Snamione

Pairing names are often portmanteaus of characters' names, although fans may not always agree on the forms that these amalgamations take — the Snape/Hermione ship, for example, may be called Snamione, Sevmione, Snermione or Snanger, depending on the preferences of the fans who participate in it.

2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 279:

Therefore, it is logical that the selected trope will more often be used in fics which have a non-normative ship: fandomstats relays that, within the EWE tag, some of the most prolific ships include Drarry, Dramione (Draco/Hermione, not a slash ship but still one that does not conform with Rowling’s normative ideas as it contains Draco, an antagonistic character), and ships involving Snape, including Snamione and Snarry.

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 120

And the love bred a shameful number of Snamione fanfics in the coming years.

2021, Leighann Hart, “About the Author”, in Loving Rosenfeld, Crooked Hart Press, LLC, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hermione Granger and Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series.


there is no war in Ba Sing Se

From the episode "City of Walls and Secrets" of the American animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, aired on September 22, 2006, in which the corrupt officials of the city Ba Sing Se try to keep order by hypnotizing citizens to believe that "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" even as the city is being besieged.

When something is wrong, and people seem to be ignoring it, we'll often say, "there is no war in Ba Sing Se."

[2020 July 19, Rich Knight, “Why Avatar: The Last Airbender Fans Have Issues With M. Night Shyamalan's Movie”, in CinemaBlend, archived from the original on 2022-12-27:

Today, I'm negotiating with myself: You have tacos in a meal kit box that's arriving in a couple of days, so at least you won't have to wait long. And burgers are good. You like apples, especially Granny Smith. Pork and apple burgers are what you want. Relax, there is no war in Ba Sing Se... Wow, my burgers are so good and exactly what I wanted!

2021 April 27, “A Week In Edmonton, AB, On A $61,000 Salary”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

The LinkedIn page is pretty creepy with terms like "Giving employees the best work environment they'll never know with our patented and extremely safe Severance procedure." It gives off "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" vibes […]

2022 March 22, Dean Daley, “Severance's Lumon Industries has its own LinkedIn page”, in MobileSyrup, archived from the original on 2022-04-14:

At the very least, even if there is no patch, we now know that they're stating that they're aware of the problem, which contrasts the previous 'there is no war in Ba Sing Se' approach that they were taking.

2022 December 1, Ryan Pearson, “Nintendo Backtracks On Claim They Didn't Hear Of Performance Issues In 'Pokémon Scarlet & Violet' And Releases Much-Needed Patch”, in Bounding Into Comics, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

There is no war in Ba Sing Se, and there are no lesbians in China.

2022 December 16, Andy Golder, “23 Screenshots Of People Being Wrong, Wrong, Wrong In 2022”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:

(Internet slang, occasionally sarcastic) Nothing is going on; everything is under control; it is business as usual (suggesting that important information is being covered up).

Avatar: The Last Airbender
City of Walls and Secrets


zmiennokształtny

zmiennokształtny (nominative singular)
zmiennokształtni (nominative plural)
zmiennokształtnego (genitive singular)
zmiennokształtnych (genitive plural)
zmiennokształtnemu (dative singular)
zmiennokształtnym (dative plural)
zmiennokształtnego (accusative singular)
zmiennokształtnych (accusative plural)
zmiennokształtnym (instrumental singular)
zmiennokształtnymi (instrumental plural)
zmiennokształtnym (locative singular)
zmiennokształtnych (locative plural)
zmiennokształtny (singular vocative)
zmiennokształtni (plural vocative)

(fantasy, science fiction) changeling, shape-shifter


попаданец

ru-noun+

попада́нец • (popadánec) m anim (genitive попада́нца, nominative plural попада́нцы, genitive plural попада́нцев, feminine попада́нка)

попада́нец (canonical)
popadánec (romanization)
попада́нца (genitive)
попада́нцы (nominative plural)
попада́нцев (genitive plural)
попада́нка (feminine)
попада́нец (nominative singular)
попада́нцы (nominative plural)
попада́нца (genitive singular)
попада́нцев (genitive plural)
попада́нцу (dative singular)
попада́нцам (dative plural)
попада́нца (accusative singular)
попада́нцев (accusative plural)
попада́нцем (instrumental singular)
попада́нцами (instrumental plural)
попада́нце (prepositional singular)
попада́нцах (plural prepositional)

попа́сть (popástʹ) + -а́нец (-ánec)

af

попа́сть (popástʹ) + -а́нец (-ánec)


otherlandish

en-adj

otherlandish (comparative more otherlandish, superlative most otherlandish)

more otherlandish (comparative)
most otherlandish (superlative)


niziołek

niziołek (nominative singular)
niziołki (nominative plural)
niziołka (genitive singular)
niziołków (genitive plural)
niziołkowi (dative singular)
niziołkom (dative plural)
niziołka (accusative singular)
niziołki (accusative plural)
niziołkiem (instrumental singular)
niziołkami (instrumental plural)
niziołku (locative singular)
niziołkach (locative plural)
niziołku (singular vocative)
niziołki (plural vocative)

(fantasy) halfling, hobbit (fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction)


Dungeons & Dragoner

en-noun

Dungeons & Dragoner (plural Dungeons & Dragoners)

And looking out from the Lookout were the Dungeons & Dragoners he’d phoned a half hour earlier.

1982, William Kotzwinkle, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, London: Sphere Books Limited, →ISBN, page 235:

This disgusted the other students, all of them: those engaged in African American pride, the brainiacs from decent homes, even the burnouts, who shared a tiny patch of brownish lawn with the Dungeons & Dragoners.

2007, Jennifer Blowdryer, “Style Your Own Damn Self”, in Michelle Tea, editor, It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 270:

“Students here cover a spectrum,” muses a senior, including “preppy pop-collars, hardcore hippies, emo punk rockers, jocks, semi-goths, and Dungeons & Dragoners.”

2008, Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue, the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008, twenty-fourth edition, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 129:

(rare) A player of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.


эльфийский

ru-adj

эльфи́йский • (elʹfíjskij)

эльфи́йский (canonical)
elʹfíjskij (romanization)
эльфи́йский (masculine nominative)
эльфи́йское (neuter nominative)
эльфи́йская (feminine nominative)
эльфи́йские (nominative plural)
эльфи́йского (genitive masculine neuter)
эльфи́йской (feminine genitive)
эльфи́йских (genitive plural)
эльфи́йскому (dative masculine neuter)
эльфи́йской (dative feminine)
эльфи́йским (dative plural)
эльфи́йского (accusative animate masculine)
эльфи́йское (accusative neuter)
эльфи́йскую (accusative feminine)
эльфи́йских (accusative animate plural)
эльфи́йский (accusative inanimate masculine)
эльфи́йские (accusative inanimate plural)
эльфи́йским (instrumental masculine neuter)
эльфи́йской (feminine instrumental)
эльфи́йскою (feminine instrumental)
эльфи́йскими (instrumental plural)
эльфи́йском (masculine neuter prepositional)
эльфи́йской (feminine prepositional)
эльфи́йских (plural prepositional)

эльф (elʹf, from English elf) + -ский (-skij).

af

from English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">elf</i>

(fantasy) Related to elves; elven; elvish.

Эльфи́йские ру́ны

(fantasy) Related to any fictional language used by elves.


эльфийский

ru-noun+

эльфи́йский • (elʹfíjskij) m inan (genitive эльфи́йского, uncountable)

эльфи́йский (canonical)
elʹfíjskij (romanization)
эльфи́йского (genitive)
эльфи́йский (nominative singular)
эльфи́йского (genitive singular)
эльфи́йскому (dative singular)
эльфи́йский (accusative singular)
эльфи́йским (instrumental singular)
эльфи́йском (prepositional singular)

Эльфи́йский тако́й тру́дный язы́к.

(fantasy) "Elvish" language; any fictional language used by a race or culture of elves.

an Elvish language from Tolkien's writings


fėja

fė́ja (canonical feminine)
fė́jà (nominative singular)
fė́jos (nominative plural)
fė́jõs (genitive singular)
fė́jų̃ (genitive plural)
fė́jai (dative singular)
fė́jóms (dative plural)
fė́ją (accusative singular)
fė́jàs (accusative plural)
fė́jà (instrumental singular)
fė́jomìs (instrumental plural)
fė́jojè (locative singular)
fė́josè (locative plural)
fė́ja (singular vocative)
fė́jos (plural vocative)


haldjas

head

haldjas (genitive haldja, partitive haldjat)

haldja (genitive)
haldjat (partitive)
haldjas (nominative singular)
haldjad (nominative plural)
haldjas (accusative nominative singular)
haldjad (accusative nominative plural)
haldja (accusative genitive singular)
haldjad (accusative genitive plural)
haldja (genitive singular)
haldjate (genitive plural)
haldjat (partitive singular)
haldjaid (partitive plural)
haldjasse (illative singular)
haldjatesse (illative plural)
haldjaisse (illative plural)
haldjas (inessive singular)
haldjates (inessive plural)
haldjais (inessive plural)
haldjast (elative singular)
haldjatest (elative plural)
haldjaist (elative plural)
haldjale (allative singular)
haldjatele (allative plural)
haldjaile (allative plural)
haldjal (adessive singular)
haldjatel (adessive plural)
haldjail (adessive plural)
haldjalt (ablative singular)
haldjatelt (ablative plural)
haldjailt (ablative plural)
haldjaks (singular translative)
haldjateks (plural translative)
haldjaiks (plural translative)
haldjani (singular terminative)
haldjateni (plural terminative)
haldjana (essive singular)
haldjatena (essive plural)
haldjata (abessive singular)
haldjateta (abessive plural)
haldjaga (comitative singular)
haldjatega (comitative plural)

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *haltijas, from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᛚᛞᛁᛃᚨᛉ (*haldijaʀ). Compare Finnish haltija.

elf (magical, typically forest-guarding creature)


realizm magiczny

realizm magiczny (nominative singular)
realizmu magicznego (genitive singular)
realizmowi magicznemu (dative singular)
realizm magiczny (accusative singular)
realizmem magicznym (instrumental singular)
realizmie magicznym (locative singular)
realizmie magiczny (singular vocative)

Literally, “magical realism”. Calque of German magischer Realismus.


muinasjutt

muinasjutt (genitive muinasjutu, partitive muinasjuttu)

muinasjutu (genitive)
muinasjuttu (partitive)
muinasjutt (nominative singular)
muinasjutud (nominative plural)
muinasjutt (accusative nominative singular)
muinasjutud (accusative nominative plural)
muinasjutu (accusative genitive singular)
muinasjutud (accusative genitive plural)
muinasjutu (genitive singular)
muinasjuttude (genitive plural)
muinasjuttu (partitive singular)
muinasjutte (partitive plural)
muinasjuttusid (partitive plural)
muinasjuttu (illative singular)
muinasjutusse (illative singular)
muinasjuttudesse (illative plural)
muinasjutesse (illative plural)
muinasjutus (inessive singular)
muinasjuttudes (inessive plural)
muinasjutes (inessive plural)
muinasjutust (elative singular)
muinasjuttudest (elative plural)
muinasjutest (elative plural)
muinasjutule (allative singular)
muinasjuttudele (allative plural)
muinasjutele (allative plural)
muinasjutul (adessive singular)
muinasjuttudel (adessive plural)
muinasjutel (adessive plural)
muinasjutult (ablative singular)
muinasjuttudelt (ablative plural)
muinasjutelt (ablative plural)
muinasjutuks (singular translative)
muinasjuttudeks (plural translative)
muinasjuteks (plural translative)
muinasjutuni (singular terminative)
muinasjuttudeni (plural terminative)
muinasjutuna (essive singular)
muinasjuttudena (essive plural)
muinasjututa (abessive singular)
muinasjuttudeta (abessive plural)
muinasjutuga (comitative singular)
muinasjuttudega (comitative plural)


pravljica

prȃvljica (canonical feminine)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
právljica (nominative singular)
právljici (dual nominative)
právljice (nominative plural)
právljice (genitive singular)
právljic (dual genitive)
právljic (genitive plural)
právljici (dative singular)
právljicama (dative dual)
právljicam (dative plural)
právljico (accusative singular)
právljici (accusative dual)
právljice (accusative plural)
právljici (locative singular)
právljicah (dual locative)
právljicah (locative plural)
právljico (instrumental singular)
právljicama (dual instrumental)
právljicami (instrumental plural)


Kalevipoeg

Kalevipoeg (genitive Kalevipoja, partitive Kalevipoega)

Kalevipoja (genitive)
Kalevipoega (partitive)
Kalevipoeg (nominative singular)
Kalevipojad (nominative plural)
Kalevipoeg (accusative nominative singular)
Kalevipojad (accusative nominative plural)
Kalevipoja (accusative genitive singular)
Kalevipojad (accusative genitive plural)
Kalevipoja (genitive singular)
Kalevipoegade (genitive plural)
Kalevipoega (partitive singular)
Kalevipoegi (partitive plural)
Kalevipoegasid (partitive plural)
Kalevipoega (illative singular)
Kalevipojasse (illative singular)
Kalevipoegadesse (illative plural)
Kalevipojisse (illative plural)
Kalevipojas (inessive singular)
Kalevipoegades (inessive plural)
Kalevipojis (inessive plural)
Kalevipojast (elative singular)
Kalevipoegadest (elative plural)
Kalevipojist (elative plural)
Kalevipojale (allative singular)
Kalevipoegadele (allative plural)
Kalevipojile (allative plural)
Kalevipojal (adessive singular)
Kalevipoegadel (adessive plural)
Kalevipojil (adessive plural)
Kalevipojalt (ablative singular)
Kalevipoegadelt (ablative plural)
Kalevipojilt (ablative plural)
Kalevipojaks (singular translative)
Kalevipoegadeks (plural translative)
Kalevipojiks (plural translative)
Kalevipojani (singular terminative)
Kalevipoegadeni (plural terminative)
Kalevipojana (essive singular)
Kalevipoegadena (essive plural)
Kalevipojata (abessive singular)
Kalevipoegadeta (abessive plural)
Kalevipojaga (comitative singular)
Kalevipoegadega (comitative plural)

Kalevipoeg (19th century epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald which has since been considered the Estonian national epic)


mutapelle

Verb-object compound, composed of muta (“to change”) + pelle (“skin”).

it-verb-obj

Egli è un mutapelle e talvolta si dice appartenga ad una stirpe di nani.
He is a shapeshifter and is sometimes said to be of dwarven bloodline.


romaan

head

romaan (genitive romaani, partitive romaani)

romaani (genitive)
romaani (partitive)
romaan (nominative singular)
romaanid (nominative plural)
romaan (accusative nominative singular)
romaanid (accusative nominative plural)
romaani (accusative genitive singular)
romaanid (accusative genitive plural)
romaani (genitive singular)
romaanide (genitive plural)
romaani (partitive singular)
romaane (partitive plural)
romaanisid (partitive plural)
romaani (illative singular)
romaanisse (illative singular)
romaanidesse (illative plural)
romaanesse (illative plural)
romaanis (inessive singular)
romaanides (inessive plural)
romaanes (inessive plural)
romaanist (elative singular)
romaanidest (elative plural)
romaanest (elative plural)
romaanile (allative singular)
romaanidele (allative plural)
romaanele (allative plural)
romaanil (adessive singular)
romaanidel (adessive plural)
romaanel (adessive plural)
romaanilt (ablative singular)
romaanidelt (ablative plural)
romaanelt (ablative plural)
romaaniks (singular translative)
romaanideks (plural translative)
romaaneks (plural translative)
romaanini (singular terminative)
romaanideni (plural terminative)
romaanina (essive singular)
romaanidena (essive plural)
romaanita (abessive singular)
romaanideta (abessive plural)
romaaniga (comitative singular)
romaanidega (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Russian рома́н (román), from French roman, from Old French romanz, from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus


skyland

She then went to Miss Green’s house who, when she heard the sound of the six pipe flute, expected to see her husband return from the skyland. She opened the door. Instead, it was the tiger demon who touched the hem of her skirt causing her to fall down in a dead faint.

1967, Collected Papers in Highway Salvage Archaeology, 1972-74, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, →ISBN, page 55:

Tearing his eyes from the skylands, he called, “You warned me that Blood was going to catch me, back there in the city while you were renting these donkeys for us. What do you think he’ll do to me if he does?”

1993, Gene Wolfe, Nightside the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun), Tor Books, →ISBN:

First he has to find the place, and as the sleeve of night brings darkness to his city of Viron, light to the skylands above, he sets out on his quest.

2016, Michael Andre-Driussi, Gene Wolfe: 14 Articles on His Fiction, Sirius Fiction, →ISBN, page 128:

They passed a number of islands as well as a few low lying skylands, all heavy with vegetation and life.

2021, L.T. Junzon, Descendants of the Lost: Tales of the Seeker, MJ Publishing, →ISBN:

The military intelligence confidently surmises that their ethnic origin is either from the skylands in the clouds of Jupiter or from Uranus.

2022, Yoda Oraiah, Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 198:

But that day in the skylands of Skod, the day of deliverance, I never set out to do anything like what I’m given credit for.

2022 August, Rick Remender, Seven to Eternity, deluxe edition, Image Comics, Inc.:

(science fiction) A land above the sky, such as a floating city or another planet.


Smok Wawelski

Smok Wawelski (nominative singular)
Smoka Wawelskiego (genitive singular)
Smokowi Wawelskiemu (dative singular)
Smoka Wawelskiego (accusative singular)
Smokiem Wawelskim (instrumental singular)
Smoku Wawelskim (locative singular)
Smoku Wawelski (singular vocative)


ਪਿਸ਼ਾਚ

pa-noun

ਪਿਸ਼ਾਚ • (piśāc) m (Shahmukhi spelling پشاچ)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पिशाच (piśāca).


ਅਸੁਰ

pa-noun

ਅਸੁਰ • (asur) m (Shahmukhi spelling اسُر)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit असुर (asura).


dead dove

en-noun

dead dove (countable and uncountable, plural dead doves)

A reference to a scene from Arrested Development in which a character inspects a bag labelled "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat", opens it to see what's inside, and then (having found a dead dove) remarks that he isn't sure what he was expecting.

(countable, fandom slang) A disclaimer or tag for a fan fiction, particularly on Archive of Our Own, meant to signify that the fan fiction contains the content that is described as being in it, and as such, readers shouldn't be surprised and shouldn't complain about finding said content therein.

(countable, fandom slang) A fan fiction that is particularly disturbing or disgusting due to its subject matter.

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


Hogwart

Hogwart (nominative singular)
Hogwartu (genitive singular)
Hogwartowi (dative singular)
Hogwart (accusative singular)
Hogwartem (instrumental singular)
Hogwarcie (locative singular)
Hogwarcie (singular vocative)


unicornback

They travelled the magical realm on unicornback.

(fantasy, with on) The back of a unicorn.


tryton

tryton (nominative singular)
trytony (nominative plural)
trytona (genitive singular)
trytonów (genitive plural)
trytonowi (dative singular)
trytonom (dative plural)
trytona (accusative singular)
trytony (accusative plural)
trytonem (instrumental singular)
trytonami (instrumental plural)
trytonie (locative singular)
trytonach (locative plural)
trytonie (singular vocative)
trytony (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) merman


salesrobot

(science fiction, rare) A robotic salesperson.


yangire

A common character in chiefly Japanese fiction. It's essentially a yandere without romantic motivations for their acts of violence.


Shakspearism

Shakspearism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakspearisms)


Shakespearism

Shakespearism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespearisms)


Shakspearianism

Shakspearianism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakspearianisms)


Shakspeareanism

Shakspeareanism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakspeareanisms)


Shaksperianism

Shaksperianism (countable and uncountable, plural Shaksperianisms)


Shaksperism

Shaksperism (countable and uncountable, plural Shaksperisms)


Miltonism

Miltonism (countable and uncountable, plural Miltonisms)

The literary style of John Milton (1608–1674), English poet.


Marveldom

1965, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #11 (letters section), Marvel Comics
As for Kirby-Stone, you've come up with what is by far the finest team in Marveldom in the past year or two.

The domain of Marvel Comics, including the set of all works and people related with the company.


aerocab

(science fiction) Synonym of aircab (“a flying taxicab”).


aerocar

(science fiction) A flying car; a flying machine which looks and functions similarly to modern cars, often described as using antigravity technology.


autodoc

(science fiction) A system or robot which provides automatic medical care.


asterite

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of an asteroid.


armorplast

From armor + -plast (“a small body, structure”).

suffix

(science fiction) A fictional material, often described as being strong, flexible, and transparent.


Asterite

(science fiction, demonym) Alternative letter-case form of asterite


braintape

From brain + tape (“any video or audio recording”).

compound

(science fiction) A complete record of the contents of someone's brain.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction) Relating to the Aldebaran system or to Aldebaranians.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Aldebaran system.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction, rare) The language spoken by Aldebaranians.


astroengineer

(science fiction) An engineer who designs or operates spacecraft or space stations.


countergrav

(science fiction, rare) Clipping of countergravity.


collapsium

From collapse + -ium. Probably alluding to black holes, which are extremely dense objects formed by collapsing matter in the core of a dying star.

(science fiction) A fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.


combozine

(science fiction fandom slang) A combination of zines bound or distributed together.


cityship

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

(science fiction) A spacecraft which contains an entire city.


cyborgization

(science fiction) The act of converting something into a cyborg.


countergravity

Synonym of anti-gravity (“any of various concepts, systems or devices that would oppose or cancel out the force of gravity”).


Chicon

(science fiction fandom slang) A name given to various science fiction conventions held in Chicago, United States.


Big Dumb Object

en-noun

Big Dumb Object (plural Big Dumb Objects)

Coined by British critic and writer Roz Kaveney in 1981.

coinage

(science fiction criticism, ironic) A large and mysterious object of extraterrestrial origin containing immense power, thought of as a common trope of science fiction.


Class M

Originally from the TV series Star Trek.

(science fiction) Of a planet: having characteristics similar to that of Earth.


dark fantasy

A subgenre of fantasy which incorporates elements of horror.


impossible story

en-noun

impossible story (plural impossible stories)

(science fiction fandom slang, dated) Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).


different story

different story (plural different stories)


BDO

There may be another characteristic BDOs need to have to be considered a classic BDO: absent creators and a consequently mysterious purpose. At the very least, by the time the story begins, the BDO has been around for a long time.

2018 January 8, James Davis Nicoll, “A Brief History of the Big Dumb Object Story in Science Fiction”, in Tor.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:

(science fiction criticism) Initialism of Big Dumb Object.


cyborgized

She is almost totally cyborgized except for a small number of human brain cells. Her apparently female body is a mere shell to encase a cybernetic entity.

2011, Donna Spalding Andréolle, Veronique Molinari, Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 233:

(science fiction) Having been made into a cyborg.


cyborged

Cyborged servitors – mind-wiped snail-men – constantly cruised the black marble floor of his long, barrel-vaulted chamber, cleansing and laying down trails of scewnted polish behind them.

1994, Ian Watson, Harlequin, Boxtree, →ISBN, page 9:


coreward

en-adj

coreward (comparative more coreward, superlative most coreward)

more coreward (comparative)
most coreward (superlative)

(science fiction) Close to or travelling towards the galactic core.


coreward

The first colonisation efforts went coreward from the Blue Planetary Nebula with worlds like Sirona Prime, Xalau III and Usinnia being discovered and settled.

2018, James E Taris, The Venality Effect: Two Clients, Xlibris, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Towards the galactic core.


-con

(science fiction fandom slang) Used to form the names of conventions.


-con

Modeled after lolicon; ultimately from clipping of complex (“abnormal mental condition”).

clip

(chiefly anime and manga) Forming terms for abnormal sexual attractions.


Earthish

en-adj

Earthish (comparative more Earthish, superlative most Earthish)

more Earthish (comparative)
most Earthish (superlative)

(science fiction) Relating to or originating from the Earth.


Earthish

(science fiction) A hypothetical universal language of Earth.


మత్స్యకన్య

te-noun

మత్స్యకన్య • (matsyakanya) ? (plural మత్స్యకన్యలు)

matsyakanya (romanization)
మత్స్యకన్యలు (plural)

Borrowed from Sanskrit मत्स्यकन्या (matsyakanyā), compare cognate Malayalam മത്സ്യകന്യക (matsyakanyaka).


கடற்கன்னி

ta-noun

கடற்கன்னிகள்

கடற்கன்னி • (kaṭaṟkaṉṉi) (plural கடற்கன்னிகள்)

kaṭaṟkaṉṉi (romanization)
கடற்கன்னிகள் (plural)
கடற்கன்னி (nominative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகள் (nominative plural)
கடற்கன்னியே (singular vocative)
கடற்கன்னிகளே (plural vocative)
கடற்கன்னியை (accusative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளை (accusative plural)
கடற்கன்னிக்கு (dative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளுக்கு (dative plural)
கடற்கன்னிக்காக (benefactive singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளுக்காக (benefactive plural)
கடற்கன்னியுடைய (genitive genitive-i singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளுடைய (genitive genitive-i plural)
கடற்கன்னியின் (genitive genitive-ii singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளின் (genitive genitive-ii plural)
கடற்கன்னியில் (locative locative-i singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளில் (locative locative-i plural)
கடற்கன்னியிடம் (locative locative-ii singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளிடம் (locative locative-ii plural)
கடற்கன்னியோடு (singular sociative sociative-i)
கடற்கன்னிகளோடு (plural sociative sociative-i)
கடற்கன்னியுடன் (singular sociative sociative-ii)
கடற்கன்னிகளுடன் (plural sociative sociative-ii)
கடற்கன்னியால் (instrumental singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளால் (instrumental plural)
கடற்கன்னியிலிருந்து (ablative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளிலிருந்து (ablative plural)

/kɐɖɐrkɐnːɪ/

Compound of கடல் (kaṭal, “sea, ocean”) + கன்னி (kaṉṉi, “virgin, maiden”, from Sanskrit कन्या (kanyā)).

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from Sanskrit <i class="Deva mention" lang="sa">कन्या</i> (kanyā)


நீர்மங்கை

ta-noun

நீர்மங்கைகள்

நீர்மங்கை • (nīrmaṅkai) (plural நீர்மங்கைகள்)

nīrmaṅkai (romanization)
நீர்மங்கைகள் (plural)
நீர்மங்கை (nominative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகள் (nominative plural)
நீர்மங்கையே (singular vocative)
நீர்மங்கைகளே (plural vocative)
நீர்மங்கையை (accusative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளை (accusative plural)
நீர்மங்கைக்கு (dative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளுக்கு (dative plural)
நீர்மங்கைக்காக (benefactive singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளுக்காக (benefactive plural)
நீர்மங்கையுடைய (genitive genitive-i singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளுடைய (genitive genitive-i plural)
நீர்மங்கையின் (genitive genitive-ii singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளின் (genitive genitive-ii plural)
நீர்மங்கையில் (locative locative-i singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளில் (locative locative-i plural)
நீர்மங்கையிடம் (locative locative-ii singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளிடம் (locative locative-ii plural)
நீர்மங்கையோடு (singular sociative sociative-i)
நீர்மங்கைகளோடு (plural sociative sociative-i)
நீர்மங்கையுடன் (singular sociative sociative-ii)
நீர்மங்கைகளுடன் (plural sociative sociative-ii)
நீர்மங்கையால் (instrumental singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளால் (instrumental plural)
நீர்மங்கையிலிருந்து (ablative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளிலிருந்து (ablative plural)

/n̪iːɾmɐŋɡɐɪ̯/

Compound of நீர் (nīr, “water”) + மங்கை (maṅkai, “virgin, maiden”).

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நீர்மங்கை கொங்கைக்கு நித்திலக்கச் சொக்குமால்...
nīrmaṅkai koṅkaikku nittilakkac cokkumāl...(—சிதம்பர செய்யுட்கோவை)


eetee

A pronunciation spelling of ET (“extraterrestrial”).

(science fiction) An extraterrestrial being; an alien.


Earth normal

atmospheric pressure
atmospheric pressure

(science fiction) The standard conditions (especially of gravity and atmospheric pressure) found on Earth.


Earthfolk

(science fiction) People from planet Earth.


kiloday

(science fiction, rare) A period of one thousand days.


empathist

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

(science fiction) Someone able to sense the emotions of others through extrasensory perception; an empath.


Martianess

Coordinate term: Martian

(science fiction, rare) A female Martian.


Earthsider

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


gyrobus

The gyrobus touched down on the commercial side of the spaceport, not far from a row of hangars where several shuttles were parked.

2007 December, Allen Steele, “Galaxy Blues”, in Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 31, number 12, →ISSN, page 102:


Earth-normal

en-adj

Earth-normal (comparative more Earth-normal, superlative most Earth-normal)

more Earth-normal (comparative)
most Earth-normal (superlative)

(science fiction) Of a condition, similar to that found on Earth (especially describing gravity or atmospheric pressure).


otherspace

(science fiction) A type of space with different physical laws than ordinary space, often permitting faster-than-light travel.


Earthside

(science fiction) The planet Earth or (synecdochically) a group or organization based on Earth.


miecz świetlny

miecz świetlny (nominative singular)
miecze świetlne (nominative plural)
mieczu świetlnego (genitive singular)
mieczy świetlnych (genitive plural)
mieczowi świetlnemu (dative singular)
mieczom świetlnym (dative plural)
miecz świetlny (accusative singular)
miecze świetlne (accusative plural)
mieczem świetlnym (instrumental singular)
mieczami świetlnymi (instrumental plural)
mieczu świetlnym (locative singular)
mieczach świetlnych (locative plural)
mieczu świetlny (singular vocative)
miecze świetlne (plural vocative)

Literally, “light sword”. Calque of English lightsaber.


ROTS

It may be surprising, but the plot for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was revealed early in the ROTS and LEGO Star Wars video games.

2022 April 3, John Feliciani, “Star Wars Spoiled Revenge of the Sith Months Early In Games”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-08-14:

Revenge of the Sith
w:Revenge of the Sith

(Star Wars) Initialism of Revenge of the Sith (a 2005 movie in the Star Wars series).


кудесник

ru-noun+

куде́сник • (kudésnik) m anim (genitive куде́сника, nominative plural куде́сники, genitive plural куде́сников)

куде́сник (canonical)
kudésnik (romanization)
куде́сника (genitive)
куде́сники (nominative plural)
куде́сников (genitive plural)
куде́сник (nominative singular)
куде́сники (nominative plural)
куде́сника (genitive singular)
куде́сников (genitive plural)
куде́снику (dative singular)
куде́сникам (dative plural)
куде́сника (accusative singular)
куде́сников (accusative plural)
куде́сником (instrumental singular)
куде́сниками (instrumental plural)
куде́снике (prepositional singular)
куде́сниках (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic кудесникъ (kudesnikŭ).


metahistorical romance

en-noun

metahistorical romance (countable and uncountable, plural metahistorical romances)

Coordinate term: historiographic metafiction

From Linda Hutcheon's work on historiographic metafiction to Amy Elias's study of the metahistorical romance, addressing the historical novel, for example, has become something of a minor industry outside conventional history.

2010, Alun Munslow, The Future of History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 267:

Through the “historiographic metafiction” or “metahistorical romance” of post-1960s fiction, critics have identified the self-reflexive quality of the new historical aesthetics.

2017, Alison Shonkwiler, The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

A type of postmodern historical fiction.


historiographic metafiction

historiographic metafiction (usually uncountable, plural historiographic metafictions)

Coined by Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon.

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This assumption leads us to historiographic metafiction, a style of writing that emerged during the postmodern era. If there is fiction in scholarly historiography, where is the difference between that and a novel that deals with history?

2008, Markus Schneider, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” as Historiographic Metafiction, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:

Although works classified as “historiographic metafiction” have been seen by numerous critics as the continuation into the eighties of the work of Pynchon, Coover, Barth, and Gass, this application of the concept turns on metafiction's identification with its anti-mimetic, counter-realist self-descriptions. […] McHale identifies three devices in historiographic metafiction: —apocryphal history, creative anachronism, and historical fantasy […]

2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, editors, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:

A type of postmodern historical fiction employing metafiction.


godsdamned

Bet they're not godsdamned bandits at all, but more like, godsdamned deserters.

2010, Chris Bunch, Dragonmaster: The Omnibus Edition:

(fantasy) Synonym of goddamned (in fictional worlds having more than one god)


Truck-kun

What if I was walking across the street when I was summoned, only to be dropped back in front of a speeding truck. Lots of dodgy stories start with Truck-kun, and I don't want mine to end with it.

2022, Dean Henegar, “The Summoned Life”, in Legendary LitRPG: An All Genres LitRPG Anthology, unnumbered page:

While Truck-kun does cause one form of ending—the character is dead in their original world—it's an integral part of the main character's transportation to a new world, one where they can explore, learn, and grow.

2022, Natasha Yglesias, Anime Tarot Deck and Guidebook: Explore the Archetypes, Symbolism, and Magic in Anime, page 29:

So I figure I might as well chuck a "Truck-kun" into my own story too! Gotta get in while the getting's good!!

2023, Shizuki Fujisawa, translated by Cerridwyn Graffham, The Transcendent One-Sided Love of Yoshida the Catch, volume 3, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction, fandom slang, humorous) In the isekai genre, a truck that sets off the plot by hitting the protagonist, transporting them into the fantastical setting (typically by killing them in the real world).


Soulsborne

Blend of souls + bloodborne, after the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne.

As the director of each of the Soulsborne games, Miyazaki is a strong influence on all aspects of the final product, including visual design, gameplay, and narrative content.

2019, “Introduction”, in Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, editor, Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame, page 4:

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was created by FromSoftware, the developers behind the Soulsborne titles.

2020, James Palmer, "Why did UK games sales drop in 2019?", The Boar (University of Warwick), 13 February 2022, page 32

Sure, “Death's Door” does little to hide its love for both the Zelda and Soulsborne franchises, cramming in dense lore to creepy dungeons filled with puzzles and enemies galore, but it manages to take the best part of these series and form something wholly unique.

2021 July 29, M. Deitz, “Fighting against your death in 'Death's Door'”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 9:

(fandom slang, video games) A loose series of dark fantasy action role-playing video games developed by FromSoftware, generally held as including Demon's Souls (2009), the Dark Souls trilogy (2011-2016), Bloodborne (2015), and Elden Ring (2022).


dating sim

Unlike typical Western games, the goal in Japanese dating sims is to attain true love rather than defeat level bosses.

2004 September, “Dating Lessons With Anime Play?”, in CPU: Computer Power User, page 9:

Tokimeki Memorial was hugely influential not just in kickstarting the entire dating sim genre in Japan but also in the way its gameplay influenced the love mechanics I've already described in Persona 4 and Dragon Age: Origins.

2015, Nicholas Ware, “Interative romance and button-mashing sex: Gameplay design and video games' Nice Guy Syndrome”, in Evan W. Lauteria, Matthew Wysocki, editors, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games, page 234:

Short had enjoyed playing dating sims in grad school, but grew frustrated by their focus on the desires of cishet men. "I was like, 'Ah, I gotta make a game where you can date whoever you want, because this is ridiculous'," she recalls.

2021 December, Edwin Evans-Thirwell, “Kitfox Games”, in Edge, page 93:

(video games) A social simulation game centered on building and maintaining a romantic relationship with one or more NPCs.


utsuge

Borrowed from Japanese 鬱ゲー (utsuge, “depressing game”), a combination of 鬱 (utsu, “melancholy, gloom”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.

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Utsuge, on the other hand, stands for pretty much the opposite of nakige, aiming to be as depressing an experience as possible.

2019, Robert Ciesla, Game Development with Ren'Py: Introduction to Visual Novel Games Using Ren'Py, TyranoBuilder, and Twine, page 90:

The related genre “utsuge” (“depressing game”), unlike “nakige”, does not typically achieve a happy ending.

2019, Ema Bícová, "Visual Novel and Its Translation", thesis submitted to Palacký University Olomouc, pages 12-13

Nitroplus, the company behind Saya no uta, specializes in utsuge containing body horror, gore, rape, and depression—in short, as scholar Clarisse Thorn puts it, games that are “not ‘fun’ in the way most people think about ‘fun,’ that’s for sure.”

2020, Ana Matilde Sousa, "She's Not Your Waifu; She's an Eldritch Abomination: Saya no uta and Queer Antisociality in Japanese Visual Novels", Mechademia, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2020

A Japanese visual novel genre characterized by tragic plots and pervasively bleak tones.


nakige

Borrowed from Japanese 泣きゲー (nakige, “crying game”), a combination of なき (naki, “crying”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.

Nakige are known for their sense of melancholy. Take 2001's Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (The Eternity You Desire), for example, which was released by eroge label âge, a division of ACID. Soon after high school student Takayuki Narumi falls for his classmate Haruka Suzumiya, she goes into a coma after a car accident. Depressed and shocked, Takayuki develops post-traumatic stress disorder and becomes involved with Haruka's best friend, Mitsuki. "To put it simply, a nakige brings players to tears as they read the in-game text," says [ACID CEO Hirohiko] Yoshida.

2010, Brian Ashcroft, Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, page 154:

The medium is dominated by nakige, the crying genre, much like how superheroes dominate comics and sitcoms television.

2011 November 10, Alex Mui, “Visual Novels: Unrecognized Narrative Art”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Johns Hopkins University, page B5:

A Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears.


ਭੂਤ

From Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “been”), past participle of भवति (bhavati, “to be”).

ghost, spirit, demon, wraith, apparition, goblin, spectre, fiend, revenant


nukige

Borrowed from Japanese 抜(ぬ)きゲー (nukigē), a combination of 抜(ぬ)く (nuku, “to jerk off”, literally “to extract”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.

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Eroge is a hugely popular genre of visual novel both from established producers and fan circles, and can be further divided into smaller categories such as nukige (抜きゲ) or ‘jack-off game’, referring to a game that is intended to provide easy access to sex scenes or other erotic material to facilitate masturbation.

2016, Matthew R. Bird, "Eustia of the Tarnished Wings: The Visual Novel in Translation", thesis submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 17

As well as the effect of loosening content restrictions, the key point here is that Japanese videogame regulation is fractured by platform multiplicity. Small publishers producing games such as dating sims, visual novels, and ‘nukige’ (masturbation games) cohere to self-regulate, and more serious sexual content is confined to the PC market, dominated by adult consumers.

2019, Catherine Driscoll & Liam Grealy, "In the name of the nation: Media classification, globalisation, and exceptionalism", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, May 2009 (link)

Unlike nukige, visual novels that focus primarily on sexual interactions between characters, the focus of eroge is on the story, including more romantic or emotional relationships.

2022, William Schrage, "Hiding Hobbies and Saving Social Lives: About the Representation of Otaku Struggles in Ore no imōto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai", Mechademia, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2022

(video games) A Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification.


апокалиптика

ru-noun+

апокали́птика

апокали́птика • (apokalíptika) f inan (genitive апокали́птики, nominative plural апокали́птики, genitive plural апокали́птик)

апокали́птика (canonical)
apokalíptika (romanization)
апокали́птики (genitive)
апокали́птики (nominative plural)
апокали́птик (genitive plural)
апокали́птика (nominative singular)
апокали́птики (nominative plural)
апокали́птики (genitive singular)
апокали́птик (genitive plural)
апокали́птике (dative singular)
апокали́птикам (dative plural)
апокали́птику (accusative singular)
апокали́птики (accusative plural)
апокали́птикой (instrumental singular)
апокали́птикою (instrumental singular)
апокали́птиками (instrumental plural)
апокали́птике (prepositional singular)
апокали́птиках (plural prepositional)

apocalyptic (genre of literature set in an apocalypse)


dokkaebi

en-noun

dokkaebi (usually uncountable, plural dokkaebis)

(Korean mythology) A creature in Korean mythology, also known as "Korean goblin"

トッケビ

a creature in Korean mythology, a Korean goblin


instant loss 2koma

instant loss 2koma (plural instant loss 2komas)

Partial calque of Japanese 即堕ち2コマ (soku-ochi ni-koma, “instant fall 2-panel”).

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The cereal spitting guy was the original instant loss 2koma

2022 August 17, TripleKyun, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-11-17:

A two-panel comic depicting a character who displays smugness or overconfidence in the first panel, only to be defeated or humiliated in the second.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:instant loss 2koma.

A pornographic variant of this type of comic, in which the losing character is sexually dominated in the second panel.


Ascapart

(European folklore) A legendary giant in English folklore.


Mobian

From Mobius, the fictional planet such characters would inhabit in some incarnations of their universe.

Now, their accents do in fact fit them well, and do represent (as someone said formerly) the fact that they're a group of Mobians from different cultural worlds..

1998 August 25, RazJMastrs, alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet):

"Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble" (1995) has manifestations in both a comic book trilogy and as a video game. We'll simply make note of the saga's floating islands. “Panic in the Sky” starts off with a group of happy Mobians playing volleyball until interrupted by a shadow.

2015, Richard J. Heggen, Floating Islands: an Activity Book, published 2021, page 172:

Both [the Pokemon and Sonic franchises] are home to a wide variety of creatures capable of feats of great strength and speed and elemental manipulation. The only difference is that those from the Sonic universe, also known as Mobians, can speak.

2023 February 4, Dexter Adams, “9 Pokemon That Look Like Sonic Characters”, in TheGamer:

(fandom slang) An anthropomorphic character from, or in the style of, characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe.


tarākoni

Borrowed from English dragon, from Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”).


Lady Macbeth

From the character in William Shakepeare's Macbeth.

True it is, that the ambitious women of these civilized times do not murder sleeping kings: but are there, therefore, no Lady Macbeths in the world? no women who, under the influence of a diseased or excited appetite for power or distinction, would sacrifice the happiness of a daughter, the fortunes of a husband, the principles of a son, and peril their own souls?

1833, [Anna Brownell] Jameson, Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 309:

Fear of blood has become the incubus of modern men who are pursued like so many women, little nineteenth century Lady Macbeths, by the spectre of death ... the principle of right to life is utterly without justification.

1961, John Alden Thayer, Italy: The Post-Risorgimento and the "Great War", Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 246:

With the cuts in government expenditure, heads of research councils rage round their castles like demented Lady Macbeths looking for blood with which to stain their hands as evidence of their administrative worthiness, apparently oblivious of the fact that what they cut today can never be recreated as the costs of new building and recruitment escalate with the size of their administrations.

1987, New Scientist, volume 114, page 82, column 3:

The silent men, women, and children streaming down the center of Manhattan instead carried signs reading: “Mother, Do Lynchers Go to Heaven?”; “Pray for the Lady Macbeths of East St. Louis”; “Mr. President, Why Not Make America Safe for Democracy?”; and “Give Us a Chance to Live.”

2010, Anne P. Rice, “White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness: Remapping Segregation in Angelina Weld Grimké’s “Blackness” and “Goldie””, in Brian Norman, Piper Kendrix Williams, editors, Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 95:

The president’s wife, Turai [Yar’Adua], acquired the image of a Lady Macbeth hungry for power and determined to loot the country’s coffers while she still had the chance.

2015, Mark Hollingsworth, Von Kemedi, Against the Odds: President Goodluck Jonathan, the Rise of Nigeria as Africa’s Economic Superpower and the Threat of Boko Haram, Susquehanna Press, →ISBN, page 32:

As we did with Medea and the “Modern Medeas,” we were able to see multiple instances in which real life female politicians were described as “Lady Macbeths.” Given that Lady Macbeth herself clearly views the monstrous acts she is going to commit as more male than female, it seemed strange to the class that those who call scheming politicians Lady Macbeths associated that scheming, plotting cruelty with the worst traits of women. […] On the day we were studying this text in class, Hillary Clinton had just made headlines, and we were able to see and then analyze how the term “Lady Macbeth” was used to describe her in multiple articles published mere hours before class had started.

[2017, Brian Sweeney, “High School Monsters: Designing Secondary English Courses”, in Adam Golub, Heather Richardson Hayton, editors, Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, part III (Disrupting Systems: The Monster Attacks), page 204:

A determined but ruthless or unscrupulous woman.


Lilliput

John Hardesty Bland (1971) Forests of Lilliput The Realm of Mosses and Lichens: “(book title)”

(fiction) An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.

Ronald E. Miller, Peter D. Blair (2009) Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, page 388: “The Land of Lilliput plans to build a new power plant”

Dermot McAleese (2004) Economics for Business: Competition, Macro-stability, and Globalisation: “Two economies , Lilliput and Oz , exist beside each other”

(by extension) A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu.


TatsuJun

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Tatsuya Suou and Jun Kurosu from the Persona series.

Persona 2: Innocent Sin#Setting and characters


zombieness

The quality of being a zombie, or zombie-like.


worlder

From world + -er (“supporter”) or + -er (demonym suffix).

One who supports a certain idea of the world.


முன்னூறு காலத்துல

head

முன்னூறு காலத்துல • (muṉṉūṟu kālattula)


sleep flower

After the lazy lover had sown the sleep seed all over the grounds, he went away.[…] All along the galleries it grew and grew, and in a few days the air of the place was heavy with the scent of the pale-coloured sleep-flowers. Then the whole world of the palace began to drowse.[…] And the pale sleep-flowers bloomed thicker and thicker, and the air grew heavier and heavier, and at last everybody was lapped in sleep.

1875, “The Sleep Seed”, in The Peep-show: for Little Readers, Oxford University:

[…] The wind will shift and the way will open. […] Then, go back to the garden with the sleep flowers. Use Jinn's power to control the wind, and spread the sleep pollen into Rolante castle.

1995, Squaresoft, Seiken Densetsu 3, SNES:

(fantasy) Any flower whose consumption, in whole or in part, causes the consumer to fall asleep.


موسیقار

ur-noun

مُوسِیقار • (mūsīqār) m (Hindi spelling मूसीक़ार)

مُوسِیقار (canonical)
mūsīqār (romanization)
मूसीक़ार (Hindi)
مُوسِیقار (direct singular)
مُوسِیقار (direct plural)
مُوسِیقار (oblique singular)
مُوسِیقاروں (oblique plural)
مُوسِیقار (singular vocative)
مُوسِیقارو (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Classical Persian موسیقار (mūsīqār), from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).


Tumblr sexyman

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From Tumblr, referencing the microblogging platform and social network, and sexy + man.

The most iconic Tumblr sexymen of all Tumblr sexymen: The Onceler. Oh my god did the Onceler take Tumblr by its neck and wring it until it died horribly. I have never seen such a trend.

2021, Belle, "Tumblr Sexymen: A Never-Ending Cycle of Questionable Taste", LOCO Mag, 2 August 2021

“Timothee Chalamet Willy Wonka is what happens when a Hollywood focus group tries to create a Tumblr sexyman,” another remarked, referencing the famous 2010s blogging site.

2021, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, quoted in Andrew Court, "Twitter slams Timothée Chalamet’s ‘sexification’ of Willy Wonka", New York Post, 11 October 2021

Congratulations, Lucifer Morningstar, on joining the esteemed ranks of Tumblr Sexymen like Alastor, The Once-ler, Bill Cipher of "Gravity Falls," Waluigi, King Dice of "Cuphead," and for some reason, Sans from "Undertale."

2022 December 1, BJ Colangelo, “Why Animation Fans Are Going Wild For Hazbin Hotel's King Of Hell Read More”, in Slash Film:

(fandom slang) A male fictional character (often conventionally unattractive or non-human) with a particularly devoted fanbase on Tumblr.

Papyrus (Undertale)
Sans (Undertale)
Undertale


Glup Shitto

From a September 2020 post by Tumblr user gomjabbar lampooning hardcore Star Wars fans and Star Wars character names: "every time a new Star War^([sic]) movie or show is announced all the fans are like 'OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭'.
Probably derived from shit, referring to the supposed poor quality of the new characters.

When it works well, Mank feels like the inheritance and renovation of a range of craft competencies and attentions. And when it does not work well, it is the classical Hollywood nerd’s version of Glup Shitto. “OMG Ben Hecht is back!” Sometimes it does both at once.

2021 May 9, J. D. Connor, “Put Some 'Mank' on It”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

'The Book of Boba Fett' is a good example of this joke containing a few grains of truth. Boba Fett was, after all, the original Glup Shitto. He turned up in all of maybe three major scenes in 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi', died by accident, and was written off in the movies.

2022 June 1, Brian Lloyd, “This week's 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' sees the return of a familiar helmet”, in Entertainment.ie:

I also questioned what characters might show up in this series, and while we haven’t seen a true Glup Shitto yet, we do get a reference to Quinlan Vos, a Jedi from the “Star Wars” novels who then appeared in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

2022, Brandon Raglow, "Review | Episode three of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ brings the Jedi master face to face with a certain former Padawan", The Pitt News (University of Pittsburgh), 8 June 2022

(Star Wars fandom slang, vulgar, derogatory) Any minor Star Wars character or one who features primarily in Extended Universe media unknown to casual fans.


main character

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With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month.

2020, Paul Farhi, "How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020", The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption)

Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “main character” of Twitter.

2021 January 5, Dani Di Placido, “The Ballad Of ‘Bean Dad’ Shows The Cruel, Petty Side Of Twitter”, in Forbes:

And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men.

2022 July 14, Delia Cai, “How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character”, in Vanity Fair:

(Internet slang, idiomatic) A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).


hèo

The sense "stroke" is derived from the usage of these species of palms as canes and sticks used in corporal punishment of criminals.

(historical, still seen in modern fiction) a stroke of caning


dragonlet

I had no idea how long dragon gestation was, and my experience with Lois wasn't much to go on about normal dragonlet development, but if there was a human baby around about a year after some dragonlets were born which was maybe when normal dragonlets start spending serious time outside mom’s pouch. . . .

2007, Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 315:

So it was that after the dragonlets had eaten a supper of raw fish from the bay, and he and Princess Eleanor had eaten a delicious meal of cooked fish, Sir Thomas found himself lying on a bed of sweet grasses surrounded by sleepy baby dragons and one tired princess.

2010, Shutta Crum, Thomas and the Dragon Queen, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 203:

In most examples, as in this panel, there are visible female genitalia, though occasionally breasts or dugs are also shown, and in some cases one or more baby dragonlets are depicted that seem to be intended to identify the dragon as a mother.

2015, Samantha Riches, “St George as a Dragon-slayer”, in St George: A Saint for All, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, pages 105–106:


терранец

ru-noun+

терра́нец • (terránec) m anim (genitive терра́нца, nominative plural терра́нцы, genitive plural терра́нцев, feminine терра́нка, relational adjective терра́нский)

терра́нец (canonical)
terránec (romanization)
терра́нца (genitive)
терра́нцы (nominative plural)
терра́нцев (genitive plural)
терра́нка (feminine)
терра́нский (adjective relational)
терра́нец (nominative singular)
терра́нцы (nominative plural)
терра́нца (genitive singular)
терра́нцев (genitive plural)
терра́нцу (dative singular)
терра́нцам (dative plural)
терра́нца (accusative singular)
терра́нцев (accusative plural)
терра́нцем (instrumental singular)
терра́нцами (instrumental plural)
терра́нце (prepositional singular)
терра́нцах (plural prepositional)

Те́рра (Térra, “Terra, Earth”) + -ец (-ec, “-ian”), from Latin Terra; calque of English Terran.

af

(neologism, science fiction) a Terran (an Earthling, someone from Earth)


терранка

ru-noun+

терра́нка • (terránka) f anim (genitive терра́нки, nominative plural терра́нки, genitive plural терра́нок, masculine терра́нец, relational adjective терра́нский)

терра́нка (canonical)
terránka (romanization)
терра́нки (genitive)
терра́нки (nominative plural)
терра́нок (genitive plural)
терра́нец (masculine)
терра́нский (adjective relational)
терра́нка (nominative singular)
терра́нки (nominative plural)
терра́нки (genitive singular)
терра́нок (genitive plural)
терра́нке (dative singular)
терра́нкам (dative plural)
терра́нку (accusative singular)
терра́нок (accusative plural)
терра́нкой (instrumental singular)
терра́нкою (instrumental singular)
терра́нками (instrumental plural)
терра́нке (prepositional singular)
терра́нках (plural prepositional)

(neologism, science fiction) a Terran woman or girl (a female Earthling)


queercoded

en-adj

queercoded (comparative more queercoded, superlative most queercoded)

more queercoded (comparative)
most queercoded (superlative)

(fiction, slang) Portrayed in a way that suggests or implies LGBTQ+ identities or characteristics, without explicitly stating so; Hinting that something (a character, a relationship, a situation) is LGBTQ+.


Nemo

Audio (US)

The "clownfish" meaning comes from the film Finding Nemo, where Nemo is a clownfish.

A diminutive of the male given name Geronimo


thanatomancy

(rare, fantasy) Magic or divination powered by death, such as a human sacrifice.


thaumic

From Ancient Greek θαῦμα (thaûma, “miracle, wonder”) + -ic.

af

(chiefly fantasy) Relating to magic; magical.


吃書

/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ ʂu⁵⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ ʂu⁵⁵/

(fiction, fandom slang) to create a plot hole; to retcon existing canon


element zero

From being a chemical element with zero protons.

(informal, nuclear physics, science fiction) Synonym of neutronium (“material composed of neutrons”)

(science fiction) A fictional chemical element with element number/atomic number/proton number zero (0), often with unrealistic properties.


BroTP

Blend of bro (“male comrade or friend”) + OTP (“one true pairing”).

blend

"Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers are adorbs together as friends, but I'd never ship them — total BROTP."

2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 31:

BROTPs and OT3s (shipping three characters in a polyamorous relationship) abound.

2016, Bethany A. Scettrini, "Fan Responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via Blogs, Fan Fiction, and Ship Wars", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 51

Being in a fandom means that we willingly signed on to watch as our—soon-to-be — favorite character(s) die, as we find out our OTP may never truly get to be happy, or that our BroTP will always be at odds.

2019, Star, "Fixing What Shouldn't Be Broken", Lemon, page 14

(fandom slang) A platonic relationship between two characters that is a personal favorite of a fan.


NOTP

Usually it is best to keep your NOTP to yourself, unless you wish to start a shipping war.

2013, "Severus Snape", "Ship happens", The Sandscript (Sanderson High School, Raleigh, BC), March 2013 (April Fool's issue), page 5

Add the words you want to avoid to your black list (anything from your NOTP to seriously triggering topics), and posts containing them will never again show up on your dash.

2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, pages 66–67:

When questioned on why they disliked their ‘NOTP’, most respondents claimed it was often due to notable inclusion of paedophilic, incestuous, abusive, or non-consensual relationships and intercourse within the stories.

2019, Amy Pollard, “An investigation of fanfiction readers' and writers' views on fanfiction, with a focus on LGBTQ+ themes”, in Mesh: The Journal for Undergraduate Work Across English Studies, number 3, published 2009, pages 22–23:

(fandom slang) A ship that one strongly dislikes.


LoVe

Blend of Logan + Veronica, as a deliberate homophone of love.

The complicated and, for fans, mostly frustrating relationship between these characters is the reason why stories dealing with Spuffy and LoVe pairings are by far more popular than stories based on any other possible ship.

2008, Manuela Scherf, "Character Formation in Fan Fiction Based on Popular TV Series, thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 15

“LoVe” (Logan/Veronica) was a very rapid OTP (one true pairing) candidate.

2018, Ivan Askwith, quoted in The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Melissa A. Click & Suzanne Scott), unnumbered page

Though all but two of my informants eventually self-identified as LoVe shippers—Eileen and Jodie were vocally opposed to the relationship, characterizing it as abusive—all were initially unwilling to involve that investment in their answers to my questions.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “Fandom as symbolic patronage: expanding understanding of fan relationships with industry through the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign”, in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 16, number 3:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.


time barrier

(science fiction) A barrier or obstacle preventing time travel, especially one resulting from technological limitations.


thionite

From thio- (“containing sulphur”) + -n- + -ite. Coined by American author E. E. Smith in 1937.

coinage

(science fiction) A fictional addictive drug said to induce euphoric dreams.


time police

(science fiction) An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being changed.


time patrol

Synonym of time police (“an organization which regulates time travel”).


time cop

(science fiction) A member of the time police.


time crime

en-noun

time crime (countable and uncountable, plural time crimes)

(science fiction) The violation of time travel law (especially referring to an attempt to change the past).


torch drive

(science fiction) A spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion.


torchship

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Compound of torch (“a torch drive”) + ship.

com+

(science fiction) A spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).


Titanese

(science fiction) Relating to Titan (the largest moon of Saturn) or to its inhabitants.


Titanese

(science fiction) The language spoken on Titan.


anti-Reylo

When Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, the fandom found itself dividing across one really hard, bright line: the Reylos and the anti-Reylos.

2017 December 15, Ani Bundel, “More Than The Force Connects Kylo Ren & Rey In 'The Last Jedi' & It's Intense”, in Elite Daily:

Anti-Reylos read the pairing's on-screen encounters as rape, and they point out the age difference and potential familial relationship.

2018, Kristina Busse, “Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, page 217:

This also means that there are significant clashes between Reylo shippers and anti-Reylos.

2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 96

(fandom slang) An opponent of the ship of Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars (Reylo).


time-binding

Coined by Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski in 1921.

coinage

(especially general semantics, science fiction) The act of transmitting knowledge and experience from one moment and person to other moments and people using written information (e.g., written language, images, symbols), whether in mundane instances or (especially) from one generation to the next.


time-binding

(general semantics, science fiction) Engaging in time-binding.


Potterlock

The same naming technique may be applied to crossovers - stories that combine two or more fandoms together - so in this case Potterlock is a combination of Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes fandom.

2019, Alena Pospíšilová, "Metamorphosis of Relationships in Harry Potter Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Pardubice, page 33

Fictional characters star throughout Slash, including Catwoman and Wonder Woman and a wonderful alternate-universe Johnlock/Harry Potter crossover (Potterlock) with Sherlock as a drug-addicted pureblood Slytherin and John a Muggle-born Gryffindor dating Hufflepuff Mary.

2019 January 23, Lisa Granshaw, “Slash Brings Familiar And Unexpected Pairings To Life In The Ultimate Fanfiction Play”, in Syfy:

With Potterlock being such a popular crossover amongst Harry Potter and Sherlock fans, it’s no surprise that these characters slot so effortlessly into the four Hogwarts Houses.

2021, Maychen Tyler & Stacey Lannigan, "Sorting BBC’s 'Sherlock' Characters into Hogwarts Houses, MuggleNet, 2 February 2021

(fandom slang) A genre of crossover fanworks blending characters, settings, and plot elements from the Harry Potter series and the television show Sherlock.


Kobayashi Maru

From the fictional Kobayashi Maru test, first introduced in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a training exercise in which Starfleet cadets face an intentionally unwinnable scenario as a test of character. The test involves the rescue of an eponymous vessel, named by Star Trek II screenwriter Jack B. Sowards after his neighbours, from the Japanese family name Kobayashi and maru (a suffix of Japanese ship names).

Christmas is the Kobayashi Maru of holidays. It is unwinnable.

2010, April Winchell, Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF, page 121:

Martin said, “Gwen, do you understand that there’s no right answer to that? You've asked me the Kobayashi Maru of questions. There’s no possible way to answer that won't make you mad.”

2015, Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest, page 265:

“You might not be able to win,” I said. “It may be the Kobayashi Maru of seating arrangements.”

2016, Hillary Manton Lodge, Together at the Table, page 81:

(informal) A scenario with no positive or favourable outcome; a no-win situation.

Jack B. Sowards
Kobayashi Maru
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Starfleet


Wholock

Whovians have joined with Sherlock fans to create WhoLock crossovers, which range from brilliant to bizarre.

2012, Charles Wang, "Not Sure If Still Funny", Kitsch (Cornell University), Spring 2012, page 36

Doctor Who and Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat has "come clean" about the possibility of a crossover 'Wholock' episode between the two shows, saying he wants to do it but his "killjoy" colleagues Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are in the way.

2014 August 11, Christopher Hooton, “Doctor Who Sherlock crossover: I would do 'Wholock', says Steven Moffat”, in The Independent:

Neither Ben nor Thom knew much about SuperWhoLock, for instance, although they knew of WhoLock.

2019, Paul Booth, Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience, page 89:

(fandom slang) A genre of chiefly fan-created crossover fiction blending characters, settings, and plot elements from the Sherlock Holmes stories (typically the BBC series Sherlock) and the television series Doctor Who.


seetee

Spelling out of CT, initialism of contraterrene. Coined by American science fiction author Jack Williamson in 1942.

coined

He followed her slowly into the empty hallway, announcing flatly, “I never made a seetee weapon. I don’t intend to start now.”

1949, Jack Williamson, “Seetee Shock”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 42, number 4, page 149:

He gritted his teeth as another bolt of seetee matter exploded against the energy screen.

1960, John Glasby, Black Abyss, e-book edition, published 2014, →ISBN:

She inferred what happened: the atmosphere of Yuggoth was composed of SeeTee matter. ¶ SeeTee. CT. ContraTerrene. Antimatter.

2010, Richard A. Lupoff, “Nothing Personal”, in Darrell Schweitzer, editor, Cthulhu’s Reign, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Synonym of contraterrene (“made of or pertaining to antimatter”).


replikant

replikant (nominative singular)
replikanci (nominative plural)
replikanty (derogatory nominative plural)
replikanta (genitive singular)
replikantów (genitive plural)
replikantowi (dative singular)
replikantom (dative plural)
replikanta (accusative singular)
replikantów (accusative plural)
replikantem (instrumental singular)
replikantami (instrumental plural)
replikancie (locative singular)
replikantach (locative plural)
replikancie (singular vocative)
replikanci (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English replicant, French réplicant, German Replikant, ultimately from Latin replicāns.

(science fiction) replicant (robot or artificial being that is an exact copy of a genuine lifeform, especially a human)


마법소녀

mabeopsonyeo (romanization)
魔法少女 (hanja)

[ma̠p͈ʌ̹ps͈o̞ɲʌ̹]

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 魔法少女(まほうしょうじょ) (mahō shōjo).

ja-r

魔法少女(まほうしょうじょ) (mahō shōjo)

(manga, anime) magical girl (a girl or young woman with magical abilities and engaged in magical adventures)


melika

melika (nominative singular)
meliki (nominative plural)
meliki (genitive singular)
melik (genitive plural)
melice (dative singular)
melikom (dative plural)
melikę (accusative singular)
meliki (accusative plural)
meliką (instrumental singular)
melikami (instrumental plural)
melice (locative singular)
melikach (locative plural)
meliko (singular vocative)
meliki (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin melicus, from Koine Greek μελικός (melikós), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song, lyric”).

der

(poetry) melic poem (poem strictly about music)


ޖިންނި

head

ޖިންނި • (jin̊ni)

dv-noun

ޖިންނި • (jin̊ni) (plural ޖިންނިތައް (jin̊nitak̊))

jin̊ni (romanization)
ޖިންނިތައް (plural)


Нерога

ru-proper noun+

Неро́га • (Neróga) f inan (genitive Неро́ги)

Неро́га (canonical)
Neróga (romanization)
Неро́ги (genitive)
Неро́га (nominative singular)
Неро́ги (genitive singular)
Неро́ге (dative singular)
Неро́гу (accusative singular)
Неро́гой (instrumental singular)
Неро́гою (instrumental singular)
Неро́ге (prepositional singular)

an unknown or mythological river somewhere in southern Chukotka-area, rich on silver.


Китеж

Ки́теж • (Kítež) m inan (genitive Ки́тежа, relational adjective ки́тежский)

Ки́теж (canonical)
Kítež (romanization)
Ки́тежа (genitive)
ки́тежский (adjective relational)
Ки́теж (nominative singular)
Ки́тежа (genitive singular)
Ки́тежу (dative singular)
Ки́теж (accusative singular)
Ки́тежем (instrumental singular)
Ки́теже (prepositional singular)

→ English: Kitezh

(mythology) Kitezh, the legendary sunken city not far from Nizhny Novgorod


yawnsville

From yawn + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town.

Synonym of dullsville (“a boring place, or state of being bored”)


antelabbit

Synonym of jackalope (“folkloric animal”)


asantaist

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

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

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

(rare, humorous) A person who does not believe in Santa Claus.


Sburbventure

Blend of Sburb + adventure, in reference to the fanventure genre based on comics in the MS Paint Adventures multiverse and the supernatural video game Sburb that appears in Homestuck, one of the MS Paint Adventures comics

(fandom slang) A fanventure in the style of Homestuck where the characters are players of the supernatural video game Sburb.


アヘアヘ

Expressing a state of panting in an uncontrollable way, usually associated with being ecstatic due to sexually indecent acts.


sfenks

head

sfenks (definite accusative sfenksi, plural sfenksler)

sfenksi (accusative definite)
sfenksler (plural)
sfenks (nominative singular)
sfenksler (nominative plural)
sfenksi (accusative definite singular)
sfenksleri (accusative definite plural)
sfenkse (dative singular)
sfenkslere (dative plural)
sfenkste (locative singular)
sfenkslerde (locative plural)
sfenksten (ablative singular)
sfenkslerden (ablative plural)
sfenksin (genitive singular)
sfenkslerin (genitive plural)


բեյթ

բեյթ • (beytʻ)

hy-noun

բեյթ • (beytʻ)

beytʻ (romanization)
բեյթ (nominative singular)
բեյթեր (nominative plural)
բեյթի (dative singular)
բեյթերի (dative plural)
բեյթից (ablative singular)
բեյթերից (ablative plural)
բեյթով (instrumental singular)
բեյթերով (instrumental plural)
բեյթում (locative singular)
բեյթերում (locative plural)
բեյթը (definite nominative singular)
բեյթն (definite nominative singular)
բեյթերը (definite nominative plural)
բեյթերն (definite nominative plural)
բեյթին (dative definite singular)
բեյթերին (dative definite plural)
բեյթս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
բեյթերս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
բեյթիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
բեյթերիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
բեյթիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
բեյթերիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
բեյթովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
բեյթերովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
բեյթումս (first-person locative possessive singular)
բեյթերումս (first-person locative plural possessive)
բեյթդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
բեյթերդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
բեյթիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
բեյթերիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
բեյթիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
բեյթերիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
բեյթովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
բեյթերովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)
բեյթումդ (locative possessive second-person singular)
բեյթերումդ (locative plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

բեյթերը/բեյթերն

couplet, a verse of poetry consisting of two lines


majokko

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 魔女っ子 (majokko), composed of 魔女 (“witch”) + っ子 (“person having a certain quality”, also diminutive suffix).
This term is sometimes also glossed in English as “little witch”, the word 子 (ko) meaning “child” or “small”.

affix

The viewer is normally treated to the transformation from the point of view of the majokko herself - the other people around her basically would see a "flash of light" and (poof!) she's changed.

1999 July 13, Animeg3282, “The magical girl thread”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):


limeryk

limeryk (nominative singular)
limeryki (nominative plural)
limeryku (genitive singular)
limeryków (genitive plural)
limerykowi (dative singular)
limerykom (dative plural)
limeryk (accusative singular)
limeryki (accusative plural)
limerykiem (instrumental singular)
limerykami (instrumental plural)
limeryku (locative singular)
limerykach (locative plural)
limeryku (singular vocative)
limeryki (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English limerick, from Limerick, from Irish Luimneach. Doublet of Limerick.


左右固定

左右固定 (canonical)
sayū kotei (romanization)

Referring to the "top"–"bottom" ordering of names in pairings.

左右固定過激派

(fandom slang) accepted top and bottom status


sejmitar

sejmitar (nominative singular)
sejmitary (nominative plural)
sejmitaru (genitive singular)
sejmitarów (genitive plural)
sejmitarowi (dative singular)
sejmitarom (dative plural)
sejmitar (accusative singular)
sejmitary (accusative plural)
sejmitarem (instrumental singular)
sejmitarami (instrumental plural)
sejmitarze (locative singular)
sejmitarach (locative plural)
sejmitarze (singular vocative)
sejmitary (plural vocative)

Possibly borrowed from English scimitar, from Middle French cimeterre, ultimately from Persian شمشیر (šamšir, “sword”).

Rano poszedł do miecznika i kupił dobrze zahartowany sejmitar; stargował cenę do stu soldów.

2011 November 7, Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: Objawienia, Insignis, →ISBN:

In the morning he went to the swordsmith and bought a well-hardened scimitar; he bargained the price down to a hundred soldes

(proscribed, fantasy) scimitar (sword with curved blade)


adragonist

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

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


aleprechaunist

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

"Put it this way. You believe in leprechauns?"
"Uh... no." She smirks. "I firmly renounce any and all belief in leprechauns."
"And so, if I wanted to fully and richly characterize your world view, do you think ‘aleprechaunist’ would do it?"

2002 January 8, Dale McGowan, Calling Bernadette's Bluff: A Novel, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 200:

Am I an atheist? No. Nor am I an aleprechaunist—that label would be just as silly.

2015 January 6, Marshall Brain, How "God" Works: A Logical Inquiry on Faith, Sterling Ethos, →ISBN, page 263:

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

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

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


龍傲天

/lʊŋ³⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/

/lʊŋ³⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/

Originated as a stereotype male protagonist name of such type of fictions, of uncertain origin.

(Mainland China, fandom slang, usually derogatory) Gary Stu; Marty Stu; a genre of fiction characterized by absurdly competent or perfect protagonists; power fiction


con tinh

The lustful ghost of a virgin woman (in Vietnamese folklore).


ինքնակենսագրություն

head

ինքնակենսագրութիւն

ինքնակենսագրություն • (inkʻnakensagrutʻyun) (traditional orthography spelling ինքնակենսագրութիւն)

hy-noun

ինքնակենսագրութիւն

inkʻnakensagrutʻyun (romanization)
orthography spelling ինքնակենսագրութիւն (traditional)
ինքնակենսագրություն (nominative singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններ (nominative plural)
ինքնակենսագրության (dative singular)
ինքնակենսագրությունների (dative plural)
ինքնակենսագրությունից (ablative singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններից (ablative plural)
ինքնակենսագրությամբ (instrumental singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններով (instrumental plural)
ինքնակենսագրությունում (locative singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններում (locative plural)
ինքնակենսագրությունը (definite nominative singular)
ինքնակենսագրությունն (definite nominative singular)
ինքնակենսագրությունները (definite nominative plural)
ինքնակենսագրություններն (definite nominative plural)
ինքնակենսագրությանը (dative definite singular)
ինքնակենսագրությանն (dative definite singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններին (dative definite plural)
ինքնակենսագրությունս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
ինքնակենսագրությանս (dative first-person possessive singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
ինքնակենսագրությունիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
ինքնակենսագրությամբս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
ինքնակենսագրությունումս (first-person locative possessive singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններումս (first-person locative plural possessive)
ինքնակենսագրությունդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
ինքնակենսագրությանդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
ինքնակենսագրությունիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
ինքնակենսագրությամբդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)
ինքնակենսագրությունումդ (locative possessive second-person singular)
ինքնակենսագրություններումդ (locative plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

ինքնակենսագրություն

ինքնակենսագրությունը/ինքնակենսագրությունն

ինքնակենսագրություններ

ինքնակենսագրությունները/ինքնակենսագրություններն

ինքնակենսագրության

ինքնակենսագրությանը/ինքնակենսագրությանն

ինքնակենսագրությունների, ինքնակենսագրությանց**

ինքնակենսագրություններին

ինքնակենսագրությունից

ինքնակենսագրություններից

ինքնակենսագրությամբ, ինքնակենսագրությունով*

ինքնակենսագրություններով

ինքնակենսագրությունում

ինքնակենսագրություններում

ինքնակենսագրությունս

ինքնակենսագրություններս

ինքնակենսագրությանս

ինքնակենսագրություններիս, ինքնակենսագրությանցս**

ինքնակենսագրությունիցս

ինքնակենսագրություններիցս

ինքնակենսագրությամբս, ինքնակենսագրությունովս*

ինքնակենսագրություններովս

ինքնակենսագրությունումս

ինքնակենսագրություններումս

ինքնակենսագրությունդ

ինքնակենսագրություններդ

ինքնակենսագրությանդ

ինքնակենսագրություններիդ, ինքնակենսագրությանցդ**

ինքնակենսագրությունիցդ

ինքնակենսագրություններիցդ

ինքնակենսագրությամբդ, ինքնակենսագրությունովդ*

ինքնակենսագրություններովդ

ինքնակենսագրությունումդ

ինքնակենսագրություններումդ

ինքն (inkʻn) + -ա- (-a-) + կենսագրություն (kensagrutʻyun)

affix

կենսագրություն


femme-renarde

fr-noun

femme-renarde f (plural femmes-renardes)


dragonflame

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

The records of the battle speak only of rolling smoke and of dragonflame mixed with the white fire of the three Ancients.

1981 November, David J[ames] Ritchie, “A History of the Third Fomorian War: The Last Struggle and Decline of the Sidh in Albion”, in Ares, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Simulations Publications, Inc., section “The Great Worm”, page 7, column 2:

She felt her skin pop and eyes melt in the blast of dragonflame, and the snapping of her bones as his teeth skewered her—

1985, Dave Smeds, The Sorcery Within, New York, N.Y.: Ace Fantasy Books, →ISBN, page 272:

Already weakened by blasts of dragonflame, the dome cracked under the force of impact, and a moment later half of it came tumbling down, crushing both dragon and dragonslayers under tons of broken stone and rubble.

2013, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens”, in George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, editors, Dangerous Women, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, pages 765–766:


basnja

basnja (nominative singular)
basnjat (nominative plural)
basnjan (genitive singular)
basnjoin (genitive plural)
basnjaa (partitive singular)
basnjoja (partitive plural)
basnjaa (illative singular)
basnjoi (illative plural)
basnjaas (inessive singular)
basnjois (inessive plural)
basnjast (elative singular)
basnjoist (elative plural)
basnjalle (allative singular)
basnjoille (allative plural)
basnjaal (adessive singular)
basnjoil (adessive plural)
basnjalt (ablative singular)
basnjoilt (ablative plural)
basnjaks (singular translative)
basnjoiks (plural translative)
basnjanna (essive singular)
basnjaan (essive singular)
basnjoinna (essive plural)
basnjoin (essive plural)
basnjant (exessive singular)
basnjoint (exessive plural)

Speili ja marakatti (Basnja)

1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:


dragonfire

“Spurs!” Imbri sent in a dream like a blast of dragonfire. “Hotter than the breath of Baal, your thought! But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.

1982, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 100:

With a roar of dragonfire something enormous blazed by overhead, as if the Moon itself were dropping onto us.

1982, Mike Scott Rohan, Run to the Stars, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 14:

At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.

2017, Julie Kagawa, Legion, HQ, →ISBN, page 210:


وامپیر

Turkish: vampir

Borrowed from French vampire, probably from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr and ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь (“vampire”).

vampire, a mythological creature said to feed on blood


homeworlder

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the homeworld.


мангака

ru-noun+

манга́ка • (mangáka) m anim (genitive манга́ки, nominative plural манга́ки, genitive plural манга́к)

манга́ка (canonical)
mangáka (romanization)
манга́ки (genitive)
манга́ки (nominative plural)
манга́к (genitive plural)
манга́ка (nominative singular)
манга́ки (nominative plural)
манга́ки (genitive singular)
манга́к (genitive plural)
манга́ке (dative singular)
манга́кам (dative plural)
манга́ку (accusative singular)
манга́к (accusative plural)
манга́кой (instrumental singular)
манга́кою (instrumental singular)
манга́ками (instrumental plural)
манга́ке (prepositional singular)
манга́ках (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画家(まんがか) (mangaka).

A mangaka; a professional manga or anime artist.


タイムマシーン

[ta̠imɯ̟ ma̠ɕĩːɴ]


Horcrux

Alternative letter-case form of horcrux.


Rowldemort

Big ups to Rick Riordan for being a good one. Disappointing that Rowldemort continues to not listen.

2020 June 6, Crow, in Autumn Clad(@unlimitedBLACK), Twitter:

People want to morally justify putting money in Rowldemort's pockets.

2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:

Like seriously, you're being silenced? Then why the fuck do I keep hearing from your ass, huh? Conjure me up an answer to that one, Rowldemort.

2023 April 14, Kilroy A. L. Mioruilt (@superiordriger), Twitter:

(slang, derogatory) J. K. Rowling viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.


Marvelophile

A true Marvelophile can recall even the most obscure Marvel superhero, tell what issue that superhero made its debut in, and deliver a kind of thumbnail biography, including some observation on the character's peculiarities and frailties.

1978 October 10, Bill Marvel, “His web of fantasy has captured the public”, in The Tampa Times, volume 86, number 211, page 4-A:


Rowlingian

en-adj

Rowlingian (comparative more Rowlingian, superlative most Rowlingian)

more Rowlingian (comparative)
most Rowlingian (superlative)

“Nigidius Potter” sounds like a good Rowlingian name, and Publius Nigidius Potter, the friend of Cicero who died in exile in 45 BC, was indeed a wizard.

2000, The Classical Outlook, volume 78/79, American Classical League, page 94, column 1:

In any case, having established its Rowlingian street cred, the film then does what Potter’s adaptors never dared, and turns its protagonist from an 11-year-old British boy into a 13-year-old American one, thus combining old English charm and Connecticut Yankee ingenuity like nothing since Arthurian times.

2007 October 5, Chris Knight, “Too much magic for one kid to handle”, in National Post, volume 9, number 288, page PM7, column 2:

Auntie Muriel taunts Doge about his youthful dedication to Dumbledore, dismissing his affections (“Oh, we all know you worshipped Dumbledore” [DH 154]), and Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth more colorfully condemns Doge’s affection for Albus: “Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did” (DH 563). This line, with typical Rowlingian ambiguity, hints at an anal attraction while refusing to state it.

2011, Tison Pugh, “Dumbledore’s Queer Ghost: Homosexuality and Its Heterosexual Afterlives in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels”, in Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 93:

As we refer to “Shakespearean” English, perhaps those future English speakers will refer to “Rowlingian” English (after the author of the Harry Potter books).

2011, Michael G. Gaunt, “Perspectives: Old English and Middle English”, in Lightning Literature & Composition: British Medieval: Student’s Guide, 2nd edition, Washougal, Wash.: Hewitt Homeschooling, →ISBN, unit 1, lesson 2 (Anglo-Saxon Riddles), page 56:

Broad-stroke storytelling, a critical eye turned towards class differences and tender moments between friends? That's positively Rowlingian!

2012 September 29, Maddie Crum, “'The Casual Vacancy': Harry Potter Fans Will Enjoy JK Rowling's New Book”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-06-28:

The healing power of tears has never been a characteristic of the phoenix in its long development of reception and it is obviously a modern or even ‘Rowlingian’ invention.

2015, Dagmar Hofmann, “The Phoenix, the Werewolf and the Centaur: The Reception of Mythical Beasts in the Harry Potter Novels and their Film Adapatations”, in Filippo Carlà, Irene Berti, editors, Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts, Bloomsbury Academic, published 2016, →ISBN, page 173:

Downes’s desire for narratological absolutes continues with an attack on Rowling’s thematic uncertainties regarding issues such as race, where ‘Rowlingian political correctness, like Rowlingian magic, is a mere superaddition, a futile attempt to control the damage done by a foundational decision not to create a secondary world worthy of the name’ (Downes 173). On the contrary, Rowling’s fusion of realism and fantasy within a Scottish gothic mode enhances the dialogical dynamics of cultural exchange in a series that is rich in its refusal to offer closure and fixed certainties in its engagement with a contemporary world which, similarly, offers no such thing.

2017, Fiona McCulloch, “‘We’re All Human, Aren’t We?’: Scottish Cosmopolitics in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter”, in Contemporary British Children’s Fiction and Cosmopolitanism (Children’s Literature and Culture), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Ethical Endeavours), pages 37–38:

Characteristic of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter.


Darth Vader-esque

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Full of low-angle crotch shots and ominous Darth Vader-esque music, these gross distortions of gay and lesbian life (though mostly it’s gay men’s lives that are depicted) have been making the rounds in Congress and among the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1993 July 2–8, Liz Galst, “Right-wing crotch shots”, in The Boston Phoenix, page 2, column 3:

Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.

1995 October, Steven Puchalski, “Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future?”, in Sci Fi Entertainment, page 36:

Its self-billing as a multimedia sound-and-light show makes it sound grander than it actually is: wax figures are used to depict the hysteria, a Darth Vader-esque voice is used to narrate the show, and thanks to the museums circular seating arrangement, there are significant portions of the performance where you can’t actually see what’s happening.

2008, Sarah Hull, The Rough Guide to Boston, New York, N.Y., London, Delhi: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 237:

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.


Harry-Potterish

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There is a frequent Harry-Potterish deflation of tension; a mounting crisis tends to be resolved before it can cause the reader too much anxiety.

2000 September 21, Daniel Soar, “Willesden Fast-Forward”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 18, page 31; quoted in Janet Witalec, editor, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 158, Gale, 2002, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 248, column 2:

Here the apostle engages in a Harry-Potterish competition in sorcery.

2004, Edward Stourton, Paul of Tarsus: A Visionary Life, HiddenSpring, published 2005, →ISBN, page 77:

She led them through a corridor of Harry-Potterish aspect, past strange and fusty exhibits of rocks and shells and stuffed creatures — likely donated cast-offs of former members — to what had been Lexy’s room during her short stay at the college.

2010, G. M. Malliet, Death at the Alma Mater, Wheeler Publishing, →ISBN, page 255:

[…] the gimnazija has a splendid Harry-Potterish Gothic feel with its arches, long corridors and leather bound library.

2010, Robert MacCurrach, In the Bend of the River: Finding Vojvodina, Novi Sad: Bookstream, →ISBN, page 118:

I look up to ask Guy another question and notice, seemingly out of nowhere, a great horned owl sitting opposite me, near Lynette. It startles me, and I start to scoot back, away from the fire. Lynette laughs and says, “He’s here for you, you know.” “What do you mean?” I ask, thinking of all the old Native American stories connecting owls with death. “A little too Harry-Potterish for you?” she asks playfully.

2014, Jane Peranteau, Jumping, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 80:

Escape the crowds on a walk around the Fern Garden and Arboretum, investigate toxic plants in the Harry-Potterish Poison Garden, or explore the landscaped nooks and crannies of the Rock Close.

2016, Fionn Davenport, Damian Harper, Catherine Le Nevez, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Neil Wilson, Ireland, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 222, column 1:


majestrix

(fiction) A title granted to a female ruler.


trekky

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But our genes are mutable, and like the mutant hamster, we could still be attuned to another planet by a trekky travel clock.

1990 May 15, Hospital Practice, page 130:

DO NOT wear a trekky looking Bluetooth earpiece, unless you are strutting through a Star Trek convention.

2009, Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Favorites Online, Houston, Tex.: Bright Sky Press, →ISBN, page 120:

With barely any religion in Star Trek (exceptions are made for fraudulent religion) there is also no hint of mystery. Everything in the trekky world can be understood.

2015, Guy Collins, Faithful Doubt: The Wisdom of Uncertainty, ISD LLC, →ISBN:

A Trekky-style transporter is unlikely to exist in our lifetimes, if ever, but it’s clear that popular culture has an influence on the direction of scientific experimentation (and vice versa!).

2016, Lliana Bird, Jack Lewis, The Mice Who Sing for Sex, Sphere, →ISBN, page 292:

When online, we encounter writing systems and heroic fantasies that come from the past but also from the future, as Snowden describes the trekky fantasy of the NSA chief.

2019, Tarek El-Ariss, Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, Princeton, N.J., Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 178:

A trekky appearance, I’ve seen those movies and Jupiter Rising, no doubt have jet boots, […]

2021, Paul Stansby, The Dimension Hopper & the Outer Space Guys:

Well, I thought the trekky look of a communicator that you whack to activate was kind of a cool idea.

2022, Curtis Wilbur, Tides of Air: An Inferno-Earth Series Novel, →ISBN:


Star Warsian

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Basking in the afterglow of a virtually quintupled effects budget, and fearing that their gargantuan TV-movie script would ultimately just seem puny on the silver screen, Roddenberry and company began revising that script, puffing and packing it with long, loving exteriors of the Enterprise, dramatic space walks, and decidedly Star Wars'''ian visuals.

1994, William Shatner, Chris Kreski, Star Trek Movie Memories, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 63:

Which leads to another fault in the game, namely that if I can’t even remember the names of the damn characters, I certainly don’t particularly care about them. Another Star Warsian faux pas, since part of the beauty of the Star Wars universe and the star players therein is that you really root for the heroes and despise the bad guys.

2002 May, John Davison, “Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter”, in Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, number 56, page 103, column 3:

Kate Winslet is no longer topless in Titanic, bloody bullet wounds disappear in The Matrix, and swords, reminiscent of biblical ploughshares, have been beat into Star Warsian light beams in The Princess Bride.

2003, John Fischer, Finding God Where You Least Expect Him, Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, →ISBN, page 93:

You can superimpose your Star Warsian title across any background, including stills and video clips from the videos that you took; […]

2007, Carl Plumer, Hollywood Special Effects with Adobe® Premiere® Elements 3, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 43:

We are connected to something larger than ourselves, be that God, Gaia, Brahma-Atman, or a Star Warsian force accessible through Yoda.

2008, Timothy L. Fort, Prophets, Profits, and Peace: The Positive Role of Business in Promoting Religious Tolerance, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

The Tempest is Shakespeare’s biggest play, like a Star Warsian epic as I watched the actors on stage I could see the character of Prospero having been used as the template of Lucas’ Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.

2009, Tyler Richard Ragan, The Bard’s Spirit: Shakespeare’s Social Gospel, Bookstand Publishing, →ISBN:

And by ‘On The Horizon’, we mean spatially, as Disney is keeping its new Star Wars app in the US for now. But were it here, or were you there, you’d be enjoying the ability to upload selfies into Star Warsian scenarios, and to have your local weather translated onto well-known galactic locales.

Resembling or characteristic of the Star Wars franchise.