OTP

Other common OTPs are Frodo/Sam and Aragorn/Legolas.

2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, page 179:

The 'shippers in the study asserted that they may enjoy reading stories about other 'ships, or stories without a 'ship […] but the stories they most enjoy are those about their OTP.

2013, Jennifer K. Stuller, Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 43:

Over Rico's shoulder, I see Claire biting her lip, wearing the look of a shipper watching her OTP interact.

2018, Britta Lundin, Ship It, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Initialism of one true pair (or pairing): the romantic pairing preferred by an author or reader of fan fiction.


D&D

(roleplaying games) Initialism of Dungeons & Dragons.


SS

Pokémon Sword and Shield
w:Pokémon Sword and Shield

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sword and Shield.


fey

en-noun

fey (countable and uncountable, plural fey or feys)

From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.


Rudolph

From German Rudolph, Rudolf (compare Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwulfaz).

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


OC

OC (countable and uncountable, plural OCs)

One point that almost always seems to be overlooked every time the Mary Sue issue comes up is that #*not* all original characters are Mary Sues. Although there are those who think OCs should be kept out of fanfic, it is possible and acceptable to write OCs into your stories without deifying them.

1999 October 28, Laura Taylor, “Re: Voyager Mary Sue Litmus Test”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Too often an OC tends to slip into a Mary Sue mould, but if it's well written, I have no problems with an OC as a protagonist of a fic.

2005 February 3, Don Sample, “Re: Are OC's the kiss-of-death in BtVS fanfics?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

For instance, one fan might create an OC or Original Character that does not exist in the primary media canon. Then, with that fan's permission (it is considered good form to request permission from the OC creator; however, this does not always happen) another fan may incorporate that OC into his or her texts.

2008, Rebecca W. Black, Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction, Peter Lang, published 2008, →ISBN, page 40:

original character
original character#English

(fandom slang) Initialism of original character.


Disney

English surname of Norman origin, from Old French de (“of, from”) + Isigny (a place in Calvados). For the placename, see Isigny-sur-Mer. In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.

Have you seen Disney's latest film?

The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney.

A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Wesley E. Disney.


Disney

Disney (nominative singular)
Disney-k (nominative plural)
Disney-t (accusative singular)
Disney-ket (accusative plural)
Disney-nek (dative singular)
Disney-knek (dative plural)
Disney-vel (instrumental singular)
Disney-kkel (instrumental plural)
Disney-ért (causal-final singular)
Disney-kért (causal-final plural)
Disney-vé (singular translative)
Disney-kké (plural translative)
Disney-ig (singular terminative)
Disney-kig (plural terminative)
Disney-ként (essive-formal singular)
Disney-kként (essive-formal plural)
Disney-ben (inessive singular)
Disney-kben (inessive plural)
Disney-n (singular superessive)
Disney-ken (plural superessive)
Disney-nél (adessive singular)
Disney-knél (adessive plural)
Disney-be (illative singular)
Disney-kbe (illative plural)
Disney-re (singular sublative)
Disney-kre (plural sublative)
Disney-hez (allative singular)
Disney-khez (allative plural)
Disney-ből (elative singular)
Disney-kből (elative plural)
Disney-ről (delative singular)
Disney-kről (delative plural)
Disney-től (ablative singular)
Disney-ktől (ablative plural)
Disney-é (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Disney-ké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Disney-éi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Disney-kéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
Disney-m (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Disney-jeim (or Disney-im) (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
Disney-d (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Disney-jeid (or Disney-id) (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
Disney-je (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Disney-jei (or Disney-i) (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
Disney-nk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Disney-jeink (or Disney-ink) (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
Disney-tek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Disney-jeitek (or Disney-itek) (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
Disney-jük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Disney-jeik (or Disney-ik) (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


Disney

Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.

un film della Disney


Disney

pl-prop

Disney m pers (related adjective disnejowski)

disnejowski (adjective)
Disney (nominative singular)
Disneya (genitive singular)
Disneyowi (dative singular)
Disneya (accusative singular)
Disneyem (instrumental singular)
Disneyu (locative singular)
Disneyu (singular vocative)

Walt Disney (American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur)

(metonymically) Disney (The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney)


Disney

(Brazil, slang, neologism) easy, comfortable, or favorable


Disney

(Brazil, slang, neologism) the state of forgetting something; blackout; oblivion


Disney

um filme da Disney

Estou indo para a Disney nas férias.


дракон

be-noun

драко́н<anml>

драко́н • (drakón) m animal (genitive драко́на, nominative plural драко́ны, genitive plural драко́наў)

драко́н (canonical)
drakón (romanization)
драко́на (genitive)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́наў (genitive plural)
драко́н (nominative singular)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́на (genitive singular)
драко́наў (genitive plural)
драко́ну (dative singular)
драко́нам (dative plural)
драко́на (accusative singular)
драко́наў (accusative plural)
драко́нам (instrumental singular)
драко́намі (instrumental plural)
драко́не (locative singular)
драко́нах (locative plural)
драко́ны (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

драко́н<anml>


дракон

bg-noun

дра́коновски

дра́кон • (drákon) m (relational adjective дра́конов or дра́коновски)

дра́кон (canonical)
drákon (romanization)
дра́конов (adjective relational)
дра́коновски (adjective relational)
дра́кон (indefinite singular)
дра́кони (indefinite plural)
дра́конът (definite singular subjective)
дра́коните (definite plural subjective)
дра́кона (definite objective singular)
дра́коните (definite objective plural)
дра́кона (count-form plural)
дра́коне (singular vocative)
дра́кони (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

дра́кон<(v)>

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κων (drákōn).


дракон

mk-noun

дракон • (drakon) m (plural дракони, relational adjective драконски)

drakon (romanization)
дракони (plural)
драконски (adjective relational)
дракон (indefinite singular)
дракони (indefinite plural)
драконот (definite singular unspecified)
драконите (definite plural unspecified)
драконов (definite proximal singular)
дракониве (definite plural proximal)
драконон (definite distal singular)
драконине (definite distal plural)
дракону (singular vocative)
драконе (singular vocative)
дракони (plural vocative)
дракона (count-form plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).


дракон

ru-noun+

драко́н • (drakón) m anim (genitive драко́на, nominative plural драко́ны, genitive plural драко́нов)

драко́н (canonical)
drakón (romanization)
драко́на (genitive)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́нов (genitive plural)
драко́н (nominative singular)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́на (genitive singular)
драко́нов (genitive plural)
драко́ну (dative singular)
драко́нам (dative plural)
драко́на (accusative singular)
драко́нов (accusative plural)
драко́ном (instrumental singular)
драко́нами (instrumental plural)
драко́не (prepositional singular)
драко́нах (plural prepositional)

→ Bashkir: дракон (drakon)

драко́нъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


дракон

uk-noun

драко́н<anml>

драко́н • (drakón) m animal (genitive драко́на, nominative plural драко́ни, genitive plural драко́нів)

драко́н (canonical)
drakón (romanization)
драко́на (genitive)
драко́ни (nominative plural)
драко́нів (genitive plural)
драко́н (nominative singular)
драко́ни (nominative plural)
драко́на (genitive singular)
драко́нів (genitive plural)
драко́нові (dative singular)
драко́ну (dative singular)
драко́нам (dative plural)
драко́на (accusative singular)
драко́ни (accusative plural)
драко́нів (accusative plural)
драко́ном (instrumental singular)
драко́нами (instrumental plural)
драко́нові (locative singular)
драко́ні (locative singular)
драко́нах (locative plural)
драко́не (singular vocative)
драко́ни (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

драко́н<anml>


tooth fairy

/ˈtuːθ ˌfɛə̯ɹi/

/ˈtuθ ˌfɛə̯ɹi/

Anna was concerned that telling her child about the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny would cause him to believe his mother was a liar later in life.

A figure of modern myth said to give children a small amount of money (or sometimes a present) in exchange for a milk tooth when it falls out of a child's mouth.

tandemuis

figure of modern myth said to give children a small amount of money in exchange for a milk tooth


challenger

Inherited from Middle English chalengere, chalangeour; equivalent to challenge + -er.

inh+

The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.

One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.

Debates are often unpredictable, but it is especially hard to game out how this debate featuring a moderate standard-bearer and a liberal challenger will unfold and how people will process it. Hundreds of thousands of viewers, if not millions, will have been personally affected by Sunday, as public gathering spaces are shuttered, schools are closed and on Thursday the stock market plunged by the largest percentage in decades (it snapped back upward on Friday).

2020, Shane Goldmacher, “Throw Out the Debate Playbook: Biden and Sanders to Clash Amid Crisis”, in The New York Times:

One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.


roman à clef

Borrowed from French roman à clef (literally “novel with a key”).

bor

I want to emphasize that in this respect my account of romance differs substantially from both Annabel Patterson's argument that the primary purpose of roman à clef in early modern England was to avoid censorship and Michael McKeon's […]

2007, A. Zurcher, Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics, Springer, →ISBN, page 9:

In the end, the fragmentary nature of the text and Dora's abrupt decision to terminate her treatment indicate that as a narrative technology, the roman à clef fails. This owes less to the particulars of the individual case, however, than to Freud's […]

2009, Sean Latham, The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

However, I would argue that this feature of the roman à clef need not be characterized as an impediment to interpretation. If the layered address contained in novels that encrypt references to the 'real' is acknowledged as itself a characteristic […]

2011, S. Nair, Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Writing Romans à Clef Between the Wars, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:

A piece of fiction, especially a novel, describing real-life people or events.


TARDIS

Coined in 1963 for the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who; said to stand for "Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space".

'While I was in the Rani's TARDIS, I made an adjustment or two.' He chuckled, remembering the occasion.

1986, Pip & Jane Baker, chapter 19, in The Mark of the Rani, page 129:

The Master's essence escapes his funeral urn and lands the TARDIS in San Francisco on December 30, 1999.

2000, Fraser A. Sherman, Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan, page 57:

I want the ground to swallow me up. I want to hide in a corner, curl up, and weep, sucking my thumb. I want the TARDIS to appear and take me away.

2004, Will Hadcroft, The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing up with Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed), page 16:

The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.


TARDIS

This unassuming Georgian terrace house, located within five minutes walk of the busy commercial and tourist heart of Bath in Somerset, is like a veritable TARDIS of astronomical history and discovery, with more to see on the inside than its [exterior suggests].

2008, in Astronomy Now, volume 22, issues 7–12, page 36

Alternative form of Tardis (something which resembles the bigger-on-the-inside time machine from the series Doctor Who).


quantum teleportation

en-noun

quantum teleportation (usually uncountable, plural quantum teleportations)

quantum entanglement
quantum entanglement

(quantum mechanics) the instantaneous transference of a quantum state to a distant location using quantum entanglement and the transmission of classical information


teleportation

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Coined by Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

إِنْتِقَال آنِي

process of moving matter from one point to another


quantum entanglement

quantum entanglement (countable and uncountable, plural quantum entanglements)

(quantum mechanics) A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.

ക്വാണ്ടം എൻടാംഗിൾമെന്റ്

kvāṇṭaṁ eṉṭāṅgiḷmenṟŭ


cheerleader

(chiefly US) A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.

rasieleier

person (usually female) who encourages applause


Lothario

/loʊˈθɛəɹioʊ/

Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man.

Coordinate term: Romeo

High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Schools and Schoolmasters”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 437:

He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold, / As much as 'gainst the blandishments paternal of the old; / But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby my ditty hangs) / That snowy-haired Lothario Lieutenant-General Bangs.

1919, Rudyard Kipling, “A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads:

So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity.

2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.


ETI

Ethical Trading Initiative
Extraterrestrial intelligence

Initialism of Ethical Trading Initiative.


cunny

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies)

(countable, fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli).

(countable, synecdochically) A child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive; a loli.

(uncountable, metonymically) Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).


dumb blonde

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Have you found the canonical list of dumb blonde jokes on the Internet yet?

My friends say she's a dumb blonde but they don't know she dyes her hair.

(derogatory) A common stereotype of a blonde as a woman with low intelligence.


reptilian

From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile.

More evolved than the Grays or Reptilians, the Humanoids seem to feel some sort of kinship with humans and are likely to be kind.[…] Some researchers believe the Grays are merely preparing the way for a full-scale invasion of Reptilian aliens.

2001, Caroline Tiger, The UFO Hunter’s Handbook: A Field Guide to the Paranormal, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

Such powerful human families would descend upon the reptilians themselves and they would be willing to do just anything to retain their power.

2010, Chico Penteado, Talking to the Reptilians-A Report from Brazil, →ISBN, page 11:

The reptilians are the creation of the Carians.

2011, Collin Robert Bowling, A New Order of the Ages, →ISBN:

Reptilians generally are envisioned as half snake, half human, and they are thought to have come from the Alpha Draconian star system.

2015, Marty Crump, Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.


extradimensional

(science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.

(science fiction) Coming from a world outside Einsteinian space-time.


spooky

en-adj

spooky (comparative spookier, superlative spookiest)

spookier (comparative)
spookiest (superlative)

(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.


utopian

utopian (comparative more utopian, superlative most utopian)

more utopian (comparative)
most utopian (superlative)

a utopian project

The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:


hey presto

(British) Used by stage magicians, when performing a magic trick.


Tweedle-dee

The names "Tweedledum" and "Tweedledee" first appeared in print in one of John Byrom's epigrams, which satirised the disagreements between Handel and Bononcini. They were made popular by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dum and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


Tweedle-dum

A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dee and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


aug

(science fiction) Clipping of augmentation.


empathy

en-noun

empathy (countable and uncountable, plural empathies)

A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

coin

(parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.


alicorn

Term already associated with unicorns and reinterpreted as a blend of Latin āla (“wing”) with unicorn, popularized by Bearing an Hourglass (1984) and other fantasy novels by Piers Anthony.

The Alicorn. He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden. For that steed I would give anything.

1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171:

A silver portal opens in the sky and a^([sic]) ebony alicorn stallion gallops from it the silver tips on his black wings shine in the sun's light.

1999 May 15, Twyligtsky <twyligtsky@aol.comSKYMAGE>, “Re: RP: First appearence!^([sic])”, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals (Usenet), message-ID <19990515145319.05236.00000939@ng-fs1.aol.com>:

Rarity: Why, you've become an alicorn! I didn't even know that was possible.
Pinkie Pie: [wearing a costume horn and wings] Alicorn party!

2013 February 16, M.A. Larson, “Magical Mystery Cure” (16:32), in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, season 3, episode 13, spoken by Rarity and Pinkie Pie (Tabitha St. Germain and Andrea Libman):

(nonstandard) A mythological creature, a mixture of pegasus and unicorn: a winged horse with a single horn on its head.


spectral

en-adj

spectral (comparative more spectral, superlative most spectral)

more spectral (comparative)
most spectral (superlative)

The spectral chain-rattling and moans gave me the chills.

The day itself was miserably dull; a thick fog shut out the landscape, while a few of the nearer trees alone were visible, spreading out their thin spectral arms on the murky air.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage Morning”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 202:

Agitated by a multitude of curious thoughts, I retired to my room, that night, prepared to encounter some new experience of a spectral character.

1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Ghost in Master B’s Room”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 27, column 2:

Of, or pertaining to, spectres; ghostly.


Teletubby

She spoke like the Teletubbies, behaved like a Teletubby, and seemed to live in this harmonious toddler phantasy world.

2007, Michael Günter, Playing the Unconscious, page 98:

They [wind turbines] turn pristine landscapes into Teletubby-style horror shows.

2012, James Delingpole, How To Be Right:

Any of the four color-coded tubby human-like TV insectoid larvae in the BBC children's television series Teletubbies.


griffon

Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

inh+

(mythology) griffin (legendary creature)


ghostly

en-adj

ghostly (comparative ghostlier, superlative ghostliest)

ghostlier (comparative)
ghostliest (superlative)

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).

cog

A ghostly hush fell.

Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:

His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 134:


Palookaville

From palooka (“a stupid or oafish person”) + -ville. Popularized in On the Waterfront (1954).

suffix

But what holds it is the working-class poetry of Derek Ahonen’s script, with the “broken down dreams” and a “gutter full of empty stomachs” of a hard-boiled era of soulful stiffs and dreamers going nowhere. It’s the speeded-up sound of a return trip to Palookaville.

2010 March 15, Jason Zinoman, “Dreams Die Hard, Even in Palookaville”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Ram’s descent plays out against a backdrop of New York as Palookaville, full of free-floating hostility and natives who spout movie-bred clichés.

2012 September 7, Rachel Saltz, “Living in a Material World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US) An imaginary town, the natural home of the mediocre and incompetent.


Zwerg

de-noun

Zwerg m (strong, genitive Zwerges or Zwergs, plural Zwerge, diminutive Zwergchen n or Zwerglein n, feminine Zwergin)

Zwerges (genitive)
Zwergs (genitive)
Zwerge (plural)
Zwergchen (diminutive neuter)
Zwerglein (diminutive neuter)
Zwergin (feminine)
Zwerg (nominative singular)
Zwerge (definite nominative plural)
Zwerges (genitive singular)
Zwergs (genitive singular)
Zwerge (definite genitive plural)
Zwerg (dative singular)
Zwerge (dative singular)
Zwergen (dative definite plural)
Zwerg (accusative singular)
Zwerge (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German twerc, from Old High German twerc, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
The development Middle High German tw- > modern German zw- is regular. Compare Dutch dwerg, English dwarf, Low German Dwarg, Danish dværg.


triton

Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).


gender bender

(by extension) An event where people are encouraged to dress in the clothes of another sex, even if they would normally not.

(fantasy) A person capable of changing their physical sex.

(fantasy) An instance of someone's physical sex being changed, usually via magic.


Triton

la-noun

Trītōn m (genitive Trītōnis); third declension

Trītōn (canonical masculine)
Trītōnis (genitive)
Trītōn (nominative singular)
Trītōnes (nominative plural)
Trītōnēs (nominative plural)
Trītōnis (genitive singular)
Trītōnos (genitive singular)
Trītōnum (genitive plural)
Trītōnī (dative singular)
Trītōnibus (dative plural)
Trītōna (accusative singular)
Trītōnem (accusative singular)
Trītōnas (accusative plural)
Trītōnēs (accusative plural)
Trītōne (ablative singular)
Trītōnibus (ablative plural)
Trītōn (singular vocative)
Trītōnes (plural vocative)
Trītōnēs (plural vocative)


helicopter parent

en-noun

helicopter parent (plural helicopter parents)

From the tendency to hover over their children's lives, like a helicopter.

A parent who pays an inordinate amount of attention to their children and often makes decisions, particularly educational ones, normally the province of the student.


Fu Manchu

The first book with the character was The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, from 1913.

A series of books by British author Sax Rohmer about a villain that sports a Fu Manchu moustache, and other media based on them, such as comic books and movies.


retrocognition

retrocognition (usually uncountable, plural retrocognitions)

/ˌɹɛtɹəʊkɒɡˈnɪʃən/

(parapsychology) extrasensory knowledge of past events.


extrasensory

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

Of or relating to extrasensory perception.

mimosmyslový

of or relating to extrasensory perception


extrasensory perception

/ˌɛkstɹəˈsɛnsəɹi pəˈsɛpʃən/

The supposed ability to obtain information without the use of normal sensory channels.


Narnia

Named by C. S. Lewis after the Latin name of the Italian town of Narni.

(fantasy) A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.


poder

Meu poder favorito é o teletransporte.

(science fiction) power; superpower (supernatural ability)


fanfic

fanfic (countable and uncountable, plural fanfics)

Russian: фа́нфик (fánfik)

Ukrainian: фанфі́к (fanfík)

Etymology tree
English fanatic
English fancyinflu.
English fan
English fiction
English fan fiction
English fanfic
Clipping of fan fiction.


fanfic

pt-noun

fanfic f or (uncommon) m (plural fanfics)

Unadapted borrowing from English fanfic.


sentient

en-adj

sentient (comparative more sentient, superlative most sentient)

more sentient (comparative)
most sentient (superlative)

From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.

Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.

2002, André Bormanis, “Silent Enemy”, in Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Jonathan Archer:

Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light.

2022 June 14, Toby Walsh, “Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines”, in The Guardian:

After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher[…]Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense.

2022 August 5, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

բանական

science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence


sentient

The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.

1965, Philip José Farmer, The Maker of Universes:

(loosely, chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.


destroyer

/dəˈstɹɔɪ.ɚ/

From destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.

(military) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.


cockatrice

First attested 1382 as Middle English cocatrice (“basilisk”), from Old French cocatriz, from Late Latin calcātrīx (“she who treads upon something”), from Latin calcō (“tread”), from calx (“heel, hoof”).

der

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 8:17:

(fantasy, folklore) A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched from a rooster, or cock's, egg.


gigant

gīgant (canonical masculine)
gīgant (nominative singular)
gīgantas (nominative plural)
gīgant (accusative singular)
gīgantas (accusative plural)
gīgantes (genitive singular)
gīganta (genitive plural)
gīgante (dative singular)
gīgantum (dative plural)

a giant (mythical being of superhuman size)


gigant

gigant (nominative singular)
giganci (nominative plural)
giganty (derogatory nominative plural)
giganta (genitive singular)
gigantów (genitive plural)
gigantowi (dative singular)
gigantom (dative plural)
giganta (accusative singular)
gigantów (accusative plural)
gigantem (instrumental singular)
gigantami (instrumental plural)
gigancie (locative singular)
gigantach (locative plural)
gigancie (singular vocative)
giganci (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) giant (Greek mythological creature)


Uranian

en-adj

Uranian (comparative more Uranian, superlative most Uranian)

more Uranian (comparative)
most Uranian (superlative)

Aphrodite Pandemos
Aphrodite Urania
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Louvre
Plato

From Latin Ūrania (“muse of astronomy in Greek mythology”) + -an (suffix forming agent nouns). Ūrania is derived from Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ (Ouraníā, “muse of astronomy”), from οὐράνιος (ouránios, “of or relating to the sky, celestial, heavenly”) (from οὐρανός (ouranós, “the sky; heaven, home of the gods; the universe”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers- (“rain”)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘pertaining to’).
The alternative form Ouranian is derived from Ancient Greek οὐράνιος (ouránios).
Adjective sense 2 (“homosexual”) and the noun sense (“a homosexual”) refer to Plato’s work Symposium (c. 385–370 B.C.E.), where the goddess Aphrodite, in her heavenly aspect Aphrodite Urania (see adjective sense 3) is described as inspiring a noble form of affection between older and younger men. Compare German Urning (“a homosexual, Uranian”), Urnigtum (“homosexuality”), also referring to Aphrodite Urania, coined by the German writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) in 1864. By the 1900s, the use of the word in this sense had largely been supplanted by homosexual (see further at that entry). The term is no longer mainstream and is almost never used in modern contexts, though it has enjoyed a slight revival as a term for "gay man" as an analogue to lesbian.

der

/jʊˈɹeɪnɪən/

Hence is that secret pardon we bestow / In the true instinct of the grateful heart, / Upon the Sons of Song. The good they do / In the clear world of their Uranian art / Endures for ever; while the evil done / In the poor drama of the mortal scene, / Is but a passing cloud before the sun; [...]

1853, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, “The Ideal World”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 317:

Hail thou! sole Muse that, in an age of toil, / Of all the old Uranian sisterhood, / Art left to light us o'er the furrowed soil, / Of this laborious star!

1859, Owen Meredith [pseudonym; Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton], “Epilogue”, in The Wanderer, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, part III, stanza I, page 424:

At first sight the winds would appear to be if anything Ouranian powers of the upper air, yet it seems that sacrifices to the winds were buried, not burnt.

1903, Jane Ellen Harrison, “The Anthesteria. The Ritual of Ghosts and Spirits.”, in Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 67:

[T]hose deities which are called ‘chthonic’ or earthly are, as a matter of fact, not in any sense deities of the earth. They are, in one of their aspects associated with the ‘underworld,’ but that underworld is but a segment of their cycle; they are deities of the underworld not because they appertain to the earth or are in any sense a personification of it, but because they are, on the contrary, heavenly bodies which, in the course of their cycle, pass under the earth. They are therefore just as much ‘uranian’ as are the Olympians.

1927, Robert Briffault, “The Great Mothers”, in The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 146–147:

If he [the Hindu god Varuna] cannot be classed exclusively among the "gods of the sky" he nevertheless has qualities proper to the ouranian divinities. He is visva-darsata, "everywhere visible", he "separated the two worlds", the wind is his breath; [...]

1991, Mircea Eliade, “The ‘God who Binds’ and the Symbolism of Knots”, in Philip Mairet, transl., Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Mythos paperback edition, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 96–97:

Conversely, Kenneth Anger's only widely released film since 1972, Lucifer Rising (1980), uses a megalithic temple (not Stonehenge) and a number of ancient Egyptian sites in a Crowleyan ritual hymn to chthonian and ouranian deities of power and light.

2002, P. Adams Sitney, “The End of the 20th Century”, in Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943–2000, 3rd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 417:

(comparable, literary, poetic) Celestial, heavenly; uranic.

uranien

celestial, heavenly — see also celestial, heavenly

To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble – more noble than other forms.

1898 February 18?, Oscar Wilde, “Letter to Robert Ross”, in Merlin Holland, Rupert Hart-Davis, editors, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 1019:

His [Plato's] Philosophical Eros is not the Uranian Eros which possessed the nation, and the Uranian doctrine is not primarily either philosophical or paederastic. It is a value attached to the masculine which included philosophy as masculine and paederasty when not anti-masculine, but was itself the idea and form of virtue.

1930, Arthur Lyon Raile [pseudonym; Edward Perry Warren], “The Uranian Idea”, in A Defence of Uranian Love, part the second (The Uranian Eros), [London]: Privately printed, →OCLC, pages 19–20:

Before these ideals would once again become available to "homosexuality" as a positive social identity, however, the Uranian modality of male love would be rejected by the avant-garde itself as an outworn fashion.

1994, Linda [C.] Dowling, “The Higher Sodomy”, in Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 134:

[Edward] Carpenter was disappointed by these meetings with [Walt] Whitman but began to integrate a positive homosexual view into his socialist writings. Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.

2003, Chuck Stewart, “Biographical Sketches”, in Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 138:

Through Veiled Eyes [by John Moray Stuart-Young, published in 1908] was produced by a specialist Uranian publisher for circulation to a specialist Uranian readership, and it required the audience to identify with an adult narrator who spends the bulk of one summer "grooming" an English boy for physical intimacy. This is the sexual scenario most likely to inspire public violence in contemporary Britain, [...] Set in the context of Uranian art, however, it is possible to regard this as a desire fated to be celibate, if only by the status of the angelic love object in the real world as a "real boy, grubby, ink-stained, insolent, uncomprehending of Uranian passion and rebuffing its smallest manifestations." Such a forgiving perspective is one of the few options available to literary critics wishing to avoid the discomfort of drawing biographical conclusions from the material produced by Uranian authors such as Stuart-Young.

2006, Stephanie Newell, “‘Uranian’ Love in West Africa”, in The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku (New African Histories), Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(comparable, literary, archaic) Homosexual; also, pederastic; relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys; (specifically) of poetry: conveying appreciation for young men.

For assuredly are there two Venuses; one, the eldest, the daughter of Uranus, born without a mother, whom we call the Uranian; the other younger, the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, whom we call the Pandemian;—of necessity must there also be two Loves, the Uranian and Pandemian companions of these goddesses. [...] [T]he attendant on the other, the Uranian, whose nature is entirely masculine, is the Love who inspires us with affection, and exempts us from all wantonness and libertinism.

a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Banquet. Translated from Plato.”, in Mrs. Shelley [i.e., Mary Shelley], editor, Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, … In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, published 1840, →OCLC, page 86:

That this is indeed the general tendency of his [Pausanias of Athens'] speech is made clear by two remarks that follow immediately upon his differentiating the Pandemian from the Uranian gods. [...] But what is true for Aphrodite seems to be a contradiction in terms: she is both one and two and all gods must be praised—both Uranian and Pandemian—and yet only the Uranian ought to be praised [...].

2010, Steven Berg, “Pausanias: Noble Lies and the Fulfillment of Greekness”, in Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment: On Plato’s Symposium (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Athens and Enlightenment), page 27:

(not comparable, Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the earthly aspect known as Aphrodite Pandemos: heavenly, spiritual.

Graced by nurses (art's nurse highly grac'd him) / Who fed him with pure marrow of the Muses; / And when he list, with moisture to refresh him, / He drunke cleare Helicon: cleare from abuses, / He bent his mind to pure Vranian vses, / Vranianie him did to heau'n vpreare: / And made to man, him demi-god appeare.

1600, Cyril Tourneur, The Transformed Metamorphosis, [London]: Printed by Valentine Sims, […], →OCLC; republished in John Churton Collins, editor, The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur: […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Chatto and Windus, […], 1878, →OCLC, page 213:

Actually, this little girl-child should have been as happy as a lark. But, she wasn't. This is because her Bengali genes had her continually wish to be a Sarasvati, or Uranian Muse, to all the males who came within her ambit – incessantly inspiring them to great works of Art or Scientific discoveries.

2007, Vivek Iyer, chapter 8, in Samlee’s Daughter: A Novel, Great Britain: Polyglot Publications, →ISBN, section I:

(not comparable, Greek mythology, dated) Relating to Urania, the Muse of astronomy.


Uranian

Aphrodite Pandemos
Aphrodite Urania
Louvre
Voyager 2

/jʊˈɹeɪnɪən/

[T]he fury of a fiery hot-brained Marsian, may kindle immediate and incessant wrangling and feuds; whilst a quiet placid Uranian, in his turn, may yet at times be excessively annoyed, ay, worried and tormented, by the tardiness, listlessness and inactivity of his dronish companion.

1839, A Fantastical Excursion into the Planets, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 172:

And obviously, since the year of the Uranians lasts 84 of our years, the continuance of the sun above the horizon would last for many years. [...] And as with the summer day, so with the winter night, years elapse before either comes to an end. For upwards of 20 years, in a latitude corresponding to that of London, the Uranians—if there are any—never see the small Uranian sun.

1872, Richard A[nthony] Proctor, “Uranus and Neptune, the Arctic Planets”, in Other Worlds than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches, 3rd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 171–172:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.


momma's boy

(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of mama's boy


suspense

(fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)


Siebenmeilenstiefel

de-noun

Siebenmeilenstiefel m (strong, genitive Siebenmeilenstiefels, plural Siebenmeilenstiefel)

Siebenmeilenstiefels (genitive)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (nominative singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (definite nominative plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefels (genitive singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (definite genitive plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (dative singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefeln (dative definite plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (accusative singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (accusative definite plural)

From sieben (“seven”) + Meilen (“miles”) + Stiefel (“boots”). In the German-speaking countries a mile was about 7.5 km (thus roughly 5 international miles).

compound

Als sie sich ungefähr drei Fuß über dem Wasserspiegel befand, ruderte ein Boot unter dieselbe, und dann ließ sich ein Siebenmeilenstiefel, dem ein zweiter Siebenmeilenstiefel und noch zwei weitere Siebenmeilenstiefel folgten, langsam ins Boot hinab.

When she was about three feet above the water's surface, a boat rowed underneath, and then a seven-mile boot, which a second seven-mile boot and then two more seven-mile boots followed, slowly came into the boat.

(folklore, fairy tales, often in the plural) a seven-league boot (one of a pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride)


seven-league boots

en-noun

seven-league boots pl (normally plural, singular seven-league boot)

The Count strode away as if he had secured seven-league boots, and in less time than it seemed possible, though it was an age to Lady Anne (...), he returned with two bank of England notes in his hand, which he put into the bailiff's, saying,—"There's your money for yourself and all. You have proper behavour, and will make no say of this littel matter."

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XL, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 211:

(folklore, fairy tale) A pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride.


Атлантида

mk-proper noun

Атланти́да • (Atlantída) f

Атланти́да (canonical)
Atlantída (romanization)

Ат‧лан‧ти‧да

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”).

bor+

Atlantis (mythical lost island and mythical continent)


Атлантида

ru-proper noun+

Атланти́да • (Atlantída) f inan (genitive Атланти́ды)

Атланти́да (canonical)
Atlantída (romanization)
Атланти́ды (genitive)
Атланти́да (nominative singular)
Атланти́ды (genitive singular)
Атланти́де (dative singular)
Атланти́ду (accusative singular)
Атланти́дой (instrumental singular)
Атланти́дою (instrumental singular)
Атланти́де (prepositional singular)

[ɐtɫɐnʲˈtʲidə]

Ат‧лан‧ти́‧да

From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”).


nóg

nóg (nominative singular)
nogi (nominative plural)
nogowie (nominative plural)
noga (genitive singular)
nogów (genitive plural)
nogowi (dative singular)
nogom (dative plural)
noga (accusative singular)
nogi (accusative plural)
nogowie (accusative plural)
nogiem (instrumental singular)
nogami (instrumental plural)
nogu (locative singular)
nogach (locative plural)
nogu (singular vocative)
nogi (plural vocative)
nogowie (plural vocative)

Possibly borrowed from Czech noh, or inherited from Proto-Slavic ultimately from Proto-Slavic *jьnogъ. First attested in 1528. Displaced by gryf.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nog”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]


sector

Sector (Star Trek)
Sector (instrument)
sector

(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.


DPP

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.


drow

en-noun

drow (countable and uncountable, plural drow)

A Shetlandic and Orcadian alteration of trow, most likely influenced by an unattested Norn *drog (“malevolent [undead] being”). Trow is derived from Norn troll, or otherwise from Old Norse trǫll. L-vocalisation occurred in the early 15th century in Middle Scots, so "trolly knolls" probably became *trowie knowes around this time. The supposed Norn *drog would have been derived from Old Norse draugr.

der

(fantasy roleplaying games, countable) A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.

constructed language
constructed language

(fantasy roleplaying games, uncountable) A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.

(rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.


mummy's boy

(chiefly UK) Alternative spelling of mama's boy


Rotkäppchen

de-proper noun

Rotkäppchen n (proper noun, strong, genitive Rotkäppchens)

/ˈʁoːtˌkɛpçən/

Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood


horror movie

(chiefly Canada, US) A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.

grilfliek

motion picture which horrifies or frightens


Mephistopheles

Apparently a corrupted Greek compound. The Greek particle of negation (μη (mi)) and the Greek word for love or loving (φίλος (fílos)) are the first and last terms of the compound but the middle term is more doubtful. For the middle term, three meanings have been noticed and three different etymologies have been proposed: 1) not loving light (φως (fos); the old form of the word being Mephostopheles), 2) not loving Faust, 3) akin to mephitic, a term which refers to the poisonous vapors arising from the earth in certain places destructive to human life.

Poison in my idle mind makes quick work for the Mephistopheles, / Who quickly makes his excuses

1989, Tim Smith (lyrics and music), “Fast Robert”, in On Land and in the Sea, performed by Cardiacs:

A fiendish person, especially one who tricks someone into following a destructive or disastrous course of action; a tempter.


sleeper

(science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.


tarnen

de-verb

tarnen (weak, third-person singular present tarnt, past tense tarnte, past participle getarnt, auxiliary haben)

tarnt (present singular third-person)
tarnte (past)
getarnt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
tarnen (infinitive)
tarnend (participle present)
getarnt (participle past)
tarne (first-person indicative present singular)
tarnen (first-person indicative plural present)
tarne (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnst (indicative present second-person singular)
tarnt (indicative plural present second-person)
tarnest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnt (indicative present singular third-person)
tarnen (indicative plural present third-person)
tarne (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
tarnten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
tarnte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
tarntet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
tarntest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
tarnten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
tarnte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarnten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarn (imperative second-person singular)
tarne (imperative second-person singular)
tarnt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest getarnt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe getarnt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tarnen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
getarnt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Early 20th century, a borrowing (inspired by older Tarnkappe) from Middle High German tarnen, from Old High German *tarnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *darnōn.


confidant

Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]

1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller, published 1808, page 223:

One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, - a power we lived to evade, - we had no confidants save ourselves.

1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:

Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.

2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.


steampunk

en-noun

steampunk (countable and uncountable, plural steampunks)

From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).

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There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.

1987 May, James Blaylock, Locus, volume 20, number 5 (#316 overall), page 57:

It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines.

2008 May 8, Ruth La Ferla, “Steampunk moves between 2 worlds”, in The New York Times:

The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.

2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57:

(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunku (genitive singular)
steampunku (dative singular)
steampunk (accusative singular)
steampunku (singular vocative)
steampunku (locative singular)
steampunkem (instrumental singular)

Ten styl se prý jmenuje steampunk, je to tak správně? Má to být obdoba viktoriánské gotiky.

2014, Klára Šumová, Hra na lež, Ostrava: Domino, translation of The Lying Game by Tess Stimson, page 97:

He says it's called steampunk. Is that right? Victorian Gothic. (Original English text.)

(singular only) steampunk, a subgenre of science fiction


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunkok (nominative plural)
steampunkot (accusative singular)
steampunkokat (accusative plural)
steampunknak (dative singular)
steampunkoknak (dative plural)
steampunkkal (instrumental singular)
steampunkokkal (instrumental plural)
steampunkért (causal-final singular)
steampunkokért (causal-final plural)
steampunkká (singular translative)
steampunkokká (plural translative)
steampunkig (singular terminative)
steampunkokig (plural terminative)
steampunkként (essive-formal singular)
steampunkokként (essive-formal plural)
steampunkban (inessive singular)
steampunkokban (inessive plural)
steampunkon (singular superessive)
steampunkokon (plural superessive)
steampunknál (adessive singular)
steampunkoknál (adessive plural)
steampunkba (illative singular)
steampunkokba (illative plural)
steampunkra (singular sublative)
steampunkokra (plural sublative)
steampunkhoz (allative singular)
steampunkokhoz (allative plural)
steampunkból (elative singular)
steampunkokból (elative plural)
steampunkról (delative singular)
steampunkokról (delative plural)
steampunktól (ablative singular)
steampunkoktól (ablative plural)
steampunké (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
steampunkoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
steampunkéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
steampunkokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
steampunkom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
steampunkjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
steampunkod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
steampunkjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
steampunkja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
steampunkjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
steampunkunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
steampunkjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
steampunkotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
steampunkjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
steampunkjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
steampunkjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

steampunk (subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th-century society)


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunku (genitive singular)
steampunkowi (dative singular)
steampunk (accusative singular)
steampunkiem (instrumental singular)
steampunku (locative singular)
steampunku (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English steampunk.

ubor

(film, science fiction) steampunk (sci-fi subgenre)


Capulet

Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the Italian Capuleti.

It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart. She did not know her Romeo was a Montague still less that to him she was a Capulet.

1913, Annabella Bruce Marchand, Dirk, a South African, page 198:

Still, despite Marshall's impression of a kind of Montague-Capulet feud, George Catlett did succeed in marrying Laura Emily, the daughter of Dr. Jonathan Bradford, and his sister, Margaret, married Laura's brother, Thomas.

1963, Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Education of a general, 1880-1939, page 8:

She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague.

2004, Scott Casper, Cardinal Sin: Tales of Alaska, War, and More, page 161:

That said, Capulet's skepticism has a sound rationale. She needs only one kind of thing, caloric fluid, to explain the movement and behavior of heat. Montague has posited two kinds of things, heat itself and heat radiation, each popping up to do the job it is good for and then conveniently metamorphosing into the other when that's what's needed instead.

2020, Michael Strevens, The Knowledge Machine:

Romeo and Juliet couple
Romeo and Juliet couple

(figuratively) A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.


Montague

en-proper noun

Montague (countable and uncountable, plural Montagues)


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine, named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.


monkfish

en-noun

monkfish (countable and uncountable, plural monkfish or monkfishes)

[The] monkfish is preceded by the “monstre Leonin” and followed by the “monstre marinen habit d'Evesque” (de Monstro Leonino and de pisce Episcopi habitu respectively). The creature represented in these works is a hybrid: his round and tonsured ...

2017, Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature: Essays (Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann), page 382


cerealogy

There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.

2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv:

Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.

2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor:

Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57:


shape-shifter

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) Alternative form of shapeshifter


älva

älva (indefinite nominative singular)
älvas (genitive indefinite singular)
älvan (definite nominative singular)
älvans (definite genitive singular)
älvor (indefinite nominative plural)
älvors (genitive indefinite plural)
älvorna (definite nominative plural)
älvornas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish ælf, from Old Norse alfr, from Proto-Germanic *albiz (“fairy, elf”).

A human-like creature from the Swedish mythology similar to an elf or fairy. She is often a young beautiful female, and can sometimes see her dancing in the mist. Feminine form of alv.


dystopian

en-adj

dystopian (comparative more dystopian, superlative most dystopian)

more dystopian (comparative)
most dystopian (superlative)

If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.

2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

In my book Britain has actually worked out how it wants to leave and the EU is preparing a new constitution as a result. The real Brexit is actually much more dystopian.

2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Tom Hillenbrand, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian:

He kept thinking about an episode of “Black Mirror,” the British dystopian anthology series, in which the characters rate everyone they interact with on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. (It doesn’t end well.)

2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times:

The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in an eerie quiet.

2023 June 7, Samira Asma-Sadeque, “‘It’s too much’: New Yorkers don masks or stay inside amid smog crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


strah

strȃh (canonical inanimate masculine)
strȃh (nominative singular)
strahȏva (dual nominative)
strahȏvi (nominative plural)
strahȗ (genitive singular)
strahóv (dual genitive)
strahóv (genitive plural)
strȃhu (dative singular)
strȃhi (dative singular)
strahȏvoma (dative dual)
strahȏvama (dative dual)
strahȏvom (dative plural)
strȃhȏvam (dative plural)
strȃh (accusative singular)
strahȏva (accusative dual)
strahȏve (accusative plural)
strȃhu (locative singular)
strȃhi (locative singular)
strahȏvih (dual locative)
strahȏvih (locative plural)
strȃhom (instrumental singular)
strahȏvoma (dual instrumental)
strahȏvama (dual instrumental)
strahȏvi (instrumental plural)
strȃh (singular vocative)
strahȏva (dual vocative)
strahȏvi (plural vocative)
strȃh (nominative singular)
strahȏva (dual nominative)
strahȏvi (nominative plural)
strȃha (genitive singular)
strahóv (dual genitive)
strahóv (genitive plural)
strȃhu (dative singular)
strȃhi (dative singular)
strahȏvoma (dative dual)
strahȏvama (dative dual)
strahȏvom (dative plural)
strȃhȏvam (dative plural)
strȃh (accusative singular)
strahȏva (accusative dual)
strahȏve (accusative plural)
strȃhu (locative singular)
strȃhi (locative singular)
strahȏvih (dual locative)
strahȏvih (locative plural)
strȃhom (instrumental singular)
strahȏvoma (dual instrumental)
strahȏvama (dual instrumental)
strahȏvi (instrumental plural)
strȃh (singular vocative)
strahȏva (dual vocative)
strahȏvi (plural vocative)

From Proto-Slavic *straxъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *strākš-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-.

strah je sredi votel, okoli ga pa nič ni

phantom, ghost (a scary mythical creature)


Snoopy

Some dogs will be back porch familiars — beagles with soulful, Snoopy eyes: Dalmatians with spots; bassets with mitten ears; Siberian huskies with wolfish voices; Collies that look just like Lassie.

1978 January 20, “A Day For Dogs And Dog Lovers”, in Milwaukee Journal:

My daughter calls these "Snoopy eyes" after the childlike presentation of the beagle in Schulz's cartoon Peanuts.

2005, Russell Dale Guthrie, The nature of Paleolithic art, page 93:

Mary Mann, another sophomore, sits on the roof of a red dog house, giving her most enigmatic Snoopy look.

2006 April 14, “Good Grief! A Student Musical.”, in The Virginian Pilot:

Being excessive or overzealous only gives the patient a surprised “Snoopy” look.

2009, Douglas Hamilton with Babak Azizzadeh, Beverly Hills Beauty Secrets, page 161:

Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz; often representing doggish soulfulness.


fluff

en-noun

fluff (countable and uncountable, plural fluffs)

From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,
of uncertain ultimate origin:
* Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”) - see flaw
* Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”).
* Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”).
For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”),Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

cog

And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.

2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 138

Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.

2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 67

Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.

2017, Carrie DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.


himbo

Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time.

‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title]

1991 August 12, Stuart Emmrich, “‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads”, in Adweek, volume 41, page 16:

[…] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.

2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(sometimes derogatory, slang) A physically attractive man who lacks intelligence; the male equivalent of a bimbo.


whump

By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.

2014, Joseph Brennan, “'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 4, page 365:

Narrative devices shared by Hannibal and fanfiction include “whump,” the vivid abuse and torture of a character, a popular convention across certain types of fanfiction: Graham is knocked out, shot, stabbed, gutted, sawed open, and subjected to induced seizures.

2018, Naja Later, “Quality Television (TV) Eats Itself: The TV-Auteur and the Promoted Fanboy”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 35, number 6, page 540:

However, further research with a larger sample and encompassing more fandoms would be necessary to confirm this potential explanation of this trend and to explore the impact of other factors, such as assigning characters a physical and/or mental disability or illness for the purpose of whump or hurt/comfort stories.

2019 April, Adrienne E. Raw, “Normalizing Disability: Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction”, in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, volume 8, number 2, pages 202–203:

(fandom slang) A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.


Incredible Hulk

en-noun

Incredible Hulk (plural Incredible Hulks)

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Named after the Incredible Hulk, a Marvel Comics Universe character with green skin.

A green-colored cocktail made with equal parts of the fruit liqueur Hpnotiq and Hennessy brand cognac poured over ice.


Julia

pl-proper noun

Julia f (male equivalent Juliusz, diminutive Jula or Julcia or Julka)

Juliusz (masculine)
Jula (diminutive)
Julcia (diminutive)
Julka (diminutive)
Julia (nominative singular)
Julie (nominative plural)
Julii (genitive singular)
Julii (genitive plural)
Julij (archaic genitive plural)
Julii (dative singular)
Juliom (dative plural)
Julię (accusative singular)
Julie (accusative plural)
Julią (instrumental singular)
Juliami (instrumental plural)
Julii (locative singular)
Juliach (locative plural)
Julio (singular vocative)
Julie (plural vocative)


elemental

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(chemistry) Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).

елементарен

relating to a chemical element, as opposed to a compound

Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 219:

The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.

2000, Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers, New York: Vintage Books, pages 79–80:

(by extension) Of, or relating to a force of nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.


elemental

Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 115:

(mysticism, fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.


elemental

(alchemy, folklore, mythology) elemental


brujería

From brujo + -ería. Akin to Portuguese bruxaria.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012isbn=9780316221801:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


black widow

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Any of several species of venomous and potentially deadly spiders, particularly Latrodectus spp..


changeling

/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒlɪŋ/

The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

suffix

[S]he, as her attendant, hath / A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: / She neuer had ſo ſweete a changeling.

[c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Every Lover admires his miſtris, though ſhee be very deformed of her ſelfe, [...] her feet ſtinke, ſhee breed lice, a meere changeling, a very monſter, [...]: if he loue her once, he admires her for all this, he takes no notice of any ſuch errors, or imperfections of body or minde.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes or Signes of Love Melancholy, in Body, Minde, Good, Bad, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 3, subsection 1, page 515:

Juſt as a Changeling ſeems below the reſt / Of Men, or rather is a two-legg’d Beaſt, / So theſe Gigantick Souls amaz'd we find / As much above the reſt of human kind.

1709, Earl of Murlgrave [i.e., John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, formerly Earl of Mulgrave], An Essay on Poetry, London: […] H. Hills, […], →OCLC, page 15:

It was easy enough to see that the child was a changeling, for it wasn't like other children at all it screamed and cried, as if a knife stuck in it, and it wheezed and hit about with its arms like a huldre-cat, and was as ugly as sin.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:

His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats [...]

1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, 8th edition, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 285:

(European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.

خائن

infant of a magical creature secretly exchanged for a human infant

(by extension, informal, rare) An infant secretly exchanged with another infant deliberately or by mistake; a swapling.

(fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.

To face the garment of rebellion / With ſome fine colour that may pleaſe the eye / Of fickle changlings and poore diſcontents, / Which gape and rub the elbow at the newes / Of hurly-burly innouation, [...]

c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Fal[staff]. [...] If you will lodge with me in Eaſtcheap, you ſhall ſee the thouſand pound fairly ſpent in ſack: you ſhall ſhare with me to the utmoſt farthing. But for dry reſtitution, I have not been accustom'd to it of many years. You would not have me a changeling at this time of day, I hope, Maſter Shallow. / Shal[low]. Changeling! no, Sir John, thou art no changeling; but, depend on it, I will not put up with this wrong. [...] I will have my money; depend on't I will have my money.

1760, [William] Kenrick, Falstaff’s Wedding: A Comedy. […], London: […] J. Wilkie, …, →OCLC, act II, scene vi, page 28:

What words are these have fall’n from me?
Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XVI, page 26:

(archaic, also figurative) A person apt to change their loyalty or thinking; a waverer.


bandit

en-noun

bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)

bandits (plural)
banditti (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.

Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy?

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:

One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.

強盗

がんどう, gandō, ごうとう, gōtō

(military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.

(sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.


bandit

en-verb

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)

bandits (present singular third-person)
banditing (participle present)
bandited (participle past)
bandited (past)

First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.

1921, Munsey's Magazine, volume 74, page 38:

As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.

1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 160, page 7:

(transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.


hillbilly

→ German: Hillbilly

→ Russian: хи́ллбилли (xíllbilli)

From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).

cog

Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.

2017, JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, →ISBN, page 21:

(ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.

metsäläinen

white person from the rural southern United States


comm

My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.

2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix:


eoten

Learned borrowing from Old English eoten. Doublet of ettin.

lbor

The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

1834, “The National Fairy Mythology of England”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 10, page 53:

In these manuscripts we are again in an atmosphere of eotens and trolls, there are traces of even older terrors, when the first Teuton settlers in Europe struggled with the aborigines who lived in caves[.]

1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, page 3:

A giant from Old English literature and mythology.


paranormal

en-adj

paranormal (comparative more paranormal, superlative most paranormal)

more paranormal (comparative)
most paranormal (superlative)

From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + normal; compare supernatural.

prefix

“We who study the paranormal always hope for strong readings with our equipment,” explains Nancy.

That (ostensibly) cannot be explained by what scientists know; supernatural; especially of or pertaining to ghosts, spirits, and supposed abilities like telepathy.

خارق للطبيعَة

cannot be explained by scientific methods


STAB

(fandom slang, Pokémon) A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).


Rapunzel

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Borrowed from German Rapunzel, the name of several varieties of lettuce.

A German fairy tale about a girl imprisoned in a tower who lets down her long hair for a rescuer to climb.

[…] as they loll in pairs or trios, looking down from the windows like Rapunzels and carpet-knights, while they eat bruised apricots, tomorrow is always on their lips as honey to come.

1966, Hal Porter, The Paper Chase, Angus and Robertson, page 90:

I spot Sleeping Beauty in a thorn forest. Two of them, only they are more like Rapunzels who’ve fallen from their tower.

2011, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta, Forge, →ISBN, page 172:

He keeps all three of us locked up like Rapunzels.

2020, Lauri Robinson, The Flapper’s Baby Scandal, Harlequin, →ISBN:

The fictional girl who is the protagonist and title character of the fairy tale.


Rapunzel

head

Rapunzel f (genitive Rapunzels or Rapunzel)

Rapunzels (genitive)
Rapunzel (genitive)

→ Arabic: رَابُونْزِل (rābūnzil)

→ Armenian: Ռապունցել (Ṙapuncʻel)

→ English: Rapunzel

→ French: Raiponce (calque)

→ Greek: Ραπουνζέλ (Rapounzél)

desc

→ Hebrew: רפונזל, רפונצל

→ Hebrew: רפונזל, רפונצל

→ Italian: Raperonzolo (calque)

→ Japanese: ラプンツェル (Rapuntseru)

→ Korean: 라푼첼 (Rapunchel)

→ New Latin: Rapuncula (calque)

→ Esperanto: Rapunkolo

→ Marathi: रॅपुन्जेल (rĕpunjel)

→ Persian: راپانزل (râpânzel), راپونزل (râpunzel)

→ Polish: Roszpunka (calque)

→ Portuguese: Rapunzel

→ Russian: Рапу́нцель (Rapúncelʹ)

→ Spanish: Rapunzel

→ Thai: ราพันเซล (raa-pan-sel)

→ Turkish: Rapunzel

Probably borrowed from 16th century Italian raponzolo, dialectal diminutive of Italian rapa (“turnip”), from Latin rāpa, from the neuter plural of rāpum.

Rapunzel, the long-haired protagonist of an eponymous fairy tale


Rapunzel

[χa.pũˈzɛʊ̯]


X-Phile

1995, Ngaire Genge, The Unofficial X-Files Companion: An X-Phile's Guide to the Mysteries, Conspiracies, and Really Strange Truths Behind the Show, Crown Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN:

1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227,
And that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile.

2003, Robynn J. Stilwell, "The sound is ‘out there’: score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files", in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70,
The X-Files – as any X-Phile could tell you – divides into two kinds of episodes: the mythology shows, which further the overarching plot of Mulder’s search for the truth that is ‘out there’ about the US government conspiracy to conceal the alien presence; and the stand-alone shows.

My involvement in coffee connoisseur (Kozinets, 2002), Star Trek fan (2001) and X-Phile (1997) communities was high.

2006, Robert V. Kozinets, “Netnography 2.0”, in Russell W. Belk, editor, Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:

(fandom slang) A fan of the television series The X-Files.


人物

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (人物):
* → Japanese: 人物(じんぶつ) (jinbutsu)
* → Korean: 인물(人物) (inmul)
* → Vietnamese: nhân vật (人物)

/jɐn²¹ mɐt̚²⁻³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ mɐt̚²/

/ŋin¹¹ ʋut̚⁵/

/d͡zin¹³⁻²² but̚¹²¹/

/lin²⁴⁻²² but̚²⁴/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ mueʔ⁴/

/n̠ʲin²² vəʔ⁴⁴/

/jɐn²¹ mɐt̚²⁻³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ mɐt̚²/

/ŋin¹¹ ʋut̚⁵/

/d͡zin¹³⁻²² but̚¹²¹/

/lin²⁴⁻²² but̚²⁴/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ mueʔ⁴/

/n̠ʲin²² vəʔ⁴⁴/

(art) figure painting; painting of a person; portrait


AD&D

w:Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

(roleplaying games) Initialism of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.


bad boy

Many school music teachers and directors are not primarily clarinetists and, knowing little of the subtle intricacies of this "bad boy" of instruments, can teach little more than the fingering.

1949 November-December, Floyd E. Low, “Keep that pitch UP!”, in The Instrumentalist, volume 4, Association for the Advancement of Instrumental Music, page 38:

[…] he groaned as he twisted his arm over his head to follow the groove to the right wheel well, "if this bad boy connects right there, then it can't be a light."

1988, Writers Forum, numbers 14-17, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs:

So isn't it time you took this bad boy for a test drive?

1992 November 16, “The POWERstation 220: Here today. More tomorrow. [Advertisement]”, in InfoWorld, volume 14, number 46, page 137:

“Oh yeah,I remember, you already bagged one of those bad boys backin the city.”Sal chuckled.

2014, David Vengley, Mars Base Red Seven, →ISBN:

This bad boy wasn't shy in letting us know either, as three of us struggled to pull it ashore. Again, it felt totally bizarre to be physically straining every sinew to drag a massive dangerous animal towards me.

2016, Max Dickins, My Groupon Adventure, →ISBN, page 93:

(slang) A powerful or impressive product or item.


Ewok

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in 1983 from the syllabic reverse of Wookiee. The name first appeared in the end titles of the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

coin

Those vampire-wanna-bes, who are actually cute in a Ewok/troll doll sort of way, pick their teeth nightly after a six-course wing fling.

2000, Lori Torrance, Tea for Texas: A Guide to Tearooms in the State, page 15:

Tripping a walker the size of a house is difficult but not impossible. You will need high-tensile wire and suitably grounded posts. Ask your Ewok friends for help.

2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury,, →ISBN, page 134:

My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].

2007, Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller: A Novel, page 434:

She looked like a little plump Ewok, standing with Big Foot.

2008, Grace Octavia, His First Wife, Dafina Books,, →ISBN, page 30:

It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray:

A member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures.


goblin

From Middle English gobelyn, from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”). Displaced native Old English pūca from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”).

inh

From yͤ hagg & hungry Goblin,
yͭ into raggs would rend yee,
& yͤ spirit yͭ stand’s by yͤ naked man,

c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

"[…]If he had struck a stroke more to the side just here," said the goblin, tapping the very stone, as it seemed to Curdie, against which his head lay, "he would have been through; but he's a couple of yards past it now, and if he follow the lode it will be a week before it leads him in.[…]"

1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, page 50:

At last the goblins had a chance to rid themselves of one of the troublesome defenders, and two goblin warriors snatched the opportunity.

2006, Charlotte Bishop, Norty: The Chosen Ones, page 187:

The goblin shifted the two younger ones closer to him. It looked like he was hiding behind them, using them as a shield.
The goblin looked pure evil. His eyes were brown.

2010, Thom L. Nichols, War: Return of the Elves, Part 1, page 37:

I shall send another entourage of goblins back here to Desput with the goblins’ new ally the Pixy! These creatures deserve the same respect as any other goblin.

2010, D. S. Macleod, The Middle Times: Rise of the Goblin King, page 229:

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

(fantasy) A malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.

iratxo

hostile diminutive humanoid in fantasy literature


goblin

goblin (nominative singular)
gobliny (nominative plural)
goblina (genitive singular)
goblinów (genitive plural)
goblinowi (dative singular)
goblinom (dative plural)
goblina (accusative singular)
gobliny (accusative plural)
goblinem (instrumental singular)
goblinami (instrumental plural)
goblinie (locative singular)
goblinach (locative plural)
goblinie (singular vocative)
gobliny (plural vocative)

(fantasy) goblin (hostile diminutive humanoid in fantasy literature)


simurgh

(Iranian mythology) A gigantic winged benevolent creature.


naiad

From Latin Naias, from Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás, “naiad”), from νάω (náō, “to flow”).

(Greek mythology) A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.


gen

(fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.


gen

en-verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

gens (present singular third-person)
genning (participle present)
genned (participle past)
genned (past)

Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

(science fiction) To genetically engineer.


chronoscope

/ˈkɹɒnəˌskəʊp/

(science fiction) A device able to directly view other times, past or future.


infernal

en-adj

infernal (comparative more infernal, superlative most infernal)

more infernal (comparative)
most infernal (superlative)

celestial

antonym(s) of “of or relating to hell, underworld or fire”

From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno + -al.

Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.

جَحِيمِيّ

of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish

(by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.

infernaal

by extension: of or relating to a great fire or inferno


heroína

es-noun

heroína f (plural heroínas, masculine héroe, masculine plural héroes)

heroínas (plural)
héroe (masculine)
héroes (masculine plural)

Borrowed from Latin hērōīna, from Late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē).


gangster

From gang + -ster. First attested in 1884.

عُضْو فِي عِصَابَة

ʕuḍw fī ʕiṣāba


tin can

For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do

1969, David Bowie (lyrics and music), “Space Oddity”:

(science fiction, slang) A metal spaceship or space station.