debigulate

en-verb

debigulate (third-person singular simple present debigulates, present participle debigulating, simple past and past participle debigulated)

debigulates (present singular third-person)
debigulating (participle present)
debigulated (participle past)
debigulated (past)

Back-formation from Debigulator, itself from de- + big + -ule + -ate + -or, a fictional shrink ray featured in the 1996 episode "Treehouse of Horror VII" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

> think moe will get his ears enlarged 2.27.00?
No, he'll get them debigulated.

2000 February 27, Ben Mann, “Re: X'tapolapocetl (Quetzelsacatanango?)”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):

2002 October 22, Ed, “Button to enlarge or debigulate size of text?”, in netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist (Usenet):

Does debigulating a table first delete blank rows? (I don't know if blank rows are always at the end or not.)

2008 May 13, Ron Newcomb, “I7: Dynamic Tables extension for Glulx”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):

(rare, humorous) To reduce or shrink; to make or become smaller.


straszydło

straszydełko (diminutive)
straszydło (nominative singular)
straszydła (nominative plural)
straszydła (genitive singular)
straszydeł (genitive plural)
straszydłu (dative singular)
straszydłom (dative plural)
straszydło (accusative singular)
straszydła (accusative plural)
straszydłem (instrumental singular)
straszydłami (instrumental plural)
straszydle (locative singular)
straszydłach (locative plural)
straszydło (singular vocative)
straszydła (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish straszydło, from Proto-Slavic *strašidlo. By surface analysis, straszyć + -dło.


malparkage

From mal- + park + -age. Perhaps introduced in the animated TV series The Simpsons; see Citations:malparkage.

Lisa Simpson (reading letter): Dear motorist. Your vehicle is illegally parked in the borough of Manhattan. If you do not remedy this malparkage within 72 hours, your car will be thrown into the East River at your expense.

1997 21 September, Ian Maxtone-Graham, "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", episode 9-1 of The Simpsons, 00:11:46-00:11:59

Coupled with said customer's malparkage in the handicapped zone right in front of the door, this will usually create an atmosphere of tense, suspect aversion.

2000 August 20, «tµßeguÿ», “Re: automobile tool definitions”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet):

Supposedly, regular mortals have to shell out $50 for presumptuous malparkage among the elite.

2010 February 8, Sean Michael Ragan, “UC Berkeley has 'Nobel Laureate Only' parking spaces”, in Make:

(rare, humorous) An act of parking a vehicle illegally.


Sir Humphrey

From the fictional character Sir Humphrey Appleby, a self-important, Oxford-educated civil servant first depicted in the 1980 premiere of the BBC television series Yes Minister.

Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind
[...]
Key skills required:
— Ability to move head vertically rather than horizontally when asked to promote anything desired by the fund management companies who pay your salary
— Ability to confuse fact with fiction via misleading random statistics (a mathematics skill would be helpful here)
— Ability to pull wool over the regulators’ eyes while maintaining a straight, poker-like face
— Ability to come up with new reasons à la Humphrey from Yes Minister, as to why any progressive change that might help the consumer is currently unworkable.

2012 May 22, Simon English, “Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind”, in The London Evening Standard:

Among the most senior honours, the dominance of Sir Humphreys and courtiers is striking. There are gongs galore for the deputy director of this Whitehall department and the head of strategy group at that one, to say nothing of the pile of baubles handed to those who serve the Windsors.

2013 December 31, Jonathan Freedland, “New Year honours should reward achievement, not cronyism”, in The Guardian:

Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.

2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:

(UK) A high-ranking bureaucrat, particularly one who is elitist and deliberately obscure.


jump scare

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They'd do something horrible, maybe kill off a few protagonists, and then make people sit around waiting for the next terrible thing to come along. They called it “setting up a jump scare.”

2011, Mira Grant, Deadline, Orbit, published 2011, →ISBN:

Drag Me to Hell capitalizes on the jump scare, scattering it liberally throughout the film to the point where it becomes almost numbing.

2011, John Rosenberg, The Healthy Edit: Creative Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie, Focal Press, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.

2013, Jeffrey Bullins, “Hearing the Game: Sound Design”, in James Aston, editor, To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 188:

(narratology) The technique, typically used in horror films and video games, of having something occur suddenly and without warning to frighten the audience.

säikäytys

a technique to suddenly scare the audience


jump scare

jump scare (third-person singular simple present jump scares, present participle jump scaring, simple past and past participle jump scared)

jump scares (present singular third-person)
jump scaring (participle present)
jump scared (participle past)
jump scared (past)

(transitive) To frighten (a film audience or video game player, etc.) by means of something that happens suddenly without warning.


Śnieżka

Śnieżka (nominative singular)
Śnieżki (genitive singular)
Śnieżce (dative singular)
Śnieżkę (accusative singular)
Śnieżką (instrumental singular)
Śnieżce (locative singular)
Śnieżko (singular vocative)


plasteel

Grunting, he heaved to his feet and looked out the lucilite port at the surface of Saturn. Cold and rugged it was, lashed by furious gales that tore with futile fury at the plasteel dome which Elmer Dunk called home.

1942 March, Gord Peck, “He Was Poor...But He Was Honest”, in Censored, volume 1, number 3, St. Andrew's College, Aurora, page 7:

The passage, two paces deep, opened through a heavy door into a square office lighted by golden glowglobes. Jessica passed her hand across the door as she entered, was startled to identify plasteel.

(science fiction) A fictional durable substance.


فرانک

Azerbaijani:

Latin script: Fəranək

Arabic script: فرانک

Turkish: Feranek

Possibly from a variant of Middle Persian plwʾnk' (parwānag). Compare Iranian borrowings Arabic فُرَانِق (furāniq, “courier's guide”) and Old Armenian Փառնակ (Pʻaṙnak).


gigants

gigants (nominative singular)
giganti (nominative plural)
gigantu (accusative singular)
gigantus (accusative plural)
giganta (genitive singular)
gigantu (genitive plural)
gigantam (dative singular)
gigantiem (dative plural)
gigantu (instrumental singular)
gigantiem (instrumental plural)
gigantā (locative singular)
gigantos (locative plural)
gigant (singular vocative)
giganti (plural vocative)

rūķis

antonym(s) of “of "large mythical being"”

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”), genitive form γιγάντος (gigántos), the name of a mythical race of large human-like beings. The word was apparently taken into Ancient Greek from a non-Indo-European pre-Greek language.

(Greek mythology) giant (member of a race of enormous beings, the children of Gaia and Uranus)


battlesuit

(science fiction) A technologically enhanced suit worn in battle for protection, camouflage, etc.


poor little rich girl

en-noun

poor little rich girl (plural poor little rich girls)

One is a cheerful and spunky orphan, another is a poor little rich girl. (The poor little rich girl speaks with a British accent. The spunky orphan wears her baseball cap backwards, so you don't have a problem figuring out who's who.)

2003, Svetlana Boym, Ninochka, page 172:

Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls. Mandy was a poor little poor girl, a mousy waif who lived out Thika Road, far from Muthaiga.

2006, Dorothy Stephens, Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959, page 96:

So, are you a poor little rich girl, slumming it and hiding from boyfriends who only want your trust fund instead of you?

2010, Michelle L. Levigne, Have Yourself a Faerie Little Christmas:

(idiomatic) An unhappy young woman from a wealthy background.


化け猫

Compound of 化け (bake, “transformation, taking the form of; monster”, stem of verb 化ける (bakeru, “to transform, to change into something else”)) + 猫 (neko, “cat”).

compound

stem of verb <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">化ける</i> (bakeru, “to transform, to change into something else”)

In Japanese folklore, this entity was believed to be a magical cat, sometimes capable of transforming itself into a person or various other forms.

(Japanese mythology) a monster cat; a goblin cat; a cat with magical powers


sickfic

en-noun

sickfic (countable and uncountable, plural sickfics)

darkfic

fan fiction dealing with disturbing situations and themes

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a sickfic.

1999 October 26, Nicola Simpson, “Re: What About A 'Sick Fic Archive'????”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Summary: A cliché little sickfic

2001 March 23, Bracha Shahar, “Fic: Urgggg”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

This was written as a sickfic for the List Mom of ShoDDs. Glad you're feeling better DB!

2001 July 20, Medie, “FIC: Safety And Security (DSR) 1/1”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang, countable) A fanfic which focuses on a character dealing with illness.


bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

Originated in the 1948 novelty song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”, used in the 1950 film Cinderella.

(informal) A light-hearted magical incantation.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
Cinderella (1950 film)


Henny Penny

The Henny Pennies who forecast doom and disaster thus have been proved hysterics who could use some est or encounter sessions to calm their anxieties.

1984, Carol Chambers Collins, Our Food, Air and Water: How Safe Are They?, Facts on File, published 1984, →ISBN, page 27:

I know that in some quarters I am regarded as a kind of wet blanket, a Henny Penny predicting doom and gloom.

2001, Seymour B. Sarason, American Psychology & Schools: A Critique, Teachers College Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 130:

On April 11, in a tense news conference during a period when the looting dominated the news, Rumsfeld dismissed the media by calling them “Henny Pennies,” a reference to a children's tale in which the main character runs around, declaring that the sky is falling.

2006, Rebecca Knuth, Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Praegar Publishers, published 2006, →ISBN, page 209:

One who panics at the slightest provocation.


Titanean

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon)


hordesman

Ganelon had given himself up to the Ximchak hordesmen in order to protect Ishgadara and Grrff from being killed. Part of the deal was that the Flying Castle was to remain where it was now situated, with Palensus Choy promising not to enter Gompland with aerial Zaradon: in return for this, Turgo had sworn that the Barbarian hordesmen would not again enter Gray Dynast territory, or lay siege to Isle Trancore, and would respect the territorial integrity of the Mad Empire.

2001, Lin Carter, The Barbarian of World's End, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 20:

Noman's men were doing a fair job at holding back the hordes but Noman could see that there were many more hordesmen in the distance moving slowly towards them.

2008, R. A. Knowlton, Knorrasky: The Deception, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 46:

The air was still and silent. It felt as if at any moment a Hordesman would jump out and attack them.

2017, Z. Belobrajdic, The Legend of Arthax, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 307:

(chiefly fantasy) A man who belongs to a barbarian horde.


Islamerica

2003, Eprem, Re: Islam: The Next American Religion? Group: alt.religion.islam
Americans are not very inclined to believe your propaganda of a utopia islamerica

2006, Wild Monkshood, Re: Only in America--soon to be Islamerica. Give an inch, they'll take . . . your country. Group: alt.true-crime
Only in America--soon to be Islamerica

2002, TR, Re: Women Slaves of Islam Group: alt.religion.islam
What is the most Islamic country in the world? Islamerica. If you eliminated from the list of Muslims, all those Muslims that other Muslims called "they are not Muslims", there would be no Muslims left on the list

He had already formed a very preliminary first hypothesis, based on that vector running through Angela's statement about Islamerica's objective; Braddock's multiple personas as a shuttle pilot […]

2002, Arthur Becker, Destiny Restored - Page 103

(derogatory) A supposed future United States which is predominantly inhabited by Muslims.


未確認飛行物体

ja-noun

みかくにん ひこう ぶったい

みかくにん ひかう ぶつたい

未(み)確(かく)認(にん)飛(ひ)行(こう)物(ぶっ)体(たい) • (mikakunin hikō buttai) ^(←みかくにんひかうぶつたい (mikakunin fikau bututai)?)

未確認飛行物体 (canonical)
mikakunin hikō buttai (romanization)
mikakunin fikau bututai (romanization)
みかくにんひかうぶつたい (hiragana historical)

みかくにんひこーぶったい

[mʲika̠kɯ̟ɲ̟iɰ̃ çi̥ko̞ː bɯ̟t̚ta̠i]

From 未確認 (mikakunin, “unidentified”) + 飛行 (hikō, “flying”) + 物体 (buttai, “object”), calque of English unidentified flying object.

cal

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object


主角

/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛɻ³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡syː³⁵ kɔːk̚³/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kak̚⁵/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁵²⁻³⁵ kioʔ²/

/t͡su⁵²⁻³⁵ kak̚²/

/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛɻ³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡syː³⁵ kɔːk̚³/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kak̚⁵/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kak̚³²/

/t͡su⁵²⁻³⁵ kioʔ²/

/t͡su⁵²⁻³⁵ kak̚²/


不明飛行物

ㄅㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄈㄟ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄨˋ

бумин фэйсинъу

/pu⁵¹ miŋ³⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵ u⁵¹/

/pu⁵¹ miŋ³⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵ u⁵¹/


outworlder

It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved.

1967, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

He speaks with the outworlder tongue!
What else were you expecting from a male, sister Dykstra?

1995, Among Friends And Enemies, Part 3: The Magical Mystery Tour (Gen13), volume 2, number 3 (comic), page 19:

Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources.

1998, Celia S. Friedman, This Alien Shore:

(science fiction, fantasy) One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.


Мухосранск

ru-proper noun+

Мухосра́нск • (Muxosránsk) m inan (genitive Мухосра́нска)

Мухосра́нск (canonical)
Muxosránsk (romanization)
Мухосра́нска (genitive)
Мухосра́нск (nominative singular)
Мухосра́нска (genitive singular)
Мухосра́нску (dative singular)
Мухосра́нск (accusative singular)
Мухосра́нском (instrumental singular)
Мухосра́нске (prepositional singular)

From му́ха (múxa, “fly”) + -о- (-o-) + срать (sratʹ, “to shit”) + -ск (-sk).

af

ru:Мухосранск


dakka

Onomatopoeic for a firing machine gun. From the invented Ork lexicon in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop war game.

(slang, especially board games) Firepower.


cheese-eating surrender monkey

en-noun

cheese-eating surrender monkey (plural cheese-eating surrender monkeys)

cheese-eating surrender monkeys (plural)

Coined by American television writer and producer Ken Keeler in 1995, for the television series The Simpsons.

coin

Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

1995 April 30, “'Round Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 22, spoken by Groundskeeper Willie (Dan Castellaneta):

In turn, we British may feel disillusioned with what's left of the special relationship, increasingly out of sympathy with American attitudes, and rather more in sympathy with the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and their friends across the Channel.

2003 April 12, Alexander Chancellor, “Europe still matters”, in The Guardian:

IN PRAISE OF CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS OR WASHINGTON FUNDAMENTALISTS VS PARISIAN MONKEYS

2005, Stephen Chan, Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War, →ISBN, page 134:

It's all about the “French Paradox,” that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

2005, Julie Powell, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, →ISBN, page 178:

Maybe it's their French blood. If it is, we sure don't need cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the Kaw River Valley!

2008, Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas, →ISBN, page 170:

We've lived with terrorism for years, and we know you can lick it, especially if we don't overreact and make unnecessary sacrifices of liberty in the name of security - for freedom is its own best defence. Between cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fire-eating war junkies, we look for a middle way.

2006 July 5, Timothy Garton Ash, “Between cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fire-eating war junkies”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-05-31:

But despite their seemingly rampant Anglophilia, there are still some things the French miss—a good steak tartare, for instance, or the chance to cheer on their rugby team without being shouted down as ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’.

2008 March 23, Elizabeth Day, “The great French love affair with la vie anglaise”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

Groundskeeper Willie called us cheese-eating surrender monkeys: he almost had it right. But it isn't just the French—as a species we are all cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

[2009, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 16:

(slang, derogatory, humorous) A French person.

The Simpsons
cheese-eating surrender monkeys


Tolkienologist

One who studies Tolkien and his creations.


Gandalfesque

en-adj

Gandalfesque (comparative more Gandalfesque, superlative most Gandalfesque)

more Gandalfesque (comparative)
most Gandalfesque (superlative)

Gandalf + -esque, with the name having been taken by J. R. R. Tolkien from the Old Norse Gandálfr, from gandr (“magic staff”) + alfr (“elf”).

[…] there is radical Evil here (distilled in its purest form in Lord Voldemort), as much as there is Good (figured in the Gandalfesque Dumbledore).

2007, William MacNeil, Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture, page 25:

With qualities resembling those of Gandalf, a wise old wizard in The Lord of the Rings with a long white beard.


Bilboesque

Bilboesque (comparative more Bilboesque, superlative most Bilboesque)

more Bilboesque (comparative)
most Bilboesque (superlative)

At the same time, Bilboesque proverbs like "Every worm has his weak spot" and "Never laugh at live dragons" use the familiar proverb form to make the unfamiliar inhabitants of the secondary world seem more matter-of-fact.

1981, Katharyn W. Crabbe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Frederick Ungar Publishers, →ISBN, page 60:

So here goes: much as Alex Ferguson and Manchester United could not afford to let their Bilboesque, talismanic striker leave the football club, Key and New Zealand could not afford to let this production take flight.

2010 October 29, Toby Manhire, “The Hobbit hullabaloo”, in The Guardian:

“He’s Bilbo-esque,” the filmmaker said. “You might not always want to say that about you, right? But seriously he has the essential features of this little English gent, this country gent who is slightly old-fashioned and has to go around in the world and try to cope with it. That’s not exactly who Martin [Freeman] is as a person, but as an actor he does that so well. […]

2011 August 23, Geoff Boucher, “‘The Hobbit’: Peter Jackson and the one true Bilbo Baggins”, in Los Angeles Times:

Of, relating to, or reminiscent of the character Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.


Nazgul

From nazgûl (“ringwraith”) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional language Black Speech, a compound of nazg (“ring”) and gûl (“wraith; spirit”).

The West Hampstead studio flat looks like the Nazgul have just thundered through it […]

The last thing she wanted was for Zach to come storming out of the house like a Nazgul, telling her to get the hell away from his daughter.

2011, Kristin Hannah, Night Road, page 282:

There's three blokes who look like the Nazgul in pinstripes, and a skinny hatchetfaced bird who keeps saying “Well?” at me every time she asks me a question and I don't answer her inside half a second.

2012, Tom Holt, You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps, page 133:

(fantasy) An evil force which heedlessly destroys everything in its path, and appears like a horseman dressed all in black.


Nazgul

(On Lost Souls there is a Ringwraith guild; Nazguls are members at levels 26-29.)

1994, Chiaroscuro, “Re: ColdMUD, interesting career(class,guild)-systems, and thoughts about mudding”, in rec.games.mud.misc (Usenet):

In the Touist^([sic]) quest, there was a polymorph trap on the first level, and one of the non-peaceful buggers polyed into a Nazgul (ugh!).

1994, The Nowhere Man, “Re: Only 9 Nazguls? (was: Ascension (long))”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

AFAIK Moria itself has never had uniques, though some variants do (Morgul has the nine Nazguls, for instance) or artifacts.

1999, Jonathan Ellis, “Re: unique version of moria”, in rec.games.roguelike.moria (Usenet):

Scrolls of mass genocide, scrolls of teleport, and a kick-ass bow generally are prerequisites for killing Nazguls in Pernband.

2001, Pat Gunn, “Re: [Pern] YASD (#$# Nazguls)”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):

Soulcrusher established his power in Valhalla itself where he trained the Nazguls and built a guardian to protect his privacy.

2000, Fuzzy, “AD: [rom] Dawn of Empires - mud.dawnofempires.com”, in rec.games.mud.misc (Usenet):

While poking around on level 20, I came across an object I've never seen before, a Short Bow of the Nazgul (x2) (-7,-7) {cursed}.

2002, Matthew Murray, “Short Bow of the Nazgul”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):

(fantasy, roleplaying games) A type of demonic or undead creature.


Mordor

Chinese: 魔多

Polish: Mordor

Russian: Мо́рдор (Mórdor)

Ukrainian: Мо́рдор (Mórdor)

/ˈmɔːdɔː(ɹ)/

J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
Mordor
Sauron

From Mordor, a bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth. Tolkien created the name in his constructed language Sindarin, from morn (“dark, black”) and dôr (“land”).
Compare with Old English morþor (“murder”), murder, Greek μαυρός (mavrós, “dim”) and Latin mors (“death”).
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian Мо́рдор (Mórdor) or Russian Мо́рдор (Mórdor), both of those from the English word, alluding to it being the land of orcs.

semantic loan

It is a “Mordor” sort of anthropology, dark rather than light, swampland rather than solid ground.

2007, Paul F. M. Zahl, Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., published 2007, →ISBN, page 94:

Nevertheless, this book is about the truth, the good and the bad, so I will tread into the forbidden territory, the Mordor of motherhood.

2007, B. Erin Wylde, Where Did I Go?, →ISBN, page 100:

“OK, can we go back now?” asked their guide and expert on the underground, whose restless eyes implied that he was on the edge of panic. “I for one am not venturing a step further into this Mordor.”

2012, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, A Grain of Truth: A Second Case for State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Bitter Lemon Press (2012; original Polish book published 2011), page 290

It’s impossible to find harmony in an outfit when you have to schlep five kilos of kit with you in order to manage the post-workout transformation. Of course, I could change at work. But this would entail using the office showers. And I would sooner venture into Mordor.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

“I fled from Moscow, which has turned into Mordor.[…]”

2022 April 17, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, quoting Antonina Baever, “Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

They are out in nature for hours a day – despite the fact that the weather’s terrible (we’re talking Mordor from October to March).

2024 February 25, Helen Russell, “Play outside and sing together: what living in Denmark taught me about raising ‘Viking’ children”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.


Mordor

Mordor (nominative singular)
Mordoru (genitive singular)
Mordorowi (dative singular)
Mordor (accusative singular)
Mordorem (instrumental singular)
Mordorze (locative singular)
Mordorze (singular vocative)

From Mordor, a bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth.

Nie zrobił Mordor niczego złego: był jedynym w Śródziemiu nowoczesnym społeczeństwem opartym na wiedzy i racjonalizmie, rozwijającym się i uprzemysławiającym, pełnym naukowców i artystów – zupełnie jak Rosja.

2020 March 21, Ziemowit Szczerek, “Szczerek sprawdza: Gdzie na mapie Europy wypada Mordor, a gdzie wiedźmińskie krainy”, in wyborcza.pl, archived from the original on 2024-09-09:

Mordor did nothing wrong: it was the only modern society in Middle-earth based on knowledge and rationalism, developing and industrializing, full of scientists and artists – just like Russia.

Mordor (bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth)


Sauronesque

en-adj

Sauronesque (comparative more Sauronesque, superlative most Sauronesque)

more Sauronesque (comparative)
most Sauronesque (superlative)

This crew faces the Sauronesque embodiment of evil, the Shadow, its minions, the savage Reavers, and treachery in the usurper of Arlen's throne.

1984, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 104, numbers 10-14, page 146:

And it's not the only Sauronesque Bush program

2003 January 2, Noah Shachtman, “Bush's Year of U.S. Surveillance”, in Wired:

Their Sauronesque motto—Join us, and we can rule the Middle East together—doesn't have quite the catchy ring it once did.

Having similar traits to the fictional character Sauron from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, including evilness, tyrannicalness, or all-seeingness.


Frodoesque

Frodoesque (comparative more Frodoesque, superlative most Frodoesque)

more Frodoesque (comparative)
most Frodoesque (superlative)

The young Bates embarks on a Frodoesque mission to reclaim the kingdom of Middlefinger, of which he is the rightful heir.

2003 December 1, “Names & Faces”, in The Washington Post:

It doesn't have a schoolboy wizard, hobbits or a talking lion but ticks most of the genre's boxes with its tale of friendship between the Frodoesque Eragon (Edward Speleers) and his dragon (voiced by Rachel Weisz).

2006 December 22, “FILM ; ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW”, in The Independent:

One Web site, www.ourhobbithole.com, charts the progress of a Frodoesque fantasy.

2009, Ethan Gilsdorf, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 131:

Having similar traits to the fictional character Frodo Baggins from the Lord of the Rings, such as unexpectedly being sent on a quest.


Gandalfian

Gandalfian (comparative more Gandalfian, superlative most Gandalfian)

more Gandalfian (comparative)
most Gandalfian (superlative)

Weary Betsy blew a Gandalfian smoke-ring.

2002, Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer, Scribner, →ISBN, page 123:

Above the beard his face was unmasked and very thin, concave cheeks falling away from jutting bones, his eyes sunken deep in their sockets under tufted Gandalfian brows.

2007, Amanda Hemingway, The Poisoned Crown, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 291:

A giraffe-like man, Gandalfian, nearly ninety, Uncle Leo wore his summer uniform, madras shorts and a polo shirt.

2011, Patricia Henley, Other Heartbreaks: Stories, Engine Books, →ISBN:

Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.


Dumbledorian

Dumbledorian (comparative more Dumbledorian, superlative most Dumbledorian)

more Dumbledorian (comparative)
most Dumbledorian (superlative)

From Dumbledore (itself from the noun dumbledore) + -ian.

suffix

itself from the noun <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">dumbledore</i>

“Now I believe it’s someone’s birthday today,” Michael [Gambon] said in his finest Dumbledorian tones.

2010, Warwick Davis, Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis, John Wiley & Sons, published 2011, →ISBN, page 374:

The all-important Guildmaster, a Dumbledorian, Gandalfian character of infinite wisdom, martial experience, untainted moral integrity and a white Western phenotype, speaks with a standard RP stage accent featuring the characteristic alveolar trill – or ‘rolled [r]’.

2011, Astrid Ensslin, edited by Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling, and Ben Light, Gamers: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, Routledge, →ISBN, Recallin’ Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games, page 229:

I found my way to it by following a gentleman with a Rip Van Winkle beard and a Pedersen bicycle, which is a bike of Swedish design that looks like the illegitimate offspring of a penny farthing and a hammock, and between his vaguely Dumbledorian appearance […].

2013, Eben Weiss, Bike Snob Abroad: Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise, Chronicle Book, →ISBN, page 82:

Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series


Ravenclaw

/ˈɹeɪvənˌklɔː/

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling, from raven + claw.

“Let's go, Ravenclaws!” Kristen cheered loudly. Lizbeth laughed and nudged her in the arm.
“You're such a dork,” she told her. “They're just warming up.”

2011, Taylor Morris, Hello, Gorgeous!: Blowout, Grosset & Dunlap, published 2011, →ISBN:

“I've always thought of myself as more of a Ravenclaw.”

2012, Kristi Cook, Eternal, Simon and Schuster, published 2013, →ISBN, page 232:

“I know we've met, but I'm Tom. Law.”
“And I'm Will,” I said. “English.”
She rolled her eyes. “I'm Ella. Ravenclaw.”

2014, Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments, St. Martins Press, →ISBN, page 80:

A person having traits associated with Ravenclaw house from the Harry Potter series, including intelligence, creativity, and love of learning or an affinity for eagles or the colours blue and bronze.

когревранец

person having traits associated with the house


Slytherin

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling, presumably from slither.

“You know, there are colors beyond black and green. You're not a Slytherin.”

2012, Molly Harper, My Bluegrass Baby, Pocket Star Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 57:

I'll admit, this place creeps me out, but Slytherins out there will enjoy viewing (and holding) over 50 types of snakes and reptiles, including bearded dragons, horned frogs, and tarantulas.

2013, Michele Bigley, Explorer's Guide Northern California, The Countryman Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 409:

“It's too bad your Slytherin brother can't be persuaded to tell the truth to Will,” Annabeth mused.
“Not unless there's something in it for him.”

2013, Tracey Solheim, Foolish Games, Berkley, published 2013, →ISBN:

A person having traits associated with Slytherin house from the Harry Potter series, including ambition, cunning, or an affinity for snakes or the colours green and silver.


Sauron

From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).


Gryffindor

/ˈɡɹɪfɪnˌdɔɹ/

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling, presumably from griffin and a compound of the French d'or.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a consummate Gryffindor. He comes across in interviews and speeches as someone who's truly kind and angry about the country's woes, though it's clear he doesn't recklessly allow this anger to cloud his decisions.

2011 August 24, Cyrus Duff, “Which House? Harry Potter Helps Sort Presidential Field”, in Hartford Courant:

I pulled out a Gryffindor key chain I had been saving for just such an emergency, and she cheered up while telling me why she was definitely a Gryffindor and not a Slytherin.

2012, Eloisa James, Paris in Love, Random House, published 2013, →ISBN, page 167:

I had just freed a man wearing a dark blue suit and a Gryffindor tie when Asil's shout made me turn to see Frost right on top of me.

2013, Patricia Briggs, Frost Burned, Berkley, published 2013, →ISBN:

(sometimes used attributively) A person having traits associated with Gryffindor house from the Harry Potter series, including bravery, boldness, or an affinity for lions or the colours red and gold.

Gryfon

a person having traits associated with Gryffindor House Harry Potter


Hufflepuffish

en-adj

Hufflepuffish (comparative more Hufflepuffish, superlative most Hufflepuffish)

more Hufflepuffish (comparative)
most Hufflepuffish (superlative)

Poor Neville. He really is a Gryffindor, not a Hufflepuff, although he seems Hufflepuffish at times.

2003 May 27, Miranda, “Re: Out of the Sorting Hat”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

But I wouldn't say he was very Hufflepuffish or Gryffindorish either.

2004 September 2, Rick R., “Re: Just for the heck of it…”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

I see Hufflepuffish spirit in the unwillingness of Cornelius Fudge and the Ministry of Magic to accept that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has returned and that traditions et al need to be altered to deal with the threat. Heck, the whole society seems stifled by Hufflepuffish values.

2005 July 8, Beowulf Bolt, “Re: Raising god-level children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Of, related to, or exhibiting traits associated with Hufflepuff house from the Harry Potter series.


10 points to Gryffindor

Ow! A touch, I do confess. 10 points to Gryffindor.

2001 December 4, Berry Kercheval, “Re: grepping grappa”, in ba.food (Usenet):

If you gathered that from the visual aids above, 10 points to Gryffindor! You are outstanding.

2013, Kathryn Cua, "Questions, Comments, Concerns", Devils' Advocate (Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, Illinois), Issue 6, 20 December 2013, page 8

(NYC cuisiniers were on this a year ago, so 10 points to Gryffindor.)

2014 February 17, Molly Mulshine, “French Chefs Really Wish You’d Stop Instagramming Their Meals Read”, in The New York Observer:

ten points to Gryffindor
ten points to Gryffindor#English

Alternative form of ten points to Gryffindor


Gryffindorish

Gryffindorish (comparative more Gryffindorish, superlative most Gryffindorish)

more Gryffindorish (comparative)
most Gryffindorish (superlative)

The most Gryffindorish character Tolkien wrote about.

2004 September 2, Rick R., “Re: Sorting LOTR characters (was: just for the heck of it(”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Peter/Wormtail has not shown any Gryffindorish trait so far.

2007 May 2, Bonehammer, “Re: (Ex) Students behaving out of character with their house”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Being arrogantly pretentious is a very Gryffindorish trait ;)

2007 May 4, drusilla, “Re: (Ex) Students behaving out of character with their house”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Of, related to, or exhibiting traits associated with Gryffindor house from the Harry Potter series such as bravery, boldness, and being extroverted.


ten points to Gryffindor

From the Harry Potter series, in which students of the magical school Hogwarts belong to four houses (the protagonist belonging to Gryffindor), and earn or lose points for them based on their actions.

'Well, I'm assuming two things will happen. One, she'll try and kill me, two, you'll come down on her like a ton of bricks.'
'Ten points to Gryffindor,' said Gwen.

2008, James Goss, Torchwood: Almost Perfect, BBC Books, →ISBN, page 90:

“Yeah, sure. You know I can't stand the sight of blood, right?”
“Said no one ever while dating a vampire,” he quipped.
“Very clever. Ten points to Gryffindor.”

2013, Kristi Cook, Eternal, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 232:

Yeah, well he has a backpfeifengesicht (ten points to Gryffindor if you can pronounce this word), AKA: a face that deserves to be punched.

2013, Lara Hovsepian-Ruby, "Words That Should Be Part of the English Language", Caliber Magazine (University of California, Berkeley), Summer 2013, page 12

(humorous) Used to praise someone for a statement or action viewed as commendable.

Gryffindor
Harry Potter
Hogwarts
House system


Pottermaniac

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Bloomsbury; 636 pages) would have sold millions of copies had its publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs.

2000 July 24, Paul Grey, “Harry's Magic is Back Again”, in Time:

The launch of the fifth book, for instance, involved only one personal appearance, when JKR read extracts to 4,000 carefully selected Pottermaniacs in the Albert Hall.

2007, Bernard Cova, Robert Kozinets, & Avi Shankar, Consumer Tribes, Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN:

If you are a Pottermaniac, this is the month for you. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" opens today, and on July 21 the seventh and final Potter tome lands with a thud at your local bookstore.

2007 July 12, Peter Rainer, “'Phoenix' rising: Harry Potter and the abridged tome”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

One who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.


Slytherinish

Slytherinish (comparative more Slytherinish, superlative most Slytherinish)

more Slytherinish (comparative)
most Slytherinish (superlative)

What it probably means is that Dumbledore et al must constantly contend without the authority to take action, especially in light of Fudge, who is probably Slytherinish enough to fire any MoM officials who contend that Volemort^([sic]) has returned.

2003 April 11, John VanSickle, “Re: What BUGS you most about the OP Hints?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

He was Slytherinish in his early life (which he sort of returns to in Mort, but look at his dedication to Death in Hogfather. People do change (a weakness in the whole sorting system).

2004 September 1, Daniel Speyer, “Re: Sorta [R] Sorting other Fictional Characters:”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

He would not have changed; the Slytherinish traits are already there.

2005 August 25, T. M. Summers, “Re: Snape's situation”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Of, related to, or exhibiting traits associated with Slytherin house from the Harry Potter series.


Potterholic

My eight-year-old, as die-hard a Potterholic as they come, a kid who can probably remember Hogwarts minutiae that even JK has forgotten, walked out of the multiplex and gave it a five out of 10.

2001 November 25, Charlie Fletcher, “Has Potter movie magic lost its spell?”, in Scotland on Sunday:

By the time the doors were ready to open, the Potterholics had managed to transform the bland room, with its gray-knotted carpet and vaulted ceiling, into a dark and chapelesque space, hung with streamers and Hogwarts house banners, and a looped clip of floating candles from the Harry Potter movies playing on the wall.

2008, Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 103:

As a 'Potterholic' myself, clad in a Gryffindor scarf, wand tucked into my front pocket, armed with the first and best tickets for the first showing, I waited impatiently for the movie to begin.

2010, Sangeetha Alagappan, “Casting a spell over Bahrain”, in Gulf Weekly, Volume 9, Issue 47, 24 November - 30 November 2010:

(informal) One who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.


Potterite

Fungi in the forest and the surrounding area include names that would delight any Potterite: dead man's fingers, yellow brain fungus, dung roundhead, scarlet elfcup […]

2003, Connie Ann Kirk, J. K. Rowling: A Biography, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 24:

Though it seemed that every Potterite in line had their own theories about the future of Harry Potter, some weren't so certain about their own futures after finishing the book.

2007 July 21, Caroline E. Richardson, “Fans line up for farewell to Harry”, in The Commercial Appeal:

It took more than three years of research, but we managed to find sixty-eight (68) Potter Places in the UK—specifically on the island of Great Britain. However, not all of these sites are places every Potterite will enjoy.

2012, C. D. Miller, Harry Potter Places Book Four — NEWTs: Northeastern England Wizarding Treks, First Edition Design Publishing, →ISBN:


retrocausally

By means of, or in terms of, retrocausality.


magical Negro

(film, literature) A black supporting stock character in media, especially American cinema, who is portrayed as coming to the aid of a white protagonist.


Gandalfish

Gandalfish (comparative more Gandalfish, superlative most Gandalfish)

more Gandalfish (comparative)
most Gandalfish (superlative)

It has an Aragorn figure called Gwydion, a Gandalfish wizard called Dallben, a dwarf named Doli, […]

1980, Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

The archetypical instance is Ralph Bakshi's film Wizards, in which, at the final duel between the Disneylike good wizard and the Gandalfish evil wizard, […]

1986, Jan Hokenson, Howard Pearce, editors, Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 36:

IMHO it would be a disaster to make a sort of Gandalfish wizard out of Sauron, with black robes and all the other Evil Accessories (tm).

1999 September 16, Ola Lundgren, “Re: The Character of Sauron?”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet):


pantropy

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”, literally “turning”), coined by American science-fiction writer James Blish and first attested in 1952.

coinage

(science fiction) The process of adapting humans through genetic and/or cybernetic means to thrive in environments otherwise inhospitable to them, such as outer space, the deep sea or other planets.


caquesseitão

The term was most likely coined by Fernão Mendes Pinto but a Malay origin is not excluded.

a creature mentioned in Fernão Mendes Pinto’s memoir Peregrinação, described as having the size of a large duck, being black, having bat-like wings, a lizard-like tail, a snake-like neck, spikes the length of a quill on its back and a rooster-like spur on the back of its head


hengeyokai

1985, David Cook, Oriental Adventures, TSR Inc., →ISBN
Hengeyokai are intelligent, shape-changing animals. Several subraces exist, each a different type of animal. They are found throughout the Oriental world, usually on the fringes of human-settled lands.

1998-01-28, Lee Gold, Re: B5 Filk: You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Us Sinclair, rec.music.filk
If a hengeyokai fails to concentrate (or perhaps gets distracted -- due to being beaten, seeing a mouse, fatigue), the human form's ears may get pointed or a tail may appear.

Hengeyokai transfer between forms almost instantly, though when in human form, they often retain some mark of characteristic of their true animal nature.

2001, Laurence C. Bush, Asian Horror Encyclopedia: Asian Horror Culture in Literature, Manga and Folklore, Writers Club Press, page 69:

2013-10-12, Jasin Zujovic, Hengeyokai level adjustment, rec.games.frp.dnd
I've been watching Inuyasha yesterday (too bad that's a German dub and I can understand almost nothing) and that got me wanting to make myself a hengeyokai character... and then I remembered the level adjustment.

(folklore) A legendary Japanese animal with the ability to shapeshift into human form.


spellcasting

Lewis unwittingly brings Izard back from the dead trying to impress a schoolmate with his spellcasting abilities, and all magical Hell breaks loose.

2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 2018-09-20:


defictionalize

en-verb

defictionalize (third-person singular simple present defictionalizes, present participle defictionalizing, simple past and past participle defictionalized)

defictionalizes (present singular third-person)
defictionalizing (participle present)
defictionalized (participle past)
defictionalized (past)

(transitive) To bring out of the realm of fiction; to associate with the real world.


nightwalker

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

* night + walker
* (vampire): since they are traditionally said to avoid sunlight and go out at night.

(archaic, euphemistic) A prostitute who looks for clients on the streets.


shapechanger

A creature that can supernaturally change its physical form.


scoutship

(science fiction) A spaceship that carries out reconnaissance.


stardrive

From star + drive.
From the ability of the drive to propel the vehicle to the stars.

Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship.
Memory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005

Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years.
GateWorld, Stardrive

Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships
IMDB, "Stardrive"

Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth.
iUniverse, "The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN

The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus
NESFA Hymnal, "Reminder", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12

no star drive yet devised could produce that kind of acceleration
"Orbitsville Departure", B. Shaw, 1983, pp.190

Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory.
"Light", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135

The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut
Amazing Stories, "We All Died At Breakaway Stations", B.C. Meredith, 1969

Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive
Astounding SF, "Blood's Rover", C. Oliver, 1952

They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations
Astounding SF, "Genius", P. Anderson, 1948

We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive
Aliens, "Guardian Generations", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN

When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence.
Trafford Publishing, "Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN

—or century: humans can endure star-drive!
Arc Manor, "The Colors of Space", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN

He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future.
Simon and Schuster, "The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN

Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star.
Prologue Books, "Scavengers in Space", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN

What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races.
"The Far Side of Evil", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158

(science fiction) a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances


Who-athon

Makes me wish I had a VCR so I could blow the dust off of all my video tapes and have a Who-athon.

1993 November 25, Michele Paige Goudie, “Oh geeze, I missed it.”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):

To set the scene for the new series, UKTV Gold is showing all of the last one, created by Russell T Davies and starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion Rose. The Who-athon will screen from 11am-6pm on Saturday, and from 11am-6pm on Sunday.

2006 April 4, Martin, “Tennant's Extra”, in uk.media.tv.sf.drwho (Usenet):

But the Who'''-athon starts early on Saturday morning, with retrospectives on each doctor and classic episodes starting on UKTV at 6.30am and running throughout the day - and on Sunday, too.

2013 November 21, “TV picks of the week: A lesson in Who-story”, in The New Zealand Herald:

(informal) A marathon of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who.


Trekverse

No, he [Picard] was French but his accent confuses anybody who doesn't know him…
Or maybe in the Trekverse, France is a part of the United Kingdom...

2002 March 22, machf [username], “Re: ENTERPRISE="AMERICANS IN SPACE"?”, in rec.arts.startrek.current (Usenet):

Most internet Trek role-plays have rules to prevent people from creating super-techs or acting like a superhero because it is not realistic in the Trekverse.

2003 January 4, Baggers [username], “Re: New Shielding......?”, in uk.media.tv.sf.startrek (Usenet):

This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.

2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek: Allegories of Desire in the Television Series and Films, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 216:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Star Trek television series and films, as well as related novels, comics, etc.


Trekiverse

I was looking more for episodes like this, which deal with the repurcussions^([sic]) of a major war affecting every major civilisation known to the Trekiverse.

1999 March 5, Reverend Sean O'Hara, “[DS9] The Reverend's Review: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges”, in rec.arts.startrek.current (Usenet):

Or have the dying redshirt of the week say goodbye to his male friend instead of his girl. That's all it would take to establish that it's okay to be out of the closet in the Trekiverse.

2000 October 26, Arlie, “Re: What a f*cking insensitive comment!!! (minor spoilage)”, in alt.tv.star-trek.voyager (Usenet):

IIRC, the official explanation is currently that human history in the Trekiverse diverged from our history in the mid-20th century, due to the cumulative effect of multiple visitations from the future.

2001 September 24, Paul David John Andinach, “Re: [I] ST: Generations (was:Live broadcast / weather)”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):


Bondverse

But he's _comparatively_ much better then^([sic]) the rest of the agents out there (which says a lot about the spy community in the Bondverse).

2002 April 24, Eric Tolle, “Re: Spycraft (full): d20 with spies just ain't spies?”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet):

The only thing fantastic about the one in the Bondverse was that they didn't show you the specifics of how it was going to gather all that light in, and the amazing control and specificity of it.

2003 January 13, Sea Wasp [username], “Re: Babelicious Actresses (WAS Hairy Numenoreans)”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Completely perverse of me, but I adore Denise Richards in TWINE -- in the Bondverse, of course Denise Richards is a nuclear scientist.

2005 March 29, John Harkness, “Re: best bond girl?”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the James Bond novels and films.


swordstress

That warrior is Han (Lou Ferrigno) who joins with Sybil Danning (as a good-natured swordstress) and five other muscular heroes to fight to the death with Vadis.

1988, John Stanley, Revenge of the Creature Features Movie Guide: An A to Z Encyclopedia to the Cinema of the Fantastic, Or, Is There a Mad Doctor in the House?, Creatures at Large Press, →ISBN, page 313:

John's chosen character is Xianghua, a slight swordstress who specializes in hopping around and skewering people.

2004 August, Luke Dittrich, “Play Money”, in Atlanta, page 35:

It didn't matter whether we traveled with a fiery-tempered swordstress, or a vain Trickster God.

2013, Anthony Mercier, Akin Minds, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 172:


bioreading

(science fiction) A measurement of the presence and properties of a living thing.


holorecording

(science fiction) A holographic recording.


sparklepire

From the bloated, purple-faced, shroud-wrapped corpse feared throughout Europe in the 18th century to the ‘sparklepire’ brought into vogue by Stephenie Meyer, the vampire as a concept has come a long way since its folkloric origins, and horror and paranormal romance authors have brought the entire concept to an interesting evolutionary point.

2009 August 16, Janet Neilson, “The Evolution of Vampire in Fiction”, in Hub Magazine, number 95, page 5:

This probably includes: talking donkeys, gods, flying dragons, garden fairies, vampires, sparklepires, ghosts, and Harry Potter.

2012 April 2, Kermit [username], “Re: I am now a Creationist”, in talk.origins (Usenet):

KEVIN: Well, that's your classic vamp. Now factor in your Nosferatu, your Twilight sparklepires, your Thirty Days of Night nocturnal shark people and the hundred of variations on the classic...

2012 October 11, Freezer [username], “[MSTing] Unbreak My Spark - Part 4”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang, humorous) A vampire who sparkles, such as those featured in the Twilight series.


glampire

Well, it's basically a supernatural Dawson's Creek—a humiliatingly addictive soap opera in the meadows, with glampire Edward (Pattinson) as Dawson and Native American beefcake Jacob (Taylor Lautner) as Pacey.

2009 November 19, Aaron Mesh, “Women Who Run With the Werewolves: New Moon Reviewed”, in Willamette Week:

“Because they couldn't even tell a real vampire from a glampire. Lucy didn't know anything.”

2011, Hannah Jayne, Under Wraps, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 171:

[…] Anyway, you have to go to Annandale today. It's your cure day surprise. You get to kill a glampire."
"Christ. One of those vampire poseurs?"
"Oh yes. With the white face paint and dopey satanic rituals and everything. […]

2011, Drew Magary, The Postmortal, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

(slang, sometimes used attributively) A glamorous or beautiful vampire; a person who pretends to be a vampire.


gentlebeing

From gentle + being, modelled on gentleman.

Ladies and gentlebeings, let me introduce to you Doctor N'looma and her assistant L'raan, the Yularians who, along with other medical staff, were instrumental in giving me a new lease on life!

2016, James R. Lane, Last Dance of the Phoenix, page 204:

(science fiction, usually in the plural, sometimes humorous) Polite term of address for any sentient being, human or otherwise.


starfighter

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(science fiction) A fictional type of spacecraft that is intended to be used like a fighter plane in outer space.


starcruiser

(science fiction) A spaceship analogous to a cruiser.


buraco de minhoca

pt-noun

buraco de minhoca m (plural buracos de minhoca)

buraco de verme
buraco de verme#Portuguese


campo de força

campo de força m (plural campos de força)

(science fiction) force field (a field of energy that prevents passage)


capacitor de fluxo

capacitor de fluxo m (plural capacitores de fluxo)

(science fiction) flux capacitor (device that grants time travel)


antiacceleration

en-adj

antiacceleration (comparative more antiacceleration, superlative most antiacceleration)

more antiacceleration (comparative)
most antiacceleration (superlative)

(science fiction) Preventing or counteracting acceleration.


zgripțor

zgripțori (plural)
zgripțor (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
zgripțorul (accusative definite nominative singular)
zgripțori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
zgripțorii (accusative definite nominative plural)
zgripțor (indefinite singular)
zgripțorului (definite singular)
zgripțori (indefinite plural)
zgripțorilor (definite plural)
zgripțorule (singular vocative)
zgripțorilor (plural vocative)

From the form gripsor, from Byzantine Greek γρύψ (grúps), from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps) (whence ultimately also grifon, borrowed through French). The final -or may result from the plural of an original form *grips > *gripsuri.

pajură

mythical bird-like creature, seal or coat of arms with eagle

(archaic) a mythical powerful bird-like creature, often with two heads

eastern imperial eagle
eastern imperial eagle

Aquila heliaca
Aquila heliaca#Translingual

(archaic) an old Austrian coin with this kind of eagle on it

(figurative) epithet for someone who is cruel, beastly, vicious; brute, beast; also miser


fleshling

(fantasy, science fiction, derogatory) A creature made of flesh; a human being.


unwaith

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


werejackal

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a jackal.


Colemanballs

From Coleman + balls (“nonsense”), from the football commentator David Coleman. Originally the title of a column in Private Eye magazine collecting mistakes in sports commentary.

On a point of order, Miss Fookes. Is it in order for my hon. Friend to use a Colemanballs in this Committee?

1984, Brian Sedgemore, “Official Report of the Standing Committees: Session 1983–1984”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom), volume 2, page 95, column 1:

British TV viewers may think themselves lucky that all they got for commentary on the last Olympics was the usual load of Colemanballs

1987 October 16, Rayner Banham, “On the Wings of Wonder”, in New Society, volume 82, number 1294, pages 18–20:

It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.

2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259:

I read out a quote from Harry Cavan, who was Northern Ireland's FIFA representative. He had made a Colemanballs with "The Scots are still refusing to meet us in Belfast, so we may have to compromise on this and meet them halfway."

2011, Bob Bevan, Nearly Famous: Adventures of an After-Dinner Speaker, →ISBN:

(UK) A malapropism, mixed metaphor or other humorous misspeaking, especially in sports commentary.


hypertravel

(science fiction) travel through hyperspace


Tintim

(fiction) a Belgian comic book character created by Hergé


efeito borboleta

pt-noun

efeito borboleta m (usually uncountable, plural efeitos borboleta)

Compound of efeito (“effect”) + borboleta (“butterfly”). Allusion that if a butterfly flapped its wings somewhere on Earth, this movement could change a system on the other side of the planet; popularly known for the allegory that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Brazil could cause a tornado in Texas.

com+

butterfly effect (technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory)


cryokinetic

Iceman is a Cryokinetic, meaning he can absorb and displace thermal energy from the air and objects around him. By freezing water particles, he can materialize solid objects out of thin air.

2006, X-Men III: The Official Game Guide, Brady, →ISBN, page 15:

Cryokinetics are especially helpful around avalanches and icebergs. They are also immune to frostbite.

2007, Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Dark-Hunter Companion, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

She fought off her smile, feeling guilty that everyone else suffered while she had fun. "What are Frosters?"
Dex rested his cheek against the table. "Cryokinetics. They freeze things by manipulating the ice particles in the air. […]

2013, Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities, Aladdin, →ISBN, page 285:


Saguenay

From Innu shakaikanipeiau, (river which widens to form a lake).

a legendary kingdom in present-day Quebec


fada-madrinha

pt-noun

fada-madrinha f (plural fadas-madrinhas or fadas-madrinha)

fadas-madrinhas (plural)
fadas-madrinha (plural)

[ˌfa.ðɐ.mɐˈðɾi.ɲɐ]

fairy godmother (benevolent female fairy)

(figurative) fairy godmother (any generous benefactor)


astral body

"I suppose I am not talking to you at all. You are in Thibet with Shere Ali. This is your astral body, and if I were near enough, I could poke my fingers right through you, as you sit there, telling me you are an Edinburgh doctor, forsooth."
"Quite right, Mr. Griggs. At the present moment my body is quietly asleep in a lamastery in Thibet, and this is my astral shape.

1882, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 13, in Mr. Isaacs:

"I kept the Jewel within my great safe, whence none could extract it; not even Queen Tera herself with her astral body."

1903, Bram Stoker, chapter 15, in The Jewel of Seven Stars:

"You fool, have I no means of searching other than in the physical?" cried the man wrathfully. "I have been looking for him from the other side. It is as easy for me to use my astral body as this physical one."

1912, Fergus Hume, chapter 20, in A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance:

I am not ready to ridicule the claim of the Yogi adepts, that they are able to project some kind of astral body, and to communicate with one another from distant places.

1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] , book 6:

The voice in this case belongs to a lovely lady who has been most foully stabbed and while her body remains in a thug-infested old manse her astral body goes to ask Topper's assistance—probably the first instance on record in which the murdered victim was the first to inform the public.

1941 March 28, T. S., “Movie Review: Topper Returns (1941)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-09:

(parapsychology, theosophy, fantasy) A ghost-like replica of one's physical body which supposedly inhabits or is somehow associated with the physical body, conceived as a subtle body composed of some sort of ethereal material or as being non-physical and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body to travel to other places or to other realms of existence.


holovision

They'll be materializing before them in the special reception chambers, transmitted by way of the wires and beams, and reproduced by the three-dimensional holovision system in all their natural solidity.

1968, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life, Collins, page 4:

But pass up the sci-fi stuff for now, like for instance the holovision technology that's put TV and radio in museums.

1973 October, James Tiptree, Jr., “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, New Dimensions 3, page 81:

Flinging open the control booth door, he sprinted around the carpeted perimeter behind the array of holovision cameras.

2003 February 1, William Walling, Triage, Virtualbookworm.com, →ISBN:

(science fiction) holographic television


marvirino

eo-head

marvirino (accusative singular marvirinon, plural marvirinoj, accusative plural marvirinojn)

marvirinon (accusative singular)
marvirinoj (plural)
marvirinojn (accusative plural)


memory hole

From memory + hole. Sense 1 (“figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up”) is a transferred use of the physical slots which the English writer George Orwell (1903–1950) refers to in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), into which censored documents for destruction are dropped.

As relations between the West and Russia grew worse, the party began to discard its patriotic draperies; everything that had been said during the war years was now quietly dropped into the memory hole.

1957, Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, with the assistance of Julius Jacobson, “The Cold War: Repression and Collapse”, in The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1919–1957), Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →OCLC, page 453:

President [Richard] Nixon didn't even blush when he claimed that the raise in the debt limit was "in the interest of responsible management." If it were already 1984, all of Nixon's old speeches about the government squandering our money could be shoved into the "memory hole."

1969 July 2, John R[ichard] Rarick, “Challenge to America, 1969”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 91st Congress, First Session (United States House of Representatives), volume 115, part 14, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18349, column 1:

[T]he innermost circle of the Stalinist limbo was occupied by the Damned. The Damned were by no means exponents of an alien ideology. On the contrary, they were numbered among the true believers—they were Communists. But despite superhuman efforts to obey the all-wise party, they nevertheless fell by the wayside and were swept into the memory hole.

1970 January–February, Hugh McLean, “Et Resurrexerunt: How Writers Rise from the Dead”, in Abraham Brumberg, editor, Problems of Communism, volume XIX, number 1, Washington, D.C.: United States Information Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:

After a few more years [Leon] Trotsky's name disappeared down the "memory hole," and the Red Army became a fully professional force in which certain selected values and traditions of the old army were resurrected and even made the object of a veritable cult.

1986 October 1, John L[eslie] H[oward] Keep, Soldiering in Tsarist Russia (The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History; 29), El Paso County, Colo.: United States Air Force Academy, →OCLC, page 1:

Jiang Zemin has almost managed to make the event disappear down an Orwellian memory hole. Even in Western countries, sub-editors have taken to calling it the ‘Tiananmen crackdown’, rather than ‘massacre’, making it seem as insignificant as the endless stories about routine ‘crackdowns’ on smuggling, prostitution, counterfeit goods, VAT forms or corruption, which provide the stuff of daily reporting here in China.

2001 May 24, Jasper Becker, “‘Comrade Jiang Zemin Does Indeed Seem a Proper Choice’ [review of The Tiananmen Papers (2001) by Zhang Liang]”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 23, number 10, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

The painstaking work of scientists, the reasoned deliberations of the President's Science Advisory Committee, and the bipartisan American agreement to ban DDT have been flushed down the memory hole, along with the well-documented and easily found (but extremely inconvenient) fact that the most important reason that DDT failed to eliminate malaria was because insects evolved.

2011, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M[eade] Conway, “Denial Rides Again: The Revisionist Attack on Rachel Carson”, in Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, page 236:

A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.

ثقب الذاكرة

A memory hole provides performance improvement by reserving certain parts of memory for use by ISA cards. […] The memory hole is usually disabled because there are few ISA cards today that need to be mapped. If you have an ISA card that refuses to function properly in a PC with more than 16MB of RAM, you should enable the memory hole.

1997, Stephen J. Bigelow, “System Questions”, in PC Hardware FAT FAQs: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining, and Repairing, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, pages 11–12:

We won't touch high ISA memory (the so-called memory hole in the 14 MB to 16 MB physical address range), because that kind of I/O memory is extremely rare nowadays and is not supported by the majority of modern motherboards or by the kernel.

2001 June, Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, “Hardware Management”, in Andy Oram, editor, Linux Device Drivers, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, →ISBN, page 245:

A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.

tyhjä osoitealue

The use of new and delete, along with the scope related creation and deletion of objects, provide safer and more consistent management of the available memory pool. […] It also resolves common problems with passing incorrect pointers to free, or obtaining memory using malloc and then forgetting to free it (causing a memory hole). This typically occurs when a subroutine allocates some memory via malloc, and during some processing a premature return taken that does not free the allocated memory.

1992 September 9, Andrew McRae, “C++ in an Embedded Environment”, in AUUG 1992 Conference & Exhibition: Maintaining Control in an Open World: World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 8–11 September 1992: Conference Proceedings, Kensington, N.S.W.: AUUG, →ISBN, paragraph 5.5, page 5:

When Lighttpd finishes, it calls mod_helloworld_free to release the memory held by plugin_data. Beware that not freeing the plugin_data creates a memory hole.

2008, Andre Bogus, “Writing Lighttpd Modules”, in Lighttpd: Installing, Compiling, Configuring, Optimizing, and Securing this Lighting-fast Web Server, Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, →ISBN:

(rare) Synonym of memory leak (“any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable”)


dirtside

Many spacers hated leaving port – any port – and so spent as much time dirtside as possible. One evening, all three of these factors lined up in my favor. Kelly and John were dirtside, keeping an eye on Boris and the auctioneer, and Captain Gus was topside, supervising loading of supplies. Our new crewmembers were still dirtside as well, partying before shipping out.

(science fiction) On the surface of a planet or moon (i.e. not in space)


dirtsider

He really hadn't been in space before. You can always tell a dirtsider by the twinkle in their eyes at the idea of seeing their planet from above.

1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:

So you tell me, Senyor Parrige, how many habitats would be willing to take on their maximum possible population load in the form of half-starved, uneducated, indigent, disease-ridden dirtsiders who know nothing of habitat life and have no skills that are of much use in space?

2001, Roger MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 378:

As a dirtsider, the idea of dying in the cold of space terrified him, though he'd never admit it to his space-loving mate.

2010, Shayla Kersten, Angel Moon, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 52:

(science fiction, often derogatory) Someone who lives on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to in space.


منیژه

head

منیژه • (maniže)

fa-proper noun

منیژه • (maniže)

a female given name, Manije, Manizhe, Manizha, Manija, Manijeh, Manizheh, Manizhah, or Manijah, from Parthian


骨女

(Shinto): a bone woman: a female apparition who appears as a skeletal woman

雨女

a woman whose presence always seems to bring rain


Galactic

The sepoy spoke again. The meaning of the words finally penetrated. Oddly, Agayan was surprised more by the fact of those words than their actual content. He had not realized that Gha could speak Galactic beyond a few crude and simple phrases.

2001, Eric Flint, “Carthago Delenda Est”, in Foreign Legions, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 253:

universal language
universal language#Noun

(science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language spoken throughout a galaxy in various works.


quasit

Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

"Quasits are natural cowards. When minor demons become so bold, their more powerful brethren cannot be far behind."

2006, Matt Forbeck, Prophecy of the Dragons, page 6:

Shadows on the ground moved as the quasits chased us […]

2012, Ann Aguirre, Devil's Punch: A Corine Solomon Novel:

(fantasy) A small horned humanoid demon with a long tail.


Voldemortesque

en-adj

Voldemortesque (comparative more Voldemortesque, superlative most Voldemortesque)

more Voldemortesque (comparative)
most Voldemortesque (superlative)

January is when most dwellers are seriously starting to look rather Voldemortesque avec alabaster lustre.

2012, Karen De Villiers, "In the leaving", The South African, Issue 445, 10 January 2012 - 16 January 2012, page 6

Then, a Voldemortesque colleague steals the gene from the axolotl lab and develops a technique to splice it into to^([sic]) mouse DNA.

2013 April 11, Jef Akst, “Review: Errors of the Human Body”, in The Scientist:

It's skiing's dirty little fashion secret — the Voldemortesque “he who must not be named” that lurks deep in the darkest closet of the alpine apparel world.

2013, Michael Mastarciyan, "The one-piece", S-Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 2013, page 56

Having similar traits to the fictional evil wizard Voldemort from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.


Voldemort

After the evil wizard Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, coined by author J. K. Rowling as a compound of French vol de mort (“flight/theft from death”). The verb sense derives from the fact that in the story, many characters refuse to call Voldemort by his proper name, calling him by euphemisms such as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" or "You-Know-Who". This may be due to Voldemort magically enforcing a ban on his name being spoken.

der

[…] Oscar has been called the Voldemort of Fleet Street by both friends and enemies. He was apparently ruthless in all his business dealings.'

2012, G. M. Malliet, A Fatal Winter, Constable & Robinson, published 2012, →ISBN:

If you asked me to identify a Voldemort in the myth of “social media,” it would be these people, and not guys like Gary Vaynerchuk.

2012, B. J. Mendelson, Social Media Is Bullshit, St. Martin's Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

Fructose is the Voldemort of the metabolic syndrome pandemic: stealthy, ever-present, and bad for the common good.

2013, Robert H. Lustig, Heather Millar, & Cindy Gershen, The Fat Chance Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes Ready in Under 30 Minutes to Help You Lose the Sugar and the Weight, Hudson Street Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

An evil, harmful, or widely feared person or thing.


هژیر

hožir (romanization)
hažir (romanization)

a male given name, Hojir, Hozhir, Hajir, or Hazhir, from Parthian or the Iranian epic Shahnameh


antigraviton

(chiefly science fiction) The hypothetical antipartner of a graviton.


elf arrow

From the folk belief that they were used by elves.

When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatkolds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:

(folklore, fantasy) A magical arrow (weapon) used by elves or other mythological beings.


白馬王子

ㄅㄞˊ ㄇㄚˇ ㄨㄤˊ ㄗˇ

байма ванцзы

/paɪ̯³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paːk̚² maː¹³ wɔːŋ²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

/pe(ʔ)²⁴⁻² be⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵⁵⁴/

/pe(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ¹³⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/

/paɪ̯³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paːk̚² maː¹³ wɔːŋ²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

/pe(ʔ)²⁴⁻² be⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵⁵⁴/

/pe(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ¹³⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɔŋ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/


bobak

bobak (nominative singular)
bobaki (nominative plural)
bobaka (genitive singular)
bobaków (genitive plural)
bobakowi (dative singular)
bobakom (dative plural)
bobaka (accusative singular)
bobaki (accusative plural)
bobakiem (instrumental singular)
bobakami (instrumental plural)
bobaku (locative singular)
bobakach (locative plural)
bobaku (singular vocative)
bobaki (plural vocative)

→ English: bobac

Borrowed from Russian байба́к (bajbák). First attested in 1675.


merguy

"I don't know. But he's still breathing, or whatever it is merguys do. We've got to try and revive him somehow," said Sabrina thoughtfully.

1999, Ellen Titlebaum, Sabrina Down Under, Archway, →ISBN, page 32:

Step right up and see the merboy, merguy, merman. Where does his ding-dong go?

2012, Zoraida Cordova, The Vicious Deep, Sourcebooks Fire, →ISBN:

“Here, entertain yourself. I'm only expecting merguys to be at the meeting today, and there are no pictures of them.” Either the male mers didn't get out much or, more likely, men had written all the history books.

2012, Suzanne Johnson, River Road, Tor, →ISBN:


merteen

In the “how to make a porn video” within the video, Sprinkle plays an older mermaid who sexually initiates a “merteen” played by Sirena.

2000 February 8, Virginia Vitzthum, “Annie Sprinkle swims forward”, in Salon:

Realization filled the merteen's eyes with sadness.

2005, Rachel Roberts, The Heart of Avalon, CDS Books, →ISBN, page 120:

I paddle board, boogie board, and I use a monofin when I swim. You put your two feet in a fin and workout in the water. It’s a great way for merfolk—mermen, merteens, whoever—to connect with the water.

2012 July 27, Maria Denardo, “Rockefeller's Center”, in The Daily Dan:


merprincess

Ariel is a merprincess who finds life in the sea under the protective eye of her father to be a type of imprisonment.

1997, Carleton Papers in Applied Language Studies, volumes 14-19, page 109:

We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle.

2003, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Sea Slug, Random House Children's Publishing UK, published 2012, →ISBN:

“As long as that merprincess is out there, the more that city will crumble and die. […]

2013, Cheri Jones, The Adventures of a Mermaid Princess, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:


merprince

She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.

2005, Tracey V. Bateman, Kansas Home: Hearts Adrift Find a Place to Dwell in Four Romantic Stories, Barbour Publishing Incorporated, →ISBN, page 49:

Down the beach, a group of mergirls and boys were facing off with the same merprince who'd spoken through the mirror.

2005, Rachel Roberts, The Heart of Avalon, CDS Books, →ISBN, page 18:


merlad

The merlad and merlass watched the sphere for a moment and with a flick of their shiny tails, vanished again.

2003, Susan K. Hamilton, Darkstar Rising, Xlibris, published 2003, →ISBN, page 433:

I have to admit, he's a handsome merlad with his beautiful brown eyes, shiny black hair, and dark brown skin, but I can't have a boyfriend.

2006, S. L. Bynum, Kalena, the Sea Princess, Lulu, published 2006, →ISBN, page 10:

“At first everyone was standoffish and now they're too friendly,” Thorgil complained, swiping at a merlad who was attempting to grab her hair.

2009, Nancy Farmer, The Islands of the Blessed, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A young male merperson, male equivalent of mermaid


merdaughter

The Sea King's merdaughters have only one tail.

1993, Todd Strasser, Mark Rifkin, & Gil DiCicco, Disney's the Villian's Collection: Stories from the Films, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 61:

He does this again in Action Comics #224 (Sep. 1958) in which he meets a merman, Vul-Kor and his merdaughter, Lya-La, […]

2012, Lori Maguire, “Supervillains and Cold War Tensions in the 1950s”, in Joseph J. Darowski, editor, The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 21:

Below, a concert is underway by Triton (Martin Lopez), the sea king’s Merdaughters (Dakota Booher, Lexi Jusino, Ashley Moller, Lara Monti, Clare Pepe, Sarah Vidal), written by court composer, Sebastian (Kenny Copeland).

2013 April 23, Nancy Horak, “The Little Mermaid Broadway-Style”, in The Magazine of Santa Clarita:


Donnervogel

de-noun

Donnervogel m (strong, genitive Donnervogels, plural Donnervögel)

Donnervogels (genitive)
Donnervögel (plural)
Donnervogel (nominative singular)
Donnervögel (definite nominative plural)
Donnervogels (genitive singular)
Donnervögel (definite genitive plural)
Donnervogel (dative singular)
Donnervögeln (dative definite plural)
Donnervogel (accusative singular)
Donnervögel (accusative definite plural)

/ˈdɔnɐˌfoːɡl̩/


schmoopiness

Warnings on the series: Contains post-Emily angst. Some Mulder/Scully schmoopiness, but emphasis on UST.

1998 August 3, JenRose [username], “New! Facing Janus chap 5 (actually a repost, but hey...)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

A bit more angst than schmoopiness, but the underlying feelings are very well communicated.

1999 April 3, | vlbb | [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm all for earthy romance. I know a lot of folks abhor schmoopiness, and I'm not comfortable with the term schmoopy, but I'd love to see some long romantic kisses, or just one.

2000 July 4, Deborah, “Re: "Powerful good news"?”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The state or quality of being schmoopy.


schmoop

Mulder/Krycek and a bowl of kittens, what more could you want from schmoop?

1999 April 3, Drovar [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Would someone please give me some M/K or Sk/K or M/K/Sk or K/Sp or M/Sp or Sk/Sp (you get the picture) recs on some super super, sugar sugar, sweet sweet, honey-dipped, cavity-causing schmoop or hurt/comfort slash?

1999 May 3, geoffrey2 [username], “Re: Sugar sweet syrupy schmoopy slash”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature (Usenet):

Oh, and schmoop - this chapter's got a great heap of schmoop, but there'll be plenty of angst as well, not to fear.

2003 July 2, nik_cleo [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Life's Little Quirks, Part Three -R- (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweetly romantic or cute, usually to a degree considered maudlin.


schmoopy

en-adj

schmoopy (comparative schmoopier, superlative schmoopiest)

schmoopier (comparative)
schmoopiest (superlative)

Ah... I find that the best way to maintain joyous shipperhood is to not read much schmoopy shipper fic.

1999 July 22, Kipler [username], “Re: Mulder/Scully "relationship"”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):

Nothing wrong with schmoopy fic Ingrid...

2002 September 7, Carolin, “Re: A What if.....?”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet):

That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv".

2005 June 25, campylobacter [username], “Re: Never Again question”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Characteristic of schmoop; maudlin.


shipperhood

This ep pushed me off the fence and right into full-fledged shipperhood ( I WANT TO BELIEVE !!!)

1997 February 3, Colleen Sullivan-Baier, “Re: "Never Again"”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Look, it's all happy and hopeful and absolutely wonderful--but I need more to sustain my Odo/Kira shipperhood!

2002 September 21, Tori Sky, “Re: FB: DS9: Edge of the World 1/2 (O/K; NC-17)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The state or quality of being a shipper.


noromoness

I vacillate between shipperhood and noromoness…call me a "noshow")...

1998 June 25, LSCHWABEN [username], “Re: Just Got Back From The Movie(Read with caution if you haven't seen it yet)”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Did I even mention him? I was just asserting my noromoness.

1999 September 7, Laura Capozzola, “Re: 10EPS!! Just kiss the ship goodbye”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I will concede that a part of my noromoness is simply based on not wanting to see someone I like (Mulder) become romantically involved with someone I don't like (Scully).

2000 February 6, adhokk7 [username], “Re: (NRMTPB): S&W (long)”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) The state or quality of being a noromo.


file off the serial numbers

en-verb

file off the serial numbers (third-person singular simple present files off the serial numbers, present participle filing off the serial numbers, simple past and past participle filed off the serial numbers)

files off the serial numbers (present singular third-person)
filing off the serial numbers (participle present)
filed off the serial numbers (participle past)
filed off the serial numbers (past)

From the practice of filing the serial numbers off of firearms in order to make their origin and ownership difficult to trace.

For a while now, I've been pottering away at a Star Wars fanfic novella ([URL redacted], if you must know). I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work.

1998 March 6, Julie Lim, “Help!”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

I've heard a rumor that Bujold started the Barrayar series as Star Trek fanfic, and there's enough resemblance there to make that seem very plausible to me. Suppose she did. By filing off the serial numbers, she was able to make the universe her own, to change as she needed to.

2002 January 15, David Thornley, “Re: harry potter”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):

I say “may have” because [E. L.] James has “filed off the serial numbers” of her fanfic.

2012 April 1, Elizabeth Tai, “Quantity over quality?”, in The Star, Malaysia:

(fandom slang, idiomatic) To remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction.


photobank

No selenium, no photo-cell banks. No photobanks – well, death by slow broiling is one of the more unpleasant ways of being done in.

(science fiction) A bank of photoelectric cells.


fantasiakirjallisuus

fantasiakirjallisuus (nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudet (nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuus (accusative nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudet (accusative nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuden (accusative genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudet (accusative genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuden (genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksien (genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutta (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksia (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudessa (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissa (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudesta (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksista (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteen (illative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiin (illative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudella (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksilla (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudelta (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksilta (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudelle (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksille (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutena (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksina (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeksi (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiksi (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudetta (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksitta (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (accusative nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (accusative nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (accusative genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (accusative genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteni (genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksieni (genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuttani (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiani (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudessani (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissani (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudestani (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksistani (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteeni (illative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiini (illative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellani (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillani (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeltani (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiltani (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudelleni (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksilleni (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenani (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinani (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudekseni (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksikseni (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudettani (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksittani (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksineni (comitative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (accusative nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (accusative nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (accusative genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (accusative genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutesi (genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiesi (genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuttasi (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiasi (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudessasi (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissasi (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudestasi (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksistasi (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteesi (illative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiisi (illative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellasi (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillasi (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeltasi (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiltasi (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellesi (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillesi (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenasi (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinasi (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeksesi (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiksesi (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudettasi (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksittasi (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinesi (comitative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (accusative nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (accusative nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (accusative genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (accusative genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutemme (genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiemme (genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuttamme (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiamme (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudessamme (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissamme (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudestamme (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksistamme (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteemme (illative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiimme (illative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellamme (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillamme (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeltamme (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiltamme (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellemme (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillemme (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenamme (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinamme (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeksemme (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiksemme (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudettamme (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksittamme (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinemme (comitative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (accusative nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (accusative nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (accusative genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (accusative genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenne (genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksienne (genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuttanne (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksianne (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudessanne (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissanne (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudestanne (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksistanne (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteenne (illative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiinne (illative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellanne (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillanne (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeltanne (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiltanne (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellenne (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillenne (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenanne (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinanne (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeksenne (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiksenne (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudettanne (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksittanne (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinenne (comitative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (accusative nominative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (accusative nominative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (accusative genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (accusative genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutensa (genitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiensa (genitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuttaan (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuttansa (partitive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiaan (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiansa (partitive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudessaan (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudessansa (inessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissaan (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksissansa (inessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudestaan (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudestansa (elative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksistaan (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksistansa (elative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuteensa (illative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiinsa (illative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudellaan (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudellansa (adessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillaan (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillansa (adessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudeltaan (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudeltansa (ablative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiltaan (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiltansa (ablative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudelleen (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudellensa (allative singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksilleen (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksillensa (allative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuutenaan (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuutenansa (essive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinaan (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinansa (essive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuudekseen (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudeksensa (singular translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksikseen (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuuksiksensa (plural translative)
fantasiakirjallisuudettaan (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuudettansa (abessive singular)
fantasiakirjallisuuksittaan (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksittansa (abessive plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksineen (comitative plural)
fantasiakirjallisuuksinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈfɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝s̠iɑ̝ˌk̟irjɑ̝lˌlis̠uːs̠]


hiperespaço

(science fiction) hyperspace (space that makes faster-than-light travel possible)


actifan

If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.

1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3:

Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.

1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92:

Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's "good time" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.

1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, →ISBN, page 94:

(dated, fandom slang) A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity.


女魔法師

女魔法師 (canonical)
onna mahōshi (romanization)

Compound of 女 (onna, “female”) + 魔 (ma, “evil”) + 法師 (hōshi, “priestess, nun”).


passifan

Passifan: The "unawakened" Fan, interested now only in reading the magazines and books; not yet participating in any activities.

c. 1944, Forrest J Ackerman, Fantasy Flanguage:

I learned that last phrase from a femme passifan Miss Marlene Maples.

1948 December, J. Harmon, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 33, number 2:

(dated, fandom slang) A fan, particularly of science fiction, who watches and reads the genre but does not actively engage in fanac, or fan activity.


conworld

From constructed world; equivalent to con- (“constructed”) + world.

However, you will have created a pile of crossword puzzles you'll be proud to submit to Will Shortz, or a conworld that's so rich and real the inhabitants have actually attained sapience and now worship you as their god.

2007, Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans, Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level, Wiley Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN:

The most respected languages in the conlang community often have years of work behind them, and may even be attached to whole "conworlds" or "concultures" that help give them coherence and a model "literature."

2009, Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, Spiegel & Grau, published 2009, →ISBN, page 287:

[…] in my conworld Almea the great navigators of southern Ereláe were the Jei, and undoubtedly Jei-based pidgins sprung up.

2012, Mark Rosenfelder, Advanced Language Construction, →ISBN, page 78:

An imaginary world, especially one with highly-detailed cultures, languages, and geography.


femfan

Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, page 31:

So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am.

1953 August, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 133:

When I went to my first science fiction convention in 1961, fandom was entirely white and 80 percent male. Women were marginalized as "femfans." Gay people were in the closet.

2010, Eleanor Arnason, Mammoths of the Great Plains, →ISBN, page 120:

(dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.