get to the fireworks factory

en-verb

get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> to the fireworks factory

get to the fireworks factory (third-person singular simple present gets to the fireworks factory, present participle getting to the fireworks factory, simple past got to the fireworks factory, past participle (UK) got to the fireworks factory or (US) gotten to the fireworks factory)

gets to the fireworks factory (present singular third-person)
getting to the fireworks factory (participle present)
got to the fireworks factory (past)
got to the fireworks factory (UK participle past)
gotten to the fireworks factory (US participle past)

From the 1997 Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", which shows an episode of the fictional Itchy & Scratchy Show in which the characters' journey to a fireworks factory is interrupted by the anticlimactic arrival of a new character, Poochie; while watching the episode, Milhouse Van Houten wails, "When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?!".

Jesus falls again, and now some woman brings him a drink. I'm getting so tired of this whole sequence. When are they going to get to the fireworks factory!?

2004 April 9, Johan Gustafsson, “[TAN] Once more, with Passion...”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):

Is Raven ever going to wrestle on TV? Or at least get to the fireworks factory?

2005 November 5, Poot Rootbeer, “Poot's post on TNA iMPACT! primetime, 11/3/05”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

No, that's a different crazy Egyptian tycoon, and that's assuming he even is crazy, which is a pretty safe assumption because once Diana Spencer marries into your family all her new relatives are automatically crazy, especially if any of them produced the terrible Spielberg movie "Hook" in which Robin Williams takes forever to get to the fireworks factory.

2006 September 22, James Kibo Parry, “Re: Further research into the word "braintanning"”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

The narrative going around about the new Godzilla, which waits about an hour before it finally gets to the fireworks factory, is that it’s a radical return to this kind of old-fashioned creature-feature restraint.

2014 May 17, Forrest Wickman, “When Should You Show the Monster? The Rules of “Cinematic Foreplay.””, in Slate:

Punching up and punching down. I've flirted with these terms a bit already, without adequately exploring their trajectories. Here, in Chapter 3, we finally get to the fireworks factory.

2024 April 9, David E. Low, Transgressive Humor in Classrooms: Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1986:

(fandom slang, idiomatic) To reach the most interesting, eventful or important part of a storyline.

Milhouse Van Houten
The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
The Itchy & Scratchy Show
The Simpsons


Káčer Donald

sk-proper noun

Káčer Donald m animal (genitive singular Káčera Donalda, declension pattern of chlap)

Káčera Donalda (genitive singular)
chlap (declension-pattern-of)
Káčer Donald (nominative singular-only)
Káčera Donalda (genitive singular-only)
Káčerovi Donaldovi (dative singular-only)
Káčera Donalda (accusative singular-only)
Káčerovi Donaldovi (locative singular-only)
Káčerom Donaldom (instrumental singular-only)


Kačer Donald

Kačer Donald (nominative singular)
Kačeři Donaldové (nominative plural)
Kačera Donalda (genitive singular)
Kačerů Donaldů (genitive plural)
Kačeru Donaldovi (dative singular)
Kačerům Donaldům (dative plural)
Kačera Donalda (accusative singular)
Kačery Donaldy (accusative plural)
Kačere Donalde (singular vocative)
Kačeři Donaldové (plural vocative)
Kačeru Donaldovi (locative singular)
Kačerech Donaldech (locative plural)
Kačerem Donaldem (instrumental singular)
Kačery Donaldy (instrumental plural)


Dave Spart

Coined by Private Eye, playing on the word Spartacist (“a member of the International Communist League”).

Now every Dave Spart up the commune knows that basically, to his mind, the only, like, real theatre, man, is made by the people, you know, in the street, man, in the street.

1981, Reyner Banham, Design by Choice, London: Academy Editions:

But of course there is no shortage of people with ingenious ideas about how public money should be spent, and Ken is quite right when he warns us about a whole new generation of Dave Sparts currently working up from the grass roots

We don't get many Dave Sparts these days chopping hands, invoking the working class and using the word "total" twice in every sentence.

Like McGuinness, Wark's Left is populated by a cast of grotesques; of Dave Sparts who sleep with copies of Trotsky's Literature and Revolution tucked under their pillows.


dragonborn

A single dragonborn guard held the door.

2014, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval: Book of Blood:

(fantasy) Born with some physical or spiritual connection to dragons.


dragonborn

“Powerful magic and tangled, dragonborn,” the Shepherd woman said.

2006, Murray J. D. Leeder, Son of Thunder, page 220:

A big man, he stood at least as tall as Shara and maybe as tall as Roghar, with shoulders almost as wide as the dragonborn’s.

Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”

2011, Michael J. Tresca, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, page 81:

(fantasy) A person born with some physical or spiritual connection to dragons.


principe azzurro

it-noun

principe azzurro m (plural principi azzurri)


e vissero per sempre felici e contenti

(fairy tales) and they lived happily ever after


Cappellaio Matto

il Cappellaio Matto (canonical masculine)


Gatto con gli Stivali

il Gatto con gli Stivali (canonical masculine)


afairyist

From a- + fairy + -ist, based on atheist.

But consider this: your typical atheist does not believe in fairies, goblins, sprites, water nymphs, demons, angels, ghosts or elves either. Why not call him an 'afairyist', or an 'agoblinist', or an 'anymphist', and so endlessly on?

2010 March 30, A. C. Grayling, Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 38:

Nobody can actually say for certain that anything doesn't exist, but I'm an atheist in the same way as I am an aleprechaunist and an afairyist and an apinkunicornist.

2019 February 24, Dawkins on Religion, spoken by Richard Dawkins, via Al Jazeera:

(very rare, humorous) A person who does not believe in fairies.


đệ

Sino-Vietnamese word from 弟 (“younger brother”).


đệ

(Chinese fiction) I; you (refers to the male junior among the speakers)


computer core

(science fiction, computing) a computer processing center or central computer


memory core

Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: I tracked a patrol of geth to an uncharted world. I waited for one to become separated from its unit. Then I disabled it and removed its memory core.
Captain Anderson: I thought the geth fried their memory cores when they died. Some kind of defense mechanism.
Shepard: How did you manage to preserve the memory core?[…]
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: According to the memory core, the Reapers were a hyper-advanced machine race that existed 50,000 years ago.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

(science fiction, computing) A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.


set phasers to

In reference to the 1960s US television series Star Trek, in which the crew could set their phaser weapons either to stun or to kill.

(humorous) Prepare to; commence (used with a following verb or noun)


ผีดิบ

th-noun

ผีดิบ • (pǐi-dìp)

/pʰiː˩˩˦.dip̚˨˩/

From ผี (pǐi, “corpse; ghost; etc”) + ดิบ (dìp, “uncremated”).

com

(fiction) preternatural being believed to be a reanimated corpse, such as vampire, zombie, etc.


newsnet

(science fiction) A news broadcasting network.


山姥

ja-noun

山(やま)姥(うば) or 山(やま)姥(んば) • (yamauba or yamanba)

山姥 (canonical)
山姥 (canonical)
yamauba (romanization)
yamanba (romanization)

山 (yama, “mountain”) + 姥 (uba, “old woman”).

com

1999 October 15, Rumiko Takahashi, “第(だい)４(よん)話(わ) 地(じ)念(ねん)児(じ) [Chapter 4: Jinenji]”, in [犬](いぬ)[夜](や)[叉](しゃ) [Inuyasha], volume 12 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 77:

山姥⁉

山姥⁉

山姥⁉


呆け

呆け (canonical)
呆け (canonical)
boke (romanization)


突っ込み

突っ込み (canonical)
突っ込み (canonical)
tsukkomi (romanization)


zombaí

head

zombaí m (genitive singular zombaí, nominative plural zombaithe)

zombaí (genitive singular)
zombaithe (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
zombaí (indefinite singular)
zombaithe (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a zombaí (indefinite singular)
a zombaithe (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an zombaí (definite singular)
na zombaithe (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
dative (definite)
leis an zombaí (definite singular)
don zombaí (definite singular)
leis na zombaithe (definite plural)

Borrowed from English zombie, ultimately from a Bantu language.


惚け

惚け (canonical)
惚け (canonical)
boke (romanization)

(comedy) a funnyman (character who does or says stupid things and is called out by a straight man)


hiperespacio

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


cíborg

[ˈθi.β̞oɾɣ̞]

[ˈsi.β̞oɾɣ̞]

(science fiction) Alternative form of ciborg


piroquinesis

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) pyrokinesis


jiang hu

(wuxia) the subculture of the martial arts community


牛頭馬頭

ja-pos

牛(ご)頭(ず)馬(め)頭(ず) • (Gozu Mezu) ^(←ごづめづ (Godumedu)?)

牛頭馬頭 (canonical)
Gozu Mezu (romanization)
Godumedu (romanization)
ごづめづ (hiragana historical)

From 牛頭 (Gozu, “Ox-Head”) + 馬頭 (Mezu, “Horse-Head”). Compare Chinese 牛頭馬面／牛头马面 (niútóumǎmiàn, literally “Ox-Head and Horse-Face”).

zh-l

(Buddhism, Chinese mythology, Japanese mythology) Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the two guardians of hell


cheese monkey

From cheese-eating surrender monkey, a term coined in a 1995 episode of The Simpsons.

> Ahem, I'm not French ;-)
Darn, right you're not! You used to be a pure cheese monkey. Now, you're simply pure spud.

2003 March 13, Orchid, “OT: naked war protests”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

You'll notice a common cause among all international liberals--the sheep fucker in Australia (192 Day Road, Sydney), the cheese monkey in France, John Kerry--they're all together somehow, all operating along similar lines of force. Is it love of America that unites them? No? Then what is it?

2004 June 20, Jones, “OK, so no WMD and now no link between Iraq and Al-q. My question is........”, in rec.music.beatles (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

Republicans don't deny Bush has isolated the USA. However, they say "Fuck the world. Fuck the UN. The French are surrendering cheese monkeys. The Canadian are cheeseheads, the .... "

2004 September 18, Roedy Green, “Bush isolates more and more the USA in front of the world”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

> Vive la France!
>
Viva for the cheese monkeys? That's how you must have call them in 2003.

2007 May 7, dapra, “The French Revolution”, in us.military.army (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

So what I'm gonna propose as governor of this state is that we plan a massive invasion force and go ahead and invade France. Because if there's one country we can beat in a goddamn arm-wrestle it's them limp-wristed patronizing cheese monkeys.

2013, Jock Cranley, quotee, Grand Theft Auto V, scene: Blaine County Talk Radio:

(slang, derogatory, humorous, uncommon) A French person.


牛頭

牛頭 (canonical)
Gozu (romanization)
Godu (romanization)
ごづ (hiragana historical)

(Buddhism, Chinese mythology, Japanese mythology) Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of hell


nayika

Any of the eight types of romantic heroine described in the Natya Shastra, an ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts.


minh ti

Sino-Vietnamese word from 冥 (“underworld”) and 司 (“department”).

vi-etym-sino

[mïŋ˧˧ ti˧˧]

[mɨn˧˧ tɪj˧˧]

[mɨn˧˧ tɪj˧˧]

Hắn quyết chống chọi với nhà thầy, hiện đã kiện thầy ở Minh ti. Tôi thừa lúc hắn đi vắng nên lén đến đây báo cho nhà thầy biết để mà liệu kế, khỏi phải chết một cách oan uổng.

1952, Nguyễn Dữ, “Chuyện chức phán sự đền Tản Viên [The Story of the Judge at the Tản Viên Temple]”, in Ngô Văn Triện, transl., TRUYỀN-KỲ MẠN-LỤC [THE INFORMAL RECORDS OF STRANGE TALES], volume 1, quoted in NGỮ VĂN 10 NÂNG CAO, translation of 傳奇漫錄:

He's trying to take you down at all costs, and has sued you at the Underworld Department. I surreptitiously came here when he was away to warn you, so that you won't die of unjust cause.

Hơn nữa, lại có lời ghi chú là : « Trạng nguyên Mạc Đĩnh Chi chết xuống Minh ty (tức Âm ty) bảy ngày, thấy cảnh các địa ngục; sau được sống lại, làm bài phú dạy con ».

1978, Đinh Gia Khánh with Bùi Duy Tân and Mai Cao Chương, VĂN HỌC VIỆT NAM THẾ KỶ THỨ X ĐẾN NỬA ĐẦU THẾ KỶ THỨ XVII [VIETNAMESE LITERATURE FROM THE 10TH CENTURY TO THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY], Nhà xuất bản Đại học và Trung học Chuyên nghiệp:

There is also a note, “Zhuangyuan Mạc Đĩnh Chi descended to the Underworld Department seven days after he died and had a good view of the hells; when he was resurrected, he made a fu to teach his child.”

Năm giác quan dần dần dần liệt hoại, ôm căm hờn xuống tận minh ty, mối thù này muôn thuở còn ghi, lòng hận ấy nghìn năm khôn cởi.

2001, Phạm Gia Tín with Trần Hoàn and Toàn Minh, SÁNG TÁC VĂN NGHỆ Khu Tả Ngạn sông Hồng (1950-1955) [LITERARY WORKS on the Right Bank of the Red River (1950-1955)], page 60:

The five senses waste away, as one carries their resentment all the way to Hades, this hatred forever etched, that loathing shall never wear off.

Đáp xong lại kể chuyện mình đã nhận chức quan lớn dưới Minh Ty. Nghĩ đến tình giao du thân ái ngày xưa mới tìm thăm bạn.

2003, Hư Chu, NAM HẢI TRUYỀN KỲ [LEGEND OF THE SOUTHERN SEA], Nhà xuất bản Thuận Hoá:

He then told the story of how he got an important post in the Underworld Department. He only looked for his friend because he had reminisced about their earlier friendship.

(rare, fiction) Synonym of âm ti (“Yama's underworld department”)


Star Wars Day

(fandom slang) A fan holiday celebrating the Star Wars franchise, on May 4th.


4コマ漫画

ja-noun

4(よん)コマ漫(まん)画(が) or 4(よん)コマ漫画(まんが) or 4(よん)コマ漫画(マンガ) • (yon-koma manga or yonkomamanga) ^(←よんこままんぐわ (yonkomamangwa)?)

4コマ漫画 (canonical)
4コマ漫画 (canonical)
4コマ漫画 (canonical)
yon-koma manga (romanization)
yonkomamanga (romanization)
yonkomamangwa (romanization)
よんこままんぐわ (hiragana historical)

[jõ̞ŋko̞ma̠ mã̠ŋɡa̠]

Compound of 四 (yon, “four”) + 齣 (koma, “frame”) + 漫画 (manga, “comic”).


fanciulla in pericolo

it-noun

fanciulla in pericolo f (plural fanciulle in pericolo)

damsel in distress (stereotype of a young woman in a dangerous situation)


damigella in pericolo

damigella in pericolo f (plural damigelle in pericolo)


Джульетта

ru-proper noun+

Джулье́тта • (Džulʹjétta) f anim (genitive Джулье́тты)

Джулье́тта (canonical)
Džulʹjétta (romanization)
Джулье́тты (genitive)
Джулье́тта (nominative singular)
Джулье́тты (genitive singular)
Джулье́тте (dative singular)
Джулье́тту (accusative singular)
Джулье́ттой (instrumental singular)
Джулье́ттою (instrumental singular)
Джулье́тте (prepositional singular)

ru:Джульетта


Ромео

a male given name, equivalent to English Romeo


Ромео

Роме́о//Romɛ́o

Роме́о • (Romɛ́o) m anim (genitive Роме́а)

Роме́о (canonical)
Romɛ́o (romanization)
Роме́а (genitive)
Роме́о (nominative singular)
Роме́а (genitive singular)
Роме́у (dative singular)
Роме́о (accusative singular)
Роме́ом (instrumental singular)
Роме́е (prepositional singular)


海坊主

ja-noun

海(うみ)坊(ぼう)主(ず) • (umibōzu) ^(←うみばうず (umibauzu)?)

海坊主 (canonical)
umibōzu (romanization)
umibauzu (romanization)
うみばうず (hiragana historical)

an umibōzu, a type of round-headed sea monster


superbohater

pl-noun

superbohater m pers (female equivalent superbohaterka)

superbohaterka (feminine)
superbohater (nominative singular)
superbohaterowie (nominative plural)
superbohatera (genitive singular)
superbohaterów (genitive plural)
superbohaterowi (dative singular)
superbohaterom (dative plural)
superbohatera (accusative singular)
superbohaterów (accusative plural)
superbohaterem (instrumental singular)
superbohaterami (instrumental plural)
superbohaterze (locative singular)
superbohaterach (locative plural)
superbohaterze (singular vocative)
superbohaterowie (plural vocative)

From super- + bohater. Calque of English superhero.


expy

From a clipping of exported character + -y. Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.

I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.

The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly.

2014, Jonathon O'Donnell, “Our Demonic World”, in Robert Arp, editor, The Devil and Philosophy: The Nature of His Game, page 120:

The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]

2018 February 27, Amy Nash, “You should be watching Monster Factory”, in Concrete, University of East Anglia, page 21:

[…] Thimbleweed Park is an obvious X Files parody with direct expies of Mulder and Scully as protagonists, so a 1990s setting is the natural choice […]

2019 March 1, Robin Wilde, “The 1990s: A Decade of Adventure”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 36:

(fandom slang) A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.


murderhobo

en-noun

murderhobo (plural murderhobos or murderhoboes)

murderhobos (plural)
murderhoboes (plural)

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

Know that you're not going to be the only group of murderhobos out there though, and there's an increasing chance that you may run into others the more dungeons you explore.

2017, Jason Paul McCartan, Through Dungeons Deeper: A Survival Guide for Dungeoneers as Written by a Survivor, page 99:

Grab some stone, craft a sword and go on, be a murderhobo.

2019, Drew Sleep, “Minecraft”, in Retro Gamer UK, number 200, page 100:

Maybe you joined a new group expecting a heavy role-playing experience, just to discover the rest of the party was a group of murderhobos with their hearts set on loot and plunder.

2021 September 16, Brenden Bobby, “Roll d20 for consent”, in Reader, Sandpoint, Idaho, page 14:

(roleplaying games, derogatory or humorous) A character who wanders the gameworld, unattached to any community, indiscriminately killing and looting.


cryobed

(science fiction) A bed-like unit in which a person can be cryogenically preserved.


ビジュアルノベル

→ English: visual novel

→ Korean: 비주얼 노벨 (bijueol nobel)

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from visual + novel


campo de fuerza

es-noun

campo de fuerza m (plural campos de fuerza)


камрикуша

кам‧ри‧ку‧ша

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناریه قوشی (kanarya quşu), with semantic shift.

bor+

ptica kamrikuša koja je tako velika bila da je mogla końa i čovjeka ponijeti

1870, anonymous author, Bosanske narodne pripovjedke:

the kamrikuša bird, which was so big that it could carry a horse or a person

A fictional large bird featuring in South Slavic folktales.


kamrikuša

sh-noun

kamrikuša f (Cyrillic spelling камрикуша)


Slobbovia

From slob + -ov (forming Slavic possessives) + -ia (forming placenames). First used as Lower Slobbovia in the Li'l Abner comic strip in 1946, its capital named "Raswashingsputin, D.C.", and its culture largely bagel-based, with vague reference to poor but moderately developed countries similar to Eastern Europe. Later maps of Lower Slobbovia placed it in Manchuria and eastern Siberia.
Compare sloboda, a similar-sounding word from Slavic languages.

af

Coordinate term: Freedonia

Suppose that there are 80 births in Lower Slobbovia during 1967, and that the population of Lower Slobbovia was 2,000 on July 1, 1967.

1972, Arnold Birenbaum, Social Problems: Private Troubles and Public Issues, page 50:

(At this point, only readers who know the difference between Slovakia, Slavonia and Slovenia might want to proceed; Slobbovia doesn't count.)

1991 December 22, Josef Joffe, “America's in the Balcony as Europe Takes Center Stage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The demand and supply curves for shoes are the same in Upper Slobbovia as in Lower Slobbovia. In Upper Slobbovia, shoes are subject to a price ceiling of $2 per pair (which is below equilibrium), and 1,000 pairs are sold per month.

2013 [1989], Steven Landsburg, Price Theory and Applications, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 267:

(chiefly US) Used as a placeholder country name in textbook problems, classroom examples, etc.

(roleplaying games) A play-by-mail roleplaying game notionally based on Diplomacy.


Slobbovian

An imaginary language spoken in the imaginary country Slobbovia


shuttleport

(science fiction) A spaceport from which shuttles depart.


varita mágica

es-noun

varita mágica f (plural varitas mágicas)


copulatress

(rare, science fiction) A female copulator.


Buttfuckistan

"In Buttfuckistan or Kleptomalia. Where being a warez dOOd is an honorable trade. We release our libraries and binaries and APIs and fifteen minutes later, they're burning CDs in every souk and selling them for ten cents a throw."

2003, Cory Doctorow, A Place So Foreign and Eight More Stories:

Door would slam shut whenever they needed the slightest favor, suppliers would sneer and shit on them with impunity, making things so humiliating and disagreeable that it would almost be a mercy when the final blow fell, and they were banished to run fertiliser sales in Buttfuckistan.

(humorous, slang, vulgar) A mythical far away uncivilized country.


Sinbadian

en-adj

Sinbadian (comparative more Sinbadian, superlative most Sinbadian)

more Sinbadian (comparative)
most Sinbadian (superlative)

Bāqiya begs Walāʼ to stop these Sinbadian journeys which do not particularly succeed; in addition, she asks him to find other means of struggle within the framework of the new political reality and according to the rules governing this reality.

2002, Ibrahim Taha, The Palestinian Novel: A Communication Study, page 81:


nereida

(Greek mythology) nereid (often capitalized in Spanish)


女郎蜘蛛

ja-noun

女(じょ)郎(ろう)蜘蛛(ぐも) or 女郎蜘蛛(ジョロウグモ) • (jorōgumo) ^(←じよらうぐも (zyoraugumo) or ジヨラウグモ (zyoraugumo)?)

女郎蜘蛛 (canonical)
女郎蜘蛛 (canonical)
jorōgumo (romanization)
zyoraugumo (romanization)
じよらうぐも (hiragana historical)
ジヨラウグモ (hiragana historical)

[d͡ʑo̞ɾo̞ːɡɯ̟mo̞]

女郎 (jorō, “prostitute”) + 蜘蛛 (kumo, “spider”). The kumo changes to gumo as an instance of rendaku (連濁).


dragonbone

en-noun

dragonbone (countable and uncountable, plural dragonbones)


ウンディーネ

ja-noun

ウンディーネ • (undīne)

ja:ウンディーネ ja:四大精霊


シルフ

2004 March 10, Kozue Amano, “Navigation(ナビゲーション)18(じゅうはち) 空(そら)を泳(およ)ぐ魚(さかな) [Navigation 18: A Fish That Swims in the Sky]”, in ARIA(アリア) [ARIA], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Mag Garden, →ISBN, page 86:

Sylphs are first and foremost supposed to adhere to strict delivery time, and yet this happened

風追配達人はお届け物の時間厳守が第一なのに 困った事態になったのだ

Shirufu wa otodoke mono no jikan genshu ga daīchi nano ni komatta jitai ni natta no da

ja:シルフ ja:四大精霊


ノーム

ノーム • (nōmu)

ja:ノーム
ja:ノーム (妖精)
ja:四大精霊

2003 April 10, Kozue Amano, “Navigation(ナビゲーション)08(れいはち) 星(ほし)の謳(うた)声(ごえ) [Navigation 08: Chorus of the Planet]”, in ARIA(アリア) [Aria], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Mag Garden, →ISBN, page 80:

The people known as Gnomes, who live under the ground of Aqua, are responsible for maintaining gravity at 1 g

火星の地下にはね地重管理人という人達がいて——重力を１Ｇに保ってくれてるのよ

Akua no chika ni wa ne Nōmu to iu hito-tachi ga ite—— jūryoku o ichi-jī ni tamotte kureteru no yo


白雪

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”) + 雪 (yuki, “snow”).


ježibaba

ježibaba (nominative singular)
ježibaby (nominative plural)
ježibaby (genitive singular)
ježibab (genitive plural)
ježibabě (dative singular)
ježibabám (dative plural)
ježibabu (accusative singular)
ježibaby (accusative plural)
ježibabo (singular vocative)
ježibaby (plural vocative)
ježibabě (locative singular)
ježibabách (locative plural)
ježibabou (instrumental singular)
ježibabami (instrumental plural)

„Konečně mám něco dobrého na zub“, zvolala ježibaba se smíchem a chtěla děti hned sníst.

"I finally have something good to eat," cried the witch laughingly, wanting to eat the children right away.


サラマンダー

ja:サラマンダー ja:四大精霊

2002 April 27, Kozue Amano, “Navigation(ナビゲーション)06(れいろく) 始(はじ)めてのお客(きゃく)様(さま) [Navigation 06: My First Customer]”, in AQUA(アクア) [AQUA], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Enix, →ISBN, page 25:

Are you by any chance one of the Salamanders of the Floating Islands then, sir?

もしかしてご職業は浮き島の火炎之番人じゃないですか？

火炎之番人 サラマンダー

Moshikashite goshokugyō wa Ukijima no Saramandā ja nai desu ka?

もしかしてご職業は浮き島の火炎之番人じゃないですか？

火炎之番人 サラマンダー

もしかしてご職業は浮き島の火炎之番人じゃないですか？

火炎之番人 サラマンダー


bakunawa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba(ŋ)kuq (“bent”) and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sawa (“snake”). Compare Bikol Central bakunawa.

dragon or sea serpent that rises from the ocean to swallow the moon causing an eclipse


ライトノベル

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 輕小說／轻小说 (qīngxiǎoshuō) (calque)

→ English: light novel (calque)

→ Korean: 라이트 노벨 (raiteu nobel)

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from light + novel


อมนุษย์

th-noun

อมนุษย์ • (à-má-nút)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अमनुष्य (amanuṣya, “demon”, literally “nonhuman”), from अ (a, “not”) + मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human”), equivalent to Thai อ (à) + มนุษย์ (má-nút). Cognate with Lao ອະມະນຸດ (ʼa ma nut).

com

อ (à) + มนุษย์ (má-nút)

(mythology) nonhuman being, as deity, demon, ghost, spirit, etc, especially malevolent one, but usually not including animals.


Earthport

(science fiction) A spaceport on the planet Earth.


ワームホール

ja-noun

ワームホール • (wāmuhōru)

[β̞a̠ːmɯ̟ho̞ːɾɯ̟]


สฟิงซ์

th-proper noun

สฟิงซ์ • (sà-fíng)


דראַקאָן

head

דראַקאָן • (drakon) m

yi-noun

דראַקאָן • (drakon) m, plural דראַקאָנען (drakonen)

drakon (romanization)
drakonen (romanization)


פֿיפּערנאָטער

head

פֿיפּערנאָטער • (fipernoter) m

yi-noun

פֿיפּערנאָטער • (fipernoter) m, plural פֿיפּערנאָטערס (fipernoters)

fipernoter (romanization)
fipernoters (romanization)

Cognate to German Vipernatter (“viperine water snake”).


Pippi Calzelunghe

From calze lunghe (“long stockings”), calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump.

Pippi Longstocking (fictional character invented by Astrid Lindgren)


double kill

en-verb

double kill (third-person singular simple present double kills, present participle double killing, simple past and past participle double killed)

double kills (present singular third-person)
double killing (participle present)
double killed (participle past)
double killed (past)

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(fiction, transitive) To kill an already dead being, such as a ghost, a zombie, a skeleton, etc.


Pippi Longstocking

en-noun

Pippi Longstocking (plural Pippi Longstockings)

Astrid Lindgren
Inger Nilsson
Pippi Longstocking

Named after the character created by Astrid Lindgren, calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump.

named-after

Little and skinny for ten years old, cursed with waist-length hair and freckles that all the kids teased made her look just like Pippi Longstocking, she had been, that day, the butt of jokes from the entire fifth grade.

2007, Karen Robards, Ghost Moon, Random House:

She has threaded rags through her hair, tying it in two Pippi Longstocking braids.

2009, Rachel Shteir, Gypsy: the Art of the Tease, Yale University Press, page 140:

If I turned around, you could see a bizarre array of silver clippies, and a “Pippi Longstocking” part down the middle.

2010, Laura DuPriest, Natural Beauty: Pamper Yourself with Salon Secrets at Home, Random House, page 15:

Put her in pigtails and stick her finger in a light socket, and she’d be Pippi Longstocking.

2011, Julia Watts, Finding H. F., Bella Books:

I was positively Pippi Longstocking, minus the pigtails.

2012, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Beacon Press:

A person, especially a girl or woman, with long or flamboyant red hair, especially in pigtails or parted down the middle, and prominent freckles.

Pipi Ŝtrumpolonga

a girl with flamboyant red hair in pigtails and freckles

Then we’re swept back to her school days, where we see her giggling like a regular Pippi Longstocking as she spies on Rivera (Alfred Molina) applying his creative juices to an artist’s model while being berated by his wife (Valeria Golino).

2002 October 23, Ella Taylor with Frida (reviewer), “Sex-mad and Self-obsessed”, in LA Weekly:

You’re a regular Pippi Longstocking, you know that?

2014, P. V. Lundqvist, The Counterfeit Father: A Tony Pandy Mystery, Stick Raven Press:

Have I discovered my inner Pippi Longstocking?

2015, Patrice Vecchione, Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life, Simon & Schuster, page 10:

A person, especially a girl or woman, given to headstrong, wild behaviour, flights of fancy, or irrepressible optimism.


red pill

From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.

To take the red pill is to choose to take responsibility for our lives, both on the personal and larger social levels.

2003, Glenn Yeffeth, Taking the Red Pill, page 148:

Do you want to continue to live in the false world of dieting, where emotional pain is numbed, health risks are ignored, and false promises are made? Or do you want to take the red pill, as it were, and see the reality of a world in which food and eating don't dominate or take over your life?

2011, Stephen Arterburn, Linda Mintle, Lose It for Life: The Total Solution, →ISBN, page 49:

We can offer ourselves the option of taking the red pill and, when the circumstances are right, we shall not be able to resist the lure of the naked truth; however hard it may be to stare it in the face.

2012, Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, →ISBN:

Until the media and economy are democratically structured and regulated, the best people can do is take the red pill -- that is, utilize the alternative media for information and thereby purge their neurological systems of large misleading segments of their past education and the mainstream popular media.

2013, John C Alessio, Social Problems and Inequality, →ISBN:

As you choke down the red pill, we will begin to expound on that eternally important question that few people have bothered to ask, save once, likely around the tender age of four [...] the eternally important question, "What is money?"

2013, David Mint, What is Money? A Quest to Answer the Question of the Ages:

(informal) Something that enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

Most red pill thinkers will have already debunked this one and replaced it with a better story.

2017, Peter Wright, Red Pill Psychology: Psychology for men in a gynocentric world:

With the growth of 'the red pill' and similar such groups among men there is a growing realisation that life is very different in dating for 'alpha males' compared to everyone else.

2017, Player Mastermind, Gold Diggers and Sugar Daddies: The Red Pill Guide to Hypergamy:

The problems faced by men in America—the problems the Red Pill community points to as proof that we live in a gynocentric society—have deep historical roots; however, the Red Pill represents a new, dangerous phase of American masculinity in the internet age.

2018, Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age:

Indeed, this is the surprising core of the whole Red Pill theory of seduction: never stop begging for it.

If you are attracted to the truths presented in Red Pill culture, but are put off by any morality or atheism present, this book is for you.

2019, James a Deprisco, The Catholic Red Pill: A Guide for Men:

(slang, by extension) The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.


red pill

en-verb

red pill (third-person singular simple present red pills, present participle red pilling, simple past and past participle red pilled)

red pills (present singular third-person)
red pilling (participle present)
red pilled (participle past)
red pilled (past)

black pill

to adopt a nihilistic far-right worldview

Fuck's sake. All this brainful red-pilling and you just trying to throw me off the trail again.

Being “red pilled” would surely soon become the rage.

2019, Jack Suss, Soul Enticed II: More Essays in Unlearning, page 146:

Now, I believe Q is President Trump, working possibly with Stephen Miller, to drop this information behind the scenes to get a campaign going, to red-pill people as to what is going on with the Storm, and their takedown of the Deep State, which includes the Deep State pedophile scene.

2020, David Neiwert, Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That are Killing Us, page 87:

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To enable a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

rougepiluler

YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.

2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate:

(transitive, intransitive, slang) To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.


holonovel

(science fiction) A holographic entertainment akin to a novel.


holobook

(science fiction) A holographic entertainment akin to a book.


`lt` `gt`

Narrator: For the first time in seven turns of the seasons he speaks the ugly, guttural language of the humans...
Cutter (elf): <Before you die, say if any more of you come this way!>
Aro (human): <We are all that you see!> <No one follows!>

(comics, science fiction) Encloses translated text, including from nonhuman speakers.


fastwalker

From fast + walker, from the notion that UFOs travel fast. Originally a code word created by NORAD.


little Johnny

Obviously, few counselors would sit idly by while little Johnny became a bandit. To do so would be socially unethical and indeed would violate the very philosophy of teaching.

1950, California Journal of Secondary Education, volume 25, page 335:

First, create a "board" titled Johnny's Education, for example. Then, search for the items that will help you support little Johnny's educational needs, and pin them to your Johnny's Education board.

2013, Jillian Smart, Parent Support: 30 Ways to Support Your Child's Education:

Schools insist that everything is under their purview—what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground. Because as long as the school system is doing everything, maybe you won't notice that little Johnny can't read.

2013, Mike Gallagher, 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate, page 210:

An archetypal child in the context of the education system.


Campanellino

From campanellino (“bell, small bell”), as an almost literal translation of English Tinkerbell.


フェンリル

[ɸẽ̞n̺ɾʲiɾɯ̟]


nalfeshnee

If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.

2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

Huge and incredibly powerful, nalfeshnees ranked high among the servitors of the demon lords, and of all the demons he had ever dealt with, this type was perhaps Gromph's least favorite.

(fantasy) A powerful demon with the head of a boar.


marilith

A marilith can also constrict with her deadly tail. If the tail hits in combat, it wraps around a victim, automatically inflicting 4- 24 points of crushing damage each round.

1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 338:

(fantasy) A powerful female demon with six arms and the lower body of a snake.


hezrou

Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s.

A hezrou—a demon like a man-sized toad with spikes running down its back and arms and hands in place of forelegs—turned the handle and threw open the door.

2010, Richard Lee Byers, Unclean: The Haunted Lands:


vrock

Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s. Possibly related to Swedish vråk (“buzzard”).

The hag, after seeing her threats had no effect on Liann, left her alone, though usually watched over by the vrock.

2005, Trina L. Talma, River's End, page 28:

(fantasy) A humanoid demon with the head, claws, and wings of a giant vulture.


サテュロス

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).


ファウヌス

[ɸa̠ɯ̟nɯ̟sɨ]


máquina del tiempo

es-noun

máquina del tiempo f (plural máquinas del tiempo)


futrzak

futrzak (nominative singular)
futrzaki (nominative plural)
futrzaka (genitive singular)
futrzaków (genitive plural)
futrzakowi (dative singular)
futrzakom (dative plural)
futrzaka (accusative singular)
futrzaki (accusative plural)
futrzakiem (instrumental singular)
futrzakami (instrumental plural)
futrzaku (locative singular)
futrzakach (locative plural)
futrzaku (singular vocative)
futrzaki (plural vocative)


Orthrus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄρθρος (Órthros).

(Greek mythology) A two-headed dog who guarded Geryon's cattle and was killed by Heracles.


passwall

(fantasy) A magic spell allowing a person to travel through solid material.


veetol

commute by veetol over a thousand miles

1975, John Brunner, “In the Beginning was the Herd”, in The Shockwave Rider, Harper & Row, page 88:

(chiefly science fiction) Alternative form of VTOL


fudanshi

Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)男(だん)子(し) (fudanshi, literally “rotten boy/man”).


ケット・シー

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Cat Sìth (“Fairy Cat”), which is misconstructed as cait (“cat's”) + sìth (“fairy”).

2001 August 27, Kozue Amano, “Navigation(ナビゲーション)04(れいよん) 猫(ねこ)の王(おう)国(こく) [Navigation 04: Kingdom of the Cats]”, in AQUA(アクア) [Aqua], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Enix, →ISBN, page 112:

The King of the Cats is known as the Cat Sìth

猫の王様は猫妖精といって


tikbalang

(folklore, mythology) tikbalang (humanoid creature in Philippine folklore having a head and hooves of a horse)


贔屭

/pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi⁵¹/

/pei̯²² ɐi̯³³/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi⁴¹⁻²² hi⁵⁵⁴/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻¹¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻²¹ hi⁴¹/

/pi³⁵⁻¹¹ hi²¹³/

/pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi⁵¹/

/pei̯²² ɐi̯³³/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi⁴¹⁻²² hi⁵⁵⁴/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻¹¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻²¹ hi⁴¹/

/pi³⁵⁻¹¹ hi²¹³/

霸下

"sons of the dragon", creatures found in decorations

(Chinese mythology) bixi (a mythological turtlelike animal)

creature that is said to like carrying heavy weights, whose statue is seen under steles

(uncommon) creature that is said to like literature, whose statue is seen on the sides of the steles


贔屭

/pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi⁵¹/

/pei̯²² ɐi̯³³/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi⁴¹⁻²² hi⁵⁵⁴/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻¹¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻²¹ hi⁴¹/

/pi³⁵⁻¹¹ hi²¹³/

/pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi⁵¹/

/pei̯²² ɐi̯³³/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi⁴¹⁻²² hi⁵⁵⁴/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻¹¹ hi⁵³/

/pi³³⁻²¹ hi⁴¹/

/pi³⁵⁻¹¹ hi²¹³/

(literary) strenuous; with a lot of strength


aunicornist

From a- + unicorn + -ist, based on atheist.

Nearly everyone but small children are asantaists, while the same is true of aunicornists — even if they have never once decided as an absolute fact, or even as a matter of faith, that unicorns do not exist.

2016 January 30, Nicholas Bittner, The Roads Around Religion, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:

(humorous) A person who does not believe in unicorns.


Raperonzolo

From raperonzolo (“rampion”), as a translation of German Rapunzel.


succubitch

(fiction, rare, derogatory) A succubus who is a bitch (an irritating, disagreeable woman).


สาวดุ้น

th-noun

สาวดุ้น • (sǎao-dûn)

From สาว (sǎao, “girl”) + ดุ้น (dûn, “penis”); literally "dick girl".


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Key combination of Ctrl, Alt and Delete. In many computer systems, this interrupts or shuts down the system or some part of it or opens up a shut-down menu.

(science fiction, sometimes humorous) Said by a sentient machine to express the desire to kill or destroy something or someone.


Antarian

(science fiction) Alternative form of Antarean


Antarean

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Antares.


冷豔鋸

/lɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/laːŋ¹³ jiːm²² kɵy̯³³/

/laːŋ¹³ jiːm²² kœː³³/

/lɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/laːŋ¹³ jiːm²² kɵy̯³³/

/laːŋ¹³ jiːm²² kœː³³/


infravisible

(fantasy) Visible by means of infravision.


сәмреғош

head

сәмреғош • (səmreğoş)

ba-noun

сәмреғош • (səmreğoş)

səmreğoş (romanization)
сәмреғош (absolute singular-only)
сәмреғоштоң (definite genitive singular-only)
сәмреғошҡа (dative singular-only)
сәмреғошто (accusative definite singular-only)
сәмреғошта (locative singular-only)
сәмреғоштан (ablative singular-only)

[sæm.rɪ̞.ˈʁʊ̞ʂ]

A composition; the second component is ҡош (qoş, “bird”).
The first component comes from an Iranian source, compare
Middle Persian synmwlw,
Persian سیمرغ (simorğ, “Simurgh”).
See also Самрау.

(mythology) a huge mythical bird, the ruler of all birds; a benevolent, mythical flying creature


αράπης

head

αράπης • (arápis) m (plural αράπηδες, feminine αραπίνα or αράπισσα)

arápis (romanization)
αράπηδες (plural)
αραπίνα (feminine)
αράπισσα (feminine)
αράπης (nominative singular)
αράπηδες (nominative plural)
αράπη (genitive singular)
αράπηδων (genitive plural)
αράπη (accusative singular)
αράπηδες (accusative plural)
αράπη (singular vocative)
αράπηδες (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish عرب (Arap), from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

bor

<i class="Latn mention" lang="tr">Arap</i>

Φάε το φαΐ σου, γιατί θα φωνάξω τον αράπη!

Fáe to faḯ sou, giatí tha fonáxo ton arápi!

(folklore) A type of supernatural boogeyman-type being that appears in several forms: as a guardian of households who enriches the owner (but eats greedy persons); as a dark guardian of hidden treasures; or as a brawny opponent to the hero of the story, whom Arapis serves after he is defeated by him. Often used in previous times to scare small children:


chernukha

From Russian черну́ха (černúxa), from чёрный (čórnyj, “black”).

Though the USA came in for severe criticism, it was admitted that at least the Americans had perfected a form for the horror film. The Russians were unsure of genres. One speaker made the helpful observation that we should distinguish between home-grown 'chernukha' and foreign 'chernukha'.

It should be emphasized that, although Petrushevskaia's subject matter is weighty, serious, often horrific, her texts abundant in image of loss, death, and difficult love, and her awareness of social problems acute, her style is the factor that raises her work above other practitioners of 'chernukha'.

2000, Sally Dalton-Brown, Voices from the Void: The Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia:

Purveyors of screen chernukha, caught up in the late- and post-Soviet 'pathos of pure negation', threw out several perfectly useful babies with the Bolshevik-tainted bathwater, including: (1) narrative coherency, rejected by virtue of its association with Soviet film and perhaps also because it smacked of teleology […]

2008, S. Hutchings, Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue:

There are welcome flashes of humor throughout, particularly the dark, sardonic strain that Russians call chernukha. Watching his hapless father speak about his passion project — a homemade space capsule to be used in the event of a nuclear war — Alexei remarks that “his cheeks remained red with excitement and dermatitis.”

2015 October 23, Alex Halberstadt, “‘The Tsar of Love and Techno,’ by Anthony Marra”, in New York Times:


טאָפּיעל

head

טאָפּיעל • (topyel) m

yi-noun

טאָפּיעל • (topyel) m

A malevolent water spirit from Polish myth, the topielec.


土蜘蛛

土蜘蛛 (canonical)
土蜘蛛 (canonical)
tsuchigumo (romanization)

[t͡sɨ̥t͡ɕiɡɯ̟mo̞]

土 (tsuchi, “soil”) + 蜘蛛 (kumo, “spider”, jukujikun (熟字訓)).

com

jukujikun (<i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">熟字訓</i>)

tsuchigumo, a member of a race of spider-like yokai


Matrix defense

From the plot of the film The Matrix (1999), whose protagonist is woken from an illusionary simulated world into the dystopian reality.

There is now a legal strategy called the "Matrix defense," which has been an effective form of insanity defense. The film evidently had a part in inspiring Lee Malvo, the Washington D.C. sniper, and it has been mentioned in connection with the Columbine High School killings, which happened less than a month after the release of The Matrix.

2012, C. Stephen Jaeger, Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 41:

(US, law) A legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that he/she was not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.


feynmanium

From Feynman + -ium. After Richard Feynman, who used a back-of-the-envelope calculation using classical physics to determine that element 137 is the last stably neutrally charged element, as larger elements would need electrons traveling faster than light to become neutral. (This problem goes away when relativity is considered.)

The hypothetical chemical element with atomic number 137.


phép

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 法 (“rule, custom, method”, SV: pháp). Doublet of Pháp. Cognate with Lao ແບບ (bǣp), Thai แบบ (bɛ̀ɛp), Khmer បែប (baep).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">pháp</i>

vi-etym-sino

phải phép

vô phép


heahengel

head

hēahenġel m (nominative plural hēahenglas)

hēahenġel (canonical masculine)
hēahenglas (nominative plural)
hēahenġel (nominative singular)
hēahenglas (nominative plural)
hēahenġel (accusative singular)
hēahenglas (accusative plural)
hēahengles (genitive singular)
hēahengla (genitive plural)
hēahengle (dative singular)
hēahenglum (dative plural)

Middle English: heh-enngell

English: high angel


Geppetto

/d͡ʒəˈpɛtoʊ/

The fictional carpenter who created Pinocchio.


ครุฑ

From Sanskrit गरुड (garuḍa, “eagle”); probably via Old Khmer គរុឌ (garuḍa), គុរុឌ (guruḍa, “garuda”). Cognate with Modern Khmer គ្រុឌ (krut).


นาค

th-proper noun

นาค • (nâak)

Probably from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “cruel man”).

Naga: tribesman living near the Naga Hills.


ドワーフ

[do̞β̞a̠ːɸɯ̟]

a dwarf (being from folklore, underground dwelling nature spirit)


nerfherder

/ˈnɜːfˌhɜːdə/

/ˈnɝfˌhɝːdɚ/

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back.

coin

How can you think that loser has anything od^([sic]) value to say? He's a misinformed, slimey looking nerfherder, which doesn't belong anywhere on that side of a camera.

2000 March 9, Dion Turner, “Re: the panel”, in aus.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2017-04-28, message-ID <38C7686B.8B5B3177@uq.net.au>:

First of all, Ducttape^([sic]) is not an acceptable substitute for electrical tape you DB! I'd rather you didn't use electrical tape either. QUIT CUTTING WIRES!! And seriously, is this a LAMP CORD running the length of my pretty black and blue nighthawk??? Wtf man? You couldn't do any better than a frapping lamp cord? What a real nerfherder! And if you're going to splice into a wire, why do it after the connector? You just disabled the purpose of the quick disconnect you inbred monkey hugger! Now I gotta unducttape^([sic]) and unwrap the mess you made to get the blinker off!

2010 August 18, Kyle Munz, “[Nighthawk Lovers] Group rules regarding profanity.”, in nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com (Usenet), retrieved 2017-04-28, message-ID <AANLkTinf9kz8X299POXzbKkXTB5jJfVwZ623zCXF2zPX@mail.gmail.com>:

Like when Aragorn starts on the paths of the dead bookwise he and his Dunedain are regarded, despite their small size, among the most powerful companies in the area. And then with the dead, he defeats armies in southern Gondor _and_ rallies those people to fight at his command, showing his ability as a king. When he gets to Minas Tirith he is leading an army as great as Rohan instead of a handful and a ship of vapours that would have been laughed at by orcs and ringwraiths. Moviewise he's never more than a nerfherder with ideas above his station stealing Arwen and betraying Elrond.

2016 October 30, Siri Cruise, “Re: Ye olde burbs & rural mythology”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2017-04-28, message-ID <chine.bleu-371DA6.12162630102016@news.eternal-september.org>:

Hey nerfherder, yeah you! I'm gonna need those for the B-wings!

2017, Rowan's sis, “Trouble on Tibalt”, in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, season 2, episode 2:

(derogatory, fandom slang) A term of abuse.

20th Century Fox
Carrie Fisher
Lawrence Kasdan
Leigh Brackett
Lucasfilm
Princess Leia
The Empire Strikes Back


chưởng

phim chưởng

a wuxia show, especially one where this move is used a lot

Giáng Long Thập Bát Chưởng

(martial arts, chiefly fiction) a move performed by pushing the front of the hand, with all fingers straightened, forward


Prancer

First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From prancer.

A Visit from St. Nicholas
Santa Claus's reindeer


Vixen

First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From vixen.


Dancer

From dancer.
(reindeer): First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”


Comet

First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From comet.


ปอบ

th-noun

ปอบ • (bpɔ̀ɔp)

Cognate with Isan ปอบ, Lao ປອບ (pǭp), Northern Thai ᨸᩬᨷ, and Khün ᨸᩬᨷ.

a type of evil spirit in Thai folklore, believed to possess a person and devour his or her viscera before leaving, thus causing the person to die.


holotape

(science fiction) A tape used as a storage medium for holographic material.


holodisc

(science fiction) Alternative form of holodisk


สมิง

สมิง • (sà-mǐng)

From Mon သၟီ (“king; prince”). Cognate with Burmese သမိန် (sa.min).

เสือ เสือ#Thai

(เสือ~) a type of evil spirit in Thai folklore, believed to be a person that turns into a tiger by the power of black magic or a tiger that can transform itself into a human due to being possessed by the ghosts of its human preys.


ฉมบ

From Old Khmer chmap (“midwife”) or Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer cmap (“idem”). Cognate with Modern Khmer ឆ្មប (chmɑɑp, “midwife”).

/t͡ɕʰa˨˩.mop̚˦˥/

a type of spirit in Thai folklore, believed to be the ghost of a woman that dwells at the place of her death, especially in a forest.


Dasher

From dasher.
(reindeer): First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”.


Dr. Strangelove

en-noun

Dr. Strangelove (plural Dr. Strangeloves)

[ˈdɑk̚tɚ ˈʃt͡ʃɹeɪ̯nd͡ʒɫʌv]

From the character Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

When it was important in 1969 for Henry Kissinger to gain a reputation as a “secret swinger” to create a Dr. Strangelove reputation and provide cover for secret trips, he would appeal to White House wags and their friends (Richard Moore, television producer Paul Keyes, and this writer) for lines making that point.

2008, William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, →ISBN, page 654:

Just as the central question of the nuclear age was how to keep a Dr. Strangelove from pushing the button, the central question of the geoengineering age will be how to prevent a Dr. Strangelove from hacking the climate.

2010, Jeff Goodell, How to Cool the Planet, →ISBN:

His game theory became the foundation for modern finance. Dr Strangelove went to work on Wall Street.

2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62:

In both the world of new science and that of quick-fix military technology we need, more than ever, to be on perpetual guard against the Dr Strangeloves of the future.

2012, Dr J Richardson, War, Science and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict, →ISBN:

The Darth Vaders, Dr. Strangeloves and many people in positions of power have advocated the use of nuclear weapons to resolve conflicts.

2014, Jerry Kroth, Implosion: Delusion, denial, and the prospect of collapse, →ISBN, page 240:

But CIA observers everywhere choked when CNN announced that a psychological trauma team, mustered by the American Psychological Association, would converge in Oklahoma City to treat survivors of the explosion and the victims' families—led by none other than Dr. Louis Jolyon West of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, the breeding ground of some of the most necrotizing Dr. Strangeloves in the mind control business.

2014, Alex Constantine, Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America, →ISBN, page 255:

Someone who is likely to launch a nuclear attack or otherwise destroy the world.


ดิสนีย์

th-proper noun

ดิสนีย์ • (dís-nîi)


ფიფქია

pipkia (romanization)
ფიფქია (nominative singular)
ფიფქიამ (ergative singular)
ფიფქიას (dative singular)
ფიფქიას (dative singular)
ფიფქიასაs) (dative singular)
ფიფქიასაsa) (dative singular)
ფიფქიის (genitive singular)
ფიფქიის (genitive singular)
ფიფქიისაs) (genitive singular)
ფიფქიისაsa) (genitive singular)
ფიფქიით (instrumental singular)
ფიფქიით (instrumental singular)
ფიფქიითაt) (instrumental singular)
ფიფქიითაta) (instrumental singular)
ფიფქიად (adverbial singular)
ფიფქიად (adverbial singular)
ფიფქიადაd) (adverbial singular)
ფიფქიადაda) (adverbial singular)
ფიფქიავ (singular vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
ფიფქიაზე (singular)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
ფიფქიასთან (singular)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
ფიფქიაში (singular)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
ფიფქიასავით (singular)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
ფიფქიისთვის (singular)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
ფიფქიისებრ (singular)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
ფიფქიისკენ (singular)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
ფიფქიისგან (singular)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
ფიფქიიდან (singular)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
ფიფქიითურთ (singular)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
ფიფქიამდე (singular)


atoothfairyist

From a- + tooth fairy + -ist, based on atheist.

(very rare, humorous) A person who does not believe in the tooth fairy.


ทางสามแพร่ง

/tʰaːŋ˧.saːm˩˩˦.pʰrɛŋ˥˩/

From ทาง (taang, “path; road; way”) + สาม (sǎam, “three”) + แพร่ง (prɛ̂ng, “fork (of road, way, etc)”); literally "three-forked way".

com

T-junction, traditionally believed to be employed by the dead and thus deemed a very unholy spot.


人魚姫

人魚姫 (canonical)
Ningyo-hime (romanization)

[ɲ̟ĩŋʲɡʲo̞çime̞]

人魚 (ningyo, “merperson”) + 姫 (hime, “princess”)


赤ずきん

ja-pos

赤(あか)ずきん • (Akazukin) ^(←あかづきん (Akadukin)?)

赤ずきん (canonical)
Akazukin (romanization)
Akadukin (romanization)
あかづきん (hiragana historical)

Compound of 赤 (aka, “red”) + 頭巾 (zukin, “hood”).

Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood


千里眼

[sẽ̞n̺ɾʲiɡã̠ɴ]

Literary Chinese 千里眼 (qiānlǐyǎn, literally “thousand-mile eyes”)


counterfactuality

en-noun

counterfactuality (countable and uncountable, plural counterfactualities)


チェシャ猫

チェシャ猫 (canonical)
Chesha Neko (romanization)

Calque of English Cheshire cat, from チェシャ (Chesha, “Cheshire”) + 猫 (neko, “cat”).


人工智能

ㄖㄣˊ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄓˋ ㄋㄥˊ

жэньгун чжинэн

/ʐən³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː³³ nɐŋ²¹/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kaŋ³³⁻²³ ti²¹³⁻⁵⁵ leŋ⁵⁵/

/ʐən³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː³³ nɐŋ²¹/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kaŋ³³⁻²³ ti²¹³⁻⁵⁵ leŋ⁵⁵/

The United States saw an explosive development in artificial intelligence during the 1960s.

Zài èrshí shìjì liùshí niándài, Měiguó réngōng zhìnéng chūxiàn le bàofāxìng de fāzhǎn.

在20世紀60年代，美國人工智能出現了爆發性的發展。

在20世纪60年代，美国人工智能出现了爆发性的发展。

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(Mainland China, Hong Kong) artificial intelligence


two-minute hate

en-noun

two-minute hate (plural two-minute hates)

From the fictional Two Minutes Hate in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

There were to be no loyalty parades with bleating school children carrying flags down mainstreet while every heart rises ; nor were there to be pictures of the enemy showing him with claws, fangs, or tusks to induce our two-minute hates

The contrast between the two eras is clever and effective, and, with the Great Depression still chugging along at the time of the story's first publication, contemporary readers suffering that debacle's effects would have had no trouble working up a good two-minute hate for the too-comfortable Contents.

2005, Grant Burns, The Railroad in American Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, McFarland, →ISBN, page 94:

Again, there is talk of America's “lost innocence,” and the ritual two-minute hate once reserved for so-called “militia sympathizers” and government critics is now directed at Islamic radicals and, by extension, the antiwar movement.

2009, Russ Kick, You Are STILL Being Lied To: The NEW Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths, Red Wheel Weiser, →ISBN:

Periodically they would convene impromptu two-minute hate sessions to compare notes on the arrogance and futility of philosophy and its claims on the territory of AI research.

2012, Giuseppe Mantovani, Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113:

Ritualized hatred towards a perceived enemy, especially when encouraged for political reasons.

George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Two Minutes Hate


沙悟浄

ja-pos

沙(さ)悟(ご)浄(じょう) • (Sa Gojō) ^(←さごじやう (Sagozyau)?)

沙悟浄 (canonical)
Sa Gojō (romanization)
Sagozyau (romanization)
さごじやう (hiragana historical)

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 沙悟淨／沙悟净 (Shā Wùjìng).


豬悟能

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ u⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵/

/t͡syː⁵⁵ ŋ̍²² nɐŋ²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ u⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵/

/t͡syː⁵⁵ ŋ̍²² nɐŋ²¹/


沙悟淨

/ʂä⁵⁵ u⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/

/saː⁵⁵ ŋ̍²² t͡sɪŋ²²/

/sa⁴⁴⁻²² ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ²²/

/sa³³ ɡɔ⁴¹⁻²² t͡siɪŋ⁴¹/

/sa⁴⁴⁻²² ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ²²/

/sa⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/sa⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/ʂä⁵⁵ u⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/

/saː⁵⁵ ŋ̍²² t͡sɪŋ²²/

/sa⁴⁴⁻²² ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ²²/

/sa³³ ɡɔ⁴¹⁻²² t͡siɪŋ⁴¹/

/sa⁴⁴⁻²² ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ²²/

/sa⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/sa⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ³³/


Homo superior

/ˌhəʊməʊ suːˈpɪəɹi.ə(ɹ)/

From Latin homo superior (literally “superior human”), modeled after New Latin Homo sapiens (literally “wise human”). Coined by Olaf Stapledon in his 1935 novel Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest.

der

Homo Superior faced the little mob of Homo Sapiens, and it was immediately evident that Homo Superior was indeed the better man.

Magneto: "The first phase of my plan shall be to show my power... to make Homo sapiens bow to Homo superior!"

1963 September 10, Stan Lee, “X-Men”, in The X-Men, volume 1, number 1, page 11:

You gotta make way¶ for the Homo Superior

1971, “Oh! You Pretty Things”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie:

(science fiction) The evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.


my spider sense is tingling

From Marvel Comics' "Spider-Man" comic books, in which the main character (Spider-Man) has a superpower called "spider sense" (sometimes called spidey sense) that would forewarn him about dangerous events. He would often say his spider sense was "tingling" when it was warning him of something.

(colloquial) My intuition (spider sense) tells me that something wrong or dangerous is happening or about to happen.


Sperantapükän

Sperantapükän (nominative singular)
Sperantapükäna (genitive singular)
Sperantapükäne (dative singular)
Sperantapükäni (accusative singular)
o Sperantapükän! (singular vocative)
Sperantapükänu (predicative singular)

Sperantapük (“Esperanto (language)”) + -än (“country, land”)

suffix

Esperantoland (Esperanto-land), Esperantujo, Esperantio


แม่มด

th-noun

แม่มด • (mɛ̂ɛ-mót)

/mɛː˥˩.mot̚˦˥/

From แม่ (mɛ̂ɛ, “female prefix”) + มด (mót, “person of occult knowledge; person who practices magic or sorcery”).
Cognate with Lao ແມ່ມົດ (mǣ mot, “witch”), Zhuang mehmoed (“female shaman”), Lü ᦶᦙᧈᦷᦙᧆ (mae¹mod, “witch”); Compared with Khmer មេមត់ (mei mŭət, “witch; medium”).

compound

Exodus 22:18, KJV:
เจ้าอย่าให้แม่มดมีชีวิตรอดอยู่เลย
jâo yàa hâi mɛ̂ɛ-mót mii chii-wít rɔ̂ɔt yùu ləəi
You shall not allow a witch to live.

Deuteronomy 18:10‑11, KJV:
จงอย่าให้มีคนหนึ่งคนใดในท่ามกลางพวกท่านซึ่งทำให้บุตรชายหรือบุตรสาวของเขาลุยไฟ หรือเป็นคนทำนาย เป็นหมอดู เป็นนักวิทยาคม หรือเป็นแม่มด เป็นหมอผี เป็นคนทรง เป็นพ่อมด หรือเป็นผู้มีเวทมนตร์
jong yàa hâi mii kon nʉ̀ng kon dai nai tâam-glaang pûuak tân sʉ̂ng tam hâi bùt-chaai rʉ̌ʉ bùt-sǎao kɔ̌ɔng kǎo lui fai rʉ̌ʉ bpen kon-tam-naai bpen mɔ̌ɔ-duu bpen nák-wít-tá-yaa-kom rʉ̌ʉ bpen mɛ̂ɛ-mót bpen mɔ̌ɔ-pǐi bpen kon-song bpen pɔ̂ɔ-mót rʉ̌ʉ bpen pûu-mii-wêet-mon
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.


man in black

Coordinate term: black helicopter

Ever since the cessation of activity by Albert Bender in 1954, and followed closely by a few others, whose disappear[a]nce though less spectacular, from this field of work, caused a stir among the then active workers; the words he used in reference to his case "that he had been visited by three men in black, who demanded that he cease his investigations" left many to conjecture as to who they were, and what was their reason and who they represented.

1958, The Australian Saucer Record, volume 4, number 4, page 1:

Often they arrive at the scene of a UFO landing before those involves have had a chance to tell their story to the authorities, indicating that these Men-in-Black can read – as well as CONTROL – minds.

1991 March 26, John A. Keel, “Who are the UFO silencers?”, in Weekly World News, volume 12, number 25, page 8:

In many UFO sightings in which evidence of the sighting is claimed to exist, government "men in black" are reported to appear at the witnesses' doors demanding the evidence and threatening witnesses in the event they divulge any information regarding their sighting.

1995, James L. Thompson, Alien encounters: the deception menace, Cedar Fort, page 52:

Stories of “men-in-black,” who confront those who have witnessed a UFO with the intention of persuading them to keep their knowledge of space creatures a secret, are also amenable to folkloristic analysis.

1995, John A. Saliba, “UFO Contactee Phenomena from a Sociopsychological Perspective: A Review”, in The Gods have landed: new religions from other worlds, SUNY Press, page 218:

(ufology) A covert government operative, wearing a black suit and black aviator sunglasses, believed by conspiracy theorists to cover up UFO incidents.


és boldogan éltek, míg meg nem haltak

[ˌeːʃ ˈboldoɡɒn ˈeːltɛkmiːɡ ˈmɛɡnɛm ˈhɒltɒk]

Literally, “and they lived happily until they died”.

lit

and they lived happily ever after (typically used at the end of fairy tales)


狻猊

ja-noun

狻(さん)猊(げい) or 狻(しゅん)猊(げい) • (sangei or shungei)

狻猊 (canonical)
狻猊 (canonical)
sangei (romanization)
shungei (romanization)

(Chinese mythology) a suanni, a cross between a dragon and a lion

(loosely, rare) Synonym of 獅子 (shishi, “lion”)


狻猊

ja-pos

狻(さん)猊(げい) or 狻(しゅん)猊(げい) • (Sangei or Shungei)

狻猊 (canonical)
狻猊 (canonical)
Sangei (romanization)
Shungei (romanization)

(Chinese mythology) the suanni that was one of the nine sons of the dragon


stivali delle sette leghe

it-noun

stivali delle sette leghe m pl (plural only)

(folklore, fairy tale) seven-league boots (boots enabling to cross seven leagues at one stride)


ยุทธจักร

th-noun

ยุทธจักร • (yút-tá-jàk)

From ยุทธ (yút-tá-, “fighting; martial”) + จักร (jàk, “realm”), probably a calque of Chinese 武林 (wǔlín).

af

(wuxia fiction) community of martial artists.


บู๊ลิ้ม

th-noun

บู๊ลิ้ม • (búu-lím)


ยุทธภพ

ยุทธภพ • (yút-tá-póp)

From ยุทธ (yút-tá-, “fighting; martial”) + ภพ (póp, “realm; world”), probably a calque of Chinese 武林 (wǔlín).


homem-sereia

[ˌõ.mẽɪ̯̃.seˈɾeɪ̯.ɐ]

[ˌõ.mẽɪ̯̃.seˈɾeɪ̯.ɐ]

/ˌɔ.mɐ̃j̃.sɨˈɾɐj.ɐ/

/ˌɔ.mɐ̃j̃.sɨˈɾɐj.ɐ/

/ˌɔ.mɐ̃j̃.sɨˈɾe.ɐ/

From homem (“man”) + sereia (“mermaid”), literally “mermaid-man”.


武林

→ Thai: บู๊ลิ้ม (búu-lím)

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ lin³⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim²⁴/

/bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lim²⁴/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim¹³/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim²⁴/

/bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lim²³/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ lin³⁵/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim²⁴/

/bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lim²⁴/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim¹³/

/bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim²⁴/

/bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lim²³/

武林高手

(wuxia fiction) community of martial artists


sereio

From sereia (“mermaid”) + -o (masculine suffix).

merman (legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down)


half-witch

(fantasy) A female hybrid of magical and non-magical parents.


half-wizard

(fantasy) A male hybrid of magical and non-magical parents.


half-human

Any hybrid of a human and some other creature.


許願井

ㄒㄩˇ ㄩㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄥˇ

/ɕy²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɥɛn⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ɕy²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɥɛn⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


wookie

(Star Wars) Wookiee, Wookie (a tall hairy humanoid fictional race from Star Wars)


Wakanda

Most likely borrowed from Omaha-Ponca Wakanda, Chiwere Wakanda, Kansa Wakanda, Osage Wakanda.

The supreme being or Great Spirit of the Osage, but also Omaha, Caddo and Ponca peoples of North America.


Wakanda

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966. Most likely influenced by Bantu-language names like Uganda and Rwanda.

(science fiction) A fictional wealthy country located somewhere in Africa that is the setting of several Marvel Comics arcs.


чернуха

ru-noun+

черну́ха • (černúxa) f inan or f anim (genitive черну́хи, nominative plural черну́хи, genitive plural черну́х, relational adjective черну́шный)

черну́ха (canonical)
černúxa (romanization)
черну́хи (genitive)
черну́хи (nominative plural)
черну́х (genitive plural)
черну́шный (adjective relational)
черну́ха (nominative singular)
черну́хи (nominative plural)
черну́хи (genitive singular)
черну́х (genitive plural)
черну́хе (dative singular)
черну́хам (dative plural)
черну́ху (accusative animate singular)
черну́х (accusative animate plural)
черну́ху (accusative inanimate singular)
черну́хи (accusative inanimate plural)
черну́хой (instrumental singular)
черну́хою (instrumental singular)
черну́хами (instrumental plural)
черну́хе (prepositional singular)
черну́хах (plural prepositional)

чёрный (čórnyj) + -у́ха (-úxa)

af

чёрный (čórnyj) + -у́ха (-úxa)

chernukha (a gloomy genre of Russian horror)


reverse mermaid

en-noun

reverse mermaid (plural reverse mermaids)

(cryptozoology) A mythical creature, woman from the waist down, fish from the waist up.


Bat-

Originally of the nature of a noun adjunct forming compound nouns, first bat + man = the batman or the Bat-Man = Batman, then later bat-phone = Bat-phone, bat-signal = Bat-signal, and so on.

Holy unsafe sex, Batman! Did you forget to use your Bat-condom?

2002 October 27, Richard B. Becker, “Re: The most implausible thing about BoP (no spoilers)”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <3DBCA45A.F8B8C1AF@mindspring.com>:

Belonging to or associated with Batman; sometimes said of bat-themed objects used by him.


marslakó

marslakók (plural)
marslakó (nominative singular)
marslakók (nominative plural)
marslakót (accusative singular)
marslakókat (accusative plural)
marslakónak (dative singular)
marslakóknak (dative plural)
marslakóval (instrumental singular)
marslakókkal (instrumental plural)
marslakóért (causal-final singular)
marslakókért (causal-final plural)
marslakóvá (singular translative)
marslakókká (plural translative)
marslakóig (singular terminative)
marslakókig (plural terminative)
marslakóként (essive-formal singular)
marslakókként (essive-formal plural)
marslakóban (inessive singular)
marslakókban (inessive plural)
marslakón (singular superessive)
marslakókon (plural superessive)
marslakónál (adessive singular)
marslakóknál (adessive plural)
marslakóba (illative singular)
marslakókba (illative plural)
marslakóra (singular sublative)
marslakókra (plural sublative)
marslakóhoz (allative singular)
marslakókhoz (allative plural)
marslakóból (elative singular)
marslakókból (elative plural)
marslakóról (delative singular)
marslakókról (delative plural)
marslakótól (ablative singular)
marslakóktól (ablative plural)
marslakóé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
marslakóké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
marslakóéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
marslakókéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
marslakóm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
marslakóim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
marslakód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
marslakóid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
marslakója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
marslakói (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
marslakónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
marslakóink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
marslakótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
marslakóitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
marslakójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
marslakóik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Martian (an inhabitant of the planet Mars)


Draculaesque

en-adj

Draculaesque (comparative more Draculaesque, superlative most Draculaesque)

more Draculaesque (comparative)
most Draculaesque (superlative)

Reminiscent of the fictional vampire Count Dracula.


skrzat

skrzatek (diminutive)
skrzat (nominative singular)
skrzaty (nominative plural)
skrzata (genitive singular)
skrzatów (genitive plural)
skrzatowi (dative singular)
skrzatom (dative plural)
skrzata (accusative singular)
skrzaty (accusative plural)
skrzatem (instrumental singular)
skrzatami (instrumental plural)
skrzacie (locative singular)
skrzatach (locative plural)
skrzacie (singular vocative)
skrzaty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Middle High German scrato, from Proto-Germanic *skrattuz. Compare Czech skřítek, Slovene škrat, German Schrat.


MLP

abbreviation of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic


オーク

Borrowed from English orc. Doublet of オーガ (ōga, “ogre”).

(fantasy) an orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)


CDZ

Initialism of Cavaleiros do Zodíaco (literally “Knights of the Zodiac”).

initialism

No início de 2005, a Bandeirantes ainda adquire mais um anime, Yu Yu Hakusho e o restante dos episódios de Cavaleiros do Zodíaco. […] em junho de 2005, o Band Kids volta ao ar, […] exibindo dois episódios de CDZ e tendo a volta de Tenchi Muyo.

2007, Rodrigo Muniz, História Dos Animes Na Tv Aberta: Dos anos 80 até os dias de hoje, Clube de Autores, page 47:

A edição 36, que estampava o filme de Cavaleiros do Zodíaco no cinema, teve uma tiragem inicial de 450.000 exemplares, tamanha a procura por esse conteúdo. […] Foi feito um acordo, que permitiu que continuássemos publicando CDZ por mais algum tempo, […]

2012, Pró-reitoria de Pesquisa e Inovação - PROPI, Feira de Iniciação Científica 2012: Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação - Livro de Destaques, Editora Feevale, →ISBN, page 225:

(informal, fandom slang, anime, manga) Saint Seiya (a Japanese manga and anime series, originally released in 1986)


Эльдар

ru-proper noun+

Эльда́р • (Elʹdár) m anim (genitive Эльда́ра, nominative plural Эльда́ры, genitive plural Эльда́ров)

Эльда́р (canonical)
Elʹdár (romanization)
Эльда́ра (genitive)
Эльда́ры (nominative plural)
Эльда́ров (genitive plural)


Эльдар

Эльда́р (canonical)
Elʹdár (romanization)
Эльда́ра (genitive)
Эльда́ры (nominative plural)
Эльда́ров (genitive plural)
Эльда́р (nominative singular)
Эльда́ры (nominative plural)
Эльда́ра (genitive singular)
Эльда́ров (genitive plural)
Эльда́ру (dative singular)
Эльда́рам (dative plural)
Эльда́ра (accusative singular)
Эльда́ров (accusative plural)
Эльда́ром (instrumental singular)
Эльда́рами (instrumental plural)
Эльда́ре (prepositional singular)
Эльда́рах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from English Eldar, from the fictional language Quenya.

(fantasy) Eldar, a race of elves from the writings of Tolkien.

(science fiction) Eldar, a race of elf-like aliens from Warhammer 40,000 now known as "Aeldari".


artefarita inteligenteco

eo-head

artefarita inteligenteco (accusative singular artefarita inteligentecon, plural artefarita inteligentecoj, accusative plural artefarita inteligentecojn)

artefarita inteligentecon (accusative singular)
artefarita inteligentecoj (plural)
artefarita inteligentecojn (accusative plural)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(computing, science fiction) artificial intelligence


世紀末

世紀末 (canonical)
seikimatsu (romanization)


imaginative fiction

Particular professors and sober Scotchmen may denounce as childish the desire for imaginative fiction.

1914 March 7, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, All-Story Weekly, Letters:

The questions of whether Esperanto has any place in the science fiction field and whether there is any justification for the modification of the English language for the convenience of the imaginative fiction reader, seem both to be issues on which there can be little in the way of a compromise.

1936 December 20, Maurice K. Hanson, “Editorial”, in Novae Terrae, volume 1, number 9, page 3:

A Journal for Readers, Writers and Collectors of Imaginative Fiction

1947 February 20 – March 20, “Masthead”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 1, page 2:

Fiction not based on reality; a class of fiction including but not necessarily limited to fantasy, horror and science fiction.


デウス・エクス・マキナ

Learned borrowing from Latin deus ex māchinā

lbor

ja:デウス・エクス・マキナ


Pokémon Goer

Pokémon Goers were invited to enter the museum at a discounted rate and search for Pokémon characters.

2016 July 19, Kora Chrzan, “Pokémon Go takes off in the Ozarks”, in Branson Tri-Lakes News:

A Pokémon Goer is on the app for an average of 26 minutes,

2016 August 29, Ricardo Casas, “Catching Customers: Pokémon Go and the Future of Local Advertising”, in Business:

Getting into the theme of love, perhaps the most exciting thing for Pokémon Goers is a huge increase in the duration of lures: the Pokémon-attracting devices will now last a whole six hours, 12 times longer than their standard 30-minute duration.

2017 February 8, Alex Hern, “Pokémon Go launches Valentine's event hoping to lure loving players”, in The Guardian:

Pokémon Goers explore White Sands National Monument

2017 April 7, Tara Melton, “White Sands celebrates historic visitation numbers”, in Alamogordo Daily News:

Brace yourselves, Pokémon Goers - Legendary Pokémon Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are coming your way!

2017 September 4, Vikki Blake, “Here's How To Catch Pokemon Go's Three New Legendary Pokemon”, in MTV UK:


וואַמפּיר

head

וואַמפּיר • (vampir) m

yi-noun

וואַמפּיר • (vampir) m, plural וואַמפּירן (vampirn)

vampir (romanization)
vampirn (romanization)


widmo

widmowy (adjective)
widmo (nominative singular)
widma (nominative plural)
widma (genitive singular)
widm (genitive plural)
widmu (dative singular)
widmom (dative plural)
widmo (accusative singular)
widma (accusative plural)
widmem (instrumental singular)
widmami (instrumental plural)
widmie (locative singular)
widmach (locative plural)
widmo (singular vocative)
widma (plural vocative)


小熊

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ʊŋ³⁵/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ʊŋ³⁵/


einhyrning

einhyrningen (definite singular)
einhyrningar (indefinite plural)
einhyrningane (definite plural)

/²ɛɪːnhʏrnɪŋ/

From Old Norse einhyrningr, calque of Latin ūnicornis.


havfru

havfrua (definite singular)
havfruer (indefinite plural)
havfruene (definite plural)

[ˈhaːʋ.ˌfɾʉʷː]


Ziemianin

pl-noun

Ziemianin m pers (female equivalent Ziemianka)

Ziemianka (feminine)
Ziemianin (nominative singular)
Ziemianie (nominative plural)
Ziemianina (genitive singular)
Ziemian (genitive plural)
Ziemianinowi (dative singular)
Ziemianom (dative plural)
Ziemianina (accusative singular)
Ziemian (accusative plural)
Ziemianinem (instrumental singular)
Ziemianami (instrumental plural)
Ziemianinie (locative singular)
Ziemianach (locative plural)
Ziemianinie (singular vocative)
Ziemianie (plural vocative)


timequake

Or you can have a revisable universe with one timeline (see Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time or Milennium^([sic]) by (I think) Joe Haldeman for the general idea) and in which your actions can "rewrite" the past from that point on. Here, if you shoot your grandfather, you generate a "timequake" in which something ugly happens. Probably you disappear, but there may be other side-effects as the universe works it out, which is, I think, what you are reffering^([sic]) to as the "great expense".

1996 November 16, Mike Abernathy, “Re: faster than light travel”, in sci.physics.electromag (Usenet), message-ID <56la8t$5@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>:

Finding herself in the middle of a “timequake,” she discovers another world—an alternate universe. Will Mary find a way to return to the world she left?

2008, Deanna J. McDaniel, Gentle Reads: Great Books to Warm Hearts and Lift Spirits, Grades 5-9, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 217:

(science fiction) A disturbance in the flow of time.


Alpha Centaurian

en-noun

Alpha Centaurian (plural Alpha Centaurians)

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Alpha Centauri.


science faction

Blend of science fiction + science fact.


Winesburg

Originally named Weinsberg in 1829, after the town in Germany. It was renamed to Winesburg by postal authorities in 1833 when a post office was opened there.
The fictional town came from the name of the actual Ohio town.

(fiction) The town, named after the Holmes County town of the same name, but otherwise based on Clyde, Ohio, that serves as the setting of the novel Winesburg, Ohio.


superman punch

superman punch (plural superman punches)

Probably from Superman, a comic-book superhero with superhuman strength and speed.

mixed martial arts
mixed martial arts#English

A technique used in Muay Thai, Sanshou, kickboxing, ITF-style taekwondo and mixed martial arts, which involves bringing the rear leg forward to feign a kick, then snapping the leg back while throwing a cross, resulting in greater power behind the punch.


طهمورث

tahmuras (romanization)
tahmures (romanization)

desc

English: Tahmooras, Tahmoorath, Tahmourath, Tahmurath, Tahmoores, Tahmouras, Tahmoures, Tahmuras, Tahmures (transliteration)

Georgian: თეიმურაზ (teimuraz), თაიმურაზ (taimuraz)

Armenian: Թամրազ (Tʻamraz)

Russian: Теймураз (Tejmuraz)

English: Teimuraz (transliteration)

Ossetian: Таймураз (Tajmuraz)

Russian: Таймура́з (Tajmuráz)

English: Taymuraz, Taimuraz (transliteration)

(Iranian mythology) Tahmooras/Tahmoorath, a mythical king mentioned in the Shahnameh.

(archaic) a male given name, Tahmooras or Tahmoores


neurotronic

(science fiction) Combining neural and electronic technologies.


stasis lock

Tec had already deepened the stasis in Uru's cage to keep him asleep, and now he put the ship in a stasis lock.

1976, J. O. Jeppson, Second Experiment, page 29:

I am speaking to the eight ships on the dessert on the planet Vood, which are now in energy stasis locks. I am representative of the Maitan Empire fleet, who have you under surveillance.

(machinery, especially science fiction) An induced state of suspension or inactivity.


chick magnet

When he walks his dog the girls all want to pet it – it's a real chick magnet.

(US, colloquial) Something that tends to get the attention of women, especially young women.


どろん

(fiction, onomatopoeia) Representing the disappearance of a ninja.


GEQ

Maybe after we released the Rune of Death from Maliketh, the GEQ got her full powers back.

Does this mean that the Godskins and the GEQ once had the Elden Ring?

We know that the GEQ was beat by Maliketh and Destined Death was reclaimed by him.

(Elden Ring fandom slang) The Gloam-Eyed Queen (a minor character in the game's backstory).


felinoid

(science fiction) A member of a cat-like alien race.


Three Laws of Robotics

Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1942, introduced in his short story "Runaround".

coin

(science fiction, robotics) A set of rules governing the behavior of robots.


future history

en-noun

future history (countable and uncountable, plural future histories)

(countable) A postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.

(the speaker is a time traveller from the future) Well, lad, I would tell you more, but that's just future history that you must figure out on your own.

(uncountable, chiefly science fiction, often humorous) Future events perceived or analyzed chronologically, as compared to history.


varinha de condão

pt-noun

varinha de condão f (plural varinhas de condão)

(fantasy) magic wand (stick used to perform magic)


キュクロープス

[kʲɨkɯ̟ɾo̞ːpɯ̟sɨ]

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps).

lbor

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) a cyclops


クロスオーバー

ja-noun

クロスオーバー • (kurosuōbā)

[kɯ̟ɾo̞sɨo̞ːba̠ː]


Eevolution

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eevolution.


affaldsbørs

head

affaldsbørs c (singular definite affaldsbørsen, plural indefinite affaldsbørser)

affaldsbørsen (definite singular)
affaldsbørser (indefinite plural)
affaldsbørs (indefinite nominative singular)
affaldsbørsen (definite nominative singular)
affaldsbørser (indefinite nominative plural)
affaldsbørserne (definite nominative plural)
affaldsbørs' (genitive indefinite singular)
affaldsbørsens (definite genitive singular)
affaldsbørsers (genitive indefinite plural)
affaldsbørsernes (definite genitive plural)

From affald (“trash, garbage, waste”) + -s- + børs (“stock exchange, bourse”).

affix

(chiefly fiction or imaginary) bourse or stock exchange for company waste


jann

en-noun

jann (plural janns or jinnan or jawan or jinn or jinnah or genies or genii)

janns (plural)
jinnan (plural)
jawan (plural)
jinn (plural)
jinnah (plural)
genies (plural)
genii (plural)

(rare, mythology) One of the jinn; a genie.


Third Law of Robotics

Three Laws of Robotics
Three Laws of Robotics

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, requiring a robot to protect its own existence, as long as this does not conflict with the First Law (which forbids a robot to harm a human) or the Second Law (which requires robots to obey humans).


Second Law of Robotics

First Law of Robotics
First Law of Robotics

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, requiring a robot to obey humans, unless it would conflict with the First Law of Robotics (which forbids a robot to harm a human).


First Law of Robotics

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, forbidding a robot to harm a human, through either action or inaction.


Baskervillean

en-adj

Baskervillean (comparative more Baskervillean, superlative most Baskervillean)

more Baskervillean (comparative)
most Baskervillean (superlative)

From Baskerville + -an, in reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (published 1901-1902).

I entered and rang the bell, which was answered first by a Baskervillean baying, and in due course by Mrs Healey herself.

2015, Ceri Houlbrook, Natalie Armitage, The Materiality of Magic: An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs:

Characteristic of a fearsome, diabolical dog.


Belly of the Whale

Coined by Joseph Campbell in 1949. Probably an allusion to the book of Jonah in the Bible, in which Jonah was swallowed by a great fish.

A story element which represents the final separation from a hero's known world and self.


眼鏡娘

ㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄋㄧㄤˊ

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹ ni̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³⁻³⁵ nœːŋ²¹/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹ ni̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³⁻³⁵ nœːŋ²¹/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 眼(め)鏡(がね)っ娘(こ) (meganekko).


ملحمة

ar-noun

مَلْحَمَة • (malḥama) f (plural مَلَاحِم (malāḥim))

مَلْحَمَة (canonical)
malḥama (romanization)
مَلَاحِم (plural)
مَلْحَمَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْحَمَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
مَلْحَمَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
مَلَاحِم (broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural)
الْمَلَاحِم (broken-form definite diptote informal plural)
مَلَاحِم (broken-form construct diptote informal plural)
مَلَاحِمُ (broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural)
الْمَلَاحِمُ (broken-form definite diptote nominative plural)
مَلَاحِمُ (broken-form construct diptote nominative plural)
مَلَاحِمَ (accusative broken-form diptote indefinite plural)
الْمَلَاحِمَ (accusative broken-form definite diptote plural)
مَلَاحِمَ (accusative broken-form construct diptote plural)
مَلَاحِمَ (broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural)
الْمَلَاحِمِ (broken-form definite diptote genitive plural)
مَلَاحِمِ (broken-form construct diptote genitive plural)

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→ Ottoman Turkish: ملحمه (melhame, “bloody battle, slaughter”)

Root
 ل ح م (l ḥ m)
 0 terms
Noun of place of لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”). Cognate to Hebrew מִלְחָמָה (milḥamá, “war, battle”).


モブキャラクター

[mo̞bɯ̟ kʲa̠ɾa̠kɯ̟ta̠ː]

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

pseudo-loan

(fiction) generic bystander character, extra


Skate

But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.

2010, Robert Dougherty, Lost: It Only Ends Once: An Unofficial Last Look, page 294:

(I've never subscribed to either of the Kate ships on the show, but even I was almost a Skate convert in that moment.)

2010, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost, Season Six, unnumbered page:

And while, as a Skate fan, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed that my side of the love square ultimately didn't win out (Sawyer ended up with Juliet, Jack ended up with Kate), I have to say I adored this small scene between my couple!

2015, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, editors, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.


廢部

/feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹/

/fɐi̯³³ pou̯²²/

/feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹/

/fɐi̯³³ pou̯²²/

(anime) to abolish or abrogate a department, society, group, etc.


people pod

If you believe your Sunday papers. the answer is supposed to be "people pods in pneumatic tubes."

These little cars are called people pods. Each one has seats for two to four people. To ride in a people pod, you first buy a ticket from a computer. You push buttons on the computer to tell it where you want to go. You put the ticket in a slot in the small computer on the people pod. The computer then controls your ride along tracks under the city. When you get out of the people pod, or out of the parking building, you go up to the street.

1974, Margaret Early, Gwendolyn Kerr, Judith Busch, Ring around the world, →ISBN, pages 256–257:

'Yeah, and conveying themselves round in those cryonic selfdrive people pods.

2011, Chloe Rayban, Terminal Chic, →ISBN:

A people pod—a bi-rail system where each person gets into his or her own pod or car.

2012, James L. Lowther, The Group, →ISBN:

And now, much like the linear accelerators he designed to push his theoretical people pods, Musk is planning to encourage forward movement on more Hyperloop designs.

2015 June 15, Amanda Schupak, “Elon Musk to build Hyperloop test track in California”, in CBS News:

(science fiction or futurism) Any of various cars for carrying a small number of people as part of a public transportation system.


신데렐라

[ɕʰinde̞ɾe̞ɭɭa̠]


salesbot

(science fiction) A robot designed to sell goods or services.


sotakirjallisuus

sotakirjallisuus (nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuudet (nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuus (accusative nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuudet (accusative nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuuden (accusative genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuudet (accusative genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuden (genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksien (genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuutta (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksia (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuudessa (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksissa (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudesta (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksista (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteen (illative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiin (illative plural)
sotakirjallisuudella (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksilla (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudelta (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksilta (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuudelle (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksille (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuutena (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksina (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeksi (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuuksiksi (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuudetta (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksitta (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
sotakirjallisuuteni (nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuuteni (nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteni (accusative nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuuteni (accusative nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteni (accusative genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuteni (accusative genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuteni (genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksieni (genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuttani (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiani (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuudessani (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksissani (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudestani (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksistani (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteeni (illative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiini (illative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellani (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillani (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeltani (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiltani (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuudelleni (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksilleni (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenani (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksinani (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuudekseni (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuuksikseni (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuudettani (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksittani (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksineni (comitative plural)
sotakirjallisuutesi (nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutesi (nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutesi (accusative nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutesi (accusative nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutesi (accusative genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuutesi (accusative genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuutesi (genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiesi (genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuttasi (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiasi (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuudessasi (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksissasi (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudestasi (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksistasi (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteesi (illative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiisi (illative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellasi (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillasi (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeltasi (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiltasi (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellesi (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillesi (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenasi (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksinasi (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeksesi (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuuksiksesi (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuudettasi (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksittasi (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksinesi (comitative plural)
sotakirjallisuutemme (nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutemme (nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutemme (accusative nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutemme (accusative nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutemme (accusative genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuutemme (accusative genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuutemme (genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiemme (genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuttamme (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiamme (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuudessamme (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksissamme (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudestamme (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksistamme (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteemme (illative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiimme (illative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellamme (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillamme (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeltamme (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiltamme (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellemme (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillemme (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenamme (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksinamme (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeksemme (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuuksiksemme (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuudettamme (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksittamme (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksinemme (comitative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenne (nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutenne (nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenne (accusative nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutenne (accusative nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenne (accusative genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuutenne (accusative genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuutenne (genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksienne (genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuttanne (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksianne (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuudessanne (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksissanne (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudestanne (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksistanne (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteenne (illative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiinne (illative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellanne (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillanne (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeltanne (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiltanne (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellenne (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillenne (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenanne (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksinanne (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeksenne (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuuksiksenne (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuudettanne (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksittanne (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksinenne (comitative plural)
sotakirjallisuutensa (nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutensa (nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutensa (accusative nominative singular)
sotakirjallisuutensa (accusative nominative plural)
sotakirjallisuutensa (accusative genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuutensa (accusative genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuutensa (genitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiensa (genitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuttaan (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuttansa (partitive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiaan (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksiansa (partitive plural)
sotakirjallisuudessaan (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuudessansa (inessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksissaan (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksissansa (inessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudestaan (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuudestansa (elative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksistaan (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuksistansa (elative plural)
sotakirjallisuuteensa (illative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiinsa (illative plural)
sotakirjallisuudellaan (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuudellansa (adessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksillaan (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksillansa (adessive plural)
sotakirjallisuudeltaan (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuudeltansa (ablative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksiltaan (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuuksiltansa (ablative plural)
sotakirjallisuudelleen (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuudellensa (allative singular)
sotakirjallisuuksilleen (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuuksillensa (allative plural)
sotakirjallisuutenaan (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuutenansa (essive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksinaan (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksinansa (essive plural)
sotakirjallisuudekseen (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuudeksensa (singular translative)
sotakirjallisuuksikseen (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuuksiksensa (plural translative)
sotakirjallisuudettaan (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuudettansa (abessive singular)
sotakirjallisuuksittaan (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksittansa (abessive plural)
sotakirjallisuuksineen (comitative plural)
sotakirjallisuuksinensa (comitative plural)


Sol system

Alliance Officer: This is a galaxy-wide alert for all human territories. Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett has declared Threat Condition Saber One.
Alliance Officer: Enemy presence confirmed in Sol system. Earth under Reaper attack. I say again: Reaper attack is underway.
Alliance Officer: [Static.] ...further instructions to follow on coded channel Crimson Tacit.
Alliance Officer: May God save us. [Static.]

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Alliance S.O.S.:


romaction

Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story.

2008, 52:48 from the start, in Bedtime Stories:

One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.

2010 July 6, “How movies became love, camera, action”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Like the “romaction” genre that fuses relationships and car crashes (think “Date Night” and “Knight and Day”), hard-R comedies like “The Hangover,” “Bad Teacher” and last year’s “Ted” appeal both to young women and their male companions, a “two-quadrant” win that made studio suits swoon.

2013 June 20, Ann Hornaday, “Why the rom-com is almost extinct”, in The Washington Post:

They reject his suggestion, asking instead to hear a story of action and romance. Skeeter then tells them a "romaction story" about Ancient Greece featuring Skeetacus, the inventor of the X Games.

2013, Amie A. Doughty, "Throw the book away": Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy:


over nine thousand

From episode 28 of the anime TV series Dragon Ball Z ("Goku's Arrival", 1997), referring to Goku's increase in power level.

(humorous, Internet slang, idiomatic) off the charts; through the roof (beyond expectations)

List of Dragon Ball Z episodes (season 1)


thuồng luồng

[tʰuəŋ˨˩ luəŋ˨˩]

[tʰuəŋ˦˩ luəŋ˦˩]

[tʰuəŋ˨˩ luəŋ˨˩]

Disyllabic non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 龍 (SV: long) (Maspero, 1912). Compare rồng.

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">long</i>

vi-etym-sino

(mythology) aquatic serpent-like monster.