phaser

* (science fiction): For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons).
* (phase modulation): phase + -er

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

His oddly reserved nature stands out [...]. Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill.

A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers.

1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:

Giolitti's Gold Key art is widely admired, [...] and this is a terrific opportunity to pick up a page—set your phasers on bid.

2004, Hertiage Signature Auction #811, page 185:

I said, "Set phasers on be-a-bastard."

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).


phaser

en-verb

phaser (third-person singular simple present phasers, present participle phasering, simple past and past participle phasered)

phasers (present singular third-person)
phasering (participle present)
phasered (participle past)
phasered (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To shoot with a phaser weapon.


hipster

From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.

bootleg

v.; from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking

c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,
I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]

Clare grapples with the idea that she, a well-dressed city hipster, will soon be in the boondocks raising a child with two men who are as much in love with each other as with her: "I'm not this unusual," she stammers. "It's just my hair."

1991 August 10, Chris Nealon, “Get A Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 10:

A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.

hepster

A person interested in the latest trends


It girl

Originally applied to actress Clara Bow, who starred in a film titled It (it being a euphemism for sex appeal).

Coordinate term: It boy

Passionate pursuers are a challenge to guys because while other girls may be chasing them, the It Girls are chasing their dreams.

2003, Gilda Carle, Teen Talk with Dr. Gilda: A Girl's Guide to Dating:

I even found the perfect venue to display my new It-girl persona: the aptly named It-girls premiere party for the It-girls documentary.

2003, Melissa de la Cruz, Karen Robinovitz, How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less:

She was one of the It Girls of her day.

2004, Andrea Stuart, The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine:

A woman who is in vogue, typically as an actress, model, socialite, or the like.


ETV

en-noun

ETV (countable and uncountable, plural ETVs)

(ufology, countable) Initialism of extraterrestrial vehicle.


þyrs

þyrs (nominative singular)
þyrsas (nominative plural)
þyrs (accusative singular)
þyrsas (accusative plural)
þyrses (genitive singular)
þyrsa (genitive plural)
þyrse (dative singular)
þyrsum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: thurs, thirs, thrisse, thrusse, thurse, thursse, thyrce, þurs
English: thurse

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þuris, from Proto-Germanic *þurisaz. Cognate with Old High German duris (“demon”), Old Saxon thuris (“the rune þ”), Old Norse þurs (“giant”).

inh+

Exeter Book, Riddle 40, 62-63 (late 10th century)

I can gorge more greedily / and eat at least as much as an old giant

Ic mēsan mæg meahtelīcor / ond efnetan ealdum þyrse

Maxims II, 42-43 (early 11th century)

The monster must live in the fen / alone in its land.

Þyrs sceal on fenne gewunian / ana innan lande.


sirena

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


sirena

From Spanish sirena, from Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).

a siren; a device that creates a loud sound as an alarm or signal; the sound it creates


sirena

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). Cognate with Piedmontese siren-a.


sirena

Learned borrowing from Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn (“siren”), from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


sirena

→ Cebuano: sirena

→ Tagalog: sirena

Borrowed from Late Latin Sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


sirena

[sɪˈɾɛː.n̪ɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish sirena, from Late Latin Sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The third sense is an extension of the original, further popularized by the rap song Sirena.

Ligaya Tiamson Rubin, may mga kuwento ang mga taga- Angono tungkol sa mga sirena na siyang nakikita sa isang malaking bato na umaawit at may mahabang gintong buhok. Kapag may dumarating na tao ay agad itong nawawala.

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, (Es) kultura ng bayan: Kakambal ng ibang mga bayan:

Diego: 'Yun pong bahagi ng dagat ditong nilalabasan ng mga sirena. Galit daw po ang mga sirena sa mga tagarito. Ayon po kasi sa kuwentu-kuwento, noong unang panahon daw e pinakialaman ng mga mangingisda dito ang mga sirena ...

1993, Ricardo Lee, Salome: a Filipino filmscript, Univ of Wisconsin Center for:

Sa kaharian nila Amelita... Sa kaharian ng mga Sirena...Nakaramdam ako ng kasiyahan. Si Lagrimas... Sana ay masaya siya saan man siya naroon.... Katapusan Si Robinson Mago ay isang Electronics and Communication Engineer na ...

2014, Robin Mago, Amelita, Robinson Mago:

Natutuklasan nila sa mga libro ni Gaying na lahat ng mga taga-Angono ay nagiging bida, walang bandido, nagiging mga diwata, higante at mga sirena sa kanilang mahal na Angono. Nagkakaroon tuloy sila ng pakiramdam na sila man ay ...

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, Angono, Rizal: Pagtatala ng gunita, panimulang dokumentasyon ng mga bayan sa Pilipinas, →ISBN:


knight in shining armor

en-noun

knight in shining armor (plural knights in shining armor)

We must work this out on our own and not wait for a knight in shining armor, who may never come.

(idiomatic) A person who will rescue a dangerous situation; a hero.


Nordic

en-adj

Nordic (comparative more Nordic, superlative most Nordic)

more Nordic (comparative)
most Nordic (superlative)

From French nordique, from nord (“north”).

(linguistics) Of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages.

nòrdic

of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages


Nordic

A person of Nordic descent or having features typical of Nordic people.

Called “Nordics,” the aliens are human-like in appearance, of average height, and often have long, flowing hair. Contactees are typically struck by the beauty of the Nordics, as was Howard Menger (1959): “She seemed to radiate and glow,” Menger explains,

2007, Erich Goode, D. Angus Vail, Extreme Deviance, Pine Forge Press, page 41:

But the third most common alien is called a Nordic, or humanoid.

2012, Kelly Milner Halls, Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens, Millbrook Press, page 45:

Known as Nordics, these extraterrestrials are said to have blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin and are anywhere from 6 to 8 feet (183cm to 244cm) tall.

2012, Patricia D. Netzley, Extraterrestrial Life: Alien Encounters, Reference Point Press, page 33

(ufology, science fiction) A race of extraterrestrials similar in appearance to Nordic humans.


Moonie

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The Moonies and the Dragonballers aren't minorities; they're as large or larger than any other group of animeniacs you're going to find.

1995 December 12, Sea Wasp [username], “Re: Too Many SM/DB posts! ARRGGHH!!!”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Nope, you're not the only Moonie here. Unfortunately, the US Bandai figures are kinda ugly.

1997 January 3, thewkt [username], “Re: Sailor Moon blow-out at Kay-Bee”, in rec.toys.action-figures (Usenet):

Mike- who has a Sailor Moon webpage up, carries a Sailor Moon wallet and matching coinpurse irl and is just in general a major Moonie.

1998 September 14, Mike Oliva, “OT Sailor Moon”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan of the Japanese manga and anime franchise Sailor Moon.


esqueleto

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).


尚書

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (尚書):
* → Vietnamese: thượng thư (尚書)

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/sœːŋ²² syː⁵⁵/

/siũ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

/siũ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/sœːŋ²² syː⁵⁵/

/siũ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

/siũ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

Originally, the person in this position was a lowly clerk, responsible for drafting and editing imperial decrees on behalf of the emperor. Later on, the person in this position became more like a chief of staff who handled all aspects of governance on behalf of the emperor.

(archaic, position title) secretary; chief of staff


尚書

Sino-Xenic (尚書):
* → Japanese: 尚(しょう)書(しょ) (Shōsho)
* → Korean: 상서(尙書) (Sangseo)

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/sœːŋ²² syː⁵⁵/

/siũ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

/siũ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/sœːŋ²² syː⁵⁵/

/siũ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

/siũ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ su⁴⁴/

Classic of History (a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou Dynasty and before)


tachyonic

en-adj

tachyonic (comparative more tachyonic, superlative most tachyonic)

more tachyonic (comparative)
most tachyonic (superlative)

Of or relating to a tachyon or tachyons.


kobold

en-noun

kobold (plural kobolds or (rare) kobolde)

Borrowed from German Kobold. Doublet of cobalt.

a. 1867, George MacDonald, The Shadows, 2000 [1980], The Golden Key and Other Stories, page 96,
The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .

Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.

1977, James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England, published 2007, page 138:

In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.

2011, William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves, unnumbered page:

(German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.


kobold

koboldok (plural)
kobold (nominative singular)
koboldok (nominative plural)
koboldot (accusative singular)
koboldokat (accusative plural)
koboldnak (dative singular)
koboldoknak (dative plural)
kobolddal (instrumental singular)
koboldokkal (instrumental plural)
koboldért (causal-final singular)
koboldokért (causal-final plural)
kobolddá (singular translative)
koboldokká (plural translative)
koboldig (singular terminative)
koboldokig (plural terminative)
koboldként (essive-formal singular)
koboldokként (essive-formal plural)
koboldban (inessive singular)
koboldokban (inessive plural)
koboldon (singular superessive)
koboldokon (plural superessive)
koboldnál (adessive singular)
koboldoknál (adessive plural)
koboldba (illative singular)
koboldokba (illative plural)
koboldra (singular sublative)
koboldokra (plural sublative)
koboldhoz (allative singular)
koboldokhoz (allative plural)
koboldból (elative singular)
koboldokból (elative plural)
koboldról (delative singular)
koboldokról (delative plural)
koboldtól (ablative singular)
koboldoktól (ablative plural)
koboldé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
koboldoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
koboldéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
koboldokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
koboldom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
koboldjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
koboldod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
koboldjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
koboldja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
koboldjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
koboldunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
koboldjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
koboldotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
koboldjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
koboldjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
koboldjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


kobold

kobold (nominative singular)
koboldy (nominative plural)
kobolda (genitive singular)
koboldów (genitive plural)
koboldowi (dative singular)
koboldom (dative plural)
kobolda (accusative singular)
koboldy (accusative plural)
koboldem (instrumental singular)
koboldami (instrumental plural)
koboldzie (locative singular)
koboldach (locative plural)
koboldzie (singular vocative)
koboldy (plural vocative)

(Germanic folklore) kobold (mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household)


Dalek

Dalek
Doctor Who
Genesis of the Daleks
I, Davros
Terry Nation
The Daleks

Coined by Terry Nation in 1963 for his script of The Mutants (later retitled "The Daleks"), the second serial of the first season of Doctor Who. Accounts of how he devised the word vary. Within the Doctor Who universe, the word is supposed to be related to the name of the people from whom the Daleks evolved, either the Kaleds (as according to later serial Genesis of the Daleks) or the Dals (as in The Daleks), or to derive from a word meaning "gods" in their (fictional) language, in which the sacred "Book of Predictions" is written. According to the I, Davros audio fiction the book reads "...and on that day, men will become as gods", with the last word pronounced "Dal-eks".

'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.'

1964, David Whitaker, Dr. Who and the Daleks, chapter 6 (based on the film script Dr. Who and the Daleks by Milton Subotsky, based itself on the tele-script The Mutants/The Daleks by Terry Nation)

[…] what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice".

1987, Barry Norman, The Movie Greats, page 144:

This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek.

p. 1996, Together with English Core, fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., page 234

My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek, but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident.

2000, Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii

One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek, dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders, […]

2003, Siân Preece, “Country Cooking Countdown”, in Scottish Girls About Town, published 2004, page 19:

Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!'

2006, Gareth Roberts, chapter 9, in I Am a Dalek:

Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek with about three stock phrases... Remember, Daleks always want world domination but they always lose.

a. 2010, Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2, page 333

And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit.

2011, Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land, page 166:

(science fiction) A member of a species of extraterrestrial cyborg mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and their fanatical obsession with exterminating other, non-Dalek beings.


looking-glass

/ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlɑːs/

/ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlæs/

* (way into a bizarre world): From the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll.

It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.

2016 July 29, Paul Krugman, “Who loves America?”, in The New York Times:


gorgon

From Middle English gorgon, from Latin Gorgō, from Ancient Greek Γοργώ (Gorgṓ), from γοργός (gorgós, “terrible”). Possibly from the same root as the Sanskrit word "garğ" (गर्जन), which is defined as a guttural sound, similar to the growling of a beast, thus possibly originating as an onomatopoeia.

(Greek mythology) A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. One of the three sisters: Medusa, Stheno and Euryale


gorgon

English: gorgon (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin Gorgō, from Ancient Greek Γοργώ (Gorgṓ).


Ali Baba

From Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā). The use of Ali Baba to designate a type of container originates from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (see the use as proper noun below), suggesting the appearance of the oil jars in which the thieves hide in the story.

bor

عَلِيّ بَابَا

Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā)

The fictional protagonist of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, famous for his encounter with forty thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command "open sesame".


Ali Baba

Ali Baba (nominative singular)
Ali Baby (genitive singular)
Ali Babie (dative singular)
Ali Babę (accusative singular)
Ali Babą (instrumental singular)
Ali Babie (locative singular)
Ali Babo (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā).

bor+

عَلِيّ بَابَا

Ali Baba (fictional protagonist of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, famous for his encounter with forty thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command “open sesame”)


grifo

eo-head

grifo (accusative singular grifon, plural grifoj, accusative plural grifojn)

grifon (accusative singular)
grifoj (plural)
grifojn (accusative plural)


grifo

From Old Galician-Portuguese grifo, from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).


grifo

Chavacano: grifo

→ Aymara: grifo

→ Cebuano: gripo

→ Hiligaynon: gripo

→ Kapampangan: gripu

→ Maguindanao: gulipu

→ Maranao: giripo

→ Pangasinan: gripo

→ Quechua: grifu

→ Sambali: gripo

→ Tagalog: gripo

→ Tausug: giripu

Borrowed from Late Latin grȳphus, from grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

(Peru) petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station


左側

左側 (canonical)
hidarigawa (romanization)

[çida̠ɾʲiɡa̠β̞a̠]

(fandom slang) top (referring to the order of names in pairings)


lich

en-noun

lich (plural liches or (with Scots pronunciation) lichs)

From Middle English lich, from Old English līċ, from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.
Cognate with Dutch lijk, German Leiche, Norwegian lik, Swedish lik, Danish lig.

It was a lich’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.

(fantasy, roleplaying games) A reanimated corpse or undead being; particularly an intelligent, undead spellcaster.


lich

en-adj

lich (comparative more lich, superlative most lich)

more lich (comparative)
most lich (superlative)

From Middle English līke, līch (“like”); see like and -like for more. Compare -ly and -lich.

1386-90, John Gower, Confessio Amantis.
Anon he let two cofres make / Of one semblance, and of one make, / So lich, that no lif thilke throwe, / That one may fro that other knowe.

[He] rather joy'd to be than seemen sich, For both to be and seeme to him was labour lich.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 29:


kokoro

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/ˈkoʊkəˌɹoʊ/

Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”).

Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.

1992 December 7, Mike, “Re: When Things Go Wrong”, in bit.listserv.allmusic (Usenet), message-ID <ALLMUSIC%92120719125825@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>:

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) A heart.


inferno

From Italian inferno (“hell”), from Latin infernus (“of the lower regions”), inferna (“the lower regions”); see infernal.
The meaning "big fire" came as a figurative use from the traditional idea of hellfire.

At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater].

1899, D. C. Worcester, The Philippine Islands and Their People:

When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants with Szedvilas, he […] found that each one of these lesser industries was a separate little inferno, in its way as horrible as the killing beds, the source and fountain of them all[, and t]he workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases.


Mister Right

She waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Mister Right.

(idiomatic) A perfect, ideal or suitable male companion, especially a husband.

如意郎君

perfect, ideal or suitable male mate or husband


woodwose

The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf.

'If the cub has a grievance, let him bring it to the King's judgement,' answered Saeros. 'But the drawing of swords here is not to be excused for any such cause. Outside the hall, if the woodwose draws on me, I shall kill him.'

2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin:

A wild man of the woods; a faun, a satyr or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.


fall guy

(informal, sometimes derogatory) One who is gullible and easily duped.


superpower

en-noun

superpower (countable and uncountable, plural superpowers)

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Administered in such a way, in that superpowers it assures.

1994, C. J. Lee, Caldwell Lee the Poet to Be: The Forthright Omnipotence Era, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 46:

This is his superpower, I think. The comic geek always has one, and Oliver's is a poker face that would leave even the Holy Trinity guessing what he's thinking.

2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 258:

If I could have a superpower id^([sic]) want to be able to teleport. I hate walking and driving gives me headaches.

2021 December 6, Givinuplol, belugasareneat, “What superpower you would like?”, in reddit.com:

(countable, fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.


basna

bȁsna (canonical feminine)
ба̏сна (Cyrillic)
basna (nominative singular)
basne (nominative plural)
basne (genitive singular)
bȁsānā (genitive plural)
bȁsnī (genitive plural)
basni (dative singular)
basnama (dative plural)
basnu (accusative singular)
basne (accusative plural)
basno (singular vocative)
basne (plural vocative)
basni (locative singular)
basnama (locative plural)
basnom (instrumental singular)
basnama (instrumental plural)

Basna u vuku i magarcu


seer

From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).

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"But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 185:

One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.


bioroid

(science fiction) A cybernetic or fully biological organism created by artificial means.

genetically engineered
genetic engineering

(science fiction) A genetically engineered humanoid-like organism created for the purpose of enslavement.


merman

From Middle English mereman, from Old English *meremann (“merman”) (suggested by Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”)), equivalent to mer- + man. Cognate with Dutch meerman (“merman”), German Meermann (“merman”).

The meer man hath no feet but fins / And this hath legs you see and shins.

1653, The Loves of Hero and Leander: A Mock Poem, London, page 19:

A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.


shaman

Borrowed from German Schamane, from Russian шама́н (šamán), from Evenki шама̄н (şamān), сама̄н (samān). The Evenki word is possibly derived from the root ша- ("to know"); or else a loanword from Tocharian B ṣamāne (“monk”) or Chinese 沙門／沙门 (shāmén, “Buddhist monk”), from Pali samaṇa from Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa, “ascetic, monk, devotee”), from श्रम (śrama, “weariness, exhaustion; labor, toil; etc.”), which would make this a doublet of sramana.


Mummerset

Blend of mummer (“actor in a pantomime”) + Somerset (“county in the west of England”).

Mummersetin murre

An imaginary rural county in the West Country of England.

Mummerset

(often theater) An invented English-language dialect used by actors that mimics a stereotypical West Country rural accent.


romans

romansik (diminutive)
romans (nominative singular)
romanse (nominative plural)
romansy (nominative plural)
romansu (genitive singular)
romansów (genitive plural)
romansowi (dative singular)
romansom (dative plural)
romans (accusative singular)
romanse (accusative plural)
romansy (accusative plural)
romansem (instrumental singular)
romansami (instrumental plural)
romansie (locative singular)
romansach (locative plural)
romansie (singular vocative)
romanse (plural vocative)
romansy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French romance, from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus. Doublet of romansz.

(literature) romance novel (story or novel dealing with idealized love, usually with little artistic value)

(literature, historical) Ancient Greek novel, romaunt


oread

From Latin Orēas, Orēadis, from Ancient Greek Ὀρειάς (Oreiás), from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).

The imprisoned ringlets are emancipated; 'fresh as the oread from the forest fountain,' you descend—you breathe the incense of the chocolate—not more I hope—and grow conversational and confidential over the green tea, which, with a fragrance beyond all the violets of April, rises to your lip, 'giving and taking odours.'

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 92:

(Greek mythology) A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain.


close encounter

en-noun

close encounter (plural close encounters)

(ufology) A supposed observation, or observation of evidence, of extraterrestrial beings or their craft.

contato imediato

observation of extraterrestrials or their craft


droid

Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”), coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1927) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.

coin

It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them.

1952 July, Mari Wolf, “Robots of the World! Arise!”, in James L. Quinn, editor, If (Project Gutenberg; Ebook #31611), volume 1, number 3, Kingston, N.Y.: Quinn Pub. Co., published 12 March 2010, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-27, page 76:

“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly.

1976, George Lucas, [Alan Dean Foster], Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 77:

The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. […] Droids couldn't be bribed, she thought with some regret. And threats had to be both clever and logical.

1995, J. D. Robb [pseudonym; Nora Roberts], chapter 3, in Glory in Death, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 39:

Do droids have capacities for mental states and language? There are plenty of examples of droids apparently engaged in behaviors expressive of mental states and language. One glaring example is the torturing of a droid at Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi. […] (Interestingly enough, one also gets the sense that the droid administering the torture is enjoying what he's doing.)

2005, Robert Arp, “‘If Droids Could Think …’: Droids as Slaves and Persons”, in Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, editors, Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 12), Chicago, LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, part III (“Don’t Call Me a Mindless Philosopher!”):

The trouble with droids is that they can't think, Obi-Wan told himself as he hacked his way through the battle droids that still clogged the sinkhole tunnel city on Utapau. An army made up of living beings would have seen how badly outnumbered they were, and given up. The droids just kept on fighting.

2005, Patricia C[ollins] Wrede, Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith […], New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 142:

I'm close to finding those maps. I know it! Then six more missions and I'll have enough creds to set myself up in style on some snug and safe planet. I'll have a bunch of droid servants and never have to get my hands dirty again.

2014, S. E. Gilchrist, chapter 1, in When Stars Collide, Sydney, N.S.W.: Escape Publishing, →ISBN:

Stepping inside to the front office you'll find Black Spire's most complete collection of droids, technical manuals, droid parts, and tools. Tucked outside the shop lies a repair station and oil bath, normally considered a luxury by most droid companions.

2020, Eloc Throno [pseudonym; Cole Horton], “Droid Depot”, in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Traveler’s Guide to Batuu, Bellevue, Wash.: Becker&mayer! books, The Quarto Group, →ISBN, page 36:

(originally and chiefly science fiction) A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).

"Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd.

2006, Shane Bolks, Reality TV Bites: […], New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 16:

(chiefly US, derogatory) A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.


egomaniac

He's a raving egomaniac: all he ever talks about is himself and how important he is.

A person obsessed with their own (supposed) importance.


sea serpent

Any unidentified sea monster, especially one resembling a snake or dragon.


Ionian

* (Hellenic, Ionia, architecture): Ionia + -n
* (moon of Jupiter): Io + -n- + -ian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter


baja

baja (nominative singular)
baje (nominative plural)
bai (genitive singular)
baj (genitive plural)
bai (dative singular)
bajom (dative plural)
baję (accusative singular)
baje (accusative plural)
bają (instrumental singular)
bajami (instrumental plural)
bai (locative singular)
bajach (locative plural)
bajo (singular vocative)
baje (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Baie, from French baie.


CTC

(rail transport) Initialism of Centralized Traffic Control.


Titania

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A style of Diana in Ovid, fem. of titanius, from Titan. As faeries were identified with Classical nymphs, the queen of the faeries was equated with Diana.

As it is impossible to believe that this huge mountain can produce such an effect, at the expiration of a few minutes we become dupes of illusion, and the most grave thinker is ready to swear that there is in those shades, under some fantastic thicket, a solitary— a supernatural being—a sort of fairy—a Titania, who amuses herself by delicately parodying the music of mortals, and throwing down the half of a mountain every time she hears the report of a gun.

1842 May 7, L'Etudiant, “The Rhine”, in The Mirror, volume 1, number 19, page 293:

For all this Magical Mansion were vain With all its dominions so fair; Its splendor and riches no happiness gain Without a Titania to share!

1859, “Fairy Knowe”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, page 428:

"Take breath," said Teresa, unable to help laughing. "Why, kitten, you're as good as a fairy-tale." "Inspired by Titania herself." said a gallant voice at her elbow; and Kate disappeared with a sly grimace, as Russell Wayne shook hands with Miss Amesford. "You never saw a dusky queen of the fairies, did you? A species of Brownie would be more like me, Mr. Wayne; you must wait until Alma comes home for a Titania."

1871 January, Daisy Ventnor, “Prince Charming Comes to Town”, in The Peterson magazine, volume 59, number 1, page 39:

But something is awry; the fairy-stories, the mythologies, are mixed up. Tom is less a masculine Pygmalion caressing his dream-statue into flesh than a feminine Galatea waking to see her lover's face blotting out the sun; less an Oberon than a Titania, falling in love with “the first person he had seen on waking from his drugged sleep”.

2009, Jan S. Cronin, Simone Drichel, Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame, page 30:

From Shakespeare's play A Midsummer-Night's Dream, the queen of the fairies.


Lazarus

From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical characters found in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.

(biblical) A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) believed to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.

לַעְזָר (la'zár) (used in the Franz Delitzsch translation of the New Testament)


civvy street

From civvy (“(informal) civilian”, adjective and noun) + street.

You might have been in Civvy Street / Instead of in the fight; / But it serves you right, / You shouldn't have joined [the navy], / It jolly well serves you right.

1943 November, Desmond Cox, Harold Elton Box (lyrics and music), “It Serves You Right (You Shouldn’t Have Joined)”, in Bell-Bottom George (released 7 February 1944; soundtrack), performed by George Formby:

In civvy street he had been a bus cleaner.

2002, Sam Smith, Vera and Eddy’s War, Nibley, South Gloucestershire: BeWrite Books, →ISBN:

(chiefly British, military slang) The condition or status of a civilian; civilian life.


Oompa Loompa

Apparently a fanciful formation in line with whimsical English words like fuzzy-wuzzy, Humpty Dumpty, etc. Perhaps reminiscent of "exotic" ethnonyms to Westerners; note Roald Dahl spent time in Tanganyika, East Africa, during his service in the Royal Air Force. Also compare oom-pah (“genre of German folk music”) (the Oompa Loompas dance to quirky, rhythmic songs).

Dr. Evil: Is he giving off too much of a creepy Umpa Lumpa vibe? / What’s wrong, Mini-Me?

1999 June, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, New Line Cinema

Nobody, not even an Umpa Lumpa, had warned me what would happen to a blind guy who refuses to close his eyes.

2006, Ryan Knighton, Cockeyed, A Memoir, page 152:

It could be worse, but I've learned to become invisible to Machiavellian dilettantes, faux radical Satanistas, and bloodsucking Oompa-Loompas of the painfully ordinary variety.

2006, Adrian C. Louis, Logorrhea, Northwestern University Press,, →ISBN, page 44:

[Referring to the male member] It's not one of the Muppets or an Umpa Lumpa.

2006, Sherry Argov, Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart, page 89:

Don’t be afraid to write your name in the books and on the pans that were yours before you found yourself sharing a studio apartment that would normally not be big enough for an Oompa-Loompa.

2006, Anna Jane Grossman, Flint Wainess, It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Ultimate Breakup Book, page 129:

Nevertheless, some subtle market forces are at work which pressure the canny shopkeeper into giving up valuable shelf space to the contents of an Oompa Loompa’s cocktail cabinet.

2006, Simon Trewin and Michael Moran, The Encyclopaedia of Guilty Pleasures, John Murray, page unknown

For women with skin of color, it's so, so important to get the shade and tone right. If it's wrong, you can look incredibly ashy, or like an Oompa Loompa.

2006, Iman, The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color, page 34:

The men[…]have gone way overboard with the spray-on tan. They’re as orange as Oompa Loompas, and they stare at my boobs for a very long time before acknowledging me.

2007, Meta Smith, Queen of Miami, Hachette Digital, →ISBN:

I don't know who decided all porn actors must be the same shade of orange as Oompa Loompas.

2009, Reverend Jen, Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 172:

Dahl insisted there was no racist intent behind the Oompa Loompas but also said he found himself sympathising with the NAACP.

2017 September 13, Haroon Siddique, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hero 'was originally black'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) Any of the fictional pygmies who manufacture candy in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.


unbiunium

Systematic element name from un- + bi- + un- + -ium.

systematic element name
systematic element name

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 121 (symbol Ubu).


man-eater

And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration.

1776, Thomas Boston, The Human Nature in its Fourfold State, page 336:

Man-eaters are more newsworthy than three-foot-long harmless sharks with tiny teeth.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 146:

An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.


dilithium

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Fifty years later and it seems like we should—I don’t know if dilithium crystals are out there—but, you know, we should be getting some breakthroughs.

2016 October, Scott Dadich, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.


DAD

Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember.

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
w:Dragon Age: The Veilguard

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard).


mago

Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Cf. also mego.


mago

Borrowed from Spanish mago, from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).


hyperspace drive

en-noun

hyperspace drive (plural hyperspace drives)

a hypothetical propulsion system for spacecraft that would "warp" spacetime


tomacco

A tomato plant grafted onto a tobacco plant.


silver bullet

(literally, folklore) A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.


sylph

First attested in 1657. From New Latin sylphes, coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”). Ultimately from the root silva (“woods, forest”). Related to sylvan.
More at Wikipedia.

Her heart fluttered with expectation—her step was buoyant with hope, and she sprung into the carriage with the lightness of a sylph.

Necromancy meant originally the conjuring up the souls of the dead, and later included the conjuring of all sorts of inhuman spirits such as sylphs, giants, and djinn.

1941, Rupert Gleadow, Magic and Divination, page 125:

(mythology) An invisible being of the air.

The elemental being of air, usually female.

(ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.


hala

From Ottoman Turkish خلا (halâ), from Arabic خَلَاء (ḵalāʔ).


conman

confidence trickster
confidence trickster


mimsy

en-adj

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

mimsier (comparative)
mimsiest (superlative)

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^([sic – meaning wabe]); / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.

1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:

Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones

1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the Seventh. The Banker's Fate:

(nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky


gremlin

Oxford English Dictionary
Roald Dahl
The Gremlins

Uncertain; the following etymologies have been suggested:
* A variant of goblin.
* From Irish gruaimín (“gloomy little person”); or from Dutch gremmelen (“to soil, stain; to spoil”), or griemelen, grimmelen (“(obsolete) to abound, teem; to swarm”), but according to the Oxford English Dictionary there is little evidence for such derivations.
The word was popularized, especially in the United States, by the children’s novel The Gremlins (1943) by the British author Roald Dahl (1916–1990), in which gremlins sabotage Royal Air Force aircraft in revenge for the destruction of their forest home to make way for an aircraft factory; the creatures later join forces with the British to fight the Nazis.

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Like Abominable Snowmen, gremlins have never actually been seen; but nobody who works with electronic gear doubts the existence of these mischievous and elusive entities. There are too many malfunctions and failures that can have no other explanation.

1963, Arthur C Clarke, chapter 8, in Glidepath, New York: Simon and Schuster, pages 72-73:

Crucial time was saved by the fact Nexus didn't require a Transport & Works Act. Nevertheless, other gremlins kept raising their heads.

2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 34:

(originally British, aviation, Royal Air Force slang)

(mythology) An imaginary creature reputed to be mischievously inclined, for example, to damage or dismantle machinery.

гремлин

imaginary creature reputed to be mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery


Igor

From the hunchbacked lab assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the 1931 U.S. film Frankenstein of Universal Studios, which was named "Fritz", and the successor to Dr. Frankenstein found in the third and fourth films, named "Ygor"; which have been conflated in popular culture to become "Igor".

(fiction) A stock character, the lab assistant to a mad scientist, vampire, or miser frequently depicted as being deformed in some manner, physically and/or psychologically.


psychokinesis

en-noun

psychokinesis (usually uncountable, plural psychokineses)

(parapsychology) The movement of physical systems and objects by the use of psychic power. Abbreviated as PK.

telekinesia

movement inanimate objects by the use of psychic power


frabjous

en-adj

frabjous (comparative more frabjous, superlative most frabjous)

more frabjous (comparative)
most frabjous (superlative)

/ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/

Audio (US)

Originally a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; probably a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.

“[…] / O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” / He chortled in his joy.

[Owl, deluded his candidate was elected:] My dark horse!... Oh, frabjous day!

1960 November 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 198:

"Tomorrow there'll be so much to do," as the Dixie Chicks remind us, "so tonight I'll drift in a dream with you." I want her life to be frabjous, not weighed down with mimsy.

2012 March 15, “To Be a Fully Developed Person (and Leader), You Need to Dream”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Beginning in the final months leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and ending in 1953, “Barefoot Gen” takes us inside war from the civilians’ view with none of the propaganda and all of the flawed and frabjous potential of humanity.

2016 January 23, Kris Kosaka, “Barefoot Gen”, in The Japan Times:

It's the sugar rush that quickens the pulse. It's the headlong chocolate-dopamine surge that excites. It's the frabjous joy of tearing into a well-wrapped bar. It's love, love, love.

2017 January 31, Jim Myers, “Nashvill'es Best Candies for Valentine's Day”, in Tennesseean:

O frabjous day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep state. Or “the met” as normal people call them.

2019 April 12, Suzanne Moore, “Wikileaks was the future once. Then it became Julian Assange”, in NewStatesman:


haint

"Ain't you scared of haints?"

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 254:

I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms.

It didn't take long for word to spread that there was a "haint" in the graveyard. A haint is what the old-timers called a ghost.

2005, Eulie Rowan, “The Four-Legged Haint”, in The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, Simon and Schuster, page 106:

My dead grandpa's haint floated above my bed one night when I was a young'un and scared me so bad I busted the bedroom door down tryin' to get out that room so fast.

2009, Mary Monroe, God Still Don't Like Ugly, page 211:

(US, dialectal) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.


galumphing

From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; perhaps a blend of galloping + triumph.

(nonce word) Galloping in a heavy and inelegant manner.


alkahest

en-noun

alkahest (countable and uncountable, plural alkahests)

Borrowed from Late Latin alcahest, apparently coined by Paracelsus, as Pseudo-Arabism.

This perspective stimulated the alchemical quest for a ‘universal solvent’, that would dissolve and homogenize all substances – a solvent that Paracelsus named the alkahest.

2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 267:

(now historical) A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.


levitation

levitation (countable and uncountable, plural levitations)

/ˌlɛvɪˈteɪʃən/

From levitate + -ion, from Latin levitas (“lightness”), patterned in English on gravitate.

It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation, abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.

1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 4, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 90:

The suspension of something via technical means without any mechanical support, such as by magnetism

levitació

technical suspension without mechanical support


persoon

nl-noun

persoon m or f (plural personen, diminutive persoontje n)

personen (plural)
persoontje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: persoon

→ Indonesian: person

From Middle Dutch persone, ultimately from Latin persōna. Doublet with persona.

(fiction) person, character, personality


epithalamium

en-noun

epithalamium (plural epithalamiums or epithalamia)

epithalamiums (plural)
epithalamia (plural)

/ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm/

Learned borrowing from Latin epithalamium, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον (epithalámion, “bridal song”), neuter form of ἐπιθαλάμιος (epithalámios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner chamber, wedding chamber”).

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Softly she laughed and sighed, and swift her glances flew. She shook her heavy tresses, and their perfume filled the place; she struck her little sandalled foot upon the floor, and hummed a snatch of some old Greek epithalamium.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.

1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300:


suspended animation

(science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.


doxy

Coined by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series as the name of a species of biting fairy, possibly originally from Etymology 1 or from Etymology 3 (doxycycline is used to treat various diseases caused by insect bites). Likely influenced by pixie.

"Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you."
"No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies"

2010 July 15, Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 6:

The doxies were everywhere. So he just kept swinging, feeling a shudder through his arm each time the racquet made contact with a scaly body. Despite his best efforts, two or three of the nasty, screeching things got close.

2015 March 10, C.T. Adams, The Exile: Book One of the Fae, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 93:

"And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."

2021 May 19, Sarah Biglow, Molly Zenk, Captivity The Complete Series: A Dystopian Shifter Fantasy Collection, Biglow & Zenk Fantasy Publishing:

Trapped like this, the options are extremely pitiful and the damned doxies bite the way scorpions sting.

2022 October 11, Doug Moench, Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection, Dark Horse Comics, →ISBN, page 139:

A doxy messenger can outfly a pixie by five klicks in optimal conditions. They can span 40 klicks in a little over five hours. Though not particularly good in combat, doxies can turn invisible, kill with a kiss, and cause hallucinations if touched.

2023 December 12, Claire Wilkins, Courting the Prince of Moonlit Shadows, eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc., →ISBN:

(fantasy) An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.


hamadryad

en-noun

hamadryad (plural hamadryads or hamadryades)

hamadryads (plural)
hamadryades (plural)

From Latin Hamadryas, from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás), from ἅμα (háma, “together”) + δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).

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The hamadryades have gone, like the golden fancies of which they were engendered—morning dreams of a young world scarce awake, but full of freshness and beauty. Yet often will the thought, or rather the fancy, come across me, that this wailing but most musical noise—heard in the dim evening, when every tree has a separate sound like a separate instrument, and every leaf a differing tone like the differing notes—is the piteous lament of some nymph pent within the gray and mossy trunk whence she may never more emerge in visible loveliness.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 301:

The various supports, rafters, braces and plates are of pandanus logs of a rich oily brown, and make one think of a sylvan cathedral where hamadryads might very well dance, where Syrinx might be chased by Pan, Daphne by Apollo, and various other heathen rites take place in the dark hours before the dawn.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 106:

(Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.

Papio hamadryas
Papio hamadryas#Translingual

A baboon of species Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.


Robin Hood

/ˌɹɒbɪn ˈhʊd/

From Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of Robert.

A legendary English outlaw famous for his skill in archery and his vow to defend the poor and the oppressed against established authority.

Baslow and Bubnell
Baslow and Bubnell#English

Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales#English

w:List of United Kingdom locations: Ri-Ror#Roa-Ror

A hamlet in Baslow and Bubnell parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2772).

A settlement in Wrightington parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire (OS grif ref SD5211).

A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3227).

A locality near Drouin, Victoria, Australia.


balaur

balauri (plural)
balaur (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
balaurul (accusative definite nominative singular)
balauri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
balaurii (accusative definite nominative plural)
balaur (indefinite singular)
balaurului (definite singular)
balauri (indefinite plural)
balaurilor (definite plural)
balaurule (singular vocative)
balaurilor (plural vocative)

Uncertain. Akin to Albanian boljë, bollë, bullar. The Albanian may more likely be derived from a Latin term, alternatively, and the Romanian may be taken from it. May also have a relation to Serbo-Croatian blavor, but it is uncertain which language borrowed from which. Another theory suggests Latin belluarius, ultimately from bēlua; however the normal result in Romanian would have been *bălar. Influence from laur may have affected it, but it is uncertain why this analogy would be made.


time bomb

Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.

2014 June 6, Françoise Fressoz, “France’s Ticking Time Bomb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:

The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.

2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:

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


time warp

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But as the reports on the Bild investigation suggest, the company’s workplace culture may be stuck in a time warp.

2021 October 17, Ben Smith, “At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.

(video games) Acceleration of in-game time relative to real-world time.


time warp

en-verb

time warp (third-person singular simple present time warps, present participle time warping, simple past and past participle time warped)

time warps (present singular third-person)
time warping (participle present)
time warped (participle past)
time warped (past)

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To travel through time in such a manner.

(intransitive) To perform the time warp dance.


nixie

From German Nixe, feminine of Nix, from Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus (“water-elf, crocodile”), from Proto-Germanic *nikwus, *nikwis, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”).
Cognate with Old English nicor (“water-elf, hippopotamus, walrus”), English nicker.

cog

The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream.

1916, Rex Beach, Rainbow's End, published 2008, page 1:

Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie’s green.

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

In medieval times, the image of the double fish tailed siren was called a nixie or evil water spirit. Yet, the nixies were more likely daughters of the primordial goddess named Nyx or mother night, who hovered over ancient waters, rather than evil spirits.

2011, Katalin Koda, Fire of the Goddess, page 83:


aždaha

aždàha (canonical feminine)
ажда̀ха (Cyrillic)
aždaha (nominative singular)
aždahe (nominative plural)
aždahe (genitive singular)
aždaha (genitive plural)
aždahi (dative singular)
aždahama (dative plural)
aždahu (accusative singular)
aždahe (accusative plural)
aždaho (singular vocative)
aždahe (plural vocative)
aždahi (locative singular)
aždahama (locative plural)
aždahom (instrumental singular)
aždahama (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اژدها (ejdehâ), from Persian اژدها (eždehâ).

bor+

(Bosnia, Serbia) type of mythical creature similar to dragon


аждаха

ажда̀ха (canonical feminine)
aždàha (romanization)
аждаха (nominative singular)
аждахе (nominative plural)
аждахе (genitive singular)
аждаха (genitive plural)
аждахи (dative singular)
аждахама (dative plural)
аждаху (accusative singular)
аждахе (accusative plural)
аждахо (singular vocative)
аждахе (plural vocative)
аждахи (locative singular)
аждахама (locative plural)
аждахом (instrumental singular)
аждахама (instrumental plural)


aždaja

aždàja (canonical feminine)
ажда̀ја (Cyrillic)
aždaja (nominative singular)
aždaje (nominative plural)
aždaje (genitive singular)
aždaja (genitive plural)
aždaji (dative singular)
aždajama (dative plural)
aždaju (accusative singular)
aždaje (accusative plural)
aždajo (singular vocative)
aždaje (plural vocative)
aždaji (locative singular)
aždajama (locative plural)
aždajom (instrumental singular)
aždajama (instrumental plural)


змај

зма̏ј (canonical masculine)
zmȁj (romanization)
зма̏ј (nominative singular)
зма̀јеви (nominative plural)
змаја (genitive singular)
змајева (genitive plural)
змају (dative singular)
змајевима (dative plural)
змаја (accusative singular)
змај (accusative singular)
змајеве (accusative plural)
змају (singular vocative)
змајеви (plural vocative)
змају (locative singular)
змајевима (locative plural)
змајем (instrumental singular)
змајевима (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

змаја / змај


аждаја

ажда̀ја (canonical feminine)
aždàja (romanization)
аждаја (nominative singular)
аждаје (nominative plural)
аждаје (genitive singular)
аждаја (genitive plural)
аждаји (dative singular)
аждајама (dative plural)
аждају (accusative singular)
аждаје (accusative plural)
аждајо (singular vocative)
аждаје (plural vocative)
аждаји (locative singular)
аждајама (locative plural)
аждајом (instrumental singular)
аждајама (instrumental plural)


zmaj

zmȁj (canonical masculine)
зма̏ј (Cyrillic)
zmȁj (nominative singular)
zmàjevi (nominative plural)
zmaja (genitive singular)
zmajeva (genitive plural)
zmaju (dative singular)
zmajevima (dative plural)
zmaja (accusative singular)
zmajeve (accusative plural)
zmaju (singular vocative)
zmajevi (plural vocative)
zmaju (locative singular)
zmajevima (locative plural)
zmajem (instrumental singular)
zmajevima (instrumental plural)


zmaj

zmāj (canonical)
zmȁj (animate canonical masculine)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
zmáj (nominative singular)
zmája (dual nominative)
zmáji (nominative plural)
zmája (genitive singular)
zmájev (dual genitive)
zmájev (genitive plural)
zmáju (dative singular)
zmájema (dative dual)
zmájem (dative plural)
zmája (accusative singular)
zmája (accusative dual)
zmáje (accusative plural)
zmáju (locative singular)
zmájih (dual locative)
zmájih (locative plural)
zmájem (instrumental singular)
zmájema (dual instrumental)
zmáji (instrumental plural)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
zmàj (nominative singular)
zmája (dual nominative)
zmáji (nominative plural)
zmája (genitive singular)
zmájev (dual genitive)
zmájev (genitive plural)
zmáju (dative singular)
zmájema (dative dual)
zmájem (dative plural)
zmája (accusative singular)
zmája (accusative dual)
zmáje (accusative plural)
zmáju (locative singular)
zmájih (dual locative)
zmájih (locative plural)
zmájem (instrumental singular)
zmájema (dual instrumental)
zmáji (instrumental plural)


kryptonite

en-verb

kryptonite (third-person singular simple present kryptonites, present participle kryptoniting, simple past and past participle kryptonited)

kryptonites (present singular third-person)
kryptoniting (participle present)
kryptonited (participle past)
kryptonited (past)

From a fictional radioactive element, kryptonite, that has a detrimental effect on the otherwise invulnerable character Superman. Apparently formed as krypton (“a chemical element, Kr”) + -ite.

affix

(figuratively) To destroy, wreck, or ruin; to affect adversely, as Superman is affected by kryptonite.


ejderha

head

ejderha (definite accusative ejderhayı, plural ejderhalar)

ejderhayı (accusative definite)
ejderhalar (plural)
ejderha (nominative singular)
ejderhalar (nominative plural)
ejderhayı (accusative definite singular)
ejderhaları (accusative definite plural)
ejderhaya (dative singular)
ejderhalara (dative plural)
ejderhada (locative singular)
ejderhalarda (locative plural)
ejderhadan (ablative singular)
ejderhalardan (ablative plural)
ejderhanın (genitive singular)
ejderhaların (genitive plural)
ejderham (first-person nominative singular)
ejderhalarım (first-person nominative singular)
ejderhan (nominative second-person singular)
ejderhaların (nominative second-person singular)
ejderhası (nominative singular third-person)
ejderhaları (nominative singular third-person)
ejderhamız (first-person nominative plural)
ejderhalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
ejderhanız (nominative plural second-person)
ejderhalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
ejderhaları (nominative plural third-person)
ejderhamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
ejderhalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
ejderhanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
ejderhalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
ejderhasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
ejderhalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
ejderhamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
ejderhalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
ejderhanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
ejderhalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
ejderhalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
ejderhama (dative first-person singular)
ejderhalarıma (dative first-person singular)
ejderhana (dative second-person singular)
ejderhalarına (dative second-person singular)
ejderhasına (dative singular third-person)
ejderhalarına (dative singular third-person)
ejderhamıza (dative first-person plural)
ejderhalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
ejderhanıza (dative plural second-person)
ejderhalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
ejderhalarına (dative plural third-person)
ejderhamda (first-person locative singular)
ejderhalarımda (first-person locative singular)
ejderhanda (locative second-person singular)
ejderhalarında (locative second-person singular)
ejderhasında (locative singular third-person)
ejderhalarında (locative singular third-person)
ejderhamızda (first-person locative plural)
ejderhalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
ejderhanızda (locative plural second-person)
ejderhalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
ejderhalarında (locative plural third-person)
ejderhamdan (ablative first-person singular)
ejderhalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
ejderhandan (ablative second-person singular)
ejderhalarından (ablative second-person singular)
ejderhasından (ablative singular third-person)
ejderhalarından (ablative singular third-person)
ejderhamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
ejderhalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
ejderhanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
ejderhalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
ejderhalarından (ablative plural third-person)
ejderhamın (first-person genitive singular)
ejderhalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
ejderhanın (genitive second-person singular)
ejderhalarının (genitive second-person singular)
ejderhasının (genitive singular third-person)
ejderhalarının (genitive singular third-person)
ejderhamızın (first-person genitive plural)
ejderhalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
ejderhanızın (genitive plural second-person)
ejderhalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
ejderhalarının (genitive plural third-person)
ejderhayım (first-person singular)
ejderhalarım (first-person singular)
ejderhasın (second-person singular)
ejderhalarsın (second-person singular)
ejderha (singular third-person)
ejderhadır (singular third-person)
ejderhalar (singular third-person)
ejderhalardır (singular third-person)
ejderhayız (first-person plural)
ejderhalarız (first-person plural)
ejderhasınız (plural second-person)
ejderhalarsınız (plural second-person)
ejderhalar (plural third-person)
ejderhalardır (plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish اژدرها (ejderha, “a great serpent, a dragon”), from Persian اژدرها (ežderhâ, aždarhâ).

inh

Hayır, sensin şizofren, ejderhan yok diye beni kıskanıyorsun.

No, you're schizophrenic, you're just jealous of me because you don't have your own dragon.


Ivanhoe

/ˈaɪvənˌhəʊ/

/ˈɑɪvənˌhəʉ/

A name invented by Scott, possibly inspired by the village Ivinghoe.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States.


pyrokinesis

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) The ability to set objects or people on fire or to supernaturally project fire from one's own being through the concentration of psychic power.

控火

the ability to set objects or people on fire


wirehead

(science fiction) A person who has an electronic brain implant.


ала

а́ла (canonical)
ála (romanization)
а́ли (plural)
ала (indefinite singular)
али (indefinite plural)
алата (definite singular unspecified)
алите (definite plural unspecified)
алава (definite proximal singular)
аливе (definite plural proximal)
алана (definite distal singular)
алине (definite distal plural)
ало (singular vocative)
али (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xala, unless borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آلا (ala, “spotted, variegated”), euphemistic for ییلان (yılan, “snake”).


ала

Ала је било лепо!

Aла лажеш!

(used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) expression of awe, surprise, dismay, etc.


ала

sh-noun

а́ла or а̀ла or а̏ла f (Latin spelling ála or àla or ȁla)

а́ла (canonical)
а̀ла (canonical)
а̏ла (canonical feminine)
ála (romanization)
àla (romanization)
ȁla (romanization)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xala, unless borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آلا (ala, “spotted, variegated”), euphemistic for a snake.

dragon, type of mythical creature similar to dragon


НЛО

NLO (romanization)
НЛО (indefinite singular)
НЛО-а (indefinite plural)
НЛО-то (definite singular unspecified)
НЛО-ата (definite plural unspecified)
НЛО-во (definite proximal singular)
НЛО-ава (definite plural proximal)
НЛО-но (definite distal singular)
НЛО-ана (definite distal plural)
НЛО (singular vocative)
НЛО-а (plural vocative)

Initialism of неидентификуван летечки објект (neidentifikuvan letečki objekt).

initialism

неидентификуван летечки објект


НЛО

Initialism of неопо́знанный лета́ющий объе́кт (neopóznannyj letájuščij obʺjékt).

неопо́знанный лета́ющий объе́кт


НЛО

Initialism of нерозпі́знаний літа́ючий об'є́кт (nerozpíznanyj litájučyj obʺjékt).

нерозпі́знаний літа́ючий об'є́кт


DM

en-verb

DM (third-person singular simple present DMs, present participle DMing, simple past and past participle DMed or DM'd)

DMs (present singular third-person)
DMing (participle present)
DMed (participle past)
DMed (past)
DM'd (participle past)
DM'd (past)

To Dungeon Master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.


llorona

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines


crop circle

An area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape, performed as a prank or sometimes ascribed to UFO activity etc.


灰姑娘

/xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ku⁵⁵ ni̯ɑŋ²/

/fuːi̯⁵⁵ kuː⁵⁵ nœːŋ²¹/

/hue⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²³/

/he⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²⁴/

/xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ku⁵⁵ ni̯ɑŋ²/

/fuːi̯⁵⁵ kuː⁵⁵ nœːŋ²¹/

/hue⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²³/

/he⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²⁴/

灰姑娘是真有名的囡仔古。


Miss Right

He waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Miss Right.

(idiomatic) A perfect, ideal or suitable female companion, especially a wife.


chibi

en-noun

chibi (countable and uncountable, plural chibis)

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Borrowed from Japanese ちび (chibi, “something small; runt, dwarf; pipsqueak”)

bor+

(countable) A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.


panther

From Middle English panter, panther, pantere, from Old French pantere, from Latin panthēra, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr, “panther”).

der

(mythology, heraldry) A creature resembling a big cat, typically incensed (“emitting fire”), and often having a multicolored hide, found in Ancient Greek mythology and in medieval and later heraldry (in which its depiction sometimes approaches that of a horse).


Doitsu

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From Japanese ドイツ (Doitsu, “Germany”) with influence from the anime Hetalia: Axis Powers; ultimately from Dutch Duits. Doublet of Dutch and Deutsch.

emTeX is from Eberhard Mattes, I believe a PhD student in Stuttgart, Doitsu.

1992 October 5, Eugene N. Miya, “[l/m 6/5/91] Soc.culture.japan references”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

i'm from doitsu!

2003 March 27, FuNG [username], “icq people from japan?”, in japan.app.icq (Usenet):

How are things in Doitsu?

2008 June 18, mozark [username], “Re: My Whining 2008 Scorecard”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):

List of Hetalia: Axis Powers characters#Germany


ufologist

But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.

2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122:


ufology

en-noun

ufology (countable and uncountable, plural ufologies)

/ˌjuːɛfˈɑləd͡ʒi/

I'm an expert in my field
Ufology, yes, it's all real
Ancient aliens, it's all true
I'm an expert just like you

2016, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Touch-Tone Telephone”, in Spirit Phone, performed by Lemon Demon:


Phönix

de-noun

Phönix m (strong, genitive Phönix or (less common) Phönixes, plural Phönixe)

Phönix (genitive)
Phönixes (genitive uncommon)
Phönixe (plural)
Phönix (nominative singular)
Phönixe (definite nominative plural)
Phönix (genitive singular)
Phönixes (genitive singular uncommon)
Phönixe (definite genitive plural)
Phönix (dative singular)
Phönixe (dative singular uncommon)
Phönixen (dative definite plural)
Phönix (accusative singular)
Phönixe (accusative definite plural)


饕餮

/tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰiːt̚³/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo³³ tʰiɛt̚⁵/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰau³³⁻²³ tʰiek̚²/

/tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰiːt̚³/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo³³ tʰiɛt̚⁵/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰau³³⁻²³ tʰiek̚²/

(Chinese mythology) taotie (legendary gluttonous animal)


runa

pl-noun

runa f (related adjective runiczny or runicki or runowy or runiany)

runiczny (adjective)
runicki (adjective)
runowy (adjective)
runiany (adjective)
runa (nominative singular)
runy (nominative plural)
runy (genitive singular)
run (genitive plural)
runie (dative singular)
runom (dative plural)
runę (accusative singular)
runy (accusative plural)
runą (instrumental singular)
runami (instrumental plural)
runie (locative singular)
runach (locative plural)
runo (singular vocative)
runy (plural vocative)

(chiefly in the plural, poetry) rune (Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala)


ogress

Borrowed in the early 1700s from French ogresse, equivalent to ogre + -ess.

And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]

1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237:

Dear me, Mimsey!. . . you are perfectly outrageous! Do you think I'm an ogress ready to eat her up? On the contrary, I mean to be a friend to her.


neo

Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of a neo who is reading sf for the first time.

1964 April 2, Bennett Ron, Skyrack, number 65:

This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: the neo, the trufan, and the BNF.

1976 August 25, Ian Maule, Checkpoint, number 72:

Edwina, and neofen of her generation (this is not a criticism - everyone starts out as a neo), being new to sffandom, and not a member of faandom, would not have noticed this.

1996 November 3, Richard J. Faulder, Gegenschein, number 80:

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) Clipping of neofan.


invisibility

en-noun

invisibility (countable and uncountable, plural invisibilities)

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From Middle French invisibilité, from Latin invisibilitas.


pegasus

Bellerophon
Michael (archangel)
Red Horse Beer

Horse from Red Horse Beer, wings from Gold Eagle Beer and St. Michael the Archangel standing in for Bellerophon or Perseus.

a cocktail using Red Horse Beer and Gold Eagle Beer and Ginebra San Miguel


battlecruiser

Blend of battleship + cruiser, from being a cruiser-like ship with battleship-like capabilities and possibly operating in the battleline.

(fiction) A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.


Ruritania

Used by Anthony Hope as a setting for his novels.


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

salt enrere

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative


Buffyverse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse.

2009, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Annette Holba, Media and the Apocalypse, page 77:

2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46,
In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome.

We can hardly be surprised when Buffy and Satsu find what warmth they can, as Willow does with her demon lover, in an intercut sex scene of the kind which typically precedes an apocalypse in the Buffyverse (#15, p. 26). Scenes like this confirm Em McAvan's point that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).

2010, Lewis Call, “Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics”, in Erin B. Waggoner, editor, Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays, page 115:

(fandom slang) The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


draconologist

As such, his pamphlet is unlikely to appeal either to serious draconologists and cryptozoologists, or to newcomers to the field, who would probably be better served by any of the many book-length cryptozoological tours available.

1997, Mike Dash, “Water Dragons: A Guide to Lake Serpent Legends Around the World (review)”, in Fortean Times, numbers 102-106, →ISSN:

In the words of one prominent draconologist “No dragon exists — none ever did exist” (Ingersoll 1928: 13).

2000, Robert Blust, “The Origin of Dragons”, in Anthropos, volume 95, number 2, page 522:

The expeditions and adventures described in this book have been performed under the guidance of trained observers, experts and draconologists.

2012 June 26, William O'Connor, Dracopedia The Great Dragons: An Artist's Field Guide and Drawing Journal, Cincinnati: Impact, →ISBN, →OL, page 6:


only child

An only child is often stereotyped as spoiled.

Tali: It's my father. He's the senior member of the Admiralty Board. He's one of only five people who can overrule the decisions of the Conclave for the good of the Migrant Fleet.
Tali: My father is responsible for the lives of seventeen million people -- our entire race is in his hands. And I'm his only child.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:

A person who has no siblings; a person raised as the sole child in a household.


νάνος

nános (romanization)
νάνοι (plural)
νάνος (nominative singular)
νάνοι (nominative plural)
νάνου (genitive singular)
νάνων (genitive plural)
νάνο (accusative singular)
νάνους (accusative plural)
νάνε (singular vocative)
νάνοι (plural vocative)

(mythology, folklore) dwarf (member of a race of beings, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking)


therianthrope

/ˈθɛɹ.i.ənˌθɹoʊp/

From Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”) + Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man”).

af

Among the depictions are a black rhinoceros, the body of an antelope covered by a red line, two white animals with black stripes that may be zebras, and a therianthrope. The therianthrope (Figure 9.11) appears to have a feline body with human hind legs that may have been added after the original legs had faded somewhat (Wendt 1974:27).

2016, Carmel Schrire, Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies, Routledge, →ISBN:

One appears to have a large beak while another has an appendage resembling a tail. In the language of archaeology, these are therianthropes, or characters that embody a mix of human and animal characteristics. […] The otherworldly nature of the therianthropes also raises the possibility that they are mythical beings, or manifestations of “animal spirit helpers” that are common in shamanic beliefs, according to the study.

2019 December 11, Becky Ferreira, “Mythical Beings May Be Earliest Imaginative Cave Art by Humans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(mythology) Any mythical being which is part human, part animal.

homme-bête

any mythical being which is part human, part animal


frigate

From French frégate, from Italian fregata.

Frigates are light escort and scouting vessels. They often have extensive GARDIAN systems to provide anti-fighter screening for capital ships, and carry a squad of marines for security and groundside duty. Unlike larger vessels, frigates are able to land on planets.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Frigates Codex entry:

(fiction) A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.


harlequin

From earlier Harlicken, from Middle French Harlequin (in Italian Arlecchino, the name of a popular servant character in commedia dell'arte plays), from Old French Harlequin, Halequin, Herlequin, Hellequin, Hierlekin, Hellekin (a demon, malevolent spirit), probably of Germanic origin, connected to the Old English figure of Herla Cyning (“King Herla”, a mythical figure identified with Woden) or possibly to Old Frisian helle kin, Old English helle cyn, Old Norse heljar kyn (“the kindred of Hell”). Related to Middle English Hurlewain (“a mischievous sprite or goblin”).

cog

Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.


hotshot

Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the hotshots fast enough.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:

(US, rail transport) A fast freight train.

I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.

1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120:

(slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.


hotshot

en-verb

hotshot (third-person singular simple present hotshots, present participle hotshotting, simple past and past participle hotshotted)

hotshots (present singular third-person)
hotshotting (participle present)
hotshotted (participle past)
hotshotted (past)

(transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.


cromulent

en-adj

cromulent (comparative more cromulent, superlative most cromulent)

more cromulent (comparative)
most cromulent (superlative)

A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism and nonce word coined by American television writer David X. Cohen (born 1966) for “Lisa the Iconoclast”, a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons. The ending resembles corpulent, temulent and other Latinate adjectives (derived from -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”)).

coin

Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.
Ms. Hoover: I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word.
[…]
Principal Skinner: He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.

1996 February 18, David X. Cohen, “Lisa the Iconoclast”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 16, production code 3F13:

Nerdcore could rise up, it could get elevated.
Oh, and wouldn’t all of those tough rappers hate it
if the nerdcore rose up and got elevated.
We consider the possibleness of this not overstated.
And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word;
every syllable injected is intended to be the one you heard
(an absurd juxtaposition of mission and goal).

2005 August 27, MC Frontalot (lyrics and music), “Nerdcore Rising”, in Nerdcore Rising:

He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor.

2006 April 10, “Obituaries and in memoriams: Benjamin Sidney Linton”, in The Charlotte Observer:

Of course, you may encounter a new program that doesn't work reliably with UNC paths, and this is a perfectly cromulent workaround.

2008, David A. Karp, “Users and Security”, in John Osborn, Laurel R. T. Ruma, editors, Windows Vista Annoyances (Tips, Secrets and Solutions), Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 505:

There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for certain models and assumptions.

2008, Alan M. Polansky, “Connections and Comparisons”, in Observed Confidence Levels: Theory and Application, Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, →ISBN, →OL, section 7.3 (Multiple Comparisons), page 216:

How well does this function work? For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent: […]

2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Don Stewart, “Functional Programming”, in Mike Loukides, editor, Real World Haskell (Code You Can Believe In), Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 86:

(humorous) Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.


vampiro

Borrowed from French vampire, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь.


vampiro

pt-noun

vampiro m (plural vampiros, feminine vampira or vampiresa, feminine plural vampiras or vampiresas)

vampiros (plural)
vampira (feminine)
vampiresa (feminine)
vampiras (feminine plural)
vampiresas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French vampire or German Vampir, ultimately from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr.

vamp (woman who uses sexual desire to exploit men)


vampiro

es-noun

vampiro m (plural vampiros, feminine vampiresa, feminine plural vampiresas)

vampiros (plural)
vampiresa (feminine)
vampiresas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French vampire or German Vampir, from Hungarian vámpír, ultimately from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr.


empathic

en-adj

empathic (comparative more empathic, superlative most empathic)

more empathic (comparative)
most empathic (superlative)

(science fiction) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.


xenoglossy

en-noun

xenoglossy (countable and uncountable, plural xenoglossies)

From xeno- + -glossia, borrowed from French xénoglossie.

The most well-documented case of xenoglossy, however, concerned Swiss Medium Hélène Smith (1861-1929), who falsely claimed to speak the Martian language.

2007 September 1, J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena, Canton: Visible Ink, →ISBN, →OL, keyword “xenoglossy”, page 359:

Knowledge of a language one has never learned.

زينوغلوسيا

knowledge of a language one has never learned


jästi

jästi (nominative singular)
jästit (nominative plural)
jästi (accusative nominative singular)
jästit (accusative nominative plural)
jästin (accusative genitive singular)
jästit (accusative genitive plural)
jästin (genitive singular)
jästien (genitive plural)
jästiä (partitive singular)
jästejä (partitive plural)
jästissä (inessive singular)
jästeissä (inessive plural)
jästistä (elative singular)
jästeistä (elative plural)
jästiin (illative singular)
jästeihin (illative plural)
jästillä (adessive singular)
jästeillä (adessive plural)
jästiltä (ablative singular)
jästeiltä (ablative plural)
jästille (allative singular)
jästeille (allative plural)
jästinä (essive singular)
jästeinä (essive plural)
jästiksi (singular translative)
jästeiksi (plural translative)
jästittä (abessive singular)
jästeittä (abessive plural)
jästein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
jästini (nominative singular)
jästini (nominative plural)
jästini (accusative nominative singular)
jästini (accusative nominative plural)
jästini (accusative genitive singular)
jästini (accusative genitive plural)
jästini (genitive singular)
jästieni (genitive plural)
jästiäni (partitive singular)
jästejäni (partitive plural)
jästissäni (inessive singular)
jästeissäni (inessive plural)
jästistäni (elative singular)
jästeistäni (elative plural)
jästiini (illative singular)
jästeihini (illative plural)
jästilläni (adessive singular)
jästeilläni (adessive plural)
jästiltäni (ablative singular)
jästeiltäni (ablative plural)
jästilleni (allative singular)
jästeilleni (allative plural)
jästinäni (essive singular)
jästeinäni (essive plural)
jästikseni (singular translative)
jästeikseni (plural translative)
jästittäni (abessive singular)
jästeittäni (abessive plural)
jästeineni (comitative plural)
jästisi (nominative singular)
jästisi (nominative plural)
jästisi (accusative nominative singular)
jästisi (accusative nominative plural)
jästisi (accusative genitive singular)
jästisi (accusative genitive plural)
jästisi (genitive singular)
jästiesi (genitive plural)
jästiäsi (partitive singular)
jästejäsi (partitive plural)
jästissäsi (inessive singular)
jästeissäsi (inessive plural)
jästistäsi (elative singular)
jästeistäsi (elative plural)
jästiisi (illative singular)
jästeihisi (illative plural)
jästilläsi (adessive singular)
jästeilläsi (adessive plural)
jästiltäsi (ablative singular)
jästeiltäsi (ablative plural)
jästillesi (allative singular)
jästeillesi (allative plural)
jästinäsi (essive singular)
jästeinäsi (essive plural)
jästiksesi (singular translative)
jästeiksesi (plural translative)
jästittäsi (abessive singular)
jästeittäsi (abessive plural)
jästeinesi (comitative plural)
jästimme (nominative singular)
jästimme (nominative plural)
jästimme (accusative nominative singular)
jästimme (accusative nominative plural)
jästimme (accusative genitive singular)
jästimme (accusative genitive plural)
jästimme (genitive singular)
jästiemme (genitive plural)
jästiämme (partitive singular)
jästejämme (partitive plural)
jästissämme (inessive singular)
jästeissämme (inessive plural)
jästistämme (elative singular)
jästeistämme (elative plural)
jästiimme (illative singular)
jästeihimme (illative plural)
jästillämme (adessive singular)
jästeillämme (adessive plural)
jästiltämme (ablative singular)
jästeiltämme (ablative plural)
jästillemme (allative singular)
jästeillemme (allative plural)
jästinämme (essive singular)
jästeinämme (essive plural)
jästiksemme (singular translative)
jästeiksemme (plural translative)
jästittämme (abessive singular)
jästeittämme (abessive plural)
jästeinemme (comitative plural)
jästinne (nominative singular)
jästinne (nominative plural)
jästinne (accusative nominative singular)
jästinne (accusative nominative plural)
jästinne (accusative genitive singular)
jästinne (accusative genitive plural)
jästinne (genitive singular)
jästienne (genitive plural)
jästiänne (partitive singular)
jästejänne (partitive plural)
jästissänne (inessive singular)
jästeissänne (inessive plural)
jästistänne (elative singular)
jästeistänne (elative plural)
jästiinne (illative singular)
jästeihinne (illative plural)
jästillänne (adessive singular)
jästeillänne (adessive plural)
jästiltänne (ablative singular)
jästeiltänne (ablative plural)
jästillenne (allative singular)
jästeillenne (allative plural)
jästinänne (essive singular)
jästeinänne (essive plural)
jästiksenne (singular translative)
jästeiksenne (plural translative)
jästittänne (abessive singular)
jästeittänne (abessive plural)
jästeinenne (comitative plural)
jästinsä (nominative singular)
jästinsä (nominative plural)
jästinsä (accusative nominative singular)
jästinsä (accusative nominative plural)
jästinsä (accusative genitive singular)
jästinsä (accusative genitive plural)
jästinsä (genitive singular)
jästiensä (genitive plural)
jästiään (partitive singular)
jästiänsä (partitive singular)
jästejään (partitive plural)
jästejänsä (partitive plural)
jästissään (inessive singular)
jästissänsä (inessive singular)
jästeissään (inessive plural)
jästeissänsä (inessive plural)
jästistään (elative singular)
jästistänsä (elative singular)
jästeistään (elative plural)
jästeistänsä (elative plural)
jästiinsä (illative singular)
jästeihinsä (illative plural)
jästillään (adessive singular)
jästillänsä (adessive singular)
jästeillään (adessive plural)
jästeillänsä (adessive plural)
jästiltään (ablative singular)
jästiltänsä (ablative singular)
jästeiltään (ablative plural)
jästeiltänsä (ablative plural)
jästilleen (allative singular)
jästillensä (allative singular)
jästeilleen (allative plural)
jästeillensä (allative plural)
jästinään (essive singular)
jästinänsä (essive singular)
jästeinään (essive plural)
jästeinänsä (essive plural)
jästikseen (singular translative)
jästiksensä (singular translative)
jästeikseen (plural translative)
jästeiksensä (plural translative)
jästittään (abessive singular)
jästittänsä (abessive singular)
jästeittään (abessive plural)
jästeittänsä (abessive plural)
jästeineen (comitative plural)
jästeinensä (comitative plural)

Back-formation from jästipää (“dumbhead”), coined by Jaana Kapari-Jatta, the translator of Harry Potter books into Finnish

back-formation

muggle (non-magical person in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series)


ghostbuster

From ghost + buster, popularized by the 1984 film Ghostbusters.

Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts.


hòbbit

hobbit (a member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet)


神通力

ja-noun

神(じん)通(つう)力(りき) or 神(じん)通(ずう)力(りき) • (jintsūriki or jinzūriki)

神通力 (canonical)
神通力 (canonical)
jintsūriki (romanization)
jinzūriki (romanization)

[d͡ʑĩnt͡sɨːɾʲikʲi]

[d͡ʑĩnd͡zɨːɾʲikʲi]

Compound of 神通 (jintsū, “superpower, divine or occult power or talent”, where jintsū is the older reading for modern jinzū) + 力 (riki, “power”).

compound

(by extension, occult) a superpower, a supernatural, divine, or occult power


King Kong

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

A fictional giant ape, the eponymous star of several movies.


King Kong

King Kong (nominative singular)
King Konga (genitive singular)
King Kongowi (dative singular)
King Konga (accusative singular)
King Kongiem (instrumental singular)
King Kongu (locative singular)
King Kongu (singular vocative)

King Kong (fictional giant ape, the eponymous star of several movies)


хаос

ru-noun+

ха́ос or хао́с • (xáos or xaós) m inan (genitive ха́оса or хао́са, nominative plural ха́осы or хао́сы, genitive plural ха́осов or хао́сов, relational adjective хаоти́чный)

ха́ос (canonical)
хао́с (canonical)
xáos (romanization)
xaós (romanization)
ха́оса (genitive)
хао́са (genitive)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
хаоти́чный (adjective relational)
ха́ос (nominative singular)
хао́с (nominative singular)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́оса (genitive singular)
хао́са (genitive singular)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
ха́осу (dative singular)
хао́су (dative singular)
ха́осам (dative plural)
хао́сам (dative plural)
ха́ос (accusative singular)
хао́с (accusative singular)
ха́осы (accusative plural)
хао́сы (accusative plural)
ха́осом (instrumental singular)
хао́сом (instrumental singular)
ха́осами (instrumental plural)
хао́сами (instrumental plural)
ха́осе (prepositional singular)
хао́се (prepositional singular)
ха́осах (plural prepositional)
хао́сах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

bor+

(fiction, usually capitalised) Chaos, demonic entities, their monsters, and armies from the Warhammer franchises by Games Workshop


caretaker

(chiefly Canada, US) Someone who takes care of a person; a parent, carer or other guardian.


Apollonian

/æpəˈləʊnɪ.ən/

From Latin Apollō (Apollōn-) + -ian and Apollonius/Apollonia + -an.

2008, C. G. Stevenson, The Apollonian Appearance: The Being from the Planet Apollo, →ISBN:

At first, when the Apollonians converged on her, Mary Theresa thought she had made a major mistake by going to the battle.

2013, Jim Henry, Universal Life Force Series Featuring Antiquity Calais Vol. 1-3, →ISBN:

The last person who tried this kind of appeal was actually the new vessel -- an Apollonian, one I knew briefly.

2013, James Bartholomeusz, The Grey Star, →ISBN, page 17:

(science fiction) A native of the planet Apollo.


space cadet

From the title of the 1948 science fiction novel Space Cadet, by Robert A. Heinlein.

(originally) A person in training to be a (generally military) astronaut, especially in science fiction.


groupie

In traditional military fashion our "Groupie" (group captain) called us to attention, exchanged salutes with his German opposite number, then handed the parade over to him.

1995, John D. Harvie, Missing in Action: An RCAF Navigator's Story, page 136:


Falstaff

From the name of a character invented by William Shakespeare for his Henry IV plays, and who also appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

John Falstaff
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare


munchkin

en:Munchkin (disambiguation)
munchkin
munchkin (cat)

Coined by American author L. Frank Baum in 1900 in his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Perhaps reflective of German Mensch or munch + -kin. Compare Low German Menschken and Low German Minschken

coinage

It'll also have a keyboard configured for a munchkin (...)

2009 August 25, Jonathan Salem Baskin, “Will Nokia's Next Chapter Be Kitchen Blenders?”, in InformationWeek's Digital Life Weblog:

(informal) A person of very short stature.

Alternative form of Munchkin (“domestic cat breed”)

(informal, slang) Synonym of donut hole (“ball-shaped pastry”) (genericization of the Dunkin' trademark "Munchkins")

donut hole

(informal) A pet name one uses for something adorable like a pet, child, or a romantic partner


Lunarian

From the stem of Latin lunaris (“of the moon, lunar”) + -ian.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon (Luna): either an indigenous one or a human one.


Lunarian

(science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians).


Epcot

Acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow


Mercurian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mercury.


Solarian

en-adj

Solarian (comparative more Solarian, superlative most Solarian)

more Solarian (comparative)
most Solarian (superlative)

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Sun.

He grinned at the profanity that came out of the communicator-speaker. Then—back at the irreverently nicknamed Galloping Cow which was the base ship of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition to this star-cluster—McRae cut off.

1947 April, Murray Leinster, “Skit-Tree Planet”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 42:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Solar System.

The Solarian one-man ships were even smaller than the Nigrian one-man ships, and some of these did a tremendous amount of damage.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “The Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 521:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the inhabitants of the Solar system.