Soulsborne

en-noun

Soulsborne (countable and uncountable, plural Soulsbornes)

Because FromSoftware's Demon's Souls is the granddaddy of the soulsborne genre, and one of the PlayStation 3's overlooked classics.

2020 October, “Have Your Say: Demon's Soul”, in PlayStation Official Magazine, page 27:

“Blasphemous” is a masterfully crafted game that would entice hardcore fans of Soulsborne and Metroidvania games.

2022, Gabrielle Cabello Torres, "From The International: Video Games From Different Cultures", Mace & Crown (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA), Spring 2022, page 36

The Soulsborne formula has been imitated countless times but mastered by few apart from FromSoftware, the original pioneers.

2022 December 29, Cameron Rasmusson, “Elden Ring recaptures magic of video game discovery”, in Reader, page 17:

(fandom slang, video games, uncountable) A video game subgenre influenced by this series, characterized by high difficulty, trial-and-error progression, esoteric enemy movesets, environmental storytelling, and complex lore.


farm sim

A PlayStation update of the SNES and Game Boy cult smash, this is essentially a farm sim in which you have to milk cows, herd sheep, feed chickens and pull up oodles of home-grown veggies.

2000, "Orient Express", Official PlayStation Magazine (Australia), August/September 2000, page 16

The Playstation 2 is quickly becoming a harbor for sequels to nearly every genre that you can come up with—even super-odd, farm sims that only people like ECM and Shidoshi can love.

2001, Haohmaru, "Harvest Moon 3", GameGo! Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2001), page 21

Jenga is by all means a greater tragedy, but in a way, Jenga would never have happened if literally every other possible thing weren't already a game. And farm sims certainly had a role in that.

2008, Seanbaby, "Nintendo's Party of Pain", Electronic Gaming Monthly, July 2008, page 93


raising sim

Thankfully, it was fan-translated in 2001, and should be familiar enough even for those who've never dabbled in raising sims.

2011 June, “Wonder Project J”, in Retro Gamer, number 91, page 59:

The long-running Princess Maker series is a good example of a raising sim, requiring the character to raise a daughter to become a princess.

2021, Matt Barnes, Dazz Brown, Greg S-C, Region Locked: The Key To Gaming's Buried Treasure, page 208:

Those who play these Raising sims are responsible for characters’ clothing, as well as their battle training.

2021, Selen Çalık Bedir, “Combinatory Play and Infinite Replay: Underdefined Causality in the Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime Series and Games”, in Jose Andres Santiago Iglesias, Soler Baena, editors, Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion, page 316:

non-player character
non-player character

(video games) A life simulation game in which the player acts as the custodian of a subordinate non-player character (typically a child, student, pet, etc.) and manages and develops this character's stats with the goal of achieving a specific outcome.


city-building game

city-building game (plural city-building games)

(video games) A genre of simulation game in which the player builds and manages a city.


life simulation

life simulation (plural life simulations)

Activision's Autumn titles were up and running, and some Winter games were previewed, including Alter Ego, a "life simulation" game, and Fast Tracks, a slot car racing program.

1985 November, Chris Jenkins, “PCW Show: promises, promises!”, in Commodore Horizons, page 10:

Life simulations and dating games also influenced Yasuhiro Wada, the designer of the gentile farming sim series Harvest Moon, which first appeared in 1996 on the Super NES.

2010, Tristan Donovan, Replay: The History of Video Games, page 157:

While the mechanics changed very little in the DS version, Nintendo's snarky little life-simulation title [Animal Crossing] found its perfect ally.

2010, “Animal Crossing: Wild World”, in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, page 610:

(video games) A subgenre of simulation game that replicates real-world systems or experiences (such as businesses, communities, ecosystems, or social relationships).


life sim

Although there are other life sims such as Theme Park, Sim City and so on, they've all had a gameplay objective, a purpose for playing.

2003 November, “The Usual Suspects”, in Cube, UK, page 35:

In fact, as far as full-fledged life sims go, The Sims has pretty much been it for most gamers.

2005, Sean Carton, 2005 Gamer's Almanac, page 282:

Kynseed: The most Fable-y of the games on this list, Kynseed is a life sim currently in early access, from ex-Fable devs PixelCount Studios.

2019 November 21, Jack Yarwood, “Leaving Albion: The epic making of Fable”, in Wireframe, page 25:

(video games) Synonym of life simulation.


town-building game

town-building game (plural town-building games)

city-building game
city-building game#English

(video games) Synonym of city-building game.


farming sim

Down on the farm... Clear your land, till the soil, plant some seeds – there aren't many farming sims out there, but Harvest Moon proves that they should be more popular than Lara.

1999 December, “Arcade's Top 10 Game Boy games”, in Arcade, page 119:

While many millions of people are wasting away their life on social game Farmville, many of us have been there, done that with the master of the farming sim, Harvest Moon.

2010, "The Cheat Mistress, The Games of the Decade, unnumbered page

Created by Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone, Stardew Valley is an inspiration to indie developers everywhere. Not only did Barone create his much-loved farming sim entirely by himself, but the game's also gone on to become a storming success, with over ten million copies sold to date.

2020 February, “Interactive: Spirittea”, in Wireframe, page 25:

(video games) A simulation game which centers on running a farm and/or raising crops and livestock.


dating sim

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


city sim

Caesar II stands a step above common city sims by adding the war element to game play.

1996, "Et tu, Build Rome!", InterAction, Spring 1996, page 32

Most modern city sims content themselves with jazzing up some core element, offering a simpler, more accessible experience, or transplanting the production to an unconventional setting.

2006 September, “City Life”, in Computer Gaming World, page 98:

This is exactly the kind of playfulness I expect from Tropico—it may be a city sim, but it’s never been about building by the book.

2010 September, Evan Lahti, “Totalitariani-sim”, in PC Gamer, page 84:


tile-matching game

tile-matching game (plural tile-matching games)

(video games) A type of puzzle game in which tiles arranged in columns and rows are shifted or eliminated by the player in order to align a set number (usually three or four) of the same type.


city-builder

Impressions Games' line of historic city-builders like CAESAR and PHARAOH have long appealed to hardcore gamers.

2000 August, Robert Coffey, “Where All All the Strat Games?”, in Computer Gaming World, page 131:

The Tropico series takes the best elements of strategic titles, city builders and manager games and thrusts players into a beautiful tropical paradise where you’ll work to improve the quality of life for your citizens.

2009 September, Mike Griffin, “Tropico 3”, in Play, page 76:

Cities: Skyline excels and delivers the new gold standard of modern city-builders.

2015 May, Brian Shea, “Cities: Skylines”, in Game Informer, page 92:


match-four game

match-four game (plural match-four games)

Like many match-four games of its ilk, Game of Drones offers plenty of opportunities to generate Bucks (the game's currency), which can be spent to purchase more lives, as well as items that help with particularly tricky puzzles.

2018, Eddy Webb, “Buy Gems to Woo Your Lover: Free-to-Play Narratives”, in Toiya Kristen Finely, editor, Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling, page 238:

He looks up from the recliner, where he's idly playing a match-four game on his phone. "What?"

2021, Ramsey Hootman, Cyril in the Flesh, unnumbered page:

I puttered around on the computer for a while, mostly playing match-four games instead of actually doing anything that resembled work.

2021, Molly Fitz, Pet Whisperer P.I., unnumbered page:

(video games) A tile-matching game in which sets of four must be matched.


match-three game

match-four game (plural match-three games)

match-four game (canonical)
match-three games (plural)

A match-three game built into a very basic RPG framework, Infinite Interactive's title was a sleeper hit, sucking people in before they'd realized they were even in danger.

2010, “Puzzle Quest”, in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, page 741:

This enjoyable match-three game features warriors with different special moves to help you clear a path on each grid.

2015, “Quick Hits”, in Android Magazine, number 55, UK, page 85:

This great match-three game offers dozens of modes and hundreds of levels, so I'm sure it will keep me busy for quite some time.

2016, "Around The IPhone Life Office", iPhone Life, Spring 2016, page 12

(video games) A tile-matching game in which sets of three must be matched.


brick-buster

Love them or hate them. Breakout clones are released on the market with extraordinary regularity and just when you think the theme has been exploited to the limits, somebody releases the ultimate brick-buster!

1988 August, “Action Packed”, in ST Action, page 2:

Lots of levels and cool power-ups make it last longer than most brick-busters.

2009, “iPod Click Wheel Games”, in iPod + iPhone Buyers' Guide' 2009, page 102:

The Power Glove is indeed bad in the literal sense of the word, but not when used for Super Glove Ball, which put a new slant on such brick-busters as Breakout and Arkanoid.

2016, Pat Contri, Ultimate Guide to the NES Library 1985-1995, page 313:


grand strategy game

grand strategy game (plural grand strategy games)

[…] and World Empire, a Risk-style computer grand-strategy game published in 1991.

2013, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games, unnumbered page:

As [Marc James] Carpenter (2021) prompts us to consider of one popular grand strategy game, “will a seasoned Europa Universalis player who succeeds at the enormous challenge of pushing back colonial invaders playing as the Cherokee gain an appreciation of Cherokee sovereignty, or an arrogant assumption that colonial conquest could have been avoided with superior strategy?"

2021, Kristine Levan, Steven Downing, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games, page 91:

Crusader Kings II is a grand strategy game set in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

2022, Jere Kyyrö, “Particularizing the universal: Medievalist constructions of cultural and religious difference in Crusader Kings II”, in Reima Välimäki, editor, Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects, page 138:

A type of advanced strategy wargame in which players must devise their own grand strategy by controlling a territory's military movements and using its resources. The genre, which includes both tabletop games and video games, differs from the similar 4X genre in imposing asymmetric starting conditions (i.e., some territories begin with a stronger military or more resources).


management sim

These touches take WCBM into a different league to your average, run of the mill, ho-hum everyday kind of management sim.

1990 June, “World Championship Boxing Manager”, in Amstrad Action, page 54:

Guide your chosen team through not just one season, but a decade of play, making all the selection and transfer decisions in the manner of a simplified management sim.

1999 January, Chas Davies, “NBA Live 99”, in Arcade, page 122:

Introversion has officially updated Prison Architect to the hallowed version 1.0, and the result is one of the most distinctive and fascinating management sims since Theme Hospital.

2016 January, Rick Lane, “Prison Architect”, in Custom PC, page 80:

(video games) A simulation game focusing on the management of a business, institution, sports team, etc.


tactical role-playing game

tactical role-playing game (plural tactical role-playing games)

(video games) A genre of role-playing game that features a combat system (either turn-based or real-time) similar to that of a tactical wargame.


tactics RPG

For example, Tales Of Eternia is action-based and has a single-plane 2D battle system, while PoPoLoCrois is more of a tactics RPG, requiring you to move your team around a grid during battle.

2004, Anthony Enticknap, “PoPoLoCrois”, in GoPlay, number 3, page 74:

Perhaps Nippon Ichi's most enjoyable tactics RPG to date. Great fun.

2005, Nick Powell, “Makai Kingdom: Chronicle of the Sacred Tome”, in Play, number 135, UK, page 74:

Alas, the story is secondary to the system, and in a tactics RPG, the system is everything.

2008 June, Heather Campbell, “Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift”, in Play Magazine, page 68:

tactical role-playing game
tactical role-playing game#English

(video games) Synonym of tactical role-playing game.


tactical RPG

As far as tactical RPGs go, Vandal Hearts is one of the best.

2000 January, “Vandal Hearts II”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, page 234:

The PSP is a treasure-trove of tactical RPGs, with stuff like Disgaea, Tactics Ogre and Growlanser, but for many FFT is the pinnacle of the genre.

2013 May, Sam Smith, “Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions”, in Play, page 95:

Still, Valkyria Chronicles remains one of the best tactical RPGs of the 2000s, with a fresh take on the genre, an involving story and gorgeous visuals.

2022, Felipe Pepe, editor, The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games, Expanded Edition, page 405:


tycoon game

Since its 1999 debut, Rollercoaster Tycoon has become one of the most successful and influential computer games of the past decade, selling millions of copies and inspiring every third-rate game designer to cash in on its success with their own tycoon game.

2002 November, Jeff Green, “RollerCoaster Tycoon 2”, in Computer Gaming World, page 55:

At its core, Casino Inc. is an average little tycoon game where you buy gear, place it around an empty interior, hire staff, and watch the money roll in.

2003 July, John Fletcher, “Casino Inc.”, in Computer Gaming World, page 89:

Recettear is a tycoon game about managing an adventurer's shop.

2011 March, Randy Smith, “Hi, Im Randy”, in Edge Gaming, page 152:

(video games) Synonym of management sim (“a simulation game focusing on the management of a business, institution, sports team, etc”).

management sim

The popular tycoon games that were part of this event included Theme Park Tycoon, which offered a chance to win an exclusive accessory for your avatar; Retail Tycoon, which offered a special virtual item for your avatar; and Miner’s Haven, which also offered a new virtual item for your avatar.

2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 67:

Have you ever wanted to run your own business? You might enjoy tycoon games. In one game, you might get to build your own theme park. You can pick out different rides and other attractions for visitors to enjoy. In another game, you might get to run your own restaurant or ice cream shop. Try to make as much money as possible with your new business!

2021, Josh Gregory, Games and Genres in Roblox, Cherry Lake Press, →ISBN, page 19:

In modern renditions of tycoon games, developers will often take advantage of non-player characters (NPCs), more complex ways of unlocking new items, infinite expansion capabilities, and sometimes stunning visuals.

2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217:

(video games) Synonym of tycoon (“a type of subgame within the massively multiplayer online game Roblox, involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game)”).


utsuge

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

bor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


nakige

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

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

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

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

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

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


ਭੂਤ

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

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


nukige

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

ja-r

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


апокалиптика

ru-noun+

апокали́птика

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

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

apocalyptic (genre of literature set in an apocalypse)


handbag house

(music) A subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.


dokkaebi

en-noun

dokkaebi (usually uncountable, plural dokkaebis)

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

トッケビ

a creature in Korean mythology, a Korean goblin


панк-рок

ru-noun+

панк-ро́к • (pank-rók) m inan (genitive панк-ро́ка, nominative plural панк-ро́ки, genitive plural панк-ро́ков)

панк-ро́к (canonical)
pank-rók (romanization)
панк-ро́ка (genitive)
панк-ро́ки (nominative plural)
панк-ро́ков (genitive plural)
панк-ро́к (nominative singular)
панк-ро́ки (nominative plural)
панк-ро́ка (genitive singular)
панк-ро́ков (genitive plural)
панк-ро́ку (dative singular)
панк-ро́кам (dative plural)
панк-ро́к (accusative singular)
панк-ро́ки (accusative plural)
панк-ро́ком (instrumental singular)
панк-ро́ками (instrumental plural)
панк-ро́ке (prepositional singular)
панк-ро́ках (plural prepositional)


tarākoni

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


Mobian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


симфорок

ru-noun+

симфоро́к • (simforók) m inan (genitive симфоро́ка, nominative plural симфоро́ки, genitive plural симфоро́ков)

симфоро́к (canonical)
simforók (romanization)
симфоро́ка (genitive)
симфоро́ки (nominative plural)
симфоро́ков (genitive plural)
симфоро́к (nominative singular)
симфоро́ки (nominative plural)
симфоро́ка (genitive singular)
симфоро́ков (genitive plural)
симфоро́ку (dative singular)
симфоро́кам (dative plural)
симфоро́к (accusative singular)
симфоро́ки (accusative plural)
симфоро́ком (instrumental singular)
симфоро́ками (instrumental plural)
симфоро́ке (prepositional singular)
симфоро́ках (plural prepositional)

Blend of симфо́ния (simfónija) + ро́к (rók)


TatsuJun

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

Persona 2: Innocent Sin#Setting and characters


ブロステップ

[bɯ̟ɾo̞sɨte̞p̚pɯ̟]


zombieness

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


worlder

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

One who supports a certain idea of the world.


sleep flower

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

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

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

1995, Squaresoft, Seiken Densetsu 3, SNES:

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


dublyaj

az-noun

dublyaj (definite accusative dublyajı, plural dublyajlar)

dublyajı (accusative definite)
dublyajlar (plural)

Borrowed from Russian дубля́ж (dubljáž), from French doublage.


Glup Shitto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


موسیقار

ur-noun

مُوسِیقار • (mūsīqār) m (Hindi spelling मूसीक़ार)

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

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


фадо

fado (romanization)
фадо (indefinite singular)
фадото (definite singular unspecified)
фадово (definite proximal singular)
фадоно (definite distal singular)
фадо (singular vocative)


dragonlet

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

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

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

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

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

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


терранец

ru-noun+

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

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

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

af

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


терранка

ru-noun+

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

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

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


comic opera

en-noun

comic opera (countable and uncountable, plural comic operas)

(music) A sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue.


中氣

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ hei̯³³/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kʰui²¹/

/tiɔŋ³³ kʰui⁴¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kʰui²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰui¹¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰui²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ hei̯³³/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kʰui²¹/

/tiɔŋ³³ kʰui⁴¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kʰui²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰui¹¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰui²¹/


thanatomancy

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


thaumic

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

af

(chiefly fantasy) Relating to magic; magical.


бойовик

uk-noun

((бойови́к<b.pr>,бойови́к<b>))

бойови́к • (bojovýk) m pers or m inan (genitive бойовика́, nominative plural бойовики́, genitive plural бойовикі́в)

бойови́к (canonical)
bojovýk (romanization)
бойовика́ (genitive)
бойовики́ (nominative plural)
бойовикі́в (genitive plural)
бойови́к (nominative singular)
бойовики́ (nominative plural)
бойовика́ (genitive singular)
бойовикі́в (genitive plural)
бойовико́ві (dative singular)
бойовику́ (dative singular)
бойовика́м (dative plural)
бойовика́ (accusative singular)
бойовикі́в (accusative plural)
бойовико́м (instrumental singular)
бойовика́ми (instrumental plural)
бойовико́ві (locative singular)
бойовику́ (locative singular)
бойовика́х (locative plural)
бойовику́ (singular vocative)
бойовики́ (plural vocative)
бойови́к (nominative singular)
бойовики́ (nominative plural)
бойовика́ (genitive singular)
бойовикі́в (genitive plural)
бойовико́ві (dative singular)
бойовику́ (dative singular)
бойовика́м (dative plural)
бойови́к (accusative singular)
бойовики́ (accusative plural)
бойовико́м (instrumental singular)
бойовика́ми (instrumental plural)
бойовику́ (locative singular)
бойовика́х (locative plural)
бойовику́ (singular vocative)
бойовики́ (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

бойови́к<b.pr>

From бойови́й (bojovýj) + -и́к (-ýk). Compare Russian боеви́к (bojevík), Belarusian баяві́к (bajavík).

(inanimate, colloquial) action movie, action film


BroTP

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

blend

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


element zero

From being a chemical element with zero protons.

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

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


LoVe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


NOTP

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

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

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

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

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

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

(fandom slang) A ship that one strongly dislikes.


blackgaze

California’s Deafheaven are blackgaze’s de facto poster boys, the most likely to open up black metal to an even wider audience.

2015 October 5, Tom Howells, “Blackgaze: meet the bands taking black metal out of the shadows”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) A fusion music genre combining elements of black metal and shoegaze.


time police

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


time cop

(science fiction) A member of the time police.


time crime

en-noun

time crime (countable and uncountable, plural time crimes)

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


time patrol

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


torch drive

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


anti-Reylo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


time-binding

Coined by Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski in 1921.

coinage

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


time-binding

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


Titanese

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


Titanese

(science fiction) The language spoken on Titan.


Potterlock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Kobayashi Maru

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


seetee

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

coined

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Wholock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


time barrier

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


thionite

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

coinage

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


torchship

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

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

com+

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


replikant

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

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

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


tragicomoedia

la-noun

tragicōmoedia f (genitive tragicōmoediae); first declension

tragicōmoedia (canonical feminine)
tragicōmoediae (genitive)
tragicōmoedia (nominative singular)
tragicōmoediae (nominative plural)
tragicōmoediae (genitive singular)
tragicōmoediārum (genitive plural)
tragicōmoediae (dative singular)
tragicōmoediīs (dative plural)
tragicōmoediam (accusative singular)
tragicōmoediās (accusative plural)
tragicōmoediā (ablative singular)
tragicōmoediīs (ablative plural)
tragicōmoedia (singular vocative)
tragicōmoediae (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Italian: tragicommedia (learned)
→ Middle French: tragicomédie
French: tragicomédie
→ English: tragicomedy

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγικοκωμῳδία (tragikokōmōidía), with haplology. By surface analysis, tragicus (“tragic”) + cōmoedia (“comedy”).

bor+

τραγικοκωμῳδία

surf

faciam ut commixta sit: sit tragicomoedia; / nam me perpetuo facere ut sit comoedia, / reges quo veniant et di, non par arbitror.

c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 20.59

I'll make it a mix: a tragicomedy; for I do not find it right for me to make it a comedy through and through, where kings and gods appear.


melika

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

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

der

(poetry) melic poem (poem strictly about music)


ޖިންނި

head

ޖިންނި • (jin̊ni)

dv-noun

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

jin̊ni (romanization)
ޖިންނިތައް (plural)


دوبلاژ

head

دوبلاژ • (dublâž)

fa-noun

دوبلاژ • (dublâž)

[duːβ.ˈlɑːʒ]


antelabbit

Synonym of jackalope (“folkloric animal”)


butt-rock

Said to have begun as a parody of the phrase nothing but rock, reanalyzed as butt + rock.

Somebody wrote this ad copy who doesn't know anything about music, probably just listens to your average butt-rock AOR (adult-oriented-rock) station.

1994 August 7, James Muretich, quoting Kim Thayil, “This is Soundgarten: Kickstarting Rock in the Right Direction”, in Calgary Herald, page A11:

Butt-rock is just the stupidest, three-chord rock that you can possibly play, and it works with big crowds like this who don’t know you as a band.

1995, Chris Nickson, quoting Matt Cameron, Soundgarten: New Metal Crown, page 175:

But just before high school, through some new friends, I'd become acquainted with metal and some serious 1980s butt-rock! Musically, it wasn't my taste, but I did take well to the butt-rock ballads and the boys in the bands.

2012, Terryn Sundy, You're Not A Ninja, And No You Can't Spend The Night!, page 136:

“You're the one who’s the cold fish! And I do care, you know I hate Butt Rock and I came anyways to support you! Why do you think I’m here? I was just a little late.”
“It’s called Alternative Rock, not Butt Rock! How many times do I have to tell you?”

2018, Eve Harms, The Secret Name, page 33:

(derogatory, informal, humorous) Rock and roll music of a style or subgenre disparaged as uninteresting or out of fashion.


EPA-dunk

EPA-dunk (indefinite nominative singular)

Compound of EPA (“a vehicle class”) + dunk (“thump; untz”).

com+

Det är alltifrån rockabilly och Eddie Meduza till house och EPA-dunk.

It ranges from rockabilly and Eddie Meduza to house and EPA oontz.

Det nya Arvikapartiet har inget emot lite EPA-dunk på gatorna – åtminstone inte före klockan 23 på kvällen.

2022 September 17, Rino Rotevatn, “Arvikapartiet om EPA-dunket: ”De måste ju få finnas någonstans” [The Arvika party about the EPA untz: "They have to exist somewhere"]”, in SVT Nyheter:

The new Arvika party doesn't mind a little EPA untz on the streets - at least not before 11pm in the evening.

(music) A music genre appurtenant to the EPA subculture.


բեյթ

head

բեյթ • (beytʻ)

hy-noun

բեյթ • (beytʻ)

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

hy-decl-noun

բեյթերը/բեյթերն

couplet, a verse of poetry consisting of two lines


sfenks

head

sfenks (definite accusative sfenksi, plural sfenksler)

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


majokko

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

affix

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

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


spagettivästern

spagetti (“spaghetti”) + västern (“western”)


spaghettivästern

spaghetti (“spaghetti”) + västern (“western”)


limeryk

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

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


스릴러

thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)


左右固定

左右固定 (canonical)
sayū kotei (romanization)

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

左右固定過激派

(fandom slang) accepted top and bottom status


sejmitar

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

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

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

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

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

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


дублаж

bg-noun

дубла́ж • (dubláž)

дубла́ж (canonical)
dubláž (romanization)
дубла́ж (indefinite singular)
дубла́жи (indefinite plural)
дубла́жът (definite singular subjective)
дубла́жите (definite plural subjective)
дубла́жа (definite objective singular)
дубла́жите (definite objective plural)
дубла́жа (count-form plural)
дубла́же (singular vocative)
дубла́жи (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

дубла́ж<(v)>


adragonist

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

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


aleprechaunist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


кінофільм

uk-noun

кінофі́льм<genu>

кінофі́льм • (kinofílʹm) m inan (genitive кінофі́льму, nominative plural кінофі́льми, genitive plural кінофі́льмів)

кінофі́льм (canonical)
kinofílʹm (romanization)
кінофі́льму (genitive)
кінофі́льми (nominative plural)
кінофі́льмів (genitive plural)
кінофі́льм (nominative singular)
кінофі́льми (nominative plural)
кінофі́льму (genitive singular)
кінофі́льмів (genitive plural)
кінофі́льмові (dative singular)
кінофі́льму (dative singular)
кінофі́льмам (dative plural)
кінофі́льм (accusative singular)
кінофі́льми (accusative plural)
кінофі́льмом (instrumental singular)
кінофі́льмами (instrumental plural)
кінофі́льмі (locative singular)
кінофі́льмах (locative plural)
кінофі́льме (singular vocative)
кінофі́льми (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

кінофі́льм<genu>

Uk-кінофільм.ogg

From кіно- (kino-) + фі́льм (fílʹm). Compare Russian кинофи́льм (kinofílʹm), Belarusian кінафі́льм (kinafílʹm).


uvertür

head

uvertür (definite accusative uvertürü, plural uvertürler)

uvertürü (accusative definite)
uvertürler (plural)
uvertür (nominative singular)
uvertürler (nominative plural)
uvertürü (accusative definite singular)
uvertürleri (accusative definite plural)
uvertüre (dative singular)
uvertürlere (dative plural)
uvertürde (locative singular)
uvertürlerde (locative plural)
uvertürden (ablative singular)
uvertürlerden (ablative plural)
uvertürün (genitive singular)
uvertürlerin (genitive plural)
uvertürüm (first-person nominative singular)
uvertürlerim (first-person nominative singular)
uvertürün (nominative second-person singular)
uvertürlerin (nominative second-person singular)
uvertürü (nominative singular third-person)
uvertürleri (nominative singular third-person)
uvertürümüz (first-person nominative plural)
uvertürlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
uvertürünüz (nominative plural second-person)
uvertürleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
uvertürleri (nominative plural third-person)
uvertürümü (accusative definite first-person singular)
uvertürlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
uvertürünü (accusative definite second-person singular)
uvertürlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
uvertürünü (accusative definite singular third-person)
uvertürlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
uvertürümüzü (accusative definite first-person plural)
uvertürlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
uvertürünüzü (accusative definite plural second-person)
uvertürlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
uvertürlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
uvertürüme (dative first-person singular)
uvertürlerime (dative first-person singular)
uvertürüne (dative second-person singular)
uvertürlerine (dative second-person singular)
uvertürüne (dative singular third-person)
uvertürlerine (dative singular third-person)
uvertürümüze (dative first-person plural)
uvertürlerimize (dative first-person plural)
uvertürünüze (dative plural second-person)
uvertürlerinize (dative plural second-person)
uvertürlerine (dative plural third-person)
uvertürümde (first-person locative singular)
uvertürlerimde (first-person locative singular)
uvertüründe (locative second-person singular)
uvertürlerinde (locative second-person singular)
uvertüründe (locative singular third-person)
uvertürlerinde (locative singular third-person)
uvertürümüzde (first-person locative plural)
uvertürlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
uvertürünüzde (locative plural second-person)
uvertürlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
uvertürlerinde (locative plural third-person)
uvertürümden (ablative first-person singular)
uvertürlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
uvertüründen (ablative second-person singular)
uvertürlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
uvertüründen (ablative singular third-person)
uvertürlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
uvertürümüzden (ablative first-person plural)
uvertürlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
uvertürünüzden (ablative plural second-person)
uvertürlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
uvertürlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
uvertürümün (first-person genitive singular)
uvertürlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
uvertürünün (genitive second-person singular)
uvertürlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
uvertürünün (genitive singular third-person)
uvertürlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
uvertürümüzün (first-person genitive plural)
uvertürlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
uvertürünüzün (genitive plural second-person)
uvertürlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
uvertürlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

(music) overture in an opera, ballet and the like


con tinh

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


ինքնակենսագրություն

ինքնակենսագրութիւն

ինքնակենսագրություն • (inkʻnakensagrutʻyun) (traditional orthography spelling ինքնակենսագրութիւն)

hy-noun

ինքնակենսագրութիւն

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

hy-decl-noun

ինքնակենսագրություն

ինքնակենսագրությունը/ինքնակենսագրությունն

ինքնակենսագրություններ

ինքնակենսագրությունները/ինքնակենսագրություններն

ինքնակենսագրության

ինքնակենսագրությանը/ինքնակենսագրությանն

ինքնակենսագրությունների, ինքնակենսագրությանց**

ինքնակենսագրություններին

ինքնակենսագրությունից

ինքնակենսագրություններից

ինքնակենսագրությամբ, ինքնակենսագրությունով*

ինքնակենսագրություններով

ինքնակենսագրությունում

ինքնակենսագրություններում

ինքնակենսագրությունս

ինքնակենսագրություններս

ինքնակենսագրությանս

ինքնակենսագրություններիս, ինքնակենսագրությանցս**

ինքնակենսագրությունիցս

ինքնակենսագրություններիցս

ինքնակենսագրությամբս, ինքնակենսագրությունովս*

ինքնակենսագրություններովս

ինքնակենսագրությունումս

ինքնակենսագրություններումս

ինքնակենսագրությունդ

ինքնակենսագրություններդ

ինքնակենսագրությանդ

ինքնակենսագրություններիդ, ինքնակենսագրությանցդ**

ինքնակենսագրությունիցդ

ինքնակենսագրություններիցդ

ինքնակենսագրությամբդ, ինքնակենսագրությունովդ*

ինքնակենսագրություններովդ

ինքնակենսագրությունումդ

ինքնակենսագրություններումդ

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

affix

կենսագրություն


femme-renarde

fr-noun

femme-renarde f (plural femmes-renardes)


dragonflame

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


basnja

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

Speili ja marakatti (Basnja)

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


dragonfire

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

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

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

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

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

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


وامپیر

Turkish: vampir

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

vampire, a mythological creature said to feed on blood


homeworlder

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the homeworld.


タイムマシーン

[ta̠imɯ̟ ma̠ɕĩːɴ]


trò chơi nhịp điệu

[t͡ɕɔ˨˩ t͡ɕəːj˧˧ ɲip̚˧˨ʔ ʔɗiəw˧˨ʔ]

[ʈɔ˦˩ t͡ɕəːj˧˧ ɲip̚˨˩ʔ ʔɗiw˨˩ʔ]

[ʈɔ˨˩ cəːj˧˧ ɲip̚˨˩˨ ʔɗiw˨˩˨]

trò chơi (“game”) + nhịp điệu (“rhythm”).


Horcrux

Alternative letter-case form of horcrux.


Rowldemort

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

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

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

2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:

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

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

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


Rowlingian

en-adj

Rowlingian (comparative more Rowlingian, superlative most Rowlingian)

more Rowlingian (comparative)
most Rowlingian (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Darth Vader-esque

Darth Vader-esque (comparative more Darth Vader-esque, superlative most Darth Vader-esque)

more Darth Vader-esque (comparative)
most Darth Vader-esque (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.


Harry-Potterish

Harry-Potterish (comparative more Harry-Potterish, superlative most Harry-Potterish)

more Harry-Potterish (comparative)
most Harry-Potterish (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


trekky

trekky (comparative more trekky, superlative most trekky)

more trekky (comparative)
most trekky (superlative)

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

1990 May 15, Hospital Practice, page 130:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Star Warsian

Star Warsian (comparative more Star Warsian, superlative most Star Warsian)

more Star Warsian (comparative)
most Star Warsian (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of the Star Wars franchise.


Harry Potteresque

Harry Potteresque (comparative more Harry Potteresque, superlative most Harry Potteresque)

more Harry Potteresque (comparative)
most Harry Potteresque (superlative)

Lisa Abend’s new book reads like a Harry Potteresque version of a cook’s story and gives readers the chance to enter the hidden world of cooks.

2011, José Andrés, “Praise for The Sorcerer’s Apprentices”, in Lisa Abend, The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli, Free Press, →ISBN, back cover:

‘I’ve just got an image of the Morris Minor taking to the sky. It would be rather Harry Potteresque!’

2013, Sarah Tranter, No Such Thing as Immortality, Choc Lit, →ISBN, page 236:

The acres of parkland and the huge volcano thing (it is dormant, isn’t it?) allow for plenty of outdoor romping when the weather holds. And when it doesn't, higgledy old houses and some Harry Potteresque buildings have their attractions, while the city’s gloriously gory history should keep even the most jaded of teenagers switched on to the capital and its delights.

2015, Edinburgh, Time Out Digital Ltd, →ISBN, page 168:

Leaving behind the stained glass and tiled floors, I descended a grand, Harry Potteresque stone staircase and returned to the party in the courtyard downstairs.

2015, Ben Coates, Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands, London, Boston, Mass.: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN, page 126:

He uses Sherlockian deduction mixed with some Harry Potteresque cryptozoological beings to determine Abigail has recently been in Eastern Europe.

2015 December 10, Camilla Mortensen, “Jackaby and Beastly Bones by William Ritter. Algonquin Young Readers, $17.95.”, in Eugene Weekly, volume XXXIV, number 49, page 21, column 2:

Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.

I took responsibility for hauling up the terracotta mainsail, under the tutelage of a friendly, Harry Potteresque teenager.

2006, Nick Thorpe, Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened, Abacus, published 2007, →ISBN, page 229:

From her dark rimmed Harry Potteresque glasses to her well coiffed hair, this is a mother on the go.

2009, Alexandra Becquet, Claire Conilleau, editors, Mutations et adaptations: le XXe siècle, Nouveau Monde, →ISBN:

‘There aren’t any more doors after this,’ the store manager, Julio Sympa, corrected him, wiping his round Harry Potteresque spectacles with a thick cloth handkerchief.

2014, Romain Puértolas, translated by Sam Taylor, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, page 67:

Like his Harry Potteresque Hidden World protagonist Nate Williams—who, after suffering a premature heart attack, finds out he’s a shapeshifter—Ebersol discovered his passion for writing after a debilitating illness at 15 left him wheelchair-bound and unable to attend school.

2014 February, Ray Bendici, Douglas P. Clement, Pat Grandjean, Cathy Ross, Valerie Schroth, Jennifer Swift, “40 Under 40”, in Connecticut Magazine, page 48, column 3:

The kid was adorable with his sweet face and big blue eyes behind vaguely Harry Potteresque glasses.

2015, Suzanne Brockmann, Free Fall, →ISBN:

He pointed to the Harry Potteresque scar over his left eye.

2016, Cat Hogan, They All Fall Down, Poolbeg Press, →ISBN, page 136:

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.


Hogwarts-esque

Hogwarts-esque (comparative more Hogwarts-esque, superlative most Hogwarts-esque)

more Hogwarts-esque (comparative)
most Hogwarts-esque (superlative)

> Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley played Ellen, the Banks' Maid. / Interesting... Though if there were any British actress that our Hermio-ninny was named after, I would like it to be Hermione Gingold (Who once *did* play a Hogwarts-esque witch).

2001 August 13, Dave Hardenbrook, “Is Rowling a Mary Poppins fan?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

The castle will masquerade as the same location played by Toronto’s Casa Loma — Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, a Hogwarts-esque academy where telepathic Prof. Charles Xavier (Stewart) teaches mutants-in-training to control their superpowers.

2002 May 29, Michael D. Reid, “X-Men to save universe at Royal Roads”, in Times Colonist, 144th year, number 167, Victoria, B.C., page C1, column 3:

Near the campus’ east gate, medieval-looking Healy Hall impresses with its tall, Hogwarts-esque clock tower.

2014, Karla Zimmerman, Pocket Washington DC, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 61, column 1:

The sky is definitely brightening and I can even see a patch of watery blue hanging around above a gobsmackingly large building with a huge carved stone doorway and ranks of stone animals tucked up against its Hogwarts-esque roofline.

2017, Tallia Storm, Signed with a Kiss, Scholastic Children’s Boos, →ISBN, page 121:

Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.


Middle-earther

"These, Your ineffable Wickedness," said Bilgenest, trying to roll his "R"s properly -- very hard since there weren't any in those words -- "are the humble Middle-earthers who have come in response to your ad about your, uh, grandmother's modest little Ring." Sauron looked at the many assembled creatures.

1988 November 30, Excitement City Unlimited, number 15, page 3:

In “Fellowship,” Frodo, Gandalf and assorted Middle-earthers begin an arduous and dangerous journey through enemy territory to destroy the ring by returning it to the fires where it was forged.

2001 December 20, Duane Dudek, “‘Rings’ echoes today’s clash of good and evil”, in Press Enterprise, page 24, column 2:

Early in the film, a couple of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earthers steal a moment to relax by puffing on pipes.

2001 December 30, Jay Boyar, “Hollywood ends with bang after starting with whimper”, in Orlando Sentinel, page F3, column 1:

All questions were answered when he walked into the main hall and discovered his mother, father and several score elves, dwarves and assorted other Middle-earthers waiting for him.

2003, Tad Williams, “The Happiest Dead Boy in the World”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Legends II, Voyager, published 2004, →ISBN, page 457:

Middle-earthers expand our sensitivity because they tend to be more aware of sensory stimuli than we. They see better: Malbeth is a professional “Seer” (1025), Faramir enjoys “long sight” (742), and the primitive Woses “have long ears and long eyes” (814).

2009, Steve Walker, The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 133:


tontipop

(music) a Spanish genre and scene which draws directly from British twee pop, as well as yé-yé, bubblegum, and synthpop.


tontipop

(music) tontipop (contemporary Spanish twee pop)


Middle-earthian

The animation, in a style somewhere between Arthur Rackham’s and Disney gothic, is handsome enough to have furnished publisher Harry Abrams with a new, coffee-table edition of “The Hobbit,” and the voices of the characters—Orson Bean, John Huston, Richard Boone, Cyril Ritchard and Brother Theodore—are as distinctive as you’d want for this odd assortment of Middle-earthians.

1977 November 25, Alexander Keneas, “‘Rolling Stone’ a musical show to miss”, in Newsday, page 80A, column 2:

Middle-earthians head for Mordor to destroy object in the fires.

1994, Jack Umstatter, Hooked on Literature!: Ready-to-Use Activities & Materials to Spark Students’ Interest in Literature, Grades 9 & Up, Center for Applied Research in Education, →ISBN, page 156:

Those Middle-earthians from the First Age knew enough to recognize that even death wasn’t necessarily going to keep witch-kings and giant flaming eyes from harassing you later.

2022, Smart Pop Explains Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Movies, Smart Pop, BenBella Books, →ISBN:


Hogwartsy

Hogwartsy (comparative Hogwartsier or more Hogwartsy, superlative Hogwartsiest or most Hogwartsy)

Hogwartsier (comparative)
more Hogwartsy (comparative)
Hogwartsiest (superlative)
most Hogwartsy (superlative)

the train line from Perth to Inverness goes past a string of lochs and a couple of forest parks: Tay and Glencoe. there is a castle in this area - Blair Castle, but it's not very Hogwartsy.

2003 April 4, The Dude, “The lake.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Zoe led me up an endless Hogwartsy staircase by the light of her many-candled candlestick, passing glass cases full of china dolls with scratchy faces and toys from the olden days and butterflies pinned to boards, all covered in cobwebs.

2013, C.J. Skuse, Dead Romantic, Frome: The Chicken House, →ISBN, page 64:

Despite the myth that Harry Potter was almost filmed in the Law Quad, Michigan’s Hogwartsiest feature remains the six miles of steam tunnel that run beneath campus.

2013, Matt Pollock, “The top 10 things you didn't do but totally should have done in college”, in The Black Sheep, page 6:

Radcliffe’s take on an extroverted Newark Jew isn’t so un-Hogwartsy that Ginsberg himself ever comes to mind, but that would be distracting, wouldn’t it?

2013 November 22–28, Michael Atkinson, “film*guide”, in OC Weekly, volume 19, number 13, page 33, column 3:

There, around the entire block that encircles the museum (a gothic Hogwartsy thing in the center), streets are closed off and clogged with them.

2014, Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things, Razorbill, →ISBN, page 141:

And the campus! Just leaving the foyer made my ears pop and there was no chance I was ever finding my way round this mad maze of staircases, Hogwartsy nooks and crannies and never-ending corridors.

2016, Rachel McIntyre, The #1 Rule for Girls, Electric Monkey, →ISBN, pages 16–17:

Literally nothing feels as Hogwartsy as wearing a gown and walking through Main Court as the wind makes it billow, or cycling in your gown down King’s Parade.

2016, St. Catharine’s College Freshers’ Guide 2016:

CONGRATS TO ALL THOSE GRADUATING! Enjoy that Hogwartsy feeling in those swishy capes.

2016, University of Canterbury Students’ Association Student Diary 2016, page 41:

Beneath that is a hexagon of windows, like the teetering top of an old wizard’s tower: something Hogwartsy, or Rapunzelesque.

2017, Jake Burt, Greetings from Witness Protection!, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN, page 110:

This little clique is reserved for members who boast skills indistinguishable from those of Dumbledore, but who exist in an otherwise normal non-Hogwartsy world.

2017, Nick Mohammed, The Young Magicians and the Thieves’ Almanac, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 369:

Sprawling across central Sydney, the unversity^([sic]) has its own zipcode, but the mix of Hogwartsy buildings, high-tech modern buildings, and graffiti tunnel maintain its campus feel.

The festival formerly known as the Harry Potter, now wrested of all official references to butterbeer and such, can’t prohibit its wee faithful from donning their owl glasses and wide-striped scarves. Nor can Warner Bros. wrest the Hogwartsy charm from Belgian-blocked Germantown Avenue and environs.

2018 October 14, Bethany Ao, “7 Days”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 190th year, number 136, page H9:

Don’t get me wrong, I love Edinburgh, with its Hogwartsy cobbles and granite grandeur, seeped in history and united by culture, heritage and a too-often-racist hatred of the English.

2019 June 13, Phil Clarke, “Fringe Benefits: All The Best Edinburgh Fringe Previews In London”, in The Handbook, The Handbook UK Ltd, archived from the original on 2020-11-24:

Rupert Baynham: I went to a quite Hogwartsy public school, where everyone seemed to be obsessed with street culture, with films that were gritty and edgy and street.

2021 November, “Rupert Baynham & Bertrand Desrochers about A BRIXTON TALE”, in European Children’s Film Association Journal, page 29, columns 3–4:

You can tell Young Sherlock’s adventures are penned by Harry Potter’s Christopher Columbus, such is the Hogwartsy vibe of its public school setting and imaginative detours into the realm of magic.

2022 April 26, Phil de Semlyen, Matthew Singer, “40 murder-mystery movies to test your sleuthing skills to the max”, in Time Out, archived from the original on 2022-05-04:

Or perhaps snagging a table or a cozy chair around lunchtime and sipping a cup of tea as the sun streams in from the old Hogwartsy glass windows is more your forte.

2022 September 22, Natalie Manley, “Piping Hot Takes: A Review of UChicago’s Student Cafés (and Some Honorable Mentions)”, in The Chicago Maroon, page 30, column 3:

Your character — in my case, Hayden Meiklus, just to make him sound vaguely Hogwartsy — quickly gets put into one of the four houses after donning the Sorting Hat (Ravenclaw for life!), learns some handy magic, meets a bunch of classmates, professors and assorted other folk, and learns about some stuff that here shall remain completely spoiler-free.

2023 March 20, Hayden Meikle, “More meh than magic at this Hogwarts”, in Otago Daily Times, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:


Darth Vaderian

Darth Vaderian (comparative more Darth Vaderian, superlative most Darth Vaderian)

more Darth Vaderian (comparative)
most Darth Vaderian (superlative)

(What the heck is this “gun lobby” anyway? Am I it or is it some sort of Darth Vaderian conspiracy that manipulates the minds of innocent legislators?)

1989 February 13, Kevin Harris, “Odd correlation”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page B2, column 5:

Though crowded and dwarfed by Darth Vaderian upstarts such as the Equitable Life Building across from it, the 17-story Candler Building on Peachtree remains alone in its 1904 stylishness.

1990 March 11, Bud Collins, “The changing winds of Atlanta”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 237, number 70, page A3, column 3:

Now that the “wall” has become a souvenir to be mounted on a plaque or picture frame and the lien between good guys and the “Evil Empire” with all its Darth Vaderian images is becoming more of a blur, there is evidence that those out there who live to protest something, anything, are getting desperate.

1990 August 12, Tom Barberi, “Barberi!”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 240, number 120, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 2B, column 2:

His [Oliver Stone’s] acceptance speech on September 17 concluded with the following lines: […] How can we possibly win against the overwhelming force of this government of the future, this Darth Vaderian empire?

1995, James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, pages 246–247:

They spring up only after you have clicked the right-hand button on your mouse, a secret that is revealed by a message to that effect several seconds after you have been left staring at this Darth Vaderian screen.

1998 September 3, John J. Fried, “Forgetting to back up data? FileSitter automatically does it for you”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 95, page F2, column 4:

And therein lies a very troubling reality about the Orwellian — perhaps even Darth Vaderian — measures increasingly employed by marketers of today’s mega-media products.

1999 May 1, Katherine Monk, “Empire of hype”, in The Vancouver Sun, page E1, column 3:

To be sure, there will also be flops aplenty — misguided, mismarketed or simply amiss movies that would have tanked whether Phantom Menace was casting its Darth Vaderian shadow across the land.

1999 May 9, Steven Rea, “Curse of the ‘Phantom’”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 343, page F5, column 4:

If even America has difficulties managing the world, none of the four even think about becoming a Darth Vaderian-style world empire.

1999 December 19, Franz Schurmann, “Peace hangs by a thread”, in The Fresno Bee, page G1:

Peter Edmund Haydu assaying triple roles, some of which employ his marvelous Darth Vaderian bass.

2003 April 30, Sandy MacDonald, “‘Man of La Mancha’ is lavish but lacking”, in The Boston Globe, volume 263, number 120, page C3, column 4:

It seems like this is the moment, me covered in ice cream and my own guts, that Sanders is going to confront me with Darth Vaderian news.

2009, Michael Czyzniejewski, Elephants in Our Bedroom, Dzanc Books, →ISBN, page 186:

His heavy breathing fell to a Darth Vaderian murmur.

2017, Scott Kenemore, Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World, Gollancz, published 2020, →ISBN:

Thus don’t name your band Boozie Tromwellium & the Darth Vaderian Cosmonauts.

2021, Steve Marcone, Dave Philp, Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:


Doctor Whovian

These Doctor Whovians, as they call themselves, will be particularly earnest in their pleas because the future depends on it. […] Many of the Doctor Whovians are members of a 2-year-old Seattle organization called the Society of the Rusting Tardis.

1987 April 24, Andee Beck, “‘Dr. Who’ fans have hopes of bringing their hero to KTPS”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 17, Tacoma, Wash., page D7, columns 1–2:

Doctor Whovians will further get the chance to see a real Tardis (a time-travel vehicle), a mockup of the ship’s control panel, and Bessie, the banana-colored 1953 Ford that belonged to Doctor No. 3 (played by Jon Pertwee).

1987 September 9, Andee Beck, “Dr. Who’s coming to Tacoma: The real McCoy will sign autographs at Bates school”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 155, Tacoma, Wash., page D10, column 2:

Why Doctor Whovians Owe It All To H.G. Wells

2012, Jean Asta, Quicklet: An Unofficial Guide: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Hyperink Inc., →ISBN:

To maintain cover, I went to some UFO conventions in America, and Star Trek ones too. That was a blast, because I had been a Trekkie and also a Doctor Whovian.

2014, Don Bambrick, 5 Short Stories, Xlibris, →ISBN:

For Doctor Whovians, the episode downloaded was the final episode of season seven 'The Name of the Doctor'.

2014 August 19, James Vincent, “North Korean internet users download Top Gear, violent video games and American porn”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2022-07-08:

As I was staring way too hard, I caught sight of faint Jolt grid marks up her right arm and forgot to breathe. Were those for real? Or was she just fangirling, like those Doctor Whovians with their pen-and-ink hash marks?

2016, Jill Williamson, Broken Trust, Novel Teen Press, →ISBN, page 23:

He was a longtime Parrothead, Beatlemaniac, Doctor Whovian and a (Star) Trekker.

2018 February 24–25, “[Obituaries] Jack Carver”, in Elizabethton Star, volume 93, number 40, Elizabethton, Tenn., page 5A, column 2: