infernal

en-adj

infernal (comparative more infernal, superlative most infernal)

more infernal (comparative)
most infernal (superlative)

celestial

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

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

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

جَحِيمِيّ

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

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

infernaal

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


Nordic

Nordic (comparative more Nordic, superlative most Nordic)

more Nordic (comparative)
most Nordic (superlative)

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

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

nòrdic

of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages


Nordic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


sarabande

Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.

(music) The music for either of these dances.


tachyonic

tachyonic (comparative more tachyonic, superlative most tachyonic)

more tachyonic (comparative)
most tachyonic (superlative)

Of or relating to a tachyon or tachyons.


Dalek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


kobold

en-noun

kobold (plural kobolds or (rare) kobolde)

Borrowed from German Kobold. Doublet of cobalt.

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

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

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

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

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

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


kobold

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


kobold

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

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


looking-glass

/ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlɑːs/

/ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlæs/

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

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

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


gorgon

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

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


gorgon

English: gorgon (obsolete)

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


grifo

eo-head

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

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


grifo

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


grifo

Chavacano: grifo

→ Aymara: grifo

→ Cebuano: gripo

→ Hiligaynon: gripo

→ Kapampangan: gripu

→ Maguindanao: gulipu

→ Maranao: giripo

→ Pangasinan: gripo

→ Quechua: grifu

→ Sambali: gripo

→ Tagalog: gripo

→ Tausug: giripu

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

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


ghetto house

(music) A style of house music from Chicago, featuring drum machines and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics.


左側

左側 (canonical)
hidarigawa (romanization)

[çida̠ɾʲiɡa̠β̞a̠]

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


chanson

Unadapted borrowing from French chanson f. Doublet of canção f.

ubor

(music) chanson (traditional French song)


lich

en-noun

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

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

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

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


inferno

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

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

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

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


dramedy

dramedy (countable and uncountable, plural dramedies)

(uncountable) A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.

”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.

2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times:

(countable) A film or television programme belonging to this genre.


woodwose

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

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

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

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


B-movie

Analogous to the B-side (i.e. the second side, the primary side being designated A) of a musical recording.

(film) A low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.


documenteur

Blend of documentaire (“documentary”) + menteur (“liar”), by analogy with the formation of the English term mockumentary


mockumentary

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.

2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]

2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:

(film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.


superpower

en-noun

superpower (countable and uncountable, plural superpowers)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


seer

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

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

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

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


bioroid

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

genetically engineered
genetic engineering

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


merman

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

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

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

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


Christmas carol

Christmas carol (plural Christmas carols)

So also when he was born into the World, the holy Angels came down to sing his Christmas Carol, and at once to proclaim and celebrate his Nativity.

(music) A carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas.

تَرْنِيمة عِيد اَلْمِيلَاد

hymn whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas


boogie-woogie

boogie-woogie (countable and uncountable, plural boogie-woogies)

/ˌbʊɡiˈwʊɡi/

Reduplication of boogie (“party”), of unknown origin.


romans

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

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

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

(literature, historical) Ancient Greek novel, romaunt


close encounter

close encounter (plural close encounters)

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

contato imediato

observation of extraterrestrials or their craft


oread

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

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

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

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


droid

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

coin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Dogme

(film) A movement whose goal is to instill a sense of simplicity into filmmaking by using hand-held cameras, shooting on location, omitting music, etc.


sea serpent

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


Ionian

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

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


CTC

(rail transport) Initialism of Centralized Traffic Control.


Oompa Loompa

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


fado

eo-head

fado (accusative singular fadon, plural fadoj, accusative plural fadojn)

fadon (accusative singular)
fadoj (plural)
fadojn (accusative plural)

(music, uncountable) fado (genre of Portuguese folk music)


fado

Inherited from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

inh+

O fado é um estilo musical português.


unbiunium

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

systematic element name
systematic element name

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


género

(music, film, theater, television, literature) genre


documentary

en-noun

documentary (countable and uncountable, plural documentaries)

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.

Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.

2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2015-06-28:

A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.


dilithium

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

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

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


DAD

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

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
w:Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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


mago

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


mago

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


hyperspace drive

hyperspace drive (plural hyperspace drives)

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


hala

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


silver bullet

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


sylph

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

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

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

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

(mythology) An invisible being of the air.

The elemental being of air, usually female.

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


chops

Inflected forms. The jazz slang sense “musical ability” is a reference to the use of the lips to blow instruments.

Although the bass player had no experience playing in New Orleans, the crowd's enthusiastic response showed that he had the chops to make it in the very particular Crescent City jazz scene.

Recently, I have taken up the double bass again, but because time and neglect erode ability, calluses turn soft, and muscle memory fades, I need to woodshed (practice) to get back into shape and build up my chops.

1999 June, Al Stevens, “Jukebox: Covering the Basses”, in Dr. Dobb's Journal, volume 24, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, Inc., →ISSN, page 115:

(originally US jazz slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.


third-person shooter

third-person shooter (plural third-person shooters)

(video games) A combat-themed video game of a kind with a perspective view, typically positioning the camera over the shoulder of the player.


biopic

Shortened from biographical picture; synchronically bio + pic.

(film) A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).


first-person shooter

first-person shooter (plural first-person shooters)

(video games) A combat or video game in the genre characterized by a three-dimensional view from the player's perspective (POV, point of view) and the ability to fire a weapon.

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first-person shooter

pt-noun

first-person shooter m (plural first-person shooters)

Unadapted borrowing from English first-person shooter.

ubor

first-person shooter
first-person shooter#English


mimsy

en-adj

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

mimsier (comparative)
mimsiest (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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


gremlin

Oxford English Dictionary
Roald Dahl
The Gremlins

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

der

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

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

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

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

(originally British, aviation, Royal Air Force slang)

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

гремлин

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


aak

Borrowed from Korean 아악(雅樂) (aak). Doublet of gagaku and yayue.


psychokinesis

en-noun

psychokinesis (usually uncountable, plural psychokineses)

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

telekinesia

movement inanimate objects by the use of psychic power


haint

"Ain't you scared of haints?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


frabjous

en-adj

frabjous (comparative more frabjous, superlative most frabjous)

more frabjous (comparative)
most frabjous (superlative)

/ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/

Audio (US)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


galumphing

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

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


alkahest

en-noun

alkahest (countable and uncountable, plural alkahests)

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

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

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

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


levitation

levitation (countable and uncountable, plural levitations)

/ˌlɛvɪˈteɪʃən/

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

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

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

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

levitació

technical suspension without mechanical support


epithalamium

epithalamium (plural epithalamiums or epithalamia)

epithalamiums (plural)
epithalamia (plural)

/ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm/

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

der

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

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

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

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


suspended animation

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


doxy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(fantasy) An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.


hamadryad

en-noun

hamadryad (plural hamadryads or hamadryades)

hamadryads (plural)
hamadryades (plural)

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

af

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

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

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

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

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

Papio hamadryas
Papio hamadryas#Translingual

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

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


balaur

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

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


time warp

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

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

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

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

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


time warp

en-verb

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

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

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

(intransitive) To perform the time warp dance.


nixie

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

cog

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

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

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

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

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

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


аждаха

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

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

bor+

type of mythical creature similar to dragon


aždaha

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

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


змај

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

sh-decl-noun

змаја / змај


aždaja

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


аждаја

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


zmaj

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


zmaj

zmāj (canonical)
zmȁj (animate canonical masculine)
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zmáj (nominative singular)
zmája (dual nominative)
zmáji (nominative plural)
zmája (genitive singular)
zmájev (dual genitive)
zmájev (genitive plural)
zmáju (dative singular)
zmájema (dative dual)
zmájem (dative plural)
zmája (accusative singular)
zmája (accusative dual)
zmáje (accusative plural)
zmáju (locative singular)
zmájih (dual locative)
zmájih (locative plural)
zmájem (instrumental singular)
zmájema (dual instrumental)
zmáji (instrumental plural)
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zmàj (nominative singular)
zmája (dual nominative)
zmáji (nominative plural)
zmája (genitive singular)
zmájev (dual genitive)
zmájev (genitive plural)
zmáju (dative singular)
zmájema (dative dual)
zmájem (dative plural)
zmája (accusative singular)
zmája (accusative dual)
zmáje (accusative plural)
zmáju (locative singular)
zmájih (dual locative)
zmájih (locative plural)
zmájem (instrumental singular)
zmájema (dual instrumental)
zmáji (instrumental plural)


ejderha

head

ejderha (definite accusative ejderhayı, plural ejderhalar)

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

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

inh

Hayır, sensin şizofren, ejderhan yok diye beni kıskanıyorsun.

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


en-noun

massively multiplayer online role-playing game (plural massively multiplayer online role-playing games)

An online computer role-playing game in which a large number of players can interact with one another.

大型多人在线角色扮演游戏

dàxíng duōrén zàixiàn juésè bànyǎn yóuxì

massiivinen monen pelaajan verkkoroolipeli

jeu de rôle en ligne massivement multijoueur

masiuri mravalmotamašiani onlain roluri tamaši

მასიური მრავალმოთამაშიანი ონლაინ როლური თამაში

videojuego de rol multijugador masivo en línea


ritornello

ritornello (plural ritornellos or ritornelli)

ritornellos (plural)
ritornelli (plural)

Italian ritornello, diminutive of ritorno (“return”), from ritornare (“to return”): compare French ritournelle.

(music) A recurring tutti passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.


kryptonite

en-verb

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

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

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

affix

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


pyrokinesis

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

控火

the ability to set objects or people on fire


wirehead

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


ала

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

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


ала

Ала је било лепо!

Aла лажеш!

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


ала

sh-noun

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

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

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

dragon, type of mythical creature similar to dragon


DM

en-verb

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

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

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


llorona

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines


НЛО

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

Initialism of неидентификуван летечки објект (neidentifikuvan letečki objekt).

initialism

неидентификуван летечки објект


НЛО

Initialism of неопо́знанный лета́ющий объе́кт (neopóznannyj letájuščij obʺjékt).

неопо́знанный лета́ющий объе́кт


НЛО

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

нерозпі́знаний літа́ючий об'є́кт


doo-wop

Coined by DJ Gus Gossert in the 1970s, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is onomatopoeic, representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre.

The R&B groups possessed a grittiness and soulful earnestness that was soon to be emulated by street-corner doo-wop groups, some of whom would achieve commercial success with instrumentally arranged hit records.

2016, Lawrence Pitilli, Doo-Wop Acappella, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 27:

A style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that was mostly popular within Black Americans of African descent in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s that is best characterized by nonsensical backing vocals with very little to no instrumentation.


crop circle

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


dancehall

en-noun

dancehall (countable and uncountable, plural dancehalls)

→ Japanese: ダンスホール (dansuhōru)

It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.

2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 271:

(uncountable, music) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.


panther

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

der

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


ufologist

But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.

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


ufology

en-noun

ufology (countable and uncountable, plural ufologies)

/ˌjuːɛfˈɑləd͡ʒi/

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

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


Phönix

de-noun

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

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


runa

pl-noun

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

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

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


饕餮

/tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰiːt̚³/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo³³ tʰiɛt̚⁵/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰau³³⁻²³ tʰiek̚²/

/tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰiːt̚³/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo³³ tʰiɛt̚⁵/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/

/tʰau³³⁻²³ tʰiek̚²/

(Chinese mythology) taotie (legendary gluttonous animal)


ogress

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

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

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

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


cakewalk

From cake + walk. Originally an African-American form of dance and music that developed after the Civil War, later popularised by minstrel shows. It was danced at social events, with the best dancers often receiving cake as a prize. It derives from dance competitions by plantation slaves in which the style of dance lampooned the ballroom dances of the slaveowners. Slaveowners seem to have found the competitions entertaining and the habit of offering cake may originate from this period. The name is sometimes also applied to the dance's precursor on the plantations. Doing the cakewalk well required virtuosity, and a major esthetic aspect of that virtuosity was the apparent ease with which the dance was performed. This gave rise to the idiom as easy as a cakewalk, which in turn led to the sense of cakewalk as something that is easy.
See the linked Wikipedia article for more.

(music) The style of music associated with such a contest.


neo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


invisibility

en-noun

invisibility (countable and uncountable, plural invisibilities)

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

From Middle French invisibilité, from Latin invisibilitas.


pegasus

Bellerophon
Michael (archangel)
Red Horse Beer

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

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


CDM

CDM (countable and uncountable, plural CDMs)

Caribbean dance music
Caribbean dance music#English

(music) Initialism of Caribbean dance music.


Buffyverse

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

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

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

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

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

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


draconologist

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

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

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

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

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

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


νάνος

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

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


classical music

classical music (usually uncountable, plural classical musics)

(music) Music of the classical period; the music of Mozart, Haydn, etc; the musical period before the romantic.


therianthrope

/ˈθɛɹ.i.ənˌθɹoʊp/

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

af

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

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

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

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

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

homme-bête

any mythical being which is part human, part animal


ragno

From Latin arāneus (“spider”), related to arānea (“spider”).

(film) a tripod on which a camera is placed


vampiro

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


vampiro

pt-noun

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

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

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

vamp (woman who uses sexual desire to exploit men)


vampiro

es-noun

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

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

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


shooter

From Middle English schoter, schuter, schotter, scheter, schetare, scheotere, from Old English sċēotere (“shooter”), equivalent to shoot + -er. Compare Dutch schieter, schutter (“shooter”), German Schießer (“shooter”), Swedish skjutare, West Frisian sjitter (“shooter”).

I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.

2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:

(video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.


רוק

From English rock, from rock and roll (“rock and roll music”).


xenoglossy

en-noun

xenoglossy (countable and uncountable, plural xenoglossies)

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

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

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

Knowledge of a language one has never learned.

زينوغلوسيا

knowledge of a language one has never learned


empathic

en-adj

empathic (comparative more empathic, superlative most empathic)

more empathic (comparative)
most empathic (superlative)

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


ghostbuster

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

Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts.


jästi

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

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

back-formation

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


hòbbit

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


神通力

ja-noun

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

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

[d͡ʑĩnt͡sɨːɾʲikʲi]

[d͡ʑĩnd͡zɨːɾʲikʲi]

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

compound

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


King Kong

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

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


хаос

ru-noun+

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

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

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

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


space cadet

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

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


Apollonian

/æpəˈləʊnɪ.ən/

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

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

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

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

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

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

(science fiction) A native of the planet Apollo.


chillout

en-noun

chillout (countable and uncountable, plural chillouts)


chillout

chillout (nominative singular)
chilloutu (genitive singular)
chilloutowi (dative singular)
chillout (accusative singular)
chilloutem (instrumental singular)
chilloucie (locative singular)
chilloucie (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English chillout.


Mercurian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mercury.


Lunarian

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

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


Lunarian

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


Solarian

en-adj

Solarian (comparative more Solarian, superlative most Solarian)

more Solarian (comparative)
most Solarian (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Solarian

It will be proved that a Solarian, supposing him to have a stature equal to our own, would do as much work as seven of our cultivators; and yet the Solarians are the happiest of beings; their lot is the highest degree of happiness to which we can aspire until the epoch when there shall exist stars of a more exalted rank, that are not yet to be found in our young universe.

1851, Charles Fourier, The Passions of the Human Soul, page 225:

"There has been another dive since our meeting, Jacob, and on that dive, we are told, only the first and more prosaic species of Solarian was observed. Not the second variety which has caused Dr. Kepler so much concern." Jacob was still confused by the hurried explanations Kepler had given of the two types of Sun-creatures so far observed.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Sun.

The small ships of the Nigrians were beginning to take a terrific toll in the thin ranks of the Solarians. The coming of the Rocket Squad had been welcomed indeed!

Is it true that all Terrans, and other Solarians are frightfully rich, and go simply everywhere, and do as they please, and that almost nobody works?

1956 August, Charles Stearns, “The Golden Ones”, in Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 4, number 4, page 30:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of any part of the solar system of the Sun.


cryokinesis

(fantasy, science fiction) The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.


Jedi Master

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The highest of orders in the Jedi Order of the Star Wars universe, similar to a bishop.

(humorous) Respectful term of address for an expert in a particular field.


robots

robots (nominative singular)
roboti (nominative plural)
robotu (accusative singular)
robotus (accusative plural)
robota (genitive singular)
robotu (genitive plural)
robotam (dative singular)
robotiem (dative plural)
robotu (instrumental singular)
robotiem (instrumental plural)
robotā (locative singular)
robotos (locative plural)
robot (singular vocative)
roboti (plural vocative)

From Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef http://ui.fpf.slu.cz/persons/Kelemen/articles/HorKelALIFEIXDef.pdf, and taken into other languages without change.

(science fiction) robot (intelligent machine designed to look like a human being)


earthling

VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?

1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 60, verso:

Alternative letter-case form of Earthling


wonderland

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Where other trav'lers, fraught with terror, roam, Lo! Bruce in Wonder-land is quite at home.

1790 J. Wolcot Compl. Epist. to Bruce 332, in Wks. (1812) II. 368

It's a geological wonderland, with great exposures of colorful and varied sedimentary rocks.

2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels.

بلاد العجائب

Imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels


aerokinesis

(fantasy, science fiction) A telekinetic ability to control the movement of air.


ผีเสื้อ

th-noun

ผีเสื้อ • (pǐi-sʉ̂ʉa)

/pʰiː˩˩˦.sɯa̯˥˩/

From ผี (pǐi, “spirit”) + เสื้อ (sʉ̂ʉa, “tutelar”).
As for the second sense, the insects got their name due to the old belief that they embody ancestral or tutelar spirits.
As for the third sense, the fish got their name probably due to their appearance or colours that look like butterflies.

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ตัว ตัว#Thai

(zoology) (classifier ตัว) butterfly: insect of the order Lepidoptera.

ตัว ตัว#Thai

โนรี โนรี#Thai

(zoology) (classifier ตัว) butterflyfish: fish of the family Chaetodontidae, except โนรี (noo-rii), Heniochus spp.


xenia

xenia (nominative singular)
xenie (nominative plural)
xenii (genitive singular)
xenii (genitive plural)
xenij (archaic genitive plural)
xenii (dative singular)
xeniom (dative plural)
xenię (accusative singular)
xenie (accusative plural)
xenią (instrumental singular)
xeniami (instrumental plural)
xenii (locative singular)
xeniach (locative plural)
xenio (singular vocative)
xenie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενίᾱ (xeníā).

lbor

(poetry) Xenien (biting epigram in the form of a two-line poem)


repeater

(ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.

avvistatore

a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena


Plutonian

en-adj

Plutonian (comparative more Plutonian, superlative most Plutonian)

more Plutonian (comparative)
most Plutonian (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Latin Plūtōnius (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives). Plūtōnius is from Ancient Greek Πλουτώνιος (Ploutṓnios, “of or relating to Pluto”), from Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonien (modern French plutonien). The noun is derived from the adjective.

plutonien

of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism — see also Plutonic

[…] he through the midſt unmarkt, / In ſhew Plebeian Angel militant / Of loweſt order, paſt; and from the dore / Of that Plutonian Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, […]

1674, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 264:

["]Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore— / Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 144:

You rise by candle-light or gaslight, swearing / There never was a climate made like ours; / If rashly you go out to take an airing, / The soot-flakes come in black Plutonian show'rs.

1882 December 30, “A London Fog”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 83, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 301, column 1:

Cotopaxi is striking not only because it looks like a science fiction conception of another planet; it also is the least realistic among [Frederic Edwin] Church's paintings of the area. […] Below the fiery sun is a lake with a barren shore. As such, the sun hangs over a Plutonian landscape.

2008, Rodrigo Lazo, “The Ends of Enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. Expansionism in the Americas”, in Robert S[teven] Levine, Samuel Otter, editors, Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, part I (Literary and Cultural Geographies), page 210:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal.

Plutoniin liittyvä

of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld


Plutonian

From Pluto (“dwarf planet in the Solar System”) + -n- + -ian (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘from, related to, or like’, or nouns meaning ‘one belonging to, relating to, or like’), probably influenced by Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (see etymology 1).

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Another and perhaps more Plutonian view of this would be that David's bondage to his mother and the codes of behaviour which she set for him had extended throughout his life, in both profes[s]ional and personal spheres; and that bondage now had an opportunity of loosening, with all the attendant consequences.

1985, Liz Greene, “Fate and Synchronicity”, in The Astrology of Fate, Boston, Mass.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 293:

The notion of toxicity is a useful one in our effort to understand the further implications of Pluto in the USA chart. [...] Factor in what we have learned about the second house and we get another meaning of waste, related but distinctly more Plutonian: debris that poses an elimination problem once its value has been used up.

2006 October 6, Jessica Murray, “Power Madness: Pluto and American Hegemony”, in Soul-sick Nation: An Astrologer’s View of America, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 41:

(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet.

Plutoon liittyvä

pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet


Plutonian

If you are a Plutonian and some of these traits emphatically do not fit you, just let them go and take what is helpful and descriptive of you personally. What will be given is a composite picture, based on working with a great many Plutonians over the years. Plutonians who are negatively inclined are often very guarded and rigid, afraid to let others get close. [...] There are Plutonians who operate predominantly on the positive level—healing, transforming, transmuting themselves and those around them.

1986, Donna Cunningham, “The Personality and Character of the Plutonian”, in Healing Pluto Problems, Boston, Mass.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 28:

(astrology) A person under the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet.

The Plutonians, who are almost extinct, once held a superscience that they have largely lost. Early Plutonian visits to Earth survived in folk memory as the devil, since Plutonians are gigantic, with horns, hooves, and tail.

1998, Everett F[ranklin] Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, “[Story Descriptions.] 1423. THE EARTHMAN’S BURDEN. Astounding Stories, June 1931, Ill. Paul.”, in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years: A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 through 1936, Kent, Oh., London: Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 409, column 1:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the dwarf planet Pluto.


juju

en-noun

juju (countable and uncountable, plural jujus)

From a West African language, probably originally from French joujou.

/ˈd͡ʒuːd͡ʒu/

Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor's armamentarium.

1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:

(countable) A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.


ragtime

ragtime (countable and uncountable, plural ragtimes)

Likely from ragged + time, in reference to its heavy use of syncopation, or from rag, an American dialect term for a dance ball.

(music, uncountable) A musical form having a rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment.


electronica

By mid-decade, electronica began to chart, in the music of acts such as Bjork, Chemical Brothers, and Moby, and the resources of electronica were integrated into other non-pop styles, such as the industrial music of Trent Reznor […]

2012, Michael Campbell, Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On:

New Age music […] like all musics, has its margins, and these are blurred with ambient, techno, and other electronica.

2014, Timothy D. Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture:

(music) Any of a wide range of electronic music genres.

電子樂

any of a wide range of electronic music genres


sim

They played a flight sim all afternoon.

But shooters, sims and real-time strategy games ascended as the industry grew and mouseless home consoles made the genre's mechanics awkward.

2009 July 11, Darren Zenko, “U.K. pair turn time into romp”, in Toronto Star:

(informal) A simulation session or scenario.


glitter rock

Glitter rock isn't associated with a specific musical style as much as a period of time, roughly between 1972 and 1975 when it reached a glorious apex in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (featuring the debut of Meat Loaf).

1992, Ted Greenwald, Rock and Roll, Mallard Press, →ISBN:

(music) Glam rock, a music style popular in the early 1970s.


scry

en-verb

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

scries (present singular third-person)
scrying (participle present)
scried (participle past)
scried (past)

From Middle English scrien, scryen, a shortened form of Middle English ascrien, from Old French escrier (“to cry out”). Influenced by Middle English descrien (“to descry”).

Scrying spells can simply toggle the state of hidden objects to the revealed state, […]

2014 April 22, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 149:

[…] with the loss of Mekha, the shields and wardings on the temple had weakened. That meant Alonnen could now scry inside directly, albeit with a fuzzy view and no real hope of clear sound. On hearing that, Guardian-apprentice Pelai had suggested he could send in a whole series of clever, Mendhite-style scrying nodes.

2014 May 6, Jean Johnson, The Guild, Penguin, →ISBN, page 239:

[…] to get the kid's family back, they needed a plan. “You three keep an eye out. I'm going to scry inside that house.” “You sure that's a good idea?” Naleni asked. “If he's actually a string mage, no. He might sense [it].”

2020 January 26, Stephanie Flint, The Restless Sands of Neel, Infinitas Publishing, page 66:

He glanced at the silver bowl on the table near the window. She had explained its purpose, how it was used to scry what was and what might be. He feared her device more than his for what was more frightening than an uncertain future? Her gaze followed his. She squeezed his hand and looked deeply into his eyes.

2023 October 31, Garrett Boatman, The Clocks of Midnight, Crossroad Press:

(more broadly, fantasy, video games) To use magical means to see or look into (something that is happening outside one's sight, e.g. inside a building or far away, or in the distant past, or future, etc).


glam rock

Although David Bowie is perhaps glam rock’s best-known star today, it was his friend, Marc Bolan – they met in their late teens in Soho – who sparked the movement.

2020 June 22, Joobin Bekhrad, “Glitter and curls: Marc Bolan and the birth of glam rock style”, in The Guardian:

(music) A style of English rock music from the early 1970s, distinguished by the glamorous, glittery costumes of its performers and its bouncy beat and lyrics.


glam

Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously.

2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian:

(music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock.; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.


sludge

en-noun

sludge (countable and uncountable, plural sludges)

(uncountable, music) Ellipsis of sludge metal.


go-go

1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.
Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.

(music) A style of funk music from the 1970s.


Cthulhu

Invented in 1926 by H.P. Lovecraft for his short story The Call of Cthulhu. Possibly based on chthonic (“dwelling under the earth”).

Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency.

1928, H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:

A gigantic fictional humanoid alien god being described with a head resembling an octopus and dragon wings and claws, around whom an insane cult developed.


indie

indie (countable and uncountable, plural indies)

From independent, by shortening, + -ie. Used of popular music since the 1980s, and of cinema for some decades before that.

(uncountable, music) A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.


goth

Goth subculture
The Doors
gothic architecture
gothic art
gothic fiction

From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).

der

(uncountable, music) A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.


fade to black

en-verb

fade to black (third-person singular simple present fades to black, present participle fading to black, simple past and past participle faded to black)

fades to black (present singular third-person)
fading to black (participle present)
faded to black (participle past)
faded to black (past)

From the movie industry, where it was customary to end a scene or session of filming by closing off light to the camera, sometimes for dramatic effect, but often as a practical measure.

They danced the famous Merengue / Now we dolly back / Now we fade to black

1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:

We don't have to fade to black / Let the sun come in

2023, “Let the Sun Come In”, in Relentless, performed by The Pretenders:

(film) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.


timestream

By killing his great-grandfather, the time traveller disrupted the timestream.

The slightest excess of effort might upset the balance at any point of the time stream, sending them backward into the past or forward into the future independently of my will.

[1931 December, Eric Temple Bell, “The Time Stream”, in Wonder Stories:

The timestream is littered with these blank areas.

Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream.

2011, Tom MacRae, “The Girl Who Waited”, in Nick Hurran, director, Doctor Who, season 6, episode 10, spoken by The Doctor (Matt Smith):

(science fiction, mythology) A metaphorical conception of time as a stream, or flowing body of water.


monoceros

la-noun

monocerōs m (genitive monocerōtis); third declension

monocerōs (canonical masculine)
monocerōtis (genitive)
monocerōs (nominative singular)
monocerōtēs (nominative plural)
monocerōtis (genitive singular)
monocerōtum (genitive plural)
monocerōtī (dative singular)
monocerōtibus (dative plural)
monocerōtem (accusative singular)
monocerōtēs (accusative plural)
monocerōte (ablative singular)
monocerōtibus (ablative plural)
monocerōs (singular vocative)
monocerōtēs (plural vocative)

→ English: monoceros

→ Spanish: monocerote (learned)

From Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs, “having one horn”, from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”)).


soca

en-noun

soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)

He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.

2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:

—Carnival? With soca music?

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684:

(music) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.

ソカ

a style of popular dance music from the West Indies