Korean: 볼 (bol)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bòl

→ Swedish: bål

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

inh

(sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.


doceo

la-verb

doceō (present infinitive docēre, perfect active docuī, supine doctum); second conjugation

doceō (canonical)
docēre (infinitive present)
docuī (active perfect)
doctum (supine)
doceō (active first-person indicative present singular)
docēs (active indicative present second-person singular)
docet (active indicative present singular third-person)
docēmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
docētis (active indicative plural present second-person)
docent (active indicative plural present third-person)
docēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
docēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
docēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
docēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
docēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
docēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
docēbō (active first-person future indicative singular)
docēbis (active future indicative second-person singular)
docēbit (active future indicative singular third-person)
docēbimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
docēbitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
docēbunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
docuī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
docuistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
docuit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
docuimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
docuistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
docuērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
docuēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
docueram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
docuerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
docuerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
docuerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
docuerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
docuerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
docuerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
docueris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
docuerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
docuerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
docueritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
docuerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
doceor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
docēris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
docēre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
docētur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
docēmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
docēminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
docentur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
docēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
docēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
docēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
docēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
docēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
docēbor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
docēberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
docēbitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
docēbimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
docēbiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
docēbuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
doceam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
doceās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
doceāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
doceātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
doceant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
docērem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
docērēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docēret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docērēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
docērētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docērent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docuerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
docuerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docuerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docuerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
docuerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docuerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docuissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
docuissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
docuisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
docuissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
docuissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
docuissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
docear (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
doceāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
doceātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
doceāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
doceāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
doceantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
docērer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
docērēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
docērēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
docērētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
docērēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
docērēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
docērentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
docē (active imperative present second-person singular)
docēte (active imperative plural present second-person)
docētō (active future imperative second-person singular)
docētō (active future imperative singular third-person)
docētōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
docentō (active future imperative plural third-person)
docēre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
docēminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
docētor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
docētor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
docentor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
docēre (active infinitive present)
docērī (infinitive passive present)
docēns (active participle present)
doctūrum esse (active future infinitive)
doctum īrī (future infinitive passive)
doctūrus (active future participle)
docendus (future participle passive)
docuisse (active infinitive perfect)
doctum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
doctus (participle passive perfect)
doctum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
doctūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
docendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
docendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
docendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
docendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
doctum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
doctū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

Old Occitan: dozer

Old French: duire, doire (homophone for duire 'lead' < dūcere)

French: duire (archaic or regional (Normandy))

→ Ido: docar

[ˈd̪ɔːt͡ʃeo]

From Proto-Italic *dokeō, from earlier *dokejō, causative of Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I expect, suppose, seem”) and Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I accept, receive”). The sense "rehearse, present on stage" is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek διδάσκω (didáskō).


bravo

head

bravo m (feminine brava, masculine plural bravi, feminine plural brave)

brava (feminine)
bravi (masculine plural)
brave (feminine plural)

→ English: bravo

→ French: bravo

→ Romanian: bravo

→ Turkish: bravo

Uncertain. Probably from Vulgar Latin *bravus, from a fusion of Latin prāvus and barbarus. Less likely from Provençal brau (“show-off”), from Gaulish *bragos (compare Middle Irish breagha (modern breá) 'fine', Breton braga 'to strut'). Or perhaps borrowed from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *hrawaz (“raw, uncooked”). Or possibly from a root *bravus, from bravium. Borrowed into French and English as brave.
Pierre Carpentier, in an 18th-century edition of du Cange's 17th-century dictionary of medieval and modern Latin, argued Latin branus originated in a misreading of Italian and Spanish bravo. However, George Nicholson argues the opposite in a 1950 Festschrift article, namely bravo being a misreading of Latin branus, which would have the origin du Cange had originally argued for, from Old French brahaigne (“barren”) (see barren). Compare English gravy, possibly a misreading of French grané (“stew”).


bravo

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish براوو, from Italian bravo.


deus ex machina

en-noun

deus ex machina (plural dei ex machina or dei ex machinis or deus ex machinas)

dei ex machina (plural)
dei ex machinis (plural)
deus ex machinas (plural)

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā (literally “god from a machine [i.e., a device, scaffolding, contrivance]”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós).

ubor

god from a machine 􂀿i.e., a device, scaffolding, contrivance􂁀

calque

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

The women who merge in the final pages leave me unsettled and depressed. Their future is grim. There is no deus ex machina to save them.

1975 December 13, Regina Kahney, “Sister Gin (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 24, page 13:

The repeated tactic of deus ex machina (without a deus) has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue.

2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times:

Despite the government shutdown, at the end of the last season Knope is able to put on a children's concert in the abandoned lot she's been trying to turn into a park due to a quick deus ex machina.

2011 January 20, Dave Thier, “‘Parks and Recreation’: Comedy Imitates Life (Sort Of)”, in The Atlantic:

Compared to that, the season-four finale “Server Error” felt comparatively tame, focusing mostly on Richard’s maniacal efforts to create a new kind of internet, which were helped along by a confusing deus ex machina.

2017 June 26, David Sims, “How Will ‘Silicon Valley’ Work Without T.J. Miller?”, in The Atlantic:

suspension of disbelief
suspension of disbelief

(narratology) Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that they desired.

I was going to wait for Monsieur Hyppolyte and, like a craven, hand the whole thing over to him. Let the deus ex machina fly in out of the clouds...

1959, Mary Stewart, chapter XVII, in Nine Coaches Waiting, M. S. Mill Company, page 268:

(historical, literary) A deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation (i.e., to resolve a crisis, or untangle issues surrounding it, a character logically expected to do so).


deus ex machina

id-noun

deus ex machina (plural deus-deus ex machina)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex machina, calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós, literally “god from the machine”).

calque

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός


deus ex machina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós).

der

ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (plot resolution in ancient tragedy involving the sudden and unexpected appearance of a deity)

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, drama, historical, literary) deus ex machina (deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought in by stage machinery to intervene in a difficult situation)

(literary, narratology) deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)


deus ex machina

pt-noun

deus ex machina m (plural deuses ex machina or dei ex machina)

deuses ex machina (plural)
dei ex machina (plural)

(narratology) deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)


parody

en-noun

parody (countable and uncountable, plural parodies)

From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

der

The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.


olim

For ōle, olle, ōlus, ollus, archaic forms of ille, with locative ending -im, = illō tempore.

† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated° Rare‡only used as a conjunction


block

en-verb

block (third-person singular simple present blocks, present participle blocking, simple past and past participle blocked)

blocks (present singular third-person)
blocking (participle present)
blocked (participle past)
blocked (past)
blocke (alternative)

From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.

cog

It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.

(transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).

asemoida

to specify positions and movements of actors


story

desctree

Sranan Tongo: tori
Aukan: toli
→ Dutch: tori

→ Welsh: stori

→ Persian: استوری (estori)

→ Portuguese: estória

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

der

...it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancient story...

1673, William Temple, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:

June 1861, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy
Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story...

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

So, what happened?
It's quite a long story actually...
Really? Don't worry about it then.

2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

The book tells the story of two roommates.

What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]

(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

What's the story with him?

I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.

The images it captured help tell a story of extreme loss: 25 percent of its ice and four of its 19 glaciers have disappeared since 1957.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.


joke

→ Danish: joke

→ French: joke

→ Persian: جوک

→ Japanese: ジョーク, → Japanese: 冗句

→ Welsh: jôc

From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.

Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.


knock-knock joke

en-noun

knock-knock joke (plural knock-knock jokes)

knock-knock jokes (plural)
knock knock joke (alternative)

An audience-participation joke ending with a pun.


practical joke

The class put a whoopee cushion on the teacher's chair as a practical joke.

This is a street of elegant stucco terraced houses, two of which (numbers 23 and 24) straddled the mouth of the canyon. [...] they were knocked down and replaced with fake houses [...]. So began 150 years of practical jokes, with coal merchants sending young apprentices to deliver coal to the façades, or letters addressed to Mr N. O. Body, 24 Leinster Gardens. (There is no letterbox).

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 58:

A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.

惡作劇 /恶作剧

something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else


whoopee cushion

whoopee cushion (plural whoopee cushions)

An inflatable bag containing a valve at its neck that retains the air in the bag until pressure is put on it (usually by someone unintentionally sitting on it after it has been placed on a chair by someone else as a practical joke), when the air is expelled with a sound similar to that of someone farting (breaking wind).


mute

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:

1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; (John Dryden)

(obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.


clown

clowns (plural)
clowne (alternative)
cloyne (alternative)

From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”), all from Middle Low German klunz, from klunt (“pile, lump, something thick”); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass”), such as Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (“clod, lump”), *kultaz (“lump, bundle”), etc.
Alternatively, directly from Low German (compare North Frisian klönne (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kluns (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kloen (“uncouth person, lout”)), themselves from the same ultimate source as above.
Unlikely from Latin colōnus (“colonist, farmer”), although learned awareness of this term may have influenced semantic development.

cog

Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown

2008, Lich King, “Black Metal Sucks”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:

A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.


clown

fr-noun

clown m or f (plural clowns, feminine clownesse)


clown

clown (nominative singular)
clowni (nominative plural)
clowny (derogatory nominative plural)
clowna (genitive singular)
clownów (genitive plural)
clownowi (dative singular)
clownom (dative plural)
clowna (accusative singular)
clownów (accusative plural)
clownem (instrumental singular)
clownami (instrumental plural)
clownie (locative singular)
clownach (locative plural)
clownie (singular vocative)
clowni (plural vocative)


magic wand

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A wand, usually made of wood, that is used to perform magic.


aside

From Middle English aside, asyde, a-side, oside, from Middle English on side, from Old English on sīdan (literally “on (the) side (of)”), equivalent to a- + side. Compare beside.

der

An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
 (theater) A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.

旁白

(theatre) a brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters


fridge

fridges (plural)
'fridge (alternative)
frig (alternative)

→ Antillean Creole: fridj

→ Bengali: ফ্রিজ (phrij)

→ Hindi: फ़्रिज (frij), फ्रिज (phrij)

→ Malayalam: ഫ്രിഡ്ജ് (phriḍjŭ)

→ Maltese: friġġ

→ Scottish Gaelic: frids

→ Swahili: friji

Alexandra DeWitt
Chicago Review Press
Frigidaire
Kyle Rayner
Women in Refrigerators

The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The spelling is likely influenced by analogy with bridge, ridge, etc. The verb is derived from the noun.
The fandom slang verb sense alludes to the phrase "women in refrigerators" coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone. Simone was referencing a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994), in which the Green Lantern's girlfriend is murdered by a villain, and her body placed in a refrigerator for him to find.

coinage

Sweet broccolini with tofu, sesame, and cilantro […] First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the soy sauce, chile sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about ⅜ inch / 1 cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade, and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

2008, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, “Vegetables, Legumes, and Grains”, in Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Ten Speed Press, published 2013, →ISBN:


fridge

en-verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

fridges (present singular third-person)
fridging (participle present)
fridged (participle past)
fridged (past)

The backing cast are also all excellent, as expected considering the calibre of actors attached to the film – Andrea Riseborough is a very good example, playing a fascinating cop who really didn't deserve to be ‘fridged’ (meaning: removed from the action so that the men can do their manly things).

2013 April 26, Siobhan Whitebread, “Welcome to the Punch: A Little Less Conversation [film review]”, in Sophie Harrison, editor, Spark*: The University of Reading’s Student Newspaper, volume 63, number 1, Reading, Berkshire: Reading University Students’ Union, →OCLC, page 15, column 5:

In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.

2014, Tim Hanley, “The Mundane Modern Age”, in Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, part 3 (The Bronze Age), page 240:

Gwen [Stacy] dying is as big a part of Spider-Man's storyline as Uncle Ben dying. But originally, she was fridged, long before that was a thing. Gwen was something of a pretty nonentity in the comics, her death really only served the purpose of hurting Peter. She died a victim, yanked around by other characters.

2014 June 1, Dave Van Domelen, “Dave’s Capsules for May 2014”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):

There’s more than a hint of fridging to Missandei's death, as she leaves behind a grief-stricken Grey Worm along with Daenerys [Targaryen].

2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28:

2022 March 12, Rich Johnston, “Gail Simone's "Fridging" Becomes Official DC Comics Terminology”, in Bleeding Cool, retrieved 2022-03-12:

(transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance.


pes

pə̏s (animate canonical masculine)
psíca (feminine)
pə̏s (nominative singular)
psȁ (dual nominative)
psȉ (nominative plural)
psȁ (genitive singular)
psȍv (dual genitive)
psóv (dual genitive)
psȍv (genitive plural)
psóv (genitive plural)
psȕ (dative singular)
psȉ (dative singular)
psȍma (dative dual)
psomȁ (dative dual)
psȍm (dative plural)
psȁ (accusative singular)
psȁ (accusative dual)
psȅ (accusative plural)
psȕ (locative singular)
psȉ (locative singular)
psȉh (dual locative)
psȉh (locative plural)
psȍm (instrumental singular)
psȍma (dual instrumental)
psomȁ (dual instrumental)
psȉ (instrumental plural)
pə̏s (singular vocative)
psȁ (dual vocative)
psȉ (plural vocative)
pə̏s (nominative singular)
psa (dual nominative)
psi (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psov (dual genitive)
psov (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psi (dative singular)
psoma (dative dual)
psama (dative dual)
psom (dative plural)
psam (dative plural)
psa (accusative singular)
psa (accusative dual)
pse (accusative plural)
psu (locative singular)
psi (locative singular)
psih (dual locative)
psah (dual locative)
psih (locative plural)
psah (locative plural)
psom (instrumental singular)
psoma (dual instrumental)
psama (dual instrumental)
psi (instrumental plural)
pə̏s (singular vocative)
psa (dual vocative)
psi (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

vowel is only written in nominative singular

izgovor je dober, tudi če ga pes na repu prinese


merda

From Old Galician-Portuguese merda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

"O guardião" girou a maçaneta e entrou, com os braços dobrados para trás, mas fitando-a firmemente: / — Vim te desejar muita merda!

2011, Stella Maris Rezende, A mocinha do Mercado Central, São Paulo: Globo, →ISBN, page unnumbeded:

Boa leitura e merda!

2023, Tuna Serzedello, O teatro que muda o mundo: experiências com teatro jovem, São Paulo: Peirópolis, unnumbered page:

(theater, slang) break a leg! (a superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance)


dock

A dock (sense 1, sense 2) for cruise ships
A laptop docking (sense 5) station
A GUI dock (sense 6) on Linux
From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swedish docka.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct.
An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic or Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk, dökð (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”); compare Icelandic dökk, Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank.

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A dock (sense 􂀽1, sense 􂀽2) for cruise ships

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disco

la-verb

discō (present infinitive discere, perfect active didicī, supine discitum); third conjugation

discō (canonical)
discere (infinitive present)
didicī (active perfect)
discitum (supine)
discō (active first-person indicative present singular)
discis (active indicative present second-person singular)
discit (active indicative present singular third-person)
discimus (active first-person indicative plural present)
discitis (active indicative plural present second-person)
discunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
discēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
discēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
discēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
discēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
discēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
discēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
discam (active first-person future indicative singular)
discēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
discet (active future indicative singular third-person)
discēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
discētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
discent (active future indicative plural third-person)
didicī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
didicistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
didicit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
didicimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
didicistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
didicērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
didicēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
didiceram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
didicerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
didicerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
didicerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
didicerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
didicerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
didicerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
didiceris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
didicerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
didicerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
didiceritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
didicerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
discor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
disceris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
discere (indicative passive present second-person singular)
discitur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
discimur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
disciminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
discuntur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
discēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
discēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
discēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
discēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
discēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
discēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
discēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
discar (first-person future indicative passive singular)
discēris (future indicative passive second-person singular)
discēre (future indicative passive second-person singular)
discētur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
discēmur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
discēminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
discentur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
discam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
discās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
discat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
discāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
discātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
discant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
discerem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
discerēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
disceret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
discerēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
discerētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
discerent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
didicerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
didicerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
didicerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
didicerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
didicerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
didicerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
didicissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
didicissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
didicisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
didicissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
didicissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
didicissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
discar (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
discāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
discāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
discātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
discāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
discāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
discantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
discerer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
discerēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
discerēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
discerētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
discerēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
discerēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
discerentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
disce (active imperative present second-person singular)
discite (active imperative plural present second-person)
discitō (active future imperative second-person singular)
discitō (active future imperative singular third-person)
discitōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
discuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
discere (imperative passive present second-person singular)
disciminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
discitor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
discitor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
discuntor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
discere (active infinitive present)
discī (infinitive passive present)
discēns (active participle present)
discitūrum esse (active future infinitive)
discitum īrī (future infinitive passive)
discitūrus (active future participle)
discendus (future participle passive)
discundus (future participle passive)
didicisse (active infinitive perfect)
discitum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
discitus (participle passive perfect)
discitum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
discitūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
discendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
discendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
discendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
discendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
discitum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
discitū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *dɨskɨd

Breton: deskiñ

Cornish: dyski

Welsh: dysgu

From Proto-Italic *diskō, from earlier *dikskō, from Proto-Indo-European *di-dḱ-ské-ti, a reduplicated durative, inchoative and suffixed verb from the root *deḱ- (“to take”). From the same root as doceō; unrelated to discipulus.
Cognates include Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai), whereas δαῆναι (daênai) is attributed to another root, *dens-, together with δεδαώς (dedaṓs), δήνεα (dḗnea) and διδάσκω (didáskō).


chorus

en-noun

chorus (plural choruses or (dated) chorusses or (rare) chori)

choruses (plural)
chorusses (dated plural)
chori (plural rare)

The noun is borrowed from Medieval Latin chorus (“church choir”), Latin chorus (“group of dancers and singers; dance”), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “group of dancers and singers, choir, chorus; dance accompanied by song; round dance”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to encircle, enclose”) or *ǵʰoros. Doublet of choir, chore, and hora.
The plural form chori is from Latin chorī, from Ancient Greek χοροί (khoroí).
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

Enter Chorus. / Cut is the branch that might haue growne ful ſtraight, / And burned is Apolloes Laurel bough, / That ſometime grew within this learned man: […]

1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [F3], recto:

Ya're as good as a Chorus my lord.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Palinode. / Amo[rphus]. From ſpaniſh ſhrugs, french faces, ſmirks, irps, and all affected humours: / Chorvs. Good Mercvry defend vs.

1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act V, scene xi, page 267:

Enter Time, the Chorus. [stage direction]

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 289, column 2:

(by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.


Grim Reaper

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹiː.pə/

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹi.pɚ/

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From grim + reaper, first attested 1847. The word grim previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare Old English grima (“specter, apparition”), English grim (n.)). The association between grim and death dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew around 1590). The reaper element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of Cronus (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father Uranus) and Chronos (the personification of Father Time).

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Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper.

1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:

"Golly, I feel like the devil!" muttered Anthony dispassionately. Relaxing, he tumbled back upon his pillow. "Bring on your grim reaper!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2, page 220:

Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert:

On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04:

But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.

2021 January 13, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Make freight an equal priority”, in Rail, page 3:

A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.

Chronos
Cronus
The Taming of the Shrew
Uranus_(mythology)

стару́ха с косо́й f (starúxa s kosój, literally “old woman with scythe”)


ingenue

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.

2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland, →ISBN, page 396:

(theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

naiva

a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role


venue

From Middle English venu, from Old French venue, the feminine singular past participle of the verb venir (to come). Doublet of veny.

local

place, especially the one where a given event is to happen

A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.


gypsy

gypsies (plural)
gipsy (alternative)
gipsey (alternative)
gypsey (alternative)
gypsie (alternative)
gyptian (alternative)

See Gypsy. The generic usage that refers to any itinerant person.
Compare bohemian, from Bohemia.

(theater) A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.


bon mot

bons mots (plural)
bon mots (plural)
bonmot (alternative)
bon-mot (alternative)

Borrowed from French bon mot (“good word”).

But ſo it is: our Writer has met with a Bon Mot of this Cato’s; which, according to his ſhallow Underſtanding and ſilly Interpretation, he preſages will ever live as a noble Free-thinking Saying.

1725, “Phileleutherus Lipsiensis” [pseudonym; Richard Bentley], chapter LII, in Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking [by Anthony Collins]: In a Letter to N. N. … Part the Second, 6th edition, Cambridge: Printed for Cornelius Crownfield, printer to the University, →OCLC, page 64:

―In England, dear Sir, ſaid I, we ſit all at our eaſe. The old French officer would have ſet me at unity with myſelf, in caſe I had been at variance,—by ſaying it was a bon mot—and as a bon mot is always worth ſomething at Paris, he offered me a pinch of ſnuff.

1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “The Dwarf. Paris.”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, page 197:

And if a few of these bon mots so selected be well known, they possess such acknowledged excellence, that the compiler would be justly censured, were he to deprive his readers of the pleasure of seeing them inserted in a work of this kind.

1814, Henry Kett, “Introduction”, in The Flowers of Wit, or A Choice Collection of Bon Mots, both Antient and Modern; with Biographical and Critical Remarks. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., […]; at the Weybridge Press, by S. Hamilton, →OCLC, page xvi:

M. de Pomponne conjures her not to let Mme. Cornuel's bons mots perish, but to keep a register of them. Saint-Simon describes Mme. Cornuel as a "vieille bourgeoise du Marais," who was "full of bons mots, but of bons mots that are apophthegms."

1858 September, “Sir Nathaniel”, “Readings in Current Literature. By Sir Nathaniel. [Victor] Cousin’s Key to the ‘Grand Cyrus.’ History of the French Academy.”, in William Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, volume CXIV, number CCCCLIII, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 47:

In the lone novel of his career, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the goading Lord Henry cannot seem to help himself from delivering bon mot after bon mot. Word-play and paradoxical summation was a compulsion for [Oscar] Wilde.

2012, “Introduction”, in Bob Blaisdell, Odette Blaisdell, editors, The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page viii:

Summing up a complex analysis [...] we can say that [Peter] Pilz succeeds in turning Mayr's fierce endeavours of enforcement against himself, and his bonmot about the state of politics during socialist rule becomes widely cited in the next day's press.

2016, Emo Gotsbachner, “Asserting Interpretive Frames of Political Events: Panel Discussions on Television News”, in Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley, editors, Media, Policy and Interaction, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 56–57:

A clever saying, phrase or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue.