completist

completist - A dope who tries to have a complete collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during one's incumbency in some office. […]

[1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Completist:

Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist.

1953 Winter, William "Bob" Tucker, “The Philadelphia Story”, in Science Fiction Newsletter, number 28, archived from the original on 2019-12-22, page 13:

There's no new material on it, just previously issued bits and pieces. That rules out the completist collector. Go figure.

1997 June, Harvey Pekar, “CD Reviews”, in JazzTimes, →ISSN, pages 120–121:

But it’s even harder for me, because… I am a completist. Once I start reading an author’s work, I need to read everything that writer has written. I can’t veer away. I need to check all that author’s books off my mental list. My knowledge of their work must be complete.

2008 June 21, Matt Selman, “The Completist”, in Time:

But in conversations with people who listen at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists. That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to.

2017 November 12, Doree Shafrir, “Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds”, in BuzzFeed News:

Then a bunch of commercially cynical books […] designed to capitalize on the wise-man status that his death conferred and (in my case successfully) to separate Wallace completists from their money.

2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

(originally science fiction fandom slang) A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.


singing cowboy

en-noun

singing cowboy (countable and uncountable, plural singing cowboys)

(music) A subgenre of country music and western music honoring the cowboy life and the West.


alternative country

A kind of indie country music meshing traditional forms of country music with diverse musical styles like folk, pop, punk and heavy metal.

country alternative

subgenre of country music influenced by other musical styles


close harmony

A style of music where the chords are arranged within a narrow range, and the vocal styles of two or more singers either complement or are similar to each other.


country music

A shortening of country and western. This version has been predominant since the 1950s.

He's a handsome country singer who plays the guitar with his beautiful girlfriend who plays the drums!

(music) A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.

old-time country

considered either coordinate or hyponymous


countrypolitan

A subgenre of country music, a development of the Nashville sound, produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, containing elements of popular music, including string sections and background vocals.


big beat

(music) A form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo.


darkling

(fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.


breakbeat

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music, uncountable) A genre of electronic dance music based on such syncopated rhythms.


genio

Borrowed from French génie, of Latin influence but based on Arabic جِنّ (jinn).

(folklore, mythology, fantasy) jinn, genie


RTS

RTS (countable and uncountable, plural RTSs or RTSes or RTS's)

RTSs (plural)
RTSes (plural)
RTS's (plural)

real-time strategy
real-time strategy#English

(video games) Initialism of real-time strategy.


rock music

Shortening of rock and roll music, in use since circa 1966 to refer to genres of popular music which had grown sufficiently distinct from 1950s rock and roll.

(music) A broad genre of popular music, including especially those styles ultimately derived from rock and roll, employing electrical amplification, heavy use of guitars, 4/4 time with strong percussive rhythm on beats two and four (backbeat), and usually themes of bold wildness, rebellion, and sexuality.


hippocampe

Learned borrowing from Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).


monkey boy

(derogatory, science fiction) Term of offense directed at male humans in general.


character class

en-noun

character class (plural character classes)

(roleplaying games) One of a number of pre-determined groups into which characters in role-playing games are grouped, based on the focus of their skills.


hellcat

Coordinate term: hellhound

The hellfire abilities were reserved for special kinds of demons. Hellcats, demon princes, and—you guessed it—hellhounds. / Of the three, Vanessa would prefer to not deal with the hellhounds. Unlike hellcats and demon princes, they had the worst attitude, and they usually traveled in small groupings.

2017, Nia Rose, Spellbound & Hellhounds (Coven Chronicles; 1), Poisoned Apple Publishing, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 9:

The Scourge was still a new concept to Logan, but hey, hellhounds and hellcats had to come from somewhere. / “Okay, so what does the ritual entail?” Esme asked. “If you need stuff for it, I’ve probably got it.” / “We’re going to need a Seal of Solomon drawn in blood,” Ceri said.

2020, Andrea Speed, Darlings of New Midnight, DSP Publications, →ISBN:

“These hellcats…they’re not the cute, fluffy kind that Caim and Seth played fetch with. They’e bigger and louder. Like dragons with lion heads.” / That was the second mention of hellcats that looked like lions.

2021, Angela Roquet, Life After Death (Return to Limbo City: A Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. Spin-Off; 1), Violent Siren Press, →ISBN:


acid jazz

Humorously coined by DJ Gilles Peterson after blending jazz records with acid house in 1988.

(music, jazz) A genre of popular music combining jazz with elements of soul music, funk and disco.


acid jazz

Unadapted borrowing from English acid jazz.

ubor

(music) acid jazz (music combining jazz with elements of soul music, funk and disco)


X-ray vision

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(fiction, by extension) The ability or superpower to see through most or all solid objects as if they were transparent.


fembot

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Blend of female + -bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Yes, the girl is valuable. But, my fembots can do anything she can.

1976 October 27, Arthur Rowe, Oliver Crawford, Kill Oscar (The Bionic Woman), season 2, episode 5, spoken by Dr. Franklin (John Houseman):

Jawohl, Herr Doktor. I have created the ultimate weapon to defeat Austin Powers. Send in the fembots!

1997, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, spoken by Frau Farbissina (Mindy Sterling):

The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

2003, Jyanni Steffensen, “Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity”, in Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(science fiction) A robot in female or feminine form.

A robot in female or feminine form.
A female sexbot.


photokinesis

en-noun

photokinesis (usually uncountable, plural photokineses)

(parapsychology, science fiction) The ability to mentally manipulate light.


MMO

massively multiplayer online game#English

(video games) Initialism of massively multiplayer online game.


real-time strategy

(video games) A warfare video game genre usually played from a third-person overhead perspective, which is based on the real-time movement of troops.

reaaliaikainen strategiapeli

video game genre characterised by real-time movement of troops


जाज़

jāz (romanization)
جاز (Urdu)
जाज़ (direct singular)
जाज़ें (direct plural)
जाज़ (oblique singular)
जाज़ों (oblique plural)
जाज़ (singular vocative)
जाज़ो (plural vocative)


այս

ays (romanization)
այս (nominative singular)
այսեր (nominative plural)
այսի (dative singular)
այսերի (dative plural)
այսից (ablative singular)
այսերից (ablative plural)
այսով (instrumental singular)
այսերով (instrumental plural)
այսը (definite nominative singular)
այսն (definite nominative singular)
այսերը (definite nominative plural)
այսերն (definite nominative plural)
այսին (dative definite singular)
այսերին (dative definite plural)
այսս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
այսերս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
այսիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
այսերիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
այսիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
այսերիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
այսովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
այսերովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
այսդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
այսերդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
այսիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
այսերիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
այսիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
այսերիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
այսովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
այսերովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

այսերը/այսերն

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian այս (ays).


रॉक

hi-noun

रॉक • (rŏk) ?


पॉप

pŏp (romanization)
پوپ (Urdu)
पॉप (direct singular)
पॉप (direct plural)
पॉप (oblique singular)
पॉपों (oblique plural)
पॉप (singular vocative)
पॉपो (plural vocative)


վիշապ

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վիշապ • (višap)

hy-noun

վիշապ • (višap)

višap (romanization)
վիշապ (nominative singular)
վիշապներ (nominative plural)
վիշապի (dative singular)
վիշապների (dative plural)
վիշապից (ablative singular)
վիշապներից (ablative plural)
վիշապով (instrumental singular)
վիշապներով (instrumental plural)
վիշապը (definite nominative singular)
վիշապն (definite nominative singular)
վիշապները (definite nominative plural)
վիշապներն (definite nominative plural)
վիշապին (dative definite singular)
վիշապներին (dative definite plural)
վիշապս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
վիշապներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
վիշապիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
վիշապներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
վիշապիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
վիշապներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
վիշապովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
վիշապներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
վիշապդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
վիշապիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
վիշապիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
վիշապովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
վիշապներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

վիշապը/վիշապն

վիշապները/վիշապներն


վիշապ

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վիշապ • (višap)

xcl-noun

վիշապ • (višap)

višap (romanization)
վիշապ (nominative singular)
վիշապք (nominative plural)
վիշապի (genitive singular)
վիշապաց (genitive plural)
վիշապի (dative singular)
վիշապաց (dative plural)
վիշապ (accusative singular)
վիշապս (accusative plural)
վիշապէ (ablative singular)
վիշապաց (ablative plural)
վիշապաւ (instrumental singular)
վիշապի (locative singular)
վիշապս (locative plural)

xcl-decl-noun

վիշապաւք = վիշապօք

Armenian: վիշապ (višap)

Borrowed from Iranian. Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬌𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (višāpa, “an epithet of a dragon”). Georgian ვეშაპი (vešaṗi) is also from Iranian.


bilocation

en-noun

bilocation (countable and uncountable, plural bilocations)

Throyle explained about the mysterious shamanic power known as bilocation, which enables those with the gift literally to be in two or more places, often widely separated, at the same time.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 159:

(Forteana) The ability to be, or fact of being, in two places at once.


esfinge

Borrowed from Latin Sphingem, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).


օպերա

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օպերա • (ōpera)

hy-noun

օպերա • (ōpera)

ōpera (romanization)
օպերա (nominative singular)
օպերաներ (nominative plural)
օպերայի (dative singular)
օպերաների (dative plural)
օպերայից (ablative singular)
օպերաներից (ablative plural)
օպերայով (instrumental singular)
օպերաներով (instrumental plural)
օպերայում (locative singular)
օպերաներում (locative plural)
օպերան (definite nominative singular)
օպերաները (definite nominative plural)
օպերաներն (definite nominative plural)
օպերային (dative definite singular)
օպերաներին (dative definite plural)
օպերաս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
օպերաներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
օպերայիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
օպերաներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
օպերայիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
օպերաներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
օպերայովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
օպերաներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
օպերայումս (first-person locative possessive singular)
օպերաներումս (first-person locative plural possessive)
օպերադ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
օպերաներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
օպերայիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
օպերաներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
օպերայիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
օպերաներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
օպերայովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
օպերաներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)
օպերայումդ (locative possessive second-person singular)
օպերաներումդ (locative plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

օպերաները/օպերաներն

օպերաներումս

օպերաներումդ


hydrokinesis

(fantasy, science fiction) The psychic ability to manipulate or control water


subspace

en-noun

subspace (countable and uncountable, plural subspaces)

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(uncountable, science fiction) Any (often unspecified) method of communicating or travelling faster than light speed.

(uncountable, science fiction) An alternative dimension or universe, access to or use of which permits faster-than-light travel or communications; hyperspace.


electroclash

Electroclash began as an esoteric offshoot of techno, revisiting some of the genre's original sonic touchstones: Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa and New York disco.

2002 March 22, Dorian Lynskey, “Out with the old, in with the older”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Oft-derided, even in its 2002 heyday, no one expected electroclash to last. But, just as sonic heirs such as La Roux or Little Boots capitalise on their groundwork, the old electro guard return with works of real solidity and depth.

2009 April 24, Tony Naylor, “Emerging victorious”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A music style from the late 1990s fusing dance music, punk and electronic.


drum and bass

Coordinate term: jungle

(music) A style of electronic dance music focusing heavily on loud bass and fast-tempo drumbeats.


ent

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
ent

Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times.
Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.

lbor

[…]and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).

2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass:

But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.

2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:

Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.

2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98:

Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.

2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37:

In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.

2017, Inga Simpson, Understory, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.


գրող

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գրող • (groġ)

hy-noun

գրող • (groġ)

groġ (romanization)
գրող (nominative singular)
գրողներ (nominative plural)
գրողի (dative singular)
գրողների (dative plural)
գրողից (ablative singular)
գրողներից (ablative plural)
գրողով (instrumental singular)
գրողներով (instrumental plural)
գրողը (definite nominative singular)
գրողն (definite nominative singular)
գրողները (definite nominative plural)
գրողներն (definite nominative plural)
գրողին (dative definite singular)
գրողներին (dative definite plural)
գրողս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
գրողներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
գրողիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
գրողներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
գրողիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
գրողներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
գրողովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
գրողներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
գրողդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
գրողներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
գրողիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
գրողներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
գրողիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
գրողներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
գրողովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
գրողներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

գրողները/գրողներն

գրողը տանի

exclamation of anger and frustration; to hell with it!

գնա՛ գրողի ծոցը

գրող ու ցավ

an evil spirit or angel of death in Armenian folklore; used in various expressions


astral plane

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

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

The realm of the astral plane is an intermediate realm; below is the world of matter, above is the world of pure Being.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 221:

(parapsychology, theosophy, fantasy) A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.


qawwali

en-noun

qawwali (countable and uncountable, plural qawwalis)

From Urdu قوالی (qawwālī), from Classical Persian قوالی (qawwālī).

Jameela Siddiqi listens to qawwali and talks to its performers […].

1994, Simon Broughton, World Music: The Rough Guide:

(music, uncountable) A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the South Asian Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.


treknobabble

/ˈtɹɛknəʊˌbæbəl/

I'd sooner trust treknobabble for an explanation than any thing you say.

1997 September 24, $teve2, “Re: SUNBURN : If you were not watching GITM”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

So you think up something like Voyager meets some Romulans stranded in the DQ, or some treknobabble takes down the command staff and Seven assumes command.

1999 December 29, Bozo the Proctologist, “Re: Bad Voyager Plots”, in alt.tv.star-trek.voyager (Usenet):

Even if they won using the power of treknobabble, this force ratio does not show the audience how mighty and dangerous the Imperial warships are […]

2003 December 17, Kazuaki Shimazaki, “The More Detailed Critique”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):

A kind of technobabble particular to the Star Trek universe, with a particularly heavy emphasis on configurations of pseudoscientific particles and waves.


óriás

óriások (plural)
óriás (nominative singular)
óriások (nominative plural)
óriást (accusative singular)
óriásokat (accusative plural)
óriásnak (dative singular)
óriásoknak (dative plural)
óriással (instrumental singular)
óriásokkal (instrumental plural)
óriásért (causal-final singular)
óriásokért (causal-final plural)
óriássá (singular translative)
óriásokká (plural translative)
óriásig (singular terminative)
óriásokig (plural terminative)
óriásként (essive-formal singular)
óriásokként (essive-formal plural)
óriásban (inessive singular)
óriásokban (inessive plural)
óriáson (singular superessive)
óriásokon (plural superessive)
óriásnál (adessive singular)
óriásoknál (adessive plural)
óriásba (illative singular)
óriásokba (illative plural)
óriásra (singular sublative)
óriásokra (plural sublative)
óriáshoz (allative singular)
óriásokhoz (allative plural)
óriásból (elative singular)
óriásokból (elative plural)
óriásról (delative singular)
óriásokról (delative plural)
óriástól (ablative singular)
óriásoktól (ablative plural)
óriásé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
óriásoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
óriáséi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
óriásokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
óriásom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
óriásaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
óriásod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
óriásaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
óriása (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
óriásai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
óriásunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
óriásaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
óriásotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
óriásaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
óriásuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
óriásaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

→ Romanian: uriaș

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: орѝја̄ш

Latin script: orìjāš

desc

→ Slovene: orják, orjaš, orijaš (now less often)

Of disputed origin. Either a loanword from Russian оря́сина (orjásina) or the proper noun Uriás (“Uriah”) becoming a common noun.

vörös óriás

(astronomy) giant (a star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature)


törpe

hu-adj

törpe (comparative törpébb, superlative legtörpébb)

törpébb (comparative)
legtörpébb (superlative)
törpe (nominative singular)
törpék (nominative plural)
törpét (accusative singular)
törpéket (accusative plural)
törpének (dative singular)
törpéknek (dative plural)
törpével (instrumental singular)
törpékkel (instrumental plural)
törpéért (causal-final singular)
törpékért (causal-final plural)
törpévé (singular translative)
törpékké (plural translative)
törpéig (singular terminative)
törpékig (plural terminative)
törpeként (essive-formal singular)
törpékként (essive-formal plural)
törpében (inessive singular)
törpékben (inessive plural)
törpén (singular superessive)
törpéken (plural superessive)
törpénél (adessive singular)
törpéknél (adessive plural)
törpébe (illative singular)
törpékbe (illative plural)
törpére (singular sublative)
törpékre (plural sublative)
törpéhez (allative singular)
törpékhez (allative plural)
törpéből (elative singular)
törpékből (elative plural)
törpéről (delative singular)
törpékről (delative plural)
törpétől (ablative singular)
törpéktől (ablative plural)
törpéé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
törpéké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
törpééi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
törpékéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)

Nominalization of the present participle (formed with -e (obsolete present-participle suffix)) of an unattested stem, from töpik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”) + -r (frequentative suffix); compare töpörödik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”). The current form developed by metathesis and the reduction of the second vowel. First attested in 1219.

af

-e#Hungarian: participle<pos:obsolete present-participle suffix>

töpik<t:to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle>


encantar

es-verb

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, first-person singular preterite encanté, past participle encantado)

encanto (first-person present singular)
encanté (first-person preterite singular)
encantado (participle past)
encantar (infinitive)
encantando (gerund)
encantado (masculine participle past singular)
encantada (feminine participle past singular)
encantados (masculine participle past plural)
encantadas (feminine participle past plural)
encanto (first-person indicative present singular)
encantas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
encantás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
encanta (indicative present singular third-person)
encantamos (first-person indicative plural present)
encantáis (indicative plural present second-person)
encantan (indicative plural present third-person)
encantaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
encantabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
encantaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
encantábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
encantabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
encantaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
encanté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
encantaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
encantó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
encantamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
encantasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
encantaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
encantaré (first-person future indicative singular)
encantarás (future indicative second-person singular)
encantará (future indicative singular third-person)
encantaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
encantaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
encantarán (future indicative plural third-person)
encantaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
encantarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
encantaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
encantaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
encantaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
encantarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
encante (first-person present singular subjunctive)
encantes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
encantés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
encante (present singular subjunctive third-person)
encantemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
encantéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
encanten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
encantara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
encantaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
encantara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
encantáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
encantarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
encantaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
encantase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
encantases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
encantase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
encantásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
encantaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
encantasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
encantare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
encantares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
encantare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
encantáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
encantareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
encantaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
encanta (imperative informal second-person singular)
encantá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
encante (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
encante (imperative singular third-person)
encantemos (first-person imperative plural)
encantad (imperative plural second-person)
encanten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
encanten (imperative plural third-person)
encantes (imperative negative second-person singular)
encante (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
encante (imperative negative singular third-person)
encantemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
encantéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
encanten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
encanten (imperative negative plural third-person)
encantarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
encantarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
encantarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
encantaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
encantarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
encantarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
encantarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
encantaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
encantarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
encantándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
encantándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
encantándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
encantándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
encantándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
encantándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
encantándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
encantándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encántame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
encántales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
encántalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encantame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
encantales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
encantalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encánteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
encántele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
encánteles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encánteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
encántelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
encántelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encántelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encantémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
encantémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
encantémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
encantémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
encantémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
encantémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
encantémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encantadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encantaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
encantadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encantadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encantaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
encantadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encántenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encántenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encántenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encántenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

[ẽŋ.kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

From Latin incantāre, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Equivalent to en- + cantar.

Me encantan los mariscos.


omniverse

(science fiction) The entire set of co-existing universes, multiverses, etc.


aloja

(folklore) a type of nymph or fairy woman believed to dwell in springs, pools, waterfalls, and lakes in areas of natural beauty


aloja

(historical) a drink made of hydromel flavoured with spices


harrowing of hell

en-noun

harrowing of hell (plural harrowings of hell)

Not the direct vision of the harrowings of hell as reported, for example, by many Christian visionaries, but accounts given by the departed souls themselves are more frequent and typical features of Jewish moralist writing.

1977, Raphael Werblowsky, Joseph Karo: lawyer and mystic, 2nd edition, page 44:

Of the four harrowings of hell that are cornerstones of Western literature […], we can eliminate the oldest.

2003, Robert J. Andreach, Drawing upon the Past: Classical Theatre in the Contemporary American Theatre, page 36:

[…] the Hero Twins go on to defeat Xibalba and its ghastly denizens, a true Harrowing of Hell.

2007, Sophie & Michael Coe, The True History of Chocolate, page 39:

(mythology, theology) A raid into the underworld by a heroic figure.


dwarven

en-adj

dwarven (comparative more dwarven, superlative most dwarven)

more dwarven (comparative)
most dwarven (superlative)

(fantasy) Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarfs/dwarves.


UTSL

A pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in Star Wars.

(Internet) Initialism of use the source, Luke.


dadrock

(colloquial) Rock music that appeals to an older generation, or that is heavily influenced by that of an earlier era.


elven

English: elven, elfe (obsolete)

From Old English elfen, ælfen (“nymph, spirit, fairy”), feminine of elf, ælf (“elf”); by surface analysis, elf + en (feminine suffix). Compare Middle High German elbinne (“fairy, nymph”).

cog

Ofte in fourme of wommane In many derne weye grete compaygnie men i-seoth of heom boþe hoppie and pleiᵹe, þat Eluene beoth i-cleopede

(Oft in the form of women, in very stealthy ways, great numbers of men see fallen angels both happy and playful, that Elvene are embraced,)

& ofte in wimmen fourme hii comeþ to men al so, Þat men clupeþ eluene. —

1300, The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester:

(& oft in women form come hither to men, so that men lay with the elvene.)

A (especially female) elf, a fairy, nymph


baila

Unfortunately Wellington noise control cut short the party after 3 a.m., when drunken baila broke the decibel level.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 322:

(music) A genre of music from Sri Lanka and India, mainly using European instruments and rhythms.


cante

(music, Portugal) genre of traditional music from the Portuguese region of Alentejo, usually performed a cappella by amateur choral groups


corrido

The Mexican corrido remains essentially true to these Iberian roots in regard to its poetic form and its handling of narrative subjects. It is probable that the term corrido is a shortening of the term romance corrido, meaning a through-sung ballad, as attested in Spanish usage during the sixteenth century (Simmons 1963).

2015, John Holmes McDowell, ¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 2:

(music) A Mexican or Mexican-American ballad or folk song.


netherworld

From nether- (“beneath, lower”) + world.

The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld.

Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.


encanto

Deverbal from encantar. Cognate with Portuguese encanto and Italian incanto.

(folklore) apparition, otherworldly entity


enlatado

pt-adj

enlatado (feminine enlatada, masculine plural enlatados, feminine plural enlatadas)

enlatada (feminine)
enlatados (masculine plural)
enlatadas (feminine plural)

Kon-Tiki teria tudo para ser apenas mais um blockbuster: uma grande aventura, uma história de amor e até mesmo um galã. Mas o filme norueguês transcendeu os clichês do cinema enlatado à la Hollywood – e talvez por isso não tenha levado o Oscar na noite passada.

2013 February 14, Henrique Kugler, “A épica travessia de Thor Heyerdahl”, in Ciência Hoje, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Ciência Hoje:

(film, Brazil) canned (standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization)


enlatado

Bem mais pragmático, o diretor de programação da Record, Luiz Cláudio Costa, diz que exibir programação nacional ou internacional segue uma determinação simples: depende da relação entre custo e benefício. "Aqui mostramos o que o telespectador quer ver. Às vezes um "enlatado" pode ser mais barato e não dar audiência. Ou um conteúdo nacional também pode não atrair público", afirma.

2001 October 21, Rodrigo Dionisio, quoting Luiz Cláudio Costa, “SBT é campeão absoluto dos "enlatados"”, in TV Folha, São Paulo: Folha de S. Paulo:

(film, Brazil) an imported made-for-TV movie, especially one with poor production values


cha-cha

From Cuban/Latin American Spanish cha-cha, imitative of the music.

onomatopoeic

imitative


forró

Clipping of forrobodó (“chaotic situation”).

clipping

(music, dance) type of music and dance that originated in Northeastern Brazil


gloso

gloso (indefinite nominative singular)
glosos (genitive indefinite singular)
gloson (definite nominative singular)
glosons (definite genitive singular)
glosor (indefinite nominative plural)
glosors (genitive indefinite plural)
glosorna (definite nominative plural)
glosornas (definite genitive plural)

Compound of glo (“stare”) + so (“sow”). According to SAOB attested since 1863.

(folklore, Southern) A (often) white pig or boar with red sparking glowing eyes, large snout and fiery tusks, occasionally with a sharp serrated back and a tendency to run twixt the legs and cleave their victim.


what-if

en-verb

what-if (third-person singular simple present what-ifs, present participle what-iffing, simple past and past participle what-iffed)

what-ifs (present singular third-person)
what-iffing (participle present)
what-iffed (participle past)
what-iffed (past)

Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

(informal) To speculate about the consequences of something that could have happened.


LGM

little green man
little green man#English


little green man

en-noun

little green man (plural little green men)

[ˌlɪ.ɾɫ̩ ˈɡɹɪ̃i̯m ˌmɛ̃ə̯n̆]

[ˌlɪ.t͡ʔɫ̩ ˈɡɹɪ̃i̯m ˌmãn̆]

[ˌlɘ.ɾɯ ˈɡɹɘ̯ĩm ˌmɛ̞̃n̆]

կանաչ մարդուկ

humorous: space alien, Martian — see also alien

An engram is NOT [...] One of the little green men Americans claim have crashed in flying saucers.

1950 December 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 5:

(chiefly science fiction) A conventional fictional alien from outer space in the form of a small humanoid with green skin.

(humorous) One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs.

These infamous little green men appeared during the decisive seizures or buildings and facilities, only to disappear when associated militias and local troops arrived to consolidate the gains. In this way they provided a measure of deniability—however superficial or implausible—for Moscow.⁴⁰

2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 43:

The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:

The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.

2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation:

(geopolitics, euphemistic, usually in the plural) A soldier lacking identification as to create uncertainty around their allegiance (most notably seen with affiliation to the Russian Federation following associated campaigns 2014 in Ukraine).


superhuman

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

From Medieval Latin superhūmānus. By surface analysis, super- + human.

Here is a man who, during a potentially testy moment of promotion, retained the clarity of thought to reach deep down into himself, locate the purest possible version of his personality and say: “Fuck you.” What a superhuman he is.

2023 November 14, Stuart Heritage, “Actors are back on the promo beat. And – as Adam Driver shows – this time, they mean business”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A human with remarkable abilities or superpowers.


intermezzo

intermezzo (nominative singular)
intermezza (nominative plural)
intermezza (genitive singular)
intermezzów (genitive plural)
intermezzu (dative singular)
intermezzom (dative plural)
intermezzo (accusative singular)
intermezza (accusative plural)
intermezzem (instrumental singular)
intermezzami (instrumental plural)
intermezzu (locative singular)
intermezzach (locative plural)
intermezzo (singular vocative)
intermezza (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian intermezzo.

ubor

(music, opera) intermezzo (short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle)

(historical, music, opera) intermezzo (musical and dramatic interlude of a comic character, performed in the antracts of Italian opera in the 17th–18th centuries)


manó

manók (plural)
manó (nominative singular)
manók (nominative plural)
manót (accusative singular)
manókat (accusative plural)
manónak (dative singular)
manóknak (dative plural)
manóval (instrumental singular)
manókkal (instrumental plural)
manóért (causal-final singular)
manókért (causal-final plural)
manóvá (singular translative)
manókká (plural translative)
manóig (singular terminative)
manókig (plural terminative)
manóként (essive-formal singular)
manókként (essive-formal plural)
manóban (inessive singular)
manókban (inessive plural)
manón (singular superessive)
manókon (plural superessive)
manónál (adessive singular)
manóknál (adessive plural)
manóba (illative singular)
manókba (illative plural)
manóra (singular sublative)
manókra (plural sublative)
manóhoz (allative singular)
manókhoz (allative plural)
manóból (elative singular)
manókból (elative plural)
manóról (delative singular)
manókról (delative plural)
manótól (ablative singular)
manóktól (ablative plural)
manóé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
manóké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
manóéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
manókéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
manóm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
manóim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
manód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
manóid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
manója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
manói (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
manónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
manóink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
manótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
manóitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
manójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
manóik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


serena

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


suban

head

suban (definite accusative subani, plural subanlar)

subani (accusative definite)
subanlar (plural)
suban (nominative singular)
subanler (nominative plural)
subani (accusative definite singular)
subanleri (accusative definite plural)
subane (dative singular)
subanlere (dative plural)
subande (locative singular)
subanlerde (locative plural)
subanden (ablative singular)
subanlerden (ablative plural)
subanin (genitive singular)
subanlerin (genitive plural)
subanim (first-person nominative singular)
subanlerim (first-person nominative singular)
subanin (nominative second-person singular)
subanlerin (nominative second-person singular)
subani (nominative singular third-person)
subanleri (nominative singular third-person)
subanimiz (first-person nominative plural)
subanlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
subaniniz (nominative plural second-person)
subanleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
subanleri (nominative plural third-person)
subanimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
subanlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
subanini (accusative definite second-person singular)
subanlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
subanini (accusative definite singular third-person)
subanlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
subanimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
subanlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
subaninizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
subanlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
subanlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
subanime (dative first-person singular)
subanlerime (dative first-person singular)
subanine (dative second-person singular)
subanlerine (dative second-person singular)
subanine (dative singular third-person)
subanlerine (dative singular third-person)
subanimize (dative first-person plural)
subanlerimize (dative first-person plural)
subaninize (dative plural second-person)
subanlerinize (dative plural second-person)
subanlerine (dative plural third-person)
subanimde (first-person locative singular)
subanlerimde (first-person locative singular)
subaninde (locative second-person singular)
subanlerinde (locative second-person singular)
subaninde (locative singular third-person)
subanlerinde (locative singular third-person)
subanimizde (first-person locative plural)
subanlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
subaninizde (locative plural second-person)
subanlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
subanlerinde (locative plural third-person)
subanimden (ablative first-person singular)
subanlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
subaninden (ablative second-person singular)
subanlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
subaninden (ablative singular third-person)
subanlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
subanimizden (ablative first-person plural)
subanlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
subaninizden (ablative plural second-person)
subanlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
subanlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
subanimin (first-person genitive singular)
subanlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
subaninin (genitive second-person singular)
subanlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
subaninin (genitive singular third-person)
subanlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
subanimizin (first-person genitive plural)
subanlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
subaninizin (genitive plural second-person)
subanlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
subanlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish ثعبان (suʿban), from Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”).


gnomish

Whoever had taken Vanessa had brushed past the gnomish wizard with no more thought than one gave a mosquito, and the result of that encounter had been astonishingly violent—and final.

2011, David Niall Wilson, Heart of a Dragon:

(fantasy) Belonging to a race of gnomes.


hobgoblin

From hob (“elf”, from Hob, a variant of Rob, short for Robin Goodfellow, an elf in German folklore) + goblin.

af

a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

A M. Berbiguier lately published an elaborate work, in three huge volumes, in which he demonstrated the existence of hobgoblins, described the proper manner of capturing and securing them, and took credit to himself for his zeal for the benefit of mankind, in allowing no day to pass without imprisoning, with his own hands, at least thirty hobgoblins. A writer of biographical notices of contemporary authors, who believed neither in M. Berbiguier's manner of catching hobgoblins nor in the existence of hobgoblins did not scruple to say that M. Berbiguier was mad, and upon this M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.

1837, Albany Fonblanque, England Under Seven Administrations, volume 1, page 98:

The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.

2005, Scott Harper, Winter's Rite, page 142:

The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin. But he reveals his hobgoblin nature through music.

2007, “Introduction: Phonoplay: Recasting Film Music”, in Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard D. Leppert, editors, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, page 1:

A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.


houri

From French houri, from Persian حوری (hurî), from Arabic حُورِيّ (ḥūriyy) and Arabic حُورِيَّة (ḥūriyya), adjective and feminine singulative of حُور (ḥūr) from Classical Arabic حُورٌ عِينٌ (ḥūrun ʕīnun, “fair maidens, black-eyed ones”). See أَحْوَر m (ʔaḥwar), حَوْرَاء f (ḥawrāʔ) for the base adjective.

We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris.

2002 January 12, Ibn Warraq, “Virgins? What virgins?”, in The Guardian:

The repetition of material about the houri suggests that the popularization of that figure occurred as early as the ninth century and continued well into the twelfth century. By then, the houri had become a kind of metonymy for the Garden, as well as an accepted object. A new role of the houri as the superlative being of the Garden emerged through the use of traditions, and most of all the structure of the text. Al-Qadi's text provides an excellent example of the importance of the houri.

2009, Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 114:

What if in paradise there are no houris waiting? / What if but all you get are grapes, succulent grapes? / What if it's all just a mistake in the translation?

2013, “What If…?”, in Still Smiling, performed by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld:

Although the beauty of houris is described in terms of cosmic pureness and sumptuary materials, the qiyan are understood through attributes and affects. Yet, the houris have one constitutive attribute. They are fair and they have big eyes. Is the houri based on any particular model of beauty or a kind of female slave? Ibn Butlan, in his Risalafi shira'al-raqiq wa-taqlib al-abid, offers a rubric for female slaves; however, the descriptions of houris do not align with other descriptions of slaves.

2017, Matthew S. Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain, Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

(Islam) A beautiful virgin girl supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.

حَوْرَاء

(Islam) a nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin

I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio; gazelle-eyes, houri forms and all!

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IX, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 242:

“The town is full of temptations, sir,” continued Pen. The old gentleman thought of that houri, Mrs. O’Leary.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

(by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.


futanari

en-noun

futanari (countable and uncountable, plural futanari or futanaris)

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From Japanese ふたなり (futanari, “hermaphrodite”), from 二(ふた)つ (futatsu, “two”) + 形(なり) (nari, “shape, form”) or 態(なり) (nari).

(uncountable, Japanese pornography) A genre of Japanese pornography featuring intersex or hermaphroditic characters that are depicted as attractive, usually works containing female characters with a penis and sometimes testicles.

فُوتَانَارِي

genre of pornography featuring intersex characters


futanari

From Japanese ふたなり (futanari, “hermaphrodite”).

(Japanese pornography) futanari (pornography genre featuing intersex characters)


futanari

id-noun

futanari (first-person possessive futanariku, second-person possessive futanarimu, third-person possessive futanarinya)

futanariku (first-person possessive)
futanarimu (possessive second-person)
futanarinya (possessive third-person)


Lehen

Lehen (absolutive indefinite)
Lehenek (ergative indefinite)
Leheni (dative indefinite)
Lehenen (genitive indefinite)
Lehenekin (comitative indefinite)
Lehenengatik (causative indefinite)
Lehenentzat (benefactive indefinite)
Lehenez (indefinite instrumental)
Lehenengan (indefinite inessive)
Lehenengana (allative indefinite)
Lehenenganaino (indefinite terminative)
Lehenenganantz (directive indefinite)
Lehenenganako (destinative indefinite)
Lehenengandik (ablative indefinite)
Lehenik (indefinite partitive)
Lehentzat (indefinite prolative)

Orhit düzia Lehen-Süge hura ikhusirik, jinkoilluaren harra bere khokotsian bezala, bere egongiak lürpian edo ifernietan obratzen […]

You who saw the snake Lehen, do you remember how it built its underground residence […] like a male butterfly its cocoon?


giantess

From Middle English geauntesse, geaunesse, from Old French; equivalent to giant + -ess.

He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse / Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray […]

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

In the corner lay against the wall a stringed instrument not unlike a dulcimer, which, as people believe, the Giantesses used to play on.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 218:

The giantess picked him up and gave him such a squeeze that he felt he was going to choke.

1926, Enid Blyton, The Book of Brownies:

The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:


endgame

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TJLC’ers’ strong belief in Johnlock as endgame was intrinsically linked with their trust in the show’s creators, which enabled them to interpret the repeated denial of the subtext in Sherlock as part of the game.

2017, Suzanne Frenk, "Telling The True Story: Queerbaiting, representation, and fan resistance in the BBC Sherlock fandom", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 50

I think the fans and I were pretty aligned with who we wanted as endgame couples.

2020, Marlene King, quoted in Sara K. Day & Summer Melody Pennell, "#PLLQueerTheory: Fans’ reactions to queer representation in Pretty Little Liars", The Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2020

One user, for example, posted, “Bughead haters can suck it. They’re endgame.”

2021, Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, Whitney Monaghan, “'#Bughead Is Endgame': Civic Meaning-Making inRiverdale Anti-Fandom andShipping Practices on Tumblr”, in Television & New Media:

(fandom slang, of a ship) Having become canon by the end of the plot of a work of fiction or speculated to be intended to become such.


the other place

According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.


precognition

en-noun

precognition (countable and uncountable, plural precognitions)

/ˌpɹiːkɒɡˈnɪʃn̩/

Borrowed from Middle French precognition or its source, Latin praecognitio, from praecognōscō (“to know beforehand”). Equivalent to Germanic cognate foreknowledge and Greek-based cognate prognosis.

(parapsychology) Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.

предусещане

knowledge of something that is to occur in the future


herói

pt-noun

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

heróis (plural)
heroína (feminine)
heroínas (feminine plural)

Macanese: hirói

From Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”).


จิงโจ้

→ Lao: ຈິງໂຈ້ (ching chō)

/t͡ɕiŋ˧.t͡ɕoː˥˩/

The noun originated from the cry of the bird, and was later applied to the marsupial (first attested around 1896), the bug, etc.
The adjective was from wordplay on จริงใจ (jing-jai, “sincere; faithful; truthful”).

th-l

(mythology and archaic) half-bird, half-man monster.


figurant

fr-noun

figurant m (plural figurants, feminine figurante)

→ Dutch: figurant


figurant

figuranți (plural)
figurant (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
figurantul (accusative definite nominative singular)
figuranți (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
figuranții (accusative definite nominative plural)
figurant (indefinite singular)
figurantului (definite singular)
figuranți (indefinite plural)
figuranților (definite plural)
figurantule (singular vocative)
figuranților (plural vocative)


RAC

rock against communism
rock against communism#English

(music) Initialism of rock against communism, a subgenre of hardcore punk associated with neo-nazism.


goule

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl, “ghoul, demon”).


slackness

en-noun

slackness (usually uncountable, plural slacknesses)

From Middle English slacnesse, slakenes, slaknesse; equivalent to slack + -ness. Compare Old English slæcness.

The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.


philtre

Borrowed from Latin philtrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron). Unrelated to filtre.

Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane, / Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi, / Destructeur et gourmand comme la courtisane, / Patient comme la fourmi?

1857, Charles Baudelaire, “L'Irréparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Les Fleurs du mal:

What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?

philter (a kind of potion, charm, or drug intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver)


飛竜

ja-noun

飛(ひ)竜(りゅう) or 飛竜(ひりょう) • (hiryū or hiryō)

飛竜 (canonical)
飛竜 (canonical)
hiryū (romanization)
hiryō (romanization)

ワイバーン ワイバーン#Japanese


blaster

Blast out the lakes and canals—whittle down the peaks and mounds with atomic blasters—file them into the shape of gigantic buildings.

1938 April, Henry Kuttner, “Hollywood on the Moon”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 11, number 2, page 26:

One slender hand clung near a singular jewel, like a great white snow crystal, that hung from her throat. And the other, with a practiced and familiar grip, held a barytron blaster of the newest legion design. An unwilling little glisten had come into the violet eyes. Her blond head flung angrily. She caught her breath, and lifted the barytron blaster. Its bright tube pointed straight between his shoulders. He would never even know.

1939 June, Jack Williamson, “One Against the Legion”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 23, number 4, page 138:

(science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.


飛龍

New Latin: Feilongus

/feɪ̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/fei̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/

/pue³³⁻²³ leŋ⁵⁵/

/feɪ̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/fei̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/

/pue³³⁻²³ leŋ⁵⁵/


growling

(jazz) The technique of producing a low-pitched growling or rumbling sound on a wind instrument.


death ray

(science fiction) A beam of radiation that can kill.


ray gun

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe / Put your ray gun to my head

1972, “Moonage Daydream”, in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, performed by David Bowie:

(science fiction, weaponry) A weapon that shoots harmful rays.


croma

(television, film) chromakey, greenscreen


croma

(television, film) chromakey, chroma key


barbershop

en-noun

barbershop (countable and uncountable, plural barbershops)

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(uncountable, music) A style of a cappella vocal music, sung in four-part harmony, typically by a quartet of men.


superluminal

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The first thing to understand about superluminal expansion is that it isn't visible to the unaided eye. The objects that appear to be moving faster than light are emitting radio waves, not visible light.

1984, Edward Edelson, “Faster than light?”, in Popular Science, retrieved 2013-11-20, page 70:

(astronomy, physics, fiction, fantasy) Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.

(unpreferred translation due to hyperphoton, hyperphotonic: υπερφωτονικός m (yperfotonikós), υπερφωτονική f (yperfotonikí), υπερφωτονικό n (yperfotonikó))


regeneration

regeneration (countable and uncountable, plural regenerations)

From re- + generation or regenerate + -ion, from Latin regenerātiō.

The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).

1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, page 202:

2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.

(roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.


enchanter

/ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/

/ənˈtʃɑːntə/

/ɛnˈtʃɑːntə/

/ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/

From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant + -er.

der

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:

He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI:

[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.

1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105:

Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, lines 2–3:

[…] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:

A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.


earthbound

en-adj

earthbound (comparative more earthbound, superlative most earthbound)

more earthbound (comparative)
most earthbound (superlative)

(science fiction) Heading towards Earth.

a föld felé tartó/közeledő/haladó/irányuló


luspardan

head

luspardan m (genitive singular luspardain, plural luspardain)

luspardain (genitive singular)
luspardain (plural)


-cula

Denoting things associated with, or compared to, Dracula: Count Chocula, Bunnicula etc.


satori

en-noun

satori (usually uncountable, plural satoris)

Borrowed from Japanese 悟り (satori, “understanding; (Buddhism) enlightenment, satori”), from 悟る (satoru, “to perceive; to comprehend, understand; to come to enlightenment”), from Middle Chinese 悟 (nguH, “to become aware, apprehend, realize; to awaken”) (modern Mandarin 悟 (wù)), used to translate Pali bodhi (“supreme knowledge”) or its etymon Sanskrit बोधि (bodhi, “perfect knowledge or wisdom by which a person becomes a buddha or jina; enlightened or illuminated intellect of a Buddha or jina”).
Sense 3 (“mutant gene of Drosophila that causes homosexual behaviour in males”) was coined by the Japanese scientist Daisuke Yamamoto in a 1991 paper, based on the Japanese term.

coinage

We have isolated a new Drosophila mutant, satori (sat), the males of which do not court or copulate with female flies. […] We have screened about 2000 fly lines with single P-element insertions for altered sexual behavior, yielding a mutant named satori (sat; nirvana in Japanese), the males of which do not court or copulate with females. Instead, sat males exhibit homosexual courtship.

1996 September, Hiroki Ito, Daisuke Yamamoto [et al.], “Sexual Orientation in Drosophila is Altered by the Satori Mutation in the Sex-determination Gene Fruitless that Encodes a Zinc Finger Protein with a BTB Domain”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 93, number 18, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, →PMID, archived from the original on 2024-09-30, page 9687, column 1:

[T]he primary site of action of the fru gene should be in the neural cells. satori,^([sic]) one of the P-insertion alleles of fru which we isolated, carried the lacZ gene of E. coli as a reporter, and β-galactosidase expression was found in a subset of brain cells including those in the antennal lobe in the satori mutant.

1996 October, Daisuke Yamamoto, Hiroki Ito, Kazuko Fujitani, “Genetic Dissection of Sexual Orientation: Behavioral, Cellular, and Molecular Approaches in Drosophila melanogaster”, in Neuroscience Research: The Official Journal of the Japan Neuroscience Society, volume 26, number 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 95:

In Drosophila the satori (sat) mutants of males do not court or copulate with females but have sexual interest in males.

1998, George P. Rédei, “HOMOSEXUAL”, in Genetics Manual: Current Theory, Concepts, Terms, Singapore; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific, published 1999, →ISBN, page 484:

(countable, biochemistry) A mutant gene of Drosophila, a genus of fruit flies, that causes homosexual behaviour in males (specifically, courtship directed to other males).


Spock

en-proper noun

Spock (countable and uncountable, plural Spocks)

Alternative form: Mr. Spock

This caricature called economic man was not only completely self-centered, he was also entirely rational in all his decisions, whether consuming or investing—a veritable Mr. Spock.

2010, William McDonald Wallace, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Economy: How Liberals and Conservatives Both Got It Wrong, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, page 48:

Phelps's calorie intake may seem superhuman, and his 6' 4", 185-pound body may recall Greek statuary, but fans are also drawn to him by a goofy grin and oversized ears that led to his being called Spock on the school bus.

2008 December 2, “Sportsman of the Year: Michael Phelps”, in Sports Illustrated:

(science fiction) In Star Trek, a Starfleet commander and science officer of the USS Enterprise, especially known for his Vulcan logic, reason, and stoicism and his distinctive pointed ears.


zamacueca

→ English: zamacueca, cueca

(Chile, Peru) a folk dance and the music that goes with it


warp factor

From the science-fiction series Star Trek.

(science fiction) A hypothetical figure indicating a space vessel's speed greater than the speed of light.


take the red pill

en-verb

take the red pill (third-person singular simple present takes the red pill, present participle taking the red pill, simple past took the red pill, past participle taken the red pill)

takes the red pill (present singular third-person)
taking the red pill (participle present)
took the red pill (past)
taken the red pill (participle past)

If you want to be a successful bootstrapper, you have to take the red pill and determine how deep the rabbit hole called your organization goes.

2004 September 9, Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, Portfolio, →ISBN, →OL, page 92:

As much as we, our generation, start to believe this fictionalized new version of reality we become complicit.... The only way out is to take the Red pill and see what things really look like.

2005 June 1, Terry Allen, Dugout, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 172:

In this day and time, we must begin to take the “red pill” and open our first eye to see what's really going on, and who's behind this madness involving Hip Hop videos.

2005 December 1, The Black Dot, Hip Hop Decoded: From Its Ancient Origin To Its Modern Day Matrix, →ISBN, →OL, page 144:

(idiomatic) To understand the world in its previously unknown reality.


Earthican

Blend of Earth + American. Possibly popularized by the adult animated sitcom Futurama.

I went to an Earth Day event in San Francisco and there was this huge Earthican flag, circa 3000 A.D., with the red and white stripes and an image of Earth up in the corner.

2002 April 23, Jym Dyer, “Earthican Day”, in alt.tv.futurama (Usenet):

Just consider that, over time, on a scale of millions of years, earthican continents have had *lots* of different configurations

2004 October 18, Wayne Throop, “Early parallel-universe stories”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

You may remember him [Paul Hellyer] from such news articles as "Is there a party Paul hasn't belonged to or at least tried to join?" and "How dare the Americans threaten the delicate Earthican-Alien relationship by [planning] to emplace armed bases on the Moon?"

2006 May 25, James Nicoll, “Spider's Heinlein novel [was: Re: ConCarolinas 2006 is coming!]”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

that first step is enough to make direct attacks rather tricky, to make most of the Earthican powers' armed forces useless.

2006 June 27, John Schilling, “David Drake - Leary and the RCN”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

(nonstandard, humorous, science fiction) Of or from the planet Earth.


Earthican

Fry: Well, if you're going to be Earthicans, we're going to have to teach you.

2001 April, “A Leela of Her Own”, in Futurama, season 4, episode 10:

(nonstandard, humorous, science fiction) An inhabitant of planet Earth.


borogove

/ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/

The borogove let out a quiet chirp. Another, larger borogove squirmed in through the hole in the fabric.

2006, David Brown, Kara Willey, The Worlds of Naughtenny Moore, →ISBN:

Its knee bent the wrong way, though Albert thought it was certainly the right way for the borogove . Another borogove popped out of the forest and followed the first across the road, then a third and a fourth .

2013, Mel Gilden, The Jabberwock Came Whiffling: A Novel of Fantasy, →ISBN, page 22:

It smelled like a wet borogove.

2014, Daniel Coleman, Jabberwocky: A Novel, →ISBN:

With the Borogove's long legs, they hop and step over some incoming attacks.

2015, Donald Weis, Monster Lore 2, →ISBN, page 12:

An animal introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. According to Humpty Dumpty, a borogove is "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." According to Mischmasch, it is "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."


in the groove

Originally mid-19th century slang with (usually pejorative) reference to the difficulty of leaving a well-worn rut (see in a rut). As back in the groove, the phrase acquired a positive sense of returning to one's usual self after a period of illness, setbacks, &c. With special regard for music, originally 1920s US jazz slang, possibly with reference to the grooves of early records.

The jazz musicians gave no grandstand performances; they simply got a great burn from playing in the groove.

(colloquial) Running or performing extremely smoothly, especially (music, slang) playing perfectly, perfectly in sync with others, or with perfect focus.

The whole course of legislation... had flowed in the same groove for centuries.

1869, J.E.T. Rogers's preface to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Vol. I, p. 27

[…] having such a wonderful time which puts me in a groove […]

There's a time in everybody's life when they know precisely what is right. And when I was doing that, when I was in the groove, I knew exactly what was right.

2005, Joe McCabe, Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman, page 77:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, groove.


nahualism

From nahual + -ism. The first element is from Nahuatl nahualli (“sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take”).

uder

(folklore, mythology) The Mesoamerican belief that certain human beings can transform into animals.


historical fiction

For some, historical fiction should be read as a type of history, for others, a type of fiction. Only gradually did a third term develop that synthesised the two: historical fiction needed to be read as historical fiction, as its own distinct genre that combined features of the novel with features of historical works.

2013, Kate Mitchell, Nicola Parsons, editors, Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past, Springer, →ISBN, page 21:

Fiction based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.


τίτυρος

grc-noun

τῑ́τῠρος • (tī́turos) m (genitive τῑτῠ́ρου); second declension

τῑ́τῠρος (canonical)
tī́turos (romanization)
τῑτῠ́ρου (genitive)
ὁ τῑ́τῠρος (nominative singular)
τὼ τῑτῠ́ρω (dual nominative)
τοὶ τῑ́τῠροι (nominative plural)
τοῦ τῑτῠ́ροιο (genitive singular)
τοῖν τῑτῠ́ροιν (dual genitive)
τῶν τῑτῠ́ρων (genitive plural)
τῷ τῑτῠ́ρῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν τῑτῠ́ροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς τῑτῠ́ροις (dative plural)
τὸν τῑ́τῠρον (accusative singular)
τὼ τῑτῠ́ρω (accusative dual)
τοὺς τῑτῠ́ρους (accusative plural)
τῑ́τῠρε (singular vocative)
τῑτῠ́ρω (dual vocative)
τῑ́τῠροι (plural vocative)

Furnée compares διθύραμβος (dithúrambos, “dithyramb”), which would contain a variant ot this word, with a suffix -αμβος. Previous proposals include connection with synonymous σάτυρος (sáturos, “satyr”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) by Solmsen. This is rejected by Nehring, who considers both words to be loans from Asia Minor. Deroy connects the suffix -τυρος with ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”). According to Beekes, the word is Pre-Greek.


Dyson sphere

Named after American theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, who originally described the concept in 1960.

named-after

"But there's more to a Dyson sphere than collecting solar power.
"Say you make the sphere one astronomical unit in radius. You've got to clear out the solar system anyway, so you use all the solar planets in the construction. That gives you a shell of, say, chrome steel a few yards thick. Now you put gravity generators all over the shell. You'd have a surface area a billion times as big as the Earth's surface. A trillion people could wander all their lives without ever meeting one another."

1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, →ISBN, page 106:

Aye, an actual Dyson sphere. Can you imagine the engineering skills needed to even design such a structure?

1992 October 12, Ronald D. Moore, “Relics”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Scotty (James Doohan):

You could even extend the argument to say why, on purely selfish grounds, a benign intelligence might remain benevolently engaged with the rest of the universe, rather than hiding away in a Dyson sphere and literally wireheading itself - because the payoff for expansive engagement will necessarily eventually exceed any possible payoff accompanying solitary self-reconstruction.

2005 August 19, Mitchell Porter, “Re: Paperclip monster, demise of.”, in SL4 mailing list, message-ID <BAY103-F40D2C8C3B70C9EB8A834EACAB50@phx.gbl>:

Meridian is a construct akin to a Dyson sphere: a vast, hollow shell encompassing a power source that provides heat and light to lush green biomes in the interior.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Meridian Codex entry:

(science fiction) A solid shell of matter enclosing a star.


σάτυρος

grc-noun

σᾰ́τῠρος • (sáturos) m (genitive σᾰτῠ́ρου); second declension

σᾰ́τῠρος (canonical)
sáturos (romanization)
σᾰτῠ́ρου (genitive)
ὁ σᾰ́τῠρος (nominative singular)
τὼ σᾰτῠ́ρω (dual nominative)
οἱ σᾰ́τῠροι (nominative plural)
τοῦ σᾰτῠ́ρου (genitive singular)
τοῖν σᾰτῠ́ροιν (dual genitive)
τῶν σᾰτῠ́ρων (genitive plural)
τῷ σᾰτῠ́ρῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν σᾰτῠ́ροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς σᾰτῠ́ροις (dative plural)
τὸν σᾰ́τῠρον (accusative singular)
τὼ σᾰτῠ́ρω (accusative dual)
τοὺς σᾰτῠ́ρους (accusative plural)
σᾰ́τῠρε (singular vocative)
σᾰτῠ́ρω (dual vocative)
σᾰ́τῠροι (plural vocative)

→ Latin: satyrus

→ English: satyr

→ Translingual: Satyrus

→ Old Armenian: սատիրոս (satiros)

→ Arabic: سَعْتَر (saʕtar)

→ Turkish: soytarı

→ Polish: satyr

→ Russian: сати́р m (satír)

Unknown; possibly loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate.


takyoni

takyoni (nominative singular)
takyonit (nominative plural)
takyoni (accusative nominative singular)
takyonit (accusative nominative plural)
takyonin (accusative genitive singular)
takyonit (accusative genitive plural)
takyonin (genitive singular)
takyonien (genitive plural)
takyonia (partitive singular)
takyoneja (partitive plural)
takyonissa (inessive singular)
takyoneissa (inessive plural)
takyonista (elative singular)
takyoneista (elative plural)
takyoniin (illative singular)
takyoneihin (illative plural)
takyonilla (adessive singular)
takyoneilla (adessive plural)
takyonilta (ablative singular)
takyoneilta (ablative plural)
takyonille (allative singular)
takyoneille (allative plural)
takyonina (essive singular)
takyoneina (essive plural)
takyoniksi (singular translative)
takyoneiksi (plural translative)
takyonitta (abessive singular)
takyoneitta (abessive plural)
takyonein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
takyonini (nominative singular)
takyonini (nominative plural)
takyonini (accusative nominative singular)
takyonini (accusative nominative plural)
takyonini (accusative genitive singular)
takyonini (accusative genitive plural)
takyonini (genitive singular)
takyonieni (genitive plural)
takyoniani (partitive singular)
takyonejani (partitive plural)
takyonissani (inessive singular)
takyoneissani (inessive plural)
takyonistani (elative singular)
takyoneistani (elative plural)
takyoniini (illative singular)
takyoneihini (illative plural)
takyonillani (adessive singular)
takyoneillani (adessive plural)
takyoniltani (ablative singular)
takyoneiltani (ablative plural)
takyonilleni (allative singular)
takyoneilleni (allative plural)
takyoninani (essive singular)
takyoneinani (essive plural)
takyonikseni (singular translative)
takyoneikseni (plural translative)
takyonittani (abessive singular)
takyoneittani (abessive plural)
takyoneineni (comitative plural)
takyonisi (nominative singular)
takyonisi (nominative plural)
takyonisi (accusative nominative singular)
takyonisi (accusative nominative plural)
takyonisi (accusative genitive singular)
takyonisi (accusative genitive plural)
takyonisi (genitive singular)
takyoniesi (genitive plural)
takyoniasi (partitive singular)
takyonejasi (partitive plural)
takyonissasi (inessive singular)
takyoneissasi (inessive plural)
takyonistasi (elative singular)
takyoneistasi (elative plural)
takyoniisi (illative singular)
takyoneihisi (illative plural)
takyonillasi (adessive singular)
takyoneillasi (adessive plural)
takyoniltasi (ablative singular)
takyoneiltasi (ablative plural)
takyonillesi (allative singular)
takyoneillesi (allative plural)
takyoninasi (essive singular)
takyoneinasi (essive plural)
takyoniksesi (singular translative)
takyoneiksesi (plural translative)
takyonittasi (abessive singular)
takyoneittasi (abessive plural)
takyoneinesi (comitative plural)
takyonimme (nominative singular)
takyonimme (nominative plural)
takyonimme (accusative nominative singular)
takyonimme (accusative nominative plural)
takyonimme (accusative genitive singular)
takyonimme (accusative genitive plural)
takyonimme (genitive singular)
takyoniemme (genitive plural)
takyoniamme (partitive singular)
takyonejamme (partitive plural)
takyonissamme (inessive singular)
takyoneissamme (inessive plural)
takyonistamme (elative singular)
takyoneistamme (elative plural)
takyoniimme (illative singular)
takyoneihimme (illative plural)
takyonillamme (adessive singular)
takyoneillamme (adessive plural)
takyoniltamme (ablative singular)
takyoneiltamme (ablative plural)
takyonillemme (allative singular)
takyoneillemme (allative plural)
takyoninamme (essive singular)
takyoneinamme (essive plural)
takyoniksemme (singular translative)
takyoneiksemme (plural translative)
takyonittamme (abessive singular)
takyoneittamme (abessive plural)
takyoneinemme (comitative plural)
takyoninne (nominative singular)
takyoninne (nominative plural)
takyoninne (accusative nominative singular)
takyoninne (accusative nominative plural)
takyoninne (accusative genitive singular)
takyoninne (accusative genitive plural)
takyoninne (genitive singular)
takyonienne (genitive plural)
takyonianne (partitive singular)
takyonejanne (partitive plural)
takyonissanne (inessive singular)
takyoneissanne (inessive plural)
takyonistanne (elative singular)
takyoneistanne (elative plural)
takyoniinne (illative singular)
takyoneihinne (illative plural)
takyonillanne (adessive singular)
takyoneillanne (adessive plural)
takyoniltanne (ablative singular)
takyoneiltanne (ablative plural)
takyonillenne (allative singular)
takyoneillenne (allative plural)
takyoninanne (essive singular)
takyoneinanne (essive plural)
takyoniksenne (singular translative)
takyoneiksenne (plural translative)
takyonittanne (abessive singular)
takyoneittanne (abessive plural)
takyoneinenne (comitative plural)
takyoninsa (nominative singular)
takyoninsa (nominative plural)
takyoninsa (accusative nominative singular)
takyoninsa (accusative nominative plural)
takyoninsa (accusative genitive singular)
takyoninsa (accusative genitive plural)
takyoninsa (genitive singular)
takyoniensa (genitive plural)
takyoniaan (partitive singular)
takyoniansa (partitive singular)
takyonejaan (partitive plural)
takyonejansa (partitive plural)
takyonissaan (inessive singular)
takyonissansa (inessive singular)
takyoneissaan (inessive plural)
takyoneissansa (inessive plural)
takyonistaan (elative singular)
takyonistansa (elative singular)
takyoneistaan (elative plural)
takyoneistansa (elative plural)
takyoniinsa (illative singular)
takyoneihinsa (illative plural)
takyonillaan (adessive singular)
takyonillansa (adessive singular)
takyoneillaan (adessive plural)
takyoneillansa (adessive plural)
takyoniltaan (ablative singular)
takyoniltansa (ablative singular)
takyoneiltaan (ablative plural)
takyoneiltansa (ablative plural)
takyonilleen (allative singular)
takyonillensa (allative singular)
takyoneilleen (allative plural)
takyoneillensa (allative plural)
takyoninaan (essive singular)
takyoninansa (essive singular)
takyoneinaan (essive plural)
takyoneinansa (essive plural)
takyonikseen (singular translative)
takyoniksensa (singular translative)
takyoneikseen (plural translative)
takyoneiksensa (plural translative)
takyonittaan (abessive singular)
takyonittansa (abessive singular)
takyoneittaan (abessive plural)
takyoneittansa (abessive plural)
takyoneineen (comitative plural)
takyoneinensa (comitative plural)