double talk

From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.

double-talk (alternative)
doubletalk (alternative)

[Sid] Caesar's vaudeville format included burlesques—in the nineteenth-century meaning of parody—featuring silent-film and film noir send-ups; Italian opera produced in Caesar's ad-libbed, faux-Italian double-talk;[…]

2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15:

(comedy) Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.


sarcastically

en-adv

sarcastically (comparative more sarcastically, superlative most sarcastically)

more sarcastically (comparative)
most sarcastically (superlative)

`Sprung!' cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo. 'Oh, der,' moaned Boardie sarcastically.

1979, Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues, page 46:


regia

(theater, television, etc.) direction, production


auguste

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.

1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 93:

(theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.


one-liner

one-liners (plural)
one liner (alternative)

(computing) A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.


second banana

He grew disenchanted with playing second banana and never getting credit for the laughter.

(idiomatic) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.


trapdoor

trapdoors (plural)
trap door (alternative)
trap-door (alternative)

(theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.


all your base are belong to us

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Mistranslation of Japanese 君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた (literally “we (CATS) have taken all of your bases”). This grammatically incorrect "Engrish" phrase originated in the English subtitles of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the 1989 Japanese arcade game Zero Wing and became a catchphrase and meme on the Internet in the early 2000s.

der

君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to tout victory over an opponent, or simply as a humorous catchphrase.


ditty bag

Suggested to be a clipping of commodity bag, a British naval term.

(theater) A bag used to hold costume pieces that do not hang on hangers, such as socks or gloves.


regi

regien (definite singular)
regiar (indefinite plural)
regiane (definite plural)

Borrowed from French, derived from Latin regere (“to reign, control”).


barrel of monkeys

en-noun

barrel of monkeys (plural barrels of monkeys)

/ˌbæɹəl‿əv ˈmʌŋkiz/

Possibly influenced by barrel of fun or barrel of laughs.

He thinks he’s a barrel of monkeys, but he’s not particularly entertaining.

(idiomatic, informal) Someone or something very amusing or funny, fun, mischievous, etc.

naurattaja

someone or something very amusing or funny, fun, mischievous, etc.


monologue

monologues (plural)
monolog (alternative)

dialogue

antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

der

(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.

(comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.

monologi

comedy: long series of stories and jokes


oder

ọ́dər (canonical inanimate masculine)
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óder (nominative singular)
ódra (dual nominative)
ódri (nominative plural)
ódra (genitive singular)
ódrov (dual genitive)
ódrov (genitive plural)
ódru (dative singular)
ódroma (dative dual)
ódrom (dative plural)
óder (accusative singular)
ódra (accusative dual)
ódre (accusative plural)
ódru (locative singular)
ódrih (dual locative)
ódrih (locative plural)
ódrom (instrumental singular)
ódroma (dual instrumental)
ódri (instrumental plural)


Maske

Maske (genitive)
Masken (plural)
Maske (nominative singular)
Masken (definite nominative plural)
Maske (genitive singular)
Masken (definite genitive plural)
Maske (dative singular)
Masken (dative definite plural)
Maske (accusative singular)
Masken (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: maszk

(film production or theater) workspace of an make-up artist


repetiteur

(music, theater) A tutor or coach of ballet dancers or opera singers.


sus

You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]

2019 June 11, Alfred Coleman III, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube:

ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.

[2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95:

(Internet slang, humorous, nonce word) A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.


skit

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.


comedic

en-adj

comedic (comparative more comedic, superlative most comedic)

more comedic (comparative)
most comedic (superlative)
comœdic (alternative)

It was done for comedic purposes


circus ring

A circular arena in a circus, where the acts are performed.

sirkusareena

arena in a circus where acts are performed


elemental

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From Middle English elementall, from Medieval Latin elementālis; compare Old French elementel. By surface analysis, element + -al.

Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 219:

The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.

2000, Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers, New York: Vintage Books, pages 79–80:


burlesque

en-noun

burlesque (countable and uncountable, plural burlesques)

burlesques (plural)
burlesk (alternative)

Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).

Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.

1711 December 26 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 15, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 249; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.

“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, 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:

A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.

A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.


burlesque

→ English: burlesque

→ German: burlesk

→ Romanian: burlesc

→ Turkish: burlesk

Borrowed from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).


agen

agèn (canonical)
agen-agen (plural)
agén (alternative)
éjén (alternative)

From Dutch agent, from French agent, from Latin agēns.

(drama) a person who looks for work for another person.


break a leg

Unknown; many unproven and widely debated theories exist. One of the most plausible is that it comes from Yiddish הצלחה און ברכה (hatslokhe un brokhe, “success and blessing”) through the heavy Ashkenazi Jewish influence in the American theater, via the misinterpretation in German as Hals- und Beinbruch (“neck and leg fracture”). The Yiddish phrase itself comes from Hebrew הַצְלָחָה וּבְרָכָה (hatzlakhá u-v'rakhá, “success and blessing”). Another possible origin was to wish opposite luck on the performer so as not to jinx the statement.

der

הצלחה און ברכה

הַצְלָחָה וּבְרָכָה

Go out there and break a leg tonight. Put on a great show!

I told my friend to break a leg, before she went on stage.

(idiomatic) Said to someone wishing they perform well in a theatrical production or comparable endeavor.

molta merda!

expression of best wishes to a performer


strongman

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, the famous Egyptian archeologist, who was a man of gigantic stature, began his public career as a strongman at the Bartholomew Fair, under the management of Gyngell, the conjuror, who dubbed him The Young Hercules.

1920, Harry Houdini, chapter 11, in Miracle Mongers and Their Methods:

Someone who performs feats of strength, sometimes in competitions or in a circus.


ensemble

Unadapted borrowing from French ensemble, from Latin īnsimul.

ubor

(music, theater) Alternative spelling of ansambl


contortion

en-noun

contortion (countable and uncountable, plural contortions)

The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.

A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

柔身術 /柔身术

a form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body


Davy Jones's locker

There has been much speculation about the origin of this term, but none has been substantiated. See more at Davy Jones' Locker on Wikipedia.

Davy Jones' locker (alternative)
Davy Jones locker (alternative)
Davey Jones's locker (alternative)
Davey Jones' locker (alternative)
Davey Jones locker (alternative)
Davie Jones's locker (alternative)
Davie Jones' locker (alternative)
Davie Jones locker (alternative)
Davy's locker (alternative)
Davey's locker (alternative)
Davie's locker (alternative)

"Damn my eyes," says he, "they are gone to Davy Jones's locker."
NOTE: Partridge erroneously refers to this as from the journal of Richard rather than Nicholas Cresswell.

1774, Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-7:

... are discovered singing a melancholy duet, bewailing the loss of an honest tar, whom they suppose (to use the burthen of the song) "is in Davy Jones's locker."

1781 August, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, “The Summer Theatre”, in The London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, volume 50, page 360:

(nautical, idiomatic) The bottom of the ocean, seen as a grave for sailors and the resting-place of anything that goes overboard and is lost.

Davy Jones' Locker#History
en:Davy Jones's Locker

Davy Jones' locker at the Google Books Ngram Viewer


angel of death

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مَلَك الْمَوْت

personification of death in fiction and in art

死神 (しにがみ, shinigami, literally “death kami, death spirit”)

A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.

An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed time of death.

An angel in Abrahamic scripture or eschatology that attends to death.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

(translations, of Japanese) A shinigami.

destroying angel
destroying angel#English

Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”)


Azrael

From Latin Azrahel, from Ancient Greek Ἀζαραήλ (Azaraḗl), from Biblical Hebrew עֲזַרְאֵל (ʿăzarʾēl), possibly via Aramaic (compare Classical Syriac ܥܲܙܪܵܐܹܝܠ (ʿazrāʾēl)).

The angel of death in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and in Islam.


acto

Borrowed from Latin actus, a noun based on agō (“do”). Doublet of auto, an earlier borrowing.

Ahora va a empezar el tercer acto.


figurar

pt-verb

figurar (first-person singular present figuro, first-person singular preterite figurei, past participle figurado)

figuro (first-person present singular)
figurei (first-person preterite singular)
figurado (participle past)
figurar (impersonal infinitive)
figurar (first-person infinitive singular)
figurares (infinitive second-person singular)
figurar (infinitive singular third-person)
figurarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
figurardes (infinitive plural second-person)
figurarem (infinitive plural third-person)
figurando (gerund)
figurado (masculine participle past singular)
figurados (masculine participle past plural)
figurada (feminine participle past singular)
figuradas (feminine participle past plural)
figuro (first-person indicative present singular)
figuras (indicative present second-person singular)
figura (indicative present singular third-person)
figuramos (first-person indicative plural present)
figurais (indicative plural present second-person)
figuram (indicative plural present third-person)
figurava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
figuravas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
figurava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
figurávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
figuráveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
figuravam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
figurei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
figuraste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
figurou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
figuramos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
figurámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
figurastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
figuraram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
figurara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
figuraras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
figurara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
figuráramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
figuráreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
figuraram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
figurarei (first-person future indicative singular)
figurarás (future indicative second-person singular)
figurará (future indicative singular third-person)
figuraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
figurareis (future indicative plural second-person)
figurarão (future indicative plural third-person)
figuraria (conditional first-person singular)
figurarias (conditional second-person singular)
figuraria (conditional singular third-person)
figuraríamos (conditional first-person plural)
figuraríeis (conditional plural second-person)
figurariam (conditional plural third-person)
figure (first-person present singular subjunctive)
figures (present second-person singular subjunctive)
figure (present singular subjunctive third-person)
figuremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
figureis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
figurem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
figurasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
figurasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
figurasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
figurássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
figurásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
figurassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
figurar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
figurares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
figurar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
figurarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
figurardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
figurarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
figura (imperative second-person singular)
figure (imperative singular third-person)
figuremos (first-person imperative plural)
figurai (imperative plural second-person)
figurem (imperative plural third-person)
não figures (imperative negative second-person singular)
não figure (imperative negative singular third-person)
não figuremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não figureis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não figurem (imperative negative plural third-person)

Borrowed from Latin figūrāre (“to form”).

bor+

(intransitive, theater, film) to star, to act (work as an actor) [with em ‘in’]


interpretar

head

interpretar (first-person singular indicative present interpreto, past participle interpretáu)

interpreto (first-person indicative present singular)
interpretáu (participle past)
interpretar (infinitive)
interpretando (gerund)
m interpretáu (participle past)
f interpretada (participle past)
n interpretao (participle past)
m pl interpretaos (participle past)
f pl interpretaes (participle past)
interpreto (first-person indicative present singular)
interpretes (indicative present second-person singular)
interpreta (indicative present singular third-person)
interpretamos (first-person indicative plural present)
interpretáis (indicative plural present second-person)
interpreten (indicative plural present third-person)
interpretaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
interpretabes (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
interpretaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
interpretábemos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
interpretábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
interpretabeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
interpretabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
interpretaben (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
interpreté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
interpretasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
interpretesti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
interpretó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
interpretemos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
interpretastis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
interpretestis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
interpretaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
interpretare (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
interpretara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
interpretares (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
interpretaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
interpretare (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
interpretara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
interpretáremos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
interpretáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
interpretareis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
interpretarais (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
interpretaren (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
interpretaran (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
interpretaré (first-person future indicative singular)
interpretarás (future indicative second-person singular)
interpretará (future indicative singular third-person)
interpretaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
interpretaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
interpretarán (future indicative plural third-person)
interpretaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
interpretaríes (conditional indicative second-person singular)
interpretaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
interpretaríemos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
interpretaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
interpretaríeis (conditional indicative plural second-person)
interpretaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
interpretaríen (conditional indicative plural third-person)
interprete (first-person present singular subjunctive)
interpretes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretas (present second-person singular subjunctive)
interprete (present singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
interpretéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
interpreten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
interpretan (plural present subjunctive third-person)
interpretare (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
interpretara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
interpretares (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretare (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretáremos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
interpretáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
interpretareis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
interpretarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
interpretaren (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
interpretaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
interpreta (imperative second-person singular)
interpretái (imperative plural second-person)


interpretar

es-verb

interpretar (first-person singular present interpreto, first-person singular preterite interpreté, past participle interpretado)

interpreto (first-person present singular)
interpreté (first-person preterite singular)
interpretado (participle past)
interpretar (infinitive)
interpretando (gerund)
interpretado (masculine participle past singular)
interpretada (feminine participle past singular)
interpretados (masculine participle past plural)
interpretadas (feminine participle past plural)
interpreto (first-person indicative present singular)
interpretas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
interpretás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
interpreta (indicative present singular third-person)
interpretamos (first-person indicative plural present)
interpretáis (indicative plural present second-person)
interpretan (indicative plural present third-person)
interpretaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
interpretabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
interpretaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
interpretábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
interpretabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
interpretaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
interpreté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
interpretaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
interpretó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
interpretamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
interpretasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
interpretaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
interpretaré (first-person future indicative singular)
interpretarás (future indicative second-person singular)
interpretará (future indicative singular third-person)
interpretaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
interpretaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
interpretarán (future indicative plural third-person)
interpretaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
interpretarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
interpretaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
interpretaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
interpretaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
interpretarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
interprete (first-person present singular subjunctive)
interpretes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
interprete (present singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
interpretéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
interpreten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
interpretara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
interpretaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
interpretarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
interpretaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
interpretase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
interpretases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
interpretaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
interpretasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
interpretare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
interpretares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
interpretare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
interpretáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
interpretareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
interpretaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
interpreta (imperative informal second-person singular)
interpretá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
interprete (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
interprete (imperative singular third-person)
interpretemos (first-person imperative plural)
interpretad (imperative plural second-person)
interpreten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
interpreten (imperative plural third-person)
interpretes (imperative negative second-person singular)
interprete (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
interprete (imperative negative singular third-person)
interpretemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
interpretéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
interpreten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
interpreten (imperative negative plural third-person)
interpretarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
interpretarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
interpretarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
interpretarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
interpretarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
interpretaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
interpretarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
interpretarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
interpretarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
interpretarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
interpretarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
interpretarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
interpretarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
interpretarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
interpretaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
interpretarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
interpretarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
interpretarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
interpretándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
interpretándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
interpretándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
interpretándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
interpretándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
interpretándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
interpretándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
interpretándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
interpretándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
interpretándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
interpretándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
interpretándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
interpretándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
interpretándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
interpretándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
interpretándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
interpretándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
interpretándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
interprétame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
interprétate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
interprétale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
interprétanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
interprétales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
interprétame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
interprétate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
interprétalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
interprétala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
interprétanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
interprétalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
interprétalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
interpretame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
interpretate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
interpretale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
interpretanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
interpretales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
interpretame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
interpretate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
interpretalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
interpretala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
interpretanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
interpretalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
interpretalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
interpréteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
interprétele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
interprétese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
interprétenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
interprételes (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
interpréteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
interprételo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
interprétela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
interprétese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
interprétenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
interprételos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
interprételas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
interpretémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
interpretémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
interpretémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
interpretémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
interpretémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
interpretémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
interpretémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
interpretémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
interpretémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
interpretémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
interpretémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
interpretémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
interpretadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
interpretadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
interpretadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
interpretaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
interpretadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interpretadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
interpretadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
interpretadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
interpretadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
interpretaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
interpretadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interpretadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
interprétenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
interprétenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
interprétenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
interprétenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
interprétense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)


mezzanine

PIE word
 *médʰyos
The noun is borrowed from French mezzanine, and from its etymon Italian mezzanino, from mezzano (“(adjective) middle; (noun) go-between”) + -ino (diminutive suffix). Mezzano is derived from Latin mediānus (“central, middle”, adjective), from medius (“mid, middle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

der

(theater, obsolete) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.


gancho

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).


jocund

en-adj

jocund (comparative more jocund, superlative most jocund)

more jocund (comparative)
most jocund (superlative)

/ˈd͡ʒəʊkənd/

From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”).

Nights candles are burnt out, and iocond Day / Stands tiptoes on the myſtie mountaine tops.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare?

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12, column 2:

There was once a widdow faire, young, free, rich, and withall very pleaſant and iocund, that fell in loue with a certaine round and well-ſet ſeruant of a Colledge: […]

1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Which Treates of the Strange Aduentures that Hapned to the Knight of the Mancha, in Sierra Morena: And of the Penance He Did there, in Imitation of Belti Nebros”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 3, page 243:

First in his train is jocund Health,
Content, who o'er her distaff sings,
And from the plough that honest Wealth
Which scorns the tear-bought robe of kings.—

1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Toil, page 107:

I was feeling blithe, almost jocund.

1876 June, Mark Twain, “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”, in The Atlantic:

Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

весел

jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits


sujet

sk-noun

sujet m inan (relational adjective sujetový)

sujetový (adjective relational)
nominative
sujet (singular)
sujety (plural)
genitive
sujetu (singular)
sujetov (plural)
dative
sujetom (plural)
accusative
locative
sujete (singular)
sujetoch (plural)
instrumental
sujetom (singular)
sujetmi (plural)

Borrowed from French sujet, compare Russian сюже́т (sjužét).


función

función de densidad de probabilidad conjunta

La función aquí estrenada recoge en un escenario blanco las penalidades y sueños de "el gran pie" en su penar por la comida, el sexo, y su esperanza de que el futuro sea más halagüeño.

1988 May 3, “Una de las tres obras dramáticas que escribió Picasso se estrena en un pequeño teatro de Nueva York”, in El País:


agon

en-noun

agon (countable and uncountable, plural agons or agones)

From Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).

(uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.


narratology

narratology (countable and uncountable, plural narratologies)


docudrama

docudramas (plural)
docu-drama (alternative)

/ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/

Coordinate term: docufiction

In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction.

1999, Alan Rosenthal, editor, Why Docudrama?: Fact-fiction on Film and TV, SIU Press, →ISBN, page xv:

And docudramas would be the perfect epitaph because, though Norman Kingsley Mailer dreamed of being the monarch of the American novel, he was finally the king of faction, the man whose greatest books, a nightmare for any librarian hoping neatly to classify as fiction or non-fiction, consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to storytelling as invention.

2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:

“Docudrama” is by its nature a confusing genre—neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance.

2008 December 30, Bob Sommer, “The Education of David Frost”, in CounterPunch:

Fenny Compton featured in the recent TV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It was where the first meeting of postmasters took place in 2009, organised by sub-postmaster Alan Bates to begin mounting a fight for justice in the now well-publicised Post Office scandal.

2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:

A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.

dokudraama

drama that combines elements of documentary and drama


soundtrack

soundtrack (nominative singular)
soundtracki (nominative plural)
soundtracku (genitive singular)
soundtracków (genitive plural)
soundtrackowi (dative singular)
soundtrackom (dative plural)
soundtrack (accusative singular)
soundtracki (accusative plural)
soundtrackiem (instrumental singular)
soundtrackami (instrumental plural)
soundtracku (locative singular)
soundtrackach (locative plural)
soundtracku (singular vocative)
soundtracki (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English soundtrack.

ubor

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures)

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (the sound (especially the music) component of a movie)

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (recording of such music for sale)


foro

Borrowed from Latin forum. Doublet of fuero.


línea

→ Bikol Central: linya

→ Tagalog: linya

Borrowed from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liña, still used in archaic modern Spanish. Cognate with Portuguese linha, Galician liña, and Catalan línia and llinya.

bor+

(mathematics) line (a straight path through two or more points)

party line (an established policy that politicians should adhere to)

(historical) linea, Spanish line (a traditional small unit of length, equivalent to 1.9 mm)


juvenile

Borrowed from Latin iuvenīlis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h₂ey- (“age; life”)) + *h₁én (“in”).

'Home,' as, following his habit of giving monosyllable titles to his pieces, T[homas] W[illiam] Robertson christened his version of 'L'Aventurière,' has been revived. […] In a juvenile part, Mr. Lytton Sothern made a successful début.

1875 February 6, “Drama. [Haymarket.]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, number 2467, London: Printed by E[dward] J. Francis & Co., […] published […] by John Francis. …, →OCLC, page 201, column 3:

(theater) An actor playing a child's role.


running joke

“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.

2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in The A.V. Club:

These deadpan repeated phrases that cannot quite decide whether they are part of a running joke or a half-abandoned philosophical dictum produce, as Michael Wood has argued, a comedy of the intellect that becomes a comedy of ignorance: […]

2012, Laura Salisbury, Samuel Beckett, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 37:

Her obvious favoritism has become a running joke among the staff. A joke that I'm the butt of. She's at least twenty years older than me, not to mention married.

2013, Colleen Hoover, This Girl, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

An ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.


喜劇

/ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hei̯³⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/hi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiɔk̚⁴/

/hi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiɔk̚²⁴/

/hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiɔk̚⁴/

/hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiak̚¹²¹/

/hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiɪk̚⁴/

/hi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiɪk̚⁴/

/hi⁵²⁻³⁵ kiaʔ⁴/

/ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hei̯³⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/hi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiɔk̚⁴/

/hi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiɔk̚²⁴/

/hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiɔk̚⁴/

/hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiak̚¹²¹/

/hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiɪk̚⁴/

/hi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiɪk̚⁴/

/hi⁵²⁻³⁵ kiaʔ⁴/


dramedy

en-noun

dramedy (countable and uncountable, plural dramedies)

(uncountable) A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.

”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.

2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times:

(countable) A film or television programme belonging to this genre.


mise en scène

mise en scène (plural mises en scène or mise en scènes)

mises en scène (plural)
mise en scènes (plural)
mise-en-scène (alternative)
mise en scene (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mise en scène.wav

Borrowed from French mise en scène (literally “placing on stage”).

bor+

Although this mise en scène may sound like a contrived “Twilight Zone” setup, it provides Mr. Powers with the perfect opportunity to show off his virtuosic skills as a writer[…]

1995 June 27, Michiko Kakutani, “Playing Pygmalion to a Hermeneutic Computer”, in New York Times:

For reasons explained in the previous volume, noticeably absent are mises en scène representing productions at the Théâtre-Italien.

1998: H. Robert Cohen, Original Staging Manuals for Ten Parisian Operatic Premières, 1824–1843, page xiii (Pendragon Press; →ISBN, 0945193610)

Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.

2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173:

This is also the point at which mise en scène no longer simply describes the passage of a text to the stage, but rather encompasses the autonomous organisation of the theatre work, the 'synthetic' vision of theatre and of mise en scène which is the subject of an accomplished study by Guido Hiss.

2013, Patrice Pavis, translated by Joel Anderson, Contemporary Mise en Scène, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 9–10:

(film, theater) The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.


minstrel show

After the barbecue Roosevelt was to attend a minstrel show staged by the polio patients at the Playhouse. Hazel Stephens, a physical therapist and the recreational director, coordinated the production. Betty Brown, also a therapist who helped with the patients, assisted her. The curtain was set to go up at 5:30 P.M.[…]
Graham Jackson, a black recruiting officer in the Coast Guard at Macon, Georgia, was Roosevelt's favorite musician. He had performed for him on numerous occasions and was scheduled to do so again at the minstrel show. He was equally talented playing the accordion or the piano. A moving photograph of a tearful Jackson with his accordion at the Warm Springs ceremonies was circulated worldwide.

1991 Spring, William Warren Rogers, Jr., “The Death of a President, April 12, 1945: An Account from Warm Springs”, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume LXXV, number 1, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, pages 110, 114:

(theater) A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface.

minstrel show

A variety show performed by white people in blackface


situation comedy

en-noun

situation comedy (plural situation comedies)

situation comedies (plural)
as sitcom (abbreviation)

[…] in a time of peril and opportunity, the old complacent, unbalanced fare of action-adventure and situation comedies is simply not good enough.

1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:

(comedy, television) An episodic comedy radio or television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation with the same set of characters.

情景喜劇 /情景喜剧

episodic comedy radio or television program — see also sitcom


harlequinade

A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.


prolepsis

prolepsis (countable and uncountable, plural prolepses)

From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, “preconception, anticipation”), from προλαμβάνω (prolambánō, “take beforehand, anticipate”).

der

[…] [Edmund] Plovvden being of the Romiſh perſvvaſion, ſome Setters trapanned him (pardon the prolepſis) to hear Maſſe: But aftervvards Plovvden underſtanding, that the pretender to Officiate vvas no Prieſt, but a meer Lay-man (on deſigne to make a diſcovering) Oh! The caſe is altered quoth Plovvden: No Priest, no Maſſe.

a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Shrop-shire”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 3:

(narratology) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.


jukebox

jukeboxes (plural)
juke box (alternative)

1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot.

2022, Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs, The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:


plot twist

It was daring of Lena Dunham, the show’s writer and creator, to introduce this particular plot twist. Assisted suicide is one of the subjects that American television shows steadily avoid.

2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:

A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.


Mummerset

Blend of mummer (“actor in a pantomime”) + Somerset (“county in the west of England”).

Mummersetin murre

(often theater) An invented English-language dialect used by actors that mimics a stereotypical West Country rural accent.


playing

playinges (plural)
pleiingue (alternative)
pleying (alternative)
pleing (alternative)
pleyynge (alternative)
playinge (alternative)
pleyinge (alternative)
pleiing (alternative)
plawyng (alternative)
pleiyng (alternative)
pleyenge (alternative)

English: playing

playing, having fun, entertainment, revelry.

The playing of a game or sport; ludic entertainment.


ganache

(theater) The role of a stupid and gullible old man.


Billy no mates

(British, slang) A person who has few or no friends.


芝居

芝居 (canonical)
shibai (romanization)
sibawi (romanization)
しばゐ (hiragana historical)

Hawaiian: shibai


comic relief

The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to anyone on its face?

2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(narratology) The inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.


marker

en-noun

marker (countable and uncountable, plural markers)

marker interface → marker interface pattern

Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly

(film, theater) A location on a stage or set where an actor is to stand or move to during a scene, usually indicated by a small X design placed on the floor.

A direction issued by a camera operator for actors to be on their locations in readiness for a take.


género

(music, film, theater, television, literature) genre


number two

number two (countable and uncountable, plural number twos)

number one

especially regarding the defecation sense

(theater) A somewhat small town, between a number one and a number three, where the success of a theatrical performance is unlikely to be very great.


charger

charger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
chargeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
chargé (participle past)
charge (first-person indicative present singular)
charges (indicative present second-person singular)
charge (indicative present singular third-person)
chargeons (first-person indicative plural present)
chargez (indicative plural present second-person)
chargent (indicative plural present third-person)
chargeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chargeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chargeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chargions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chargiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chargeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chargeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
chargeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
chargea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
chargeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
chargeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
chargèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
chargerai (first-person future indicative singular)
chargeras (future indicative second-person singular)
chargera (future indicative singular third-person)
chargerons (first-person future indicative plural)
chargerez (future indicative plural second-person)
chargeront (future indicative plural third-person)
chargerais (conditional first-person singular)
chargerais (conditional second-person singular)
chargerait (conditional singular third-person)
chargerions (conditional first-person plural)
chargeriez (conditional plural second-person)
chargeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
charge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
charges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
charge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chargions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chargiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chargent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chargeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chargeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chargeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chargeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chargeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chargeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
charge (imperative second-person singular)
chargeons (first-person imperative plural)
chargez (imperative plural second-person)

Esperanto: ŝarĝi

Persian: شارژ کردن (šârž kardan)

Inherited from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”). Compare Spanish cargar.


jester

From Middle English gestour; equivalent to jest + -er.

A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.


brail

From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).

(theater) A rope or line used to suspend lights or scenery in a certain position.


lampoon

en-verb

lampoon (third-person singular simple present lampoons, present participle lampooning, simple past and past participle lampooned)

lampoons (present singular third-person)
lampooning (participle present)
lampooned (participle past)
lampooned (past)

Antonin Nompar de Caumont
Dictionnaire de la langue française
James II of England
Émile Littré

From French lampon (“satire, mockery, ridicule”), built on French lampons (“let us drink — a popular refrain for scurrilous songs”), from lamper (“to quaff, to swig”).
: Littré quotes a satirical song mocking King Jacques II Stuart, fleeing Dublin, in 1691, and returning to France under the escort of Lauzun:
:: Prenez soin de ma couronne, J'aurai soin de ma personne ;
("Take care of my crown, I will take care of my person")
Lampons ! lampons !

interwikt

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catastasis

en-noun

catastasis (countable and uncountable, plural catastases)

From Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “settling, appointment”).

uder

It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.

The object of the meta-theatre is precisely that – to allow the participants to see through their first roles in it. But that is only the catastasis.

In classical drama, the second and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe.

(rhetoric) The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed.


koken

Borrowed from Japanese 後見(こうけん) (kōken, “a staff in noh and kabuki”).

ja-r

McAllister uses the Japanese device of the koken for changing scenes, distributing props, and creating furniture.

1988 July 8, Diana Spinrad, “Tango; Chicago Young Playwrights Festival”, in Chicago Reader:

(theater) A black-clad person who enters the stage to rearrange the set, unremarked by the actors


humourous

en-adj

humourous (comparative more humourous, superlative most humourous)

more humourous (comparative)
most humourous (superlative)

[W]hatever Perſon vvould aſpire to be completely vvitty, ſmart, humourous, and polite, muſt by hard Labour be able to retain in his Memory every ſingle Sentence contained in this VVork, […]

1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page xiv:

(chiefly UK, uncommon, proscribed) Alternative spelling of humorous


epitasis

en-noun

epitasis (countable and uncountable, plural epitases)

From Ancient Greek ἐπίτασις (epítasis, “stretching”), from ἐπιτείνω (epiteínō, “to stretch”), from ἐπί (epí) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).

der

How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.

1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 88:

(ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.


tightrope

tightropes (plural)
tight-rope (alternative)
tight rope (alternative)

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A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.


time bomb

time bombs (plural)
timebomb (alternative)
time-bomb (alternative)

Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.

2014 June 6, Françoise Fressoz, “France’s Ticking Time Bomb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:

The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.

2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:

(figuratively) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.


send-up

1998, Wing Chun, "The Reluctant Hero," televisionwithoutpity.com, 24 Nov,
The clever send-up of the horror genre shows a profound understanding of the traditional Hollywood machinations.

The tired storyline, centered on a lesbian couple's search for a sperm donor, is irritatingly spoofish and lacks the subtlety that makes for great send-ups.

2006, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, page 115:

A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.


уборная

ru-noun+

убо́рная • (ubórnaja) f inan (genitive убо́рной, nominative plural убо́рные, genitive plural убо́рных)

убо́рная (canonical)
ubórnaja (romanization)
убо́рной (genitive)
убо́рные (nominative plural)
убо́рных (genitive plural)
убо́рная (nominative singular)
убо́рные (nominative plural)
убо́рной (genitive singular)
убо́рных (genitive plural)
убо́рной (dative singular)
убо́рным (dative plural)
убо́рную (accusative singular)
убо́рные (accusative plural)
убо́рной (instrumental singular)
убо́рною (instrumental singular)
убо́рными (instrumental plural)
убо́рной (prepositional singular)
убо́рных (plural prepositional)

Ru-уборная.ogg


ritornello

en-noun

ritornello (plural ritornellos or ritornelli)

ritornellos (plural)
ritornelli (plural)
ritornel (alternative)
ritornell (alternative)
ritornelle (alternative)

Italian ritornello, diminutive of ritorno (“return”), from ritornare (“to return”): compare French ritournelle.

(music) A recurring tutti passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.


Davy Jones

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Uncertain. See more at Davy Jones' Locker on Wikipedia.

Davey Jones (alternative)
Davie Jones (alternative)

The pirates made him walk the plank, sent him down to Davy Jones.

He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


tragedian

From Middle English tragedyen, from Old French tragediane (French tragédien), equivalent to tragedy + -ian.

Euen thoſe you were wont to take such delight in the Tragedians of the City.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 261:

And as for the separation scene from the child, while Becky was reciting it, Emmy retired altogether behind her pocket-handkerchief, so that the consummate little tragedian must have been charmed to see the effect which her performance produced on her audience.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LXVI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.

1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, page 242:

An actor who specializes in tragic roles.


comedienne

comediennes (plural)
comédienne (alternative)

Borrowed from French comédienne. Compare doyenne.


crosstalk

crosstalk (countable and uncountable, plural crosstalks)

crosstalks (plural)
cross-talk (alternative)
cross talk (alternative)

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From cross- + talk.
Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng).

A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.


series original

series original (plural series originals)

(narratology) The first published narrative in a series of works; a narrative from which later narratives are written after. It serves as the chronological core of the series.


box office

box office (countable and uncountable, plural box offices)

box offices (plural)
box-office (alternative)
boxoffice (alternative)

1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904.
Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, the term is first attested over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely.

(countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.


John Q. Public

Even careful safety precautions in the factory do not make it a good place for John Q. Public to wander unattended.

(idiomatic) A generic individual; some hypothetical average or ordinary citizen.

Jan Novák

a generic individual; some hypothetical average or ordinary citizen


Joe Average

Joe Averages (plural)
average Joe (alternative)
regular Joe (alternative)

Write the instructions so that any Joe Average can understand them.

(idiomatic) A hypothetical average or generic individual; the common man (or person, by extension).


icebreaker

icebreakers (plural)
ice breaker (alternative)
ice-breaker (alternative)

/ˈaɪsˌbɹeɪkəɹ/

From ice + breaker, in the figurative sense from the expression to break the ice.

At the moment the curtain went up there had to be a lively ensemble number of principals and chorus singing and dancing, the traditional “icebreaker” that also covered up the noise of late-arriving ticket holders getting to their seats.

(theater) A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical.


sideshow

sideshows (plural)
side show (alternative)

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sideshow
sideshow (automobile exhibition)

1999 November 8, Frank Hayes, The Back Page: The main event, Computerworld, page 86,
And IT people dismiss IT′s impact because, hey, we like being a sideshow to the real action.

1999, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book, Australia, Number 81, page 349,
Other recreation services, including amusement parks or arcades, sideshows, circuses and agricultural shows, accounted for another 666 businesses. These businesses employed 10,318 persons and a further 3,518 volunteers.

In Australia he busked (singing on street corners), steeplejacked, was a drover and sheep shearer, did motor bike stunts in sideshows and even painted the Sydney Harbor^([sic]) Bridge.

2002, Steve Evans, Ron Middlebrook, Cowboy Guitars, page 146:

They taught the twins to play saxophone and transferred them from the sideshow to vaudeville.

2005, Joe Nickell, Secrets of the Sideshows, page 126:

Entertainment features and sideshows enhanced attendance.

2006, Lynda Mannik, Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia: Representation, Rodeo, and the RCMP at the Royal Easter Show, 1939, page 13:

Don′t miss the rusty relics dredged up from the original pier, and the spooky old sideshow machines.

2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 63:

1972 October 14, Henry Johnston, U.S. Tune Wins Rio Festival, Billboard, page 64,
Sideshows for foreign guests included one provided by Philips manager Andre Midani with his chief recording artists including Chico Buarque, Jorge Ben, Gal Costa Quintato, and Violado.

A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair or music festival.


repartee

repartee (countable and uncountable, plural repartees)

repartees (plural)
repartée (alternative)

/ˌɹɛpɑɹˈteɪ/

/ˌɹɛpɑːˈtiː/

From French repartie, deverbal of repartir (“to retort”).

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:

Another millstone around the NDP’s neck was the relative lack of seasoned parliamentarians in the government front bench who were skilled enough at repartee to take on the Tory veterans across the floor.

1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:


macaque

Haitian Creole: makak

→ Bulgarian: макак (makak)

→ English: macaque

→ German: Makake

→ Romanian: macac

Borrowed from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more).


backstory

backstories (plural)
back-story (alternative)
back story (alternative)

From back- (prefix meaning ‘in, into, or towards the past’) + story.

prefix

What’s the backstory of our new colleague?

These backstories cast the characters' behavior in a new light: of course Gertrude would promptly marry the man who saved her from abuse; of course Ophelia would be desperate and indiscreet in seeking Hamlet's love.

2004 January 15, Kelly Kleiman, “Her side of the story [review of Ophelia by Bryony Lavery, performed by the Camenae Ensemble Theatre Company]”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

Inexplicably, and at great risk to the integrity of the movie, the filmmakers have burdened him with a psychological back story pulled out of a folder in some studio filing cabinet. Why does [Willy] Wonka spend his days confecting sweets?

2005 July 15, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “Looking for the candy, finding a back story [review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-08:

Agent Lyla: Enough back story! / Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Actually, that's not, uh … that's not really a back story, it's just expositional flashback. It doesn't, uh, have any childhood trauma, it's doesn't really inform who he is, it's not … it's just flashback. There's a difference. It's subtle, but there's a difference.

2013 March 1, Kaz [i.e., Kazimieras Gediminas Prapuolenis], Kim Roberson, Aliki Theofilopoulos Grafft, John Mathot, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire):

Prince Harry may yet turn out to be the crown’s best insurance policy. By marrying Meghan Markle, he is linking royalty with a 21st-century celebrity who has a backstory that many people in Britain can identify with.

2017 December 27, “Editorial: The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-29:

The previous experiences and life of a person, specifically (narratology, especially in film, television) a character in a dramatic work.


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

salt enrere

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative


flashback

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

ubor

(narratology) flashback (earlier event inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative)


exeunt

en-verb

exeunt (third-person singular simple present exit or exeunts, present participle exeunting, simple past and past participle exeunted)

exit (present singular third-person)
exeunts (present singular third-person)
exeunting (participle present)
exeunted (participle past)
exeunted (past)

Borrowed from Latin exeunt (“they leave”), the third-person plural present active indicative of exeō (“leave”).

bor+

Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.]

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Enter two Devils.
 Wagner. How now sir, will you serve me now?
 Robin. Ay, good Wagner, take away the devils then.
 Wagner. Spirits, away! [Exeunt Devils.] Now, sirrah, follow me.

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:

Jane, Ursa, carrying Thomas, and Moss Bud start to exeunt.

1921, Montrose Jonas Moses, A Treasury of Plays for Children, page 504:

On that dixit we exeunted.

1957, Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, page 249:

That let the small problem of getting the van within proximity, running a few yards of cable, spiking the phone line, revving the engine and frying the phones, removing the cable, and exeunting, south

1997, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Task Force Blue, page 311:

The lasses picked up their skirts and exeunted.

2003, Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, page 142:

(archaic, drama) They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit).

退场

"they leave", usually in the context of theatre


threequel

threequels (plural)
three-quel (alternative)

When last seen, the “Poseidon” had been blown into small pieces. With any luck, this means Mr. Allen can’t possibly make a threequel.

1979 May 25, Janet Maslin, “Inside a Floating Hulk”, in The New York Times:

On the contrary, last summer saw two jocular parodies of 1970’s blaxploitation films: the minor hit Undercover Brother and Beyonce Knowles’s portrayal of Foxxy Cleopatra, a character in the Austin Powers “threequel.”

1999 June 30, Katherine Anne Ackley, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, Readings Across the Disciplines, Harcourt, fourth edition, Thomson Wadsworth (2006), page 267

This may be the year of the threequel, but not all the franchises will be successful, predicts Mr. Gray.

2007 January 5, Stephen Humphries, “At theaters in 2007, the year of the 'threequel'”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

THE biggest threequels to date have included some great films.
The third part of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi (1983), then Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) were huge hits.

2007 April 16, Brian Mciver, “Return of the Threequel”, in The Daily Record:

(narratology) The chronologically third part of any series of works, especially a movie trilogy.


Geschichte

de-noun

Geschichte f (genitive Geschichte, plural Geschichten, diminutive Geschichtchen n)

Geschichte (genitive)
Geschichten (plural)
Geschichtchen (diminutive neuter)
Geschichte (nominative singular)
Geschichten (definite nominative plural)
Geschichte (genitive singular)
Geschichten (definite genitive plural)
Geschichte (dative singular)
Geschichten (dative definite plural)
Geschichte (accusative singular)
Geschichten (accusative definite plural)

→ Luxembourgish: Geschicht

→ Silesian: gyszichta

From Middle High German geschicht(e) (“event, struggle, story, history”), from Old High German gisciht, from the verb Proto-Germanic *skehaną, whence German geschehen. Unrelated to Schicht. Cognate with Vilamovian gyśicht.

inh

Geschichte schreiben

in die Geschichte eingehen

Die Geschichte tut nichts, sie ‘besitzt keinen ungeheuren Reichtum’, sie ‘kämpft keine Kampfe’!Es ist vielmehr der Mensch, der wirkliche, lebendige Mensch, der das alles tut, besitzt und kämpft; es ist nicht etwa die ‘Geschichte’, die den Menschen zum Mittel braucht, um ihre - als ob sie eine aparte Person wäre - Zwecke durchzuarbeiten, sondern sie ist nichts als die Tätigkeit des seine Zwecke verfolgenden Menschen.

1962 [1845], Friedrich Engels, “Hinrichs Nr. II. Die ‘Kritik’ und ‘Feuerbach’. Verdammung der Philosophie”, in Die heilige Familie (Marx-Engels-Werke; 2), page 98; English translation from “Hinrichs No. 2. ‘Criticism’ and ‘Feuerbach’. Condemnation of Philosophy”, in Richard Dixon & Clemens Dutt, transl., The Holy Family (Marx/Engels Collected Works; 4), 1975, page 93:

History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.

eine Geschichte schreiben

jemandem eine Geschichte erzählen


twofer

Shortened form of two-for-one [deal], that is, two for the price of one (BOGO).

A cabling device used in theatre, allowing two stage lighting instruments to be connected to one dimmer.


harlequin

From earlier Harlicken, from Middle French Harlequin (in Italian Arlecchino, the name of a popular servant character in commedia dell'arte plays), from Old French Harlequin, Halequin, Herlequin, Hellequin, Hierlekin, Hellekin (a demon, malevolent spirit), probably of Germanic origin, connected to the Old English figure of Herla Cyning (“King Herla”, a mythical figure identified with Woden) or possibly to Old Frisian helle kin, Old English helle cyn, Old Norse heljar kyn (“the kindred of Hell”). Related to Middle English Hurlewain (“a mischievous sprite or goblin”).

cog

Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.


legit

(theater, slang) A legitimate; a legitimate actor.


jocularity

en-noun

jocularity (countable and uncountable, plural jocularities)

/ˌd͡ʒɑkjəˈlɛɹɪti/

It should seem he had that day been in a humour for jocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily.

1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 494:

[…] Cristal Nixon at that moment rode up to them, and said, with an affectation of jocularity which sat very ill upon his sullen features, […]

1824 June, [Walter Scott], “chapter 5”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 156:

All were armed with pistols, and there was a small armoury of rifles against a wall. “Guns,” I said with fearful jocularity, “in a holy place?”

1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 74, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson:

Madouc was neither pleased nor impressed by Prince Bittern’s mannerisms, and remained pointedly unresponsive to his lame jocularities.


peripeteia

peripeteia (countable and uncountable, plural peripeteias)

peripeteias (plural)
peripetia (alternative)
peripety (alternative)

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtaɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtiə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈteɪə/

From Late Latin peripetia, and its source Ancient Greek περιπέτεια (peripéteia), from περιπίπτω (peripíptō, “to change suddenly”), from περί (perí, “round, around, about”) + the stem of πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”).

(drama) A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy.

перипетия

a reversal of fortune; a sudden change in circumstances


sequela

sequelas (plural)
seqüela (alternative)
seqùela (alternative)

(narratology) sequel (a following release in a series of films, books etc.)


régisseur

fr-noun

régisseur m (plural régisseurs, feminine régisseuse)

régisseurs (plural)
régisseuse (feminine)

→ Danish: regissør

desctree

→ Dutch: regisseur
⇒ Afrikaans: regisseur
→ Indonesian: regisur

→ German: Regisseur

→ Norwegian Bokmål: regissør

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: regissør

→ Polish: reżyser

→ Russian: режиссёр (režissjór)
→ Armenian: ռեժիսոր (ṙežisor)
→ Azerbaijani: rejissor
→ Estonian: režissöör
→ Georgian: რეჟისორი (režisori)
→ Kazakh: режиссёр (rejisser)

→ Swedish: regissör

→ Turkish: rejisör


repertory

→ Japanese: レパートリー (repātorī)

→ Korean: 레퍼토리 (repeotori)

/ˈɹɛp.əɹˌtɔɹ.i/

/ˈɹɛpəɹˌtoʊɹ.i/

Learned borrowing from Late Latin repertōrium. Doublet of repertoire.

lbor

A collection of things, or a place where such a collection is kept.

Since "Masques" was my first exposure to Stage I, My admiration of that production spawned an intense enthusiasm for the seven-year-old company, which, unfortunately, was quickly dampened by seeing "Icarus," which runs in repertory with "Masques."

1976 April 17, Don Shewey, “Eros and Heroes on the Boards”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

A theater in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation.


장

Sino-Korean word from 場, from the Middle Korean reading 댜ᇰ (Yale: tyàng).


number one

(theater) A large town where theatrical performances may expect to achieve success.


dress rehearsal

en-noun

dress rehearsal (plural dress rehearsals)

We've got three dress rehearsals before the opening night to prepare ourselves for any potential technicalities.

(theater) A rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume, in order to test all aspects of the production by closely reproducing the actual conditions of a performance.


Verfremdungseffekt

Verfremdungseffekte (plural)
verfremdungseffekt (alternative)

Borrowed from German Verfremdungseffekt.

Brecht's famous ‘Verfremdungseffekte’^([sic]) or ‘alienation effect’, intended to counter the magical associations of stage illusion and the tendency for spellbound audiences to identify emotionally with characters on stage, both of which Brecht found abhorrent.

1997 May, Clive Barker, Simon Trussler, editors, New Theatre Quarterly, volume 13, number 50, page 114:

(theater, literature) Brecht's distancing effect.


Verfremdungseffekt

de-noun

Verfremdungseffekt m (strong, genitive Verfremdungseffektes or Verfremdungseffekts, plural Verfremdungseffekte)

Verfremdungseffektes (genitive)
Verfremdungseffekts (genitive)
Verfremdungseffekte (plural)
Verfremdungseffekt (nominative singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (definite nominative plural)
Verfremdungseffektes (genitive singular)
Verfremdungseffekts (genitive singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (definite genitive plural)
Verfremdungseffekt (dative singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (dative singular)
Verfremdungseffekten (dative definite plural)
Verfremdungseffekt (accusative singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (accusative definite plural)

Verfremdung (“alienation”) + -s- + Effekt (“effect”), coined by Bertolt Brecht in 1936.

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Dass dieser berüchtigte Treffpunkt der Hexen […] zur Szenerie der christlichen Passionsgeschichte gemacht wird, sodass sich zwei mythische Welten überlagern, ist ein überraschender modernistischer Kunstgriff, ein Verfremdungseffekt, wie er im Buche steht.

2017, “Notizen des Übersetzers”, in Alexander Nitzberg, transl., Meister und Margarita, Galiani, →ISBN:


put-on

I think this is all a big put-on.

(informal) A deception, hoax, or practical joke.


lampshade

en-verb

lampshade (third-person singular simple present lampshades, present participle lampshading, simple past and past participle lampshaded)

lampshades (present singular third-person)
lampshading (participle present)
lampshaded (participle past)
lampshaded (past)

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From lamp + shade. The verb sense comes from the idea of making something more conspicuous by hanging a lampshade on it.

Only one short bit of humor is endearing, lampshading the ridiculousness of an eye-mask being able to conceal a superhero's identity.

2011 June 21, Corinne Gaston, “Adapted comic book flick has the ring, but no power”, in Daily Trojan:

Rewriting a whole character is one heck of a chore but the editor/writer must either bite the bullet or indulge in some clever trickery like lampshading.

2013, Heide Goody, Iain Grant, How to Write a Collaborative Novel, →ISBN:

Just as the push by writers in season 4 to make Homer stupider (a trend so established it was lampshaded in "The 138th Episode Spectacular") created some of the best episodes before eventually birthing an unlikable buffoon unaffectionately called "Jerkass Homer", so too is it less the episode itself as much as what it represented.

2019 April 30, Alex Leadbeater, “Did "Marge Be Not Proud" Start The Simpsons' Decline In Season 7?”, in Screen Rant:

(narratology, fandom slang) To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself.