fanac

This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.

1956 September, Robert Bloch, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57:

It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.

1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274:

The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.

2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan..., Wildside Press LLC, page 274:

(dated, fandom slang) The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction.


atompunk

In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.

2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <memo.20011031191447.43761C@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>:

Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.

2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID <152bbdf6.0206101038.72e312be@posting.google.com>:

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.

2004 March 6, Michael S. Schiffer, “Re: Earth-2 Legion Synopsis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <Xns94A49BD7E514mss2mediaonenet@130.133.1.4>:

According to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it ages ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years.

2012 April 8, Elaine Chow, “Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2016-08-28:

Atompunk covers the pre-digital period of 1945–1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age. Throw Roger Thornhill's suits in this basket, and everything ever worn on Mad Men. This takes us right up to the mid '60s, when the fictional worlds of yesterday abut the real worlds you grew up in.

2012, William J. Thompson, “Time Travel”, in Dress Like a Grownup!: A Complete Tutorial for the Average Guy, 2nd edition, volume 1, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 2 (Advanced Theory), page 55:

You keep imagining someone 20 years from now reading The Peripheral the way that we read Neuromancer today, perplexed at the now-unfathomable ubiquity of cassettes and modems. We laugh at the past or mine it for influence – think of steampunk, atompunk, dieselpunk, and the million other microgenres based on the incongruity of old societies and future tech – but someday, the future is going to do the same to us.

2014 October 27, Adi Robertson, “William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’: Looking Back at the Future: A Smart, Nuanced Twist on Time Travel”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-05-05:

Additionally, while [Sebastian] Faulks aspires to write as [Ian] Fleming, he takes care to increase the serving of action, in fact including some interesting bits of atompunk—a nuclear-powered ekranoplan, Vulcan bombers.

2015, Nader Elhefnawy, The Forgotten James Bond, [s.l.]: [s.n.]:

(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).


hypospray

(chiefly science fiction) A kind of jet injector.


ётун

ru-noun+

ётун • (jótun) m anim (genitive ётуна, nominative plural ётуны, genitive plural ётунов)

jótun (romanization)
ётуна (genitive)
ётуны (nominative plural)
ётунов (genitive plural)
ётун (nominative singular)
ётуны (nominative plural)
ётуна (genitive singular)
ётунов (genitive plural)
ётуну (dative singular)
ётунам (dative plural)
ётуна (accusative singular)
ётунов (accusative plural)
ётуном (instrumental singular)
ётунами (instrumental plural)
ётуне (prepositional singular)
ётунах (plural prepositional)


worldbuilder

Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre.

2001, Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games, page 207:

We are weary of theoretical worldbuilders who strive to construct logical designs that weave together all components of the social fabric.

1989, Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott, A Sociology of the Absurd:

One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.


χαραδριός

grc-noun

χαραδριός • (kharadriós) m (genitive χαραδριοῦ); second declension

kharadriós (romanization)
χαραδριοῦ (genitive)
ὁ χαραδριός (nominative singular)
τὼ χαραδριώ (dual nominative)
οἱ χαραδριοί (nominative plural)
τοῦ χαραδριοῦ (genitive singular)
τοῖν χαραδριοῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν χαραδριῶν (genitive plural)
τῷ χαραδριῷ (dative singular)
τοῖν χαραδριοῖν (dative dual)
τοῖς χαραδριοῖς (dative plural)
τὸν χαραδριόν (accusative singular)
τὼ χαραδριώ (accusative dual)
τοὺς χαραδριούς (accusative plural)
χαραδριέ (singular vocative)
χαραδριώ (dual vocative)
χαραδριοί (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Old Armenian: քարադր (kʻaradr), քաղանդր (kʻałandr), քաղաթր (kʻałatʻr), քաղարդր (kʻałardr), քաղադր (kʻaładr), քաղդր (kʻałdr), քարադրոս (kʻaradros), քարարդ (kʻarard), քառադր (kʻaṙadr), քաղարդ (kʻałard), քաղանդրոս (kʻałandros), քարադրոն (kʻaradron), կալատրիս (kalatris)
→ Old Georgian: ქალანდრო (kalandro), ქარანდრი (karandri)

desc

→ Old Church Slavonic: харадрїонъ (xaradrionŭ), халадреѡнъ (xaladreonŭ), каладриконъ (kaladrikonŭ), каладринѡнъ (kaladrinonŭ), хадрїонъ (xadrionŭ)

→ Old Georgian: ხარადრიონი (xaradrioni)

→ Latin: charadrius, caladrius

→ Russian: хара́др (xarádr), хара́дрий (xarádrij), кала́дрий (kaládrij), кала́дриус (kaládrius)

The formation is similar to other bird names, like αἰγυπιός (aigupiós), αἰγωλιός (aigōliós) and ἐρῳδιός (erōidiós). Traditionally derived from χαράδρα (kharádra, “dry bed of a river”), but it could be folk etymology.

Ἔστι πετεινὸν, λεγόμενον χαλαδριός
Ésti peteinòn, legómenon khaladriós

(Byzantine) caladrius (a mythical bird that had healing powers)


mindpower

en-noun

mindpower (countable and uncountable, plural mindpowers)

mental power; any power of the mind, such as lateral thinking or psychic ability


merhusband

A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband. A mermaid begins to yearn for the wild freedom of life among the waves, and finds it is very difficult to adjust to the dry [...]

1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people:

A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.


merwife

From Old English merewīf (“water witch, mermaid”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariwīb, from Proto-Germanic *mariwībą (“mermaid, siren”). By surface analysis, mer- + wife. Cognate with Old High German meriwīb.


merland

"I know what you would say and I know what I should answer, dear Ulfin, if you were only a commoner of Merland. ... and I am a Mermaid, […]"

[…] or she could bolt and hurry back to the shore, hoping that two wolphins might return to haul her tired body back to Merland off Oregon.

2010, Judith Gilman, Mermaids of the Siuslaw:

A mythical land of mermaids and merfolk.


merbaby

"She should have stayed in the ocean where she belonged. She could have married some nice young merman and had some cute little merbabies and lived a long, happy life—"

1997, Elizabeth Lane, The Tycoon and the Townie, Harlequin, →ISBN:

There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren. One had a merbaby on her back, the tiniest little pink tail sticking out from under its sling.

2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57:

But Anna held the merbaby tight and carried her towards the sea.

2009, Penny Kendal, Merbaby, Evans Brothers Limited, →ISBN, page 35:


merguard

He and his merguard surrounded her before she could say a word. "What kind of Conch Queen of Doom are you?" he griped, angrily jabbing at Sabrina with his trident.

1999, Bobbi J. G. Weiss, David Cody Weiss, Age of Aquariums, Archway Paperback, →ISBN, page 133:

Two muscular merguards twisted my arms behind my back and tangled my legs in seaweed.

2009, Delia Sherman, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Viking, →ISBN:

Mer-guards flanked the front opening to the palace.

2011, L-J Baker, Promises, Promises, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 148:


merknight

[…] while merknights in full armour give their own demonstration of fishy combat tactics.

1967, Bridget Ann Henisch, Medieval Armchair Travels, Carnation Press (1967), page 38

However, it is the scilla's cousin the "merknight" (Fig. 107) who most closely resembles the curious armored fish men that Bosch portrays.

1981, Laurinda S. Dixon, Alchemical Imagery in Bosch's Garden of Delights, UMI Research Press, →ISBN, page 44:

It is etched and gilded overall, the themes of the decoration including, on the leg defences, the labours of Hercules, and on the upper half a merknight and mermaid, supplemented with elephants and castles, and various putti and animals.

2009, Graeme Rimer, Thom Richardson, J.P.D. Cooper, editors, Henry VIII: Arms and the Man, 1509-2009, Royal Armouries, →ISBN, page 151:


merkingdom

Thus, Eric fulfills his role as heroic rescuer by saving the woman he loves and the merkingdom from danger, and thus a relationship is constructed between a strong, invulnerable heroic protector and weak, vulnerable victims (Ariel and the kingdom).

2011, Justin Charlebois, Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

Merpeople came from all over the merkingdom to visit and study.

2012, Debbie Dadey, Whale of a Tale, Aladdin, →ISBN, page 24:

Marrying Sabyn to get control of a merkingdom that had obviously decided it didn't want me as a ruler was not an acceptable thing to do.

2013, Tracy Deebs, Tempest Revealed, Walker Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:


mermother

"I shall never see my merfather or my mermother any more, or the mermaids, or the fish-king, or the merry dolphins, or-r-r-r " —
"Never mind!" cried Elfie, crying too, and she put her arms around the sad little mermaid's neck.

1882, E. L. P, Elfie Under the Sea and Other Stories, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., page 21:

Suddenly a lovely sound filled the air. Ariel turned toward it. Nefazia was sitting on the rock, singing. Her song was low and sweet, like a mermother crooning to her baby.

1993, Suzanne Weyn, Nefazia Visits the Palace, The Trumpet Club, →ISBN, page 43:

A mermother pushed an infant merbaby along the street in an old stroller. Soon Sabrina and the merman reached an enormous palace, nearly five stories high.

2007, Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson, The Problem Child:


mer-

merlady, merfolk, merwife, mermonster

(fantasy) Of, pertaining to, or associated with the realm of mermaids and mermen.


merfather

"Danya, you think if you believe in your merfather and Ayralon, it's like rejecting your parents. Especially your stepfather. Is that true?"

2004, Vicki Blum, The Mermaid Secret, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 63:

Two eighth-graders (Emma Roberts and JoJo) befriend a mermaid (Sara Paxton) who has three days to prove to her merfather that love exists.

2006 March 3, Roger Ebert, “'Aquamarine'”, in Orange County Register:


merking

The merking's castle stood in the very deepest spot. The palace walls were made of coral. The roof was oyster shells. And the windows stood open to let the fish swim in and out.

2002, Sarah Hines Stephen, Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid: And Other Stories:

A mermaid king; the king of the merfolk.


merqueen

Have you ever met any from the sea clan Merqueen and Saxon merman […]

2006, Lunar-k, Angels, Fairies, Mermaids & Warriors:

Then Brigit followed singing: The merqueen picks the dolphin, The merqueen picks the dolphin, High, ho, the dario, The merqueen picks the dolphin.

2009, Clark Smith, Patricia Clark Smith, Baiting Hollow: A Time of Enchantment:

A mermaid, especially one who is a queen.


jotun

Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). Doublet of ettin.

Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.

1831, Walter Savage Landor, “Gunlaug”, in Gebir, Count Julian, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street, →OCLC, page 279:

When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns.

1908, The Elementary School Teacher, volume 8, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 214:

When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki.

1967, Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'aulaire, “Loki, the God of the Jotun Race”, in Norse Gods and Giants, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-04908-5; republished as D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, New York, N.Y.: New York Review of Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59017-125-7, page 42

The world in which the æsir and jötnar play out their struggle has its own set of place-names but is essentially recognizable as Scandinavia. There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.

2001, John Lindow, “The Historical Background”, in Handbook of Norse Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 2:

(Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.

Arthur Rackham
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Fafnir
Freyja
Richard Wagner


jotun

jotunen (definite singular)
jotnar (indefinite plural)
jotnane (definite plural)

Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz. Doublet of jøtul and jutul.


merworld

"I consider myself a reasonable merman," Triton thundered, "but contact between the merworld and the human world is strictly forbidden. Why did you disobey me and rescue that human?"

1996, Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics: From the Fox and the Hound to the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 85:

Oliver hadn't written any stories about the merworld, but knowing him there were probably at least a couple pages of notes about the place somewhere in his notebook.

2010, Frédérick S. Parker, Finding the Kingdom of the Centaurs, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 171:

Reflecting a slightly modified version of the hero narrative, Eric rescues Ariel from Ursula and concomitantly saves the merworld from a diabolical female in lieu of a male villain.

2011, Justin Charlebois, Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

(fantasy) The undersea world of merfolk.


MSTing

The intent may not have been deliberately malicious; but it was negligent and in bad taste not to ask the author's permission first, which in no way precludes the MSTing from being hurtful.

1995 February 4, Roberta Chi-Woon Kwong, “Re: MSTied fanfic (long)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I love all the discussions and especially enjoy reading MSTings of fan fiction.

2003 April 4, Andrew Mitchell, “Delurking”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

I once did a MSTing of the Power Rangers movie script, and there are MAJOR differences between it and what we see on screen.

2003 August 13, Fish Eye no Miko, “Re: Hermione in COS”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A parody fanfic created by inserting satirical commentary into an existing work.


netherverse

His death "created a netherverse, one which has temporarily absorbed your two universes."

2006, Mark Voger, Kathy Voglesong, The Dark Age:

The council believes whoever it is has been active for quite sometime mucking up the netherverse.

2007, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow:

When death seems to be grinning back at us from the netherverse, most meet his stare with fear, in their eyes.

(fantasy) A lower universe, realm, or region; underworld.


うわん

うわん (canonical)
ウワン (canonical)
uwan (romanization)

Onomatopoeia for the sound of the wail or shout purportedly made by the spirit.


هوشنگ

head

هوشنگ • (hušang)

fa-proper noun

هوشنگ • (hušang)

→ Azerbaijani: Huşəng

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: होशंग (hośaṅg)

Urdu: ہوشَنْگ (hośaṅg)

→ Ottoman Turkish: هوشَنْك (Hûşenk)

[huː.ʃæɲɡʲ̥]

From Middle Persian hwšng (Hōšang), from Old Iranian. Akin to Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀 (haošiiaŋha, “Haoshyangha”).


shome mishtake shurely

shurely shome mishtake
shurely shome mishtake#English

Alternative form of shurely shome mishtake


shurely shome mishtake

Pronunciation spelling of surely some mistake. Originally coined by Private Eye in imitation of the slurred speech of a drunken editor, or of the lisping Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes.

pronunciation spelling of

[They] were overwhelmed by the buffet, consisting of a "huge bowel [shurely shome mishtake?] of great pink shrimps balanced on their heads, guarded by a three foot ice swan"

1990, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter, volume 74, page 40:

The letter in AI 2.10.97 re the Philips Pavilion makes me wonder again why that 'experience' (copyright PM Millennium Inc) was so easily hated - and panned again by your reviewer. Why, only a few weeks ago your 'Mayo' called it 'Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion'. Shurely shome mishtake?

1997, John McKean, “Hard to see what's in front of your eyes”, in The Architect's Journal, volume 206, page 27:

Surely this was worthy of comment, if not a headline: "UK drink-driving limit allows binge drinking - shurely shome mishtake?"

2004, Paul Blezard, “Binge and Drive”, in New Scientist, number 2464:

The Star also reports: "A public farewell is being planned next week in Brisbane's football stadium to accommodate all his millions of fans." The Wrap is not sure how big the stadium is, but thinks this might be a case of shurely shome mishtake?

2006 September 13, Mark Oliver, “The Wrap - No Love Lost”, in The Guardian:

(UK, informal) Highlights a mistake, actual or perceived, which the writer feels is ironic or humorous.


Ugandan discussions

Now that Andy has dispensed with her services, Grovel can reveal that the former soft-porn star was enjoying Ugandan discussions in St Moritz last Christmas with Lome Thyssen, 20-year-old son of the multi-millionaire steel tycoon Baron Heini Thyssen.

1983, Private Eye, numbers 550-575, page 215:

A letter came back on Department of Education notepaper. "Very sorry I can't do lunch. I am usually engaged in Ugandan discussions at lunchtime. I will be happy to see you in the evening."

2009, Ion Trewin, Alan Clark: The Biography, →ISBN:

Boys make gay jokes about most other boys, without any implication that any genuine Ugandan discussions take place.

2010, Tom Bennett, The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers, →ISBN, page 164:

(UK, euphemistic, humorous) Sexual intercourse.


discuss Uganda

en-verb

discuss Uganda (third-person singular simple present discusses Uganda, present participle discussing Uganda, simple past and past participle discussed Uganda)

discusses Uganda (present singular third-person)
discussing Uganda (participle present)
discussed Uganda (participle past)
discussed Uganda (past)

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Coined by Private Eye in reference to an alleged tryst between journalist Mary Kenny and a politician, after which Kenny claimed she was merely "upstairs discussing Uganda".

IMHO she just devalues the rest of us who want to be judged by what we do and what we are, not how we look and who we discuss Uganda with.

1995 April 27, Helen Gerald, “Re: Liz Hurley”, in rec.arts.tv.uk (Usenet), message-ID <1bd766f1e95e31fd>:

If both [doors] are closed (leaving a small gap between them, that is) it means the occupant is away, studying hard and not wishing to be disturbed, discussing Uganda with a member of the opposite sex (or even, fwankly Wupert, the same one), or enduring a hangover from hell [...]

2007, Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Cambridge, →ISBN, page 257:

The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)

2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:

(UK, informal, euphemistic) To have sex.


exotic cheroot

But some busybody got a whiff of an exotic cheroot and the place was closed down.

No sweet scent of the exotic cheroot taints the air, there are scarcely even any smokers, and no one seems to be employing the men's room either to take on fuel or to make a brisk exchange of spermatozoa.

1994, Christopher Hitchens, “Warhol in One Dimension”, in For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports, →ISBN, page 283:

'This friend of yours must have been smoking exotic cheroots while writing to you,' reads the note and I laugh out loud, especially as the letter comes from Chuck Pfeifer.

1994, Taki, Nothing to Declare, →ISBN, page 188:

(UK, euphemistic) Cannabis, a joint of cannabis.


catperson

I haven't seen one of my earliest acquaintances in the game, a catperson berserker named Silverkat, since Ugeta was just a lowbie.

2012, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of, EverQuest, Left Coast Press, →ISBN, page 69:

(fiction) An anthropomorphic feline, or a person who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body, such as cat ears and a cat tail.

katmens

anthropomorphic feline, or person with characteristics of a cat


nekomimi

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From Japanese 猫耳 (nekomimi), from 猫 (neko, “cat”) + 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

Thank you, Galen - I was pretty sure that she wasn't really a nekomimi, but this gives me some proof.

2005 February 17, Rob Kelk, “Re: DiGi Charat without her hat”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(chiefly Japanese fiction) (by metonymy, coming from meronymy) A fictional character who has cat ears on an otherwise human body, and possibly other feline characteristics such as a tail.


terrian

oc-noun

terrian m (plural terrians, feminine terriana, feminine plural terrianas)

terrians (plural)
terriana (feminine)
terrianas (feminine plural)

(chiefly science fiction) Earthling, Terran (resident or native of the planet Earth)


tiger mom

The message to tiger moms: telling your kids that failure is not an option does not set them up for success.

2012 March 30, Stefanie Weisman, “Taming the Tiger of Achievement”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2012-05-17:


pocketphone

(dated or science fiction) A telephone that fits in one's pocket; a mobile phone.


naïade

From Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás) (oblique stem Νᾱϊαδ-).


retrofuturism

Even the aesthetics of its interface, with a kind of Star Trek-like retrofuturism, makes users feel as if their computer is doing the things we imagined computers would be doing, rather than the humdrum business of typing, filing and storing.

2006, David Bell, Science, Technology and Culture, Open University Press, →ISBN, pages 89–90:

The revival of historical conceptions of the future in media and design.


little black dress

en-noun

little black dress (plural little black dresses)

When dressing up for a night out, let's not forget the sex appeal, allure, and slenderizing effect of ultrasheer black hosiery under that little black dress.

2012, Rebecca Apsan, Lessons in Lingerie: Finding Your Perfect Shade of Seduction:

A simply cut and often quite short evening or cocktail dress.

The F-bomb is the little black dress of vulgarity. Noun, verb, participle, verbal noun — it goes with everything.

2013 April 24, Alexandra Petri, “The peculiar brilliance of that sorority e-mail”, in The Washington Post:

Who, excepting fictional fanged creatures of the night, doesn't love a bit of garlic? It goes in anything and is like the little black dress of the food world.

2014 August 20, Sarah Hazelwood, “5 of the Best…Fruits and Vegetables to grow this August”, in Buzz, page 27:

While Phelps might have been the headliner, Ledecky became the little black dress of American swimming; unpretentious, regal and ridiculously versatile.

2014 August 10, Karen Crouse, “After Tuneup for Trials, American Swimmers Evaluate Potential”, in The New York Times:

(figuratively) Something simple, versatile, and elegant; something that pairs well with many other things.

I've seen Snape/Loki. Little Black Dresses, both of them. They'll go with anybody.

2018 September 23, Marion Beet (@Knitronomicon), Twitter:

Sansa is SUCH a good little black dress. I honestly would read almost any character in GOT with her.

2021 March 24, acequeenking (@acequeenkingpin), Twitter:

Brienne is my little black dress of GOT/ASOIAF. I am happy to read fic with her shipped with many many many characters.

2021 September 24, captainellie (@captainecomb), Twitter:

(fandom slang) A character who is shipped with many other characters.


atmo

(science fiction) atmosphere (of a planet)


terrícola

ca-noun

terrícola m or f by sense (plural terrícoles)


terrícola

es-noun

terrícola m or f by sense (plural terrícolas)


機械人

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kei̯⁵⁵ haːi̯²² jɐn²¹/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kei̯⁵⁵ haːi̯²² jɐn²¹/


Phaëton

A hypothetical planet between Mars and Jupiter, whose destruction led to the production of the asteroid belt.


Poochie-fication

From Poochie, a character added to boost the ratings of the fictional Itchy and Scratchy Show in The Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", + -fication.

In case you're wondering, that extra, 3rd dimension they're going to be adding to the bears is going to be made entirely out of neon, sunglasses, and highlights for the fur of Mama and Sister. Basically, it's Poochie-fication of the Berenstain Bears.

2009 November 3, Amelie Gillette, “Berenstain Bears Movie To Change The Way You Think About Anthropomorphic Bears”, in The Onion AV Club:

In the 90s, this Poochie-fication of comics — wherein many titles grew consistently and thoroughly EXTREEEEME — reached its zenith.

2010 September 29, Glen Weldon, “In Praise of M.O.D.O.K: Why Gleefully Goofy Beats Broodingly Brutal”, in National Public Radio:

It’s rare when the Poochie-fication of a character actually works, but it totally did with Kyle Rayner. Rather than the earnest, Silver Age Hal Jordan, backed up by thousands of Corps members, and knowing what his job and destiny was, Rayner was given a ring by a dying Guardian, left alone as the last Green Lantern.

2011 June 16, Alex Zalban, “The 10 Best Green Lanterns Of All Time”, in MTV, archived from the original on 2011-12-26:

(entertainment, derogatory, uncommon) The process of adding a new character to a work of fiction, or altering characters already present, in a bid to make the work cooler or more extreme.


Potterhead

Potter + -head, possibly by analogy with pothead.

Yesterday's news that Universal Studios was planning to open "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in 2009 will have prodded the shriek-buttons of millions of young Potterheads, whose relentless campaign for a "really fun holiday this time, Daaad" will have ratcheted forward a few more irreversible notches.

2007 June 1, Pat Kane, “Are They Potty?”, in The Guardian:

Her infectious enthusiasm has brought many knitters (like Alison Hansel!) into the Potterhead fold and has introduced Potterheads into the world of knitting.

2007, Alison Hansel, Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter, page 164:

"Happiness x10000," wrote one fan on learning of Rowling's new project. "IT'S LIKE POTTERHEAD CHRISTMAS!" said another.

2012 April 16, Alison Flood, “Harry Potter encyclopedia in progress, says JK Rowling”, in The Guardian:

(informal, fandom slang) One who loves the Harry Potter series of books, the Potterverse, and/or the Wizarding World Rowling-created franchise, especially to a fanatical degree.


aitu

From Proto-Polynesian *qaitu. Cognates include Maori aitu and Samoan aitu.


-verse

Women's lib in the BSGverse.

2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150:

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

2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:

Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.


kwyjibo

Taken from a nonsense word (supposedly meaning "A big, dumb, balding North American ape with no chin and a short temper") used in the 1990 episode "Bart the Genius" of the TV show The Simpsons.

On the Kwyjibo.... On steps 2-4, I've been raising my left (free) hand, swinging the yo overto^([sic]) the right and then bringing my right hand over under it.

1999, mike, “pocket rocket....”, in alt.sport.yo-yo (Usenet):

I have been yo-yoing for just over 1 year now, I have just recently learned kwyjibo, white buddha, and other tricks but I can't sleep a yo-yo for over a minute, without an amazing throw […]

2000, Allen MacInnis, “Anyone know how to sleep a yo-yo for a long time??”, in alt.sport.yo-yo (Usenet):


kaiju

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From Japanese 怪獣 (かいじゅう, kaijū), from Middle Chinese 怪 (kˠuɛiᴴ, “strange, fantastic”) + 獸 (ɕɨuᴴ, “beast”) (compare Mandarin 怪獸／怪兽 (guàishòu)).

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かいじゅう, kaijū

compound

The resurrections of Mothra, the giant butterfly in Japanese kaiju movies, are treated as colourful religious events, glitter falling upon fat children as the fluffy-faced behemoth dries its wings.

2015, Steve Aylett, Heart of the Original, Unbound, page 117:

A giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films, like Godzilla or Gamera.


dragonette

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(small dragon):

(female dragon):

And I really don't know how to say this, except to say that this dragoness is seriously luscious. Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all, but there it is. This is one seriously juicy-looking dragonette.

2018, Gabe Hudson, “What a Fitting Place for me to Die, Here in the Belly of the Beast”, in Gork, the Teenage Dragon, page 202:


sea monk

[…] three sea monks being found in 1530, 1546 and 1549. In fact the first sea monk was not a sea monk at all, having been found in the Rhine. The second one was found near Copenhagen with a black head and the clothes of a monk and the final one was found near Hafnia (Copenhagen), tonsured like a monk. […] Nonetheless walruses remain a possible explanation for the occurence of sea monks prior to 1546.

2005, Steenstrupia, volume 29, pages 40-45:

Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had. They lacked a certain appeal. The few pictorial depictions stuck a tonsured human head on a fish body, scaly fins and tail forming the monk's ...

2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition:

(folklore) A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled (and was sometimes robed or tonsured like) a European monk.


exterminador

pt-noun

exterminador m (plural exterminadores, feminine exterminadora, feminine plural exterminadoras)

exterminadores (plural)
exterminadora (feminine)
exterminadoras (feminine plural)

From Latin exterminātōrem. By surface analysis, exterminar + -dor.

(science fiction) terminator (artificial intelligence machine created to destroy humans)


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


slashzine

There's also a healthy B7 [Blake's 7] slashzine community.

1994, William James Moyer, “Sinclair vs. Avon (?!)”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (Usenet):

Slashzines based on Dark Shadows characters are rare; most Dark Shadows fans have never even heard of them.

1998, Cheryl Harris, Alison Alexander, Theorizing fandom: fans, subculture, and identity:

That's why all the SW [Star Wars] slashzines are pubbed underground -- there is no sex, let alone kinky sex, in the SW universe, and by damn LucasArts is gonna see that it stays that way!

2000, Rez, “New Napster Software but for DOOM LEVELS”, in rec.games.computer.doom.misc (Usenet):


vidphone

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting for William Shatner), TekWar
The vidphone screen remained blank. “You're looking good, Jake, looking very good all things considered.” “Wish I could say the same for you, Wiz. Why the blackout?” “Reasons, I got my reasons,” came the whispering voice […]


eyephone

One system in the works in this country would have us wearing "eyephones," a helmet-like apparatus with a small TV screen […] With the eyephones, each eye will receive only one field, but filters will adjust the picture.

1979, Science digest: Volume 86, Issue 2:

Further along on the "naturalness of use" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.

1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82:

State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.

1997, Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski, Spoken Language Characterisation, page 185:

The key element in this group of technologies is 'automatic head position tracking', which allows the wearer of an eyephone to scan a computer-generated landscape in a quasi-natural way.

1998, Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald, On Tourism, page 12:

He locked the door, put the CLOSED sign up, and went into the back room where he found the boy still seated, cross-legged, as he'd left him, his face hidden by the massive old eyephones cabled to the open notebook in his lap.

1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties:

“That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone. Inside it are tiny video screens that are transmitting to its wearer images of an opponent on the other end […]

2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 87:

(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.


commlink

A great aurora spread across the heavens, and the Thukker infantrymen lost all hope as their commlinks went dead and the TACNET dropped offline. In that moment, each man understood that they were doomed.

2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:

Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.

(science fiction) A communications device.


bộ

Sino-Vietnamese word from 部, from Literary Chinese 部 (bù). 部 (bù) is used for ministries based on historical and modern Chinese models. South Korea also uses 部 (bù), while feudal Korea used 조 (jo), from Literary Chinese 曹 (cáo, “agency”). North Korea and Japan use 省 (tỉnh), which was a higher type of government agency in feudal China.

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bộ truyện

bộ phim


رستم

→ Arabic: رُسْتُم (rustum)

→ Azerbaijani: Rüstəm

→ Bashkir: Рөстәм (Röstəm)

→ Chagatai: رستم (Rustäm)

Uyghur: رۇستەم (rustem)

Uzbek: Rustam

→ Georgian: როსტომი (rosṭomi)

desc

→ Gujarati: રૂસ્તમ (rūstam), રુસ્તમ (rustam)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: रुस्तम (rustam)

Urdu: رستم (rustam)

→ Kazakh: Рүстем (Rüstem)

→ Ottoman Turkish: رستم (Rüstem)

Turkish: Rüstem

→ Albanian: Rustem

→ Russian: Рустем (Rustem)

→ Tatar: Рөстәм (Röstäm)

→ Turkmen: Rüstem

From Middle Persian lwtsthm (/rōdstahm/), from Middle Persian lwd (/rōd/, “river”, whence modern رود (rud)) and stʾhmb (/stahm/, “force, power”, whence ستم (setam, “injustice, tyranny”)), i.e. “strong as a river”. Akin to Old Armenian Առոստոմ (Aṙostom), Ռոստոմ (Ṙostom), Ռաստոմ (Ṙastom), from Middle Iranian.
Firdawsī’s great epic, the Shāhnāma, gives the name a folk etymology from رستم (rastam, “I escaped”), because the hero was born by Caesarean section.

der

whence modern <i class="Arab fa-Arab mention" lang="fa">رود</i> (rud)

a male given name, Rostam or Rustam, from Middle Persian


brony

Blend of bro + pony, the earliest documented use dates to the 25th of October 2010 on the 4chan image boards.

But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."

2011 September 7, Jaime Weinman, “Men who love ‘My Little Pony’”, in Maclean's, →ISSN:

(fandom slang) A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult male.

ব্রনি

fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic


jøtun

jøtunen (definite singular)
jøtnar (indefinite plural)
jøtnane (definite plural)

Semi-learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz. Doublet of jøtul, jutul.

slbor

(Norse mythology) alternative form of jøtul (“jotun”)


tragic flaw

When a heroine's tragic flaw takes the form of uncontrollable love for an outlaw, the paths of momentary glory can lead but to defeat.

1948 May 31, Harold V. Cohen, "'Green Grass of Wyoming'" (film review), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 28 (retrieved 5 July 2012)

If the jury, who begin their final deliberations tomorrow, find the black All-American hero guilty of murdering his white wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, they will have concluded that he succumbed to the oldest tragic flaw in the book, the green-eyed monster of jealousy.

1995 October 1, John Carlin, “OJ's guilt is a black and white choice”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2012-07-05:

The control-freak instinct runs too deep. . . . This runs the risk of becoming a tragic flaw.

2002 February 25, J. F. O. McAllistair, “Blair the Bungee Jumper”, in Time:

(chiefly literary criticism) A personality trait or other characteristic of a real or fictional individual which is immoral, destructive, or otherwise faulty and which leads to the ruin or profound suffering of that individual.


land of milk and honey

From English translations of Exodus 3:7-8. Calque of Biblical Hebrew אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ.

calque

אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ

Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”

An imaginary or real land of abundance, particularly the Land of Israel.

tejjel-mézzel folyó Kánaán

as a saying than the literal tejjel-mézzel folyó föld/ország


سهراب

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سهراب • (sohrâb)

fa-proper noun

سهراب • (sohrâb)

→ Armenian: Զոհրաբ (Zohrab)

desctree

→ Georgian: ზურაბი (zurabi), ზურაბ (zurab) — other widely used form, ზურიკო (zuriḳo) — pet form, ზურა (zura) — diminutive
→ Abkhaz: Жәраб (Ẑʷrab)
→ Armenian: Զուրաբ (Zurab)

[so̞ɦ.ɾɑ́ːb]

[so̞ɦ.ɾɑ́ːb]

[soɦ.ɹɒ́ːb̥]


تهمینه

From Classical Persian تهم (taham, “strong”).

a female given name, Tahmina, Tamina, or Tahmineh


Twitard

From twilight + -tard, after the pattern of Twihard.

If I go missing, please reference this, as Twitards have more than likely kidnapped me, all because I seem to be the one person on the planet not to understand the vampire hype.

2010, Felicia Mancini, “2009: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”, in View Magazine, 7 January - 13 January 2010 issue:

(slang, derogatory) An avid fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


drakons

drakons (nominative singular)
drakoni (nominative plural)
drakonu (accusative singular)
drakonus (accusative plural)
drakona (genitive singular)
drakonu (genitive plural)
drakonam (dative singular)
drakoniem (dative plural)
drakonu (instrumental singular)
drakoniem (instrumental plural)
drakonā (locative singular)
drakonos (locative plural)
drakon (singular vocative)
drakoni (plural vocative)

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”).

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drakons ir klasisks tetovējums, vienlīdz populārs gan vīriešiem, gan sievietēm

the dragon is a classic tattoo, equally popular with men and with women

(mythology) dragon, winged serpent (reptilian monster that spits fire and devours people and animals)


wanderstar

From wander + star, probably a calque of German Wandelstern (“planet”). Compare the historic term wandering star, like the German term ultimately a calque from Ancient Greek.

He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.

1994, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:

A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.

He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still. Now and then a wander-star crossed the heavens: one of the metal eyes the ancients hung over Alifros to spy on their enemies.

2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy:

(science fiction, fantasy) A wandering star or other similar heavenly body; a comet; meteor; planet.


ܩܝܡܬܐ

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ܩܝܡܬܐ • (qəyāmtā) f

From the root ܩ-ܘ-ܡ (q-w-m) related to rising; compare Arabic قِيَامَة (qiyāma), Hebrew קִימָה (qîmâ).

(Christianity) Church of the Resurrection


ガールズラブ

→ English: girls' love, GL

→ Chinese: GL

[ɡa̠ːɾɯ̟zɨɾa̠bɯ̟]

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from girls + love


veļu māte

veļu māte (nominative singular)
veļu mātes (nominative plural)
veļu māti (accusative singular)
veļu mātes (accusative plural)
veļu mātes (genitive singular)
veļu māšu (genitive plural)
veļu mātei (dative singular)
veļu mātēm (dative plural)
veļu māti (instrumental singular)
veļu mātēm (instrumental plural)
veļu mātē (locative singular)
veļu mātēs (locative plural)
veļu māte (singular vocative)
veļu mātes (plural vocative)

es redzēju veļu māti pa vārtiem ienākot

I saw the mother of the dead coming by the gate

(mythology) Latvian mythological being, usually with the form of an old woman, who guards the souls of the dead


worldmaking

The creation of a world, as for example in writing fiction.


mersnake

From mer- + snake. Compare Middle English mereneddre (“sea-snake, lamprey”), from Old English merenǣddra, merenǣddre, merenǣdre (“lamprey, sea snake”, literally “sea-adder”).


icedrake

Rearing back its awesome spined and crested head, the icedrake roared — in challenge, maybe, or in scorn of the little scraps of humankind who cowered beneath the shadow of its wings […]

1987, Peter Morwood, The Dragon Lord, Daw Books, →ISBN, page 38:

(fantasy) A dragon which breathes ice or has a freezing body temperature.


ghost rocket

A poem in Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende, July 31, 1946, last page, made reference to a recent sensational ghost rocket sighting over Byen, expressing relief that the “rocket” was actually a meteor:

2001, Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion, McFarland, page 273:

Many ghost rocket sightings came from Sweden, which is near the Soviet Union. U.S. and British officials convinced the Swedes to study reports of the ghost rockets. The Swedes found pieces of metal that they though came from crashed ghost rockets.

2011, Michael Burgan, Andrew Nichols, Searching for Aliens, UFOs, and Men in Black, Capstone Press, page 11:

The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena.

2012, Ronald Story, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Constable & Robinson Ltd, page 243:

unidentified flying objects
unidentified flying objects

(ufology) Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

spökraket

rocket shaped UFOs sighted in 1946 in Sweden


black triangle

Somewhere behind that blinking yellow light that black triangle was hovering, (or moving only a few miles per hour), in our direction, straight at us.

2005, Bill Foster, Peggy Foster, Nadine Wheeler, The Black Triangle Abduction, The Invisible College Press, page 22

Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.

2007, Craig R. Lang, The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny, lulu.com, page 4:

On Thursday, July 15, 2004, I flew to Denver, Colorado, where I was scheduled to speak at the annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network on the subject of a particular type of UFO that has become known as the “Black Triangle,” and one that has been seen regularly in the skies of practically every corner of the planet for approximately the last two decades.

2009, Nick Redfern, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 105:

Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury.

2011, William J. Birnes, The Everything UFO Book: An Investigation of Sightings, Cover-ups, and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, Adams Media, page 229:

(ufology) One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.


merdog

Lee drank a potion that helped him to breathe underwater. Beardy then told me I could turn into a merman and Holly could turn into a merdog (like in an old book I've written). So I soon turned into a merman and Holly turned into a merdog.

2010, Steven J. Butler, Jr., The Lost Worlds of Buckstevenson:

Rather than the flayed skin associated with the traditional saint, this Saint Bartholomew holds a sword or trident. Something rests beside his feet—it may be a demon, dolphin, or merdog. This creature is Bartholomew's messenger and servant.

2011, Judika Illes, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages:


dríade

Borrowed from Latin Dryadem, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad, tree nymph”), from δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).


draculin

From Dracula + -in, named after Count Dracula.

(organic chemistry, zoology) A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva of vampire bats.


merlion

/ˈmɜːˌlaɪən/

/ˌmɜːˈlaɪən/

Merlion Park
Singapore River
Singapore Tourism Board

From mer- + lion; sense 1 promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board as the name of a statue installed at the mouth of the Singapore River on 15 September 1972.

In 1995, a second Merlion was built on the island of Sentosa. This new Merlion is actually a 37-metre high panoramic tower, from which it is possible to view mainland Singapore and the Straits of Singapore[…]. A new "ancient legend" was created for this creature with this tower. The legend alleged that the Merlion landed on Sentosa and saved Singapore from a storm. It would save Singapore again if the island ran into trouble (according to a film in the Merlion Tower). […] Some locals are upset by this fabrication. The STB [Singapore Tourism Board] maintains that the Merlion reflects the combination of Singapore's national animal (the lion) and Singapore being an island. Many Singaporeans have come to accept this mythical creature as a quintessential symbol of Singapore. To the unaware tourists, the product was packaged in a convincing manner, with the legend, film clip, and chronotopic dimensions of when and where the Merlion supposedly visited Singapore.

2002, Can-Seng Ooi, Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, →ISBN, pages 109–110:

Like Changi Airport or the Merlion, Singlish is something that is quintessentially Singaporean. It is a dialect that everyone speaks and understands and is something that could provide the cornerstone for a unifying cultural identity.

2005, Neil Humphreys, chapter 11, in Notes from an Even Smaller Island: Singapore through a Young Brit’s Eyes, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, page 174:

Yeah, well, he went into a tourist shop, not the one with postcards and plastic Merlions. That one ah, the one in here for the towkays and businessmen for conference centres. They sell gold-plated Merlions, Eiffel Towers and Empire State Buildings, you know.

2015, Neil Humphreys, chapter 9, in Marina Bay Sins, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN:

And in the fourteenth century / Because of Nila Utama's river mouth encounter with a merlion / The Lion City surged into being / And its people could travel the wide world

2015, Wong Yoon Wah, “Metamorphosis: Temasek”, in Jeremy Tiang, transl., edited by Gwee Li Sui with Tan Chee Lay, Sa'eda bte Buang, and Azhagiya Pandiyan, Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers, volume I (Life), Singapore: National Arts Council; Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, stanza 1 (Temasek):

At his favorite, familiar hotel on busy Orchard Road, he paid his fare, hefted his small bag and walked past the gorgeous garden with flowers and a fountain. Under the spray of water was a statue of the so-called merlion, the mythical beast that was the symbol of the tourist industry here. Its top half was a lion and the bottom half a fish. A couple of years ago, when he'd taken a stuffed merlion home to Lexi, she'd insisted on calling it Lion King Little Mermaid from her two favorite Disney movies at that time.

2016, Karen Harper, chapter 1, in Chasing Shadows (A South Shore Novel), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin MIRA, →ISBN:

(Singapore) Often Merlion: a symbolic creature having the head of a lion and the body of a fish, which is a national symbol of Singapore; an image, statue, or other depiction of this creature.


dríada

Learned borrowing from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”).


Haunebu

This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.

2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295:

[…] and what crashed at Roswell was most likely a Haunebu.

2007, James Sheridan, The Pandora Prescription, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 17:

However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.

2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165

(ufology, plural "Haunebus") Any of a class of flying saucers supposedly built by the Nazis.


corkindrill

At this the bird became so nervous that it made a mess on Merlyn's head — the whole room was quite white with droppings — and flew off to perch on the farthest tip of the corkindrill's tail, out of reach.

1958, Terence White, The Once and Future King, page 26:

Still, he did give her a good price for the creature, selling it to her under the mistaken impression that it was a corkindrill. Well, of course it was not a corkindrill, although a genuine corkindrill (another of Irene's finds) had shared its crate for approximately fifteen years.

2000, Nancy Kilpatrick, Thomas Roche, Graven images, page 119:

Other beasts, too, roamed at their graceful will across the landscape: the ox and the wide-horned aurochs, the slouching camelopard, the corkindrill — each animal as fat as a burgher and similarly complacent.

2009, Roberta A. MacAvoy, Raphael, page 1:

A mythological reptilian monster of legend, identified with the crocodile.


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

These subterranean philosophers assert that by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call ‘atmospheric magnetism,’ they can influence the variations of temperature—in plain words, the weather; […]

1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (published anonymously), The Coming Race, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 47:

It devoted its time to the study of vril, and taught that the secret of vril could be divined by contemplating the structure of an apple sliced in half.

2003, John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, Llewellyn Publications, page 506:

I have written a second book, Vrilology, which explores the historic background of the Life Force, which we refer to as Vril, and another simple book explaining just what Vril is and how it can help people improve their lives, filling them with happiness, joy and prosperity.

2010, Robert Blumetti, Vril: The Life Force of the Gods, iUniverse, page 7:

(science fiction, mysticism) A controllable form of energy.

Coordinate term: Haunebu

Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.

2012, Jack Follett, Special Report 2011: Hitler's Secret UFO Weapons, BoD – Books on Demand, page 38:

(ufology, attributive) A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.


momager

A growing category of “bad” mother is the so-called “momager,” the woman who interferes with her famous children's affairs, exploits them, and contributes to their tarnished reputations—[...]

2010, Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood:

The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.

2012, Sarah Wylie, All These Lives, page 184:

The scope of ambition of the Hadids can be seen in the increased visibility of Yolanda, who accompanied Gigi to the Fashion awards, because you are no one without a momager.

2016 December 13, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:

It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit.

2023 June 14, Alexandria Dale, “Kim Kardashian relaxes poolside in a bright pink thong bikini”, in Women's Health:

(US, slang) A showbusiness manager who is also the performer's mother.


overskies

(science fiction) interplanetary, intergalactic.


overskies

(science fiction) Between planets (in the same or different system).


ܬܢܝܢܐ

aii-proper-noun

ܬܲܢܝܼܢܵܐ • (tanīnā) m

ܬܲܢܝܼܢܵܐ (canonical)
tanīnā (romanization)

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From Aramaic תַּנִּינָא (tannīnā), from Akkadian 𒆗𒉌𒈾 (danninu, “netherworld; source of earthquakes; the inaccessible land where the dead remain”); compare also found in Arabic تِنِّين (tinnīn), Hebrew תַּנִּין (tanín), Ugaritic 𐎚𐎐𐎐 (tnn), Ge'ez ተመን (tämän), Tigrinya ተመን (tämän) and Amharic ተመን (tämän).


ܬܢܝܢܐ

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ܬܢܝܢܐ • (tannīnā) m

From Akkadian 𒆗𒉌𒈾 (danninu, “netherworld; source of earthquakes; the inaccessible land where the dead remain”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dnn/*tnn (“to be mighty, to be strong; to be fortified, to be long lasting, to stay at a place; to rumble, to earthquake, to shake with a booming noise”). Also found as Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic תַּנִּינָא (tannīnā), Arabic تِنِّين (tinnīn), Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannīn), Ugaritic 𐎚𐎐𐎐 (tnn), Ge'ez ተመን (tämän), Tigrinya ተመን (tämän), Amharic ተመን (tämän).


юри

Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love.


sellsword

One such warrior was Kothar, cast up by the sea in the northlands of his world, a sellsword and a mercenary, a wencher after the women of his day, a freebooter and a thief, at times, whose sword Frostfire was a magic sword.

1969, Gardner Francis Fox, “Prologue”, in Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman, reprinted in The First Kothar the Barbarian MEGAPACK, Wildside Press, published 2016, →ISBN:

Your profession always charges high and never guarantees their work. No sellsword would stay alive if he demanded a sorcerer's terms.

1982, Robert Lynn Asprin, “Exercise in Pain”, in Storm Season, →ISBN:

The sellsword scrambled backward, checking each blow, stepping lithely over rock and root, his eyes never leaving his foe. He was quicker, Catelyn saw; the knight's silvered sword never came near to touching him, but his own ugly grey blade hacked a notch from Ser Vadis's shoulder plate.

1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire), Bantam Books (2011), →ISBN, pages 367–368:

Bandit: It's those fool villagers...They think they can buy a bunch of sellswords to chase us away.

2005, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, "Chapter 1: The Battle Begins", developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube


skyship

(science fiction) A vehicle that flies through the sky.


მენცარი

ka-noun

მენცარი • (mencari) (plural მენცარები)

mencari (romanization)
მენცარები (plural)
მენცარი (nominative singular)
მენცარები (nominative plural)
მენცარნი (archaic nominative plural)
მენცარმა (ergative singular)
მენცარებმა (ergative plural)
მენცართ (archaic ergative plural)
მენცართ (archaic ergative plural)
მენცართაt) (archaic ergative plural)
მენცართაta) (archaic ergative plural)
მენცარს (dative singular)
მენცარს (dative singular)
მენცარსაs) (dative singular)
მენცარსაsa) (dative singular)
მენცარებს (dative plural)
მენცარებს (dative plural)
მენცარებსაs) (dative plural)
მენცარებსაsa) (dative plural)
მენცართ (archaic dative plural)
მენცართ (archaic dative plural)
მენცართაt) (archaic dative plural)
მენცართაta) (archaic dative plural)
მენცარის (genitive singular)
მენცარის (genitive singular)
მენცარისაs) (genitive singular)
მენცარისაsa) (genitive singular)
მენცარების (genitive plural)
მენცარების (genitive plural)
მენცარებისაs) (genitive plural)
მენცარებისაsa) (genitive plural)
მენცართ (archaic genitive plural)
მენცართ (archaic genitive plural)
მენცართაt) (archaic genitive plural)
მენცართაta) (archaic genitive plural)
მენცარით (instrumental singular)
მენცარით (instrumental singular)
მენცარითაt) (instrumental singular)
მენცარითაta) (instrumental singular)
მენცარებით (instrumental plural)
მენცარებით (instrumental plural)
მენცარებითაt) (instrumental plural)
მენცარებითაta) (instrumental plural)
მენცარად (adverbial singular)
მენცარად (adverbial singular)
მენცარადაd) (adverbial singular)
მენცარადაda) (adverbial singular)
მენცარებად (adverbial plural)
მენცარებად (adverbial plural)
მენცარებადაd) (adverbial plural)
მენცარებადაda) (adverbial plural)
მენცარო (singular vocative)
მენცარებო (plural vocative)
მენცარნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
მენცარზე (singular)
მენცარებზე (plural)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
მენცართან (singular)
მენცარებთან (plural)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
მენცარში (singular)
მენცარებში (plural)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
მენცარივით (singular)
მენცარებივით (plural)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
მენცარისთვის (singular)
მენცარებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
მენცარისებრ (singular)
მენცარებისებრ (plural)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
მენცარისკენ (singular)
მენცარებისკენ (plural)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
მენცარისგან (singular)
მენცარებისგან (plural)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
მენცარიდან (singular)
მენცარებიდან (plural)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
მენცარითურთ (singular)
მენცარებითურთ (plural)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
მენცარამდე (singular)
მენცარებამდე (plural)

→ Mingrelian: მენცარი (mencari)


redskirt

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From red + skirt. Patterned after redshirt, which derived from the tendency for male security officers, who wore red shirts, to die on episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Female crew members wore minidresses, but only one red-uniformed female character was killed during the series' run, in the episode "By Any Other Name."

Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.

2007 February 10, Marc Goodman, “Re: Response to Steven Pinker's 'The Mystery of Consciousness'”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

(fiction, fandom slang, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.


cocangne

(Jersey) well spirit (creature that lives in wells and pulls unwary people in)


grifu

From Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).


pelicanist

From pelican + -ist. Coined by Jerome Clark in reference to claims that Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO sighting was pelicans.

Kottmeyer and others who use the psychosocial hypothesis constantly produce evidence to support their ideas, whereas the ETH proponents can produce only cranky ideas about magnetic, anti-gravity or interdimensional saucers, accompanied by a constant whining about "sceptics" and "debunkers" (not to mention "armchair ufologists" and "pelicanists").

2000 November 22, “Blue Resonant Human” (username), “::: Should Saucers Spin? :::”, in alt.alien.research, Usenet

Meanwhile, those of us who’ve experienced UFOs in various ways are called mentally ill, intellectually challenged, spiritually needy, liars, drunks, drug users, attention getters, drama queens, and more. Those all are worse than being called a thug, skeptibunkie, or Pelicanist. (Pelicanist is a term coined by UFO researcher Jerome Clark.)

2006 September 12, “LordOfThyNight” (username), “The Usual Purple Tinged Hyperbole About UFOs”, in The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Usenet

As opposed to... Skepticism of the pelicanist flavor perhaps ?

2009 November 29, “Tom Booth” (username), “For Serena,”, in alt.fan.landmark, Usenet

(chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.


ciclop

From Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “Cyclops”).


Tall White

All of the Tall White scout craft were very high performance vehicles.

2007, Charles James Hall, Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours, AuthorHouse, page 322:

No one is sure when the Tall Whites arrived on earth, some saying in the Pre-Columbian period […]

2007, Gregory L. Reece, UFO religion: inside flying saucer cults and culture, I. B. Tauris, page 76:

However, in the years that followed, such descriptions became so common that this type of alien became known as the Tall White.

2011, Stuart A. Kallen, Aliens, ReferencePoint Press, page 26:

(ufology) A member of a certain race of extraterrestrials


griu

Inherited from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). Doublet of grifó.

(heraldry) griffin (stylised representation)


balonium

From baloney + -ium. See baloney (“nonsense”).

I assumed starship fuel (antimatter or balonium) could be produced from electricity with perfect conversion, so it cost exactly what electricity did — good enough for the one-digit-or-so accuracy needed.

1990, Analog science fact, science fiction: Volume 110:

Suppose that we have a Geiger counter and we are able to make measurements, during a ten hour period, of the balonium sample.

1993, American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education:

The data in Table 7.7 were taken for the highly radioactive element balonium-245.

2004, Mark T. Holtzapple, W. Dan Reece, Concepts in Engineering:

List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic particles


ܐܬܠܝܐ

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ʾāṯalyā, ʾāṯelyā, ʾaṯlīā

ܐܬܠܝܐ • (ʾāṯalyā, ʾāṯelyā, ʾaṯlīā) f

ʾāṯalyā (romanization)
ʾāṯelyā (romanization)
ʾaṯlīā (romanization)

From Akkadian 𒀭𒈪 (attalû [AN.MI]), ultimately from Sumerian.

(astronomy) name of a star, possibly Eltanin (Gamma Draconis)


ܐܠܝܬܐ

ܐܠܝܬܐ • (ʾallāytā) f (plural ܐܠܝܬܐ (ʾallāyāṯā), singular masculine counterpart ܐܠܝܐ (ʾallāyā))

ʾallāytā (romanization)
ܐܠܝܬܐ (plural)
ܐܠܝܐ (masculine singular)
ܐܠܝܐ (absolute singular)
ܐܠܝܢ (absolute plural)
ܐܠܝܬ (construct singular)
ܐܠܝܬ (construct plural)
ܐܠܝܬܐ (emphatic singular)
ܐܠܝܬܐ (emphatic plural)
ܐܠܝܬܝ (common-gender first-person possessive singular)
ܐܠܝܬܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܐܠܝܬܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܐܠܝܬܗ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܐܠܝܬܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܐܠܝܬܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܐܠܝܬܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܐܠܝܬܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܐܠܝܬܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܐܠܝܬܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)

Possibly corrupted from ܠܠܝܬܐ (lellīṯā).


gray magic

The term “gray” evolved for magic that could be classified as neither white nor black. Minor revenge would be considered a type of gray magic.

2002, Marion Weinstein, Positive Magic: Ancient Metaphysical Techniques for Modern Lives, page 63:

Copper remembered the old Grimoire she and Silver had used to learn gray magic.

2006, Cheyenne McCray, Seduced by Magic, page 3:

(Wicca) Any magic which transcends or blends white magic and black magic.

magia gris

magic which transcends or blends white and black


helijet

Tomiko waited less than an hour, then flew with Harfex to the area where Osden had reported himself the night before. But as the helijet hovered over the sea of purplish leaves, illimitable, impenetrable, she felt a panic despair.

1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow:

Suddenly there was a glare of fight and the sound of an explosion from one of the other helijets, the one carrying Blare Oblomot. Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.

2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20:

The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.

2002, Moss Tosney, The Ten Percent Man, page 572:

(science fiction) A flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.


eni

enihmen (indefinite)
enihe (first-person singular)
enihkai (first-person plural)
enihn (second-person singular)
enihken (plural second-person)
eniho (singular third-person)
enihk (plural third-person)
enihmen (indefinite singular)
enihpwi (indefinite plural)
eniwa (definite singular)
eniwa (definite plural)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu (“ghost, spirit of the dead”)


бард

ru-noun+

бард • (bard) m anim (genitive ба́рда, nominative plural ба́рды, genitive plural ба́рдов)

bard (romanization)
ба́рда (genitive)
ба́рды (nominative plural)
ба́рдов (genitive plural)
ба́рд (nominative singular)
ба́рды (nominative plural)
ба́рда (genitive singular)
ба́рдов (genitive plural)
ба́рду (dative singular)
ба́рдам (dative plural)
ба́рда (accusative singular)
ба́рдов (accusative plural)
ба́рдом (instrumental singular)
ба́рдами (instrumental plural)
ба́рде (prepositional singular)
ба́рдах (plural prepositional)

→ Georgian: ბარდი (bardi)


freangadh ama

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freangadh ama m (genitive singular freangtha ama)

freangtha ama (genitive singular)
freangadh ama
fhreangadh ama
bhfreangadh ama


toilleoir flosca

toilleoir flosca m (genitive singular toilleora fhlosca, nominative plural toilleoirí flosca)

toilleora fhlosca (genitive singular)
toilleoirí flosca (nominative plural)
toilleoir flosca
thoilleoir flosca
dtoilleoir flosca


sásar eitilte

sásar eitilte m (genitive singular sásair eitilte, nominative plural sásair eitilte)

sásair eitilte (genitive singular)
sásair eitilte (nominative plural)
sásar eitilte
shásar eitilte
tsásar eitilte

(science fiction, ufology) flying saucer


ficsean eolaíochta

ficsean eolaíochta m (genitive singular ficsin eolaíochta)

ficsin eolaíochta (genitive singular)
ficsean eolaíochta
fhicsean eolaíochta
bhficsean eolaíochta


úfó-eolaíocht

úfó-eolaíocht f (genitive singular úfó-eolaíochta)

úfó-eolaíochta (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
úfó-eolaíocht (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a úfó-eolaíocht (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
úfó-eolaíochta (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an úfó-eolaíocht (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na húfó-eolaíochta (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an úfó-eolaíocht (definite singular)
don úfó-eolaíocht (definite singular)
úfó-eolaíocht
n-úfó-eolaíocht
húfó-eolaíocht

úfó (“UFO”) + eolaíocht (“science, -ology”)


eachtrán

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eachtrán m (genitive singular eachtráin, nominative plural eachtráin)

eachtráin (genitive singular)
eachtráin (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
eachtrán (indefinite singular)
eachtráin (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a eachtráin (indefinite singular)
a eachtrána (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
eachtráin (indefinite singular)
eachtrán (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-eachtrán (definite singular)
na heachtráin (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an eachtráin (definite singular)
na n-eachtrán (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an eachtrán (definite singular)
don eachtrán (definite singular)
leis na heachtráin (definite plural)
eachtrán
n-eachtrán
heachtrán
t-eachtrán

/ˈax.tˠɾˠɑːɴˠ/

/ax.ˈtˠɾˠɑːnˠ/

/ˈax.tˠɾˠɑːɴˠ/

From Old Irish echtar (“without, outside”) + -án.


eachtardhomhandach

eachtardhomhandach m (genitive singular eachtardhomhandaigh, nominative plural eachtardhomhandaigh)

eachtardhomhandaigh (genitive singular)
eachtardhomhandaigh (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
eachtardhomhandach (indefinite singular)
eachtardhomhandaigh (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a eachtardhomhandaigh (indefinite singular)
a eachtardhomhandacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
eachtardhomhandaigh (indefinite singular)
eachtardhomhandach (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-eachtardhomhandach (definite singular)
na heachtardhomhandaigh (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an eachtardhomhandaigh (definite singular)
na n-eachtardhomhandach (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an eachtardhomhandach (definite singular)
don eachtardhomhandach (definite singular)
leis na heachtardhomhandaigh (definite plural)
eachtardhomhandach
n-eachtardhomhandach
heachtardhomhandach
t-eachtardhomhandach

From eachtar- (“extra-”) + domhanda (“terrestrial”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).


fantastyka naukowa

fantastyka naukowa (nominative singular)
fantastyki naukowej (genitive singular)
fantastyce naukowej (dative singular)
fantastykę naukową (accusative singular)
fantastyką naukową (instrumental singular)
fantastyce naukowej (locative singular)
fantastyko naukowa (singular vocative)

(literature) science fiction (genre of fiction)


hellewite

hellewīte (canonical neuter)
hellewīte (nominative singular)
hellewītu (nominative plural)
hellewīte (accusative singular)
hellewītu (accusative plural)
hellewītes (genitive singular)
hellewīta (genitive plural)
hellewīte (dative singular)
hellewītum (dative plural)

Middle English: hellewite, helle wite

From Proto-West Germanic *halljuwītī, from Proto-Germanic *haljōwītiją. Equivalent to hell (“hell”) + wīte (“punishment”).

the torments of hell; eternal punishment, hellfire


Marsach

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Marsach m (genitive singular Marsaigh, nominative plural Marsaigh)

Marsaigh (genitive singular)
Marsaigh (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
Marsach (indefinite singular)
Marsaigh (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a Mharsaigh (indefinite singular)
a Mharsacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
Marsaigh (indefinite singular)
Marsach (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an Marsach (definite singular)
na Marsaigh (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an Mharsaigh (definite singular)
na Marsach (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an Marsach (definite singular)
don Mharsach (definite singular)
leis na Marsaigh (definite plural)
Marsach
Mharsach


tupilak

From Greenlandic tupilak or Inuktitut ᑐᐱᓚᒃ (topilak), ᑐᐱᓚᖅ (topilaq).

(Inuit mythology) A monster (either invisible or having a physical form constructed from animal bones, sinew, etc) created in secret by a shaman and sent into the sea to seek and kill a specific enemy.


holoprojection

(science fiction) A holographic projection.


holovid

/ˈhɒləʊˌvɪd/

4 March, 1973, Harlan Ellison, "The Day I Died"
I was on a publicity tour for the book, fresh from a talk show over holovid.

He motioned at the holovid, still running in the corner.

2003, Liz Moore, Noble Savage, page 200:

He took her over to the holovid projector and she watched the holovids taken by pilots flying along the length of the ship.

2008, Helgard de Barros, The Second Skin, page 164:

(science fiction) A holographic projection of a series of images, like a video recording.


holoprojector

“I like to keep an eye on my investments. Including an eye that not everyone knows about, which doesn’t show up unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Garson’s holo crossed the room to stand next to a counter. “I mean, I am an eccentric genius, after all.”
“So you can project yourself throughout this ship? Anywhere?”
“Not everywhere, but I’ve got holo projectors in most places. Paid for them myself.”

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 15, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 284–285:

(science fiction) A holographic projector.


mĩ nhân ngư

[mi˦ˀ˥ ɲən˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

[mɪj˧˨ ɲəŋ˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

[mɪj˨˩˦ ɲəŋ˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 美人魚, composed of 美 (“beautiful”) and 人魚 (“mermaid”).


nhân ngư

[ɲən˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

[ɲəŋ˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

[ɲəŋ˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 人魚, composed of 人 (“man, person”) and 魚 (“fish”).


nahual

Borrowed from Spanish nahual, from Classical Nahuatl nāhualli (“sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take”).

der

They suspected that the man was a nahual.

(Mesoamerican mythology) A person who is able to take an animal form.


Däumling

de-proper noun

Däumling m (proper noun, strong, genitive Däumlings)


slasher movie

Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

2011 April 15, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel”, in Time:

(film) A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.


hamnskiftare

hamnskiftare (indefinite nominative singular)
hamnskiftares (genitive indefinite singular)
hamnskiftaren (definite nominative singular)
hamnskiftarens (definite genitive singular)
hamnskiftare (indefinite nominative plural)
hamnskiftares (genitive indefinite plural)
hamnskiftarna (definite nominative plural)
hamnskiftarnas (definite genitive plural)

From hamn (“spirit”) + skifta + -are. Replaced earlier term hamnlöpare.


tiểu nhân

[tiəw˧˩ ɲən˧˧]

[tiw˧˨ ɲəŋ˧˧]

[tiw˨˩˦ ɲəŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 小人 (“villain”).

vi-etym-sino

Zuo Zhuan; 2018, Vietnamese translation by Huỳnh Chương Hưng

I, the low-born one, still have an elderly mother; she has tasted every kind of foods at home, yet she has never tasted delicacies belonging to you, my ruler. Now I beg you the ruler to allow the low-born me to bring these pieces of meat home to my mother.

Tiểu nhân còn mẹ già, những thứ ở nhà bà đều đã ăn qua, chỉ chưa nếm được những món ngon của quốc quân. Nay xin quốc quân cho phép tiểu nhân đem những miếng thịt này về nhà cho mẹ.

(Chinese fiction, humble) I/me, a low-born person


mệnh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 命; this is the Northern form. Doublet of mạng, the Southern form.

Tuân mệnh/lệnh/chỉ!

(archaic or Chinese fiction) order from the monarch


thiếp

Sino-Vietnamese word from 妾 (“concubine”).

俍众妾胋陳濁

c. 1800, Hồ Xuân Hương, Đánh cờ [A Game of Xiangqi]:

(archaic, now literary, chiefly fiction, women's speech, endearing) I/me (referring to a beloved woman)


塞壬

/saɪ̯⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ jɐm²¹/

/saɪ̯⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ jɐm²¹/

(Mainland China, Hong Kong, mythology) siren


美人魚

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵ y³⁵/

/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ jyː²¹/

/me³³ zən⁵⁵ ɦy²¹/

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵ y³⁵/

/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ jyː²¹/

/me³³ zən⁵⁵ ɦy²¹/


nam nhân ngư

[naːm˧˧ ɲən˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

[naːm˧˧ ɲəŋ˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

[naːm˧˧ ɲəŋ˧˧ ŋɨ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 男 (“male”) and 人魚 (“mermaid”).


tiên chim

[tiəŋ˧˧ t͡ɕim˧˧]


గండభేరుండము

te-noun

గండభేరుండములు

గండభేరుండము • (gaṇḍabhēruṇḍamu) ? (plural గండభేరుండములు)

gaṇḍabhēruṇḍamu (romanization)
గండభేరుండములు (plural)

A gryphon, a fabulous bird of a huge size and two heads.


ODP

orbital defense platform
orbital defense platform#English

(science fiction) Initialism of orbital defense platform.


shtrigë

sq-noun

shtrigë f (plural shtriga, definite shtriga, definite plural shtrigat)

shtriga (plural)
shtriga (definite)
shtrigat (definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin strīga (“evil spirit”), from strix (“screech owl”), from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx).

(folklore) Shtriga, a vampiric witch in traditional Albanian folklore


Dothraki

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin.
Its fictional derivation is borrowed from Dothraki Dothraki (literally “[we] ride”).

bor+

For example, in Dothraki something done in secret is done torga essheyi—literally, “under a roof”.

2010 September-October, Jim Henry, “Dothraki and Esperanto: an interview with language creator David J. Peterson”, in Usona Esperantisto, →ISSN, page 9:

Dothraki has four vowels.

2011 October 15, Stephen D. Rogers, A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages: From Adûnaic to Elvish, Zaum to Klingon— the Anwa (Real) Origins of Invented Lexicons, Avon: Adams Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 54:

You want to learn a really impressive second language? Try Dothraki. Win over any man in my guild.

2012 October 4, “Andy's Ancestry” (2:51), in The Office (US), season 9, episode 3, spoken by Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson):

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language created for, and spoken in, the Game of Thrones television adaptation in 2011.


nàng tiên

[naːŋ˨˩ tiən˧˧]

[naːŋ˦˩ tiəŋ˧˧]

[naːŋ˨˩ tiəŋ˧˧]

(mythology) a young-looking female fairy


romantic comedy

en-noun

romantic comedy (countable and uncountable, plural romantic comedies)

Judging from his new movie, the sublimely silly They Came Together, director and co-writer David Wain is a closet connoisseur of the modern romantic comedy.

2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07:

(uncountable) A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.


nanu

head

nanu m sg (feminine singular nana, masculine plural nanos, feminine plural nanes)

nana (feminine singular)
nanos (masculine plural)
nanes (feminine plural)


Puss in Boots

A 17th-century French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.

الْقِطّ ذُو الْحِذَاء

al-qiṭṭ ḏū l-ḥiḏāʔ


skybike

The creature was actually doing a neat job of demolition, using scissorlike claws to chop the sky-bike into small pieces.

1972, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama:

(science fiction) A bicycle capable of levitation.


ܐܡܝܐܢܛܘܢ

ܐܡܝܐܢܛܘܢ • (ʾammīʾanṭōn) m


euth

en-verb

euth (third-person singular simple present euths, present participle euthing, simple past and past participle euthed)

euths (present singular third-person)
euthing (participle present)
euthed (participle past)
euthed (past)

Thereafter the job of euthing was transferred to the chief medical officer, who it was felt would have less emotional involvement.

1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:


ընգղայ

head

ընգղայ • (əngłay)

xcl-noun

ընգղայ • (əngłay)

The origin is unknown. Attested only in Chrysostom, rendering Ancient Greek Ἐρινύες (Erinúes). If the original meaning is ‘eel’, ‘water-snake’, then comparable to Latin anguilla, Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus), ἴμβηρις (ímbēris), Lithuanian ungurỹs, Proto-Slavic *ǫgořь, and Georgian ანკარა (anḳara).

unk

unknown

եւ իբրեւ զդեւս հալածականս, եւ իբրեւ զընգղայս ծովու վնասակարս

5th century, John Chrysostom, Commentary on Matthew 2.15

ew ibrew zdews halacakans, ew ibrew zəngłays covu vnasakars

sea monster or sea-devil (probably female)


Redflower

The respected Redflower was left where she had fallen.

1976, Jack Williamson, The power of blackness, page 105:

(science fiction and modern fairy tales) A female given name.


రాక్షసుడు

te-noun

రాక్షసుడు • (rākṣasuḍu) m (plural రాక్షసులు)

rākṣasuḍu (romanization)
రాక్షసులు (plural)
రాక్షసుడు (nominative singular)
రాక్షసులు (nominative plural)
రాక్షసుని (accusative singular)
రాక్షసుల (accusative plural)
రాక్షసునితో (instrumental singular)
రాక్షసులతో (instrumental plural)
రాక్షసునికొరకు (dative singular)
రాక్షసులకొరకు (dative plural)
రాక్షసునివలన (ablative singular)
రాక్షసులవలన (ablative plural)
రాక్షసునియొక్క (genitive singular)
రాక్షసులయొక్క (genitive plural)
రాక్షసునియందు (locative singular)
రాక్షసులయందు (locative plural)
ఓరి రాక్షసా (singular vocative)
ఓరి రాక్షసులారా (plural vocative)

te-noun-decl

రాక్షసునికొరకు

రాక్షసులకొరకు

రాక్షసునివలన

రాక్షసునియొక్క

రాక్షసులయొక్క

రాక్షసునియందు

రాక్షసులయందు

ఓరి రాక్షసులారా


subuniverse

(science fiction) A universe contained within another universe.


魍魎

ja-r

魍魎(もうりょう) (mōryō)

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (魍魎):
* → Japanese: 魍魎(もうりょう) (mōryō)
* → Korean: 망량(魍魎) (mangnyang)
* → Vietnamese: võng lượng (魍魎)

魍魉
罔兩
罔閬
蛧蜽
蝄蜽
网兩
方良

/wɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɔːŋ¹³ lœːŋ¹³/

/bɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɔŋ⁵³/

/mŋ̍²¹⁻⁴¹ sŋ̍²¹/

/mŋ̍¹¹⁻⁵³ sŋ̍¹¹/

/mŋ̍²¹⁻⁴¹ sŋ̍ʔ³²/

/mŋ̍¹¹⁻⁵³ sŋ̍ʔ³²/

/mɑ̃²² liã⁴⁴/

/wɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɔːŋ¹³ lœːŋ¹³/

/bɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɔŋ⁵³/

/mŋ̍²¹⁻⁴¹ sŋ̍²¹/

/mŋ̍¹¹⁻⁵³ sŋ̍¹¹/

/mŋ̍²¹⁻⁴¹ sŋ̍ʔ³²/

/mŋ̍¹¹⁻⁵³ sŋ̍ʔ³²/

/mɑ̃²² liã⁴⁴/


魍魎

ja-noun

魍(もう)魎(りょう) • (mōryō) ^(←まうりやう (mauryau)?)

魍魎 (canonical)
mōryō (romanization)
mauryau (romanization)
まうりやう (hiragana historical)

demons and monsters, especially those of the sea or rivers


bluecap

(mythology, mining) A tiny blue-skinned fairy that inhabits a mine and helps the miners.


antizombie

Let's find that bibulous "antizombie" state of pure experience.

1998, Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn Scott, Toward a Science of Consciousness II, →ISBN:

Finally, in chapter 6 I revisit certain questions, especially concerning the nature of subjectivity, in the context of an exploration of various anti-zombie arguments.

2003, Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, →ISBN, page 10:

The perfect experiment suggests the anti-zombie: a creature which is conscious, perhaps in just one respect, as in Cohen and Dennett«s isolation of colour consciousness, but gives no sign of it.

2016 -, William Seager, Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment, →ISBN:

We must all be functionalists. By demolishing the intuitions, the anti-zombie argument removes what has long been seen as a major problem for physicalism and functionalism. And by bringing out the fact that consciousness depends on a number of different information-processing capacities, that argument hints at what it really is.

2017, Robert Kirk, Robots, Zombies and Us: Understanding Consciousness, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The inverse of the philosophical zombie; an exact duplicate of a human being which certainly and necessarily does have conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.


antizombie

en-adj

antizombie (comparative more antizombie, superlative most antizombie)

more antizombie (comparative)
most antizombie (superlative)

During the second and third volumes of the series, Nathan Mather, a radical antizombie preacher, and his followers become more and more powerful[…]

2011, Joni Richards Bodart, They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill, page 182:


brainwipe

en-verb

brainwipe (third-person singular simple present brainwipes, present participle brainwiping, simple past and past participle brainwiped)

brainwipes (present singular third-person)
brainwiping (participle present)
brainwiped (participle past)
brainwiped (past)

(transitive, science fiction) To mindwipe.


kitchen sink

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

back-formation

(by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.

työväestön arkielämää käsittelevä

of or pertaining to a genre of drama, fiction, etc., depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre


Stark

* As a Scottish and English surname, from the adjective stark.
* As a Jewish, German, and Swedish surname, from stark (“strong”), related to the above. This surname also appears in Czech and Slovak as Štark.

(fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.


merrow

Hiberno-English, from Irish murúch (“mermaid”).

(Celtic mythology, mythology) A merman or mermaid in Scottish and Irish Gaelic folklore.


parallel world

(science fiction, sciences) A reality or world that exists simultaneously with ours, but independent of it.


paracosmos

Day dreaming and fantasies which are flights into the paracosmos, are an antithesis of creativity which is the most intense land of action.

1961, The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 117, page 96:

More simply stated, the paracosmos reflects a writer's interest in examining a (generally) rather small number of persons, or types of persons, in a variety of circumstances and relationships: he has marked out a portion of the world as his own and works upon it to make it his.

1975, Roger Johnson, Editha S. Neumann, Guy T. Trail, editors, Molière and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity, University Press of Mississippi, page 421:

Such artists tend to create an imaginary world, a paracosmos where good and evil are starkly represented, where evil powers always challenge the good ones and need to be vanquished time and again.

2011, Claire Golomb, The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The Role of Art, Magic and Dreams in Child Development, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 80:

(rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.


paracosm

From English para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) (from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, prefix meaning ‘beside’)) + English cosm(os) (“universe”) (from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “the earth, world; universe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱems-, *ḱens- (“to put in order”)).

der

Imaginary playmates and paracosms may chiefly represent the vast creative potential of inherently talented people, but in less elaborated forms, they may also represent what childhood imagination can offer to the growing person. Humanity has already benefited from the paracosmic visions of Plato, Thomas More, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Hobbes, Arthur Tappan Wright^([sic – meaning Austin Tappan Wright]) (Islandia), and J. R. R. Tolkien.

1990, Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, “Imaginary Playmates and Imaginary Worlds”, in The House of Make-Believe: Children’s Play and the Developing Imagination, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN; paperback edition, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992, →ISBN, page 116:

Occasionally the fantasies of older childhood go well beyond the invention of a pretend friend. In fact, some children, typically at about 9 or 10 years of age, create "paracosms"—entire societies or worlds for the imaginary people to inhabit. [...] How common is it for children to create such elaborate fantasies, and what does the invention of a paracosm say about its creator?

1999, Marjorie Taylor, “Do Older Children and Adults Create Imaginary Companions?”, in Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136:

As Emily [Brontë] turned in on herself for resources, she created a new paracosm, the Kingdom of Gondal, which she shared with Anne [Brontë]. The paracosm of Gondal became a way of life for the sisters; they shared its secrets for the rest of their lives.

2005, Delmont C. Morrison, Shirley Linden Morrison, Memories of Loss and Dreams of Perfection: Unsuccessful Childhood Grieving and Adult Creativity (Imagery and Human Development Series), Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:

One paracosm in their study was a country called Branmail consisting totally of cats — except for its creator, a six-year-old girl named Holly who had access to the world by scaling a height called Bumpety Banks.

2007, Thomas Armstrong, “Middle Childhood: Entering the Civilized World”, in The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life, New York, N.Y.: Sterling Publishing, →ISBN, page 93:

The children created these inner worlds for a number of reasons, though each paracosm tends to be a long-lasting, heavily structured, and internally consistent.

2010, Sarah Lynne Bowman, “Role-playing as Alteration of Identity”, in The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 130:

A detailed imaginary world, especially one created by a child.

exocosm

outside the cosmos, for example parallel universe


ܢܠܐ

head

ܢܠܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܢܠܐ)

ܢܠܐ (plural)
ܢܠ (absolute singular)
ܢܠܝܢ (absolute plural)
ܢܠ (construct singular)
ܢܠܝ (construct plural)
ܢܠܐ (emphatic singular)
ܢܠܐ (emphatic plural)
ܢܠܝ (common-gender first-person possessive singular)
ܢܠܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܢܠܝܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܢܠܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܢܠܝܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܢܠܗ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܢܠܘܗܝ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܢܠܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܢܠܝܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܢܠܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܢܠܝܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܢܠܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܢܠܝܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܢܠܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܢܠܝܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܢܠܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܢܠܝܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܢܠܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)
ܢܠܝܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)

Unknown; compare the root ܢ-ܘ-ܠ (n-w-l) related to tormenting and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic נָלָא (nālâ).


pasaka

pasaka (nominative singular)
pasakas (nominative plural)
pasaku (accusative singular)
pasakas (accusative plural)
pasakas (genitive singular)
pasaku (genitive plural)
pasakai (dative singular)
pasakām (dative plural)
pasaku (instrumental singular)
pasakām (instrumental plural)
pasakā (locative singular)
pasakās (locative plural)
pasaka (singular vocative)
pasakas (plural vocative)

From pa- + the verb sacīt (“to say, to tell”) (in its present tense stem sak-); cf. dialectal saka (“tale, saying”). The original meaning was thus “something to be said, told.” Cognates include Lithuanian pãsaka.

vākt, publicēt tautas pasakas

latviešu tautas pasakas

pasaku teicējs, stastītājs

pasaku grāmata

stastīt bērniem pasakas

dzīvnieku pasakas

K. Skalbes pasakas

legend, folktale, fairy tale (folkloric narrative, typically including fantastic or magic elements; the corresponding folkloric genre)


pasaka

pãsaka (canonical feminine)
pãsakos (plural)
pãsaka (nominative singular)
pãsakos (nominative plural)
pãsakos (genitive singular)
pãsakų (genitive plural)
pãsakai (dative singular)
pãsakoms (dative plural)
pãsaką (accusative singular)
pãsakas (accusative plural)
pãsaka (instrumental singular)
pãsakomis (instrumental plural)
pãsakoje (locative singular)
pãsakose (locative plural)
pãsaka (singular vocative)
pãsakos (plural vocative)

Nominal formation from pasakýti (“to say, tell”).


قالیچه پرنده

قالیچه پرنده

fa-noun

قالیچه پرنده

fa:قالیچه پرنده


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(Chinese fiction) I; you (refers to the female senior among the speakers)

(Chinese fiction) you (used when speaking to a young woman on equal footing)


Snow Queen

A literal translation into English from the original Danish Sneedronningen, from snee (“snow”, an older spelling of sne) + dronning (“queen”) + -en (suffixed definite article) from a fairy tale first published in 1845 by Hans Christian Andersen, based on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda.

The fur and the cap, which were made entirely of snow, fell off, and he saw a lady, tall and white, it was the Snow Queen.

1872 [1845], H. P. Paull, transl., The Snow Queen, translation of Sneedronningen by Hans Christian Andersen (in Danish):

Daphne wanted to tell her that a Snow Queen can know nothing of love, only of destruction, but she remained silent, just looked away.

2009, Justine Picardie, Daphne, A&C Black, →ISBN:

Tom announces that he doesn't believe in such a thing as a Snow Queen.

2011, Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films, Routledge, →ISBN, page 271:

A female fairy tale character with magical power over snow and ice.

مَلِكَة الثَّلْجِ

fairy tale character with power over snow and ice