trimensional

It is owing to this fundamental fact that the two retinal images of the same trimensional object are slightly different from each other, and this difference is technically called lateral disparity.

1920, Hubert Gruender, An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: […], volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Loyola University Press, page 175:

Sutt indicated the trimensional star-map on the table. He adjusted the controls and a cluster of some half-dozen stellar systems blazed red.

1944 August, Isaac Asimov, “The Big and the Little”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 8:

Photographic aggregates, as stated previously, can be made which produce single images with all the attributes of stereoscopic vision and which the writer termed "trimensional images." […] Trimensional pictures, the writer is certain, will replace the present geometric pictures as a matter of course. The trimensional perspective will lend a touch of amazing reality to photographs and reproductions of any and all kinds whatsoever.

1949 August, Theodore Nakken, “The Great Enigma: The Stereoscopic Perspective”, in International Projectionist, volume 24, number 8, New York, N.Y.: International Projectionist Publishing Co., Inc., →OCLC, page 25:

Haskell turned to the captain's desk, studied the trimensional photograph of an Ermesian native. A big creature—over seven feet tall—and heavy, with thick, short legs, hairy torso, long muscular arms terminating in broad, flat hands with multi-jointed fingers tipped with retractile, vermilion-dyed claws.

1950 August, Bernard I. Kahn, “A Pinch of Culture”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XLV, page 90, column 1:

Since Sam had another son who was about three years old, he was interested in the quality of children's fare on television. He could see that my trimensional animation process would be perfect for children's films.

1986, Art Clokey, “Foreward”, in Gumby: The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 2, column 1:

A trimensional scan showed only cuts, bruises and a small fracture in her kneecap. All of the injuries were easily treated.

1996, W[illiam] R[och] Thompson, Infiltrator, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 223:

(chiefly science fiction) Three-dimensional.


Taygetan

Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound.

1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105:

Of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.


Taygetan

Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.


Taygetan

An alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.


Marsscape

These pictures reveal, in the bright region west of the Sinus Meridiani, a totally unexpected Marscape of confused terrain that is like nothing man has seen on Earth, moon, or Mars before.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22:

(astronomy, science fiction) A view of an area of Mars; a Martian landscape.


Saurona

Named in 2023 after the fictional Sauron, the villain from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, likening his all-seeing eye to the eye pattern on the butterfly's wings.

A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain butterflies.


Шекспір

uk-proper noun

шекспі́рівський

Шекспі́р • (Šekspír) m pers (genitive Шекспі́ра, nominative plural Шекспі́ри, genitive plural Шекспі́рів, relational adjective шекспі́рівський)

Шекспі́р (canonical)
Šekspír (romanization)
Шекспі́ра (genitive)
Шекспі́ри (nominative plural)
Шекспі́рів (genitive plural)
шекспі́рівський (adjective relational)
Шекспі́р (nominative singular)
Шекспі́ри (nominative plural)
Шекспі́ра (genitive singular)
Шекспі́рів (genitive plural)
Шекспі́рові (dative singular)
Шекспі́ру (dative singular)
Шекспі́рам (dative plural)
Шекспі́ра (accusative singular)
Шекспі́рів (accusative plural)
Шекспі́ром (instrumental singular)
Шекспі́рами (instrumental plural)
Шекспі́рові (locative singular)
Шекспі́рі (locative singular)
Шекспі́рах (locative plural)
Шекспі́р (singular vocative)
Шекспі́ре (singular vocative)
Шекспі́ри (plural vocative)

A transliteration of the English surname Shakespeare.

Ві́льям Шекспі́р


autofac

Behind them, the dilapidated settlement lay spread out, a disorderly checkerboard of houses, buildings and streets. Since the autofac network had closed down its supply and maintenance, the human settlements had fallen into semi-barbarism.

1955 November, Philip K[indred] Dick, “Autofac”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 11, number 2, page 87:

The autofacs were a different kind of machine altogether. They could make things. They could make anything from clothing to robots, from weapons to music machines.

1974, Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Medallion, published 1975, →ISBN, page 57:

All around her the holo displays glowed faintly. Even some of the units that had gone blank over her long sleep were replaced, now that she and Jeffers had gotten the autofac working properly up on A Level.

1986, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Heart of the Comet, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 327:

(science fiction) Synonym of autofactory (“a factory capable of running autonomously”).


autofactory

He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.

1986, Vernor Vinge, “Marooned in Realtime”, in Across Realtime, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 312:

"If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city. We could even set up an autofactory there to support the work."

1986, Thomas Wren, The Doomsday Effect, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 103:

Another tunnel took her through to a chamber from which many such tunnels debarked and thence to the small tubular autofactory that had made her.

2016, Neal Asher, War Factory (Transformation; 2), New York, N.Y.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 406:

(science fiction) A factory capable of running autonomously.


އިބިލީސް

head

އިބިލީސް • (ibilīs)

dv-noun

އިބިލީސް • (ibilīs) (plural އިބިލީސްތައް (ibilīstak̊))

ibilīs (romanization)
އިބިލީސްތައް (plural)

Borrowed from Arabic إِبْلِيس (ʔiblīs). Cognate to Hindi इबलीस (iblīs)


космодесант

ru-noun+

космодеса́нт

космодеса́нт • (kosmodesánt) m anim (genitive космодеса́нта, nominative plural космодеса́нты, genitive plural космодеса́нтов)

космодеса́нт (canonical)
kosmodesánt (romanization)
космодеса́нта (genitive)
космодеса́нты (nominative plural)
космодеса́нтов (genitive plural)
космодеса́нт (nominative singular)
космодеса́нты (nominative plural)
космодеса́нта (genitive singular)
космодеса́нтов (genitive plural)
космодеса́нту (dative singular)
космодеса́нтам (dative plural)
космодеса́нта (accusative singular)
космодеса́нтов (accusative plural)
космодеса́нтом (instrumental singular)
космодеса́нтами (instrumental plural)
космодеса́нте (prepositional singular)
космодеса́нтах (plural prepositional)

From ко́смос (kósmos, “space”) + деса́нт (desánt, “landing troops”).

af

Мы космодеса́нты, и мы не бу́дем знать стра́ха.

We are the Space Marines, and we shall know no fear.

My kosmodesánty, i my ne búdem znatʹ stráxa.

Бро́ня космодеса́нта помога́ет ему́ ориенти́роваться на вулкани́ческой плане́те.

The Space Marine's armour helps him navigate the volcanic planet.

Brónja kosmodesánta pomogájet jemú orijentírovatʹsja na vulkaníčeskoj planéte.


чужопланетянин

uk-noun

чужопланетя́нин<pr.in>

чужопланетя́нка

чужопланетя́нин • (čužoplanetjányn) m pers (genitive чужопланетя́нина, nominative plural чужопланетя́ни, genitive plural чужопланетя́н, feminine чужопланетя́нка)

чужопланетя́нин (canonical)
čužoplanetjányn (romanization)
чужопланетя́нина (genitive)
чужопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
чужопланетя́н (genitive plural)
чужопланетя́нка (feminine)
чужопланетя́нин (nominative singular)
чужопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
чужопланетя́нина (genitive singular)
чужопланетя́н (genitive plural)
чужопланетя́нинові (dative singular)
чужопланетя́нину (dative singular)
чужопланетя́нам (dative plural)
чужопланетя́нина (accusative singular)
чужопланетя́н (accusative plural)
чужопланетя́нином (instrumental singular)
чужопланетя́нами (instrumental plural)
чужопланетя́нинові (locative singular)
чужопланетя́нині (locative singular)
чужопланетя́нах (locative plural)
чужопланетя́нине (singular vocative)
чужопланетя́ни (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

чужопланетя́нин<pr.in>

From чужи́й (čužýj, “alien, foreign”) + -о- (-o-) + плане́та (planéta, “planet”) + -я́нин (-jányn).


інопланетянин

uk-noun

інопланетя́нин<pr.in>

інопланетя́нка

інопланетя́нин • (inoplanetjányn) m pers (genitive інопланетя́нина, nominative plural інопланетя́ни, genitive plural інопланетя́н, feminine інопланетя́нка)

інопланетя́нин (canonical)
inoplanetjányn (romanization)
інопланетя́нина (genitive)
інопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
інопланетя́н (genitive plural)
інопланетя́нка (feminine)
інопланетя́нин (nominative singular)
інопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
інопланетя́нина (genitive singular)
інопланетя́н (genitive plural)
інопланетя́нинові (dative singular)
інопланетя́нину (dative singular)
інопланетя́нам (dative plural)
інопланетя́нина (accusative singular)
інопланетя́н (accusative plural)
інопланетя́нином (instrumental singular)
інопланетя́нами (instrumental plural)
інопланетя́нинові (locative singular)
інопланетя́нині (locative singular)
інопланетя́нах (locative plural)
інопланетя́нине (singular vocative)
інопланетя́ни (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

інопланетя́нин<pr.in>

From інший (inšyj, “different”) + -о- (-o-) + плане́та (planéta, “planet”) + -я́нин (-jányn). Compare Russian инопланетя́нин (inoplanetjánin).

cog

инопланетя́нин


Lilit

(biblical, Judaism) Alternative spelling of Lilith


light barrier

On the grounds that special relativity predicts that no object can travel faster than light. Compare sound barrier.

The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.


keythong

Unclear. From Middle English keythong: attested in one medieval document describing Edward IV’s French Expedition of 1475, which records that the badge of John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, featured a "peyr [pair] keythongs". Later writers including Colin Cole (The Coat of Arms 98, 1976) argued this denoted "male griffins" and that these were definitely separate monsters from "griffins" in the medieval period (although both the animals termed male griffins and those termed griffins are depicted with penises in medieval art), while Roger Barnes argues it referred to the two interlinked thongs of an Ormond knot.

The Earl of Ormonde,—a pair of keythongs. (?) * […] * The word is certainly so written, and I have never seen it elsewhere. The figure resembles the Male Griffin, which has no wings, but rays or spikes of gold proceeding from several parts of his body, and sometimes with two long strait horns.—Vide Parker’s Glossary, under Griffin.

1852, J[ames] R[obinson] Planché, “Badges”, in The Pursuivant of Arms, or Heraldry Founded upon Facts, London: W. N. Wright, […], page 183:

Ormond. Earl of Ormond. Temp. Edward. IV. A pair of keythongs.

1870, [Fanny] Bury Palliser, “Badges”, in Historic Devices, Badges, and War-Cries, London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, […], page 317:

English armory knows an animal which it terms the male griffin, which has no wings, but which has gold rays issuing from its body in all directions. [Hugo Gerard] Ströhl terms the badge of the Earls of Ormonde, which from his description are plainly male griffins, keythongs, which he classes with the panther; and probably he is correct in looking upon our male griffin as merely one form of the heraldic panther.

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, “Beasts”, in The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack […] and Edinburgh, page 136, column 2:

Infrequently, a griffin is portrayed without wings; in 15th-century and later heraldry such a beast may be called an ‘alce’ or a ‘keythong.’

[2001, Osita Iroku, A Day in the Life of God, →ISBN, page 85:

Folks gave the beast many names. Griffin, griffon, gryphon, alce, keythong, gryphen, griffen, gryphen, and opinicus…

[2009, Benjamin Towe, The First Wandmaker (Elfdreams of Parallan; II), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:

The more common representation of the griffin is the female griffin, a creature with wings. Male griffins do NOT have wings and are termed “alces” or “keythongs.”

[2009 June, The Celator, volume 23, number 6:

They’d befriended him because he fed them the tastiest morsels, Alce, the gilded griffin, preferred Marvel while Keythong, the agate stone one, craved DC Comics.

2010, Shirin Dubbin, Dreams’ Dark Kiss, Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:

There were griffins in all their variety—the standard winged, lion-rumped, eagle-headed; the wingless keythong; the opinicus, with a lion’s forelegs; and the hippogriff, with its horse parts thrown in for good measure. They all looked more or less the same to Meg, and she was surprised to see each kind grouped in its own offish little clique, the keythongs eyeing the hippogriffs with dark suspicion, who in turn raised their hackles at the traditional griffins.

2011, Laura L. Sullivan, Guardian of the Green Hill, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 287:

figure 11 Cloven-hoofed, wingless griffin (also called an alce or a keythong in later heraldry) symbolizing the sun, and two-legged dragon (wyvern) symbolizing the moon.

[2011, Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 58:

Gryphons are egg-layers, though it is the Keythong who guards the nest and warms the eggs. Keythongs are somewhat larger, considerably faster and far more vicious than their female counterparts.

2012, Timothy Groves, “[The Creatures] Keythong”, in The Book of Creatures, →ISBN, page 115:

He didn’t even know the animal’s gender. But most gryphons were supposed to be female. Male gryphons were quite rare — what were they called in heraldry? Keythongs, that was it.

2015, D.R. Ranshaw, “Allies and Foes”, in Gryphon’s Heir (The Annals of Arrinor; I), FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45:

Alce / Variations: Anthalops, Alcida, Calopus, Keythong, Panthalops, Tapopus / In heraldic symbology the alce is a wingless, male griffin with rays or spikes of gold protruding from several parts of its body; on occasion it also sports two long straight horns atop its head. A pair of such creatures is present on the coat of arms of the Earl of Ormande.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 22, column 1:

"Wait, I thought griffins had wings," said Julia. "Why don't you just fly up and we'll meet you at the top?" "For the last time, I am a keythong. Female griffins have the wings and the grace and all that nonsense. Keythongs have spikes on their back and the balance of a drunken hobgoblin.[…]"

2017, David A Wilson, “This Quest Thing”, in Aaron Gray and the Dragon War, →ISBN, page 23:

The live-born gryphlets and opiniclets are revered as prophets and leaders of the future, primarily because they will soar high above their wingless brothers and sisters, that subset of gryphonic beings known as keythongs and kryphons. […] “Jo and Roonen, there is a group of wingless gryphons ahead of you in a clearing. They have some sort of encampment there.” “Those are what the gryphons call ‘keythongs,’ Warford,” Jophriel responds, “They are part of a ground squadron. Don’t do anything. Let us talk to them first.” Warford grumbles about it being dangerous to try to communicate with the keythongs but does not try to dissuade them.

2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, pages 4 (Opinicus) and 237 (The Quest Begins):

They had the opportunity to secure animals for their treasure hunting—griffins (fore-half of an eagle with wings and hind-half of a lion), griffinoids like opinicuses (full lion's body with eagle head and wings), keythongs (fore-half of a giant eagle, hind-half of a lion and spiky protrusions on its back and head), axex (peacock-like head, wings, wild cat-like body), hieracosphinxes (strong lion body with an eagle head, larger than all). […] Also, the hall was a menagerie of beasts. Noble keythongs (wingless griffinoid with the body of a lion and the head and forelegs of an eagle), axex (head of a hawk and a body of a very slim, sleek lion), and opinicuses (often mistaken for griffins — all four of its legs are those of a lion with a giant eagle head with or without wings).

2021, Austin Dragon, Kingdom at Titan’s End (The Fabled Quest Chronicles; 6), California: Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:

A mythical beast resembling a griffin with no wings, often classified as a male griffin.

John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond
Ormond knot


keythong

English: keythong

peyr keythongs

1475, manuscript in the College of Arms collection describing Edward IV’s French Expedition of 1475 (Coll. Arms ms. 2nd M.16, f. xvi):


mathematicist

People approach beliefs based on mathematics.


wiwern

wiwern (nominative singular)
wiwerny (nominative plural)
wiwerna (genitive singular)
wiwernów (genitive plural)
wiwernowi (dative singular)
wiwernom (dative plural)
wiwerna (accusative singular)
wiwerny (accusative plural)
wiwernem (instrumental singular)
wiwernami (instrumental plural)
wiwernie (locative singular)
wiwernach (locative plural)
wiwernie (singular vocative)
wiwerny (plural vocative)


epimacus

Supporters 2 Epimacus’s, the Necks purfled and the ſlip of their Bellies Or, Beaked Sable and Wings extending upward gules.

1708, A New View of London: or, An Ample Account of That City, in Eight Sections. […], volume II, London: […] John Nicholson […], and Robert Knaplock […], page 613, column 2:

Here are a great collection of antique gems in intaglio; a canopus of agate, an epimacus of chalcedony; a head of Tiberius of one ſingle turquoiſe as large as a hen’s egg, a very great curioſity: […]

1770 December 28, [Anna, Lady Miller], “Letter XXIX.”, in Letters from Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &c. of That Country, in the Years mdcclxx and mdcclxxi, to a Friend Residing in France, by an English Woman, volume II, London: […] Edward and Charles Dilly, published 1776, pages 117–118:

The Opinicus, or Epimacus / This creature appears to be a variety of the griffin family.

1906, John Vinycomb, Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry, Chapman and Hall, Limited, […], page 162:

It would be a very interesting but a lengthy task to trace out the origin and history of the various traditional monsters, such as the basilisk, the gorgon, the cockatrice, the salamander, and the epimacus, which have come into European legend and belief, and to give some account of the special deadly qualities of each.

1910, Ray Lankester, “The Dragon: A Fancy or a Fact”, in Science from an Easy Chair, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], page 125:

Thus were born from credulity, fancy and fertile imagination, in successive ages, dragons, medusas, basilisks, salamanders, gorgons and unicorns, the cocatrice, the epimacus and the seductive mermaid.

1930, Indian State Railways Magazine, page 15:

On another shield is engraved the Company’s crest—an epimacus, an imaginary beast resembling a griffin.

1966, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, volume 39, page 367:

[…] a shop named Charms and Marvels, the marvelousness if it supposedly a presence of wizards with magical powers to clothe a naked visitor like myself in the wink of an eye and free of charge, but where instantly its marionettes, foliage on bureaus, specimens in apothecaries’ gallipots, taxidermized epimacuses, hippogriffs, manticores, and unbashful bijou putti sprung to life; […]

2009, William Penn, “Garden Speedwells, Rain Lilies”, in Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, page 586:


ਬਲ਼ਾ

pa-noun

ਬਲ਼ਾ • (baḷā) m

ਵਲ਼ਾ ਵਲ਼ਾ#Punjabi


Disneylandification

Thus it becomes inevitable that the border to kitsch and ‘Disneylandification’ will be crossed, quite often even under the formally correct surveillance of the authorities.

2010, Susanne Oberheu, Michael Wadenpohl, Cappadocia: A Travel Guide Through the Land of Fairychimneys and Rock Castles, →ISBN, page 26:

If it is the case elsewhere that the tourist industry has ‘touristified’ urban centres that already existed, subjecting them to a process of Disneylandification, Las Vegas is a tourist city created from scratch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, designed purely for the function of drawing in and accommodating tourists.

2021, Marco D'Eramo, The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 127:

Residents distance themselves from the Disneylandification of the city

2022, Zara Pinto-Coelho, Helena Pires, editors, The City of the Senses, the Senses in the City, UMinho Editora, →ISBN, page 116:

(informal) The process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.


ਦੁਮੂੰਹੀ

ਦੁਮੂੰਹੀ • (dumū̃hī) f

From ਦੁਮੂੰਹਾਂ (dumū̃hā̃).


Gargantua

(fiction) A giant with a very large appetite in François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.


Szeherezada

Szeherezada (nominative singular)
Szeherezady (genitive singular)
Szeherezadzie (dative singular)
Szeherezadę (accusative singular)
Szeherezadą (instrumental singular)
Szeherezadzie (locative singular)
Szeherezado (singular vocative)

Derived from Persian شهرازاد (šahrâzâd).


speculative erotica

Speculative fiction
speculative fiction#English

(fiction) Speculative fiction with erotic themes.


CGDCT

cute girls doing cute things
cute girls doing cute things#English

(anime) Initialism of cute girls doing cute things.


czary-mary

(occult) hocus-pocus! (said by performing magician to indicate the moment of performing a magical trick or illusion)


Götterlied

de-noun

Götterlied n (strong, genitive Götterliedes or Götterlieds, plural Götterlieder)

Götterliedes (genitive)
Götterlieds (genitive)
Götterlieder (plural)
Götterlied (nominative singular)
Götterlieder (definite nominative plural)
Götterliedes (genitive singular)
Götterlieds (genitive singular)
Götterlieder (definite genitive plural)
Götterlied (dative singular)
Götterliede (dative singular)
Götterliedern (dative definite plural)
Götterlied (accusative singular)
Götterlieder (accusative definite plural)

/ˈɡœtɐˌliːt/

(historical, mythology) old Germanic epic poem about the deeds of gods


სუპერგმირი

ka-noun

სუპერგმირები

სუპერგმირი • (suṗergmiri) (plural სუპერგმირები)

suṗergmiri (romanization)
სუპერგმირები (plural)
სუპერგმირი (nominative singular)
სუპერგმირები (nominative plural)
სუპერგმირნი (archaic nominative plural)
სუპერგმირმა (ergative singular)
სუპერგმირებმა (ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირს (dative singular)
სუპერგმირს (dative singular)
სუპერგმირსაs) (dative singular)
სუპერგმირსაsa) (dative singular)
სუპერგმირებს (dative plural)
სუპერგმირებს (dative plural)
სუპერგმირებსაs) (dative plural)
სუპერგმირებსაsa) (dative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირთაt) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირთაta) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირის (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირის (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირისაs) (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირისაsa) (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირების (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირების (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირებისაs) (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირებისაsa) (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირით (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირით (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირითაt) (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირითაta) (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირებითაt) (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირებითაta) (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირად (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირად (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირადაd) (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირადაda) (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირებადაd) (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირებადაda) (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირო (singular vocative)
სუპერგმირებო (plural vocative)
სუპერგმირნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერგმირზე (singular)
სუპერგმირებზე (plural)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერგმირთან (singular)
სუპერგმირებთან (plural)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერგმირში (singular)
სუპერგმირებში (plural)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერგმირივით (singular)
სუპერგმირებივით (plural)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერგმირისთვის (singular)
სუპერგმირებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერგმირისებრ (singular)
სუპერგმირებისებრ (plural)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერგმირისკენ (singular)
სუპერგმირებისკენ (plural)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერგმირისგან (singular)
სუპერგმირებისგან (plural)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
სუპერგმირიდან (singular)
სუპერგმირებიდან (plural)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
სუპერგმირითურთ (singular)
სუპერგმირებითურთ (plural)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
სუპერგმირამდე (singular)
სუპერგმირებამდე (plural)

სუ‧პერ‧გმი‧რი


ზიტერი

head

ზიტერი • (ziťeri) (Latin spelling ziťeri)

ზიტ- (ziť-, “to say; to read; to study”) + -ერი (-eri).

suf

ალი კატა ლიმჯი ბერეფე ოხორიმუში ოკიფინანი ეველური ნადუგურუმუნ ზიტერეფე უზიტაჲოზიცინაჲ

Every evening, when the children come to his house, Ali tells them the stories he has heard in the past and makes them laugh

ali ǩaťa limci berepe oxorimuşi oǩipinani eveluri nadugurumun ziťerepe uziťayoziʒinay

fairy tale, fable, tale, story, myth, legend


альба

ru-noun+

а́льба • (álʹba) f inan (genitive а́льбы, nominative plural а́льбы, genitive plural альб)

а́льба (canonical)
álʹba (romanization)
а́льбы (genitive)
а́льбы (nominative plural)
альб (genitive plural)
а́льба (nominative singular)
а́льбы (nominative plural)
а́льбы (genitive singular)
а́льб (genitive plural)
а́льбе (dative singular)
а́льбам (dative plural)
а́льбу (accusative singular)
а́льбы (accusative plural)
а́льбой (instrumental singular)
а́льбою (instrumental singular)
а́льбами (instrumental plural)
а́льбе (prepositional singular)
а́льбах (plural prepositional)

(historical, poetry) alba (genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry)


sædraca

sǣdraca (canonical masculine)
sǣdraca (nominative singular)
sǣdracan (nominative plural)
sǣdracan (accusative singular)
sǣdracan (accusative plural)
sǣdracan (genitive singular)
sǣdracena (genitive plural)
sǣdracan (dative singular)
sǣdracum (dative plural)

Compound of sǣ (“sea”) + draca (“dragon”).


Presumably the mindwipe process is unstable in suspended animation, so they didn't want to bother until they were ready to bring the bizarros up to active use. And any lingering imperfections in the duplicator can explain "out of character" incidents on the part of the SW6ers.

1992 August 5, David VanDomelen, “LSH clones speculation }->”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A member of Batch SW6, a group of time-displaced duplicates of the early Legion of Super-Heroes in the DC Comics Universe.


fanficcy

en-adj

fanficcy (comparative more fanficcy, superlative most fanficcy)

more fanficcy (comparative)
most fanficcy (superlative)

Those are the sorts of things they did to the Legion--very fanficcy stuff, massive changes, extreme characterization.

1994 June 8, The Great Elmosby, “Re: DC - Post Zero-Hour (new titles)”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

If you know Twilight well enough then it’s super easy to see the fan-ficcy nature of Fifty Shades. Its structure, its character beats, its emotional pull are all, if not complete replications, clearly cut from the same cloth as Stephenie Meyer’s story.

2019 April 18, Kayleigh Donaldson, “After and When Fanfiction Goes Mainstream”, in Syfy Wire:

Natalia Bryant, daughter of late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, is in the middle of securing the most iconic line any resumé has ever seen: she is now an intern for Beyoncé. Bryant is interning on the superstar's Renaissance World Tour, which is one of the most indulgent, exciting, fanficky sentences ever written.

2023 May 19, Aamina Khan, “Kobe Bryant’s Daughter Natalia Working as Beyoncé’s Intern for Renaissance Tour”, in Teen Vogue:

(informal) Pertaining to or characteristic of fan fiction.


bifictional

From bi- + fictional, based on bisexual.

I don't know if Henry Wyckoff is bi-fictional, but the stories of his that I've read were gen.

1999 October 2, Sally, “Re: looking for. . .”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):

Recently some Sentinel fans have been discussing the various types of fanfiction written in the fandom. Some were curious about the proportion of gen only, slash only, and bifictional readers.

2000 June 6, S. Mallet (AKA Marmoset), “Preferences in Sentinel Fanfic -- New Poll”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):

At any rate, the first Trekfic I posted was non-slash, and I'm pretty much rampantly bifictional in my reading, although I don't like most het (probably because I don't have good enough filters in place to eliminate the bad stuff).

2000 June 22, laura jacquez valentine, “Re: Slash versus non-slash”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang, dated) Interested in the two predominant genres of fan fiction within a specific fandom (generally genfic and slashfic, or hetfic and slashfic).


non-slash

A lot of the same people read both NGs, thus the people who are interested in TOS there are frequently also reading this one. If they don't like non-slash, tough tacos; I figure there are more than enough people writing that sub-genre, and I don't need to do that just to get people to comment. I don't write slash, period.

2000 April 14, Gamin Davis, “Re: Another Hiatus?”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction that is not slash fiction.


simulpub

Probably a blend of simulcast + publish.

Simultaneous publication of manga in multiple markets.


simulpub

en-verb

simulpub (third-person singular simple present simulpubs, present participle simulpubbing, simple past and past participle simulpubbed)

simulpubs (present singular third-person)
simulpubbing (participle present)
simulpubbed (participle past)
simulpubbed (past)

To simultaneously publish manga in multiple markets.


Xfic

en-noun

Xfic (countable and uncountable, plural Xfics)

I have just completed an Xfic, and would like to post it to get some feedback. The story is in 9 parts, with some parts up to 2000 words. Is 2000 words acceptible^([sic]) for a posting length, or should I break the longer parts into smaller lengths for posting?

1997 February 26, Sean, “posting length query”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(countable, fandom slang) A fanfic based on The X-Files television series.

I'd have to reccommend^([sic]) Paige Caldwell's "Comfortably Numb". It has 3 parts right now. It is a stark, daring look at a scenario that can quite possibly happen with Mulder and Scully... and it is something I have not read before in Xfic.

1999 August 18, Exley_61, “Re: WIP recs & so forth”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


ويني الدبدوب

ar-proper noun

وِينِي الدَبدُوبْ

وِينِي الدَبدُوبْ • (wīnī dabdūb) ?

وِينِي الدَبدُوبْ (canonical)
wīnī dabdūb (romanization)

وِينِي (wīnī, “Winnie”) + دبدوب (“teddy bear”).


magic spell

(fantasy) Words or a formula with magical powers.


rymdinvasion

rymdinvasion (indefinite nominative singular)
rymdinvasions (genitive indefinite singular)
rymdinvasionen (definite nominative singular)
rymdinvasionens (definite genitive singular)
rymdinvasioner (indefinite nominative plural)
rymdinvasioners (genitive indefinite plural)
rymdinvasionerna (definite nominative plural)
rymdinvasionernas (definite genitive plural)


силове поле

uk-noun

силове́<+> по́ле<c.genpl:полі́в:піль>

силове́ по́ле • (sylové póle) n inan (genitive силово́го по́ля, nominative plural силові́ поля́, genitive plural силови́х полі́в or силови́х пі́ль)

силове́ по́ле (canonical)
sylové póle (romanization)
силово́го по́ля (genitive)
силові́ поля́ (nominative plural)
силови́х полі́в (genitive plural)
силови́х пі́ль (genitive plural)
силове́ по́ле (nominative singular)
силові́ поля́ (nominative plural)
силово́го по́ля (genitive singular)
силови́х полі́в (genitive plural)
силови́х пі́ль (genitive plural)
силово́му по́лю (dative singular)
силови́м поля́м (dative plural)
силове́ по́ле (accusative singular)
силові́ поля́ (accusative plural)
силови́м по́лем (instrumental singular)
силови́ми поля́ми (instrumental plural)
силово́му по́лю (locative singular)
силово́му по́лі (locative singular)
силові́м по́лю (locative singular)
силові́м по́лі (locative singular)
силови́х поля́х (locative plural)
силове́ по́ле (singular vocative)
силові́ поля́ (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

силове́<+> по́ле<c.genpl:полі́в:піль>

[seɫɔˈʋɛ ˈpɔɫe]


agbọghọ mmụọ

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àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

ig-pos

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

ig-noun

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ


flightmare

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest.

2020, Gaston D. Cox, Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories:

(fantasy, D&D) A type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.


슬라임

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


цуэҏҏьт

head

цуэҏҏьт (cuer̥r̥’t)


سايبورغ

ar-noun

سَايْبُورْغ • (sāybūrḡ) m

سَايْبُورْغ (canonical)
sāybūrḡ (romanization)


আলী বাবা

Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā), probably via Classical Persian علی بابا ('alī bābā).

bor+

عَلِيّ بَابَا

আলী বাবা ও চল্লিশ চোর ― ali baba ō colliś cōr ― Ali Baba and forty thieves


dragonlength

Further investigation proved that the plateau was isolated and ample to pasture a huge herd of food[-]beasts for the dragons. It ended in a sheer drop of several dragonlengths into denser jungle on one side, the sea-side escarpment on the other.

1968, Anne McCaffrey, “The Cold Between”, in Dragonflight, Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 262:

An elv’in scoutship was not a large ship, less than two dragonlengths.

2002, James Clemens (pseudonym; James Paul Czajkowski), Wit’ch Star, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 28:

The Copper stood before the massive Black Rock in the center of the Lavadome; it was dozens of dragonlengths high, heavy and black and forbidding.

2007, E. E. Knight (pseudonym; Eric Frisch), chapter 22, in Dragon Outcast (The Age of Fire; 3), Roc Books, →ISBN, page 257:

(fantasy) A distance equal to the length of a dragon.


banŝio

eo-head

banŝio (accusative singular banŝion, plural banŝioj, accusative plural banŝiojn)

banŝion (accusative singular)
banŝioj (plural)
banŝiojn (accusative plural)


baba-jaga

baba jaga (nominative singular)
baby jagi (nominative plural)
baby jagi (genitive singular)
bab jag (genitive plural)
babie jadze (dative singular)
babom jagom (dative plural)
babę jagę (accusative singular)
baby jagi (accusative plural)
babą jagą (instrumental singular)
babami jagami (instrumental plural)
babie jadze (locative singular)
babach jagach (locative plural)
babo jago (singular vocative)
baby jagi (plural vocative)

(colloquial, derogatory, Slavic mythology) Alternative spelling of baba jaga.


baba jaga

A jak się na mnie denerwuje, to stwierdza, że jestem babą jagą.

And when he gets upset with me, he says that I am a hex.

(colloquial, derogatory) hag, harridan, vixen, virago, witch (ugly or unpleasant woman)


Adebar

de-noun

Adebar m (strong, genitive Adebars, plural Adebare)

Adebars (genitive)
Adebare (plural)
Adebar (nominative singular)
Adebare (definite nominative plural)
Adebars (genitive singular)
Adebare (definite genitive plural)
Adebar (dative singular)
Adebaren (dative definite plural)
Adebar (accusative singular)
Adebare (accusative definite plural)

/ˈaːdəbaːɐ̯/

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *ōdaborǭ, *ōdaborą. Compare Dutch ooievaar, Low German adebar, West Frisian earrebarre.

inh+

name of the stork in fairy tales and fables among the Germanic peoples and Germans; often preceded by Meister


old man yells at cloud

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From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.

I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26:

If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:

Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:

(humorous or derogatory) Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.

Grampa Simpson
The Old Man and the Key
The Simpsons


babygirlification

From babygirl (“a male fictional character or celebrity of whom one is extremely fond”) + -ification.

suffix

This entire fiasco stemming from the babygirlification of a tall, masked man is the perfect time to reflect on society’s problem of perceiving both men and women.

2022 December 1, Rachel Choi, “The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels”, in The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, page 4:

My TikTok For You Page bombarded me with edits of Simon “Ghost” Riley, which was how I found out about babygirlfication in the first place.

2023 March 2, Carola Ríos Pérez, “TikTok's Babygirlification: Explained!”, in Her Campus:

The ‘babygirlification’ of the Roy siblings and overabundance of pretentious thought-pieces online is a clear testament to the empathetic portrayal of each character.

2023, Genny Sheara, "'Nothing will come of nothing:' A Succession Retrospective [Spoilers]", The Spectator (Seattle University), 31 May 2023

(fandom slang) The act or process of making a male fictional character or celebrity into a "babygirl."

woobification

general romanticisation of morally ambiguous characters


poor little meow meow

en-noun

poor little meow meow (plural poor little meow meows)

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Emerged from a 2020 viral tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt^([sic]) so much […] ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.

2022 September 13, Madeline Carpou, “Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!””, in The Mary Sue:

Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bads Jesse Pinkman, Marvels Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender's Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.

2022 September 19, Jack Doyle, “Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?”, in The Mary Sue:

Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.

2022 December 11, Jack Doyle, “Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained”, in The Mary Sue:

(fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.

BTS
D-2 (mixtape)
Jim Jones
Suga (rapper)

baby girl

male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

Draco in Leather Pants

any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

woobie

morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos


analogue horror

A horror subgenre using visual signifiers of low-quality analogue video and audio equipment.


Cerber

Cerber (nominative singular)
Cerbera (genitive singular)
Cerberowi (dative singular)
Cerbera (accusative singular)
Cerberem (instrumental singular)
Cerberze (locative singular)
Cerberze (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos).

(Greek mythology) Cerberus (giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades)


visuell roman

Calque of English visual novel, from Japanese ビジュアルノベル (bijuaru noberu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) from English visual + novel.


lättroman

lättroman (indefinite nominative singular)
lättromans (genitive indefinite singular)
lättromanen (definite nominative singular)
lättromanens (definite genitive singular)
lättromaner (indefinite nominative plural)
lättromaners (genitive indefinite plural)
lättromanerna (definite nominative plural)
lättromanernas (definite genitive plural)

From lätt + roman. Calque of English light novel, from Japanese ライトノベル (raito noberu), itself from English light + novel.


DBZ

This is an RPG experience DBZ fans must have, but even if you've never seen DBZ, it's still an interesting game due to the unique fighting scenes and the ability to fly around the map.

1993 April, “Dragon Ball Z”, in GameFan, page 89:

If you’re a DBZ fanatic, the release of Dead Zone (and the announcement of two more DBZ movies coming soon to DVD) is reason enough to purchase a player.

1998, Shidoshi, Dragon Ball Z the Movie: Dead Zone review, GameFan, April 1998, page 89

Even in Japan, there has been no weakening of DBZ mania, despite the fact that it's almost nine years since the series ended.

2004, Satoshi Ikeda, Martin Foster, The Dragon Ball Z Legend: The Quest Continues, page 12:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Ball Z.


/ˌeɪ əʊ ˈθɹiː/

/ˌeɪ oʊ ˈθɹiː/

Shortening of the standard acronym of Archive of Our Own (AOOO) to account for the three consecutive Os.

LiveJournal and AO3 rely largely on tags, whilst Fanfiction.net has genre and character filters as well as a keyword search.

2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author:How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 39:

The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.

2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, page 89:

Gosh. Where on earth had that come from? She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.

2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Archive of Our Own.


geofiction

From geo- + fiction. Ostensibly coined by future members of the Dutch Geofiction Association (founded 1984).

It may, however, be regarded as typical that this is often the type of story in which undue attention is paid to the description of the 'ficticious' ^([sic]) geographical environment (a striking example being the geofiction of The Lord of the Rings).

2011, Stijn Reijnders, Places of the Imagination: Media, Tourism, Culture, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 111:

The conception and creation of a fictional cartographic design that is the setting of a work of fiction or of one's imagination; worldbuilding.


hemomancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hemomancer.

(fantasy) One who practices magic or divination involving blood.


chronomancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chronomancer.

(fantasy) One who specializes in magic involving time, for example manipulating time or divining the future.


Plastuś

Plastuś (nominative singular)
Plastusia (genitive singular)
Plastusiowi (dative singular)
Plastusia (accusative singular)
Plastusiem (instrumental singular)
Plastusiu (locative singular)
Plastusiu (singular vocative)

(fiction) Plastuś (fictional character made from plasticine)


ダイイングメッセージ

ja-noun

ダイ.イング メッセージ

[da̠iĩŋɡɯ̟ me̞sːe̞ːʑi]

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from dying + message.


blood mage

Garahel, the hero of the Fourth Blight, had had a sister who was a blood mage.

2014, Liane Merciel, Dragon Age: The Last Flight, page 167:

Blood mages were draining his blood, carrying it off in small bowls to pour on the drums, on the platform, and the stone floor below, feeding the magic.

2015, Margaret Weis, The Seventh Sigil, page 569:

The military took care of the blood mages and the practitioners of the Arts of Air had their own schools and secrets.

2017, M. J. Scott, The Forbidden Heir, page 8:

(fantasy) One who practices magic involving blood.


bloodmage

“But it is hard, lady, and dark. Some would say that death is cleaner. I learned the way in Asshai, and paid dear for the lesson. My teacher was a bloodmage from the Shadow Lands.”

1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, illustrated edition, published 2016, page 744:

Hated and feared, magic was banished from the land. But now, freed from spells of the wicked bloodmages, magic–both good and evil–returns.

2003, advertisement for The Hob's Bargain, in Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood, page 286 (approx.)

“It seems that was the event being celebrated at Dun Ardagh when the bloodmage came and put this curse on his family.”

2006, Laura J. Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh, page 89:

(fantasy) Alternative spelling of blood mage.


decopunk

The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin.

2012 February, David Dudley, “Lost City Diner”, in Urbanite, page 57:

Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own.

2015 October 28, “Phoenix Books Presents”, in Seven Days, page 52:

Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally.

2018, Gareth Schott, “What or Who is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock”, in Felan Parker, Jessica Aldred, editors, Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, page 226:

A subset of the dieselpunk science fiction genre and aesthetic that incorporates Art Deco elements and other aspects of the technology, culture, and fashion of the 1920s-1930s.


Cleganebowl

From Clegane + bowl (“a postseason football competition”).

compound

Believers in the Cleganebowl were a unique brand of fans who embraced the tagline “GET HYPE.”

2019, Kim Renfro, The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones, page 173:

In a similar vein to Cleganebowl, I feel almost certain that Hodor will appear as a wight in the Night King's army.

2019, Joe Cunningham, "Game of Thrones Season 8", University Express (University College Cork), 2 April 2019, page 18

The style evident in the ‘Cleganebowl’ scene contrasts with that apparent in the intercut scenes, which follow the narrative perspective of Arya Stark.

2021, Daniel Clarke, “A city in flames: King’s Landing as artistic archive in HBO’s Game of Thrones”, in Landscape Research, volume 47, number 7, page 905:

(ASoIaF/GoT fandom slang) The showdown between brothers Sandor Clegane and Gregor Clegane on the television series Game of Thrones.


you know nothing, Jon Snow

From a catchphrase said repeatedly by the character Ygritte to Jon Snow in the novel A Storm of Swords (2000) by George R. R. Martin. The phrase, initially used reproachfully and then later affectionately after Jon and Ygritte fall in love, was popularised by its use in the television adaptation Game of Thrones.

People in New York are complaining about how hot it is and I’m like you know nothing Jon Snow.

2014, @becafarmer, quoted in Metro (New York), 3 July 2014 - 6 July 2014, page 2

All your planning is done. Your bag is packed. You've got your pass. You've finished marathoning Orphan Black. It's con time. But if you think you're ready to head inside just because you've done all this planning, you know nothing, Jon Snow. There is a lot to deal with once you're through the front doors.

2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Geek Girls, page 124:

Charles nodded, understanding. "I know."
From up front, Pete said, "You know nothing, Jon Snow."

2023, Jason Powell, No Man's Ghost, unnumbered page:

(humorous) Used to imply that someone lacks experience, knowledge, or understanding, especially as a rebuttal of a previous statement.

A Storm of Swords
Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Jon Snow (character)
Ygritte


antihjälte

antihjälte (indefinite nominative singular)

From anti- + hjälte, a calque of English anti-hero. First attested in 1960.


I choose violence

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Cersei Lannister
Game of Thrones
No One (Game of Thrones)

Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "No One" (2016) of the television series Game of Thrones, in which Cersei Lannister, facing clerical detention and ordered to restrain her bodyguard, calmly responds, "I choose violence."

You see, I have this funny thing I say every morning and to my close circle of women friends quite often, especially when they're looking for advice on how to deal with white privilege and entitlement, and that is: 'Choose violence' I don't mean this literally. But when we say what needs to be said, a Black woman will always be seen as aggressive or arrogant, instead of confident, unafraid and assertive. […] But choosing the easier path doesn't benefit me, harmlessness does not benefit me. I choose violence.

2022, Haji Mohamed Dawjee, Here's the Thing, unnumbered page:

On my last night in town before heading to the Midwest, I decide to try the hot dog at the Cape Cod Cafe. The suggestion draws some mockery on both sides of the family, who know damn well that coming to CCC without getting a bar pizza is a waste of their money (I offer to pay: "Oh my God, Mrs. Hollywood with her own frickin' money, huh," an aunt says before slapping down a Visa with travel points). It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except "hot dog." I choose violence. I order the hot dog.

2023, Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, unnumbered pages

The boring asss griiiiind. I usually enjoy the grind, I’m currently up to my ears in Diablo4 grind. It was just so bland and monotonous. Same with Witcher3 and Skyrim……I choose violence.

2023 June 28, u/KickballJamal, Reddit, r/AskReddit:

(Internet slang, humorous, idiomatic) Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.


隨意門

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ jiː³³ muːn²¹/

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ jiː³³ muːn²¹/

(Hong Kong, science fiction) teleportation portal


dracarys

en-verb

dracarys (third-person singular simple present dracaryses, present participle dracarysing, simple past and past participle dracarysed)

dracaryses (present singular third-person)
dracarysing (participle present)
dracarysed (participle past)
dracarysed (past)

A Song of Ice and Fire
Daenerys Targaryen
David J. Peterson
Game of Thrones

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in the fictional language of High Valyrian featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).

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It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.

2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35:

What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch

2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 90:

On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.

2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page:


round-ear

From an allusion to the round pinnae of humans, as contrasted to the long, pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves, fairies, and similar fictional species.

Even though the round-ear wore a short, loose deerskin tunic, awkwardly stitched and beaded, Bearclaw could tell that the body beneath was almost as slender and fragilely boned as an elf’s, with the exception of the big hands and clumsy feet.

1993, Richard Pini, Dark Hours: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, page 296:

‘You stinking, cowardly round-ear,’ she snarled, baring her canines at him.

2011, Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates, page 22:

"Shut up, round-ear," he barked back. There were a couple of laughs at that. And a few of the elves did look like they thought making a cage of human limbs could be a fun way to pass the time.

2017, Jon Hollins, The Dragon Lords: False Idols, page 229:

(fantasy, slang, often derogatory) A human or half-human.


valar morghulis

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase, which means "all men must die" in the fictional language of High Valyrian, is used as a greeting by the Faceless Men, a combination death cult and assassin's guild. The traditional response is valar dohaeris (“all men must serve”).

On a philosophical note, there has never been a moment in my life where I’ve truly considered the gravity of death. Yes I know, “All men must die,” but I’m a writer, not a BASE jumper. I spend most of my time behind a bright computer screen, thinking. Yet as I started driving along the edge of a snowy cliff tumbling hundreds of meters downwards to the rocky sea, without snow tyres, the possibility was getting a little bit too real. Valar morghulis.

2015, Hannah Jane Cohen, "A Road Trip To Djúpavík", The Reykjavík Grapevine, 5 June 2015 - 18 June 2015, page 31

In 2015, different beasts threaten our lives—heart disease, cancers, and chronic airway diseases comprise the majority of our disease burden. Valar morghulis—all men must die.

2015, Keegan Guidolin & Matthew Douglas-Vail, "What kills us and what costs us: An examination of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge", University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, Volume 84, Issue 1, Winter 2015, page 18

You fought a good battle, and it was an honour to be there right beside you. I will miss you. “Valar Morghulis” my friend. The God of Death has called one of its valiant warrior home, albeit, too soon.

2019, "Dedication", in Jennifer P. B. Price, "Testing Construct Redundancy: Resilience, Grit, Hardiness, and Mental Toughness", thesis submitted to Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS), page 7

(fandom slang) An expression used as an acknowledgement of human mortality and the inevitability of death.


knife-ear

From an allusion to the pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves. Popularised by Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and its subsequent use in the Dragon Age franchise. Possibly influenced by the earlier round-ear.

You've a lot of nerve, knife-ears. This'll go badly for you.

2009 November 3, BioWare (developer), David Gaider (lead writer), Dragon Age: Origins, →OCLC, scene: wedding cutscene in the City Elf origin:

"Hard to believe the elves wiped out the Knights of Saint Augustine. Their captain was capable of summoning the angel, you know? How did a couple of knife-ears stand up to the Kingdom's strongest knights and an angel?”

2020, 616th Special Information Battalion (trans. ZackZeal), Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1, unnumbered page

"Get your ass in here. It's time you started acting like the chicano ork you are and not some pansy elf listening to Americano music by yourself all the time. That's what knife-ears do! Now get in here!"

2022, O. C. Presley, Shadowrun: Kings of the Street, unnumbered pages


my watch has ended

Derived from a misquotation of a phrase used in the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. In the novels, "and now his watch is ended" is used to conclude eulogies honouring fallen members of the Night's Watch, a brotherhood of men who swear lifelong vows to defend the Wall. "My watch is ended" is used in the episode "Oathbreaker" (2016) by a character who resigns from the Watch.

My watch has ended.
For the last eight years – four of them here at Courier Life Publications – I have had the privilege to be your eyes and ears, your evaluator, and a watchdog in New York City's local sports scene.

2016, Joseph Staszewski, "Farewell – but not goodbye", Brooklyn Courier, 20 May 2016 - 26 May 2016, page 44

My watch has ended. After six years, I'm about to conclude my last three-year term as department chair.

2018, Gary W. Lewandowski, "My Watch Has Ended: A Chair's Exit Interview", The Department Chair, Fall 2018, page 10

"I really enjoyed my time on city council the last eight years. I've learned a lot, developed some really good relationships. I'm proud of the work we've done. And you know, I'm going to be thinking of our achievements as I move forward but for now, my watch has ended."

2020, Ryan Bater, quoted in John Cairns, "Bater concedes race", Regional News-Optimist (The Battlefords, SK), 12 November 2020, page 3

(fandom slang) Used to indicate that one's duties or tenure in a position have ended.

A Song of Ice and Fire
Game of Thrones
Night's Watch
Oathbreaker (Game of Thrones)
The Wall (A Song of Ice and Fire)


valar dohaeris

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase means "all men must serve" in the fictional language of High Valyrian. It is a traditional response to valar morghulis (“all men must die”).

If Valar Morghulis, then I shall do my very best in paying it forward in the time I have left. Valar Dohaeris.

2014, "Acknowledgements", in Kathleen A. Moore, "Scrutiny on the Bounty: From Crisis Communication To Crisis Conversation", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, page xi

But soon there will be a new clickbait queen, as HBO's Game of Thrones gears up for its penultimate season this weekend. After that, you can expect endless recaps and speculations for the next two months, clogging up your social media feed (not to mention the endless memes) as the show moves beyond the source material and into the realm of "everyone will have theories." We'll try to steer clear of that business, but no promises: We are a free alt-weekly in 2017, after all, and everyone's got bills to pay. Valar dohaeris.

2017 July 14, Josh Kupecki, “Stream Analysis”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 43:

Although Dr. Murphy’s “watch has ended,” her trailblazing legacy and extreme passion to improve kidney and health care will live on in many ways (14), but forever in our hearts and minds. Indeed, Valar dohaeris (15).

2021, Steven G. Coca, "Tribute to Barbara Murphy", Kidney360, Volume 2, Issue 9, page 1500

(fandom slang) An expression used as an affirmation of duty to a higher purpose or authority.


High Valyrian

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. First referenced in his 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones. Developed into a usable conlang by David J. Peterson.

The HBO series Games of Thrones, which premiered in 2011, has included the languages of Dothraki and High Valyrian, both created by David Peterson.

2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, pages 148–149:

Though two language courses (High Valyrian and Klingon) are constructed languages from popular TV series (Game of Thrones and Star Trek, respectively), there are reportedly more than 100,000 learners doing the High Valyrian course.

2017, David M. Palfreyman, “Learner Autonomy and Groups”, in Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas, page 79:

The use of High Valyrian mirrors the use of Latin both in the medieval Christian church and as a common language used among the educated elite.

2019, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones, page 113:

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language developed for use in the television series Game of Thrones.

A Game of Thrones
David J. Peterson
Valyrian languages


Patronus

From Latin patrōnus (“protector”). A reference to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; the term first appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999). Doublet of padrone, patron, and pattern.

Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.

2017, Luvvie Ajayi, “Know Your Worth”, in Beverly Bond, editor, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth., 37 INK/Atria Books, →ISBN, page 64, column 2:

The day after the last episode of Totally Biased aired in November 2013, I found out that the head of MSNBC was interested in meeting with me. Rachel Maddow, who I consider my Patronus, had set it up.

2017, W. Kamau Bell, “My Awkward Joking Around with the KKK”, in The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, Dutton, →ISBN:

For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.

2017, Susan Dennard, “Acknowledgments”, in Windwitch, Tor, published 2018, →ISBN:

That’s what I love about her: she confronts her fears. She’s my Patronus.

2019, Rafi Mittlefehldt, chapter IX, in What Makes Us, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 132:

My Patronus Agent Gemini Twin, Barbara Poelle: For never giving up on me.

2019, James Brandon, “Acknowledgments”, in Ziggy, Stardust and Me, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 2022:

She’s my patronus. When I can’t deal with real life, I escape into her virtual space, where everything is perfectly lit, perfectly coifed, and perfectly accompanied by neo-soul music I never hear anywhere but natural hair videos and the beauty supply shop.

2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water, Tor Teen, published 2021, →ISBN:

Then Quinn, my friend, my confidant, my Patronus, outstretches the microphone and drops it onto his chest.

2020, Ashley Poston, Bookish and the Beast (Once Upon a Con), Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 242:

‘Avinash when and how are you… Oh, sorry I will come back later.’ Seriously, Gautham? You couldn’t have come like, five minutes ago when this drama queen was on a roll? Suddenly feeling okay, I backed out of his arms and looked in the direction of my Patronus. ‘Oh, no it’s fine Gautham! Shwetha and I were just talking.’

2020, Lavnya Krishnamurthy, I Prescribe Love, Inkstate Books, →ISBN:

The screen came alive with a little ‘Hi’ / I knew you were my patronus

2021, VeeKay, Runa: Fleeting Thoughts Collected, →ISBN:

We rode all the way to the lake, and because Billy was my Patronus, he rode straight past the picnic benches and into the hidden glade only locals knew about.

2021, Garrett Leigh, Unforgotten, Carina Press, →ISBN:

Since then, Jimmie joined my relay team, and the rest is history. I’m convinced he’s my patronus. I need his fire, jokes and brotherly love to get across Death Valley.

2021 November 26, Kelaine Conochan, “Badwater ultramarathon: What I lost and found during 135 miles of the world's most impossible run”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 2021-11-26; published in J.A. Adande, editor, The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022, Triumph Books, 2022, →ISBN:


DDLC

From Japanese どきどき (dokidoki, “throb of a heart, heartbeat”) + literature + club.

af

Doki Doki Literature Club
w:Doki Doki Literature Club

(video games) Initialism of Doki Doki Literature Club.

doki

slang term for the four girls and main characters in the game


ਪਰੀ

(figurative) very beautiful or graceful woman


'saur

—genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'

2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 79:

The city-folk had learned not to run screaming at the sight of a 'saur with a human being on it, but they were still in sufficient awe that trouble was unlikely.

2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, The Sky People, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 75:

Are there other good candidates for a collective term? Mesosaur might work. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other saurs all lived during the Mesozoic Era – the age of reptiles – 252 to 66 million years ago.

[2014 September 30, JV Chamary, “Paleosaurs: A Solution To The Dinosaur Dilemma?”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings. Only as it lands, crashing into the reeds at the edge of the river, does Willem realize that it is not a bird, but a winged saur.

2015, Brian Falkner, Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:

Who better to prank with dinosaurs than the king of 'saurs himself?

2015 June 16, Allison Bagg, “These Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scared The Sh*t Out Of Chris Pratt”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2023-06-28:

And her most recent tune, "Dinosaurs in Love," is about a pair of smitten 'saurs who find themselves dining at a party just before the apocalyptic event that wiped-out their race.

2020 January 29, Hannah Sparks, “3-year-old sings heartbreaking song about ’Dinosaurs in Love’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-30:

(informal or science fiction, fantasy) A dinosaur.


巫妖

/u⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

/u⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/


Aristopia

From Ancient Greek ἄριστος (áristos) + Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos).

(fiction) A name for a fictional utopia.


kismesis

en-noun

kismesis (countable and uncountable, plural kismeses)

Blend of kismet (“fate, destiny”) + nemesis. Coined by American author and webcomic artist Andrew Hussie in Homestuck.

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:kismesis.

(Homestuck fandom slang) A person with whom one shares an intense but adversarial connection; a nemesis; a rival.


aquan

From Middle English aqua (borrowed from Latin aqua) + -n (adjective and inhabitant suffix).

af

borrowed from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">aqua</i>

One of the patrol enforcers, "hubbers" as they were known, that were bustling about stopped to give a sympathetic burble. They were an aquan, living in a pressure suit that kept them suspended in water.

2020, Thomas Parrott, “To Catch a Thief”, in Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells, editor, KeyForge: Tales from the Crucible, page 155:

(science fiction, rare) An inhabitant of the sea.


furface

Look, kid ... forget about what ol' fur face there said about alien abduction. I suspect you were sleepwalking. Have you ever done that before?

2005 August 19, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

(fiction, comics, fantasy) A term of address used for any animal with fur, ranging from playful mocking to utmost derision.


гіперпростір

uk-noun

гіперпро́стір<sg.io.loci>

гіперпро́стір • (hiperpróstir) m inan (genitive гіперпро́стору, uncountable)

гіперпро́стір (canonical)
hiperpróstir (romanization)
гіперпро́стору (genitive)
гіперпро́стір (nominative singular)
гіперпро́стору (genitive singular)
гіперпро́сторові (dative singular)
гіперпро́стору (dative singular)
гіперпро́стір (accusative singular)
гіперпро́стором (instrumental singular)
гіперпро́сторі (locative singular)
гіперпро́сторе (singular vocative)

uk-ndecl

гіперпро́стір<sg.io.loci>

From гіпер- (hiper-) + про́стір (próstir).


Han Solo

From a reference to the Star Wars character Han Solo.

So was that the problem? Deep down did I prefer the dangerous ones? The Han Solos?

2011, Vanda Symon, Containment, page 168:

Even at age eight the middle Taylor son had understood the appeal of the bad-boy. Let Luke Skywalker get the glory—the Han Solos of the world were the ones who got the girl.

2012, Leslie Kelly, Here Comes Trouble, unnumbered page:

A skilled raconteur and an unashamed prankster, Feynman was the Han Solo of physics.

2019, Tim James, Fundamental: How Quantum and Particle Physics Explain Absolutely Everything (Except Gravity), unnumbered page

(informal) A man whose rebellious or disreputable nature makes him attractive; a bad boy.


bomba zegarowa

bomba zegarowa (nominative singular)
bomby zegarowe (nominative plural)
bomby zegarowej (genitive singular)
bomb zegarowych (genitive plural)
bombie zegarowej (dative singular)
bombom zegarowym (dative plural)
bombę zegarową (accusative singular)
bomby zegarowe (accusative plural)
bombą zegarową (instrumental singular)
bombami zegarowymi (instrumental plural)
bombie zegarowej (locative singular)
bombach zegarowych (locative plural)
bombo zegarowa (singular vocative)
bomby zegarowe (plural vocative)

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


Sanditonian

From Sanditon + -ian. Not used by Jane Austen herself.

It is fitting that all roads in the town Mr. Parker has “planned and built, and praised and puffed” (328) seem to lead to the circulating library, because Sanditonians like Parker, who has built on sand, seem immensely willing to invest in empty convention—in signs in the place of substance. […] Austen is being somewhat disingenuous here. She herself feels free to put novel slang into the mouth of a Sanditonian like Sir Edward Denham; what Anna has not learned from her aunt’s fictions, perhaps, is that in that context novel slang is always in virtual quotation marks. It is never used, and never to be read, “straight.”

1998, Deidre Shauna Lynch, The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part two (Inside Stories), pages 224 (Jane Austen and the Social Machine) and 302–303 (Notes):

The party was to consist of Mr and Mrs Parker, Charlotte, Abigail, Diana, Susan and Arthur, Mrs Griffiths, the Miss Beauforts, the three Hollises and several Sanditonians who had been deemed suitable either by the nature of their ailments or the size of their purses.

2002, Juliette Shapiro, Excessively Diverted, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 227:

As in so many other passages in this manuscript, Jane Austen successfully engages the reader through use of an ambiguous narrative voice, starting the chapter in a sententious tone reminiscent of the opening lines of Pride and Prejudice, which are Mrs. Bennet’s mantra. That every neighborhood should have a great lady, if from the author, drips with a sardonic tone. If from Mr. Parker, the inner narrator, it smacks of sycophancy. And if from Lady Denham, who has been reminding Sanditonians for a long time now that she has a special place in the community, it is merely self-serving.

2010, Arthur M. Axelrad, “Text and Commentary”, in Jane Austen’s Sanditon: A Village by the Sea, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, chapter 3, page 144:

Then there is Miss Lambe, about whom I have written in detail elsewhere: silent, chilly and tender, with the enormous fortune that throws the Sanditonians into such an eager flurry prior to the mysterious woman of colour’s arrival in the seaside town.

2011, Sara Salih, “Pre-Emancipation Stories of Race: Marly and The Woman of Colour”, in Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; 30), Routledge, →ISBN, page 71:

If we want to understand the Sanditonians’ resistance to medical professionals, we will need to understand what forms of care they endorse instead, and why their specifically convalescent population required a different sort of approach.

2021, Talia Schaffer, “Austen, Dickens, and Brontë: Bodies before the Normate”, in Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction, Princeton, N.J., Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 60:

(literary criticism) An inhabitant of the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.


Sanditonian

en-adj

Sanditonian (comparative more Sanditonian, superlative most Sanditonian)

more Sanditonian (comparative)
most Sanditonian (superlative)

Parker himself is a model of bustling absurdity: a lover of healthful living, bathing machines, and the ‘Bracing Sea Air’ of Sanditon, a despiser of old-fashioned houses in ‘little contracted Nooks’, kitchen gardens (‘Who can endure a Cabbage Bed in October?’), and anyone who doubts the fact that Sanditon is ‘the very Spot which Thousands [seem] in need of’. On the rival attractions of Brinshore, a village down the coast, this ‘Enthusiast’ for all things Sanditonian is appropriately withering: ‘Why, in truth Sir, I fancy we may apply to Brinshore, that line of the Poet Cowper in his description of the religious Cottager, as opposed to Voltaire—“She, never heard of half a mile from home”’ (p. 326).

1990, Terry Castle, “Introduction”, in John Davie, editor, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon (The World’s Classics), Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xxx:

A late contribution to the cartography of taste that the Austen canon seeks to register, this presentation of the Sanditonian way of seeing sets out terms for the proper appreciation of the Austen heroine. It puts into place the negative pole of the system of reading relations: and so this exposé of Sanditonian perception sets off to advantage the deep reading that an Austen heroine does or learns to do.

1992, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Face Value: The Economy of Character and the Institution of the Novel, 1750-1820, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, →OCLC, page 170:

Sheridan confirms the accepted belief that colonial wealth stimulated by English investment should circulate back to benefit England: “If the West India trade was in effect a home trade, it was to be expected that the income from this trade should centre in the mother country” (304). A similar sense of entitlement can be detected in Sanditonian efforts to appropriate Miss Lambe, to provide her with consumer goods and satisfying touristic experiences, and to secure her ongoing patronage of the resort—particularly in order to compete with the French tourist sites that became popular following the Napoleonic Wars and thus keep colonial wealth circulating within the domestic economy.

2021 summer, Nancy Marck Cantwell, “Fleecing Miss Lambe: Exploitation, Tourism, and the New National Narrative in Sanditon”, in Persuasions On-Line, volume 41, number 2, The Jane Austen Society of North America, Inc., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-06-30:

(literary criticism) Of or relating to the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.


inediate

Not requiring food (and, in some cases, water) to survive.


inediate

One who does not require food (and, in some cases, water) to survive.


monkey's paw

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The Monkey's Paw
The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror II
W. W. Jacobs

From the 1902 short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, in which a mummified monkey's paw is enchanted to grant a family three wishes, but with terrible consequences for them. Popularised by a segment based on Jacobs' story in the 1991 episode "Treehouse of Horror II" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

It’s given me everything I thought I wanted – riches, lucre, affluence, having lots of money, and being very wealthy – but with monkey’s-paw precision it’s turned all my dreams against me.

2015 October 19, Sam Kriss with Thom Phipps, “Who really ever owns a tweet? The story of a 140-character message gone viral, and the man who stole it”, in The Daily Telegraph:

It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.

2017 October 11, Helen Rosner, “What Le Cirque Will Be Remembered For”, in The New Yorker:

For many people, the extended period of quarantine and working from home necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak has turned into a monkey’s paw situation — a theoretical wish come true that has significant downsides.

2020 April 2, Brian Feldman, “Welcome (Back) to the Appointment Internet”, in New York:

One person joked that Chet was the result of a monkey's paw situation with his father. ¶ 'Chet hanks is the price tom hanks paid to become tom hanks,' they wrote.

2021 March 27, Brian Marks, “Tom Hanks' rapper son Chet Hanks gets lambasted on social media after declaring that 'white boy summer' is on the way”, in The Daily Mail:

(idiomatic, usually attributive) A situation in which a wish or desire has been fulfilled, but at significant cost or with ironic, usually unfavourable consequences.


Discworlder

From Discworld + -er, from disc + world.

To Discworlders steeped in magic, the science of Roundworld—our science—did not always look as alien as you’d imagine.

1999, New Scientist, volume 163, page 48, column 2:

His various voices and accents range from exaggerated Cockney to raspy utterances to adenoidal inflections, and Planer zips effortlessly from Discworlder to Discworlder with aplomb.

1999 November, Bette D. Ammon, “SOUL MUSIC. (A Discworld novel.) Terry Pratchett. 1994/1996. ISIS Audio Books. Read by Nigel Planer. […]”, in Kliatt, volume 33, number 6, page 58, column 3:

Now Discworlders use peculiar units, the appearance of a small white goose or three billiard balls for the Thaum, and the movement of a pound of lead one foot for the Prime.

2011, Peter J[ames] Carroll, The Octavo (Roundworld Edition): A Sorcerer-Scientist’s Grimoire, Mandrake of Oxford, →ISBN, page 83:

Geometry to Flatlanders is as important as magic is to Discworlders. […] Flatlanders favor string theory and Discworlders favor loop quantum gravity as the way to tie the theories of Einstein and quantum mechanics together. […] Discworlders, on the other hand, favor telling the story of loop quantum gravity first because, like Einstein they are enamored with storytelling, and, second; the minuscule but discrete quantum of loop quantum gravity and spin networks are as mysterious as their thaum.

2016, Christopher Ketcham, “The Alchemy of Flat Worlds”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:

In trying to be glamorous, the less astute Discworlders merely end up grubby – alazons open to criticism by their intellectual betters both inside and outside the text. […] At the climaxes of their stories, Discworlders often find themselves in supernatural situations which Pratchett keeps largely free of bathos.

2019, Joseph Rex Young, George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature), Routledge, →ISBN:

And one of the Discworlders was carrying these?

2021, Stephen Briggs, The Shakespeare Codex, Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 60:

An inhabitant of the Discworld from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels.


トゥンク

(manga) Onomatopoeia for getting butterflies in one's stomach in reaction to something.


उड़न तश्तरी

hi-noun

اُڑَن تَشْتَری

उड़न तश्तरी • (uṛan taśtarī) f (Urdu spelling اُڑَن تَشْتَری)

uṛan taśtarī (romanization)
اُڑَن تَشْتَری (Urdu)
उड़न तश्तरी (direct singular)
उड़न तश्तरियाँ (direct plural)
उड़न तश्तरी (oblique singular)
उड़न तश्तरियों (oblique plural)
उड़न तश्तरी (singular vocative)
उड़न तश्तरियो (plural vocative)

/ʊ.ɽən t̪əʃ.t̪ə.ɾiː/

[ʊ.ɽɐ̃n‿t̪ɐʃ.t̪ɐ.ɾiː]

उड़न (uṛan, “flying”) + तश्तरी (taśtarī, “saucer, plate”)

अज्ञात आकाशयान

ajñāt ākāśyān


სუპერბოროტმოქმედი

ka-noun

სუპერბოროტმოქმედები

სუპერბოროტმოქმედი • (suṗerboroṭmokmedi) (plural სუპერბოროტმოქმედები)

suṗerboroṭmokmedi (romanization)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედები (plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედი (nominative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედები (nominative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედნი (archaic nominative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედმა (ergative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებმა (ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედს (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედს (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედსაs) (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედსაsa) (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებს (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებს (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებსაs) (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებსაsa) (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაt) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაta) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედის (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედის (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისაs) (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისაsa) (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედების (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედების (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისაs) (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისაsa) (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედით (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედით (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედითაt) (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედითაta) (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებითაt) (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებითაta) (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედად (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედად (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედადაd) (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედადაda) (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებადაd) (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებადაda) (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედო (singular vocative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებო (plural vocative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედზე (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებზე (plural)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთან (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებთან (plural)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედში (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებში (plural)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედივით (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებივით (plural)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისთვის (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისებრ (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისებრ (plural)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისკენ (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისკენ (plural)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისგან (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისგან (plural)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედიდან (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებიდან (plural)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედითურთ (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებითურთ (plural)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედამდე (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებამდე (plural)

სუ‧პერ‧ბო‧როტ‧მოქ‧მე‧დი


яойщик

ru-noun+

яо́йщик • (jaójščik) m anim (genitive яо́йщика, nominative plural яо́йщики, genitive plural яо́йщиков)

яо́йщик (canonical)
jaójščik (romanization)
яо́йщика (genitive)
яо́йщики (nominative plural)
яо́йщиков (genitive plural)
яо́йщик (nominative singular)
яо́йщики (nominative plural)
яо́йщика (genitive singular)
яо́йщиков (genitive plural)
яо́йщику (dative singular)
яо́йщикам (dative plural)
яо́йщика (accusative singular)
яо́йщиков (accusative plural)
яо́йщиком (instrumental singular)
яо́йщиками (instrumental plural)
яо́йщике (prepositional singular)
яо́йщиках (plural prepositional)


morpher

(science fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter.


battlecraft

en-noun

battlecraft (countable and uncountable, plural battlecraft or battlecrafts)

battlecraft (plural)
battlecrafts (plural)

(countable, chiefly science fiction) A spacecraft or other vehicle used for combat.


svartfolk

Compound of svart (“dark; black”) + folk (“people”). Coined by Swedish game designer and author Anders Blixt in 1986. Based on the terms svartalf (“dark elf”) and svartnisse (“goblin”).

coinage

"Vilken roll man väljer beror till stor del på vilken upplevelse man är ute efter", påpekar Mikael. "Är man svartfolk är det mer spänning och fajter, medan människorna i byn mer ägnar sig åt fest och sång". Alla fem har provat på svartfolksroller. Nu har de dock övergått till människoroller. Då blir lajvandet mer inriktat på intriger.

2001 March 23, Sandra Janrell, “Förvandlingen [The metamorphosis]”, in Blekinge Läns Tidning:

"Which role you choose largely depends on the experience you’re looking for", Mikael points out. "If you play as goblinoids, it’s more about excitement and fighting, whereas the humans in the village are more focused on feasting and singing". All five have tried playing goblinoid roles. However, they have now switched to human roles, which makes the live-action role-playing more centred on intrigue.


ucipital mapilary

Pseudo-Latinate/medical-sounding term invented for the 1941 film Suspicion, and popularized by the 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Compare similar sounding words like occipital.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ucipital mapilary.

(uncommon, chiefly fantasy) The suprasternal notch, the visible dip in the human neck between the clavicles.


Buffyatric

I'm Harper. Resident breadbaker, librarian, Buffyatric, occasional pirate wench, and quondam Irish harper.

1997 October 28, SjPete, “Stranger enters, goes to corner table”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet):

Uh-oh, better be careful what you say in that regard. I made the same point here just a few weeks ago and got flamed by one of the posting board's "Buffyatrics" (which group actually doesn't seem distinguishable from the younger set, at least not according to some of the items posted at their website).

1998 October 4, David Samuel Barr, “Joss Answers Questions — Spoilers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

The word "gay" has been adopted as a generic term to cover both male and female homosexuals (aka lesbians). Even *I* know that and I'm an ageing Buffyatric!

2004 April 1, Dave K, “BtVS on new gay channel”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(fandom slang) An elderly fan of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).


barbegazi

en-noun

barbegazi (plural barbegazi or barbegazis)

Both male and female barbegazi wear white fur garments which help them blend into the snowy scenery.

1996, D. J. Conway, Magickal, Mythical, Mystical Beasts, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 199:

Some humans living in the region say that the Barbegazi are very helpful, but the credit is more often than not given to the St. Bernard dogs.

2001, D. J. Conway, Magickal Mystical Creatures: Invite Their Powers into Your Life, Llewellyn Publications, published 2018, →ISBN:

Barbegazi are such expert rescuers, you see.

2013, Raynetta J. Stocks, The Isle of Kishi Mora (The Lova Chronicles), book 2, RJS Books, →ISBN, page 122:

A halfling has been hiding in the snow outside the barbegazi village.

2016, Kim McDougall, Hibernaculum, Kim McDougall, →ISBN:

You couldn't keep a barbegazi inside a house. […] Similar to polar bears, barbegazi are covered in an insulating underfur, topped by long guard hairs.

2019, H. S. Norup, The Missing Barbegazi, North Star Editions, →ISBN:

Frozenfalls are specifically for the Queen herself; there are, however, some small ice creatures such as qiqirns, barbegazis, ice-cream cats, snow aliens, ice wraiths and there is also one ice dragon; but no other guardian or creatures are allowed on this island.

2022, Bianca Steyn, Reborn, Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page vi:

(mythology) A kind of gnomelike or dwarflike mythical creature.


grey folk

One of the most important of all Yuletide observances was the 'saining' required to guard life or properties from the Trows. If the proper observances were omitted, the 'grey-folk' were sure to take advantage of the opportunity.

1888, Biot Edmonndston, Jessie Saxby, The Home of a Naturalist, page 136:

(Scotland, mythology) elves, the fae, the wee folk.


ホムンクルス

[ho̞mɯ̟̃ŋkɯ̟ɾɯ̟sɨ]

Learned borrowing from Latin homunculus.


speculum literature

speculum literature or (rare) speculum literature (uncountable)

From Latin speculum (“mirror”) in the title of these works.

Mirror or speculum literature, as Jourda and Cottrell have noted, can be traced back through medieval tradition to Augustinian, Biblical and Platonic sources.

1989, Paula Sommers, “Le Miroir: Biblical Ascent”, in Celestial Ladders: Readings in Marguerite de Navarre’s Poetry of Spiritual Ascent, Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., →ISBN, page 50:

However, insofar as these plays resemble statecraft or speculum''' literature, they also exhibit the rhetorical instability of statecraft discourse, in which antithesis fails to contain the tyrant. […] In “The Background and Sources of Preston’s Cambises,” English Studies 31 (1950): 129–35, and “The Authorship and Political Meaning of Cambises,” English Studies 36 (1955): 289–99, for example, W. A. Armstrong describes Cambyses as an example of speculum''' literature, in which the “naiveness” of characterization reflects the rhetoric of statecraft (p. 294).

1990, Rebecca W[eld] Bushnell, “Tyrannical Vices: Morality Plays and Humanist Drama”, in Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

As Anna Musso has pointed out, the adaptation of the genre to a female dedicatee places the text outside the normal run of speculum''' literature and identifies it with the rising literature in defence of women, which argued against their inferiority to men.

2004, Stephen John Campbell, “Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara”, in The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Paintings), page 184:

The sententious lessons of Lydgate’s great work contributed to the continent-wide development of a sub-genre of speculum''' literature: ‘advice to princes’.

2016, Rory Loughnane, “The Medieval Inheritance”, in Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (Genre), page 39:

The Speculum humanae salvationis, or ‘Mirror of human salvation’, is an anonymous composition, originally written in Latin, in rhyming verse, sometime between 1309 (as a reference to the Avignon papacy indicates) and 1324 (the date on two copies) as part of the genre of encyclopedic speculum literature.

2022, “Introduction”, in An Illustrated Speculum Humanae Salvationis: Green Collection MS 000321, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 1:

A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.

British Library
Jean de Vignay
Vincent of Beauvais


水星人

ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄖㄣˊ

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɵy̯³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɵy̯³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

(science fiction) Mercurian (inhabitant of Mercury)


水星人

水星人 (canonical)
suiseijin (romanization)

[sɨise̞ːʑĩɴ]

水星 (Suisei, “Mercury”) + 人 (-jin, “human”)

suf

(science fiction) a Mercurian (inhabitant of Mercury)


bioborg

I am served brusquely, and wait until the bioborgs kill Lao Tzu. I swap a Carlton for a match, and devise a telephone strategy brilliant enough to reduce hardened Tokyo PAs to putty.

2001, David Mitchell, number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A biologically-based cyborg


Kitezh

(Slavic mythology, folklore) A city in Russian folklore that was believed to have disappeared under a lake, to avoid being conquered by the Mongols.


Лукоморье

ru-proper noun+

Лукомо́рье • (Lukomórʹje) n inan (genitive Лукомо́рья)

Лукомо́рье (canonical)
Lukomórʹje (romanization)
Лукомо́рья (genitive)
Лукомо́рье (nominative singular)
Лукомо́рья (genitive singular)
Лукомо́рью (dative singular)
Лукомо́рье (accusative singular)
Лукомо́рьем (instrumental singular)
Лукомо́рье (prepositional singular)

→ English: Lukomorye

лук (luk) + -о- (-o-) + мо́ре (móre, “sea”), literally “bend of the sea”.

af

(folklore, Slavic mythology) Lukomorye (in medieval Russian folklore, a magical shore in northern Russia along the Arctic coast)

ru:Лукоморье


thần y

[tʰən˨˩ ʔi˧˧]

[tʰəŋ˦˩ ʔɪj˧˧]

[tʰəŋ˨˩ ʔɪj˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 神醫, composed of 神 (“godly”) and 醫 (“physician”).

vi-etym-sino

(chiefly fiction) a doctor or physician who is claimed to be able to cure almost all illnesses


Raumschiff Enterprise

de-proper noun

Raumschiff Enterprise n (proper noun, strong, genitive Raumschiff Enterprises)

Raumschiff Enterprises (genitive)
Raumschiff Enterprise (definite nominative singular)
Raumschiff Enterprises (definite genitive singular)
Raumschiff Enterprise (dative definite singular)
Raumschiff Enterprise (accusative definite singular)

/ˈʁaʊ̯mʃɪf ˌɛntɐpʁaɪ̯s/

Literally, “spaceship Enterprise”. Title of Star Trek: The Original Series which in Germany first aired in 1972.

Star Trek: The Original Series
de:Raumschiff Enterprise


thopter

Another ’thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.

1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 225:

I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.

1997 September 20, Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion, New York: Bantam, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 363:

Flowstone Thopter gets +1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

2000 February 14, “Flowstone Thopter”, in Magic: The Gathering, Nemesis, Wizards of the Coast:

(fiction) Synonym of ornithopter (“birdlike aircraft”)


boarding craft

en-noun

boarding craft (plural boarding crafts or boarding craft)

boarding crafts (plural)
boarding craft (plural)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boarding craft.wav

‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.

1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:

Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!

2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:

A Colicoid creation (like the droideka), this Separatist boarding craft looks like a flying spike—until that spike divides into four sharp prongs that can stab through an enemy hull, revealing a central hatch used by a boarding party.

2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:

(science fiction) A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel


antilithium

Heavy antinuclei, if observed, would also indicate that nucleosynthetic processes are taking place in these antimatter regions, since the usual matter-symmetric cosmologies have no other provision for manufacturing antimatter heavier than antilithium.

1987, Luis W. Alvarez, Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 194:

The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.

2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN:

Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull.

2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN:

(physics, science fiction) The antiatom form of lithium.


niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający

pl-noun

niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający m inan

niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający (nominative singular)
niezidentyfikowane obiekty latające (nominative plural)
niezidentyfikowanego obiektu latającego (genitive singular)
niezidentyfikowanym obiektom latającym (dative plural)
niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający (accusative singular)
niezidentyfikowane obiekty latające (accusative plural)
niezidentyfikowanym obiektem latającym (instrumental singular)
niezidentyfikowanym obiekcie latającym (locative singular)
niezidentyfikowany obiekcie latający (singular vocative)
niezidentyfikowane obiekty latające (plural vocative)

Calque of English unidentified flying object.

cal

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

(science fiction, ufology) UFO, unidentified flying object


Homem-Morcego

Calque of English Batman. In Brazil, the name first appeared with the superhero's debut in November 1940, on "O Lobinho" magazine, with ads attested as early as October of that year (despite being written as Batman on the front page, dialogues had only the translated version). Nowadays, DC Comics has made Batman the official name for the hero on Portuguese translated media, but Homem-Morcego is still used as a nickname among fans.

Grandes Herois aparecerão terça-feira em O LOBINHO / Batman, o Homem-Morcego

1940 October 27, Mirim, number 401, Rio de Janeiro, page 22:


qose

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كوسه (köse).

bor+

(folklore) Cheeky, sly, mischievous child in folk tales, usually accompanied by the qerosi.