timeline

graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events

SISKO: I don't quite know how to say this... but now that we know about the accident that sent the ship back in time, we should be able to avoid it.
WORF: Well if we do that, your timeline will collapse and everything here will cease to exist.

1997 May 5, Children of Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), season 5, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

(science fiction) An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.


mainstream

pl-noun

mainstream m inan (related adjective mainstreamowy)

mainstreamowy (adjective)
mainstream (nominative singular)
mainstreamu (genitive singular)
mainstreamowi (dative singular)
mainstream (accusative singular)
mainstreamem (instrumental singular)
mainstreamie (locative singular)
mainstreamie (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English mainstream.

ubor

(jazz) mainstream jazz (term coined in the 1950s by music journalist Stanley Dance, who considered anything within the popular jazz of the Swing Era "mainstream", and did not include the bebop style)


G-funk

Abbreviation of gangsta funk; also in imitation of P-Funk (“Parliament-Funkadelic”).

Man, I love sitting back and listening to some jived out G-funk!

The Chronic, and the other G-funk albums that followed, scandalized the civic engagement and racial ideals of gangsta's parent culture in several salient ways.

2004, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

(music) A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.


cruiser

(nautical) A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.

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


roleplaying game

en-noun

roleplaying game (plural roleplaying games)

joc de rol

type of game in which the players assume the role of a character

massively multiplayer online role-playing game

(video games) A type of computer game where the player takes the role of a character or party, normally lacking tests of physical skill and including more story-telling and narrative aspects than traditional action games.


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 118:

We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend, page 88:

The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

(often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.

Two of the walkers circled the pillars. Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others.

2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends, page 144:

It also takes a good amount of inspiration from Metal Gear Solid 4s biomechanical designs, namely the Gekko walkers' and their synthetic musculature.

2019, Joe Meno, BrickJournal #60, page 37:

(science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.

A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as ^([sic]) “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in exchange for money.

2019 June 22, Charisse Ursal, “Social media lures young people to engage in sex for money”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

(Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.


sapient

en-adj

sapient (comparative more sapient, superlative most sapient)

more sapient (comparative)
most sapient (superlative)

From Middle English sapient, from Old French sapient, or its source, Latin sapiēns. Doublet of savant.

When EXPLORATION blazed through space / The first sky-trail to far-flung stars, / And found men, sapient, on Mars, / He gained renown's most honored place.

1935 February, Bob Olsen, “Who Deserves Credit?”, in Amazing Stories, volume 9, number 10, page 81:

It was inhabited by a sapient humanoid race, and some of them were civilized enough to put it in Class V, and Colonial Office doctrine on Class V planets was rigid.

1962 January, Henry Beam Piper, “Naudsonce”, in Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction, volume 68, number 5, page 9:

Nessus had not spoken mockingly; but Speaker reacted with rage. “What sapient being would not fear such power?”

a high degree of self-awareness
self-awareness

(chiefly science fiction) Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or a high degree of self-awareness.


sapient

It seemed to him a possibility that the Cold War Corps of March might have contacted hitherto unknown sapients on some just discovered interstellar planet.

1960, Philip José Farmer, A Woman a Day, page 30:

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


Necronomicon

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkən/

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkɒn/

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkən/

/ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkɑn/

Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek as if formed from a compound of νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”) + εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”), literally “an image of the law of the dead”. Coined by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

coinage

So matters went till that night when Williams brought home the infamous Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred ... he had always wondered why men paled when they spoke of it. The old bookseller had told him that only five copies were known to have survived the shocked edicts of the priests and lawgivers against it and that all of these were locked up with frightened care by custodians who had ventured to begin a reading of the hateful black-letter.

c. 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Descendant:

The container was a set of ceramic rune-stones and their accompanying manual. The book was The Necronomicon.

2002, Calpernia Sarah Addams, Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will, page 81:

2004, Stephen Prince, The Horror Film, page 172,
Death Scenes is introduced and narrated by the famous occultist and leader of the Church of Satan, Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey, who describes the film in his wandering introduction as "a road map featuring the many avenues by which we encounter death . . . a brutally graphic collection of horrid indiscretions, a true necronomicon." "What mysterious force draws us to such a dark, challenging subject?" inquires LaVey in his sardonic monotone.

A fictional grimoire of arcane and forbidden knowledge whose contents can drive a person mad.

Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft V (1934–1937)


jitterbug

desctree

Japanese: ジルバ (jiruba)
Chinese: 吉魯巴／吉鲁巴 (jílǔbā)

/ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)bʌɡ/

From jitter + bug, after the 1934 Cab Calloway song Jitter Bug.


-mancy

From Latin -mantīa, ultimately from Ancient Greek μᾰντείᾱ (manteíā, “divination”).

der

-mance: to carry out a specified form of magic

-mancer: a person who employs a specified form of magic

(fantasy) Variety of magic, especially that controlling or related to a specific element, substance, or theme.


visitor

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.

5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor.

1979, Chris Boyce, Extraterrestrial Encounter: a Personal Perspective, Chartwell Books, page 184:

When we ask what evidence does in fact exist of extraterrestrial sojourns on our planet, we can start with what would surely be the best evidence of all: an actual visitor, or group of visitors, visible to crowds of people and ready for photo opportunities, television interviews, handshakes, polite conversation, and dancing.

2001, Donald Goldsmith, Tobias C. Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe, University Science Books, page 511:

The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.

2004, Carol Schwartz Ellis, Sean Redmond (editor), With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods in Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, Wallflower Press, page 145

The tower radioed the flight leader, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., and requested that he engage and attempt to identify the strange visitor.

2007, Frank G. Wilkinson, The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters, Lulu.com, page 37:

(ufology, specifically) An extraterrestrial being on Earth.


potion

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From Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Doublet of poison.

He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.

A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.


ambient

en-adj

ambient (comparative more ambient, superlative most ambient)

more ambient (comparative)
most ambient (superlative)

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From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).

(music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.

tunnelmallinen

(music) evoking or creating an atmosphere


ambient

en-noun

ambient (countable and uncountable, plural ambients)

→ Polish: ambient

It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.

1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

(astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.

Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.

1996, SPIN, volume 12, number 3, page 116:

(uncountable, music) A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.


ambient

ambient (nominative singular)
ambientu (genitive singular)
ambientowi (dative singular)
ambient (accusative singular)
ambientem (instrumental singular)
ambiencie (locative singular)
ambiencie (singular vocative)

Borrowed from English ambient. First attested in 1996.

ref

Pęzik, Piotr, Przepiórkowski, A., Bańko, M., Górski, R., Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine], Wydawnictwo PWN

(music) ambient (type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere)


ambient

pl-adj

ambient (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

(relational, music) ambient (of or pertaining to the genre)


trot

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread.

der

(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.


trot

Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.

A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.


zombi

fr-noun

zombi m (plural zombis, feminine zombie)

Attested 1832, but the 1765 Encyclopédie (t. 11, p. 82a, s.v. nègre) already has zambys «dieux esprits des tribus africaines».
Borrowed from Haitian Creole zonbi, from a Bantu language.


zombi

(computing, fiction, voodoo) Alternative spelling of zombie


zombi

es-noun

zombi m or f by sense (plural zombis or zombies)


hip hop

hip hop (nominative singular)
hip hopu (genitive singular)
hip hopowi (dative singular)
hip hop (accusative singular)
hip hopem (instrumental singular)
hip hopie (locative singular)
hip hopie (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English hip hop.


hip hop

Unadapted borrowing from English hip-hop.


hyperspace

en-noun

hyperspace (countable and uncountable, plural hyperspaces)

(mathematics) An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3.

(mathematics) A Euclidian space of unspecified dimension.

We can only get to the Nimrodian Galaxy if we go through hyperspace.

I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days.

1956, Cyril Hume, Forbidden Planet, spoken by Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen):

(science fiction) A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.


hyperspace

en-verb

hyperspace (third-person singular simple present hyperspaces, present participle hyperspacing, simple past and past participle hyperspaced)

hyperspaces (present singular third-person)
hyperspacing (participle present)
hyperspaced (participle past)
hyperspaced (past)

If she hyperspaced out to Tionisla or Lave the Courier would simply follow through her witchspace wormhole.

2010, Drew Wagar, Status Quo (Oolite Saga), Drew Wagar, →ISBN:

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To travel or transport into hyperspace.


shojo

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From the Japanese 少女 (shōjo, “young woman”).

(anime, manga) A style of anime and manga intended for young women.


shojo

Borrowed from Japanese 少女 (shōjo, “a young woman”).

bor+

Poradnik podaje bardzo precyzyjnie - krok po kroku - metodę tworzenia scen i postaci charakterystycznych dla dziewczęcej, romantycznej mangi shojo. Można tu też znaleźć opis podstawowych materiałów i narzędzi używanych do tworzenia mangi.

2008 October 10, “Sztuka rysowania mangi. Shojo”, in Empik:

The guide gives a very precise, step-by-step method for creating scenes and characters characteristic of girlish, romantic shojo manga. There is also a description of basic materials and tools used to create manga.

shojo - czyli tytuły, które są skierowane dla dziewczynek mniej więcej od 7 do 18 roku życia, dotyczą one przede wszystkim relacji między bohaterami, czyli różnymi zawirowaniami miłosnymi

2021 July 22, “Jakie są rodzaje i gatunki anime?”, in Wywrota:

shojo - that is, titles that are aimed at girls more or less from 7 to 18 years old, they are mainly about the relationship between the characters, that is, various love turmoil

Shojo - jest to gatunek mangi, w którym bohaterką jest młoda, piękna dziewczyna. Fabuła przeważnie dotyczy zawodów miłosnych głównej bohaterki, która mimo przeciwieństw losu gotowa jest poświęcić dla miłości wszystko.

2022, “Manga;-)”, in 日本 ;-), archived from the original on 2022-02-06:

Shojo - is a genre of manga, in which the main character is a young, beautiful girl. The plot mostly concerns the love disappointments of the main character, who, despite the odds, is ready to sacrifice everything for love.


Loki

Borrowed from Old Norse Loki, where further etymology is shown.

(Norse mythology) The god of mischief and trickery; growing progressively evil, he kills Balder, and is bound until Ragnarok, the end of the world.


Loki

Loki (nominative singular)
Lokiego (genitive singular)
Lokiemu (dative singular)
Lokiego (accusative singular)
Lokim (instrumental singular)
Lokim (locative singular)
Loki (singular vocative)

(Norse mythology) Loki (the god of mischief and trickery)


Terran

(chiefly science fiction) Of Earth; of terrestrial origin.


Terran

The magazines, in the nearby rack, were in English. And on their covers, laughing Terrans.

1966, Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last Year:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth; an earthling, especially a human.


wyrm

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.

(mythology, fantasy) A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.


lector

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.


HP

Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.

Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.

2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian, Technology news & features, page 2:


Larry

No one gets named Larry anymore. It's had it as a name. Think of someone called Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room.

1998, Carol Shields, Larry's Party, Penguin, →ISBN, page 254:

"Larry, name's Larry." I smiled, it was too ridiculous. He was worried about me calling him Lawrence instead of Larry with a rogue zombie climbing out of the dirt.

2002, Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned, JOVE, →ISBN, page 149:

A diminutive of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence, popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.


acid house

First appears c. 1988, in the periodical New Musical Express. Likely a reference to acid (“LSD, psychedelic drugs”), influenced by earlier acid rock. See Acid House § Etymology.

Coordinate term: (precursor) Hi-NRG

Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had finally made it into the living rooms of Britain. A nation, encountering for the first time a new music, fashion, and cultural phenomenon, flew into another drug-obsessed moral panic.

1989 January, Sean O'Hagan, “Acid House”, in SPIN, SPIN Media LLC, page 64:

(music) A style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.


bubblegum

en-noun

bubblegum (countable and uncountable, plural bubblegums)

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Born in the small town of Rockwood, east Tennessee, Carter’s bubblegum sound and mini-bad boy image made him the definitive millennium child star.

2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music, sometimes derogatory) A type of pop music marked by sweetness, pep and charm (rather than depth or complexity).


warp

en-verb

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

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

→ Japanese: ワープ (wāpu)

From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-West Germanic *werpan, from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”).

der

Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock.

2004, Travis S. Taylor, Warp Speed, →ISBN:

Valerie asked why they couldn't warp to the planet.

2012, Jonathan Henry, The Revelation of Earth: First Contact, page 188:

(transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.


alien abduction

en-noun

alien abduction (plural alien abductions)

(ufology) The abduction of a person by extraterrestrials.


documentation

Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

Yesterday I watched a documentation about the Dresden fire storm.

1999 April 8, Friedrich Vystrcil, “The plan to invade Japan”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

Yesterday, I watched a documentation about the "boss" of a German allot settlement who told other gardeners what plants to grow and what weed to cut. GEEZE! GET A LIVE! I felt tempted paying a visit to them and leave a bunch of knobby tire marks on this sucker's lawn...

2010 September 16, Volker Bartheld, “This is Germany calling...”, in rec.motorcycles.dirt (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

(non-native speakers' English) A documentary.


superhero

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From super- + hero. First attested in 1917.

Hobbes: Super heroes wear snow pants?
Stupendous Man: When there's snow out, they do!

1990 February 13, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

Any fictional crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature; a fictional hero who does great things.

супергеро́й

a fictional crime-fighting character with superpowers


Britpop

A British alternative rock movement from the mid-1990s, characterised by influences from the 1960s and 1970s, catchy hooks, the glamour of earlier pop stardom, and the sense of creating a soundtrack to the lives of a new generation of British youth.


soothsayer

/ˈsuːθˌseɪə/

From Middle English sothsaier, zothziggere, by surface analysis, sooth (“truth”) + sayer.


garage

en-noun

garage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)

→ Assamese: গেৰেজ (gerez)

→ Bengali: গ্যারেজ (gêrej)

→ Hindi: गेराज (gerāj)

→ Irish: garáiste

→ Japanese: ガレージ, グラージ

→ Malay: garaj

→ Scottish Gaelic: garaids

→ Sinhalese: ගරාජ් (garāj)

→ Urdu: گیراج (gerāj)

/ˈɡæ.ɹɑː(d)ʒ/

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

der

(attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.

(British, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.


bildungsroman

en-noun

bildungsroman (plural bildungsromans or bildungsromane)

bildungsromans (plural)
bildungsromane (plural)

Borrowed from German Bildungsroman, from Bildung (“education, formation”) + -s- + Roman (“novel”).

affix

English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions? These books have a good claim to have founded two of the major genres of the modern novel—respectively, the Bildungsroman and the novel of adultery.

2016 January 25, Adam Kirsch, “What’s great about Goethe?”, in The New Yorker:

Goethe's honorific assignment to the vanguard of a uniquely German novelistic tradition of the bildungsroman simultaneously places him outside the mainstream of the development of the novel.

2020, Frederick Amrine, Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman: Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.


tragedia

From Latin tragoedia, from Ancient Greek τρᾰγῳδῐ́ᾱ (tragōidíā), from τρᾰ́γος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).


thriller

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.

إِثَارَة

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction

pulp novel

A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction

(beverages) A sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea flavored with a fruit or berry.


thriller

thriller (nominative singular)
thrillery (nominative plural)
thrillera (genitive singular)
thrillerów (genitive plural)
thrillerowi (dative singular)
thrillerom (dative plural)
thriller (accusative singular)
thrillery (accusative plural)
thrillerem (instrumental singular)
thrillerami (instrumental plural)
thrillerze (locative singular)
thrillerach (locative plural)
thrillerze (singular vocative)
thrillery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.


blaxploitation

Blend of black + exploitation (from exploitation film) or blend of blax + exploitation.

(film) A genre of exploitation films of the 1970s that starred black actors.


xenocide

en-noun

xenocide (countable and uncountable, plural xenocides)

The age that began with one xenocide attempted had now ended with other xenocides prevented or, at least, postponed.

1996, Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind:

(science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species.


OVNI

Acronym of oggetto volante non identificato.


OVNI

Abbreviation of objeto voador não identificado (“unidentified flying object”).


transmutation

en-noun

transmutation (countable and uncountable, plural transmutations)

Late 14th century, from Old French transmutacion (“transformation, metamorphosis”), from Late Latin transmutationem, from Latin transmutare (“to change”).

გარდაქმნა

the transformation of one element into another

The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 261:

(alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.


transorbital

(science fiction) A commercial spacecraft operating between the planets of the solar system.


transporter

(science fiction) A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.


оборотень

ru-noun+

о́боротень • (óborotenʹ) m anim (genitive о́боротня, nominative plural о́боротни, genitive plural о́боротней)

о́боротень (canonical)
óborotenʹ (romanization)
о́боротня (genitive)
о́боротни (nominative plural)
о́боротней (genitive plural)
о́боротень (nominative singular)
о́боротни (nominative plural)
о́боротня (genitive singular)
о́боротней (genitive plural)
о́боротню (dative singular)
о́боротням (dative plural)
о́боротня (accusative singular)
о́боротней (accusative plural)
о́боротнем (instrumental singular)
о́боротнями (instrumental plural)
о́боротне (prepositional singular)
о́боротнях (plural prepositional)

Ru-оборотень.ogg

werewolf (also werefox and any other werebeast)


jarabe

Inherited from Old Spanish xarabe, borrowed from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb) via Andalusian Arabic. Doublet of sirope.

a form of traditional Mexican dance music


alf

From Danish and Swedish alf, from Old Norse alfr; see also Dutch alf. Doublet of elf and oaf.

As the Scandinavians were at that time still worshippers of Thor and Odin, the belief in Alfs and Dwarfs accompanied them to their new abodes, and there, as elsewhere, survived the introduction of Christianity.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 248:

[T]he charm suggests rather that the Ases had sunk to a level where they could be counted together with witches and lesser wights, than that the alfs were seen as godly beings at the time the charm was composed.

2023, Kveldulf Gundarsson, Elves, Wights & Trolls, The Three Little Sisters, page 83:

(Norse mythology) A supernatural being similar to an elf; one of the Dǫkkálfar or Ljósalfar.


alf

Dutch: alf

From Old Dutch *alf, from Proto-Germanic *albiz.


MMORPG

massively multiplayer online role-playing game#English

(online gaming) Initialism of massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

MMORPG

abbreviation of video game type — see also massively multiplayer online role-playing game


Dungeons & Dragons

role-playing game
role-playing game#English

(games) A particular fantasy role-playing game.


papel

→ Old Tupi: papera
Nheengatu: papera

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese papel, borrowed from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros). Doublet of pavio and papiro.

etymon

Apesar de desempenhar vários papéis memoráveis, jamais recebeu um prêmio.

Despite having played many memorable roles, he/she never won an award.


quimera

Borrowed from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat, chimera”). Cognate with English chimera.


Jabberwocky

The name of a nonsense poem from the children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872) by Lewis Carroll. Apparently based on the Jabberwock, the monster described therein, with the suffix -y in imitation of classical epics such as the Odyssey.

A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.


bonkbuster

However, there would certainly be no Insatiable without Jilly Cooper. The bonkbusters of the 80s were responsible for my sentimental sex education. Like millions of readers, I fell in love with every aspect of the universe Cooper created.

2021 March 31, Daisy Buchanan, “The return of the bonkbuster: how horny heroines are starting a new sexual revolution”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(colloquial, chiefly UK) A popular novel involving frequent explicit sexual encounters, normally in a contemporary setting.


grey goo

Coined by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation.

"Our first priority has to be quarantining Xinchub's body, and examining any Yomingians who may have handled it. I don't think we're headed for a grey-goo scenario here, but we'd all feel really bad if the local biosphere got consumed by nanobots after we left."

2007 August 24, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-05-11:

[…]Through this, they learn more, and manage to reverse-engineer the ion drives of the drone, allowing them to move the station very rapidly towards Earth. On their way, they manage to send signals to multiple Foundation facilities, overriding them and using their fabrication plants to make new nanomachines. At this rate, it won't be long before there's a good old-fashioned grey-goo scenario, and humanity and the Earth are similarly consumed.

2023 October 22, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7759 - T is for "Transmission"” (14:43 from the start), in The Exploring Series, retrieved 2024-05-15:

A hypothetical end-of-the-world event involving nanotechnology, in which out-of-control self-replicating nanobots consume all life on Earth (or another planet or moon).


bodice ripper

/ˈbɒdɪs ˌɹɪpə/

/ˈbɑdɪs ˌɹɪpɚ/

From the fact that the female protagonists in such novels would often have their bodices (blouses or corsets) removed with some force before sexual activity commenced.

My aunt would bring a stack of torrid bodice rippers with her to the beach, and would unfailingly blush if disturbed in her reading.

Publishers call them hot historicals as opposed to either the virginal variety Barbara Cartland writes or to the bodice rippers "because that's usually what happens to the heroines," Price explained.

1978 February 8, Charitey Simmons, “Dizzying passion ruffles the pages of the ‘hot’ historical novel”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 2, page 4:

The name "bodice ripper" was derived from the frequent rapes and sexual assaults that the heroines experienced. "Bodice-ripper" heroines were portrayed to be stronger and more active characters than gothic heroines. Editors of category romances, noting the popularity of the "bodice rippers," have borrowed the longer lengths, the overt sexuality and the assertive heroine from these romances.

1984, Margaret Ann Jensen, “Rivals and Writers”, in Love’s $weet Return: The Harlequin Story, Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 66:

Soon bodice-rippers, the gothics, the "romance" novel advanced from paperback to hardback, from supermarket racks to book club selections.

1993, William O’Rourke, “Catholics Coming of Age”, in Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970–1992, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:

This book is the last stage of a long and varied journey that began with the first UK screening of The Piano. Never having been an ardent fan of conventional ‘bodice rippers’ or nostalgic fossilisations of a past we never had, I was surprised by my reaction to the costumes.

1997, Stella Bruzzi, “Introduction: Clothing and Cinema”, in Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2009, →ISBN, page xiii:

Indeed, Travis had been a model as a college student, working his way through John Jay Criminal College, posing for the bodice-ripper covers of romantic novels.

1999 January, Joanna Elm, chapter 17, in Delusion (A Tor Book), mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 136:

These novels became known as "bodice rippers" because they were much more sexually explicit than earlier romances had been. Instead of experiencing a delicious kiss or a mystical wedding night at the end of the story, heroines in the bodice rippers were regularly ravished by the hero. Some feminist critics objected to these books as a romanticization of rape, but readers identified strongly with the heroine's powerlessness as a woman in a rigidly patriarchal society. Unlike the sweet virgins of earlier romances, the heroines of the bodice rippers were notoriously feisty.

1999, Paulette Richards, “Literary Contexts”, in Kathleen Gregory Klein, editor, Terry McMillan: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:

Grazia [Deledda] discovered early that a short story appeared in the last pages of each magazine; these tales were of a decidedly Romantic bent, much like today's supermarket bodice-rippers.

2006, Jan Kozma, “Translator’s Introduction”, in Marianna Sirca, translated by Jan Kozma, Grazia Deledda, Madison, Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 9:

[M]y mother chased her dream of becoming a character in one of those frontier romance novels—buckskin bodice rippers, she called them—that she so adored.

2015, Seamus McGraw, “Sundance”, in Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 5:

They stubbornly hung on to the idea that Outlander was a Harlequinesque bodiceripper that would only appeal to middle-age bored housewives.

2016 February 26, Beth Wesson, “Selling Outlander to the Masses … Or Selling Out?”, in My Outlander Blog, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

(informal) A romantic novel, usually in a historical setting, with frank depictions of sexual activity, especially one in which the female protagonist is seduced; (by extension) a film, television programme, etc., featuring such activity.

racconto erotico

sexually explicit romantic novel, usually in a historical setting


starship

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

A type of spacecraft capable of traveling to the solar systems of other stars.

星際飛船

a spacecraft capable of traveling to other stars


slick

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”),
from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).

cog

I spent two fucking days locked up in that hotel room, miserable and hating myself and drenched in my own slick!

2017, "Tessa on Ice", quoted in Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 41

For his ruts, Castiel orders slick from a single donor, who is, unbeknownst to him, Dean, who lives at the Roadhouse and is in contact with many of his colleagues and rescuees.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 32

She observed another parallel to menstruation, namely the abundance of 'slick' that Omegas produce when they go into heat, which mainly functions as an anal lubricant.

2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.


groove

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), from Old English grōf (“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov (“brook, riverbed”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Directly descended from Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

der

How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?

2010, Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm, Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm, page 57:

(dated, informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).


lightsaber

From light + saber; coined by American filmmaker George Lucas for the Star Wars film franchise. First mentioned in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope) which was released on 25 May, 1977.

coined

[Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker] Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

1977 May 25, George Lucas, Star Wars, spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness):

Wielding his flashlight like a lightsaber, Kyle sent golden shafts slicing through the swirling vapors.

2004, Rob N. Hood, Beyond the Wind, Binghamton, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 1:

This was the era of Star Wars, the reinvention of science fiction with the homely Luke Skywalker. But even Luke had the Force and a tie-fighter. The Doctor was a humanist, and his spacecraft was an obsolete phone box redolent of bobbies with whistles. He would never resort to lightsabre against villains, preferring to confront them with jelly babies.

2006 September, Steve Tomkins, “Icon of the Month No. 82: Dr Who”, in Simon Jones, editor, Third Way, volume 29, number 7, Harrow, London: Third Way Trust, →ISSN, page 24:

Poster Power / Get the scheme behind the scene with Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection. This boxed set includes five double-sided posters with blueprints of the Death Star, R2-D2, and C-3PO, lightsabers and blasters, Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.

2008 November, “Collecting”, in Boys' Life, volume XCVIII, number 11, Irving, Tx.: Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, page 52:

(science fiction) A sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light or energy.


Jedi

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas as early as 1973 (in the manuscript Journal of the Whills) and first used in his 1977 film Star Wars. Said to have been adapted from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki, “‘period drama’ motion pictures about samurai”), or perhaps inspired by the words Jed (King) and Jeddak (Emperor) in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which Lucas had considered adapting to film. Another potential influence on the word "Jedi" is Hebrew ידיד (yadíd, “beloved; male friend”). In his book The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that Lucas may have been influenced by this term when creating the name for his knights. Kaminski notes that Lucas has cited Jewish mysticism as an inspiration for his work, and that he may have been drawn to the idea of his heroes being beloved protectors.

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jedi.

(Star Wars) One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.


Jedi

(Star Wars) Jedi (a fictional order of beings)


jota

Borrowed from Spanish jota (“jota”), from earlier xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“to dance”).


New Age music

New age music is a general term for a wide and eclectic range of music styles blended together under one label to form a new crossover style of music. It is also closely linked with a lifestyle that is broadly called new age, which centers on […]

2019, Janet Sturman, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(music) A genre of music of a mystical and meditative nature, associated with New Age philosophies, usually in the style of world music and using the sounds of nature.


lifeboat

(science fiction) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.


exorcism

en-noun

exorcism (countable and uncountable, plural exorcisms)

From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to ward off, to charge under oath, adjure”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).

der

The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

悪魔払い

あくまばらい, akuma-barai, あくまはらい, akuma-harai


faerie

en-noun

faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)

A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.


New Age

en-adj

New Age (comparative more New Age, superlative most New Age)

more New Age (comparative)
most New Age (superlative)

(music) Of or relating to New Age music.


salamander

/ˈsæləˌmɑːndə/

From Middle English salamandre, from Anglo-Norman salamandre, from Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra), of uncertain origin (per Beekes, likely Pre-Greek); possibly of Iranian origin, see Persian سمندر (samandar) for more information.

“Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander. He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XI, in The Understanding Heart:

"There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus."

1849, John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, volume 3, page 372:

(mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.


weather balloon

en-noun

weather balloon (plural weather balloons)

(ufology, sarcastic) a skeptical explanation to debunk a UFO sighting that a believer regards as silly, illogical or disingenuous


honky-tonk

honky-tonk (countable and uncountable, plural honky-tonks)

From honk-a-tonk (“a cheap nightclub”), possibly imitative.

(music, uncountable) A style of country music emphasizing traditional country instruments (e.g., guitar, steel guitar and fiddle); a rough, nasal vocal style; and tragic themes such as heartbreak, infidelity and alcoholism often associated with patrons of honky-tonks.


faun

From Middle English fawn, from Latin faunus.

(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.


faun

fauni (adjective)
faun (nominative singular)
faunowie (nominative plural)
fauny (derogatory nominative plural)
fauna (genitive singular)
faunów (genitive plural)
faunowi (dative singular)
faunom (dative plural)
fauna (accusative singular)
faunów (accusative plural)
faunem (instrumental singular)
faunami (instrumental plural)
faunie (locative singular)
faunach (locative plural)
faunie (singular vocative)
faunowie (plural vocative)
fauny (derogatory plural vocative)


gafiate

From GAFIA (“getting away from it all”) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

af

Westlake's piece is so reminiscent of the old days of fandom, when no gafiate felt he had actually departed until he had alienated everybody on his mailing list.

Herman Stowell King, a long-time gafiate (we first met in the 60s) and collector, turned up in the local Sunday paper with a well-written review of Whitley Streiber's The Forbidden Zone.

1993 October, It Goes On The Shelf, number 10:

Perhaps the disappearance of the vast majority of the copies Dan mailed out in 1981 granted him limited immunity; he did just run for TAFF and win last year, hardly the act of an over-the-hill gafiate.

1996 November, Andy Hooper, “Walking into Midnight”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 10, page 37:

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) A science fiction fan who has become inactive in the fandom community.


gafiate

en-verb

gafiate (third-person singular simple present gafiates, present participle gafiating, simple past and past participle gafiated)

gafiates (present singular third-person)
gafiating (participle present)
gafiated (participle past)
gafiated (past)

From GAFIA (“getting away from it all”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

She gafiated the moment she first picked up a pulp magazine.

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) To leave the mundane world and enter the science fiction fandom community.

QUANDRY (Hoffwoman) The famous fanzine published by Lee Hoffman of Savannah Ga. before she gafiated for the first time.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II:

He was quite active in the 1940's, vanished for a long while, then reappeared in the 1960's to put out lots of issues of this fanzine with the help of his wife, only to gafiate a second time as abruptly and totally as anyone ever has quit fandom.

1976 November, Harry Warner, Jr., “In One Lustrum and Out the Other”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 6, page 11:

And I didn't so much gafiate as move to Asia.

2003 December 3, Marian Rosenberg (brucianna), “Re: Fandom”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet), message-ID <4VPxb.514513$6C4.365955@pd7tw1no>:

(fandom slang, science fiction) To drop out of fandom community activities, with the implication of "getting a life".


sorcerer

/ˈsɔːsəɹə(ɹ)/

From Middle English sorcerere, from Old French sorcier, from Early Medieval Latin sortiārius, derived from Latin sortem (“fate, fortune”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 105:

"Well, sorcerer?" growled the Norman. "Nay, not well," replied Catweazle shivering miserably, "I have the bone-ache."

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7:

(mythology, folklore, fantasy) A magician or wizard. Sometimes specifically male.

yshtës

magician/wizard drawing upon natural powers


aingeal

head

aingeal m (genitive singular aingil, nominative plural aingil)

aingil (genitive singular)
aingil (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
aingeal (indefinite singular)
aingil (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a aingil (indefinite singular)
a aingeala (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
aingil (indefinite singular)
aingeal (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-aingeal (definite singular)
na haingil (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an aingil (definite singular)
na n-aingeal (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an aingeal (definite singular)
don aingeal (definite singular)
leis na haingil (definite plural)

From Old Irish aingel, from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).


reggae

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Compare ragtime. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 song "Do the Reggay".

I mean, the very name reggae. I mean, it wasn’t called reggae in the first place. It came from blue beat, just ska, you know? Ska and blue beat, the era, and then reggae. Because it was a dance, originally. And the DJs thought, “That’s a nice name,” and the kept saying “reggae music, reggae music” on the air all the time. “Reggae music, reggae music, the DJs on the radio. So everyone kept on saying “Reggae music”. They classed it as …(other Matumbi band members join in) Reggae.

1978, 05:35 from the start, in Wolfgang Büld, director, Reggae In a Babylon (film (documentary)), spoken by Dennis Bovell (as himself, a member of the band Matumbi):

(Rastafari, music) A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies.


reggae

reggae (nominative singular)
reggaet (nominative plural)
reggae (accusative nominative singular)
reggaet (accusative nominative plural)
reggaen (accusative genitive singular)
reggaet (accusative genitive plural)
reggaen (genitive singular)
reggaeiden (genitive plural)
reggaeitten (genitive plural)
reggaetä (partitive singular)
reggaeitä (partitive plural)
reggaessä (inessive singular)
reggaeissä (inessive plural)
reggaestä (elative singular)
reggaeistä (elative plural)
reggaehen (illative singular)
reggaehin (illative singular)
reggaeihin (illative plural)
reggaellä (adessive singular)
reggaeillä (adessive plural)
reggaeltä (ablative singular)
reggaeiltä (ablative plural)
reggaelle (allative singular)
reggaeille (allative plural)
reggaenä (essive singular)
reggaeinä (essive plural)
reggaeksi (singular translative)
reggaeiksi (plural translative)
reggaettä (abessive singular)
reggaeittä (abessive plural)
reggaein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
reggaeni (nominative singular)
reggaeni (nominative plural)
reggaeni (accusative nominative singular)
reggaeni (accusative nominative plural)
reggaeni (accusative genitive singular)
reggaeni (accusative genitive plural)
reggaeni (genitive singular)
reggaeideni (genitive plural)
reggaeitteni (genitive plural)
reggaetäni (partitive singular)
reggaeitäni (partitive plural)
reggaessäni (inessive singular)
reggaeissäni (inessive plural)
reggaestäni (elative singular)
reggaeistäni (elative plural)
reggaeheni (illative singular)
reggaehini (illative singular)
reggaeihini (illative plural)
reggaelläni (adessive singular)
reggaeilläni (adessive plural)
reggaeltäni (ablative singular)
reggaeiltäni (ablative plural)
reggaelleni (allative singular)
reggaeilleni (allative plural)
reggaenäni (essive singular)
reggaeinäni (essive plural)
reggaekseni (singular translative)
reggaeikseni (plural translative)
reggaettäni (abessive singular)
reggaeittäni (abessive plural)
reggaeineni (comitative plural)
reggaesi (nominative singular)
reggaesi (nominative plural)
reggaesi (accusative nominative singular)
reggaesi (accusative nominative plural)
reggaesi (accusative genitive singular)
reggaesi (accusative genitive plural)
reggaesi (genitive singular)
reggaeidesi (genitive plural)
reggaeittesi (genitive plural)
reggaetäsi (partitive singular)
reggaeitäsi (partitive plural)
reggaessäsi (inessive singular)
reggaeissäsi (inessive plural)
reggaestäsi (elative singular)
reggaeistäsi (elative plural)
reggaehesi (illative singular)
reggaehisi (illative singular)
reggaeihisi (illative plural)
reggaelläsi (adessive singular)
reggaeilläsi (adessive plural)
reggaeltäsi (ablative singular)
reggaeiltäsi (ablative plural)
reggaellesi (allative singular)
reggaeillesi (allative plural)
reggaenäsi (essive singular)
reggaeinäsi (essive plural)
reggaeksesi (singular translative)
reggaeiksesi (plural translative)
reggaettäsi (abessive singular)
reggaeittäsi (abessive plural)
reggaeinesi (comitative plural)
reggaemme (nominative singular)
reggaemme (nominative plural)
reggaemme (accusative nominative singular)
reggaemme (accusative nominative plural)
reggaemme (accusative genitive singular)
reggaemme (accusative genitive plural)
reggaemme (genitive singular)
reggaeidemme (genitive plural)
reggaeittemme (genitive plural)
reggaetämme (partitive singular)
reggaeitämme (partitive plural)
reggaessämme (inessive singular)
reggaeissämme (inessive plural)
reggaestämme (elative singular)
reggaeistämme (elative plural)
reggaehemme (illative singular)
reggaehimme (illative singular)
reggaeihimme (illative plural)
reggaellämme (adessive singular)
reggaeillämme (adessive plural)
reggaeltämme (ablative singular)
reggaeiltämme (ablative plural)
reggaellemme (allative singular)
reggaeillemme (allative plural)
reggaenämme (essive singular)
reggaeinämme (essive plural)
reggaeksemme (singular translative)
reggaeiksemme (plural translative)
reggaettämme (abessive singular)
reggaeittämme (abessive plural)
reggaeinemme (comitative plural)
reggaenne (nominative singular)
reggaenne (nominative plural)
reggaenne (accusative nominative singular)
reggaenne (accusative nominative plural)
reggaenne (accusative genitive singular)
reggaenne (accusative genitive plural)
reggaenne (genitive singular)
reggaeidenne (genitive plural)
reggaeittenne (genitive plural)
reggaetänne (partitive singular)
reggaeitänne (partitive plural)
reggaessänne (inessive singular)
reggaeissänne (inessive plural)
reggaestänne (elative singular)
reggaeistänne (elative plural)
reggaehenne (illative singular)
reggaehinne (illative singular)
reggaeihinne (illative plural)
reggaellänne (adessive singular)
reggaeillänne (adessive plural)
reggaeltänne (ablative singular)
reggaeiltänne (ablative plural)
reggaellenne (allative singular)
reggaeillenne (allative plural)
reggaenänne (essive singular)
reggaeinänne (essive plural)
reggaeksenne (singular translative)
reggaeiksenne (plural translative)
reggaettänne (abessive singular)
reggaeittänne (abessive plural)
reggaeinenne (comitative plural)
reggaensä (nominative singular)
reggaensä (nominative plural)
reggaensä (accusative nominative singular)
reggaensä (accusative nominative plural)
reggaensä (accusative genitive singular)
reggaensä (accusative genitive plural)
reggaensä (genitive singular)
reggaeidensä (genitive plural)
reggaeittensä (genitive plural)
reggaetään (partitive singular)
reggaetänsä (partitive singular)
reggaeitään (partitive plural)
reggaeitänsä (partitive plural)
reggaessään (inessive singular)
reggaessänsä (inessive singular)
reggaeissään (inessive plural)
reggaeissänsä (inessive plural)
reggaestään (elative singular)
reggaestänsä (elative singular)
reggaeistään (elative plural)
reggaeistänsä (elative plural)
reggaehensä (illative singular)
reggaehinsä (illative singular)
reggaeihinsä (illative plural)
reggaellään (adessive singular)
reggaellänsä (adessive singular)
reggaeillään (adessive plural)
reggaeillänsä (adessive plural)
reggaeltään (ablative singular)
reggaeltänsä (ablative singular)
reggaeiltään (ablative plural)
reggaeiltänsä (ablative plural)
reggaelleen (allative singular)
reggaellensä (allative singular)
reggaeilleen (allative plural)
reggaeillensä (allative plural)
reggaenään (essive singular)
reggaenänsä (essive singular)
reggaeinään (essive plural)
reggaeinänsä (essive plural)
reggaekseen (singular translative)
reggaeksensä (singular translative)
reggaeikseen (plural translative)
reggaeiksensä (plural translative)
reggaettään (abessive singular)
reggaettänsä (abessive singular)
reggaeittään (abessive plural)
reggaeittänsä (abessive plural)
reggaeineen (comitative plural)
reggaeinensä (comitative plural)


reggae

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag.


reggae

pl-noun

reggae n (indeclinable, related adjective reggae'owy or reggaeowy)

reggae'owy (adjective)
reggaeowy (adjective)

Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.

reggae (music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies)


reggae

(music) reggae (a music genre from Jamaica)


Basilisk

de-noun

Basilisk m (weak, genitive Basilisken, plural Basilisken)

Basilisken (genitive)
Basilisken (plural)
Basilisk (nominative singular)
Basilisken (definite nominative plural)
Basilisken (genitive singular)
Basilisken (definite genitive plural)
Basilisken (dative singular)
Basilisken (dative definite plural)
Basilisken (accusative singular)
Basilisken (accusative definite plural)

basilisk, cockatrice (mythical creature)


Beast

Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.

2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:

I was able to keep up with the herd and evade the Beast. Cadet Basic Training ended with a rigorous twenty four-hour exercise that included a twelve-mile, rite-of-passage road march to West Point […]

2019, Conrad Taylor, PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance:

(US, military, slang) A cadet's basic training at West Point.


Borg

* As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from various places derived from Old Norse borg (“stronghold”).
* As a north/Low German surname, this is the Low German form of the surname Burg.
* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish בורג (burg, “credit”), from Middle High German borgen (“to lend, borrow”), from Old High German borgēn.
* As a Maltese surname, from the noun borġ (“tower, stronghold”), distantly related to the first two senses above.


Borg

en-verb

Borg (third-person singular simple present Borgs, present participle Borging, simple past and past participle Borged)

Borgs (present singular third-person)
Borging (participle present)
Borged (participle past)
Borged (past)

Borg (Star Trek)
en:Borg (disambiguation)
en:Star Trek

From the Star Trek franchise, in which the Borg are a cyborg race intent on converting all other life into their own kind; apparently a clipping of cyborg, from cybernetic + organism.

We already do it and they tell us they're going to Borg us with fucking stuff into our brains and we won't have to talk to each other.

2001, Rick C. Hodgin, GeekNews
Intel wants to Borg us!

(slang) To turn into a cyborg, to implant machinery into people with the intent of controlling or assimilating them.


Elvish

These difficult runes are written in Elvish.


Chaos

From Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

19521 Chaos
Chaos (Warhammer)
Chaos (cosmogony)

Chaos warrior, Chaos daemon

(fantasy, science fiction) In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.


Caro

A mythological figure from the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community said to have the head of a bearded man and the body of an owl.


Faun

de-noun

Faun m (strong or mixed, genitive Fauns or Faunes, plural Faune or (rare) Faunen or Fauni)

Fauns (genitive)
Faunes (genitive)
Faune (plural)
Faunen (plural rare)
Fauni (plural)
Faun (nominative singular)
Faune (definite nominative plural)
Faunen (definite nominative plural rare)
Fauni (definite nominative plural rare)
Fauns (genitive singular)
Faunes (genitive singular)
Faune (definite genitive plural)
Faunen (definite genitive plural rare)
Fauni (definite genitive plural rare)
Faun (dative singular)
Faune (dative singular)
Faunen (dative definite plural)
Fauni (dative definite plural rare)
Faun (accusative singular)
Faune (accusative definite plural)
Faunen (accusative definite plural rare)
Fauni (accusative definite plural rare)

Der junge Faun war sehr glücklich auf seiner Sommerwiese.

1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 2, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 514:

The young faun was very happy in his summer meadow.


Fee

Fee (genitive)
Feen (plural)
Fee (nominative singular)
Feen (definite nominative plural)
Fee (genitive singular)
Feen (definite genitive plural)
Fee (dative singular)
Feen (dative definite plural)
Fee (accusative singular)
Feen (accusative definite plural)

Middle High German fei(n)e. Borrowed from French fée, from Latin fata.


Hobbit

Hobbit m (strong, genitive Hobbits, plural Hobbits)

Hobbits (genitive)
Hobbits (plural)
Hobbit (nominative singular)
Hobbits (definite nominative plural)
Hobbits (genitive singular)
Hobbits (definite genitive plural)
Hobbit (dative singular)
Hobbits (dative definite plural)
Hobbit (accusative singular)
Hobbits (accusative definite plural)

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


Draco

Borrowed from Latin Dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drákōn). Doublet of dracone, dragon, and dragoon.

Draco
Draco (constellation)
Draco (lawgiver)
Draco Dwarf

(Greek mythology) One of Actaeon's hounds.


Hymne

Hymne (genitive)
Hymnen (plural)
Hymne (nominative singular)
Hymnen (definite nominative plural)
Hymne (genitive singular)
Hymnen (definite genitive plural)
Hymne (dative singular)
Hymnen (dative definite plural)
Hymne (accusative singular)
Hymnen (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin hymnus, from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).


Kraken

Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“wooden drag/grapnel”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“wooden drag/grapnel”, literally “crookie: something with crooks/hooks”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).

der

(Norse mythology) A colossal sea monster that attacks ships and sailors, often portrayed as a giant octopus or squid.


Metal

de-noun

Metal m (strong, genitive Metals or Metal, no plural)

Metals (genitive)
Metal (genitive)
Metal (nominative singular)
Metals (genitive singular)
Metal (genitive singular)
Metal (dative singular)
Metal (accusative singular)


Matrix

From the 1984 novel Neuromancer and popularized in the 1999 movie The Matrix.

“The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,” said the voice-over, “in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.” […] “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts … A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. […]”

1984, William Gibson, chapter 3, in Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 51:

Now some folks want to claim that we're in the Matrix right now (or that the physical world is an illusion).

2009 September 23, possum, “Re: In which the Trollpa evinzes hizzelf aza profezzional nuizzance”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet), message-ID <64c3fc87-b24c-4339-9e04-b4ecaa1497f7@a6g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>:

2017, Chuck Lorre Productions #557 (post-episode text), "The Recollection Dissipation", The Big Bang Theory
Recent events have made it abundantly clear that the fabric of the universe is unraveling. Reality as you know it, the matrix if you will, is dissolving.

(science fiction) A simulated reality to which many humans are connected. In some works created by sentient machines to subdue humans.


Monster

Monster n (strong, genitive Monsters, plural Monster)

Monsters (genitive)
Monster (plural)
Monster (nominative singular)
Monster (definite nominative plural)
Monsters (genitive singular)
Monster (definite genitive plural)
Monster (dative singular)
Monstern (dative definite plural)
Monster (accusative singular)
Monster (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed in the 18th century from English monster. Doublet of Monstrum.


Nymphe

Nymphe f (genitive Nymphe, plural Nymphen)

Nymphe (genitive)
Nymphen (plural)
Nymphe (nominative singular)
Nymphen (definite nominative plural)
Nymphe (genitive singular)
Nymphen (definite genitive plural)
Nymphe (dative singular)
Nymphen (dative definite plural)
Nymphe (accusative singular)
Nymphen (accusative definite plural)


Mutant

Mutant m (weak, genitive Mutanten, plural Mutanten, feminine Mutantin)

Mutanten (genitive)
Mutanten (plural)
Mutantin (feminine)
Mutant (nominative singular)
Mutanten (definite nominative plural)
Mutanten (genitive singular)
Mutanten (definite genitive plural)
Mutanten (dative singular)
Mutanten (dative definite plural)
Mutanten (accusative singular)
Mutanten (accusative definite plural)

Er sagt, er glaubt nicht, dass ich eine Mutantin bin, aber manche Mutanten erkennt man schwer.

2019, Oliver Plaschka, Pilgerzug der Posbis (Perry Rhodan Neo), number 191, Perry Rhodan digital, →ISBN:

(genetics, science fiction) mutant (that has undergone genetic mutation)


Hydra

[ˈhaɪ̯d͡ʒɹə]

From Latin Hydra, the mythical serpent, originally from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra), from Proto-Indo-European *údreh₂ (“aquatic”). Doublet of otter.


Hydra

Hydra (nominative singular)
Hydry (genitive singular)
Hydře (dative singular)
Hydru (accusative singular)
Hydro (singular vocative)
Hydře (locative singular)
Hydrou (instrumental singular)

From hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

[…] místo každé uťaté hlavy vyrostly Hydře dvě nové.

1996, Antonín Rükl, “Hydra”, in Souhvězdí, Praha: Aventinum, →ISBN, page 126:

[…] instead of every cut-off head two new heads grew up to Hydra.

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads

Alfa Hydrae – Alphard, 2,0 mag, je nejjasnější hvězda v Hydře.

Alpha Hydrae – Alphard, 2.0 mag, is the brightest star in the constellation of Hydra.

(astronomy) Hydra, a spring constellation of the northern sky

Měsíce Hydra, Nix a Styx obíhají ve vzájemné rezonanci, protože za jeden oběh Hydry oběhne Nix právě jeden a půlkrát a Styx dokonce dvakrát.

2015 June 12, Petr Lála, “Historická událost: sonda New Horizons zblízka prozkoumá záhadné Pluto”, in Technet.cz:

The moons Hydra, Nix and Styx orbit in mutual resonance, as Nix makes exactly one and half an orbit and Styx even two orbits during one orbit of Hydra.

Poloostrov Argolský, k němuž přiléhá ostrov Hydra (Hydrea), omezuje záliv Nauplijský[…]

1904, “Řecko”, in Ottův slovník naučný, volume XXI, Praha: J. Ottl, page 359:

The Argolid Penninsula, which the island of Hydra (Hydrea) closely borders with, closes the Argolic Gulf […]

Hydra, one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea


Hydra

From Latin hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).

(Greek mythology) Hydra (mythical serpent)


Hydra

Hydra (nominative singular)
Hydry (genitive singular)
Hydrze (dative singular)
Hydrę (accusative singular)
Hydrą (instrumental singular)
Hydrze (locative singular)
Hydro (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Hydra (mythological serpent with many heads, slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labours)


Reggae

Reggae m (strong, genitive Reggaes or Reggae, no plural)

Reggaes (genitive)
Reggae (genitive)
Reggae (nominative singular)
Reggaes (genitive singular)
Reggae (genitive singular)
Reggae (dative singular)
Reggae (accusative singular)


Punk

Punk m (strong, genitive Punks or Punk, plural Punks)

Punks (genitive)
Punk (genitive)
Punks (plural)
Punk (nominative singular)
Punks (definite nominative plural)
Punks (genitive singular)
Punk (genitive singular)
Punks (definite genitive plural)
Punk (dative singular)
Punks (dative definite plural)
Punk (accusative singular)
Punks (accusative definite plural)


Muggle

From mug (“contemptible or stupid person; gullible or easily cheated person”) + -le (diminutive suffix), coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

suffix

The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...].

2005, Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America, New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 194:

Once again, THE magic-working Karmidee, marginalized by THE Muggle-ish Normals, are threatened by a coup in THE city's government [...]

2005 April 1, “Kirkus Reviews, review of Charlotte Haptie, Otto and the Bird Charmers”, in Dow Jones:

In her second outing as a witch — the first being Practical Magic (1998) — Nicole Kidman plays Isabel, a witch who's trying to settle down to the Muggle life of a suburban housewife.

2005 August 19, Felix Cheong, “Age-old sexism still pervades films about witches and wizards”, in Channel NewsAsia:

It could all be deadly earnest if she didn't have a sense of humor. My favorite sentence is a chapter title: "Every time you hear a bell, a Muggle has turned magical."

2005 September 30, Jeffrey Weiss, “Review of Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore”, in The Dallas Morning News:

As it was nearing Halloween, we were able to join a potions class where we could change liquids into myriad colours with the addition of substances like dragon spit (muggle’s lemon juice).

2007 November 11, Lesley Oldfield, “Family break a eureka moment”, in Sunday Sun, Newcastle upon Tyne: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC:

There's another guy playing [Bob] Dylan as a formal poet facing some kind of muggle inquisition, but this is the movie's briefest and least consequential thread.

2007 November 21, Gary Thompson, “Dylan divided by six”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC:

This video game won’t appeal to muggles.

[...] I have finally worked out that the word ECNALUBMA in back-to-front writing translates as 'get out of my way, you Muggle motorist'.

2003 May 14, “There are too many flashing lights nowadays for a knight of the road …”, in Nursing Standard:

Some activists might know little of this ‘exterior’, such is their facility to move between activist spaces and places without having to encounter the ever-increasingly one-dimensional world in which the ‘muggles’ live.

2005, David Harvie, Ben Trott, Keir Milburn, editors, Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Dissent!; Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 343:

But to me, remembering what it was like to be a beginner is also an exercise in humility. I see a lot of people wanting to push ahead, faster, in all directions, and I find this to be… woefully out of step with even the Muggles who know me, […]

2021 October 31, Ace Admiral [username], “Why is no one talking about the tip of the spear?: An^([sic]) reading of the asexual academy through Skopos Theory”, in A Hand-Painted China Plate at a Barbeque, WordPress, retrieved 2021-11-02:

(by extension) A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider or cowan.

At some point when you're out geocaching, you'll run into Muggles. The trouble with Muggles is they have no idea what the sport of geocaching is all about. If they see you find a cache, they might get into the cache after you leave—to see what you were up to.

2004, Joel McNamara, Geocaching for Dummies (For Dummies), Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 125:

Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache.

2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources, Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89:

Use Stealth. Commonly used in a place with a high muggle-to-geocacher ratio.

2010, Paul Gillin, Dana Gillin, “Appendix A: Glossary”, in The Joy of Geocaching […], Fresno, Calif.: Quill Driver Books, →ISBN, page 235:

Each time we made a find [Teresa] Hinton would check there were no muggles, or non-geocachers, around before taking the container from its hiding place.

2016 February 16, Selina Powell, “The hidden world of geocaching in Marlborough”, in Marlborough Express (reproduced on Stuff), Blenheim, New Zealand: Stuff, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-16:

Caches can be hidden in a disguised container, or very small package, and one element of difficulty is hiding caches in urban locations, where the hunter will have to avoid being spotted by ‘muggles’ – the name given to those unaware of the sport. Muggles will be surprised at the scale of the secret game taking place under their noses.

2018 February 6, Joseph Smith, “The ‘dead drop’ in Stokes Croft may be more than it appears”, in Bristol Post, Bristol, Somerset: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-10:

(geocaching, specifically) A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.


Pop

de-noun

Pop m (strong, genitive Pops or Pop, no plural)

Pops (genitive)
Pop (genitive)
Pop (nominative singular)
Pops (genitive singular)
Pop (genitive singular)
Pop (dative singular)
Pop (accusative singular)


Snark

Coined by Lewis Carroll as a nonce word in The Hunting of the Snark (1874). According to Beatrice Hatch, Carroll created this word as a blend of snail + shark.

A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.

A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark


Standard

"I felt that I had to come," she said, as if she could tell from my face that I still wasn't getting it. She spoke Standard, with no real accent. She was dressed in pragmatic, sexless human clothes; if we hadn't been face-to-face, she could have passed for a human.

1996, Joan D. Vinge, Dreamfall, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 150:

universal language
universal language#Noun

(science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.


Ritter

Ritter m (strong, genitive Ritters, plural Ritter, feminine Ritterin)

Ritters (genitive)
Ritter (plural)
Ritterin (feminine)
Ritter (nominative singular)
Ritter (definite nominative plural)
Ritters (genitive singular)
Ritter (definite genitive plural)
Ritter (dative singular)
Rittern (dative definite plural)
Ritter (accusative singular)
Ritter (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ritter, from Middle Dutch ridder, Flemish byform of rîder, from rîden + -er (equivalent to German reiten + -er).
In Middle High German, both ritter and rīter (whence modern Reiter) were used in the sense of “horseman”, “mounted man-at-arms”, as well as for the (emerging) rank of “knight”, and, by generalisation, any member of the lower nobility. Gradually, both forms were separated semantically (a vocabulary of 1487 has two distinct entries: miles: ritter vs. equester: reitter), and in early modern German a third (similar, though unrelated) form Reuter, from Dutch, was introduced. In this period, Ritter was the term for the class of the German lower nobility, Reuter was the normal word for a cavalryman, and Reiter was rare but sometimes used for “horseman”. From the 18th century, Ritter was gradually replaced by Kavalier, especially with individual noblemen, whereas the collective Ritterschaft remained in use for the class as a whole. Accordingly, Ritter becomes increasingly limited to the historic or romantic/poetic “medieval knight”.

Endlich erschien eines Tages ein wohlgewappneter Ritter und schwor, dass er den Kampf mit dem Drachen aufnehmen wolle.

Finally one day a well-armed knight appeared, who swore that he would take up arms against the dragon.


Rock

Rock m (strong, genitive Rockes or Rocks, plural Röcke, diminutive Röckchen n or Röcklein n)

Rockes (genitive)
Rocks (genitive)
Röcke (plural)
Röckchen (diminutive neuter)
Röcklein (diminutive neuter)
Rock (nominative singular)
Röcke (definite nominative plural)
Rockes (genitive singular)
Rocks (genitive singular)
Röcke (definite genitive plural)
Rock (dative singular)
Rocke (dative singular)
Röcken (dative definite plural)
Rock (accusative singular)
Röcke (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German roc, from Old High German roc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrokk, from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *rukn-, *ruk-, *rug-, *ruǵ- (“to spin”); or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kreḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of Frack.


Tachyon

Tachyon n (mixed, genitive Tachyons, plural Tachyonen)

Tachyons (genitive)
Tachyonen (plural)
Tachyon (nominative singular)
Tachyonen (definite nominative plural)
Tachyons (genitive singular)
Tachyonen (definite genitive plural)
Tachyon (dative singular)
Tachyonen (dative definite plural)
Tachyon (accusative singular)
Tachyonen (accusative definite plural)

Die Existenz von Tachyonen konnte bis jetzt noch nicht bewiesen werden.

The existence of tachyons has not yet been proven.


Luna

From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Roxane.

Luna that ne'er shines by day.

1868, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Edward Arber, The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, Etc, page 129:

He has but little prudence, no apprehension of consequences, and none of that melancholy which in tempraments of Luna and Venus is generally felt, and from which he is saved by the combination of Mars and Mercury.

1896, The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical, page 22:

The different visible shapes of Luna are called her phases.

1909, Govind H. Keskar, Combined Introductory Astrology, page 14:

Lagrange point L1 is the perfect location for humanity's next major space station, the natural gateway to the moon. This one-of-a-kind point in space is located on the direct line between Earth and Luna about 200,000 miles from Earth, or conversely, a mere 39,000 miles above the geometric center of Luna's nearside.

2011, Charles Lee Lesher, Aldrin Station - Rise of Luna:

(chiefly science fiction or poetic) The name of Earth's moon; Moon.


Te

From Coptic ⲧⲏ (tē), from Egyptian d-wA-t:dwAt (“dwꜣt”). Doublet of Duat.

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">dwꜣt</i>

(Egyptology, Egyptian mythology) The realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.


Trance

de-noun

Trance f (genitive Trance, plural Trancen)

Trance (genitive)
Trancen (plural)
Trance (nominative singular)
Trancen (definite nominative plural)
Trance (genitive singular)
Trancen (definite genitive plural)
Trance (dative singular)
Trancen (dative definite plural)
Trance (accusative singular)
Trancen (accusative definite plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English trance.


Siren

la-noun

Sīrēn f (genitive Sīrēnis); third declension

Sīrēn (canonical feminine)
Sīrēnis (genitive)
Sīrēn (nominative singular)
Sīrēnēs (nominative plural)
Sīrēnis (genitive singular)
Sīrēnum (genitive plural)
Sīrēnī (dative singular)
Sīrēnibus (dative plural)
Sīrēnem (accusative singular)
Sīrēnēs (accusative plural)
Sīrēne (ablative singular)
Sīrēnibus (ablative plural)
Sīrēn (singular vocative)
Sīrēnēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: serena, sirena

Catalan: sirena

English: Siren, siren

desctree

French: sirène
→ Persian: سیرن (siren)
→ Portuguese: sirene
→ Turkish: siren

→ Galician: sirena

German: Sirene

Irish: Síréana

Italian: sirena, serena

Old French: sereine

Old Galician-Portuguese: serẽa
Galician: serea
Portuguese: sereia

→ Portuguese: sirena

Romanian: sirenă

Spanish: sirena, serena, serea

(Greek mythology, mythology) a siren, one of the mythical birds with faces of virgins, that dwelt on the southern coast of Italy, where, with their sweet voices, they enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them.


Soul

de-noun

Soul m (strong, genitive Soul or Souls, plural Soul)

Soul (genitive)
Souls (genitive)
Soul (plural)
Soul (nominative singular)
Soul (definite nominative plural)
Soul (genitive singular)
Souls (genitive singular)
Soul (definite genitive plural)
Soul (dative singular)
Soul (dative definite plural)
Soul (accusative singular)
Soul (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from English soul, from Middle English, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”). Doublet of Seele.


Tellus

Borrowed from Latin tellus (“Earth, globe, world”), from Proto-Italic *telnos, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *telnos ~ *telnes-, from *telh₂- (“flat ground”), but reshaped after rūs. Otherwise, could derive from Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌋𐌀𐌓 (tular, “earth”).

bor+

"Greetings, oh guests from Tellus! I feel more like myself, now that I am again in my trappings and have my weapons at my side." He attached a timepiece to the wrist of each of the guests, with a bracelet of the blue metal. "Will you accompany me to fourth-meal or aren't you hungry?"

1958, Edward E[lmer] Smith, The Skylark of Space, revised edition, Pyramid Books, page 121:

(literary, now chiefly science fiction) The planet Earth.


Suomi

(music) A freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.


Western

de-noun

Western m (strong, genitive Westerns or Western, plural Western)

Westerns (genitive)
Western (genitive)
Western (plural)
Western (nominative singular)
Western (definite nominative plural)
Westerns (genitive singular)
Western (genitive singular)
Western (definite genitive plural)
Western (dative singular)
Western (dative definite plural)
Western (accusative singular)
Western (accusative definite plural)


spacy

en-adj

spacy (comparative spacier, superlative spaciest)

spacier (comparative)
spaciest (superlative)


Sol

(poetic, science fiction) The Sun, the star orbited by the Earth.


Vulcano

(astronomy, historical) Vulcan (planet previously theorised to exist in orbit between Mercury and the Sun)


hellish

hellish (comparative more hellish, superlative most hellish)

more hellish (comparative)
most hellish (superlative)

Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]

1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [F3], recto:

I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

(hyperbolic) causing great pain, discomfort or distress


shuck

(European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.


punk rock

See punk + rock. First attested in 1970 in reference to rockabilly; possibly coined in its current sense by American music critic Dave Marsh in the May 1971 issue of Creem, from earlier punk music.

(music) A genre of rock music associated with short, loud, energetic songs played on electric guitars and drums and employing angry, offensive, and/or political lyrics.


PK

en-noun

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

1906, Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, Religious Education
The traditional community image of the pk (preacher's kid) and the social control function of gossip in relation to the minister's wife underline the interlocking nature […]

I was a typical PK (preacher's kid), full of mischief, full of life and insatiable curiosity.

1998, Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr., My Soul's Been Anchored: A Preacher's Heritage in the Faith:

And after all, I was a PK (preacher's kid) and no one wanted to play with a PK in any case! It might be catching, like the measles!

2005, Warren L. Braun, Was It a Miracle?:

(US) Initialism of preacher's kid, pastor's kid or priest's kid: the child of a clergyman and/or clergywoman, especially Protestant.

preacher's kid

(parapsychology) Initialism of psychokinesis.

(ice hockey) Initialism of penalty kill(ing).

(biochemistry) Initialism of protein kinase.


MAC

MAC (countable and uncountable, plural MACs)

(science fiction) Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.


EDM

EDM (countable and uncountable, plural EDMs)

But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).

2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-08-06:

electronic dance music
electronic dance music#English

(music) Initialism of electronic dance music.


Martial

From Latin Martialis (“Roman cognomen”), from martiālis (“belonging or dedicated to the Mars, the Roman god of war, or to war”), from Mārs (“the god Mars; the planet Mars”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns).

Saint Martial was the first bishop of Limoges, circa 250

A male given name from Latin, narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).

An Anglicized cognomen or given name of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, born in Spain in the first century AD and noted for his epigrams.


Martial

For, having found out by a careful series of observations, the parts of Mars' orbit where the planet entered upon its various seasons, he [William Herschel] noted that, soon after mid-winter of the northern hemisphere, the northern white spot attained its greatest dimensions, while the southern was reduced to a tiny oval of light; whereas half a Martial year later, the southern spot was at its largest, and the northern a mere speck when compared with its winter appearance.

1869 February 6, “The Planet of War”, in E[neas] S[weetland] Dallas, editor, Once a Week, volume III, number 58 (New Series), London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

(astronomy, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of martial (“of or relating to the planet Mars”)


Martial

The Martials, if there be Martials in any sense in which there are terrestrials on our own planet, may have no eyes at all; their whole civilisation, if they have say, may depend on senses of which we have absolutely no trace, […]

1892, The Spectator: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume LXIX, London: F. C. Westley, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 218, column 2:

(chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of martial (“inhabitant of the planet Mars; Martian”)


unobtainium

unobtainium (countable and uncountable, plural unobtainiums)

From unobtain(able) + -ium (suffix typical of names of atomic elements), modelled after uranium and titanium.

suffix

Coordinate term: adamantium

Thus the invention of high temperature fuels will enable us to consider cores which are radiation cooled; such cores would be surrounded by large tanks (cooled by water) which in turn would be penetrated by beam holes. The beam holes themselves would probably have to be made of "unobtanium". (This "unobtanium" is a word coined at Atomics International to describe the material needed to make reactor projects feasible.) In between the radiation cooled reactors and the water cooled reactors is a regime suitable for liquid metal (including boiling liquid) cooled reactors. Once again "unobtanium" is needed.

1962, Charles N. Kelber, “Research Reactors”, in Earl W. Phelan, editor, Current Trends in Nuclear Power: A Symposium Sponsored by the University of Arizona in Cooperation with Argonne National Laboratory: Tucson, Arizona, February 26 – March 12, 1962, Argonne, Ill.: Argonne National Laboratory, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:

In order to illustrate some of the features of data processing under ideal conditions, a set of simulated data was generated and is presented in the last four columns of Table II. The hypothetical material is called Unobtainium.

[1978 September, Lynn C. Rogers, Ahid D. Nashif, “Computerized Processing and Empirical Processing of Viscoelastic Material Property Data and Preliminary Constrained Layer Damping Treatment Design”, in The Shock and Vibration Bulletin (Bulletin; 48, part 2 (Isolation and Damping, Impact, Blast)), Washington, D.C.: The Shock and Vibration Information Center, Naval Research Laboratory, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:

The names of materials presently used in aerospace applications are familiar: magnesium, aluminum, titanium, and so on. Propulsion scientists call the ideal material for turbine engines "Unobtainium," because it does not exist.

As early as 1969, during the initial Phase A studies, Lockheed had taken the initiative in proposing a two-stage fully-reusable design with both stages built of aluminum and using silica tiles for thermal protection. [...] Though that company indeed was in the forefront in developing such tiles, they were items for laboratory research. A design that specified their use had no more intrinsic credibility than one that proposed to use the miracle metals Unobtanium and Wishalloy.

1999, T[homas] A. Heppenheimer, “A Shuttle to Fit the Budget”, in The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA’s Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (The NASA History Series; NASA SP-4221), Washington, D.C.: Office of Policy and Plans, NASA History Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, →OCLC, page 331:

This is not a Tom Tomorrow Bike, made of NASA unobtainiums and employing warp drives that have yet to be invented. It could be built as soon as the production technology is put on the line and powered-up, because all the vehicle technology is proven, off-the-shelf stuff.

2002 February, Kevin Cameron, “Supercharged: It’s Good to B-King”, in Cycle World, volume 41, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:

A fictional material or component which, if it existed, would enable one to easily solve a hard problem.

難得素

fictional component or material which would enable one to easily solve a hard problem


martial

From Middle English martial, marcial, mercial, mercialle (“relating to war, warlike; military; for use in fighting or warfare; brave, hardy; combative, fierce; ruthless, vicious; domineering, overbearing”), from Middle French martial (modern French martial (“martial”)), or directly from its etymon Latin mārtiālis (“of or pertaining to Mars, the Roman god of war”), from Mārtius (“of or pertaining to Mars”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The English word is cognate with Italian marziale (“martial”), Portuguese marcial (“martial”), Spanish marcial (“martial”).

der

The Martials, if there be Martials in any sense in which there are terrestrials on our own planet, may have no eyes at all; their whole civilisation, if they have say, may depend on senses of which we have absolutely no trace, [...]

(chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Synonym of Martian (“inhabitant of the planet Mars”)


zydeco

/ˈzaɪdɪˌkəʊ/

From Louisiana Creole zydéco, compare French zarico; possibly from a metanalysis of French les haricots (“beans”) as French le zarico (“beans”) in a dance-tune title.

Sunpie—in real life, a park ranger and an accordionist who leads a good zydeco band—taunted Harrison […].

2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 307:

A form of Louisiana Creole music, characteristically performed by accordion and washboard bands, that combines Cajun and Creole roots music with elements of African American music.


songo

A kind of contemporary Cuban music originating in Havana.


lamia

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Apollonius […] by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia, and that all her furniture was like Tantalus' gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

(Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.


lamia

la-noun

lamia f (genitive lamiae); first declension

lamiae (genitive)
lamia (nominative singular)
lamiae (nominative plural)
lamiae (genitive singular)
lamiārum (genitive plural)
lamiae (dative singular)
lamiīs (dative plural)
lamiam (accusative singular)
lamiās (accusative plural)
lamiā (ablative singular)
lamiīs (ablative plural)
lamia (singular vocative)
lamiae (plural vocative)

desc

→ Translingual: lamia (used in names of fish)

→ English: lamia (learned)

→ Galician: lamia (learned)

→ Italian: lamia (learned)

From Ancient Greek λάμια (lámia), Λάμια (Lámia).


grunge

Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.

(music) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal.


grunge

pl-noun

grunge m inan (related adjective grunge'owy)

grunge'owy (adjective)
grunge (nominative singular)
grunge'u (genitive singular)
grunge'owi (dative singular)
grunge (accusative singular)
grunge'em (instrumental singular)
grunge'u (locative singular)
grunge'u (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English grunge.

grunge (subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal)


metamorphose

en-verb

metamorphose (third-person singular simple present metamorphoses, present participle metamorphosing, simple past and past participle metamorphosed)

metamorphoses (present singular third-person)
metamorphosing (participle present)
metamorphosed (participle past)
metamorphosed (past)

/ˌmɛtəˈmɔːˌfəʊz/

/ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊz/

/ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊs/

From French métamorphoser, from Old French metamorphose, from Latin metamorphōsis; see metamorphosis.

(of a moth or insect, intransitive) To undergo metamorphosis.


rota

rote (kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy)


rota

(historical, military) rota (infantry or cavalry unit in Poland in the 16th–17th c.)

(historical, military) rota (row of soldiers in formation in Poland in the 18th c.)


rota

(firefighting) group of rescuers or firefighters consisting of two people


rota

rota (nominative singular)
roty (nominative plural)
roty (genitive singular)
rot (genitive plural)
rocie (dative singular)
rotom (dative plural)
rotę (accusative singular)
roty (accusative plural)
rotą (instrumental singular)
rotami (instrumental plural)
rocie (locative singular)
rotach (locative plural)
roto (singular vocative)
roty (plural vocative)

(law, Roman Catholicism) tribunal of appeal functioning under the Roman Curia


mogwai

From Cantonese 魔怪 (mo1 gwaai3), 魔鬼 (mo1 gwai2).

(Chinese mythology) A kind of demon held to be harmful to humans.


post-rock

From post- + rock. Coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994).

(music) A genre of music which uses rock instrumentation for songs with gradually unfolding structures that depend more on ambience and timbre than melody.


zombify

zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)

zombifies (present singular third-person)
zombifying (participle present)
zombified (participle past)
zombified (past)

She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.

1994, A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions, Arnold, et al:

(transitive, fiction) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).


passacaglia

en-noun

passacaglia (countable and uncountable, plural passacaglias)

Borrowed from Italian passacaglia, from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

(music) A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass.


passacaglia

Borrowed from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

(music) passacaglia (historical Spanish dance)


uplift

en-verb

uplift (third-person singular simple present uplifts, present participle uplifting, simple past and past participle uplifted)

uplifts (present singular third-person)
uplifting (participle present)
uplifted (participle past)
uplifted (past)

извисявам

to raise something or someone to a higher level

—genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'

2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 79:

To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.

(science fiction) To raise (a nonsentient species) into sentience.


hypnosis

en-noun

hypnosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypnoses)

Derived from hypn(otic) + -osis (“state”, “condition”, nominal derivational suffix).

suffix

A trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced.


ARV

alien reproduction vehicle
alien reproduction vehicle#English

(ufology) Initialism of alien reproduction vehicle.