Popeye

→ Dutch: popeye (“short, strong man”)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: بباي (babbāy, “animated show, cartoon, anime”)

Fictional character name coined in 1929 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar, presumably pop + eye.

They seem equipped to drag the building between them right down Pennsylvania Avenue, but their progress is arrested by two heroes of Popeye musculature, government men putting a check rein on willful industry.

1967, Television Magazine, volume 24, number 11, page 27:

Lenny gave him the Popeye squint as he rolled off to Frank, the other bodyguard on duty, who was standing on the other side of the stage behind the Epps camp.

Choosing and prepping yeast Working the dough: You don't need Popeye arms.

2011, Danna Korn, Connie Sarros, Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies, page 122:

A tough cartoon sailor, full name Popeye the Sailor, characterized by bulging forearm muscles, a squinty eye, and an affinity for spinach.

The UPU faction, headed by Popeye Jackson, drew considerable numbers of members away from the Prisoners' Union when it split off in 1973, primarily taking with it the union's more radical convicts.

1994, Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement, page 216:

"Arf, arfl" It was a Popeye expression, which he used to express pleasure or enthusiasm.

2006, Alexander Fullerton, The Gatecrashers, page 60:

FAN FAVORITE: С Popeye Jones (1988-92) Befitting his nickname, Ronald "Popeye" Jones never came up short in the effort department.

2009, ESPN, ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia, page 99:

A nickname for a person who has attributes of the cartoon character.


multidimensional

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(science fiction, New Age religion) a being that exists in more than one dimension


beholder

From Middle English behalder, be holdar, beholder, beholdere, biholdar, biholdere, byholdere; equivalent to behold + -er.

(fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.


dragan

head

dragan m (genitive singular dragain, nominative plural dragain)

dragain (genitive singular)
dragain (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
dragan (indefinite singular)
dragain (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a dhragain (indefinite singular)
a dhragana (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dragain (indefinite singular)
dragan (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an dragan (definite singular)
na dragain (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an dragain (definite singular)
na ndragan (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an dragan (definite singular)
don dragan (definite singular)
leis na dragain (definite plural)

Borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”).

der

/ˈd̪ˠɾˠaɡənˠ/

dragon
dragon lizard (member of Agamidae)


dragan

head

dragan m (genitive singular dragan, plural draganyn)

dragan (genitive singular)
draganyn (plural)
dragan (mutation mutation-radical)
ghragan (lenition mutation)
nragan (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish dragán, an English or Romance loanword, ultimately from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”).


philter

From Middle French philtre, from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron), from φιλέω (philéō, “I love”). Doublet of philtrum.

A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially a love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver.


philter

en-verb

philter (third-person singular simple present philters, present participle philtering, simple past and past participle philtered)

philters (present singular third-person)
philtering (participle present)
philtered (participle past)
philtered (past)

to philter a draught

To impregnate or mix with a love potion.

Government of the Tongue
Let not those that have repudiated the more inviting sins, shew themselves philtred and bewitched.

To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.


virga

la-noun

virga f (genitive virgae); first declension

virgae (genitive)
virga (nominative singular)
virgae (nominative plural)
virgae (genitive singular)
virgārum (genitive plural)
virgae (dative singular)
virgīs (dative plural)
virgam (accusative singular)
virgās (accusative plural)
virgā (ablative singular)
virgīs (ablative plural)
virga (singular vocative)
virgae (plural vocative)

Ancient Greek: βέργαι (bérgai)

Aromanian: veargã

Asturian: verga

Catalan: verga

English: virga

Galician: verga

Greek: βέργα (vérga)

Hungarian: virgács

Istriot: virga

Italian: verga

Megleno-Romanian: veargă

Norman: vèrgue

→ French: vergue

Occitan: vèrga

Old French: verge

→ English: verge

French: verge

Piedmontese: verga, vërga

Portuguese: verga, virga

Romanian: vargă

Sicilian: vìriga, vìrija

Spanish: verga

From Proto-Italic *wizgā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate with Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle of hay or straw, wisp”). The Proto-Indo-European term is sometimes taken as an extension of Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *weyḱs- (see *weyḱ-). Regardless, it is probably a doublet of viscum.

nowrap

<i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*weyḱ-</i>)

flagellum equō et cāmus asinō et virgā dorsō inprūdentium

4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbs 26:3

A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
(trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)

8 AD . Fasti, Publius Ovidius Naso, Liber II, 703-704.
Illic Tarquinius mandata latentia nati
Accipit, et virga lilia summa metit.
There Tarquinius is receiving secret mandates of the son
And is knocking down with staff the tops of lilies.

Tum virgam capit: Hāc animās ille ēvocat Orcō

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.242–243

Then [Mercury] takes up his wand: With this he calls pale souls from Orcus, or sends others down to sorrowful Tartarus, ….
(Specifically, the caduceus that Mercury uses in his role as psychopompus.)

pallentīs, aliās sub Tartara trīstia mittit, ….

sunt etiam singularia in medio constituta ne in unam partem praeiudicialiter vergentia alteram competenti decore nudarent: nasus, os, guttur, pectus, umbilicus, et genitalium virga descendens, quae laudabilia et honora monstrantur quando in medio locata consistunt.

These [body parts] are one by one placed in the middle, because if they converged to the same place, one would deprive the honour of another part. The nose, mouth, throat, chest, navel, and the rod of the genitals show their merit and excellence by being placed in the middle.

(figuratively, Late Latin, Medieval Latin) penis


Tarzan

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.
Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

(fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.


Tarzan

de-proper noun

Tarzan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Tarzans)


Tarzan

Tarzan (nominative singular)
Tarzana (genitive singular)
Tarzanowi (dative singular)
Tarzana (accusative singular)
Tarzanem (instrumental singular)
Tarzanie (locative singular)
Tarzanie (singular vocative)

Tarzan (heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes)


Tarzan

dra en Tarzan


MacGyver

en-verb

MacGyver (third-person singular simple present MacGyvers, present participle MacGyvering, simple past and past participle MacGyvered)

MacGyvers (present singular third-person)
MacGyvering (participle present)
MacGyvered (participle past)
MacGyvered (past)

From the name of the eponymous character in the television program MacGyver, a secret agent with an uncanny ability to construct weapons from seemingly useless bits of junk.

Our car broke down and we didn't have any tools but Jim MacGyvered it with some toenail clippers and we were able to limp to the service station.

It is why some of the American troops experimented with commercial drones that they could weaponize by fixing with explosives, to see how to counter such tactics, much as Russian troops have had to learn how to defend against Ukraine’s use of store-bought drones that have been MacGyvered with explosives.

2024 April 24, Helene Cooper, “NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive) To assemble or repair something by ingenious improvisation, using everyday items that would not usually be used for the purpose.


memory lane

This is Memory Lane—lonely and drear to some, pleasant and gay to others. ... It was New Year's day in the old town, the most hallowed of holidays on Memory Lane; the day when the wharf was deserted, for everyone, great and small, walked over the Lane, many even to the very end.

1894 December, B[urton] M. Balch, “Memory Lane. A New Year’s Study.”, in Burton M. Balch, editor, Hamilton Literary Monthly, volume 29, number 3, Clinton, N.Y.: Published by the students, Hamilton College, →OCLC, page 101,102:

“How about a stroll down Memory Lane. Remember this?” He thrust a picture at me.

1954 May, Peter De Vries, chapter 3, in The Tunnel of Love, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published July 1954, →OCLC, page 25:

My “memory lane” is splotched with recollections that have not dimmed or faded in the last seventy-five years. They stand out clear and sharp, but they are splotches just the same. They have no beginning, nor do they trail off to an ending. They are just there like ink splotches on a white wall.

1987, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, “My Earliest Recollections”, in A Beautiful, Cruel Country, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 42:

Sigrid took a bittersweet trip down memory lane when Anne opened the carton of ornaments and lifted out a crumpled tinsel star. All at once she was three years old again and her father was holding her up in his strong arms to place that same star on the very top of their Christmas tree.

1989, Margaret Maron, Corpus Christmas (A Crime Club Book), Warner Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 255:

Molly sleeps this morning as her parents, per their promise, travel down memory lane from their just-delivered leather sofa. Tim and I have memory-goaders galore, including our album of wedding photos, two separate videotapes of the marriage ceremony, and some random 35-millimeter slides one or the other of us somehow managed to squeeze off that strange and signal day exactly one year and four days ago.

1989, Larry L. Meyer, “August 16: An Irish Wedding Revisited”, in My Summer with Molly: The Journal of a Second Generation Father, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Calafia Press, →ISBN, page 146:

A more straightforwardly nostalgic use of the family album is in oral history, which has used them as a device for family reconstitution and opening up memory lanes.

1994, Raphael Samuel, “Dreamscapes”, in Theatres of Memory, volumes 1 (Past and Present in Contemporary Culture), London, New York, N.Y.: Verso Books, →ISBN, part V (Old Photographs), page 351:

I decide to take in one last trip for the day - and one very much down memory lane. Changing trains at Central, I board a Class 150 bound for Barry Island, where I have not been for 46 years.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

(idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) A nostalgic or sentimental journey through one's memories of an experience or other time in the past.

set of recollections available to be reviewed


hocus pocus

Hocus pocus pilatus pas, ik wou dat het eindelijk weer zomer was.

Hocus-pocus, I wish it was finally summer again.


invulnerability

en-noun

invulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural invulnerabilities)


invulnerable

From Middle French invulnérable, from Latin invulnerābilis, from vulnerābilis, from vulnerō (“I wound”), from vulnus (“wound”), equivalent to in- + vulnerable.

His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.

1979, Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars' End:

Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.


revenant

19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.

Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.

2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 184:

For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.

1969, Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:

And to a revenant who had lived in body after body, died death after death, evanescence could seem like a dream of peace. But the chimaera could ill afford to let soldiers go.

2011, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, →ISBN:

If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants—not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking their blood or, less disagreeably, stirring up a ruckus in their homes.

2023 September 5, Franz Lidz, “Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.


flitter

Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.

1941 July, Edward Elmer Smith, “The Vortex Blaster”, in Comet Stories, volume 1, number 5, page 10:

Small flitters were powered and made ready, and everything that carried manual controls was inspected and cleared for action.

1944 March, George Oliver Smith, “Circle of Confusion”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 33, number 1, page 54:

The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three.

1955, Alice Mary Norton (as Andrew North), Sargasso of Space, page 53:

The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.

1994, Stephen Baxter, Ring, →ISBN, page 43:

(science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.


Hexe

Hexe (genitive)
Hexen (plural)
Hexe (nominative singular)
Hexen (definite nominative plural)
Hexe (genitive singular)
Hexen (definite genitive plural)
Hexe (dative singular)
Hexen (dative definite plural)
Hexe (accusative singular)
Hexen (accusative definite plural)

desctree

→ Dutch: heks
Afrikaans: heks
→ Papiamentu: hèks

→ Polish: heksa

From Middle High German hecse, hesse, from Old High German hagzissa, from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with English hag and Dutch heks.


Wassermann

de-noun

Wassermann m (strong, genitive Wassermannes or Wassermanns, plural Wassermänner)

Wassermannes (genitive)
Wassermanns (genitive)
Wassermänner (plural)
Wassermann (nominative singular)
Wassermänner (definite nominative plural)
Wassermannes (genitive singular)
Wassermanns (genitive singular)
Wassermänner (definite genitive plural)
Wassermann (dative singular)
Wassermanne (dative singular)
Wassermännern (dative definite plural)
Wassermann (accusative singular)
Wassermänner (accusative definite plural)

Wasser + Mann. Compare English waterman.


Märchen

Märchen n (strong, genitive Märchens, plural Märchen)

Märchens (genitive)
Märchen (plural)
Märchen (nominative singular)
Märchen (definite nominative plural)
Märchens (genitive singular)
Märchen (definite genitive plural)
Märchen (dative singular)
Märchen (dative definite plural)
Märchen (accusative singular)
Märchen (accusative definite plural)

Diminutive of the noun Mär(e) f with -chen, compare Old High German māri (“news, tale”). Cognate with Luxembourgish Märchen.

Zweibrüdermärchen ()

Tale of Two Brothers; Egyptian fairy tale

(informal) fairy tale (unbelievable story)


pay-off

At the current monthly payment level, it'll take 32 more months to reach pay-off.

A payment in full; the state of having been paid in full.

Where's the pay-off for that whole segment of the plot?

(colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction.


smok

pl-noun

smok m animal (female equivalent smoczyca, diminutive smoczek, augmentative smoczysko, related adjective smoczy)

smoczyca (feminine)
smoczek (diminutive)
smoczysko (augmentative)
smoczy (adjective)
smok (nominative singular)
smoki (nominative plural)
smoka (genitive singular)
smoków (genitive plural)
smokowi (dative singular)
smokom (dative plural)
smoka (accusative singular)
smoki (accusative plural)
smokiem (instrumental singular)
smokami (instrumental plural)
smoku (locative singular)
smokach (locative plural)
smoku (singular vocative)
smoki (plural vocative)

– No właśnie – pokiwał głową tata kot – takie są krokodyle, wyglądają jak zielone smoki.

2012, Ewa Mirkowska, 59 bajek o zwierzętach, Siedmioróg:

"Exactly", papa cat nodded his head, "that's crocodiles for you, they look like green dragons."


Einhorn

de-noun

Einhorn n (strong, genitive Einhornes or Einhorns, plural Einhörner)

Einhornes (genitive)
Einhorns (genitive)
Einhörner (plural)
Einhorn (nominative singular)
Einhörner (definite nominative plural)
Einhornes (genitive singular)
Einhorns (genitive singular)
Einhörner (definite genitive plural)
Einhorn (dative singular)
Einhorne (dative singular)
Einhörnern (dative definite plural)
Einhorn (accusative singular)
Einhörner (accusative definite plural)

[ˈʔaɪ̯nˌhɔʁn]

From Middle High German einhorn, einhurne, from Old High German einhorn(o), einhurn(o), a calque of Latin ūnicornis, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs). Equivalent to ein + Horn.


trahho

trahho (nominative singular)
trahhon (nominative plural)
trahhun (nominative plural)
trahhon (accusative singular)
trahhun (accusative singular)
trahhon (accusative plural)
trahhun (accusative plural)
trahhen (genitive singular)
trahhin (genitive singular)
trahhōno (genitive plural)
trahhen (dative singular)
trahhin (dative singular)
trahhōm (dative plural)
trahhōn (dative plural)

Middle High German: trache

Alemannic German: Traach

Bavarian: Drack

German: Drache

Luxembourgish: Draach

Rhine Franconian:

Pennsylvania German: Drach

Vilamovian: draoch


synth

(science fiction) A synthetic humanoid, an android, a robot, a clone


esej

esej (nominative singular)
eseje (nominative plural)
eseju (genitive singular)
esejów (genitive plural)
esejowi (dative singular)
esejom (dative plural)
esej (accusative singular)
eseje (accusative plural)
esejem (instrumental singular)
esejami (instrumental plural)
eseju (locative singular)
esejach (locative plural)
eseju (singular vocative)
eseje (plural vocative)

essay (written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject)


phylactery

Recorded since circa 1380, Middle English philaterie, either from Old French filatiere (12th c), or via Medieval Latin philaterium, an alteration of Late Latin phylacterium (“reliquary”), from Ancient Greek φυλακτήριον (phulaktḗrion, “safeguard, amulet”), via adjective φυλακτήριος (phulaktḗrios, “serving as a protection”), from φυλακτήρ (phulaktḗr, “watcher, guard”), itself from φυλάσσω (phulássō, “guard or ward off”), from φύλαξ (phúlax, “a guard”).

klaf

parchment used in Jewish ritual contexts

mezuzah

parchment scroll of Torah verses in a decorative container

"Heh. No. You're right about that. Often an object that was important to a lich in life serves as the phylactery, but it could be anything," Diran said.

2007, Tim Waggoner, Forge of the Mind Slayers, Wizards of the Coast, page 21:

'So,' says Calli impatiently, holding her head proudly, 'let's destroy the phylactery and let the lich rot in peace and then take the artefacts.'
'It's not as simple as that,' says Joachim. 'The phylactery is the mask.'
An unnerving silence fills the room. The only way to destroy a lich permanently is to destroy the phylactery it uses to house its soul.

2011, J. L. Connew, Origins of the Geomancer, Xlibris, page 112:

2017, Jason Paul McCartan, Through Dungeons Deeper: A Survival Guide For Dungeoneers: As Written by a Survivor, InfiniBadger Press, page 121,
Destroying the lich without destroying the phylactery first just allows the lich to regenerate its body over time (or steal someone else's) and it really pisses them off. With the intense connection a lich has with its phylactery if it gets destroyed the lich will know instantly.

(fantasy, roleplaying games) An enchanted object used (by such as a lich) to contain and protect the owner's soul.

命匣

object enchanted so as to contain and protect a soul


Macbeth

Anglicization of Middle Irish Mac Bethad, equivalent to the modern mac (“son of”) bheatha (“life”).

The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play.

麥克白

the main character of the Shakespeare play Macbeth


korrigan

Borrowed from Breton korrigan, from korr (“dwarf”) + -ig (diminutive suffix) + -an (hypocoristic suffix).

A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.

1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9:

A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess.


nanite

I had the nanites install the brackets, then climbed up there with the panels, placed them on the brackets, and had the nanites secure them.

2017, Stephanie C. Fox, New World Order Underwater, page 76:

Disperse into a cloud of nanites.

2021 August 11, Thomas Happ, Axiom Verge 2, Nintendo Switch, description for Tilhar


redcap

From red + cap.
In sense of "porter", 1890s US; compare contemporary Japanese 赤帽 (akabou), Chinese 小紅帽／小红帽 (Xiǎo Hóng Mào). On Labor Day, 1890, John Williams, an African-American railway porter, tied a red ribbon to his black uniform cap to stand out from the crowd at Grand Central Terminal. The strategy was so successful that it was soon adopted by others in the profession, leading to the synecdochic use of redcap as a term for all railway porters.

1876: Porter & Coates (pub.), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Lord Soulis he sat in Hermitage Castle,
And beside him Old Redcap sly; —
"Now, tell me, thou sprite, who are meikle of might,
The death that I must die?"

"What's a Brownie?" you say. Oh, it's a kind of a sort of a Bogle, but it isn't so cruel as a Redcap! What! you don't know what's a Bogle or a Redcap!

1890, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales:

[…] the goblin had aroused the mercenary's ire. This seemed to bring out a formidable and hitherto unrecognized talent in the taciturn young man.
"Why cam' ye by my door?" The redcap brandished his pikestaff menacingly.
Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection. They have sharp eagle’s talons which they use for weapons, but can easily be repelled simply by reading holy verse. http://www.vf11.com/legendsofvalhal/legendsofvalhal-post-814.html

2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute: The Bitterbynde:

After boggarts, they studied Red Caps, nasty little goblinlike creatures that lurked where there had been bloodshed […]

1999 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter; 3), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.


gigante

it-noun

gigante m (plural giganti, feminine gigantessa)

Learned borrowing from Latin gigās, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”).


gigante

es-adj

gigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural gigantes)

Learned borrowing from Latin gigās, from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”). Cognate with English giant.


gigante

es-noun

gigante m (plural gigantes, feminine giganta, feminine plural gigantas)

gigantes (plural)
giganta (feminine)
gigantas (feminine plural)

→ Cebuano: higante

→ Tagalog: higante


dryad

From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).

der

Coordinate term: Meliai

There it had stood for years, close beside a mighty oak, under which sat often the kindly old priest, who told stories to the listening children. The young chestnut tree listened with them: the Dryad inside it, who was still a child, could remember the time when the tree was so small that it only reached a little higher than the ferns and long blades of grass.

1914, Hans Christian Andersen, “The Dryad”, in William Alexander Craigie, transl., Fairy tales and other stories:


Midas touch

From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them.

Midaan kosketus

ability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently

(Greek mythology, literally) The ability to turn everything one touches into gold.

(idiomatic) The ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.


selkie

(Celtic mythology) A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin.


drago

From earlier draco, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Compare dragone, from the Latin accusative form.

(zoology) any lizard of the Draco taxonomic genus


ninfa

Borrowed from Latin nympha (“nymph”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “young woman, nymph”).


No, the slightest imbalance there would have alarms flashing all over the room. Probably it was the fact that he knew the threedee was a little out of whack.

1969, Dave Van Arnam, Starmind, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 14:

(science fiction) A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.

A man Ellaby's own size was sitting there, viewing a 3D. When he heard Ellaby at the door he got up.

1955 January, Martin Lesser, “The Dictator”, in Imagination, volume 6, number 1, page 85:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional video.


Aladdin

From Arabic عَلَاءُ الدِّين (ʕalāʔu d-dīn, “nobility of the faith”).

عَلَاءُ الدِّين

Aladdin, of the former dynasty [Khilji], subdued nearly all the Deccan, about 1312; [...]

1876, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History and Conquests of the Saracens: Six Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution:

(obsolete or archaic)
Alternative form of Alauddin

Orkhan, valuing his brother's knowledge, appointed him Grand Vizier. Aladdin was not an expert in warlike affairs, and turned his attention to the internal improvement of the dominion [...]

1912, Alexander W. Hidden, The Ottoman Dynasty, page 12:

(obsolete or archaic)
Alternative form of Alaeddin

An Arabic tale about a young man named Aladdin who is recruited by a sorcerer to get a magic lamp from a cave; often adapted into comic pantomime in Britain

The young man who is the protagonist and title character of the story


mandrake

en-noun

mandrake (countable and uncountable, plural mandrakes)

From Middle English mandrake, mandroke, an alteration of mandragora with the ending -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake, from Old English mandragora, from Medieval Latin mandragorās.

Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.


hungry ghost

(Buddhism, Chinese folk religion) A type of supernatural being, condemned to desire more than it can consume; often depicted with large belly and tiny mouth.

ပြိတ္တာ

in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being


Proteus

Derived from Ancient Greek Πρωτεύς (Prōteús).

der+

(Greek mythology) A sea god who could change his shape at will.


ice bucket

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(science fiction, slang, humorous) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.


harmonium

Borrowed from French harmonium, a term coined by French inventor Alexandre Debain in 1840.

coin

The only other man was a little grey-headed fellow with a pleasant face and quick, twinkling eyes, who sat at a harmonium in the corner.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

They were a grave and reverend seignior in a frock coat, a lady sitting at a portable harmonium, and a chinless youth toying with a crucifix.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 244:

It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.

1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

(music) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.


R&R

That was my story so far. I really need a better title so please R&R!

2000 December 19, ajangel912 [username], “Re: Putting the Pieces Back Together (JC)”, in alt.tv.er.creative (Usenet):

What would happen if our favorite potions teacher accidently^([sic]) became a famous muggle movie star? Please R&R.

2003 July 25, hansaplatz [username], “Re: HP FanFic and praise for book 5”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Summary:When offered the opprotunity^([sic]) to have a lost comrade restored to them, Picard must make the decision- even if it mean^([sic]) disregarding Starfleet's Prime Directive. Please R&R!!

2003 August 1, abraon [username], “STNG - One of the Living [PG] (Q, all) 3/16”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Initialism of read and review: used to request that people read a work (generally fan fiction) and give feedback.


Tursas

Tursas (nominative singular)
Tursas (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaan (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaan (genitive singular)
Tursasta (partitive singular)
Tursaassa (inessive singular)
Tursaasta (elative singular)
Tursaaseen (illative singular)
Tursaalla (adessive singular)
Tursaalta (ablative singular)
Tursaalle (allative singular)
Tursaana (essive singular)
Tursaaksi (singular translative)
Tursaatta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Tursaani (nominative singular)
Tursaani (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaani (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaani (genitive singular)
Tursastani (partitive singular)
Tursaassani (inessive singular)
Tursaastani (elative singular)
Tursaaseeni (illative singular)
Tursaallani (adessive singular)
Tursaaltani (ablative singular)
Tursaalleni (allative singular)
Tursaanani (essive singular)
Tursaakseni (singular translative)
Tursaattani (abessive singular)
Tursaasi (nominative singular)
Tursaasi (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaasi (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaasi (genitive singular)
Tursastasi (partitive singular)
Tursaassasi (inessive singular)
Tursaastasi (elative singular)
Tursaaseesi (illative singular)
Tursaallasi (adessive singular)
Tursaaltasi (ablative singular)
Tursaallesi (allative singular)
Tursaanasi (essive singular)
Tursaaksesi (singular translative)
Tursaattasi (abessive singular)
Tursaamme (nominative singular)
Tursaamme (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaamme (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaamme (genitive singular)
Tursastamme (partitive singular)
Tursaassamme (inessive singular)
Tursaastamme (elative singular)
Tursaaseemme (illative singular)
Tursaallamme (adessive singular)
Tursaaltamme (ablative singular)
Tursaallemme (allative singular)
Tursaanamme (essive singular)
Tursaaksemme (singular translative)
Tursaattamme (abessive singular)
Tursaanne (nominative singular)
Tursaanne (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaanne (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaanne (genitive singular)
Tursastanne (partitive singular)
Tursaassanne (inessive singular)
Tursaastanne (elative singular)
Tursaaseenne (illative singular)
Tursaallanne (adessive singular)
Tursaaltanne (ablative singular)
Tursaallenne (allative singular)
Tursaananne (essive singular)
Tursaaksenne (singular translative)
Tursaattanne (abessive singular)
Tursaansa (nominative singular)
Tursaansa (accusative nominative singular)
Tursaansa (accusative genitive singular)
Tursaansa (genitive singular)
Tursastaan (partitive singular)
Tursastansa (partitive singular)
Tursaassaan (inessive singular)
Tursaassansa (inessive singular)
Tursaastaan (elative singular)
Tursaastansa (elative singular)
Tursaaseensa (illative singular)
Tursaallaan (adessive singular)
Tursaallansa (adessive singular)
Tursaaltaan (ablative singular)
Tursaaltansa (ablative singular)
Tursaalleen (allative singular)
Tursaallensa (allative singular)
Tursaanaan (essive singular)
Tursaanansa (essive singular)
Tursaakseen (singular translative)
Tursaaksensa (singular translative)
Tursaattaan (abessive singular)
Tursaattansa (abessive singular)

From Proto-Finnic *tursas, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *þurisaz (“giant, name of the Þ-rune; one of Odin's runes”).

der

giant, name of the Þ-rune; one of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Odin</i>'s runes


Bandersnatch

Coined by Lewis Carroll in 1863 (see quotation).

Beware the jabberwock, my son.
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch

1863, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There:

An obscure fictional creature mentioned in two of Lewis Carroll's poems.


shoggoth

A monstrous gelatinous creature with green eyes, featured in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.


slipstream

en-noun

slipstream (countable and uncountable, plural slipstreams)

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

coin

Coordinate term: New Weird

Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.

2000, Damien Broderick, quoting Justina Robson and Rozanne Rabinowitz, Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 88:

(uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.


Ophelia

/əʊˈfiː.lɪə/

Hamlet
Jacopo Sannazaro
William Shakespeare

Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleia, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the ill-fated love interest of Hamlet.

uder

I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.

1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i

(astronomy) A moon of Uranus, named after the character in Hamlet.


tulgey

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood

1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky":

I battled for a while with Professor Aschloch's tulgey prose – only German poets have ever written lucid German prose – then closed my eyes, wondering bitterly which of my enemies the nice American worked for.

1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69:

Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).


Matrixism

A minor modern religion based on the science-fiction franchise The Matrix.


sombra

luz

antonym(s) of “darker parts of an image”

From Old Galician-Portuguese soombra, of uncertain origin, but ultimately containing Latin umbra (“shadow”). Possible etymologies include:
* from Old Galician-Portuguese soombrar, from Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre (“to shadow”), from Latin sub + umbrāre, from umbra (“shadow”).
* from Old Spanish solombra, from Vulgar Latin *solumbra, from Latin sub illā umbrā (literally “under that shadow”).
* from Latin umbra (“shadow”), influenced by Old Galician-Portuguese sol (“sun, sunshine”).
Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish sombra, solombra, Mirandese selombra, French sombre and possibly with Dalmatian sombreja and Romansch sumbreiva.

der

shadow
(supernatural, fantasy) shade, ghost


metafiction

en-noun

metafiction (usually uncountable, plural metafictions)

From meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass

Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]

1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1:

In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.

2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 65:

A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.


武俠

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (武俠):
* → Japanese: 武侠(ぶきょう) (bukyō)
* → Korean: 무협(武俠) (muhyeop)
* → Vietnamese: võ hiệp (武俠)

→ English: wuxia

→ Russian: уся́ (usjá)

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiap̚⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiap̚⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/

/bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiap̚³²/


crone

From Middle English crone, from Anglo-Norman carogne (compare central Old French charogne (a term of abuse, literally “carrion, carcass, old sheep, hag”), whence modern French charogne). Doublet of carrion.

вещица

ugly evil-looking or frightening old woman; a hag


迪斯尼樂園

ㄉㄧˊ ㄙ ㄋㄧˊ ㄌㄜˋ ㄩㄢˊ

Дисыни лэюань

/ti³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

/ti³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/


迪士尼樂園

ㄉㄧˊ ㄕˋ ㄋㄧˊ ㄌㄜˋ ㄩㄢˊ

Дишини лэюань

/ti³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

/tɪk̚² siː²² nei̯²¹ lɔːk̚² jyːn²¹/

/ti³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ni³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

/tɪk̚² siː²² nei̯²¹ lɔːk̚² jyːn²¹/


Roswell

en-proper noun

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.

(1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)

A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.

1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66:

Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.

2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272:

Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.

2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3:

The most significant ufological event of a region.

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County#English

A place in the United States:
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.


shapeshifter

/ˈʃeɪpʃɪftə/

The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.

Like the teller of shapeshifter stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....

2003, Michael Bathgate, The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities:

There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!

Granted, Grace is talking about actual transformation, but she's a shapeshifter. For her, growing a couple inches taller is like an alternative to wearing high heels.

2015 January 30, Dan Shive, “Comic for Friday, Jan 30, 2015”, in El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP, archived from the original on 2022-08-13:

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

canviaformes

creature capable of changing its appearance


Chinese dragon

(mythology) A legendary creature, usually depicted as long and snake-like, with many claws, common in several East Asian cultures.

চীনা আজদাহা

legendary creature common in several East Asian cultures


warbird

(science fiction) A heavily-armed starship.


apparate

en-verb

apparate (third-person singular simple present apparates, present participle apparating, simple past and past participle apparated)

apparates (present singular third-person)
apparating (participle present)
apparated (participle past)
apparated (past)

From Late Latin apparēre (“to appear”), as of a servant who appears on being summoned. A back-formation from apparition.

"Reivers!" he bellowed. His valet appeared — or really, it seemed rather more like he apparated — in the doorway.

2004, Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked, page 105:

What had silenced her, however, was the enormous demonic object that had apparated in the air beyond the tunnel's exit.

2005, Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow, page 115:

if it is an emergency, I will be able to apparate directly to wherever you are and help you.

2008, P. L. Lansdon, Dreams of Dragons and Fantasies of Fairy Flight and Light: Book One, page 254:

(fantasy, intransitive) To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.


spacing

en-noun

spacing (countable and uncountable, plural spacings)

He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.

1949 February 20, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring):

(science fiction) The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.


fairy dust

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fairy dust.wav

Based on the story of the fictional character Peter Pan, see quotations.

Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.

1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “Come away, Come away!”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 54:

(fiction) A magical powder that would give the power of flight to whoever it was sprinkled on.

It's not that some magic private sector fairy dust makes the firms all be runs^([sic]) soundly. Lots of bad businesses are out there. But they tend to lose money and close.

2011 May 19, Megan McArdle, quoting Matt Yglesias, “When Should Governments Contract Out?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(by extension) Any apparently magical ingredient or effect; a panacea.

keijupöly

any apparently magical ingredient or effect

This led to a certain amount of complacency on my part and certainly the fairy dust and mescaline cocktails I took day and night could only have contributed to my uncommonly satiated drive for a good fuck.

2001, Simon Logan, I-O, Prime, →ISBN, page 102:


humaniform

(science fiction, robotics) A robot resembling a human.


black spot

I went down on my knees at once. On the floor close to his hand there was a little round of paper, blackened on the one side. I could not doubt that this was the black spot; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: “You have till ten to-night.”

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 31:

(fiction) A fictional judicial device among pirates, consisting of a black circle indicating condemnation.


borganism

The word and concept are derived from The Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.

(rare, idiomatic, science fiction, politics) Some forms of government.


xenoarchaeology

(science fiction) A fictional science, concerned with the physical remains of alien cultures. These may be found on planets which have been inhabited or visited by extraterrestrials.


good guy

He was a good guy to visit with and be around.

(informal) An all-around pleasant person; usually a man.


completist

completist - A dope who tries to have a complete collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during one's incumbency in some office. […]

[1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Completist:

Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist.

1953 Winter, William "Bob" Tucker, “The Philadelphia Story”, in Science Fiction Newsletter, number 28, archived from the original on 2019-12-22, page 13:

There's no new material on it, just previously issued bits and pieces. That rules out the completist collector. Go figure.

1997 June, Harvey Pekar, “CD Reviews”, in JazzTimes, →ISSN, pages 120–121:

But it’s even harder for me, because… I am a completist. Once I start reading an author’s work, I need to read everything that writer has written. I can’t veer away. I need to check all that author’s books off my mental list. My knowledge of their work must be complete.

2008 June 21, Matt Selman, “The Completist”, in Time:

But in conversations with people who listen at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists. That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to.

2017 November 12, Doree Shafrir, “Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds”, in BuzzFeed News:

Then a bunch of commercially cynical books […] designed to capitalize on the wise-man status that his death conferred and (in my case successfully) to separate Wallace completists from their money.

2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

(originally science fiction fandom slang) A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.


Mayberry

From Old English mere (“lake”) + Old English byriġ (“fortified place”).


Mayberry

From the main town in the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.

The young couple thought of the small town they chose to live in as Mayberry, especially because of its low crime rate and excellent schools.

(figurative) A utopian setting, such as a small town; a perfect place to live.


Mayberry

He often talked about coming from a Mayberry type of town.

(figurative, of a place) Utopian; perfect for dwelling.


Quixote

I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong [...].

Few things can more inflame / This far too combative heart / Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age / Prattling of abstract art.

1929, Cecil Day Lewis, Transitional Poem:

But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:

Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist.


darkling

(fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.


genio

Borrowed from French génie, of Latin influence but based on Arabic جِنّ (jinn).

(folklore, mythology, fantasy) jinn, genie


méchant

fr-noun

méchant m (plural méchants, feminine méchante)

From the present participle of the Old French verb mescheoir, from *mé- + cheoir (choir). Compare also mauvais.


hippocampe

Learned borrowing from Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).


monkey boy

(derogatory, science fiction) Term of offense directed at male humans in general.


Oberon

Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, partial loan translation from Middle High German Alberich, literally ‘elf king, fairy king’, from alp + -rich << Proto-Germanic *rīks.


Planet X

X represents an unknown as opposed to the Roman numeral for 10 (initially, Planet X would have been the ninth planet).

(astronomy) A hypothetical planet in the Solar system, beyond the currently known outermost planet. (The term was applied to Eris for a short while, when Pluto was still considered the ninth planet.)


物語

/u⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɐt̚² jyː¹³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚²⁴⁻² ɡu⁵⁵⁴/

/but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁴¹/

/u⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɐt̚² jyː¹³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚²⁴⁻² ɡu⁵⁵⁴/

/but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁴¹/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 物(もの)語(がたり) (monogatari).

(in Japanese contexts) tale; story; legend


物語

物語 (canonical)
monogatari (romanization)

源氏物語

指輪物語

パイの物語

1998 December 18 [1977 August 15], Fyodor Dostoyevsky with Tezuka, Osamu, 罪と罰 [Crime and Punishment], 10th edition (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 8:

This story takes place on the eve of a revolution, in the town of Petersburg where there is but decadence and poverty under the rule of the Russian monarchy…

この物語は革命前夜の帝政ロシアにおいて退廃と貧困にあけくれたぺテルブルグの町に起こった……

Kono monogatari wa kakumei zen'ya no teisei Roshia ni oite taihan to hinkon ni akekureta Peteruburugu no machi ni okotta……


character class

en-noun

character class (plural character classes)

(roleplaying games) One of a number of pre-determined groups into which characters in role-playing games are grouped, based on the focus of their skills.


Scheherazade

/ʃəˌhɛɹəˈzɑːd(ə)/

/ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/

Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Persian شهرازاد (šahrâzâd), alternative form of شهرزاد (šahrzâd, from شهر (šahr, “city”) + ـزاد (-zâd, “child of”), literally “child of the city”).
Popularized by the fictional character below.

af

A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.


Scheherazade

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Scheherazade f (genitive Scheherazades or Scheherazade)

Scheherazades (genitive)
Scheherazade (genitive)

/ʃəˌheːʁaˈzaːdə/

Borrowed from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Persian شهرازاد (šahrâzâd), alternative form of شهرزاد (šahrzâd, literally “child of the city”), from شهر (šahr, “city”) + ـزاد (-zâd, “child of”).
The noun is a reference to the fictional character.


woobie

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From the 1983 film Mr. Mom, in which it is a child's word for his security blanket.

baby girl

male morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans

Draco in Leather Pants

any morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans

poor little meow meow

endearingly pathetic villain or morally-ambiguous character

(US, childish) Any object, typically a blanket, garment or stuffed animal, that is used simply for its comforting characteristics; a security blanket.

The conflicted portrayal of the character reaches its zenith during the sixth episode where Logan’s relationship with his abusive and morally despicable father solidifies his character into the woobie.

2006, Afşar Yegin, "Fan-Textual Television: Narrative Structure, Vituality And Fandon In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel And Veronica Mars, thesis submitted to Istanbul Bilgi University, page 109

In some instances, this characterisation then becomes part of a hurt/comfort fan narrative where the pleasure at the woobie's pain is transmuted into relief at their eventual recovery.

2018, Anna Blackwell, Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age: Fan Cultures and Remediation, page 109:

But the post also rejects Patroclus as woobie, drawing attention to his amorous complicity in Achilles's crimes.

2022, K. R. Moore, The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) A fictional character, often morally grey or a villain, subjected to constant stress and angst, so as to create pathos within the narrative and increase the reader/viewer's emotional attachment to them.


hellcat

Coordinate term: hellhound

The hellfire abilities were reserved for special kinds of demons. Hellcats, demon princes, and—you guessed it—hellhounds. / Of the three, Vanessa would prefer to not deal with the hellhounds. Unlike hellcats and demon princes, they had the worst attitude, and they usually traveled in small groupings.

2017, Nia Rose, Spellbound & Hellhounds (Coven Chronicles; 1), Poisoned Apple Publishing, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 9:

The Scourge was still a new concept to Logan, but hey, hellhounds and hellcats had to come from somewhere. / “Okay, so what does the ritual entail?” Esme asked. “If you need stuff for it, I’ve probably got it.” / “We’re going to need a Seal of Solomon drawn in blood,” Ceri said.

2020, Andrea Speed, Darlings of New Midnight, DSP Publications, →ISBN:

“These hellcats…they’re not the cute, fluffy kind that Caim and Seth played fetch with. They’e bigger and louder. Like dragons with lion heads.” / That was the second mention of hellcats that looked like lions.

2021, Angela Roquet, Life After Death (Return to Limbo City: A Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. Spin-Off; 1), Violent Siren Press, →ISBN:


twincest

This one's about gay brothers. I'm calling it Twincest. Nice, no?

1985, Joseph Hansen, A Smile in His Lifetime, New American Library, page 64:

As 'twincest' is in (a trend started by Parker Posey and Josh Hamilton in The House of Yes, to be released in the UK in 1998)...

1998, Film Review: Special: Year Book 1997/98, Visual Imagination Ltd., page 117:

These pieces you might very well be able to relate to even if you've never been horny for twincest, had an affair, or been a black man...

2007, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Best Sex Writing 2008:

In the course of one of his climbs, he hears adult voices through a high window, goes to investigate, and comes across Jaime and Cersei energetically engaged in (to use a neologism popular with fans) twincest.

2013, John Lancaster, “When did you get hooked?”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:

(chiefly fandom slang) incestuous sexual relations between twins, or siblings who look very similar.


X-ray vision

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(fiction, by extension) The ability or superpower to see through most or all solid objects as if they were transparent.


fembot

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Blend of female + -bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Yes, the girl is valuable. But, my fembots can do anything she can.

1976 October 27, Arthur Rowe, Oliver Crawford, Kill Oscar (The Bionic Woman), season 2, episode 5, spoken by Dr. Franklin (John Houseman):

Jawohl, Herr Doktor. I have created the ultimate weapon to defeat Austin Powers. Send in the fembots!

1997, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, spoken by Frau Farbissina (Mindy Sterling):

The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

2003, Jyanni Steffensen, “Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity”, in Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(science fiction) A robot in female or feminine form.

A robot in female or feminine form.
A female sexbot.


photokinesis

en-noun

photokinesis (usually uncountable, plural photokineses)

(parapsychology, science fiction) The ability to mentally manipulate light.


ruby slippers

From the red shoes worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, that had magic properties unknown until the end of the story.

(idiomatic) A valuable feature (of software, etc.) overlooked by the user.


antihero

/ˈæn.tɪˌhɪə.ɹəʊ/

Alienation: A stage on the downside of the passage wherein the holdfast and the antihero take actions which bring about a disintegration of personality.

2006, James Bonnet, Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers:

(literature, roleplaying games) A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.


այս

ays (romanization)
այս (nominative singular)
այսեր (nominative plural)
այսի (dative singular)
այսերի (dative plural)
այսից (ablative singular)
այսերից (ablative plural)
այսով (instrumental singular)
այսերով (instrumental plural)
այսը (definite nominative singular)
այսն (definite nominative singular)
այսերը (definite nominative plural)
այսերն (definite nominative plural)
այսին (dative definite singular)
այսերին (dative definite plural)
այսս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
այսերս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
այսիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
այսերիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
այսիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
այսերիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
այսովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
այսերովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
այսդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
այսերդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
այսիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
այսերիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
այսիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
այսերիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
այսովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
այսերովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

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այսերը/այսերն

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian այս (ays).


վիշապ

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վիշապ • (višap)

hy-noun

վիշապ • (višap)

višap (romanization)
վիշապ (nominative singular)
վիշապներ (nominative plural)
վիշապի (dative singular)
վիշապների (dative plural)
վիշապից (ablative singular)
վիշապներից (ablative plural)
վիշապով (instrumental singular)
վիշապներով (instrumental plural)
վիշապը (definite nominative singular)
վիշապն (definite nominative singular)
վիշապները (definite nominative plural)
վիշապներն (definite nominative plural)
վիշապին (dative definite singular)
վիշապներին (dative definite plural)
վիշապս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
վիշապներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
վիշապիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
վիշապներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
վիշապիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
վիշապներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
վիշապովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
վիշապներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
վիշապդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
վիշապիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
վիշապիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
վիշապովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

վիշապը/վիշապն

վիշապները/վիշապներն


վիշապ

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վիշապ • (višap)

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վիշապ • (višap)

višap (romanization)
վիշապ (nominative singular)
վիշապք (nominative plural)
վիշապի (genitive singular)
վիշապաց (genitive plural)
վիշապի (dative singular)
վիշապաց (dative plural)
վիշապ (accusative singular)
վիշապս (accusative plural)
վիշապէ (ablative singular)
վիշապաց (ablative plural)
վիշապաւ (instrumental singular)
վիշապի (locative singular)
վիշապս (locative plural)

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վիշապաւք = վիշապօք

Armenian: վիշապ (višap)

Borrowed from Iranian. Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬌𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (višāpa, “an epithet of a dragon”). Georgian ვეშაპი (vešaṗi) is also from Iranian.


fairyland

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The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.

Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.


bilocation

en-noun

bilocation (countable and uncountable, plural bilocations)

Throyle explained about the mysterious shamanic power known as bilocation, which enables those with the gift literally to be in two or more places, often widely separated, at the same time.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 159:

(Forteana) The ability to be, or fact of being, in two places at once.


esfinge

Borrowed from Latin Sphingem, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).


contender

Someone who competes with one or more other people.


mangaka

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Borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が)家(か) (mangaka). Doublet of manhwaga and manhuajia.


mangaka

fr-noun

mangaka m or f by sense (plural mangakas)

Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!


mangaka

mangaka (nominative singular)
mangacy (nominative plural)
mangaki (genitive singular)
mangaków (genitive plural)
mangace (dative singular)
mangakom (dative plural)
mangakę (accusative singular)
mangaków (accusative plural)
mangaką (instrumental singular)
mangakami (instrumental plural)
mangace (locative singular)
mangakach (locative plural)
mangako (singular vocative)
mangacy (plural vocative)

(comics) mangaka (professional manga or anime artist)


hydrokinesis

(fantasy, science fiction) The psychic ability to manipulate or control water


subspace

en-noun

subspace (countable and uncountable, plural subspaces)

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(uncountable, science fiction) Any (often unspecified) method of communicating or travelling faster than light speed.

(uncountable, science fiction) An alternative dimension or universe, access to or use of which permits faster-than-light travel or communications; hyperspace.


ent

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
ent

Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times.
Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.

lbor

[…]and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).

2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass:

But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.

2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:

Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.

2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98:

Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.

2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37:

In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.

2017, Inga Simpson, Understory, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.


գրող

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գրող • (groġ)

hy-noun

գրող • (groġ)

groġ (romanization)
գրող (nominative singular)
գրողներ (nominative plural)
գրողի (dative singular)
գրողների (dative plural)
գրողից (ablative singular)
գրողներից (ablative plural)
գրողով (instrumental singular)
գրողներով (instrumental plural)
գրողը (definite nominative singular)
գրողն (definite nominative singular)
գրողները (definite nominative plural)
գրողներն (definite nominative plural)
գրողին (dative definite singular)
գրողներին (dative definite plural)
գրողս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
գրողներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
գրողիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
գրողներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
գրողիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
գրողներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
գրողովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
գրողներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
գրողդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
գրողներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
գրողիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
գրողներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
գրողիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
գրողներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
գրողովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
գրողներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

գրողները/գրողներն

գրողը տանի

exclamation of anger and frustration; to hell with it!

գնա՛ գրողի ծոցը

գրող ու ցավ

an evil spirit or angel of death in Armenian folklore; used in various expressions


astral plane

Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 115:

The realm of the astral plane is an intermediate realm; below is the world of matter, above is the world of pure Being.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 221:

(parapsychology, theosophy, fantasy) A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.


treknobabble

/ˈtɹɛknəʊˌbæbəl/

I'd sooner trust treknobabble for an explanation than any thing you say.

1997 September 24, $teve2, “Re: SUNBURN : If you were not watching GITM”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

So you think up something like Voyager meets some Romulans stranded in the DQ, or some treknobabble takes down the command staff and Seven assumes command.

1999 December 29, Bozo the Proctologist, “Re: Bad Voyager Plots”, in alt.tv.star-trek.voyager (Usenet):

Even if they won using the power of treknobabble, this force ratio does not show the audience how mighty and dangerous the Imperial warships are […]

2003 December 17, Kazuaki Shimazaki, “The More Detailed Critique”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):

A kind of technobabble particular to the Star Trek universe, with a particularly heavy emphasis on configurations of pseudoscientific particles and waves.


óriás

óriások (plural)
óriás (nominative singular)
óriások (nominative plural)
óriást (accusative singular)
óriásokat (accusative plural)
óriásnak (dative singular)
óriásoknak (dative plural)
óriással (instrumental singular)
óriásokkal (instrumental plural)
óriásért (causal-final singular)
óriásokért (causal-final plural)
óriássá (singular translative)
óriásokká (plural translative)
óriásig (singular terminative)
óriásokig (plural terminative)
óriásként (essive-formal singular)
óriásokként (essive-formal plural)
óriásban (inessive singular)
óriásokban (inessive plural)
óriáson (singular superessive)
óriásokon (plural superessive)
óriásnál (adessive singular)
óriásoknál (adessive plural)
óriásba (illative singular)
óriásokba (illative plural)
óriásra (singular sublative)
óriásokra (plural sublative)
óriáshoz (allative singular)
óriásokhoz (allative plural)
óriásból (elative singular)
óriásokból (elative plural)
óriásról (delative singular)
óriásokról (delative plural)
óriástól (ablative singular)
óriásoktól (ablative plural)
óriásé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
óriásoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
óriáséi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
óriásokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
óriásom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
óriásaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
óriásod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
óriásaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
óriása (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
óriásai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
óriásunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
óriásaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
óriásotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
óriásaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
óriásuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
óriásaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

→ Romanian: uriaș

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: орѝја̄ш

Latin script: orìjāš

desc

→ Slovene: orják, orjaš, orijaš (now less often)

Of disputed origin. Either a loanword from Russian оря́сина (orjásina) or the proper noun Uriás (“Uriah”) becoming a common noun.

vörös óriás

(astronomy) giant (a star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature)


törpe

hu-adj

törpe (comparative törpébb, superlative legtörpébb)

törpébb (comparative)
legtörpébb (superlative)
törpe (nominative singular)
törpék (nominative plural)
törpét (accusative singular)
törpéket (accusative plural)
törpének (dative singular)
törpéknek (dative plural)
törpével (instrumental singular)
törpékkel (instrumental plural)
törpéért (causal-final singular)
törpékért (causal-final plural)
törpévé (singular translative)
törpékké (plural translative)
törpéig (singular terminative)
törpékig (plural terminative)
törpeként (essive-formal singular)
törpékként (essive-formal plural)
törpében (inessive singular)
törpékben (inessive plural)
törpén (singular superessive)
törpéken (plural superessive)
törpénél (adessive singular)
törpéknél (adessive plural)
törpébe (illative singular)
törpékbe (illative plural)
törpére (singular sublative)
törpékre (plural sublative)
törpéhez (allative singular)
törpékhez (allative plural)
törpéből (elative singular)
törpékből (elative plural)
törpéről (delative singular)
törpékről (delative plural)
törpétől (ablative singular)
törpéktől (ablative plural)
törpéé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
törpéké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
törpééi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
törpékéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)

Nominalization of the present participle (formed with -e (obsolete present-participle suffix)) of an unattested stem, from töpik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”) + -r (frequentative suffix); compare töpörödik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”). The current form developed by metathesis and the reduction of the second vowel. First attested in 1219.

af

-e#Hungarian: participle<pos:obsolete present-participle suffix>

töpik<t:to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle>


Jack Frost

From Jack (“placeholder or conventional name for any man”) + frost.

ref

Arthur Henry Brown ([1863]) Little Jack Frost Quadrilles, London: B. Williams, →OCLC.

This time of Year being cold and frosty generally speaking, or when Jack Frost commonly takes us by the Nose, the Diversions are always within Doors, either in Exercise or by the Fire-side.

1740, “Of Mirth and Jollity, Christmas Gambols, Eating, Drinking, Kissing, and Other Diversions of the Holydays”, in Round about Our Coal-fire, or Christmas Entertainments …, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC; republished as Christmas Entertainments: […], London: Field & Tuer, Yᵉ Leadenhall Presse; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1883, →OCLC, page 6:

Well, and the inside is all lined with skins, warm enough; and there's a fire in the middle; [...] Jack frost may whistle out doors if he pleases, but he can hardly get his nose in here.

1818, Isaac Taylor, “Lapland. 10. Lapland Witch Selling a Wind.”, in Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-home Travellers, London: […] J. Harris, […], →OCLC, page 11:

December's severely cold nights made dreadful havoc with the soldiers[’] toes on the out posts, where for six long hours without fire or aught to shield from Jack Frost’s intrusion, they trod their lonely beat, dreaming of home and friends far away.

1870, George Wise, “Falls Church, Upton’s and Munson’s Hills”, in History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, C.S.A., Baltimore, Md.: Kelly, Piet & Company, →OCLC, page 47:

Autumn has given way to winter once more, and happily the late and heavy rains fattened the ripening crops now reaping; and left everywhere through this district a thick growth of grass, for winter grazing; long enough, generally, to shield from Jack Frost, by its ample tops and seed heads, a bite of succulent stalk above the roots.

1901 June 1, Maynard Matthews, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 7, Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province: Times Printing and Publishing Company, published 7 June 1901, →OCLC, pages 196–197:

Ma said that Jack Frost came in the night and made the pictures, while everyone was asleep. Laura thought that Jack Frost was a little man all snowy white, wearing a glittering white pointed cap and soft white kneeboots made of deerskin.

1932, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, New York, N.Y.: Harper, published 2016, →ISBN:

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire / Jack Frost nipping at your nose / Yuletide carols being sung by a choir / And folks dressed up like Eskimos

1945, “The Christmas Song: Merry Christmas to You: S.A.T.B. with Incidental Soprano Solos and Piano Accompaniment”, Mel Tormé, Bob Wells (lyrics), Mel Tormé (music), New York, N.Y.: E. H. Morris, published 1946, →OCLC:

Winter is damp, dark and cold, but the new year makes me hopeful of the spring and summer to come, [...] Animals need extra care, logs are brought in to unfreeze by the fire, the ice is scraped off the car. Jack Frost paints glorious pictures on (single-glazed) windows.

2006, Sally Schweizer, “Celebrations: ‘She’s Crying for Joy!’”, in Well, I Wonder: Childhood in the Modern World: A Handbook for Parents, Carers and Teachers (Bringing Spirit to Life), Forest Row, East Sussex: Sophia Books, →ISBN, page 169:

Elves, flying reindeer, wood sprites, talking snowmen, and even Jack Frost, or Grandfather Frost in Russia, are all out and about during Advent. [...] Jack Frost, as those of us who live in northern climates well know, can be an annoying sprite who will make winter icy or stormy on a whim.

2013, Marci Alborghetti, “December 15: Jack Frost … and Friends”, in It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ’s Mass, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 15:

A personification of frosty weather or winter.


encantar

es-verb

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, first-person singular preterite encanté, past participle encantado)

encanto (first-person present singular)
encanté (first-person preterite singular)
encantado (participle past)
encantar (infinitive)
encantando (gerund)
encantado (masculine participle past singular)
encantada (feminine participle past singular)
encantados (masculine participle past plural)
encantadas (feminine participle past plural)
encanto (first-person indicative present singular)
encantas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
encantás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
encanta (indicative present singular third-person)
encantamos (first-person indicative plural present)
encantáis (indicative plural present second-person)
encantan (indicative plural present third-person)
encantaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
encantabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
encantaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
encantábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
encantabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
encantaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
encanté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
encantaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
encantó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
encantamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
encantasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
encantaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
encantaré (first-person future indicative singular)
encantarás (future indicative second-person singular)
encantará (future indicative singular third-person)
encantaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
encantaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
encantarán (future indicative plural third-person)
encantaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
encantarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
encantaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
encantaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
encantaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
encantarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
encante (first-person present singular subjunctive)
encantes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
encantés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
encante (present singular subjunctive third-person)
encantemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
encantéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
encanten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
encantara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
encantaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
encantara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
encantáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
encantarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
encantaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
encantase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
encantases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
encantase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
encantásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
encantaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
encantasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
encantare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
encantares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
encantare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
encantáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
encantareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
encantaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
encanta (imperative informal second-person singular)
encantá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
encante (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
encante (imperative singular third-person)
encantemos (first-person imperative plural)
encantad (imperative plural second-person)
encanten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
encanten (imperative plural third-person)
encantes (imperative negative second-person singular)
encante (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
encante (imperative negative singular third-person)
encantemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
encantéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
encanten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
encanten (imperative negative plural third-person)
encantarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
encantarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
encantarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
encantaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
encantarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
encantarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
encantarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
encantaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
encantarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
encantándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
encantándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
encantándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
encantándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
encantándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
encantándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
encantándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
encantándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encántame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
encántales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
encántalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encantame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
encantales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
encantalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encánteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
encántele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
encánteles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encánteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
encántelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
encántelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encántelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encantémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
encantémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
encantémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
encantémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
encantémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
encantémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
encantémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encantadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encantaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
encantadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encantadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encantaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
encantadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encántenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encántenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encántenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encántenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

[ẽŋ.kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

From Latin incantāre, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Equivalent to en- + cantar.

Me encantan los mariscos.


knight-errant

In short, his wits being quite gone, [Don Quixote] hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.

1885, John Ormsby, chapter 1, in Don Quixote, volume 1, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes:

A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry.


Piroska

Piroska (nominative singular)
Piroskák (nominative plural)
Piroskát (accusative singular)
Piroskákat (accusative plural)
Piroskának (dative singular)
Piroskáknak (dative plural)
Piroskával (instrumental singular)
Piroskákkal (instrumental plural)
Piroskáért (causal-final singular)
Piroskákért (causal-final plural)
Piroskává (singular translative)
Piroskákká (plural translative)
Piroskáig (singular terminative)
Piroskákig (plural terminative)
Piroskaként (essive-formal singular)
Piroskákként (essive-formal plural)
Piroskában (inessive singular)
Piroskákban (inessive plural)
Piroskán (singular superessive)
Piroskákon (plural superessive)
Piroskánál (adessive singular)
Piroskáknál (adessive plural)
Piroskába (illative singular)
Piroskákba (illative plural)
Piroskára (singular sublative)
Piroskákra (plural sublative)
Piroskához (allative singular)
Piroskákhoz (allative plural)
Piroskából (elative singular)
Piroskákból (elative plural)
Piroskáról (delative singular)
Piroskákról (delative plural)
Piroskától (ablative singular)
Piroskáktól (ablative plural)
Piroskáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Piroskáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Piroskáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Piroskákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Piroskám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Piroskáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
Piroskád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Piroskáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
Piroskája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Piroskái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
Piroskánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Piroskáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
Piroskátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Piroskáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
Piroskájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Piroskáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood

The Hungarian name for the fairy figure 'Little Red Riding Hood'.


omniverse

(science fiction) The entire set of co-existing universes, multiverses, etc.


aloja

(folklore) a type of nymph or fairy woman believed to dwell in springs, pools, waterfalls, and lakes in areas of natural beauty


aloja

(historical) a drink made of hydromel flavoured with spices


harrowing of hell

en-noun

harrowing of hell (plural harrowings of hell)

Not the direct vision of the harrowings of hell as reported, for example, by many Christian visionaries, but accounts given by the departed souls themselves are more frequent and typical features of Jewish moralist writing.

1977, Raphael Werblowsky, Joseph Karo: lawyer and mystic, 2nd edition, page 44:

Of the four harrowings of hell that are cornerstones of Western literature […], we can eliminate the oldest.

2003, Robert J. Andreach, Drawing upon the Past: Classical Theatre in the Contemporary American Theatre, page 36:

[…] the Hero Twins go on to defeat Xibalba and its ghastly denizens, a true Harrowing of Hell.

2007, Sophie & Michael Coe, The True History of Chocolate, page 39:

(mythology, theology) A raid into the underworld by a heroic figure.


dwarven

en-adj

dwarven (comparative more dwarven, superlative most dwarven)

more dwarven (comparative)
most dwarven (superlative)

(fantasy) Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarfs/dwarves.


UTSL

A pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in Star Wars.

(Internet) Initialism of use the source, Luke.


elven

English: elven, elfe (obsolete)

From Old English elfen, ælfen (“nymph, spirit, fairy”), feminine of elf, ælf (“elf”); by surface analysis, elf + en (feminine suffix). Compare Middle High German elbinne (“fairy, nymph”).

cog

Ofte in fourme of wommane In many derne weye grete compaygnie men i-seoth of heom boþe hoppie and pleiᵹe, þat Eluene beoth i-cleopede

(Oft in the form of women, in very stealthy ways, great numbers of men see fallen angels both happy and playful, that Elvene are embraced,)

& ofte in wimmen fourme hii comeþ to men al so, Þat men clupeþ eluene. —

1300, The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester:

(& oft in women form come hither to men, so that men lay with the elvene.)

A (especially female) elf, a fairy, nymph


coded

en-adj

coded (comparative more coded, superlative most coded)

more coded (comparative)
most coded (superlative)

The character comes across as being female-coded.

This character is coded as autistic.

He is aware of a number of programs with more "capable" characters like Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, who are autistic coded without being explicitly named as such. James notes that, despite being more visible, the autistic traits of these characters tend to be used for comic relief, while autistic people in everyday situations are never seen.

2020 May 21, Noah Adams, Bridget Liang, Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 72:

(fiction, slang) Portrayed in a way that suggests or resembles having a specific trait or inspiration, without being officially explicitly stated as having that trait.