Potterphile

Advance orders for the newest installment, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which won't be in U.S. stores until September, have reached 920,000, though impatient Potterphiles are ordering it from Britain via Amazon.com.

1999 August 8, “Children's Books: Just Wild About Harry Potter”, in Businessweek:

In the interest of full disclosure, let it be said: This reviewer is not a Potterphile, has never cracked a Potter book or darkened the door of a theater playing one of the Potter movies.

2004 June 4, Ann Hornaday, “Harry-Raising Adventure”, in The Washington Post:

As every Potterphile knows, there comes a time in Book Seven when Harry has to choose between two courses of action in his quest to deal with the evil Lord Voldemort.

2011 October 6, Eric Nelson, “What Harry Potter taught me about evil”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

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


Ringnut

From ring + nut, by analogy with wingnut.

27. Sit next to a ringnut and ask "so what's the deal with the ring?" every time it comes on the screen

2003 December 22, toto, “Fun for non-Tolkien fans (was Re: DON'T PUT SPOILERS IN SUBJECT LINES)”, in misc.kids (Usenet):

And to borrow a LotR reference for a moment -- and forgive me, 'cause I'm just a casual fan of the LotR movies, not a Ringnut -- Emily is Bilbo to Lorelai's Frodo and Rory's Sam.

2004 March 18, Rob Jensen, “Re: Yesterday episode”, in alt.tv.gilmore-girls (Usenet):

And I'm sure I'll get plenty of hate mail for single-handedly declaring all Ringnuts and Jackson fanboys are losers when I'm the guy spending time writing a review to post on the Internet, but hey, I never said I wasn't a hypocrite.

2006 August 26, webmaster@themovieaddict.com, “Retrospective: Dead Alive (1992)”, in rec.arts.movies.reviews (Usenet):

(slang, humorous or derogatory) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.


manthing

“I left you for dead on that hillside and those puny little manthings would never help one of our kind.”

2005, Ed Greenwood, James M. Ward, Jeff Grubb, We Three Dragons: A Trio of Dragon Tales for the Holiday Season:

The manthings had invaded their home, killing many and forcing them to flee.

2009, Clint Romag, Fury of the Sasquatch:


broodling

(science fiction) a member of a brood in science fiction


príncipe encantado

pt-noun

príncipe encantado m (plural príncipes encantados)

Prince Charming (heroic prince in various fairy-tales)

(by extension) Prince Charming (ideal romantic man)


Tolkiendil

From Tolkien and dil (“lover”), a word in Tolkien's constructed language of Quenya, notably used in the name of the character Eärendil.

Here's a competition for all German-speaking Tolkiendili who agree with me that this is a flaw of the translation (given that the English scans and rhymes perfectly): Come up with a better translation of the second stanza. (Or the whole poem, if you feel like it.)

1994 October 25, Ivan A Derzhanski, “A competition (Re: Don't need poem ...)”, in rec.arts.books.tolkien (Usenet):

The whole Balrog wings and Wheel of fire discussions are really about reading things literally or not. Those who think the ring is speaking and that Balrogs have wings take the literal word as gospel. They are the Fundamentalist Tolkiendili so to speak.

1999 August 30, Gordon Nash, “Literalists VS Nonliteralists”, in rec.arts.books.tolkien (Usenet):

Role Paying^([sic]) is something, a book like LOTR is something else. Tolkien never wrote a GAME, he wrote a book(s). These are two different worlds. So, beware of the MERP if you are a real Tolkiendil.

2002 August 4, discouraged. [username], “Re: MERP & Tolkien”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet):

constructed language
constructed language

(fandom slang) A fan of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially one interested in his constructed languages.


Twimom

For "Twilight" fans, the Runaways' iconic power may be difficult to grasp. (And for many of those girls' Twimoms, it may be difficult to remember.)

2010 April 9, Ann Hornaday, “Kristen Stewart has style and substance in hard-rocking 'The Runaways'”, in The Washington Post:

The next six hours consisted of 40-something-year-old TwiMoms who couldn't wait to get a glance of Carlisle, rude people trying to cut in line, and an insane lady bringing her fussy baby who wouldn't stop crying.

2012, Julith Perry, "'Breaking Dawn' renews series", The Mentor (Manhattan High School, Manhattan, Kansas), Volume 100, Issue 11, 27 November 2012, page 6

Even though we're writing legal teens doing legal things, we did get our fair share of shit for being “TwiMoms” writing “TwiPorn.”

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, published 2013, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A mother who likes Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


OBHWF

Initialism of One Big Happy Weasley Family, since the ship results in two of the main characters in the series, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, ending up with two of the seven Weasley children.

Sadly for you & other OBHWF fans, Ginny is now over Harry, and is on her second boyfriend, while Luna Lovegood has the hots for Ron.

2003 June 30, Tennant Stuart, “Re: A couple of questions about book 5.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Because JKR ships OBHWF that's why. The way Hermione has been written shows us she's much more and^([sic]) equal and compatible with Harry though.

2005 July 24, Egla Bob, “Re: What Does Hermione See in Ron?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Those of us who didn't want OBHWF felt that Rowling was making a mistake, not that she was being misleading.

2008 September 9, Louis Epstein, “Re: Cho Chang not Ginny”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The double ship of Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley and Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter series.


Twilighter

If you look at the town, and around the ever-increasing number of tourists who have come to take pictures with anything that says “Forks,” you will find signs heralding businesses' support of the Twilight books—irresistible to the voracious Twilighter (as Meyer's fans call themselves).

2010, Tracey Baptise, Stephenie Meyer, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 47:

A prequel on Carlisle would answer all of these questions and give Twilighters a better understanding of the leader of the Cullen family.

2010, Michelle Pan, Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views & Debates on the Twilight Series, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 83:

For one “Twilighter” in particular, the friendships she formed formed helped her through a particularly rough patch, when her husband's kidney failed and he was in need of a transplant.

2014, Michelle Groover, “Twilight and Twitter: An Ethnographic Study”, in Claudia Bucciferro, editor, The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

(fandom slang) A fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the related films.


fanpire

The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.

2008 November 18, Derrik J. Lang, “Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles”, in USA Today:

Have you devoured the "Twilight" books? Are you obsessed with Edward? Can you recite the entire "Twilight" movie? Do you have Bella on the brain? Then you just might be a "Twilight" fanpire.

2009 July 16, “An event to sink your teeth into”, in The Charleston Gazette:

That their emotional relationship is foregrounded over sex may also explain why the mothers of Meyer's “fanpires” are great enthusiasts of the books, too.

2012, Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, Harvard University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 136:

(fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


Twifan

Naff ending and slow pacing notwithstanding, you can't really call this swoonfest a terrible movie (unless you want to be tweeted to death by Twifans).

2010 April 8, “To tide over the Twi-hards”, in Daily News, South Africa:

There are even goodies, too, for Twifans whose love of cooking is just as strong as their love for vampires and werewolves.

2010, Amanda McGuire Rzicznek, "'Twilight' cookbook adds spice", The BG News (Bowling Green State University), Volume 104, Issue 159, 7 July 2010, page 8

As any Twifan could tell you, long before Snowqueens Icedragon changed some names in her popular fic “Master of the Universe” and published it as Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, the wank surrounding her, her attitudes, and her relationship to the fandom had already reached epic proportions.


semideus

semideus m (plural semideuses, feminine semideusa, feminine plural semideusas)

semideuses (plural)
semideusa (feminine)
semideusas (feminine plural)

From semi- (“demi-”) + deus (“god”), or alternatively from Latin semideus.


kì lân

[kɪj˦˩ ləŋ˧˧]

[kɪj˨˩ ləŋ˧˧]


lapis philosophorum

la-noun

lapis philosophōrum m (genitive lapidis philosophōrum); third declension

lapis philosophōrum (canonical masculine)
lapidis philosophōrum (genitive)
lapis philosophōrum (nominative singular)
lapidēs philosophōrum (nominative plural)
lapidis philosophōrum (genitive singular)
lapidum philosophōrum (genitive plural)
lapidī philosophōrum (dative singular)
lapidibus philosophōrum (dative plural)
lapidem philosophōrum (accusative singular)
lapidēs philosophōrum (accusative plural)
lapide philosophōrum (ablative singular)
lapidibus philosophōrum (ablative plural)
lapis philosophōrum (singular vocative)
lapidēs philosophōrum (plural vocative)

[ˈɫ̪äpɪs̠ pʰɪɫ̪ɔs̠ɔˈpʰoːrʊ̃ˑ]

philosopher's stone
philosopher's stone#English


childhood friend

en-noun

childhood friend (plural childhood friends)


Goldilocks

Apparently from goldilocks, equivalent to goldy + locks (“tuft of hair, curl”).

Tennis players are the Goldilocks characters of sports.
The balls are too big, or too small. The courts are too fast, or too slow. It’s too cold, or too hot, or too sticky, or too sunny.

2022 September 6, Matthew Futterman, “The Great U.S. Open Ball Debate of 2022”, in The New York Times:

The protagonist of a traditional fairy tale. She is a golden-haired young girl who inquisitively enters the house of three bears and tries their three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three beds, in each case finding only one that suits her.


Poké-

Pertaining to Pokémon or the Pokémon media franchise.


demihuman

No wonder Columbus was dubious. Though perfectly charming, in a Droopy-esque way. it would take a lot of imagination (or desperation) to convert this into a demihuman sex siren.

1986, BBC Wildlife, volumes 4-5, page 393:

Halflings look upon other demihuman and humanoid races as stock for the stew pot.

1991, Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine, TSR, →ISBN:

In the AD&D game, humans are more motivated by ambition and the desire for power than the demihuman races are. Thus, humans advance further and more quickly. Demihumans can attain significant levels in certain classes, but they do not ...

1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Steven E. Schend, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, TSR:

In one version we learn that the people who built Nan Madol settled at the site because they were "constantly afraid of the people of the center of Pohnpei," both the various demihuman, cannibalistic creatures and "real people" who resided ...

1995, Isla: A Journal of Micronesian Studies:

... fact from the moment he first lays eyes on the demihuman M'ling, before he has any notion of Moreau or his surgical feats. "I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet — if the contradiction is credible — I ...

2002, Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:

We can watch this happen, on page and screen, in werewolves. We can safely say that the werewolf is a widespread figure, not exclusive to European mythology. But it is also not a generic manifestation of the global demihuman.

2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 207:

features of a thousand faces upon that awful head: human faces, demihuman, reptilian, serpentine, batrachian, vulpine. […]and many others for which I have no ready descriptive terms.

2009, Brian Stableford, The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 89:

Demihumans, like . . . yourself . . . the vampires . . . orcs, dwarves, trolls, demons, pixies, all of them have a stake in the fate of humanity . . .”

2010, Marc Mattaliano, The Demihuman Archives, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

(fantasy, mythology) A member of a human-like race; in fantasy, sometimes distinguished from the more bestial humanoid races.


earthlore

He even wondered what would happen to him when the sages of Tsath considered him drained dry of fresh facts; and in self-defence began to be more gradual in his talks on earth-lore, conveying whenever he could the impression of vast knowledge held in reserve.

1933, H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum:

Luca pulled thoughtfully at his lower lip. “You shouldn't have been able to hide from us before. We're aware of the whole world.” “My people still have the earthlore your kind — both of you — have forgotten.

Here Rhion read and studied through the rainy days of the marshlands winter and sometimes throughout the night: herb-lore and earth-lore and the deep magics of the moon and tides; the legends of the old realm of Sligo, going back two thousand years; […]

2011, Barbara Hambly, The Rainbow Abyss:

I will say that my comrade, the Doctor, did much to make it so, with his gentle fun, and his wide knowledge of earth-lore.

2013, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, R. M. Ballantyne, Stories of the Sea: 25 Classic Nautical Adventure Tales!:

(often fantasy) Knowledge, teaching, study, or science of the earth.


Mayhem Parva

Coined by Colin Watson with reference to the works of Agatha Christie. Compare place names such as Glen Parva, Ashby Parva, etc.

The archetypical sleepy English village that is the setting for many works of detective fiction.


Eldorado

Eldorado (nominative singular)
Eldorada (genitive singular)
Eldoradu (dative singular)
Eldorado (accusative singular)
Eldoradem (instrumental singular)
Eldoradzie (locative singular)
Eldorado (singular vocative)


толпар

tolpar (romanization)
толпар (absolute singular)
толпарҙар (absolute plural)
толпарҙың (definite genitive singular)
толпарҙарҙың (definite genitive plural)
толпарға (dative singular)
толпарҙарға (dative plural)
толпарҙы (accusative definite singular)
толпарҙарҙы (accusative definite plural)
толпарҙа (locative singular)
толпарҙарҙа (locative plural)
толпарҙан (ablative singular)
толпарҙарҙан (ablative plural)

ba-decl-noun

толпарҙарҙың

толпарҙарҙан

Cognate with Tatar тулпар (tulpar), Kazakh тұлпар (tūlpar), Kyrgyz тулпар (tulpar), Karachay-Balkar тулпар (tulpar), Kumyk тулпар (tulpar), Uzbek tulpor, Uyghur تۇلپار (tulpar), Khakas тулбар (tulbar, “winged horse”).

Ural-batyr (Bashkir folk epic):
Йондоҙ һымаҡ атылып, аҡбуҙ толпар атлығып күктән килеп төшкән, ти.
Yondoź hımaq atılıp, aqbuź tolpar atlığıp küktən kilep töşkən, ti.
Like a shooting star, a blue gray winged horse came down swiftly from the sky.

Tulpar, a winged horse in Bashkir mythology

ba:Толпар (осҡан ат)


Khăn Đỏ

[xan˧˧ ʔɗɔ˧˩]

[kʰaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˧˨]

[xaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˧˨]

[kʰaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˨˩˦]

[xaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˨˩˦]

Cô Bé Quàng Khăn Đỏ
Cô Bé Quàng Khăn Đỏ#Vietnamese

Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood#English

Short for Cô Bé Quàng Khăn Đỏ (“Little Red Riding Hood”). (the main character in this story)


Bạch Tuyết

[ʔɓajk̟̚˧˨ʔ twiət̚˧˦]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩ʔ twiək̚˦˧˥]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩˨ t⁽ʷ⁾iək̚˦˥]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 白雪, composed of 白 (“white”) and 雪 (“snow”)

vi-etym-sino

Nàng Bạch Tuyết và bảy chú lùn


Lọ Lem

[lɔ˧˨ʔ lɛm˧˧]

[lɔ˨˩ʔ lɛm˧˧]

[lɔ˨˩˨ lɛm˧˧]

lọ (“soot”) + lem (“to be blurred; to be contaminated”).

af

Cô bé Lọ Lem


Bạch Mã Hoàng Tử

[ʔɓajk̟̚˧˨ʔ maː˦ˀ˥ hwaːŋ˨˩ tɨ˧˩]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩ʔ maː˧˨ hwaːŋ˦˩ tɨ˧˨]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩˨ maː˨˩˦ waːŋ˨˩ tɨ˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 白馬 (“white horse”) and 皇子 (“imperial prince”), from Chinese 白馬王子／白马王子 (Bạch Mã Vương Tử).


Cô Bé Quàng Khăn Đỏ

[ko˧˧ ʔɓɛ˧˦ kwaːŋ˨˩ xan˧˧ ʔɗɔ˧˩]

[kow˧˧ ʔɓɛ˨˩˦ kwaːŋ˦˩ kʰaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˧˨]

[kow˧˧ ʔɓɛ˨˩˦ kwaːŋ˦˩ xaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˧˨]

[kow˧˧ ʔɓɛ˦˥ waːŋ˨˩ kʰaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˨˩˦]

[kow˧˧ ʔɓɛ˦˥ waːŋ˨˩ xaŋ˧˧ ʔɗɔ˨˩˦]

cô bé (“little girl”) + quàng (“to wear around the neck”) + khăn (“scarf”) + đỏ (“red”)


Thìn

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 辰 (“fifth earthly branch”, SV: thần). Some dictionaries (such as Thiều Chửu's) consider it as Sino-Vietnamese, but Thìn's /-in/ is unlikely to be a Sino-Vietnamese rhyme, compared to the likely one /-ən/ in thần. See also Tí, Mẹo, Ngọ, Mùi.

der

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


kết giới

[ket̚˧˦ zəːj˧˦]

[ket̚˦˧˥ jəːj˨˩˦]

[kəːt̚˦˥ jəːj˦˥]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 結界, from Japanese 結界, introduced in Japanese manga

(fiction, fantasy, manga, anime, video games) energy barrier/shield, forcefield


thổ địa

Journey to the West (1986 TV series)
Sun Wukong
Xuanzang

Short for Chinese 土地神 (thổ địa thần) or 土地公 (thổ địa công, literally “land lord; land duke”), popularized by the 1986 Chinese TV series Journey to the West, based on the way the main character Sun Wukong calls on "land spirits" for intel, usually on the local monsters that have kidnapped his master Xuanzang.

[tʰo˧˩ ʔɗiə˧˨ʔ]

[tʰow˧˨ ʔɗiə˨˩ʔ]

[tʰow˨˩˦ ʔɗiə˨˩˨]

(mythology, especially Chinese mythology or fiction) Tudigong


kết giới sư

[ket̚˧˦ zəːj˧˦ sɨ˧˧]

[ket̚˦˧˥ jəːj˨˩˦ ʂɨ˧˧]

[ket̚˦˧˥ jəːj˨˩˦ sɨ˧˧]

[kəːt̚˦˥ jəːj˦˥ ʂɨ˧˧]

[kəːt̚˦˥ jəːj˦˥ sɨ˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 結界師, from Japanese 結界師, introduced in the Japanese manga Kekkaishi

(fiction, fantasy, manga, anime) barrier master, kekkaishi


á thần

[ʔaː˧˦ tʰən˨˩]

[ʔaː˨˩˦ tʰəŋ˦˩]

[ʔaː˦˥ tʰəŋ˨˩]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 亞神, composed of 亞 (“sub-”) and 神 (“god”). The prefix 亞 denotes secondariness or lesserness rather than the notion of a demigod as a genealogical "half-god". Japanese 亜神 (ashin, “demigod”) and Japanese 亜人 (ajin, á nhân, “demihuman”) are also found in contemporary fantasy.

Hồ sơ á thần

(neologism, mythology, fantasy) Synonym of bán thần (“a demigod”)


graser

Acronym of Gamma Ray Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

acronym

The Russians are working on the graser. One B. V. Chirkov has published a theoretical study in the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. He thinks a very pure crystal, "pumped" with a powerful source of radiation (such a "hard" X rays), much as a ruby crystal is pumped with high-intensity light in one form of laser, could be stimulated to emit coherent gamma rays—pulses of high-energy radiation perfectly in step.

1964 February, Wallace Cloud, “Science newsfront”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 184, number 2, →ISSN, page 29:

Not lasers. Grasers. Gamma Ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

1974 October, Harlan Ellison, “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 47, number 4, page 59:

electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic radiation

(physics, science fiction) A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems.


soulbond

6 fans (11%) did not like to specify a genre but offered an alternative view of “common tropes” in fan fiction, such as: “The tropier, the better! Werewolves or A/B/O or soulbonds or time travel or coffeeshop AUs. […]

2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 59

This is amplified by the common use in a/b/o of the soulmate and soulbond tropes, where two characters are written as destined for each other on a biological level, resulting in near-irresistible mutual attraction and a special connection.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 97

And that's not even getting into some of slash's more science-fictional tropes: soulbonds and telepathy, interspecies relationships; male pregnancy.

2018, Francesca Coppa, “Slash/Drag: Appropriation and Visibility in the Age of Hamilton”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 191:

(fandom slang) A deep, lasting emotional or spiritual connection between two characters, typically of a psychic or magical nature.


Phong Thần

[fawŋ͡m˧˧ tʰən˨˩]

[fawŋ͡m˧˧ tʰəŋ˦˩]

[fɔŋ˧˧ tʰəŋ˦˩]

[fawŋ͡m˧˧ tʰəŋ˨˩]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 封神, literally "to assign for godship", short for Phong Thần Diễn Nghĩa, from Chinese 封神演義／封神演义 (Fēngshén Yǎnyì)

(colloquial) any work (TV series, video games, etc.) based on the novel


quaffle

A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.


mediafan

Your post is looking suspiciously like one of those litfan vs mediafan debates that are so incredibly stupid and pathetic and do nothing more than irritate people.

1998 June 9, Grant Watson, “Re: Godzilla - What a Turkey”, in aus.sf (Usenet), message-ID <357d206b.15155455@news.iinet.net.au>:

And I do know the difference between actors and the characters they play, unlike the usual mediafan stereotype (see GALAXY QUEST among many others).

2000 August 24, Matt G. Leger, “Re: TV science fiction [was Re: Beware of Slanted Fedora Cons!]”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <B5CA7EDE.A18D%mattleger@SPAMSUX.earthlink.net>:

I've never been starstruck by some of the actors I've met over the years, unlike so many local mediafen who fawn and grovel.

2006 April 5, Lloyd Penney, “ChatBack”, in Vegas Fandom Weekly, volume 2, number 17 (whole number #71), page 20:

Point is we weren't a pack of "mediafen barbarians", we were real, live, young litfans (and hardly any of us read any fantasy, were SF fans); but we were from the burbs and we were unfannish.

2014 January, Neil Williams, “Letters of Comment”, in Space Cadet, volume 12, number 1 (whole number #25), page 7:

(fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) A science fiction fan primarily interested in film and/or television.


Nô-bi-ta

[no˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ taː˧˧]

[now˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]

[now˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]

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(manga, anime) Nobita, the main character of the manga series Doraemon


سیاوش

head

سیاوش • (siyâvaš)

fa-proper noun

سیاوش • (siyâvaš)

desctree

→ Old Georgian: შიოშ (šioš), შიო (šio), სიაოშ (siaoš)
Georgian: შიოშ (šioš), შიოში (šioši), შიო (šio)
→ Armenian: Շիոշ (Šioš)
→ Middle Armenian: Բիուաբ (Biuab) (an incorrect transliteration due to orthographic confusion)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (syyʾwhš /siyāwaxš/), borrowed from Avestan 𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬀𐬥- (siiāuuaršan-, literally “having black stallions”). Akin to Parthian 𐫢𐫏𐫏𐫀𐫇𐫢 (šyyʾwš /siyāwaš/), Khwarezmian 𐿃𐾰𐾶𐿃 (šʾwš), Elamite 𒅆𒅀𒈥𒃻 (ši-ia-mar-šá), Old Armenian Շաւարշ (Šawarš), Arabic سِيَاوَش (siyāwaš).

der

𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬀𐬥-

a male given name, Siyavash, Siavash, or Syavash


Sở Khanh

[səː˧˩ xajŋ̟˧˧]

[ʂəː˧˨ kʰɛɲ˧˧]

[səː˧˨ xɛɲ˧˧]

[ʂəː˨˩˦ kʰan˧˧]

[səː˨˩˦ xan˧˧]

(literature) a character from Nguyễn Du's Tale of Kiều, who was infamous for cheating on women, including the title character, Thuý Kiều; he is usually considered the equivalent of Don Juan


taquião

[ta.kɪˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[taˈkjɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

(relativity) tachyon (hypothetical particle that travels faster than light)


táquion

Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of taquião.


South Park Republican

en-noun

South Park Republican (plural South Park Republicans)

Coined by commentator Andrew Sullivan in 2001.

(US politics, colloquial) A member of a generation of young people holding center-right political beliefs more or less aligned with those portrayed in the American animated television program South Park.


Eofandom

Coined by Jack Speer. Perhaps related to eolithic.

Eofandom, from about 1930 to 1933, existed before fandom became an entity; generally comprised of folk with no sense of group existence whose interests were in collecting stf and scientificomics, and who eagerly hunted down any items with any sort of stfnal significance. Such fanzines as Science Fiction Digest and The Comet were the mags of the day. Primitive trilobites crawled about on the ocean floor. Letter-writing was a major activity, and stfnists depended on hcs of the past as much as, or more than, prozines for sustenance.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Numerical Fandoms:

The Grennells were making their first visit to the home of the Scion of Eofandom in ten years, having last visited here in 1955 while the house was being built.

1966 November, Bob Tucker, “How I Plotted To Get DAG Flang”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 10:

A Fan History Lounge would be a great way to educate modern-day fans about Eofandom, fanac during World War II, and so on.

2009 November, John Purcell, “From the Hinterlands”, in Askance, volume 3, number 5 (whole number #17), page 21:

(dated, fandom slang) The earliest period of science fiction fandom (1930–1933).


Bụt

[ʔɓʊk͡p̚˨˩˨]

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 佛 (“Buddha”, SV: Phật), from Pali buddha (“awakened; enlightened”) or Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha). Doublet of Phật.
While originally (and still) denoted the Buddha, the popular depiction of a Bụt shifted to resemble more closely that of a stereotypical Taoist immortal instead.

der

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

vi-etym-sino

Ông Bụt bất ngờ hiện ra, hỏi: "Vì sao con khóc?"
Mr Bụt suddenly appeared and asked, "Why are you crying, my dear child?"

(folklore) a wise and kind old man, usually depicted with a white beard and white clothes, who often appears when the protagonist of a folkloric tale is crying aloud for help and who grants them wishes, comparable to the fairy godmother in Western fairy tales


film d'horreur

fr-noun

film d’horreur m (plural films d’horreur)

film d’ horreur (canonical masculine)
films d’horreur (plural)


phim kinh dị

[fim˧˧ kïŋ˧˧ zi˧˨ʔ]

[fim˧˧ kɨn˧˧ jɪj˨˩ʔ]

[fim˧˧ kɨn˧˧ jɪj˨˩˨]


سام

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćyaHmás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-mó-s (“black, dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness, shadow”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬁𐬨𐬀 (sāma, “black”), Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma). Related to سیاه (siyâh, “black”), and سیاوش (siyâvaš).


sabre de luz

(science fiction) lightsaber (sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light)


Micawber

A name likely coined by Charles Dickens, evidently reminiscent of common Irish, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic surnames starting with Mc-, Mac-, both from Old Irish macc (“son, child”) (see more there). For the second particle, compare names like Aubrey; similar surnames like M(a)cAubrey are attested around Dickens' time and thus Micawber may represent a dialectal variation.

As it is I see Destitution and Despair ahead of me, and have begun an epitaph in the Micawber style for my future grave in the precincts of my native County's jail.

1862, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Yale Edition of the Swinburne Letters, 1854-1869, Volume 1, Yale, published 1959, page 65:

... a state of feeling which I may perhaps best describe as the Micawber condition. If only gold would turn up! Gold might turn up any day! But as gold did not turn up, — then would not Providence be so good as to allow something else to turn up!

1873, Anthony Trollope, chapter XVI, in Australia and New Zealand, volume 2, B. Tauchnitz:

Micawbers far from home, they waited for something to turn up.

1887, William Tufts Brigham, chapter II, in Guatemala: the Land of the Quetzal: A Sketch, Scribner, page 30:

Austria was the Micawber of Europe. After all something might turn up.

1901, Walter Sichel, chapter X, in Bolingbroke and His Times, volume 1, London: Nisbet, page 419:

We are constantly being assured, not by one Mr. Micawber, but by three or four Mr. Micawbers, that something is on the point of "turning up." Yet nothing ever does turn up.

1928 August, Herman Klein, “The Operatic Situation”, in Gramophone:

His reason was no longer concern that the news might destroy her accord with what she was concentrating on, since that was no longer valid now, if it had ever been, and it was no longer the possibility that he might find something else before she would need to know, for that was not valid either now, since he had tried that and failed, nor was it the Micawber-like faith of the inert in tomorrow; it was partly perhaps the knowledge that late enough would be soon enough, but mostly (he did not try to fool himself) it was a profound faith in her.

1939, William Faulkner, The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem], Random House:

Only a year ago it would have needed a "super-Micawber" to be optimistic that the railways would once again pay their way. But it was no longer a pipe dream that B.R. could make a profit, the way to do it was now clear.

1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:

The Micawber rules of debt as ruin oppressed ministers as much as individuals.

2011, Edward Pearce, The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister, Random House:

A person who is poor but eternally optimistic, believing that "something will turn up", like the fictional character Wilkins Micawber in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.


marsling

From Mars + -ling, modelled after earthling.

And that the first communication and transaction between earthlings and marslings — or venusites or mercurians — would be a lumber deal.

1953, Crow's Forest Products Digest - Volume 31

An inhabitant or being from Mars; a Martian.


jaszczur

jaszczur (nominative singular)
jaszczury (nominative plural)
jaszczura (genitive singular)
jaszczurów (genitive plural)
jaszczurowi (dative singular)
jaszczurom (dative plural)
jaszczura (accusative singular)
jaszczury (accusative plural)
jaszczurem (instrumental singular)
jaszczurami (instrumental plural)
jaszczurze (locative singular)
jaszczurach (locative plural)
jaszczurze (singular vocative)
jaszczury (plural vocative)

From earlier jaszczór, from Proto-Slavic *aščerъ.


байка

ru-noun+

ба́йка • (bájka) f inan (genitive ба́йки, nominative plural ба́йки, genitive plural ба́ек, relational adjective ба́ечный, diminutive ба́ечка)

ба́йка (canonical)
bájka (romanization)
ба́йки (genitive)
ба́йки (nominative plural)
ба́ек (genitive plural)
ба́ечный (adjective relational)
ба́ечка (diminutive)
ба́йка (nominative singular)
ба́йки (nominative plural)
ба́йки (genitive singular)
ба́ек (genitive plural)
ба́йке (dative singular)
ба́йкам (dative plural)
ба́йку (accusative singular)
ба́йки (accusative plural)
ба́йкой (instrumental singular)
ба́йкою (instrumental singular)
ба́йками (instrumental plural)
ба́йке (prepositional singular)
ба́йках (plural prepositional)
ба́йка (dated nominative singular)
ба́йки (dated nominative plural)
ба́йки (dated genitive singular)
ба́екъ (dated genitive plural)
ба́йкѣ (dated dative singular)
ба́йкамъ (dated dative plural)
ба́йку (accusative dated singular)
ба́йки (accusative dated plural)
ба́йкой (dated instrumental singular)
ба́йкою (dated instrumental singular)
ба́йками (dated instrumental plural)
ба́йкѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ба́йкахъ (dated plural prepositional)


байка

uk-noun

ба́йка • (bájka) f inan (genitive ба́йки, nominative plural ба́йки, genitive plural ба́йок, relational adjective ба́єчний)

ба́йка (canonical)
bájka (romanization)
ба́йки (genitive)
ба́йки (nominative plural)
ба́йок (genitive plural)
ба́єчний (adjective relational)
ба́йка (nominative singular)
ба́йки (nominative plural)
ба́йки (genitive singular)
ба́йок (genitive plural)
ба́йці (dative singular)
ба́йкам (dative plural)
ба́йку (accusative singular)
ба́йки (accusative plural)
ба́йкою (instrumental singular)
ба́йками (instrumental plural)
ба́йці (locative singular)
ба́йках (locative plural)
ба́йко (singular vocative)
ба́йки (plural vocative)


новелла

ru-noun+

нове́лла//novɛ́lla

нове́лла • (novélla, novɛ́lla) f inan (genitive нове́ллы, nominative plural нове́ллы, genitive plural нове́лл)

нове́лла (canonical)
novélla (romanization)
novɛ́lla (romanization)
нове́ллы (genitive)
нове́ллы (nominative plural)
нове́лл (genitive plural)
нове́лла (nominative singular)
novélla (nominative singular)
novɛ́lla (nominative singular)
нове́ллы (nominative plural)
novélly (nominative plural)
novɛ́lly (nominative plural)
нове́ллы (genitive singular)
novélly (genitive singular)
novɛ́lly (genitive singular)
нове́лл (genitive plural)
novéll (genitive plural)
novɛ́ll (genitive plural)
нове́лле (dative singular)
novélle (dative singular)
novɛ́lle (dative singular)
нове́ллам (dative plural)
novéllam (dative plural)
novɛ́llam (dative plural)
нове́ллу (accusative singular)
novéllu (accusative singular)
novɛ́llu (accusative singular)
нове́ллы (accusative plural)
novélly (accusative plural)
novɛ́lly (accusative plural)
нове́ллой (instrumental singular)
нове́ллою (instrumental singular)
novélloj (instrumental singular)
novélloju (instrumental singular)
novɛ́lloj (instrumental singular)
novɛ́lloju (instrumental singular)
нове́ллами (instrumental plural)
novéllami (instrumental plural)
novɛ́llami (instrumental plural)
нове́лле (prepositional singular)
novélle (prepositional singular)
novɛ́lle (prepositional singular)
нове́ллах (plural prepositional)
novéllax (plural prepositional)
novɛ́llax (plural prepositional)

[nɐˈvɛɫ(ː)ə]


притча

при́тча • (prítča) f inan (genitive при́тчи, nominative plural при́тчи, genitive plural притч)

при́тча (canonical)
prítča (romanization)
при́тчи (genitive)
при́тчи (nominative plural)
притч (genitive plural)
при́тча (nominative singular)
при́тчи (nominative plural)
при́тчи (genitive singular)
при́тч (genitive plural)
при́тче (dative singular)
при́тчам (dative plural)
при́тчу (accusative singular)
при́тчи (accusative plural)
при́тчей (instrumental singular)
при́тчею (instrumental singular)
при́тчами (instrumental plural)
при́тче (prepositional singular)
при́тчах (plural prepositional)
при́тча (dated nominative singular)
при́тчи (dated nominative plural)
при́тчи (dated genitive singular)
при́тчъ (dated genitive plural)
при́тчѣ (dated dative singular)
при́тчамъ (dated dative plural)
при́тчу (accusative dated singular)
при́тчи (accusative dated plural)
при́тчей (dated instrumental singular)
при́тчею (dated instrumental singular)
при́тчами (dated instrumental plural)
при́тчѣ (dated prepositional singular)
при́тчахъ (dated plural prepositional)

[ˈprʲit͡ɕːə]

Inherited from Old East Slavic притъча (pritŭča, “incident”), from Proto-Slavic *pritъča (“incident, tale”). The meaning "tale" is likely a semantic loan from Old Church Slavonic притъча (pritŭča, “tale, parable”).


притча

uk-noun

при́тча • (prýtča) f inan (genitive при́тчі, nominative plural при́тчі, genitive plural притч)

при́тча (canonical)
prýtča (romanization)
при́тчі (genitive)
при́тчі (nominative plural)
притч (genitive plural)
при́тча (nominative singular)
при́тчі (nominative plural)
при́тчі (genitive singular)
притч (genitive plural)
при́тчі (dative singular)
при́тчам (dative plural)
при́тчу (accusative singular)
при́тчі (accusative plural)
при́тчею (instrumental singular)
при́тчами (instrumental plural)
при́тчі (locative singular)
при́тчах (locative plural)
при́тче (singular vocative)
при́тчі (plural vocative)


аждаһа

ajdaha (romanization)
аждаһа (absolute singular)
аждаһалар (absolute plural)
аждаһаның (definite genitive singular)
аждаһаларҙың (definite genitive plural)
аждаһаға (dative singular)
аждаһаларға (dative plural)
аждаһаны (accusative definite singular)
аждаһаларҙы (accusative definite plural)
аждаһала (locative singular)
аждаһаларҙа (locative plural)
аждаһанан (ablative singular)
аждаһаларҙан (ablative plural)

ba-decl-noun

аждаһаларҙың

аждаһаларҙан

From Persian اژدها (aždahâ, “dragon”),
from Parthian *aždahāk, from Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬁𐬐𐬀 (aži.dahāka), a serpent figure of Iranian mythology.


podfic

en-noun

podfic (countable and uncountable, plural podfics)

While smaller percentages (5 to 25 percent) participate in creating or listening to podfic (audio recordings of fan fiction), filk (fan music), or fan mixes (music playlists tailored to a source or fan work), […]

2013, Robin Brenner, "Teen Literature and Fan Culture", Young Adult Library Services, Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 2013, page 35

[…] they may role-play; they may craft collaborative narratives via blogs or microblogging sites such as Twitter, perhaps writing from the point of view of a character; they may record their stories as podfic; […]

2014, Karen Hellekson, “Fan fiction”, in Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, Benjamin J. Robertson, editors, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 188:

In her oral history, jinjurly (2012), who founded and maintains the Audiofic Archive, the largest online archive of podfic, describes podfic as the physicalization of fan fiction, which she acknowledges some fans find distasteful and off-putting.

2016, Abigail De Kosnik, Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, page 265:

(uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction read aloud and made into audio files available for streaming or download.


zombocalypse

The makers of "Zombieland" disagree though, and their film is an excellent argument that even the zombocalypse can be funny.

2009, Nate Knife, "'Zombieland' awakens laughter", Clarion (University of Denver), Volume 116, Issue 19, 6 October 2009, page 12

"Dawn of the Dead," the second and arguably best in Romero's canon, depicts survivors that try to wait out the zombocalypse in a monument to consumerism.

2009, Mike Riechers, "Dawn of the Dead", in "Frightful, funny films for Halloween", The Daily Cardinal (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 30 October 2009 - 1 November 2009, page 6

So we all expect that post zombocalypse earth will see us ditch our smartphones, […]

September 2014, Terrence Jarrad, “Hotware”, in PC PowerPlay, number 231, page 78:

(slang, horror) The breakdown of society as a result of a zombie outbreak.


παραμύθι

head

παραμύθι • (paramýthi) n (plural παραμύθια)

paramýthi (romanization)
παραμύθια (plural)
παραμύθι (nominative singular)
παραμύθια (nominative plural)
παραμυθιού (genitive singular)
παραμυθιών (genitive plural)
παραμύθι (accusative singular)
παραμύθια (accusative plural)
παραμύθι (singular vocative)
παραμύθια (plural vocative)

→ Romani: paramìsi

From Byzantine Greek παραμύθιν (paramúthin), from Ancient Greek παραμύθιον (paramúthion, from παρα- (para-, “by, with”) + μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + -ιον (-ion)).

inh

Το αγοράκι πρέπει να ακούσει παραμύθι να κοιμηθεί.

The boy needs to be told a fairy tale to go to sleep.

To agoráki prépei na akoúsei paramýthi na koimitheí.

fairy tale (folktale featuring fantasy characters)

Μας έλεγε παραμύθια για τα μέρη που δήθεν είδε.

He was telling us fairy tales about the places he supposedly saw.

Mas élege paramýthia gia ta méri pou díthen eíde.

(figuratively) fairy tale, tall tale (unrealistic story)


παραμύθι

→ Laz: პარამეთი (p̌arameti)

Inherited from Byzantine Greek παραμύθιν (paramúthin), from Ancient Greek παραμύθιον (paramúthion).


fanficcer

Shh! Quiet now, or you'll attract evil fanficcers who fancy they can wring a good psychodrama out of this. You don't want to attract evil fanficcers, do you?

2000 December 24, Namek-Lady Cegi, “Re: Is Piccolo His Own Uncle/Father?”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), message-ID <92545t$107$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:

LOL! Gotta admire you for sticking by your man, Eve. And look at the bright side of things: Every fandom has a canon whore, the one that fanficcers write into every compromising kama sutra sexual position paired with absolutely /everybody/ all the way down to the scum of the galaxy. And in the Stargate uni, the canon whore isn't Jack; it's Daniel.

2004 August 26, Pitcher Catcher, “Re: Jack is the one (Was: Daniel and Dunlap's disease....)”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet), message-ID <KWnXc.13445$sf3.8890@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>:

Many fanficcers were career professionals — lawyers, professors, scientists and teachers. Most of the ficcers participating in the study noted at the beginning of this chapter 'shipped at least one 'special' relationship, which they referred to as their OTP (One True Pairing). Still others challenged themselves to write stories without 'ships, and to write stories about many different 'ships.

2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 41:


moeblob

What really bugs me is that they changed Yotsuba's speech pattern. I don't want my favorite manga character to sound like a moeblob.

2009 September 14, José Manuel García-Patos, “Re: Yotsuba”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

I think it should have been qualified as "people who like K-on _because it has schoolgirls_". I liked K-on for the funny and slice-of-life parts. It was no Azumanga Daioh, but it had moeblobs AND writing.

2010 January 16, Megane, “Re: 2ch and the 2 types of otaku”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

A young girl is growing up in the town of Muhlenberg, somewhere in Germany (looks like it is based on Rothenburg from the end titles), but she is growing up without her parents. Her father never really gets a mention but it seems that her mother, a talented pianist, was killed a few years before the opening of this story and, as a result, Saga is now living with her grandmother. She is, however, NOT a moeblob.

2010 March 27, Chika, “Review - A Little Snow Fairy Sugar”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A moe character with a generic design and no defining personality traits.


brohoof

From bro + hoof, by analogy with brofist.

R.S. wears the gear to signal that he’s into ponies, he says. When he’s on campus, he’ll meet other fans and maybe even receive “a random brohoof on the street,” he says. (A brohoof is like a fist bump. A fist bump is like . . . oh, forget it.)

2012 April 6, Melody Wilson, “D.C. ‘bronies’ feel the love and friendship of ‘My Little Pony’”, in The Washington Post:

While other people look on with confused and strange looks, bronies are free to talk about a great show and brohoof all day long (A brohoof is a fist pump between bronies and/or pegasistahs).

2012, David C. Benson, "It's Okay to be a Brony", The Clock (Plymouth State University), Volume 57, Issue 20, Volume 57, 27 April 2012, page 11

My Little Pony is redefining manhood and that deserves a brohoof.

2014 March 19, Hugh Johnson, “Of bronies and men: Rethinking manliness”, in The Denver Post:

(My Little Pony fandom slang) A fist bump shared between fellow bronies to represent pony hooves.


Duneverse

I got the impression it was more how the major powers in the Duneverse exerted power than a power source in itself (hence why Mohiam didn't mention it in her little talk).

2003 January 25, Michael Bruner, “Re: CHOAM”, in alt.fan.dune (Usenet):

And all the Fans of Dune (the Novel) I know in real life have always agreed with me that the mini-series was much better than the movie in portaying^([sic]) the Duneverse.

2003 November 12, Thirsty Viking [username], “Re: Dune Slave -- Life of the Party -- Spoilers”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):

Given that all other current-day religions have turned into something unrecognizable in the Duneverse, it does seem a bit odd to have a "Rabbi" running around. But I haven't read the later Frank Herbert books, so it's possible he explained it there.

2006 April 22, Andrew Wheeler, “Re: Hunters of Dune - everybody is back from the dead, links to Earth?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Dune novels.


ملأك

ar-noun

مَلْأَك • (malʔak) m (plural مَلَائِك (malāʔik) or مَلَائِكَة (malāʔika))

مَلْأَك (canonical)
malʔak (romanization)
مَلَائِك (plural)
مَلَائِكَة (plural)
مَلْأَك (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَك (definite informal singular triptote)
مَلْأَك (construct informal singular triptote)
مَلْأَكٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
مَلْأَكُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
مَلْأَكًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
مَلْأَكٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
مَلْأَكِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلْأَكَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
مَلْأَكَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
مَلَائِك (ar-infl-a broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَة (ar-infl-a broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِك (ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote informal plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكَة (ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote informal plural triptote)
مَلَائِك (ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote informal plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَة (ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote informal plural triptote)
مَلَائِكُ (ar-infl-a broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَةٌ (ar-infl-a broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكُ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote nominative plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكَةُ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote nominative plural triptote)
مَلَائِكُ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote nominative plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَةُ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote nominative plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form diptote indefinite plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَةً (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form diptote indefinite plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَ (ar-infl-a broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَةٍ (ar-infl-a broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكِ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote genitive plural triptote)
الْمَلَائِكَةِ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite diptote genitive plural triptote)
مَلَائِكِ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote genitive plural triptote)
مَلَائِكَةِ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct diptote genitive plural triptote)

→ Abaza: мальаикь (malᶻaikʲ)

→ Abkhaz: амаалықь (amaaləkʲ)

desc

→ Adyghe: мэлэӏич (mɛlɛʼič)

→ Adyghe: мэлэӏич (mɛlɛʼič)

մալաք, մալախ

→ Armenian: մալաք, մալախ (malakʻ, malax)

→ Avar: малаик (malaik)

→ Azerbaijani: mələk

→ Chechen: малик (malik)

→ Classical Persian: مَلَک (malak)

→ Dargwa: малайк (malajk)

→ Farefare: malɛka

→ Fula: maleyka

→ Hausa: mala'ika

→ Ingush: малайк (malajk)

→ Javanese: ꦩꦭꦲꦺꦏꦠ꧀ (malaékat)

→ Kabardian: мэлэӏыч (mɛlɛʼəč)

→ Khwarezmian: ملك (mlk)

→ Kumyk: малайик (malayik)

→ Northern Kurdish: melek, milyaket

→ Lezgi: малаик (malaik)

→ Malay: malak, malaikat

Indonesian: malaikat

→ Maranao: mala'ikat

→ Moore: malɛka

→ Ngiti: màlàyikà

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: ملك (melek)
Turkish: melek
→ Albanian: meleq
→ Romanian: melec
→ Serbo-Croatian: mèlek／мѐлек

→ Swahili: malaika

Tooro: malaika

→ Tabasaran: малайик (malajik)

desc

→ Tat: малах

→ Tat: малах

→ Tausug: malāikat

→ Turkmen: melek

→ Yoruba: màlékà

Borrowed from Ge'ez መልአክ (mälʾäk, “messenger; angel”), the plural of which is መላእክት (mälaʾəkt), itself a calque of Aramaic מַלְאֲכָא / ܡܠܐܟܐ (malʾăḵā, “angel, messenger”) and Hebrew מַלְאָךְ (malʾā́ḵ, “angel, messenger”), closer in Tigrinya መልኣኽ (mälʾax), Amharic መልኣክ (mälʾak), መላክ (mälak) of which the plural is መላእክት (mälaʾəkt). Compare the root ل ء ك (l-ʔ-k) and لَأَكَ (laʔaka), أَلْأَكَ (ʔalʔaka, “to send as a messenger”), which was regularly used as the normal word for “to send” in Ge'ez ለአከ (läʾäkä) as well as in Ugaritic 𐎍𐎛𐎋 (lỉk), 𐎍𐎀𐎋 (lảk) for which the normal Arabic word is أَرْسَلَ (ʔarsala) upon which one has formed رَسُول (rasūl, “messenger; apostle; angel”), with the same pattern native Ge'ez ልኡክ (ləʾuk, “messenger; apostle; cantor”).

der

Aramaic מַלְאֲכָא


vidtape

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting as William Shatner), TekWar
She was standing in the center of their living room, wearing the same pale green fakesilk dress she'd had on in the vidtape. She looked fine now, though, not weary or ill.


Uriah Heep

A fictional character, Uriah Heep, in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.


super-herói

pt-noun

super-herói m (plural super-heróis, feminine super-heroína, feminine plural super-heroínas)

super-heróis (plural)
super-heroína (feminine)
super-heroínas (feminine plural)

(fiction) superhero (a hero with superpowers)


bòcan

head

bòcan m (genitive singular bòcain, plural bòcain)

bòcain (genitive singular)
bòcain (plural)

apparition, ghost, spectre, spirit, sprite


lajinmurha

lajinmurha (nominative singular)
lajinmurhat (nominative plural)
lajinmurha (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhat (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhan (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhat (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhan (genitive singular)
lajinmurhien (genitive plural)
lajinmurhain (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaa (partitive singular)
lajinmurhia (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassa (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissa (inessive plural)
lajinmurhasta (elative singular)
lajinmurhista (elative plural)
lajinmurhaan (illative singular)
lajinmurhiin (illative plural)
lajinmurhalla (adessive singular)
lajinmurhilla (adessive plural)
lajinmurhalta (ablative singular)
lajinmurhilta (ablative plural)
lajinmurhalle (allative singular)
lajinmurhille (allative plural)
lajinmurhana (essive singular)
lajinmurhina (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksi (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksi (plural translative)
lajinmurhatta (abessive singular)
lajinmurhitta (abessive plural)
lajinmurhin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lajinmurhani (nominative singular)
lajinmurhani (nominative plural)
lajinmurhani (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhani (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhani (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhani (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhani (genitive singular)
lajinmurhieni (genitive plural)
lajinmurhaini (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaani (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiani (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassani (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissani (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastani (elative singular)
lajinmurhistani (elative plural)
lajinmurhaani (illative singular)
lajinmurhiini (illative plural)
lajinmurhallani (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillani (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltani (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltani (ablative plural)
lajinmurhalleni (allative singular)
lajinmurhilleni (allative plural)
lajinmurhanani (essive singular)
lajinmurhinani (essive plural)
lajinmurhakseni (singular translative)
lajinmurhikseni (plural translative)
lajinmurhattani (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittani (abessive plural)
lajinmurhineni (comitative plural)
lajinmurhasi (nominative singular)
lajinmurhasi (nominative plural)
lajinmurhasi (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhasi (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhasi (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhasi (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhasi (genitive singular)
lajinmurhiesi (genitive plural)
lajinmurhaisi (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaasi (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiasi (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassasi (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissasi (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastasi (elative singular)
lajinmurhistasi (elative plural)
lajinmurhaasi (illative singular)
lajinmurhiisi (illative plural)
lajinmurhallasi (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillasi (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltasi (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltasi (ablative plural)
lajinmurhallesi (allative singular)
lajinmurhillesi (allative plural)
lajinmurhanasi (essive singular)
lajinmurhinasi (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksesi (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksesi (plural translative)
lajinmurhattasi (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittasi (abessive plural)
lajinmurhinesi (comitative plural)
lajinmurhamme (nominative singular)
lajinmurhamme (nominative plural)
lajinmurhamme (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhamme (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhamme (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhamme (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhamme (genitive singular)
lajinmurhiemme (genitive plural)
lajinmurhaimme (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaamme (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiamme (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassamme (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissamme (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastamme (elative singular)
lajinmurhistamme (elative plural)
lajinmurhaamme (illative singular)
lajinmurhiimme (illative plural)
lajinmurhallamme (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillamme (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltamme (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltamme (ablative plural)
lajinmurhallemme (allative singular)
lajinmurhillemme (allative plural)
lajinmurhanamme (essive singular)
lajinmurhinamme (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksemme (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksemme (plural translative)
lajinmurhattamme (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittamme (abessive plural)
lajinmurhinemme (comitative plural)
lajinmurhanne (nominative singular)
lajinmurhanne (nominative plural)
lajinmurhanne (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhanne (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhanne (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhanne (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhanne (genitive singular)
lajinmurhienne (genitive plural)
lajinmurhainne (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaanne (partitive singular)
lajinmurhianne (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassanne (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissanne (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastanne (elative singular)
lajinmurhistanne (elative plural)
lajinmurhaanne (illative singular)
lajinmurhiinne (illative plural)
lajinmurhallanne (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillanne (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltanne (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltanne (ablative plural)
lajinmurhallenne (allative singular)
lajinmurhillenne (allative plural)
lajinmurhananne (essive singular)
lajinmurhinanne (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksenne (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksenne (plural translative)
lajinmurhattanne (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittanne (abessive plural)
lajinmurhinenne (comitative plural)
lajinmurhansa (nominative singular)
lajinmurhansa (nominative plural)
lajinmurhansa (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhansa (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhansa (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhansa (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhansa (genitive singular)
lajinmurhiensa (genitive plural)
lajinmurhainsa (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaansa (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiaan (partitive plural)
lajinmurhiansa (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassaan (inessive singular)
lajinmurhassansa (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissaan (inessive plural)
lajinmurhissansa (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastaan (elative singular)
lajinmurhastansa (elative singular)
lajinmurhistaan (elative plural)
lajinmurhistansa (elative plural)
lajinmurhaansa (illative singular)
lajinmurhiinsa (illative plural)
lajinmurhallaan (adessive singular)
lajinmurhallansa (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillaan (adessive plural)
lajinmurhillansa (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltaan (ablative singular)
lajinmurhaltansa (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltaan (ablative plural)
lajinmurhiltansa (ablative plural)
lajinmurhalleen (allative singular)
lajinmurhallensa (allative singular)
lajinmurhilleen (allative plural)
lajinmurhillensa (allative plural)
lajinmurhanaan (essive singular)
lajinmurhanansa (essive singular)
lajinmurhinaan (essive plural)
lajinmurhinansa (essive plural)
lajinmurhakseen (singular translative)
lajinmurhaksensa (singular translative)
lajinmurhikseen (plural translative)
lajinmurhiksensa (plural translative)
lajinmurhattaan (abessive singular)
lajinmurhattansa (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittaan (abessive plural)
lajinmurhittansa (abessive plural)
lajinmurhineen (comitative plural)
lajinmurhinensa (comitative plural)

lajin (“of a species”) + murha (“murder”); formed analogously to the term kansanmurha (“genocide”)

compound

(science fiction) xenocide (genocide of an entire alien species)


Inspector Knacker

en-noun

Inspector Knacker (plural Inspector Knackers)

Coined by Private Eye as "Knacker of the Yard", a pun on knacker's yard and the practice of referring to Scotland Yard as the Yard.

You won't be smiling when Inspector Knacker pays you a visit.

However, just before he is discharged, the French ring up Inspector Knacker and say, "Look, I'm sorry we haven't made it in time, but we absolutely promise you that we will get it to you in another 48 hours, so please arrest this man again, as soon as he is discharged".

2003 June 18, Lord Goodhart, “Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Extradition Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 349:

Reid wants to be top of the cops, issuing orders to Inspector Knackers and James Bonds with criminals and terrorists in his sights.

2007 January 24, the Editor, “Secretary for Public Safety”, in The Mirror:

Please note: Inspector Knacker has been known to query applications by phone in the early hours NZ time, so forewarn your family, friends and flatmates that you are not the subject of an Interpol inquiry.

2008, Georgina Pallfey, Working and Living in New Zealand, page 129:

But, on this occasion, caution wisely stayed his hand and he confined himself to poisoning the Birdas coffee only, reasoning that wiping out an entire Conservative Party Association branch, while desirable from the point of view of most decent folk, might, unfortunately, have the countervailing disadvantage of attracting the attention of Inspector Knacker.

(UK, countable or uncountable) A generic police officer, or the police in general.


triângulo amoroso

pt-noun

triângulo amoroso m (plural triângulos amorosos, metaphonic)

triângulos amorosos (plural)
metaphonic (plural)

love triangle (situation in which two people vie for the love of a third)


遊俠

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (遊俠):
* → Vietnamese: du hiệp (遊俠)

/joʊ̯³⁵ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/jɐu̯²¹ hɐp̚²/

/jɐu̯²¹ haːp̚²/

/iu²⁴⁻²² kiap̚³²/

/iu¹³⁻²² hiap̚¹²¹/

/joʊ̯³⁵ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/jɐu̯²¹ hɐp̚²/

/jɐu̯²¹ haːp̚²/

/iu²⁴⁻²² kiap̚³²/

/iu¹³⁻²² hiap̚¹²¹/

Attested earliest as a compound noun in Han Feizi:
*
Also attested as a phrasal verb in Six Secret Teachings (六韜 (Liùtāo)):
*

Therefore, incompatible things do not coexist. For … to neglect the men who respect the superior and revere the law, and at the same time to maintain gangs of wandering cavaliers and self-seeking swordsmen: out of such incompatible acts, how can a state attain order and strength?

Han Feizi, circa 2ⁿᵈ century BCE, translated based on W. K. Liao's version

Gù bù xiàngróng zhī shì, bù liǎnglì yě....... Fèi jìngshàng wèifǎ zhī mín, ér yǎng yóuxiá sījiàn zhī shǔ. Jǔxíng rú cǐ, zhìqiáng bùkě dé yě.

故不相容之事，不兩立也。……廢敬上畏法之民，而養遊俠私劍之屬。舉行如此，治強不可得也。

故不相容之事，不两立也。……废敬上畏法之民，而养游侠私剑之属。举行如此，治强不可得也。

When the people are not engaged in agriculture and sericulture but instead give rein to their temper and travel about as bravados, disdaining and transgressing the laws and prohibitions, not following the instructions of the officials, it harms the king's transforming influence.

Six Secret Teachings, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on Ralph D. Sawyer's version

Mín yǒu bùshì nóngsāng, rènqì yóuxiá, fànlì fǎjìn, bùcóng lìjiào zhě, shāng wáng zhī huà.

民有不事農桑、任氣遊俠、犯歷法禁、不從吏教者，傷王之化。

民有不事农桑、任气游侠、犯历法禁、不从吏教者，伤王之化。


仙姑

/ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku⁵⁵/

/si̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ ku²⁴/

/siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kɔ⁴⁴/

/ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku⁵⁵/

/si̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ ku²⁴/

/siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kɔ⁴⁴/


wolfwoman

A female werewolf or female lycanthrope.


super-homem

Calque of German Übermensch. By surface analysis, super- + homem.

(fiction) superman (person of extraordinary or superhuman powers)


zumbificar

pt-verb

zumbificar (first-person singular present zumbifico, first-person singular preterite zumbifiquei, past participle zumbificado)

zumbifico (first-person present singular)
zumbifiquei (first-person preterite singular)
zumbificado (participle past)
zumbificar (impersonal infinitive)
zumbificar (first-person infinitive singular)
zumbificares (infinitive second-person singular)
zumbificar (infinitive singular third-person)
zumbificarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
zumbificardes (infinitive plural second-person)
zumbificarem (infinitive plural third-person)
zumbificando (gerund)
zumbificado (masculine participle past singular)
zumbificados (masculine participle past plural)
zumbificada (feminine participle past singular)
zumbificadas (feminine participle past plural)
zumbifico (first-person indicative present singular)
zumbificas (indicative present second-person singular)
zumbifica (indicative present singular third-person)
zumbificamos (first-person indicative plural present)
zumbificais (indicative plural present second-person)
zumbificam (indicative plural present third-person)
zumbificava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
zumbificavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
zumbificava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
zumbificávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
zumbificáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
zumbificavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
zumbifiquei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
zumbificaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
zumbificou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
zumbificamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
zumbificámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
zumbificastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
zumbificaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
zumbificara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
zumbificaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
zumbificara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
zumbificáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
zumbificáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
zumbificaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
zumbificarei (first-person future indicative singular)
zumbificarás (future indicative second-person singular)
zumbificará (future indicative singular third-person)
zumbificaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
zumbificareis (future indicative plural second-person)
zumbificarão (future indicative plural third-person)
zumbificaria (conditional first-person singular)
zumbificarias (conditional second-person singular)
zumbificaria (conditional singular third-person)
zumbificaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
zumbificaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
zumbificariam (conditional plural third-person)
zumbifique (first-person present singular subjunctive)
zumbifiques (present second-person singular subjunctive)
zumbifique (present singular subjunctive third-person)
zumbifiquemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
zumbifiqueis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
zumbifiquem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
zumbificasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
zumbificasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
zumbificasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
zumbificássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
zumbificásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
zumbificassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
zumbificar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
zumbificares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
zumbificar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
zumbificarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
zumbificardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
zumbificarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
zumbifica (imperative second-person singular)
zumbifique (imperative singular third-person)
zumbifiquemos (first-person imperative plural)
zumbificai (imperative plural second-person)
zumbifiquem (imperative plural third-person)
não zumbifiques (imperative negative second-person singular)
não zumbifique (imperative negative singular third-person)
não zumbifiquemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não zumbifiqueis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não zumbifiquem (imperative negative plural third-person)

(transitive, fiction, Brazil) to zombify (to turn into a zombie)


transmorfo

/tɾɐ̃ʒˈmɔʁ.fu/

[tɾɐ̃ʒˈmɔχ.fu]

/tɾɐ̃ʒˈmɔɾ.fu/

(fantasy) shape-shifter (a person who can change his shape)


オリジナルキャラクター

ja-noun

オリジナル キャラクター

original character (a fan-created character in a fanwork)


teleportar

pt-verb

teleportar (first-person singular present teleporto, first-person singular preterite teleportei, past participle teleportado)

teleporto (first-person present singular)
teleportei (first-person preterite singular)
teleportado (participle past)
teleportar (impersonal infinitive)
teleportar (first-person infinitive singular)
teleportares (infinitive second-person singular)
teleportar (infinitive singular third-person)
teleportarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
teleportardes (infinitive plural second-person)
teleportarem (infinitive plural third-person)
teleportando (gerund)
teleportado (masculine participle past singular)
teleportados (masculine participle past plural)
teleportada (feminine participle past singular)
teleportadas (feminine participle past plural)
teleporto (first-person indicative present singular)
teleportas (indicative present second-person singular)
teleporta (indicative present singular third-person)
teleportamos (first-person indicative plural present)
teleportais (indicative plural present second-person)
teleportam (indicative plural present third-person)
teleportava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
teleportavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
teleportava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
teleportávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
teleportáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
teleportavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
teleportei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
teleportaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
teleportou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
teleportamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
teleportámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
teleportastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
teleportaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
teleportara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
teleportaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
teleportara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
teleportáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
teleportáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
teleportaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
teleportarei (first-person future indicative singular)
teleportarás (future indicative second-person singular)
teleportará (future indicative singular third-person)
teleportaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
teleportareis (future indicative plural second-person)
teleportarão (future indicative plural third-person)
teleportaria (conditional first-person singular)
teleportarias (conditional second-person singular)
teleportaria (conditional singular third-person)
teleportaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
teleportaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
teleportariam (conditional plural third-person)
teleporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
teleportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
teleporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
teleportemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
teleporteis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
teleportem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
teleportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
teleportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
teleportasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
teleportássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
teleportásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
teleportassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
teleportar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
teleportares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
teleportar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
teleportarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
teleportardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
teleportarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
teleporta (imperative second-person singular)
teleporte (imperative singular third-person)
teleportemos (first-person imperative plural)
teleportai (imperative plural second-person)
teleportem (imperative plural third-person)
não teleportes (imperative negative second-person singular)
não teleporte (imperative negative singular third-person)
não teleportemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não teleporteis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não teleportem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From English teleport. By surface analysis, tele- + portar.

(fiction) to teleport (travel without physically crossing distance)


Ded Moroz

Borrowed from Russian Дед Моро́з (Ded Moróz, “Old Man Frost”).

bor

A fictional man in Slavic culture who delivers presents to children on New Year's Eve.


robot revolution

en-noun

robot revolution (plural robot revolutions)

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(science fiction) A violent uprising by sapient robots, aimed at overthrowing human government.


terraformação

(science fiction) terraforming (process of modifying a planet’s environment so it becomes similar to Earth’s)


visão de raios-X

(science fiction) X-ray vision (ability to see through solid matter)


Thronie

From throne + -ie, referencing the television series Game of Thrones.

It takes a special breed of fan to get up early for a 12-hour Game of Thrones marathon, but it takes a true "Thronie" to do it the morning after a midnight screening of The Hunger Games.

2012, Graham Templeton, "This throne's for you", Metro (Vancouver), 23 March 2012 - 25 March 2012, page 4

Back then, hard-core Thronies were probably still playing “The Rains of Castamere” on their lutes, […]

2014 June 16, Melissa Maerz, “'Game of Thrones' review: All men truly must die”, in Entertainment Weekly:

A diehard Thronie, as fans of the television fantasy series sometimes call themselves, the student from the Indian city of Chennai chides her fellow fans to gather for a group photo with the intertwining, enclosing trees of the Dark Hedges, the location for a brief but memorable scene from the series, as background.

2014 July 4, Vincent Boland, “‘Game of Thrones’ brings fantastical footfall to Northern Ireland”, in Financial Times:

(fandom slang) A fan of the American fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones. or the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire it is based on.


viagem no tempo

pt-noun

viagem no tempo f (plural viagens no tempo)

(chiefly science fiction) time travel (hypothetical or fictional travel to the past or future)


Black Peter

The companion of Saint Nicholas in Dutch folklore, depicted as a blackamoor.


supervillano

es-noun

supervillano m (plural supervillanos, feminine supervillana, feminine plural supervillanas)

supervillanos (plural)
supervillana (feminine)
supervillanas (feminine plural)

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines


pieśń

pl-noun

pieśń f (related adjective pieśniowy or (poetic, rare) pieśniany)

pieśniowy (adjective)
pieśniany (adjective poetic rare)
pieśń (nominative singular)
pieśni (nominative plural)
pieśni (genitive singular)
pieśni (genitive plural)
pieśni (dative singular)
pieśniom (dative plural)
pieśń (accusative singular)
pieśni (accusative plural)
pieśnią (instrumental singular)
pieśniami (instrumental plural)
pieśni (locative singular)
pieśniach (locative plural)
pieśni (singular vocative)
pieśni (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish pieśń, from Proto-Slavic *pěsnь. By surface analysis, piać + -śń.

song (literary genre of lyric poetry, with origins linked to rituals and music (folk songs, medieval songs); a lyric work divided into stanzas, usually on serious topics)


dandere

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Borrowed from Japanese ダンデレ (dandere), a portmanteau of 黙り (danmari, “keeping completely silent”), emphatic noun form of verb 黙る (damaru, “to be silent”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

A tsundere-type character will engender a hostile on the outside but sweet on the inside reaction towards the player, while a dandere will show little to know emotion except for subtle displays of affection.

2017, Luca Paolo Bruno, "Grand Narratives Blossom still: Character database and political narratives in the Muv Luv franchise", thesis submitted to Ca' Foscari University of Venice, page 13

The kuudere and dandere characters have more reserved personalities, hence those qualities are also reflected in their designs.

2019, Samneang Peo, "Visual Development Of A Visual Novel: Visual Storytelling in an Interactive Game", thesis submitted to South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, page 12

Then there is Yuri, the blue oni to Natsuki’s red oni, who is shy, cute, and literary but hides a maddening love for the player; she is the archetypical dandere character thought to emerge from the blue-haired Rei Ayanami of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion […]

2022 March, Christopher B. Patterson, “Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels”, in American Literature, volume 94, number 1:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A character archetype who stays silent, not expressing their feelings.


dragonlord

"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think. Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why then you're a dragonlord."

1970, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan:

(fantasy) One who has power over dragons.


robocop

From robo- + cop, after the film RoboCop (1987).

1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...
As the World Wars were succeeded by the Korean War, which melded into the Vietnam War, science fiction pictured numerous dystopias controlled by means of ever-watchful computer and robocops.

Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

(science fiction) A cyborg police officer.


高達

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tä³⁵/

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tä³⁵/

(Mainland China, Hong Kong) Gundam (Japanese animation franchise)


scientific romance

en-noun

scientific romance (countable and uncountable, plural scientific romances)

Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H. G. Wells was boiling over into scientific romance; and old romance was brought to life by the charm of Anthony Hope.

1921, Stephen McKenna, chapter II, in While I Remember:

(dated) Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


scientifictionist

I correspond with a great number of scientifictionists, and I know they have remarked to me a number of times that AMAZING STORIES ran letters of theirs nine or ten months after they had been submitted.

1933 April, Forrest J Ackerman, Amazing Stories, volume 8, number 1, page 88:

Professional editors like Palmer call all people who buy their magazines pretty regularly, fans; and indeed the term is so used by the scientifictionists who merely write letters to the editor and collect pro mags, but the fen of fandom have a more restricted meaning in mind.

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fan:

This is failure and the machine is worthless, except for "psychic research". Why, I can't see! So our hero smashes it and goes off to marry the faithful young woman. Make up your mind whether it is supposed to be a tragedy, but to a scientifictionist it definitely is.

1945 December, Michael Rosenblum, “What They Are About”, in Chanticleer, number 3, page 23:

By inviting authors to write a story around a perfectly meaningless piece of imagery by artist Paul, he discovered several useful contributors, not least among them the lady scientifictionist who, we are somewhat shocked to find, is now a grandmother.

1947 August-September, Thomas Sheridan, “The Feminine Touch”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 4, page 15:

(dated, fandom slang) A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.


Superwholock

Blend of Supernatural (U.S. TV series) + Doctor Who + Sherlock (TV series).

blend

This show is one of my favorites, so much so that even I am a part of the Superwholock fandom.

2013, Nicholas Howe, "TV with Nic: BBC's Sherlock", The SCC Challenge (Southeast Community College), Volume 28, Number 3, 14 February 2013, page 6

The nascent fandom of SuperWhoLock (a fandom of Supernatural, Doctor Who, and the BBC’s Sherlock) exemplifies this playfulness: fans mix and match texts to create unique fan texts outside what canon offers.

2013 April 29, Paul Booth, “Reifying the Fan: Inspector Spacetime as Fan Practice”, in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 11, number 2, page 151:

Gif fics are not proprietary to the SuperWhoLock fandom.

2013, Nistasha Perez, "Gif Fics and the Rebloggable Canon of SuperWhoLock", in Fan Phenomenon: Doctor Who (ed. Paul Booth), Intellect Books (2013), published 15 August 2013, page 152

(fandom slang) An amalgamate fandom of the television series Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock, often characterized by crossover fanworks with characters and plot elements from all three.


Britpick

en-verb

Britpick (third-person singular simple present Britpicks, present participle Britpicking, simple past and past participle Britpicked)

Britpicks (present singular third-person)
Britpicking (participle present)
Britpicked (participle past)
Britpicked (past)

(transitive, fandom slang) To review (a work of fiction intended to depict Britain or Britons) to ensure conformity to British English and accurate portrayal of British characters, settings, and culture.


underhalls

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casefic

...what should I read? Looking for casefics mostly, as viscerally horrifying as possible?

1999 July 13, A. K. Finch, “If I wanted to have trouble sleeping...”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

There are excellent Sherlock fics that focus on mysteries—Verity Burns' “The Green Mile” is among the best known and most successful case fics, incorporating as it does a compelling plot and extensive deduction scenes while also exploring the relationship between Sherlock and John.

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, unnumbered page:

The story is also a ‘casefic’, i.e. a story which revolves around the investigation of a crime: someone have been poisoning and killing alphas, and the resolution to the investigation turns out to have potentially groundbreaking consequences for Sherlock’s future, as well as for omegas in general.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 23

(fandom slang) A fanfic, typically based on a mystery or procedural franchise, which focuses on the solving of a case.


小綠人

ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄩˋ ㄖㄣˊ

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ly⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ly⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

(science fiction or humorous) little green man (space alien)

(geopolitics) little green man (soldier lacking identification as to create uncertainty around their allegiance)


A/N

(fandom slang) author's note; a note appended to a work of fan fiction by its author, typically containing acknowledgments, background information, or content warnings.


ŵyll

wylliaid (plural)
ŵyll
hŵyll (prothesis-h)


Janto

At end of the 3 min 50 sec clip, as his rage cools, Hitler says: "Maybe if Jack and Ianto have lots of man-on-man action next season I might still watch it… at least I’ll have my 'Janto' fix."

2008 May 23, Matthew Moore, “Torchwood attacked by Hitler in YouTube spoof”, in The Telegraph:

‘Janto’ fans will be delighted to finally see them on a date, complete with hand-holding and one good kiss.

2009 March, Naomi Westerman, book review, Whotopia, number 16, page 42:

Whether these stories revisit Janto or provide Jack with other (sexual) adventures, sexuality will remain a key element in the further development of (at least British-based) Captain Jack.

2010, Lynnette Porter, Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray on 21st Century, McFarland, →ISBN, page 70:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones from the television series Torchwood.


منوچهر

desc

→ Middle Armenian: Մանուչար (Manučʻar), Մանիչար (Maničʻar)

Armenian: Մանուչար (Manučʻar)

From Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬱𐬗𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (manušciθra). Akin to Old Armenian Մանաճիհր (Manačihr), an Iranian borrowing.

a male given name, Manuchehr, Manouchehr, or Manoochehr


TWT

Short for "time? what time?". Probably modelled on earlier PWP.

(fandom slang) A piece of fan fiction not set in any particular time period.


Mondler

Although we had yet another Chandler & Monica story, it nicely explored the hurdles faced by the couple, rather than being a Mondler story where Chandler's personality changes to match Monica's.

2000 November 24, Tennant Stuart, “Friends S6-21 - will Rachel be Chandler's mother?”, in uk.media.tv.friends (Usenet):

I'll grant you the "Mondler" stuff since their marriage has been mostly a disappointment, but the closet storyline shows promise in reversing the trend.

2002 February 20, Mibbitmaker [username], “Re: Happy Birthday Jennifer Aniston”, in alt.tv.snl (Usenet):

As far as teases go, the Go On creator was coy about what sort of shenanigans Perry and Cox will get into in a few weeks time, but for the loyal "Mondler" fans out there, there could be a major romantic moment.

2013 March 12, Philiana Ng, “'Go On' Creator Reveals Secrets Behind the 'Friends' Reunion Episode”, in The Hollywood Reporter:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of Monica Geller and Chandler Bing from the American sitcom Friends.


Dragonballer

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Hello, Dragonballers,
This issue of JUMP has a pretty good picture of Goku on cover, with Goku in profile in gold. Here goes the summary : […]

1993 April 18, e77-cg, “Dragonball Z Summary (comic)”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

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):

Expect to see Trekkies, Whovians and Potterheads co-mingling with Cumberbitches, Batmaniacs and Dragonballers.

2014, Lily Lieberman, "Techies and Trekkies Unite at Geek's Night Out", College Times, Volume 13, Issue 12, 13 February 2014 - 26 February 2014, page 19

(fandom slang) A fan of the manga and anime franchise Dragon Ball.


Gundamaniac

If Bandai does a decent animation of Gaia Gear or another Gundam sidestory, we definitely want you here. We Gundamaniacs can sometimes use all the help we can get. ^_^

1994 September 27, Keith Rhee, “Re: [MECHA!] Probe is Leaving for now.”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Some friends watched V Gundam. I didn't. Not enough of a Gundamaniac, me. 8b

1997 October 8, Donny Chan, “Re: The Merits of Gundam W”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

This isn't going to be an "americanized" Gundam, is it? The Gundamaniacs are going to go into full revolt if that happens.

1999 January 11, Kyle T. Pope, “Re: Anime deserves Hollywood remake”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan of the Japanese media franchise Gundam.


painstick

(science fiction) A weapon consisting of a baton capable of delivering a jolt of pain on contact with the body.


Digifan

This would be a very good thing for Digifans as Bandai Entertainment is generally considered one of the best anime producers out there.

2002 February 13, Matt Williamz, “Re: [OT] What's this about Digimon?”, in alt.fan.power-rangers (Usenet):

A big part of why most Digifans sicken me. They happily bitch about things "the dub ruined," without actually taking the time to do any of the research themselves.

2002 March 4, Eri-Bear [username], “Re: Regarding : (Spoilers) 3/2 Saturday Morning”, in alt.fan.power-rangers (Usenet):

Well, as has been repeated several times before, welcome, welcome, fellow Digifan.

2002 September 2, JMShearer, “Re: New here...”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan of the Japanese media franchise Digimon, particularly the anime series.


ironwoman

An extremely tough and strong female athlete.


Pokémania

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Teachers, who had vivid memories of the temporary insanity of POGS a few years earlier, said they'd never seen a craze to rival Pokémania.

2001, Kathleen McDonnell, Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age, Second Story Press, →ISBN, page 97:

It is one that reflects what I found to be the general attitude of American adults regarding the Pokémania that captivated U.S. youth for at least two years: that, though a popular fad of immense proportions, Pokémon (and through it Japan) influenced American youth in terms of their goals, actions, or attitudes in a way that was judged to be relatively benign.

2008, Anne Allison, “The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth”, in Yasushi Watanabe, David L. McConnell, editors, Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 105:

Launched on the wave of Pokémania was Viz's four-part manga The Electric Tale of Pikachu.

2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 48:

(informal) Passion for the Pokémon media franchise.


Dracula sneeze

From a likening of the positioning of the arm during such a sneeze to stereotypical depictions of the fictional vampire Dracula holding one side of his cape over his face, specifically from Bela Lugosi in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) and Tom Mason (double for Lugosi) in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).

Wang also encouraged the use of the "Dracula sneeze," or sneezing into the crease of your elbow as you bring your arm to your face.

2009 September 9, Patrick Cowles, “H1N1 plagues campuses”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 4, California State University, Fullerton, page 3:

Regarding prevention, the school has begun encouraging sick community members to use the “Dracula sneeze,” sneezing into their elbows to avoid getting germs on their hands and then onto doorknobs and plumbing fixtures.

2009, Jeremy B. Merrill & Russell M. Page, "Swine Flu Hogs Campus Spotlight", The Claremont Port Side (Claremont Colleges), Volume 7, Issue 1, October 2009, page 7

Use a closed fist or assume the Dracula sneeze pose to temper germ transmission.

2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 177:

(informal) The act of sneezing into the crook of one's elbow so as to help prevent the spread of germs.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi
Dracula
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Tom Mason (actor, born 1920)


little folk

(fantasy) Small magical humanoid creatures, such as elves, leprechauns, and fairies.


Batcape

From bat + cape, by analogy with Batman.

He had four months to make a special-effects extravaganza that had to make every want to wear a Batcape next Halloween.

1996, Nancy Griffin, Kim Masters, Hit & Run, page 168:

Tears streaming down the boy's face, though he was still hanging on, blanket flapping out like a Batcape.

2008, James Jauncey, The Witness, page 42:

Jamie was sitting in Daisy's cot next to her, wearing his new Batman outfit, back to front, attempting to tie his Batcape around his protesting baby sister.

2014, Maeve Haran, The Time of their Lives:

A cape, particularly one that resembles the long, black one worn by Batman.


Batnipples

The Batnipples are gone, but they should not be forgotten.

2012 August 5, Mason Krollig, “The Nipples that Batman Deserves, But Not the Ones He Needs Right Now”, in UniLife Magazine, number 20, University of South Australia, page 23:

As long as you don't get the George Clooney suit with the batnipples, you're golden.

2012 October 25, Tristan Cooper, “Cape down, sass up”, in Vanguard, volume 67, number 17, Portland State University, page 7:

Will the earth-inheriting geeks be assuaged that this super-suit is free of the Batnipples that helped make a mockery of George Clooney’s suit (“putting the ‘mocker’ in ‘Joel Schumacher’ since the mid-’90s”), which seemed to signal brightly, like some areola Borealis, that those Bat-films were troubled from the get-go, if not the get-up?

2014 May 13, Michael Cavna, “Ben Affleck’s Batman suit? Channing Tatum’s Gambit role? Welcome to the new (screen) world order…”, in The Washington Post:

(fandom slang) The molded nipples on the rubber suits worn by the characters Batman and Robin in the films Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.


scientificomic

Eofandom, from about 1930 to 1933, existed before fandom became an entity; generally comprised of folk with no sense of group existence whose interests were in collecting stf and scientificomics, and who eagerly hunted down any items with any sort of stfnal significance.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Numerical Fandoms:

(dated, fandom slang) A comic book in the genre of science fiction.


Batverse

In this hard-boiled version of the Batverse, the characters were gritty, tough and more realistic.

2011, Tyler Brown, "'Batman: Noel' a dark tale, reversion of old classic", Kansas State Collegian (Kansas State University), Volume 117, Number 64, 18 November 2011, page 5

So overall in my mind at least this is a great film, the best of the trilogy by far, and even though they say it is the end of this perticular storyline arc, I hope it isn't the end of Christopher Nolan's Batverse, as I would be one very sad person…

2012, Tim Knight, "The Dark Knight Rises", Amaze, 3 August 2012, Edition 5, page 117 (approx.)

It's a ballsy move to reject fan-favourite and mainstream recognisable elements of the Batverse such as Robin and The Joker, but fingers crossed Beware the Batman will finally return Bruce Wayne's animated shenanigans to the heights of the early 1990s.

2013 April, “A Midsummer's Dark Knight”, in Cult TV Times, number 00, page 3:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Batman comics, films, and television series.


czarny charakter

czarny charakter (nominative singular)
czarni charakterzy (nominative plural)
charaktery (derogatory nominative plural)
czarnego charaktera (genitive singular)
czarnych charakterów (genitive plural)
czarnemu charakterowi (dative singular)
czarnym charakterom (dative plural)
czarnego charaktera (accusative singular)
czarnych charakterów (accusative plural)
czarnym charakterem (instrumental singular)
czarnymi charakterami (instrumental plural)
czarnym charakterze (locative singular)
czarnych charakterach (locative plural)
czarny charakterze (singular vocative)
czarni charakterzy (plural vocative)

(idiomatic) bad guy (evil, wicked person)

(idiomatic) bad guy, villain (antagonist in a work of fiction)