rusalka

en-noun

rusalka (plural rusalkas or rusalky or rusalki)

rusalkas (plural)
rusalky (plural)
rusalki (plural)

From Russian руса́лка (rusálka, “mermaid, siren”). Doublet of rosalia.

bor

She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.

2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times:

(Slavic mythology) A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.


rusalka

(Slavic mythology) rusalka (female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths)


rusalka

head

rusalka (definite accusative rusalkayı, plural rusalkalar)

rusalkayı (accusative definite)
rusalkalar (plural)
rusalka (nominative singular)
rusalkalar (nominative plural)
rusalkayı (accusative definite singular)
rusalkaları (accusative definite plural)
rusalkaya (dative singular)
rusalkalara (dative plural)
rusalkada (locative singular)
rusalkalarda (locative plural)
rusalkadan (ablative singular)
rusalkalardan (ablative plural)
rusalkanın (genitive singular)
rusalkaların (genitive plural)
rusalkam (first-person nominative singular)
rusalkalarım (first-person nominative singular)
rusalkan (nominative second-person singular)
rusalkaların (nominative second-person singular)
rusalkası (nominative singular third-person)
rusalkaları (nominative singular third-person)
rusalkamız (first-person nominative plural)
rusalkalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
rusalkanız (nominative plural second-person)
rusalkalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
rusalkaları (nominative plural third-person)
rusalkamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
rusalkalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
rusalkanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
rusalkalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
rusalkasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
rusalkalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
rusalkamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
rusalkalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
rusalkanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
rusalkalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
rusalkalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
rusalkama (dative first-person singular)
rusalkalarıma (dative first-person singular)
rusalkana (dative second-person singular)
rusalkalarına (dative second-person singular)
rusalkasına (dative singular third-person)
rusalkalarına (dative singular third-person)
rusalkamıza (dative first-person plural)
rusalkalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
rusalkanıza (dative plural second-person)
rusalkalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
rusalkalarına (dative plural third-person)
rusalkamda (first-person locative singular)
rusalkalarımda (first-person locative singular)
rusalkanda (locative second-person singular)
rusalkalarında (locative second-person singular)
rusalkasında (locative singular third-person)
rusalkalarında (locative singular third-person)
rusalkamızda (first-person locative plural)
rusalkalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
rusalkanızda (locative plural second-person)
rusalkalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
rusalkalarında (locative plural third-person)
rusalkamdan (ablative first-person singular)
rusalkalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
rusalkandan (ablative second-person singular)
rusalkalarından (ablative second-person singular)
rusalkasından (ablative singular third-person)
rusalkalarından (ablative singular third-person)
rusalkamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
rusalkalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
rusalkanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
rusalkalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
rusalkalarından (ablative plural third-person)
rusalkamın (first-person genitive singular)
rusalkalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
rusalkanın (genitive second-person singular)
rusalkalarının (genitive second-person singular)
rusalkasının (genitive singular third-person)
rusalkalarının (genitive singular third-person)
rusalkamızın (first-person genitive plural)
rusalkalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
rusalkanızın (genitive plural second-person)
rusalkalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
rusalkalarının (genitive plural third-person)

From Russian руса́лка (rusálka, “mermaid, siren”).


technothriller

Coordinate term: spy-fi

The techno-thriller and its practitioners may be standing athwart. Tom Clancy, for one, made it clear to me that he has no interest in contemporary literature as Literature. He perennially scorns any salon environs.

1993, William F. Ryan, “The Techno-Thriller”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review:

Few filmmakers have his feel for the flux and transience of life as we live it, and his movies are especially eloquent in depicting the passage of time, whether it’s the one-year period of awkward realignments among a constellation of Parisian friends in “Late August, Early September” (1998) or the entire life cycle of a marriage in the period epic “Les Destinées Sentimentales” (2000) or even the jet-lagged permanent-present tense of the technothriller “Demonlover” (2002).

2009 May 3, Dennis Lim, “In Familial Bric-a-Brac, Finding Himself”, in New York Times:

A genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.


telepaper

But, as the anchorwoman assures us at the end, with a two-hour download time (at $5 an hour), “the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20-cent street edition.”

2009 May 10, Frank Rich, “The American Press on Suicide Watch”, in New York Times:

(rare, chiefly science fiction) A newspaper that can be downloaded in an electronic format.


полевой

ru-noun+

полево́й • (polevój) m anim (genitive полево́го, nominative plural полевы́е, genitive plural полевы́х)

полево́й (canonical)
polevój (romanization)
полево́го (genitive)
полевы́е (nominative plural)
полевы́х (genitive plural)
полево́й (nominative singular)
полевы́е (nominative plural)
полево́го (genitive singular)
полевы́х (genitive plural)
полево́му (dative singular)
полевы́м (dative plural)
полево́го (accusative singular)
полевы́х (accusative plural)
полевы́м (instrumental singular)
полевы́ми (instrumental plural)
полево́м (prepositional singular)
полевы́х (plural prepositional)

Ru-полевой.ogg

(mythology) polevoy, a field spirit or sprite


antivampire

en-adj

antivampire (comparative more antivampire, superlative most antivampire)

more antivampire (comparative)
most antivampire (superlative)

This is a revealing passage, for van Helsing is the stern realist, the guiding hand directing the antivampire confederacy.

1996, Howard L. Malchow, Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain, page 146:

The Oscar, Time, and Murrow formed a magical antivampire crucifix that would do more than protect Mr. S from the bloodsuckers of Hollywood; this figurative talisman would also convert the naysayers into idolators.

2003, George Jacobs, William Stadiem, Mr. S: my life with Frank Sinatra, page 137:

(folklore, fantasy) Opposing or countering vampires.


werecat

(fantasy, mythology) A shapeshifter who can change between cat and human form.

貓人

shapeshifter assuming the shape of a cat


planetside

For Kincaid, that planet represented the chance to finally take part in a planetside assault out of the Marine legends on which he'd been weaned—a chance this mass butchery misnamed a war had offered in all too short supply.

2002, David Weber, Steve White, The Shiva option:


planetside

EOS (HNS) - Dead Coming Home
The remains of colonists who died in the first attempts to settle Eos are coming home. Remains from Sites 1 and 2 have finally been recovered, giving closure to numerous families aboard the Nexus. There are now calls for an inquiry into why the bodies were left planetside after two failed attempts to establish outposts.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-12, PC, scene: Nexus:


naiade

From Latin naias, from Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás, “naiad”), from νάειν (náein, “to flow”).


Drachenfutter

de-noun

Drachenfutter n (strong, genitive Drachenfutters, no plural)

Drachenfutters (genitive)
Drachenfutter (nominative singular)
Drachenfutters (genitive singular)
Drachenfutter (dative singular)
Drachenfutter (accusative singular)

Das nächstemal that der Mann ein bischen Rattengift in das Drachenfutter.

The next time the man put a little rat poison in the dragon fodder.

(fantasy, fiction) dragon fodder, dragon food


Krimi

Krimi m (strong, genitive Krimis, plural Krimis)

Krimis (genitive)
Krimis (plural)
Krimi (nominative singular)
Krimis (definite nominative plural)
Krimis (genitive singular)
Krimis (definite genitive plural)
Krimi (dative singular)
Krimis (dative definite plural)
Krimi (accusative singular)
Krimis (accusative definite plural)

Shortened from Kriminalroman (“crime story”).


nuno

(folklore, mythology) goblin in Philippine folklore believed to live in anthills


stardate

Captain's log, stardate 3087.6. While investigating an uncharted planet, the Enterprise and at least this entire quadrant of space, has been subjected to violent, unexplained stress and force.

1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, spoken by William Shatner:

And to avoid any quantum entanglement, make sure that if you visit the show before it closes on the stardate equivalent to Sept. 20, your transporter is in working order.

2009 May 30, Edward Rothstein, “The U.S.S. Enterprise, in Strange New World of Museum”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) A date according to the fictional system of time measurement developed for Star Trek.


ܒܗܡܘܬ

head

ܒܗܡܘܬ • (behmōṯ) f

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew בְּהֵמוֹת (bəhēmôṯ).


alt-country

alternative country
alternative country#English

(music) Clipping of alternative country.


ケルベロス

[ke̞ɾɯ̟be̞ɾo̞sɨ]

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos).

lbor

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Cerberus, the mythical three-headed dog


cryosleep

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

“Constantly shifting positions and priorities. Outright deception. And behind it all, the possibility we'll be hit again by this Scourge. Despite all that, their solution is for us to return to cryo. Just take a little nap and all our problems will go away.”[…]
What had Calix and his team become? This was no simple protest. His speech had implied as much. To resist the order to return to cryo-sleep, by definition it made these people a resistance.

2017 March, Jason M. Hough, K. C. Alexander, Mass Effect Andromeda: Nexus Uprising, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 369–370:

(science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.


ondina

(alchemy, folklore) undine, water sprite


狼男

ja-noun

狼(おおかみ)男(おとこ) • (ōkamiotoko) ^(←おほかみをとこ (ofokamiwotoko)?)

狼男 (canonical)
ōkamiotoko (romanization)
ofokamiwotoko (romanization)
おほかみをとこ (hiragana historical)

From 狼 (ōkami, “wolf”) + 男 (otoko, “human male”). Compare English werewolf (from were (“adult human male”) + wolf), German Werwolf, Dutch weerwolf.


ghast

Poetic abbreviation of ghastly. Use as a noun influenced by ghost.

The cliff-ghast wrenched off the fox's head, and fought his brothers for the entrails.

2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass:

The most powerful of all undead creatures, ghasts feed on ghosts, dead souls and, most especially, live ones. They want to take over Iltior and set up a ghast empire.

2007, Ian Irvine, Runcible Jones & the Buried City:

(fantasy) An evil spirit or monster; a ghoul.


eurodance

eurodance (nominative singular)
eurodance'u (genitive singular)
eurodance'owi (dative singular)
eurodance (accusative singular)
eurodance'em (instrumental singular)
eurodansie (locative singular)
eurodansie (singular vocative)


champeta

Bomba Estéreo’s set at the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night — part of a six-band lineup — was kaleidoscopic and danceable, mingling the clip-clop bounce of cumbia and another Colombian rhythm, champeta, with echoey guitar, reggae backbeats and the singing and rapping of Liliana Saumet.

2009 July 11, Jon Pareles, “Latin Alternative Music’s Movers and Shakers Meet”, in New York Times:

(music) A form of local independent music from Colombia.


skycycle

“The blasters and lasers on the skycycles are fully charged and set on the highest level of power,” answered Tiffany in her high voice.

2005, Matthew T Bird, The Scumball Saga, page 126:

Ethics does not compel you to make it a family heirloom, passing it down from generation to generation, into the distant future, when the cool kids are riding those antigravity skycycles.

2009 July 12, Randy Cohen, “Co-Worker Concerns”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) A bicycle capable of levitation.


トランス

[to̞ɾã̠ɰ̃sɨ]


alienlike

en-adj

alienlike (comparative more alienlike, superlative most alienlike)

more alienlike (comparative)
most alienlike (superlative)

On the screen there was this creepy image: a giant head, mouth agape, with clawing hands reaching out of it, alienlike, toward the figure of a girl.

2009 July 14, Melena Ryzik, “Curtain Down, Light the Lights!”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) Resembling or characteristic of an alien.


opowiadanie

pl-noun

opowiadanie n (diminutive opowiadanko, related adjective opowiadaniowy)

opowiadanko (diminutive)
opowiadaniowy (adjective)
opowiadanie (nominative singular)
opowiadania (nominative plural)
opowiadania (genitive singular)
opowiadań (genitive plural)
opowiadaniu (dative singular)
opowiadaniom (dative plural)
opowiadanie (accusative singular)
opowiadania (accusative plural)
opowiadaniem (instrumental singular)
opowiadaniami (instrumental plural)
opowiadaniu (locative singular)
opowiadaniach (locative plural)
opowiadanie (singular vocative)
opowiadania (plural vocative)

(countable) short story (work of fiction that is shorter than a novella)


orko

eo-head

orko (accusative singular orkon, plural orkoj, accusative plural orkojn)

orkon (accusative singular)
orkoj (plural)
orkojn (accusative plural)

From English orc, ultimately from Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogro and orcino.

The orcs must have robbed them but been afraid to keep the knives, for they knew what they were: works of the Westlands, magically put together in order to cause Mordor ill.

2007, J. R. R. Tolkien, translated by William Auld, La du turegoj, 2nd edition, translation of The Two Towers (in English):


quidditch

Muggle quidditch
Muggle quidditch#English


churel

As a churel she now prowls about the neighbourhood with her child in her arms.

1895, William Crooke, North Indian Notes and Queries, page 39:

The Churel, or woman dying in chold-birth, has been mentioned elsewhere.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32:

He talked in whispers, and with the utmost respect, of the churel that might be listening overhead.

1953, The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 29, page 410:

In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth, pregnancy; or a witch.


物の怪

Compound of 物 (mono, “thing”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 怪 (ke, “spirit”).


犬神

A (guardian) dog spirit; an attendant/familiar spirit: In Japanese mythology an inugami (lit. a "dog spirit") is a type of shikigami (式神), similar to a familiar spirit, resembling, and usually originating from, a dog, and most commonly carrying out vengeance or acting as guardians on behalf of their 'owner'.


moldu

fr-noun

moldu m (plural moldus, feminine moldue)


yé-yé

en-noun

yé-yé (countable and uncountable, plural yé-yés)

From French yéyé, from English yeah-yeah.

[…] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.

1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(uncountable, music) A genre of pop music of the early 1960s in Europe.


homaŭtomato

eo-head

homaŭtomato (accusative singular homaŭtomaton, plural homaŭtomatoj, accusative plural homaŭtomatojn)

homaŭtomaton (accusative singular)
homaŭtomatoj (plural)
homaŭtomatojn (accusative plural)

From homo (“human”) + aŭtomato (“automaton”).


homlupo

homlupo (accusative singular homlupon, plural homlupoj, accusative plural homlupojn)

homlupon (accusative singular)
homlupoj (plural)
homlupojn (accusative plural)

October 30, 1999, Don Harlow, "Re: Hallowe'en", soc.culture.esperanto
Almenaux en la usona (eble ankaux angla) tradicio, la luphomo aux homlupo (lukantropo aux likantropo) estas aliel tute ordinara homo, kiu sub difinitaj kondicxoj farigxas lupo aux estajxo, kiu similas lupon, kaj kies mangxopreferoj enkludas la homan viandon, malsame ol ordinaraj lupoj, kiuj prereras musojn, domkatojn, kaj aliajn malgrandajn frandajxojn.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

[title:] La Homlupoj de St. James

2016, A. A. Bort, La Homlupoj de St. James, →ISBN:

Estante homlupo, li hurlos kaj ŝanĝos sian korpon sub la lumo de la luno.

2017, Knal Majsner, Doni vivon por vivo, Michael Lennartz:

Andrea naskiĝis en familio de homlupoj.

2018, Laure Patas d’Illiers, “Homlupo”, in Belarta rikolto 2018: Premiitaj verkoj de la Belartaj Konkursoj de Universala Esperanto-Asocio, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 29:

Andrea was born into a family of werewolves.


zombio

zombio (accusative singular zombion, plural zombioj, accusative plural zombiojn)

zombion (accusative singular)
zombioj (plural)
zombiojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from English zombie, ultimately from a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”).

La resto de la mondo kondutas kiel zombioj kaj servas la homojn kiuj parolas angle.

2000, Hans Kamp, “Double meanings”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):

The rest of the world behave like zombies and serves the people that speak English.

Li prilaboris novan filmon, kiu nomiĝas Attack of the Moon Zombies (“Atako de la Lunaj Zombioj”)

2011 May-June, “Nun eĉ eksterteraj zombioj parolas Esperanton”, in Usona Esperantisto, →ISSN, page 5:

He worked on a new film named Attack of the Moon Zombies ("Attack of the Moon Zombies")

Unue, multaj “normaluloj” surpriziĝas aŭdante pri publikigo de libro verkita en Esperanto (des pli se poemaro!) aŭ pri koncerto de rokmuzika E-bando; ili kredadis la lingvon, la aferon Esperanto morta, kaj jen tamen ĝi plu vivas, aŭ almenaŭ moviĝas simile al estulo vivanta, kiel filmaj zombioj faras.

2014 March, Jorge Camacho, “Motivoj por ne kabei”, in Beletra Almanako, page 74:

For one, many "normal people" are surprised to hear about the publication of a new book written in Esperanto (even more if it's a poetry collection!) or about a concert of an Esperanto rock music band; they thought the Esperanto language and cause were dead, and yet here it still is, living, or at least moving similarly to a living being, as film zombies do.

Sed, antaŭ tio, la pafilojn ŝargas
side, en siaj hejmoj, la zombioj.

2016, Jorge Camacho, “La zombioj”, in Strangaj spikoj, page 141:

But, before that, the guns are loaded
by those sitting in their homes, the zombies.


funkabilly

(music) A subgenre of popular music that blends rockabilly with funk.


hororo

hororo (accusative singular hororon, plural hororoj, accusative plural hororojn)

hororon (accusative singular)
hororoj (plural)
hororojn (accusative plural)


vaimpír

head

vaimpír f (genitive singular vaimpíre, nominative plural vaimpírí)

vaimpíre (genitive singular)
vaimpírí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
vaimpír (indefinite singular)
vaimpírí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a vaimpír (indefinite singular)
a vaimpírí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
vaimpíre (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an vaimpír (definite singular)
na vaimpírí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na vaimpíre (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an vaimpír (definite singular)
don vaimpír (definite singular)
leis na vaimpírí (definite plural)

Borrowed from English vampire, from French vampire, from German Vampir, from a Slavic word.


deamhan fola

deamhan fola m (genitive singular deamhain fhola, nominative plural deamhain fhola)

deamhain fhola (genitive singular)
deamhain fhola (nominative plural)
deamhan fola
dheamhan fola
ndeamhan fola


darkcore

From dark + -core, perhaps from the 1993 track Darkcore by Two Dark Troopers, released on Basement Records.

Of course, even amid the beeps and beats good old guitar music never went away, and there are plenty of indie, punk and alternative bands gigging to appreciative audiences, as well as the resolutely grim Gothic and darkcore fringe.

2002, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Berlin, page 36:

(music) A subgenre of jungle music with morbid, horror-based themes.


mathcore

While all that herky-jerky mathcore in your collection might not fit the bill, put some Portishead on your Pod and the attached OhMiBod will respond rhythmically in kind.

(music) A rhythmically complex and dissonant style of metalcore music.


happycore

Shortening, equivalent to happy + -core.

In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.

2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, page 291:


nardcore

From Oxnard + -core, to rhyme with hardcore.

A hardcore punk movement in Southern California in the early 1980s.


Cyborg

de-noun

Cyborg m (strong, genitive Cyborgs, plural Cyborgs)

Cyborgs (genitive)
Cyborgs (plural)
Cyborg (nominative singular)
Cyborgs (definite nominative plural)
Cyborgs (genitive singular)
Cyborgs (definite genitive plural)
Cyborg (dative singular)
Cyborgs (dative definite plural)
Cyborg (accusative singular)
Cyborgs (accusative definite plural)


breakcore

/ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔː/

/ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔːɹ/

The head-on collision between DJ Ricky Rabbit's fractured breakcore and MC Vulture Voltaire's fuming invective is a spectacle of almost physical impossibility, like trying to rap along to an earthquake while getting tased[…]

2008, SPIN, volume 24, number 2, page 93:

Where breakcore picks up on rave's daftness, dubstep fixates on its darkness, sometimes to a shlocky degree[…]

2008, Marc Masters, Weasel Walter, Rob Young, No Wave:

(music) A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially the "Amen break".


Nintendocore

From Nintendo (“Japanese multinational video game company”) + -core (suffix denoting a music genre, especially one influenced by hardcore music), with reference to the simplistic sound effects of early video game consoles. The word was coined by the American musician Nathan Winneke, the frontman of the metalcore band Horse the Band, as a joke; the band posted the word on the Internet and also printed it on a label on the compact disc of their first demo I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed (2001).

coinage

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to mix the theme song from the original Mario Bros. games with chugging guitars and the vocal stylings of someone who wasn't hugged enough as a child? You're not alone. In fact, there's an entire genre of music devoted to this sound – it's called nintendocore. Growing out of metalcore – a fusion of heavy metal and punk – nintendocore derives its distinctive sound from the use of synths reminiscent of mid-eighties video games.

2009 November 2, Amy Plachta, “You Never Knew You Loved … Nintendocore a Unique Sound Worth Exploring”, in Interrobang: Fanshawe College’s Student Voice, volume 42, number 11, London, Ont.: Fanshawe College Student Union, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-31:

In the ever-changing landscape of music, that's given way to such genres as emo, screamo, nu metal and Nintendocore, one question remains! Does anyone play rock music anymore?

2010 May, Jake Brown, Alice in Chains: In the Studio, Nashville, Tenn.: Rock ’N’ Roll Books, →ISBN:

At the time of writing, Spotify currently lists over 4,000 online categories and sub-categories of music ranging from Nintendocore – a genre delineated solely by the overlay of bludgeoning, bowel-stewing grunge riffs on old-school videogame soundtracks – to Pornogrind, a maximum security subgenre of Grindcore (a convulsing fusion of rawboned, buzz-sawing death metal and tightly coiled hardcore punk).

2020, Kevin Dutton, Black and White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN:

In the US, a well-known Brooklyn music venue hosted a Minecraft concert featuring much loved bands[…]. The sprawling nightclub was painstakingly recreated and featured performances from the popular emo act American Football, "Nintendocore" videogame musicians Anamanaguchi and electronic artist Baths[…].

2020, Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, Hugh Davies, William Balmford, “Playing during and post COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Exploring Minecraft: Ethnographies of Play and Creativity (Palgrave Games in Context), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 171:

(music, video games) An aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes (“music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips”) and video game music.

Nintendocore

aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music


ܛܠܢܝܬܐ

aii-noun

ܛܸܠܵܢ̈ܝܵܬ݂ܵܐ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ • (ṭillānīṯā) f (plural ܛܸܠܵܢ̈ܝܵܬ݂ܵܐ (ṭillānyāṯā))

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (canonical)
ṭillānīṯā (romanization)
ܛܸܠܵܢ̈ܝܵܬ݂ܵܐ (plural)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܝܼ (first-person possessed-form singular)
ṭillānīṯī (first-person possessed-form singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܲܢ (first-person plural possessed-form)
ṭillānīṯan (first-person plural possessed-form)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ (construct singular)
ṭillānīṯ (construct singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܘܼܟ݂ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ṭillānīṯūḵ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܟ݂ܝ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
ṭillānīṯāḵ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form second-person)
ṭillānīṯāwḵōn (plural possessed-form second-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (emphatic singular)
ṭillānīṯā (emphatic singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܹܗ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
ṭillānīṯēh (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܗ̇ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
ṭillānīṯāh (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܗܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form third-person)
ṭillānīṯhōn (plural possessed-form third-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܝܼ̈ (first-person possessed-form singular)
ṭillānyāṯī (first-person possessed-form singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܲܢ̈ (first-person plural possessed-form)
ṭillānyāṯan (first-person plural possessed-form)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂̈ (construct plural)
ṭillānyāṯ (construct plural)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܘܼ̈ܟ݂ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ṭillānyāṯūḵ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܵܟ݂ܝ̈ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
ṭillānyāṯāḵ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܵܘ̈ܟ݂ܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form second-person)
ṭillānyāṯāwḵōn (plural possessed-form second-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܹ̈ܐ (emphatic plural)
ṭillānyāṯē (emphatic plural)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܘܼ̈ܗܝ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
ṭillānyāṯūh (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂̈ܘܿܗ̇ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
ṭillānyāṯōh (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܗ̈ܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form third-person)
ṭillānyāṯhōn (plural possessed-form third-person)

aii-infl-noun

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܹ̈ܐ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܘܼܟ݂

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܟ݂ܝ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܗ̇

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܗܘܿܢ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܝܼ̈

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܘܼ̈ܟ݂

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܵܟ݂ܝ̈

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܘܼ̈ܗܝ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂̈ܘܿܗ̇

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܲܢ̈

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܵܘ̈ܟ݂ܘܿܢ

ܛܸܠܵܢܝܵܬ݂ܗ̈ܘܿܢ

Root
 ܛ ܠ ܠ (ṭ l l)
 0 terms
Derived from the noun ܛܸܠܠܵܐ (ṭillā, “shade”).

specter/spectre, in Assyrian folklore a genus of ghost or supernatural creatures resembling humans, said to live human-like lives, and are not inherently good or evil


霊鬼

a spirit of the dead (particularly malevolent)

appearing in folk tales told in the northeast of Japan

座敷童: a red-faced ghost of a child haunting an old house


padawan

→ Japanese: パダワン (padawan)

→ Spanish: padawan

→ Portuguese: padawan

→ French: padawan

→ Korean: 파다원 (padawon)

→ Russian: падава́н (padaván)

→ Esperanto: padavano

Générations Star Wars et Science Fiction

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas as early as 1973 (in the manuscript Journal of the Whills, where it was spelled padawaan), but not used in his Star Wars film franchise until Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace which premiered on 16 May 1999.

coin

Just as Plato requires a training program that combines physical and mental skills, so does Yoda. The training you'll receive will probably be similar to the training young Luke Skywalker receives from Yoda, since you're probably nearer his age than younger padawans. Throughout his training, Luke questions Yoda about good and evil, the Force, and other concepts important to a Jedi. Likewise, Plato's Republic features a question-and-answer interplay between teacher and students as Socrates's "padawans" question him about justice and injustice, the nature of the Good, and the ideal government.

2005, Judith Barad, “The Aspiring Jedi’s Handbook of Virtue”, 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, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:

Like, practically every day in third grade, Auggie and I would hang out together on FaceChat. We had decided to grow our Padawan braids before I moved away, so it was a great way to check how long they had gotten.

2015, R. J. Palacio, “FaceChat”, in Pluto: A Wonder Story, New York, N.Y.: Knopf Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

Her underlings flanked her, like Padawans studying beneath some great Jedi.

2017, Marnie Riches, Born Bad, London: Avon, →ISBN:


mannerpunk

I have a fondness for mannerpunk mysteries....

1998, Misha MCM, “Blue Eyes”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

This type of POV is particularly valuable for stories which are heavy on characters and theme, those that "say something." One wouldn't ordinarily choose it for a PWP (plot? what plot?) romp unless engaged in mannerpunk.

1998, Macedon, “Craft of Writing 3 (point of view)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

A subgenre of fantasy literature that takes place within an elaborate social structure and resembles a comedy of manners.


shetani

Borrowed from Swahili shetani, from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān).

der

Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān)

An evil spirit from East African mythology, often the subject of artwork.


shetani

→ English: shetani

Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān)


slashy

en-adj

slashy (comparative slashier, superlative slashiest)

slashier (comparative)
slashiest (superlative)

It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.

2001, Kelly Simca Boyd, "'One Index Finger On The Mouse Scroll And The Other On My Clit': Slash Writers' Views On Pornography, Censorship, Feminism and Risk", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 156

One amazing claim to fame, though, is that very soon after this collating party at my house, Roberta published her slashy/raunchy stories in a fanzine that was called, I think, GRIP (a sendup of zines Grope and Grup) […]

2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Recollections of a Collating Party”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 92:

As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]

2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:

(fandom slang) Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.


luchorp

head

luchorp m (genitive luchuirp, nominative plural luchuirp)

luchuirp (genitive)
luchuirp (nominative plural)
luchorp (masculine nominative singular stem)
luchorp (dual masculine nominative stem)
luchuirp (masculine nominative plural stem)
luchuirp (masculine singular stem vocative)
luchorp (dual masculine stem vocative)
luchorpu (masculine plural stem vocative)
luchorp (accusative masculine singular stem)
luchorp (accusative dual masculine stem)
luchorpu (accusative masculine plural stem)
luchuirp (genitive masculine singular stem)
luchorp (dual genitive masculine stem)
luchorp (genitive masculine plural stem)
luchorp (dative masculine singular stem)
luchorpaib (dative dual masculine stem)
luchorpaib (dative masculine plural stem)
luchorp
also lluchorp after a proclitic
ending in a vowel


cowboy shot

From the framing of cinema shots in Westerns, where the holster and gun needed to be in view along with the actor's face.

In Europe, the term plán americain or plano americano refers to a shot framed from mid-leg up, basically a cowboy shot. Beyond this we are into the realm of close-ups.

2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, page 12:

One drawback to following an actor on stairs is that you are looking at the actor's back (and worse, emphasizing his or her behind if you are climbing the stairs in a cowboy shot).

2009, Jerry Holway, Laurie Hayball, The Steadicam Operator's Handbook, page 148:

(film) A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh.


worldbeat

DJ King Scratch will spin worldbeat music all night, including Byron Lee's calypso, Machito's salsa, and Segun Adawale's African high-life.

1989 May 26, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

Diners sit amongst peaceful concrete trees and plastic leaves, listening to soothing worldbeat music; renderings of globes appear throughout, as do references to FoodlifeUs massive recycling program and the healthiness of the establishment's victuals.

1996 April 12, Tom Frank, “Capital Lies: Swallow it Whole”, in Chicago Reader:

Sawt El Atlas delivers what the worldbeat bands of the 80s couldn't: instead of being grafted onto native forms, the Western elements are seamlessly incorporated.

2001 July 13, Peter Margasak, “Sawt El Atlas”, in Chicago Reader:

(music) A music genre that blends Western pop music with traditional folk music or world music.


mad hatter

The term is attested since at least the 1790s. See mad as a hatter.


魔力

ja-noun

魔(ま)力(りょく) or 魔(ま)力(りき) • (maryoku or mariki)

魔力 (canonical)
魔力 (canonical)
maryoku (romanization)
mariki (romanization)

[ma̠ɾʲo̞kɯ̟]


кикимора

ru-noun+

кики́мора • (kikímora) f anim (genitive кики́моры, nominative plural кики́моры, genitive plural кики́мор)

кики́мора (canonical)
kikímora (romanization)
кики́моры (genitive)
кики́моры (nominative plural)
кики́мор (genitive plural)
кики́мора (nominative singular)
кики́моры (nominative plural)
кики́моры (genitive singular)
кики́мор (genitive plural)
кики́море (dative singular)
кики́морам (dative plural)
кики́мору (accusative singular)
кики́мор (accusative plural)
кики́морой (instrumental singular)
кики́морою (instrumental singular)
кики́морами (instrumental plural)
кики́море (prepositional singular)
кики́морах (plural prepositional)

→ English: kikimora

→ Spanish: kikimora

(mythology) kikimora (a female house spirit in the Slavic mythology)


карлик

ка́рлик • (kárlik) m anim (genitive ка́рлика, nominative plural ка́рлики, genitive plural ка́рликов, feminine ка́рлица, relational adjective ка́рликовый)

ка́рлик (canonical)
kárlik (romanization)
ка́рлика (genitive)
ка́рлики (nominative plural)
ка́рликов (genitive plural)
ка́рлица (feminine)
ка́рликовый (adjective relational)
ка́рлик (nominative singular)
ка́рлики (nominative plural)
ка́рлика (genitive singular)
ка́рликов (genitive plural)
ка́рлику (dative singular)
ка́рликам (dative plural)
ка́рлика (accusative singular)
ка́рликов (accusative plural)
ка́рликом (instrumental singular)
ка́рликами (instrumental plural)
ка́рлике (prepositional singular)
ка́рликах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Czech karel, karlík or Polish karlę, karzeł, karlik, all from Old High German karal, whence Middle High German karl (“little boy”) and German Kerl (“young man”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

ка́рликъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Потом я стала замечать на перекрёстках впереди какого-то карлика в серых лохмотьях и странной широкополой шляпе с круглым верхом.

2005, Виктор Пелевин, Шлем ужаса; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., The Helmet of Horror, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2006:

And then on the crossroads up ahead of me I kept catching sight of a dwarf dressed in grey rags and a strange hat with a wide brim and a round crown.

Potom ja stala zamečatʹ na perekrjóstkax vperedi kakovo-to karlika v seryx loxmotʹjax i strannoj širokopoloj šljape s kruglym verxom.

dwarf (various senses), midget, gnome, pygmy, manikin, elf


kikimora

(Slavic mythology) a female house spirit in the Slavic mythology


kikimora

kikimora (nominative singular)
kikimory (nominative plural)
kikimory (genitive singular)
kikimor (genitive plural)
kikimór (genitive plural)
kikimorze (dative singular)
kikimorom (dative plural)
kikimorę (accusative singular)
kikimory (accusative plural)
kikimorą (instrumental singular)
kikimorami (instrumental plural)
kikimorze (locative singular)
kikimorach (locative plural)
kikimoro (singular vocative)
kikimory (plural vocative)


kikimora

Borrowed from Russian кики́мора (kikímora).


付喪神

付喪神 (canonical)
tsukumogami (romanization)

the spirit of an artifact or of a tool that has gained a life of its own upon its 100th birthday


竜神

(Shinto) a dragon god also known as 海神(わたつみ) (Watatsumi), the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology


country rock

en-noun

country rock (countable and uncountable, plural country rocks)

(music, uncountable) A genre of music combining elements of country music and rock music.

xenolith

when present as an inclusion in igneous rock from a local magma source


曲藝

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ ŋɐi̯²²/

/kʰiɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe⁴¹/

/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²²/

/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁵ ɡe²²/

/t͡ɕʰioʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ ŋɐi̯²²/

/kʰiɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe⁴¹/

/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²²/

/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁵ ɡe²²/

/t͡ɕʰioʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

quyi; a category of traditional, usually non-staged, Chinese vocal art forms such as ballad singing (唱曲 (chàngqǔ) or 彈唱／弹唱 (tánchàng)), storytelling (說書／说书 (shuōshū)), comic dialogues (小品 (xiǎopǐn)), clapper talk (快板 (kuàibǎn)), and crosstalk (相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng))


bulette

From a derogatory gallicization of bullet; coined by Tim Kask in the first edition of the official D&D magazine, Dragon, as an addition to the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots.

1976-06, "The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)", "Creatures Features", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19

The classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, most hauntings, even the dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park_, etc) are all manifestations or consequences of human arrogance and ignorance; so violence, prejudice, ethical blindness and your local bulette are all part of the same idea.

1995-06-29, The Amorphous Mass <robin...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>, "Re: Rotten, Sexist, Racist Worlds (WAS: Females playing...)", rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc, <Pine.A32.3.91.950629164923.38897A-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>#1/1

Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette.

1997-04-07, Dan Davis <DAV...@docker.com>, "Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.", alt.toys.transformers, <33498C02.17C0@docker.com>#1/1

2001-04-20, "dave" <JobberToSt...@yahoo.com>, "OK what is a "bulette"", rec.games.roguelike.adom, <9bppfs$igu$1@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk>
My orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon.

Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.

2003, Steven Creech, Kevin Ruesch, “Torn Asunder: Critical Hits”, in Inc., Bastion Press, page 93:

The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills.

2009-09, Jason Bulmahn, "Bulette", Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, page 39

(fantasy roleplaying games) A fictional species of land-dwelling shark in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.


魔術師

魔術師 (canonical)
majutsushi (romanization)

Compound of 魔術 (majutsu, “magic, sorcery”) + 師 (shi, “master, practitioner”).

compound

(fantasy) a user of magic: a sorcerer, witch, wizard, or mage


wolfkin

Arun is in training to be a priest of the Fire God when he is abruptly plucked from his peaceful studies, bespelled and staked out as bait to capture a monster—a wolfkin. But the wolfkin isn't quite what Arun expected.

2009, Maia Strong, The Ballad of Jimothy Redwing:

There was a rumour that the rare wolfkin had been sighted in the botanical gardens in the west of the city.

2010, Kate Atkinson, Not The End Of The World, →ISBN, page 31:

Wolfkin are humanoid wolves. They have long wolf faces and thick fur. They walk on the tips of their long feet and have thick ragged wolf tails.

2014, Heather Gunn, Aspect Core Rulebook FC 2015 SC, →ISBN, page 41:

(fantasy) Any of various nonhuman and non-wolf fantasy creatures that have features of a wolf.


harpia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυιᾰ (Hárpuia).


harpia

harpia (nominative singular)
harpie (nominative plural)
harpii (genitive singular)
harpii (genitive plural)
harpij (archaic genitive plural)
harpii (dative singular)
harpiom (dative plural)
harpię (accusative singular)
harpie (accusative plural)
harpią (instrumental singular)
harpiami (instrumental plural)
harpii (locative singular)
harpiach (locative plural)
harpio (singular vocative)
harpie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυιᾰ (Hárpuia).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) harpy (fabulous winged monster with the face of a woman)

(derogatory) harpy (obnoxious, shrewish woman)


jetter

/ˈd͡ʒɛtə(ɹ)/

The jetter was upon us and it was a piston-powered engine.

1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Aircraft Production Costs and Profits, page 1823:

Five hundred and forty-two men moved by jetter to Colorado Springs;thence, by helicopter, to the canyon hideaway.

1958 October, Robert Bloch, “This Crowded Earth”, in Amazing Science Fiction Stories:

Kiron maneuvered the jetter around obstacles, and glided into the open ocean.

Miles' and MERC's attempts to remove a crate of fireworks from their star-jetter sends it hurtling into space, requiring the team to pursue it in the jetter with Grandmother Po Po piloting.

2019, William D. Crump, Happy Holidays--Animated!, page 177:

(often science fiction) A vehicle or engine that works by jet propulsion.


narnauk

Allegedly, this word is of Tsimshian origin.

(in the mythology of the First Nations of Canada) A supernatural being which can transform into an animal and back into human form by putting on and taking off an animal skin it has.


dragonskin

en-noun

dragonskin (countable and uncountable, plural dragonskins)

They carried dragonskin shields and wore matching dragonskin boots.

(fantasy) The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.


tragoedia

la-noun

tragoedia f (genitive tragoediae); first declension

tragoediae (genitive)
tragoedia (nominative singular)
tragoediae (nominative plural)
tragoediae (genitive singular)
tragoediārum (genitive plural)
tragoediae (dative singular)
tragoediīs (dative plural)
tragoediam (accusative singular)
tragoediās (accusative plural)
tragoediā (ablative singular)
tragoediīs (ablative plural)
tragoedia (singular vocative)
tragoediae (plural vocative)

English: tragedy

French: tragédie

German: Tragödie

Italian: tragedia

Polish: tragedia

Portuguese: tragédia

Romanian: tragedie

Russian: траге́дия (tragédija)

Spanish: tragedia

[t̪räˈd͡ʒɛːd̪iä]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγῳδῐ́ᾱ (tragōidíā), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).


shipside

(science fiction) On a spaceship, rather than on a planet etc.


魔道師

Compound of 魔道 (madō, “magic, sorcery, thaumaturgy”) + 師 (shi, “expert, master, practitioner”).

compound

A practitioner of magic: a magician, sorcerer, witch, wizard, or mage.


werewolfism

lycanthropy; the transformation of a person into a wolf


monstery

en-adj

monstery (comparative more monstery, superlative most monstery)

more monstery (comparative)
most monstery (superlative)


vampirization

en-noun

vampirization (countable and uncountable, plural vampirizations)

Nowhere is Rice's revision of these gender politics more evident than in the scenes surrounding the vampirization of Claudia, the orphan child.

1996, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Gothic World of Anne Rice, page 98:

Vampiric behaviour; the predatory draining of blood or (figurative) energy etc.


vampirize

en-verb

vampirize (third-person singular simple present vampirizes, present participle vampirizing, simple past and past participle vampirized)

vampirizes (present singular third-person)
vampirizing (participle present)
vampirized (participle past)
vampirized (past)


vampirey

en-adj

vampirey (comparative more vampirey, superlative most vampirey)

more vampirey (comparative)
most vampirey (superlative)

Even though virtually every character in the novel, besides Cody, is a vampire, Vampire High is not at all a vampirey novel. Rees's vampires are born as vampires who marry and produce little vampires. Justin explains that they no longer kill for ...

2006, Deborah Wilson Overstreet, Not Your Mother's Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 44:

I'd gotten fed up before, tired of the vampirey stuff I had to learn to accommodate, frightened of getting in deeper. Sometimes, I just wanted to see humans for a while. So for over three weeks, that was what I did. I didn't call Bill; he didn't call me.

2009, Charlaine Harris, Living Dead In Dallas: A True Blood Novel, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(Too vampirey.) Yield to the forbidden music of my soul. (Way too vampirey.) Dear Chloe, please can I sink my teeth into your neck and drink your blood? (One step at a time, Nigel.)

2010, Tim Collins, Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire: Because the Undead Have Feelings Too!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“Last week,” he says, “I sent 'The Winning Shot' to Temple Bar—a very ghastly Animal Magnetism vampirey sort of tale. It came back again but with a very complimentary letter, & Hogg says he should like to see it.”

2013, Arthur Conan Doyle, Vampire Stories, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

(informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of vampires.


monsterize

en-verb

monsterize (third-person singular simple present monsterizes, present participle monsterizing, simple past and past participle monsterized)

monsterizes (present singular third-person)
monsterizing (participle present)
monsterized (participle past)
monsterized (past)

"IRON-ON" MONSTERS Itie newest way to "Monsterize" your shirts. T-shirts, sweat shirts, jeans, jackets, notebooks-any tiling

2010, Forrest J Ackerman, Vampirella Archives, volume 1, page 331:

To make something or someone into a monster.

Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose

2003, Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity, page 25:

The particular conjunction of politics and 'monsters' in Richard III 'monsterizes' an already 'monstrous' language and institution, a reflection of the level of anxiety generated by the succession crisis in the 1590s.

2002, Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture, page 93:

“I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.

2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa:

To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.


vampirigi

eo-head

vampirigi (present vampirigas, past vampirigis, future vampirigos, conditional vampirigus, volitive vampirigu)

vampirigas (present)
vampirigis (past)
vampirigos (future)
vampirigus (conditional)
vampirigu (volitive)
vampirigas (present)
vampirigis (past)
vampirigos (future)
vampiriganta (active participle present singular)
vampirigantaj (active participle plural present)
vampiriginta (active participle past singular)
vampirigintaj (active participle past plural)
vampirigonta (active future participle singular)
vampirigontaj (active future participle plural)
vampirigantan (accusative active participle present singular)
vampirigantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
vampirigintan (accusative active participle past singular)
vampirigintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
vampirigontan (accusative active future participle singular)
vampirigontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
vampirigata (participle passive present singular)
vampirigataj (participle passive plural present)
vampirigita (participle passive past singular)
vampirigitaj (participle passive past plural)
vampirigota (future participle passive singular)
vampirigotaj (future participle passive plural)
vampirigatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
vampirigatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
vampirigitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
vampirigitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
vampirigotan (accusative future participle passive singular)
vampirigotajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
vampiriganto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
vampirigantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
vampiriginto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
vampirigintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
vampirigonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
vampirigontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
vampiriganton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
vampirigantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
vampiriginton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
vampirigintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
vampirigonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
vampirigontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
vampirigato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
vampirigatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
vampirigito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
vampirigitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
vampirigoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
vampirigotoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
vampirigaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
vampirigatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
vampirigiton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
vampirigitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
vampirigoton (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
vampirigotojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
vampirigante (active adverbial participle present)
vampiriginte (active adverbial participle past)
vampirigonte (active adverbial future participle)
vampirigate (adverbial participle passive present)
vampirigite (adverbial participle passive past)
vampirigote (adverbial future participle passive)
vampirigi (infinitive)
vampirigu (imperative)
vampirigus (conditional)

vampiro (“vampire”) + -igi (“to cause to be”)

suffix

Tiel la homoj povas vampirigi sin ankaŭ memstare, se ili senĉese memoras pri sia malfacila pasinteco, ne povas fortiri sin de ĝi, blokiĝas en siaj pensoj.

2007 February, Laimius Stražnickas, “Mia estrino estas vampiro”, in Monato, volume 28, number 2, →ISSN, page 17:


zombiigi

eo-head

zombiigi (present zombiigas, past zombiigis, future zombiigos, conditional zombiigus, volitive zombiigu)

zombiigas (present)
zombiigis (past)
zombiigos (future)
zombiigus (conditional)
zombiigu (volitive)
zombiigas (present)
zombiigis (past)
zombiigos (future)
zombiiganta (active participle present singular)
zombiigantaj (active participle plural present)
zombiiginta (active participle past singular)
zombiigintaj (active participle past plural)
zombiigonta (active future participle singular)
zombiigontaj (active future participle plural)
zombiigantan (accusative active participle present singular)
zombiigantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
zombiigintan (accusative active participle past singular)
zombiigintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
zombiigontan (accusative active future participle singular)
zombiigontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
zombiigata (participle passive present singular)
zombiigataj (participle passive plural present)
zombiigita (participle passive past singular)
zombiigitaj (participle passive past plural)
zombiigota (future participle passive singular)
zombiigotaj (future participle passive plural)
zombiigatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
zombiigatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
zombiigitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
zombiigitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
zombiigotan (accusative future participle passive singular)
zombiigotajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
zombiiganto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
zombiigantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
zombiiginto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
zombiigintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
zombiigonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
zombiigontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
zombiiganton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
zombiigantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
zombiiginton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
zombiigintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
zombiigonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
zombiigontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
zombiigato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
zombiigatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
zombiigito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
zombiigitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
zombiigoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
zombiigotoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
zombiigaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
zombiigatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
zombiigiton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
zombiigitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
zombiigoton (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
zombiigotojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
zombiigante (active adverbial participle present)
zombiiginte (active adverbial participle past)
zombiigonte (active adverbial future participle)
zombiigate (adverbial participle passive present)
zombiigite (adverbial participle passive past)
zombiigote (adverbial future participle passive)
zombiigi (infinitive)
zombiigu (imperative)
zombiigus (conditional)

zombio (“zombie”) + -igi (“to cause to be”)


妖狐

妖狐 (canonical)
yōko (romanization)
euko (romanization)
えうこ (hiragana historical)

(mythology) supernatural fox that can transform into a human form


moonling

From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.

The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling!

2011, Barbara Metzger, A Suspicious Affair:

Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you

2013, Zara Borthwick, Nicholas Arnold, Wonderful, page 55:

Here he was, reputed to be a rake among rakes, but he discovered, where Thea was concerned, he was as vulnerable and uncertain as the greenest moonling in love for the first time.

2017, Shirlee Busbee, Swear by Moonlight:

(archaic or poetic) One who is lovesick; one who moons over a beloved.

"I see. He's a black man. But Jacob Millhaven is not black. Eldridge was left on his doorstep as a baby, and the philosopher adopted him." "Oh! Then he's a moonling! He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma."

2011, M. P. Rogers, Oona Paraselene, page 140:

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248:

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204:

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.

2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142:

(science fiction) Someone from the Moon.


狐火

Compound of 狐(きつね) (kitsune, “fox”) + 火(ひ) (hi, “fire”). The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
First cited to a text from 1488.

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1488, Sanjōnishi Sanetaka (三条西実隆), 実隆公記 [Sanetakakōki]:

will o' the wisps appeared in the field path last night

狐火や髑髏に雨のたまる夜に

kitsunebi ya dokuro ni ame no tamaru yo ni

There's foxfire on nights when the rain collects in the skull.

a mysterious pale fire often seen in the fields and mountains at night from winter to early spring: will o' the wisp, foxfire


野狐

Appears to be a Japanese coinage from Middle Chinese-derived components.

野狐禅

a mythological spirit fox, fond of tricks and pranks, and capable of possessing people

(Zen) someone who has not fully attained enlightenment, but puts on airs and becomes self-important as if they have


野狐

Compound of 野 (no, “field; wilderness”) + 狐 (kitsune, “fox”). The kitsune changes to gitsune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).


jetcar

(science fiction) A car capable of travelling at very high speeds.


ܡܠܐܟܐ

head

ܡܠܐܟܐ • (malʾaḵā) m (plural ܡܠܐܟܐ (malʾaḵē))

malʾaḵā (romanization)
ܡܠܐܟܐ (plural)
ܡܠܐܟ (absolute singular)
ܡܠܐܟܝܢ (absolute plural)
ܡܠܐܟ (construct singular)
ܡܠܐܟܝ (construct plural)
ܡܠܐܟܐ (emphatic singular)
ܡܠܐܟܐ (emphatic plural)
ܡܠܐܟܝ (common-gender first-person possessive singular)
ܡܠܐܟܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܠܐܟܝܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܠܐܟܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܠܐܟܝܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܠܐܟܗ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܘܗܝ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܝܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܡܠܐܟܝܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܡܠܐܟܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܠܐܟܝܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܠܐܟܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܠܐܟܝܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܠܐܟܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܝܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)
ܡܠܐܟܝܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)

→ Malayalam: മാലാഖ (mālākha)

From the root ܠ-ܐ-ܟ (l-ʾ-k) related to sending, not otherwise used in Aramaic. Compare Arabic مَلْأَك (malʔak) and Hebrew מַלְאָךְ (malʾā́ḵ).

cog

Hebrew מַלְאָךְ (malʾā́ḵ)


pamiętnik

pl-noun

pamiętnik m inan (diminutive pamiętniczek)

pamiętniczek (diminutive)
pamiętnik (nominative singular)
pamiętniki (nominative plural)
pamiętnika (genitive singular)
pamiętników (genitive plural)
pamiętnikowi (dative singular)
pamiętnikom (dative plural)
pamiętnik (accusative singular)
pamiętniki (accusative plural)
pamiętnikiem (instrumental singular)
pamiętnikami (instrumental plural)
pamiętniku (locative singular)
pamiętnikach (locative plural)
pamiętniku (singular vocative)
pamiętniki (plural vocative)


雷神鳥

雷神鳥 (canonical)
raijinchō (romanization)

[ɾa̠iʑĩɲ̟t͡ɕo̞ː]

Compound of 雷神 (raijin, “thunder god”) + 鳥 (chō, “bird”), calque of English thunderbird. The first term of the compound is 雷神 (raijin, “thunder god”) rather than the expected 雷 (rai, “thunder”) because the term 雷鳥 (raichō) is already used to refer to the rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta), a type of grouse native to Japan.


ghostology

en-noun

ghostology (usually uncountable, plural ghostologies)

/ɡəʊsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

[…] it seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.

1872, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life:

This, as all students of ghostology are aware, has frequently been the case; and it was precisely the case with the ghost seen by the famous Lord Brougham, […]

1908, H. Addington Bruce, “The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham”, in Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters:

Experts in ghostology know exactly, where ghosts live, how they behave, how to deal with them, how to make them appear and disappear.

1957, William L. Fischer, Critical Notes on Evolution, page 30:

The knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.


valquiria

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja.
See English Valkyrie.

Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana


aljan

ha-noun

àljan m (feminine àljanā, plural àljanū)

àljan (canonical masculine)
àljanā (feminine)
àljanū (plural)

→ Yoruba: alujọnnu


opinicus

Coordinate term: griffin

Two opinici vert, beaked sable, wings gules, support the insignia of the Plasterers’ Company.

1847, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 233:

Urcheons, bagwyns, opinici and musimons, represented statant, sejant or segreant, and in every variety of metal, colour and fur, completed an exhibition which was both boastfully heraldic and pompously powerful.

No blood need be shed in settling these anatomical problems, as opinici are of little importance, there being barely a dozen examples.

1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, page 150:

Even when they ascend to the loftiest perch for their kind and earn the right to serve on the Council of Keythongs, the wingless ones are still not permitted the same rights as gryphons and opinici.

2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 22:

(heraldry) A heraldic imaginary creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings.


aircar

(science fiction) A car capable of flight.


reptiloid

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms.

1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 15, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A reptilian humanoid creature.


heterobiography

en-noun

heterobiography (countable and uncountable, plural heterobiographies)

biography written by another person, as opposed to an autobiography


veneficus

la-adj

venēficus (feminine venēfica, neuter venēficum); first/second-declension adjective

venēficus (canonical)
venēfica (feminine)
venēficum (neuter)
venēficus (masculine nominative singular)
venēfica (feminine nominative singular)
venēficum (neuter nominative singular)
venēficī (masculine nominative plural)
venēficae (feminine nominative plural)
venēfica (neuter nominative plural)
venēficī (genitive masculine singular)
venēficae (feminine genitive singular)
venēficī (genitive neuter singular)
venēficōrum (genitive masculine plural)
venēficārum (feminine genitive plural)
venēficōrum (genitive neuter plural)
venēficō (dative masculine singular)
venēficae (dative feminine singular)
venēficō (dative neuter singular)
venēficīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
venēficum (accusative masculine singular)
venēficam (accusative feminine singular)
venēficum (accusative neuter singular)
venēficōs (accusative masculine plural)
venēficās (accusative feminine plural)
venēfica (accusative neuter plural)
venēficō (ablative masculine singular)
venēficā (ablative feminine singular)
venēficō (ablative neuter singular)
venēficīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
venēfice (masculine singular vocative)
venēfica (feminine singular vocative)
venēficum (neuter singular vocative)
venēficī (masculine plural vocative)
venēficae (feminine plural vocative)
venēfica (neuter plural vocative)

Italian: venefico

Portuguese: venéfico

Spanish: venéfico

Derived from venē(num) (“poison”; “potion”) + -ficus (suffix denoting making).


veneficus

la-noun

venēficus m (genitive venēficī); second declension

venēficus (canonical masculine)
venēficī (genitive)
venēficus (nominative singular)
venēficī (nominative plural)
venēficī (genitive singular)
venēficōrum (genitive plural)
venēficō (dative singular)
venēficīs (dative plural)
venēficum (accusative singular)
venēficōs (accusative plural)
venēficō (ablative singular)
venēficīs (ablative plural)
venēfice (singular vocative)
venēficī (plural vocative)


omnipercipient

An omnipercipient Omnipreſence, which does hear and ſee what-ever is ſaid or tranſacted in the World, […]

1669, Henry More, “[An Antidote against Idolatry: […].] What is Idolatry According to the Determination of Clear and Free Reason.”, in An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches; […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph 5, page 20:


meteorometer

By gravitometer and meteorometer readings, Curt located the few solid bodies in the cloud

2013, Edmond Hamilton, The Magician of Mars, page .:

(science fiction) A device for locating meteors.


zombic

en-adj

zombic (comparative more zombic, superlative most zombic)

more zombic (comparative)
most zombic (superlative)

For a time I wasn't sure of their purpose—neither, it seemed, were they—and I dreaded the possible need for another zombic performance.

1991, C. S. Friedman, The Madness Season, New York: Daw, →ISBN:

[…]there has been a gradual process of distillation, leaving just about all the reactionaries, for all their disagreements among themselves, united in the conviction that there is a real difference between a conscious person and a perfect zombie–let's call that intuition the Zombic Hunch–leading them to the thesis of Zombism: that the fundamental flaw in any mechanistic theory of consciousness is that it cannot account for this important difference.

1999 November 28, Daniel Dennett, “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”, in Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, Cambridge, London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC B945.D393S94 2005, page 14:

The atoms are in a superposition of both possibilities, and the poor cat, too, is hanging on in a zombic combination of life and death.

2010 November 9, Martin Bojowald, Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe, Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC QB981.B684 2010:


dibuko

eo-head

dibuko (accusative singular dibukon, plural dibukoj, accusative plural dibukojn)

dibukon (accusative singular)
dibukoj (plural)
dibukojn (accusative plural)

From Yiddish דיבוק (dibuk), from Hebrew דבק (dovek, “cling”).


bestiarium

bestiarium (nominative singular)
bestiaria (nominative plural)
bestiarium (genitive singular)
bestiariów (genitive plural)
bestiarium (dative singular)
bestiariom (dative plural)
bestiarium (accusative singular)
bestiaria (accusative plural)
bestiarium (instrumental singular)
bestiariami (instrumental plural)
bestiarium (locative singular)
bestiariach (locative plural)
bestiarium (singular vocative)
bestiaria (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin bēstiārium. By surface analysis, bestia + -arium.


山犬

山犬 (canonical)
山犬 (canonical)
yamainu (romanization)

Daijirin
Daijisen
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
ja:ヤマイヌ
ja:松村明

Compound of 山 (yama, “mountain”) + 犬 (inu, “dog”).

(Japanese mythology) an apparition of a dog that may appear to travelers on mountain roads, and that may be either friendly or murderous to travelers

送り犬

canine apparition appearing to travelers


earthdrake

From Middle English *erthedrake, from Old English eorþdraca (“earth dragon”), equivalent of earth + drake.

[…] he sacrifices his own life in destroying a frightful earthdrake, […]

1876, William Spalding, The History of English Literature, page 40:

While attempting to remain as true to history as possible, I created a world of witches and wizards, earthdrakes and talking ravens, according to my imagination.

2008, M.C. Halliday, The King's Daughter - Page 196:

Aric had heard improbable tales of earth drakes eating entire mekillots. Seeing this one, however, he no longer had reason to doubt.

2010, Jeff Mariotte, City Under the Sand: A Dark Sun Novel:

(in early Anglo-Saxon literature, fantasy) a dragon.


Mothman

(cryptozoology, ufology) A legendary creature, regarded as a cryptid or alien, reportedly seen in West Virginia in the mid-1960s.


epistolar

es-adj

epistolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural epistolares)

Borrowed from Latin epistolāris, from epistola (“letter”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ, “message, letter”).


levjatano

eo-head

levjatano (accusative singular levjatanon, plural levjatanoj, accusative plural levjatanojn)

levjatanon (accusative singular)
levjatanoj (plural)
levjatanojn (accusative plural)

Ultimately from Hebrew לווייתן (livyatán).

Vi disbatis la kapojn de la levjatano, Vi donis ĝin por manĝo al la bestoj de la dezerto;[…]

1916, Britaj pastroj, La Sankta Biblio, London: Brita kaj Alilanda Biblia Societo, Psalmaro 74:14:

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the beasts inhabiting the wilderness.


dickgirl

(colloquial, vulgar) A person with a female body plus a penis; usually either a futanari, or a non-op or pre-op trans woman.


teleshow

(chiefly science fiction) a television show.


gríobhán

head

gríobhán m (genitive singular gríobháin, nominative plural gríobháin)

gríobháin (genitive singular)
gríobháin (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
gríobhán (indefinite singular)
gríobháin (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a ghríobháin (indefinite singular)
a ghríobhána (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
gríobháin (indefinite singular)
gríobhán (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an gríobhán (definite singular)
na gríobháin (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an ghríobháin (definite singular)
na ngríobhán (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an ngríobhán (definite singular)
don ghríobhán (definite singular)
leis na gríobháin (definite plural)
gríobhán
ghríobhán
ngríobhán

From gríobh + -án (compare Scottish Gaelic grìbhean).


podder

Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.

2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195:

'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.

2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided:

Paul says he started out as a Podder. He tried to do development deals with the Inner and Outer Systems, and he only became a renegade when he was betrayed by both.'

2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound:

(science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.


ĉevalviro

eo-head

ĉevalviro (accusative singular ĉevalviron, plural ĉevalviroj, accusative plural ĉevalvirojn)

ĉevalviron (accusative singular)
ĉevalviroj (plural)
ĉevalvirojn (accusative plural)


splatterpunk

en-noun

splatterpunk (countable and uncountable, plural splatterpunks)

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

From splatter + -punk, coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

(uncountable) A movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depictions of violence.


femslash

The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.

2005, Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, Debra K. Japp, Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture, page 178:

One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.

2010, Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book, page 245:

The point of slash is that the orientation of one or more canonical characters is changed, which is why slashing is strongest in fandoms where the source parades heteronormativity or machismo. Kirk/Spock, Bodie/Doyle, Aragorn/Boromir, Darcy/Bingley and Harry/Snape stories all slash their canons, but a story featuring, say, Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche in bed would not be slash, nor would a relationship between two lesbian characters in The L Word qualify as femslash.

2013, John Lennard, London Review of Books, letter, vol. 35, no. 6:

(fandom slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.


leviatán

Borrowed from Late Latin leviathan, a biblical transliteration of Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (liv'yatán, “whale”).


hipocampo

Borrowed from Late Latin hippocampus (“sea horse”), from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos, “sea horse, hippocamp”, from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea monster”)), describing a mythological creature with a horse's forepart and a fishlike hindquarter.

der

es:Hipocampo (anatomía)
es:Hipocampo (mitología)

(Greek mythology) hippocamp; hippocampus


火の鳥

火の鳥 (canonical)
hi no tori (romanization)

Compound of 火 (hi, “fire”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).

compound

(mythology) a phoenix, more specifically as in Western mythology


wallcrawling

(science fiction) Having the ability to crawl upon vertical surfaces.


infravision

(fantasy, gaming) A superhuman ability to see in the dark.


wallcrawl

en-verb

wallcrawl (third-person singular simple present wallcrawls, present participle wallcrawling, simple past and past participle wallcrawled)

wallcrawls (present singular third-person)
wallcrawling (participle present)
wallcrawled (participle past)
wallcrawled (past)

To adhere to and crawl upon a solid surface, as a spider does.


telepatio

eo-head

telepatio (uncountable, accusative telepation)


metallokinesis

(science fiction) The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals


bodyswap

(fiction) The act or event of two people or other thinking creatures exchanging minds (by magic, technology, or other means), so that each one ends up in the physical body of the other.


technopathy

In a shocking turn of events, the President's aid, Valerie Cooper, discovers that Reverend Stryker is actually a mutant himself with the power of technopathy – the ability to mentally manipulate machinery.

2012, Nick Spencer, Ultimate Comics X-Men by Nick Spencer Vol. 1, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:

Now that he was able to think, he reached out with his technopathy, searching the fishing hut. To his relief, he sensed a battery-operated light inside. He turned it on.

2019, Pittacus Lore, Into the Fire: The Legacy Chronicles, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A psychic ability to control electronic machinery and/or read electronic signals, especially hardware.


chrysopoeia

/kɹɪsəˈpiːə/

Actually, in the beginning, Toledo himself was as bent on reperforming the chrysopoeia as anyone. He was driven by greed, more than the hunger for discovery and glory, which is what drove our father.

Cassanda Ryan, The Kingdom of Sagely - Legacy of a Dragoness (page 262)


wallcrawler

This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance.

When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became "the Fearless Tarantula" in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the "Legion of Superheroes" serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed wallcrawler.

2004 September 1, Jordan Raphael with Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, →ISBN, page 119:

Sandman looked up and saw the masked face of Spider-Man staring down at him. The wallcrawler was leaning against the rear doors of the armored car, apparently having dropped through the hole that Sandman had created.

2007 March 7, Peter David, Spider-Man 3, New York: Pocket Books, pages 171–172:

something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces


青竜

ja-pos

青(せい)竜(りゅう) • (Seiryū) ^(←せいりゆう (Seiryuu)?)

青竜 (canonical)
Seiryū (romanization)
Seiryuu (romanization)
せいりゆう (hiragana historical)

Azure Dragon, one of the Four Symbols in the Chinese constellations


青竜

青(せい)竜(りょう) • (Seiryō) ^(←せいりよう (Seiryou)?)

青竜 (canonical)
Seiryō (romanization)
Seiryou (romanization)
せいりよう (hiragana historical)


青竜

青(しょう)竜(りゅう) • (Shōryū) ^(←しやうりゆう (Syauryuu)?)

青竜 (canonical)
Shōryū (romanization)
Syauryuu (romanization)
しやうりゆう (hiragana historical)


wall-crawler

As Mother Jones goes to press, the masked, web-slinging wall-crawler is busy foiling a computer technician's evil designs to brainwash people through subliminal advertising in video games.

1983 September-October, Bob Sanders, “Our Kind Of Superhero”, in Mother Jones, volume 8, number 8, page 9:

You're not just buying and selling with a wizard and a scholar in tow. What's so important that you have to hire a wall-crawler?

1999 January 7, Juliet E. McKenna, The Thief's Gamble (Tales of Einarinn), Orbit, →ISBN, →OL:

Her fingers slipped, and she felt herself starting to fall. At that same moment the wall-crawler sprang down at her, gripping the carved inscriptions in the black glossy surface with its left hand while its right swung down to clamp around her throat.

2010 December 28, Joe Schreiber, Red Harvest (Star Wars), New York: LucasBooks, →ISBN, chapter 42:


starman

(science fiction) An alien; a person who comes from another star system.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of a star.


玄武

玄(げん)武(ぶ) or 玄(げん)武(む) • (Genbu or Genmu)

玄武 (canonical)
玄武 (canonical)
Genbu (romanization)
Genmu (romanization)

the Black Tortoise, literally "Black Warrior" (one of the Four Symbols, who keeps watch in the north).


白虎

白(びゃっ)虎(こ) • (Byakko) ^(←びやくこ (Byakuko)?)

白虎 (canonical)
Byakko (romanization)
Byakuko (romanization)
びやくこ (hiragana historical)

White Tiger, one of the Four Symbols in the Chinese constellations


白虎

白虎 (canonical)
Hakko (romanization)
Fakuko (romanization)
はくこ (hiragana historical)


朱雀

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹/

/t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sœːk̚³/

/t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹/

/t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sœːk̚³/

/t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/

Vermilion Bird (one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations)


朱雀

Vermilion Bird, one of the Four Symbols in the Chinese constellations


𐎚𐎐𐎐

tnn (romanization)
tunnanu (romanization)


astroscope

astroscopes and other high precision optical devices

1952, Moody's Industrials - Volume 24, page 2825:

[…] refractors, catadioptric reflectors, astroscopes as well as binoculars.

1987, Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, page 24:

I, for one, want to go back to when there were only seven planets! Before the lies of the astroscopes, telling us there are two more in the sky named Neptune and Pluto!

2012, Justin Mazzotta, Corp.Se Commander: Tactics of Corporate Warfare, page 39:

Well, think about it; we can see Rrth from here using astroscopes and the like, but the light we're seeing left Rrth many orbits ago.

They tempted him into this thing, setting out an astroscope on the hills. . .hoping to be the first ones to spot aliens!

2017, Philip Byron Philips, Towers of Royal City, page 46:

In a spacious apartment on the third floor which contained two powerful telescopes, constructed on principles of entirely modern invention, being capable of revealing the distant suns to an extent never before dreamt of, was Mercia surrounded by curious astroscopes, stellar-spectroscopes, and wonderfully constructed cameras, which delineated in an instant the starry heights, the glory of which has been the ambition of astronomers in all ages to fathom.

2023, A. Garland Mears, Mercia, the astronomer royal:

(chiefly science fiction) A telescope powerful enough to see astronomical bodies.


人狼

/ʐən³⁵ lɑŋ³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ lɔːŋ²¹/

/ʐən³⁵ lɑŋ³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ lɔːŋ²¹/


人狼

[d͡ʑĩn̺ɾo̞ː]

人狼ゲーム 人狼ゲーム#Japanese


homiform

In the homiform frame embruted, to the classes of the grades

1883, George Thomas May, The Ever-living Life:

The droids belonging to the renegade faction were slaves, despite often having superior intellect and physical prowess, “athletic” capabilities (at least this was so with many of the homiform “androids”)

2013, Dean Vyas, Pastimes of the Unseen:

(obsolete, rare or science fiction) In human form.


aosán

head

aosán m (genitive singular aosáin, nominative plural aosáin)

aosáin (genitive singular)
aosáin (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
aosán (indefinite singular)
aosáin (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a aosáin (indefinite singular)
a aosána (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
aosáin (indefinite singular)
aosán (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-aosán (definite singular)
na haosáin (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an aosáin (definite singular)
na n-aosán (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an aosán (definite singular)
don aosán (definite singular)
leis na haosáin (definite plural)
aosán
n-aosán
haosán
t-aosán

/eːˈsˠɑːn̪ˠ/

/ˈiːsˠɑːn̪ˠ/

From Old Irish áesán (“fairies; sickness caused by fairies”). By surface analysis, aos (“people, folk”) + -án.


comhlán

head

comhlán m (genitive singular comhláin, nominative plural comhláin)

comhláin (genitive singular)
comhláin (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
comhlán (indefinite singular)
comhláin (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chomhláin (indefinite singular)
a chomhlána (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
comhláin (indefinite singular)
comhlán (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an comhlán (definite singular)
na comhláin (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an chomhláin (definite singular)
na gcomhlán (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcomhlán (definite singular)
don chomhlán (definite singular)
leis na comhláin (definite plural)
comhlán
chomhlán
gcomhlán

From Old Irish comlán. By surface analysis, comh- + lán.


púca

púca m (genitive singular púca, nominative plural púcaí)

púca (genitive singular)
púcaí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
púca (indefinite singular)
púcaí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a phúca (indefinite singular)
a phúcaí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an púca (definite singular)
na púcaí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an phúca (definite singular)
na bpúcaí (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an bpúca (definite singular)
don phúca (definite singular)
leis na púcaí (definite plural)
púca
phúca
bpúca

→? Cornish: bucca
→ English: bucca

→ English: pooka, puka

A Germanic borrowing, from Old Norse púki (“fairy spirit”).


ਕਾਫ਼ੀ

pa-noun

ਕਾਫ਼ੀ • (kāfī) f (Shahmukhi spelling کافی)

kafi (genre of Punjabi and Sindhi classical music)


jólaköttur

is-noun

jólaköttur m (genitive singular jólakattar, nominative plural jólakettir)

jólakattar (genitive singular)
jólakettir (nominative plural)
jólaköttur (indefinite nominative singular)
jólakötturinn (definite nominative singular)
jólakettir (indefinite nominative plural)
jólakettirnir (definite nominative plural)
jólakött (accusative indefinite singular)
jólaköttinn (accusative definite singular)
jólaketti (accusative indefinite plural)
jólakettina (accusative definite plural)
jólaketti (dative indefinite singular)
jólakettinum (dative definite singular)
jólaköttum (dative indefinite plural)
jólaköttunum (dative definite plural)
jólakattar (genitive indefinite singular)
jólakattarins (definite genitive singular)
jólakatta (genitive indefinite plural)
jólakattanna (definite genitive plural)

From jól (“Christmas”) + köttur (“cat”).

Fékkstu ný föt í jólagjöf eða ferðu í jólaköttinn í ár?

Did you get new clothes for Christmas or are you going in the Yule cat this year?

Í slíkum undirbúningi skiptir máli að fjölskyldan fjárfesti í huggulegum hátíðarklæðum, til að komast hjá því að lenda í bíræfnum klóm jólakattarins.

2004 December 12, Elínrós Líndal, “Jólaföt á smáfólkið”, in Morgunblaðið, →ISSN, →OCLC:

In such preparations it is hugely important that the family invests in cozy festive clothing, in order to avoid landing in the audacious claws of the Yule cat.

(mythology) the Yule cat: a monster known for eating children who do not receive clothes for Christmas.


tieteiskirjallisuus

tieteiskirjallisuus (nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuus (accusative nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuden (accusative genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuden (genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutta (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessa (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudesta (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteen (illative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudella (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudelta (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudelle (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutena (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeksi (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudetta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tieteiskirjallisuuteni (nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteni (accusative nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteni (accusative genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteni (genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuttani (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessani (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudestani (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteeni (illative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellani (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeltani (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudelleni (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenani (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudekseni (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudettani (abessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutesi (nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutesi (accusative nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutesi (accusative genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutesi (genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuttasi (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessasi (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudestasi (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteesi (illative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellasi (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeltasi (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellesi (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenasi (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeksesi (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudettasi (abessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutemme (nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutemme (accusative nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutemme (accusative genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutemme (genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuttamme (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessamme (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudestamme (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteemme (illative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellamme (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeltamme (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellemme (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenamme (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeksemme (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudettamme (abessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenne (nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenne (accusative nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenne (accusative genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenne (genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuttanne (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessanne (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudestanne (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteenne (illative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellanne (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeltanne (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellenne (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenanne (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeksenne (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudettanne (abessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutensa (nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutensa (accusative nominative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutensa (accusative genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutensa (genitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuttaan (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuttansa (partitive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessaan (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudessansa (inessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudestaan (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudestansa (elative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuuteensa (illative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellaan (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellansa (adessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeltaan (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudeltansa (ablative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudelleen (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudellensa (allative singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenaan (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuutenansa (essive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudekseen (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudeksensa (singular translative)
tieteiskirjallisuudettaan (abessive singular)
tieteiskirjallisuudettansa (abessive singular)

(literary) science fiction, science fiction literature


雨女

A woman whose presence always seems to bring rain.

雨男

a man whose presence always seems to bring rain

spirit of woman who perish out in the snow during the winter month


エルフ

1999 March 18, “エルフの剣(けん)士(し) [Elvish Swordsman]”, in Starter(スターター) Box(ボックス), Konami:

An elf who learned swordsmanship. He trifles with his enemies with his swift attacks.

剣術を学んだエルフ。素早い攻撃で敵を翻弄する。

Kenjutsu o mananda erufu. Subayai kōgeki de teki o honrō suru.

1999 March 27, “ホーリー・エルフ [Holy Elf]”, in Vol.2, Konami:

As delicate as she may be, this elf has formidable defense strength and holy power to protect herself with.

かよわいエルフだが、聖なる力で身を守りとても守備が高い。

Kayowai erufu da ga, sei naru chikara de mi o mamori totemo shubi ga takai.

1999 July 22, “エンシェント・エルフ [Ancient Elf]”, in Vol.4, Konami:

An elf who has lived for thousands of years. She attacks with her army of spirits.

何千年も生きているエルフ。精霊をあやつり攻撃をする。

Nansennen mo ikiteiru erufu. Seirei o ayatsuri kōgeki o suru.

1999 August 26, “ヂェミナイ・エルフ [Jemini Elves]”, in BOOSTER 4, Konami:

Elvish twin sisters who attack simultaneously.

交互に攻撃を仕掛けてくる、エルフの双子姉妹。

Kōgo ni kōgeki o shikaketekuru, erufu no futago shimai.

2008 February 1, “エルフの戦(せん)士(し) [Elvish Warrior]”, in Morningtide(モーニングタイド), Wizards of the Coast:

Elvish warriors are as graceful as a deer leaping a stream and as deadly as the wolf waiting in ambush on the other side. They are the eyes of the forest as well as its unsheathed claws.

エルフの戦士は小川を飛び越える鹿のように優雅であり、それを反対側で待ち受ける狼のように危険だ。彼らは森の眼であり、むき出しの爪なのだ。

Erufu no senshi wa ogawa o tobikoeru shika no yō ni yūga de ari, sore o hantaigawa de machiukeru ōkami no yō ni kiken da. Karera wa mori no me de ari, mukidashi no tsume na no da.


magicker

Better magickers were given fragments of the ball he'd rescued and used them as foci to deflect incoming shots.

2002, Michael A. Stackpole, When dragons rage:

Those who blasphemed in a holy place; those who spouted heresies; those who sought the services of a magicker[…]

2010, David Farland, The Wyrmling Horde:

(fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.


EBE

Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity.


meet cute

Claudette Colbert
Ernst Lubitsch
Gary Cooper

Accidentally coined by German-American film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), who had difficulty speaking English, to describe the encounter between the characters played by Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper in the 1938 film Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.

If this is a distortion of reality, it is a knowingly utopian gesture, and the wit of such conceits lies in placing in tension the ideal with the real and so being more than a series of fancy ‘meet cutes’: […]

1989, Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans, Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 11:

The hunt for love saturates Western culture. […] Romantic comedies have characters discover one another serendipitously, called "meet-cutes." The lead clumsily spills a drink on his future love interest, setting off a chain of events to love. Meet-cutes affirm the idea that possibility is all around us: love can happen anywhere, at anytime, and with anyone.

2013, Jaime Woo, “How to Find Love on Grindr (if You Hafta)”, in Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect, Canada: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 108, column 1:

In some respects, it might be too faithful to the genre it savages; as in many real rom-coms, the energy flags during the plot’s backstretch, and audiences may share the drifting interest of Kyle (Bill Hader) and Karen (Ellie Kemper), who come to regret ever asking Joel and Molly to chronicle their meet-cute.

2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07:

When Wade first crosses paths with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the ass-kicking fellow “gunter” (or egg hunter) with whom he becomes infatuated, the pair’s meet cute is predicated on the swapping of favorite pop-culture quotes.

2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-05-31:

Café Pick Me Up was a cosy little place with a low pressed-metal ceiling, crammed full of tiny tables, with French cafe chairs and mellow lighting. If you were to write a romcom featuring a meet cute, you’d set it there.

2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian:

(narratology, informal) A situation in a film, television series, etc., in which a potential romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, amusing, or cute.


gynosphinx

en-noun

gynosphinx (plural gynosphinxes or gynosphinges)

gynosphinxes (plural)
gynosphinges (plural)

(mythology) A sphinx with the head of a woman.


transtemporal

At the same time that their protagonists "step off the edge" of known experience by participating in interplanetary, interdimensional, or transtemporal travel, such writers as Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and (to a lesser degree) Ursula K. Le Guin propose through their narratives' complexity that the reader abandon the safety of a "readerly" text's conventional discourse.

1984, Natalie Myra Rosinsky, Feminist futures--contemporary women's speculative fiction, page 29:

However, the Internet has also reversed the way we communicate in terms of the transspatial and transtemporal perspective.

2009, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Hassan Charaf, Mobile peer to peer (P2P): a tutorial guide, page 24:

The fact is that many relations we are familiar with are transtemporal, that is, they obtain between entities located a different times.

2012, Fabrice Correia, Andrea Iacona, Around the Tree, →ISBN, page 38:

“So, what, time travel?” “You accepted translocation, but transtemporal is too far?”

2014, Ann Aguirre, Mortal Danger, →ISBN:

Transcending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another.


Spock ears

(idiomatic) Pointy ears, resembling those of Spock, a Star Trek character.