Hogwartsian

Hogwartsian (comparative more Hogwartsian, superlative most Hogwartsian)

more Hogwartsian (comparative)
most Hogwartsian (superlative)
Hogwartian (alternative)
Hogwarts-ian (alternative)

These days she spends about 20 to 25 hours a week on the site, which features discussion groups as well as stories archived into four houses, a predictably Hogwartsian touch.

2004 June 4, Connie Ogle, “Harry loves Draco? Only in fan fiction”, in The Miami Herald, 101st year, number 264, page 2A:

An intense setting: high ceilings, darkened wood, portraits of glowering white men in muttonchops and morning dress, a clock stopped perpetually at 9:36. All very Hogwartsian.

2005 March 31, Dana Haynes, “No classes teach leadership skills to legislators, teachers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 153, number 2, page 1C:

Faithfully adapted from the first of C.S. Lewis’ seven Narnia books, which introduces the four Pevensie siblings, sent to the country to avoid the London blitz of World War II, this tale of ordinary schoolchildren finding their inner courage to help out a land of talking fauns, foxes, satyrs and dwarfs combines the Middle-Earthian mythology of The Lord of the Rings with the Hogwartsian heroism (and kid malevolence) of the Harry Potter series.

2005 December 9, Steven Rea, “Fantasy fulfilled?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 177th year, number 192, page W22:

The chapel and the Gothic Upper Dining Room, with its high, vaulted ceiling, were positively Hogwartsian.

2006 January, Alex Shoumatoff, “A Private-School Affair”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 2:

They give a better feel for the colleges as students talk about whatever makes their school unique: for example, Yale’s Hogwartsian residential college system or Princeton’s notorious eating clubs.

2006 February 25, Rachel Wolf, “Tour a college from your home DVD player”, in The Idaho Statesman, 141st year, 215th issue, section “Life”, page 2:

We’ll play games and do Hogwartsian crafts and other activities guaranteed to please Muggles.

2007 June 22, Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page B1:

We have lunch together in our college’s Hogwartsian dining hall, where we discuss the evils of investment banking.

2008 October 23, David Scripps, “Diary of a Fresher”, in The Independent, number 6,872, section “Education”, page 3:

Russell went last summer and describes it as a Hogwartsian nirvana: four days of music with 12 to 14 major bands, including The Remus Lupins, on the main stage.

2009 July 12, Jackie Burrell, “Wrock and Rowling: Harry Potter-inspired bands are sweeping the country”, in Oakland Tribune, volume 135, number 142, page D4:

Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.

2010 September 4, Don Aucoin, “‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 66, page G5:

About the time Asriel decides to take off for the northern polar regions in search of the source of this stuff, the glamorous Mrs. Coulter (blazingly blond Nicole Kidman) arrives on the scene, making a runway entrance into a vast university dining hall that’s so blatantly Hogwartsian, you half expect to see Albus Dumbledore go tottering by.

2011, Kurt Loder, The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

Privilege gives the reader a peek inside the 2,000-acre St. Paul’s campus, with its beautiful grounds and Hogwartsian great hall, its dress codes, its social life, its rituals and rules.

2011 February 17–23, The Hippo, HippoPress, page 45:

The wand was a stunning piece of Hogwartsian work.

2011 July 15, Brent Northup, “Queue ball”, in Independent Record, page 10A:

The large campus of Sydney Uni dominates the suburbs on the city’s western flank. While its Hogwartsian stone walls may suggest primness and properness, that’s quite far from the reality of Sydney student life.

2012, Peter Dragicevich, Pocket Sydney, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 12:

Until today Prince had been her favorite refuge, a Hogwartsian womb of vaulted ceilings and dark-wood wainscoting.

2012, Harry Mazer, Peter Lerangis, Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, Scholastic Inc., published 2013, →ISBN, page 88:

The cozy Hogwartsian set piece I discovered inside was perfection. A hundred-year-old shop, complete with stone mantel and wood-burning fireplace, was out of a dream. And books, books, books, old, new, piled high. There was almost a whiff of magic, though nothing sinister, just charmed.

2012, Jill Kargman, The Rock Star in Seat 3A, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 176:

Newell, who directed the fourth Harry Potter film, has given this adaptation a definite Hogwartsian aura: along with flickering gothic lighting and tilted camera angles.

2012 October 6, Robbie Collin, “Where Oscar winners play”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 48,944, page R6:

Grace needed no bribes to get right in on the fun of our ceremony, and immediately adopted a faux-serious British accent to give a Hogwartsian dignity to the proceedings.

2013, Launa Schweizer, Home Away: A Year of Misapprehensions, Transformations, and Rosé at Lunch, →ISBN, page 259:

He displays a refreshingly old-fashioned patience with exposition, slowly developing the characters and unveiling the fantastical milieu so that by the time you end up in a Hogwartsian underworld complete with leatherbound spell books and gothic statuary, you’re having too much fun not to buy in.

2013 February 15, Kerry Lengel, “‘Beautiful Creatures’ a smart goth fantasy”, in The Town Talk, page D1:

There also is tacky stuff that just shouldn’t be there: reproduction fantasy-art in a fake Hogwartsian gallery and dull talking-head videos by film producers, for instance.

2013 May 3, Rosemary Ponnekanti, “Fantasy eye candy at EMP”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 22:

If you’ve attended First Night events at the Pythian Temple, you’ll have gone through the enormous studded Hogwartsian doors at 924 ½ Broadway.

2014 February 14, Rosemary Ponnekanti, “Knights of Pythias open their house”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9:

Come to the Hogwartsian pleasures of Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

The Irish insurgent leader Don Dermutio was placed in the tender care of an inquisitor with the wonderfully Hogwartsian name of William Malefant.

2015, Des Ekin, The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O’Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion, New York, N.Y., London: Pegasus Books, published 2016, →ISBN, page 150:

According to McKnight, attendees included “a Turkish exchange student, an Anglican female priest,” and a dishwasher from Merge restaurant who sewed a Hogwartsian cape for himself out of a tablecloth.

2015 February 8, Colin Dabkowski, “Dreamland taps into Buffalo’s creative underground”, in The Buffalo News, page D2:

To openly fantasize about the "fairy tale" (Calloway's word) of studying at a Hogwartsian institution where everyone's accent is pleasant is, as they would say in Cambridge, pretty cringe.

2015 September 2, Lauren Oyler, “Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2020-11-12:

One overcast morning, a spring tease in the air, I hop the tube to King’s Cross Station, then walk a few hundred yards to the university’s Hogwartsian campus.

2016, Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 3:

Join us before the concert at 3pm for a Halloween party featuring sonic sorcery, our beloved costume contest and all other manner of Hogwartsian fun.

2016 October 23, The Courier, volume 158, number 250, page F5:

There’s something delightful about the idea of dressing up for dinner and sitting in assigned seats in the dining hall, like back in the days of yore, or at Hogwarts. […] Instead, I sat with the baseball team, which was about as un-Hogwartsian as it got.

2017, Bill Konigsberg, chapter 6, in Honestly Ben, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 37:

Notwithstanding all the colourful pomp and ceremony, regardless of the yah-boo drama of Prime Minister’s Questions, our Parliament is fundamentally dysfunctional and outdated, a Hogwartsian institution that, most of the time, is toothless to stop the government of the day doing what it likes.

2017, Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again), London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 89:

Alpha60’s signature store is hidden within the Hogwartsian chapter house of St Paul’s Cathedral, where fresh, casual women’s clothing is displayed on a phalanx of mannequins while giant projections of roosters keep watch.

2017, Kate Morgan, Kate Armstrong, Cristian Bonetto, Peter Dragicevich, Trent Holden, Melbourne & Victoria, 10th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 127, column 1:

Tuition is a steep $49,500 per year, on a par with other boarding schools, although you won’t find a Hogwartsian dining hall or stacks of leather-bound books.

2017, Florence Williams, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 226:

At the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, which UNESCO says may have been the first public library in the Americas, founded in 1646, I lingered under the arched ceilings, wondering how to say “Hogwartsian” in Spanish.

2018 March 18, Christopher Reynolds, “Prides of Puebla”, in Los Angeles Times, page L4:

The night of the ceremony arrived, and I co-hosted an Oscar party in one of Harvard’s Hogwartsian common rooms while nervously anticipating the results.

2019, Ben Zauzmer, Oscarmetrics: The Math Behind the Biggest Night in Hollywood, BearManor Media, →ISBN, page x:

He breaks the bad news with a sweet paternal touch and enrols the orphan in his Hogwartsian school for precocious mutants.

2019 June 7, Matthew Norman, “Let’s hope this phoenix never rises from the ashes”, in Evening Standard, page 28:

The stage itself is sparse, save for a few retracting door frames and Hogwartsian lamps that hang from the ceiling, flickering luminously.

2019 November 24, Tim Balk, “Audience gets into spirit of ‘Carol’”, in Daily News, page 22:

Think X-Men but without the safety of Charles Xavier’s Hogwartsian boarding school.

2019 December 6, Chris Knight, “Powered to the people”, in Montreal Gazette, page C6:

(comparable) Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

> > And now you're killfiled by *me* as well. / > > / > > / Since this *is* a Harry Potter newsgroup, how about making the public plonkings more in line with "Hogwartsian English?" Instead of just a simple "plonk," how about: Anatha Keplonka!

2003 February 17, Patrick Newman, “Next Dark arts teacher”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Harry is chosen to compete along with a Hogwartsian upperclassman, a French enchantress and a Bulgarian bruiser.

2005 November 25, David DiCerto, “‘Goblet’ full of action, suspense”, in The Catholic News & Herald, volume 15, number 8, page 10:

We discussed all things Hogwartsian with giddy kids in costumes—capes, round black spectacles and lightning-bolt scars drawn on foreheads—until the moment came when we could claim three pre-ordered copies and dash home.

2011 July 18, Ruth Ann Dailey, “To adore the Potter saga is only human”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 84, number 352, page A-2:

The Year of Harry Potter at the library starts on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m., an all age’s book group devoted the^([sic]) discussion of Hogwartsian plotlines.

2016 September 1, Hartford Courant, volume CLXXX, number 245, page 11:

The first thing I did was to spread out the letters from Augusta on our sofa, photograph them and send him a ceremonial video, prim, with a thick British accent. You could imagine the Harry Potter vibes of a first Hogwartsian letter.

2018 April 5, Vandini Sharma, “The Masters through the eyes of a 16-year-old from India”, in Princeton Daily Clarion, volume 171, number 169, page B8:

On Friday, England’s West Midlands Police tweeted a callout to Harry Potter fans: Should they see a notecard covered front-to-back in handwritten Hogwartsian lore, they should alert authorities. The paper is a valuable Harry Potter prequel written and auctioned off by J.K. Rowling that was stolen from its owner during a burglary in Birmingham, England, three weeks ago.

2017 May 12, Maddie Crum, “J.K. Rowling’s Mysterious, Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Has Been Stolen”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:

(not comparable) Of or relating to Hogwarts.


Middle-earthian

Middle-earthians (plural)
Middle-Earthian (alternative)

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:


Middle-earther

Middle-earthers (plural)
Middle-Earther (alternative)

"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:


Hogwartsy

en-adj

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:


Hogwarts-esque

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

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

> 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:


Superman-esque

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

more Superman-esque (comparative)
most Superman-esque (superlative)
Supermanesque (alternative)

Wagner stands at a height (more like an altitude) of 6’4" with a Superman-esque stature.

1993 July 29, Joy Catania, “Broadway Star Calls Verona Home”, in Verona-Cedar Grove Times, volume 47, number 30, page 1:

What Arrington did was use a Superman-esque flying leap to soar over and between the left guard and center and stop Illini running back Elmer Hickman for no gain on fourth-and-inches at the Penn State 31-yard line.

1999, Penn State Football 1999 Media Guide, page 86:

Heroism, as I always understood it, was always one masculine, life-saving, Superman-esque act, but my definition had been broadened.

2012, David Hale Sylvester, Traveling at the Speed of Life, →ISBN, page 296:

She had the weirdest urge to reach up and brush back the whorl of Superman-esque hair that had fallen over his brow.

2015, Julie Ann Walker, Hell or High Water, →ISBN, page 298:

It took Superman-esque skill not to let my bare feet touch down on the public restroom tile as I produced flip-flops from my miracle purse and hid away those conservative flats.

2015, Nina Mansfield, Swimming Alone, Fire and Ice, →ISBN, page 9:

Resembling or characteristic of Superman.


Daibhidh

head

Daibhidh m (genitive Dhaibhidh, vocative a Dhaibhidh)

Dhaibhidh (genitive)
a Dhaibhidh (vocative)
Daibhidh
Dhaibhidh
Dàibhidh (alternative)
Dàbhaidh (alternative)
Dàidh (alternative)


Sansón

a male given name, equivalent to English Samson


Supermannish

en-adj

Supermannish (comparative more Supermannish, superlative most Supermannish)

more Supermannish (comparative)
most Supermannish (superlative)
Superman-ish (alternative)

This verdict was, in untechnical language, an effective reproof for “Supermannish” methods of financiering.

1908 January 19, ““Superman” in Business”, in New-York Tribune, volume LXVII, number 22,344, New York, N.Y., page 8, column 2:

The only important positive ideas for which he stands are the Supermannish idea of the duty of every man to be himself to the utmost, and a generous democratic idea of freedom, in accordance with which every self-respecting man and woman should be given the opportunity to work out his or her own destiny fully, unhampered by the tyrannies of caste, prestige, sentimental traditions, false codes, and effete moral obligations.

1913, R[olfe] A[rnold] Scott-James, Personality in Literature, London: Martin Secker […]:

The two chief characters are rather “Supermannish,” and that demands super-actors; […]

1913 September 6, “Les Deux Forces. A Play in Four Acts by P.-J. Jouve. […]”, in The Academy and Literature, volume LXXXV, number 2157, London: Publishing Office, […], page 301, column 2:

Search where we will, we find nothing Supermannish in such victories.

1918, William Roscoe Thayer, The Collapse of Superman, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 21:

Bugs, in Supermannish guise, goes forth to battle with a man who hates rabbits, and defeats him.

1943 April 21, The Exhibitor, New York State edition, Philadelphia, Pa., page 1252, column 3:

Though I can see now that the hero of my first novel was too Supermannish, and just went from one success to another until I couldn’t think of any more ‘worlds for him to conquer.’

1949, Erick Berry [pen name; Evangel Allena Champlin Best], Forty-Seven Keys, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 121:

With actual clips of front line action interspersed periodically, the staged battle scenes seem even more contrived by comparison and some Supermannish feats unreeled by the Yank soldier-players only heighten the artificiality.

1951 March 26, Barn, “'A Yank in Korea' Mediocre Programmer with Gimmick”, in Film Bulletin, volume 19, number 7, page 10:

Satisfied with him as an actor, Alex believed that with the right make-up, the blond, blue-eyed Redford would look “Supermannish” enough to carry the part off.

1978, David Michael Petrou, The Making of Superman: The Movie, Warner Books, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

When he and his Cincinnati Bengal playmates were done with the AFC’s best defense, that of the New York-New Jersey Jets, he had done Supermannish damage — 30 carries, 139 yards and two TDs — as the Bengals won, 36-19.

1988 October 10, Gary Nuhn, “Bengals put Jets, ghosts of ’87 to rest”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 31, Dayton, Ohio, page 1-B:

Everything about the Superman story reads like a parable of G.I.s on the move—the special child, the corrupt older (Lost) Lex Luthor, the rocklike manliness and Formica-like blandness, the unvarying success of Supermannish strength used for community good.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 263:

The Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds, the weekend at Kennebunkport, the Group of Seven conference, the flight to Moscow when the barricades were still in place, the blunt talking to the old men of China on human rights, the veto on sending troops into the Balkan quagmire of Yugoslavia — all combine to provide an image of Major as a political Clark Kent encircling the globe with Supermannish energy.

1991 October 6, Brian Dunning, “When will Major make his move?”, in The Kansas City Star, page J-1, column 2:

The few times Celeste was surprised by a fist or a glandular goon, her Supermannish strength came to her rescue.

1994, Rachel Simon, The Magic Touch, Viking, →ISBN, page 168:

Yet, as the book’s subtitle ‘Enigmas and Guesses’ suggests, Muir’s Supermannish determination is in part very clever bluster.

2000, Robert Crawford, “MacDiarmid in Montrose”, in Alex Davis, Lee M[argaret] Jenkins, editors, Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part one (Obstinate Isles: The Anglo-Celtic Archipelago), page 36:

“It was going to take a Superman-type effort for us to get a victory,” Miller said. “I was feeling Supermannish.”

2000 April 30, Greg Beacham, “Miller sparks second-half rally”, in Journal and Courier, volume 82, number 121, Lafayette-West Lafayette, Ind., page C1:

Before his turn, George lays aside his glasses with a vaguely Supermannish gesture of resolution and grit.

2003, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 254–255:

Edward Mehok offers a catalogue of prototypical Supermannish feats performed by Christian saints in “St. Clark of Krypton,” in Dooley and Engle, Superman at Fifty!, 123-29.

2009, Sue Taylor, Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action, Cranbrook Art Museum, →ISBN, page 17:

Resembling or characteristic of a Superman or specifically DC Comics’ Superman.


nieuwsblad

nl-noun

nieuwsblad n (plural nieuwsbladen, diminutive nieuwsblaadje n)

nieuwsbladen (plural)
nieuwsblaadje (diminutive neuter)


litteraturhistorisk

head

litteraturhistorisk (comparative mer litteraturhistorisk, superlative mest litteraturhistorisk)

mer litteraturhistorisk (comparative)
mest litteraturhistorisk (superlative)
litteraturhistorisk (indefinite positive)
mer litteraturhistorisk (comparative indefinite)
mest litteraturhistorisk (indefinite superlative)
litteraturhistoriskt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
mer litteraturhistoriskt (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
mest litteraturhistoriskt (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
litteraturhistoriska (indefinite plural positive)
mer litteraturhistoriska (comparative indefinite plural)
mest litteraturhistoriska (indefinite plural superlative)
litteraturhistoriske (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
mer litteraturhistoriska (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
mest litteraturhistoriska (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
litteraturhistoriske (definite masculine positive singular)
mer litteraturhistoriske (comparative definite masculine singular)
mest litteraturhistoriske (definite masculine singular superlative)
litteraturhistoriska (definite positive)
mer litteraturhistoriska (comparative definite)
mest litteraturhistoriska (definite superlative)


gazetka

gazetka (nominative singular)
gazetki (nominative plural)
gazetki (genitive singular)
gazetek (genitive plural)
gazetce (dative singular)
gazetkom (dative plural)
gazetkę (accusative singular)
gazetki (accusative plural)
gazetką (instrumental singular)
gazetkami (instrumental plural)
gazetce (locative singular)
gazetkach (locative plural)
gazetko (singular vocative)
gazetki (plural vocative)

(publishing) placard newspaper, wall newspaper


Sherlock Holmesque

en-adj

Sherlock Holmesque (comparative more Sherlock Holmesque, superlative most Sherlock Holmesque)

more Sherlock Holmesque (comparative)
most Sherlock Holmesque (superlative)

[…] the interpreter, with Sherlock-Holmesque astuteness, paired this fact with that of the Frenchmen’s presence in the town […]

Half the population of the Silver Belt will turn Sherlock Holmesque. There are already fourteen different theories as to how the villains bored the hole in the wall, and there are dozens on the wing.

1910 September 8, “Concentrates”, in The Cobalt Daily Nugget, volume II, number 191, Cobalt, Ont., page one, column 3:

Frantz held the package at arm’s length and grew Sherlock Holmesque. Policeman gets a clue—asks for reasons—same not satisfactory—Frantz in cell in Center Avenue Station—clock on sergeant’s desk as evidence.

1912 October 14, “Policeman With Keen Ears Deduces an Alarm Clock Is Not Proper Companion”, in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 1:

A la Sherlock Holmesque, Authier traced the noise to a paper sack which a youth nearby was carrying under his arm.

1923 August 8, “Alarm Clocks in Bag Let Go; Youth Nabbed”, in The Detroit Free Press, volume 88, number 315, Detroit, Mich., page 7:

“Sure as the Lord made tumbleweeds in Kansas, we — your Sherlock Holmesque readers — are closing in on the elusive Joe Don Looney,” the Morrisseys wrote.

1976 October 29, Dave Kindred, “The continuing Looney saga: Has our hero found peace?”, in The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ken., page C 1, column 2:

He plays Brown, a federal agent who disguises himself as a bumbling Sherlock Holmesque detective.

1988 April 8, Lisa McKinnon, “In search of theater”, in Lompoc Record, volume 114, number 307, page T1:

> Sherlock Holmesque films are pretty cool.

2000 April 28, betnoir, quoting Excession, “[OFF] A new police sitcom..”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

But that little something happened to put me on the road leading to culinary achievements, and remained imbedded in my mind forever as a Sherlock Holmesque “Case of the Stubborn Duck”.

2003, Frank Stiffel, “When-it-Rains-it-Purrs, Inc.”, in The House of Margie: The Oxymoron Factor 4: A Post-Holocaust Memoir, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 253:

Am I supposed to call you a GENIUS because of your Sherlock Holmesque revelation ?

2007 October 7, CricketLeague, “Hair made the most appaling^([sic]) decision in my entire life - Sir John Anderson”, in rec.sport.cricke (Usenet):

It's sort of a Sherlock Holmesque thing, to try and pin down where a person is from based on their idioms and figures of speech.

2008 December 19, Geoff Miller, “Just One Word (Not Even!)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Here, a compendium of well-written Sherlock Holmesque stories, set at our bustling Metro where milieu and characters extol authenticity, is a fine example of where we should commence in this rarely trod sub-genre of fiction.

2017, Maria L.M. Fres-Felix, quoting Joselito D. Delos Reyes, Crimetime: Inspector SJ Tuason Case Files, Anvil Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.


Dr. Watsonish

Dr. Watsonish (comparative more Dr. Watsonish, superlative most Dr. Watsonish)

more Dr. Watsonish (comparative)
most Dr. Watsonish (superlative)
Dr. Watson-ish (alternative)
Dr Watsonish (alternative)

“How on earth could you tell it was his?” asked a Dr. Watsonish-kind of clerk with as much awe as if he were addressing Sherlock Holmes himself.

1908 May 24, “The Englishman’s Umbrella”, in The New York Times, volume LVII, number 18,383, New York, N.Y., part five, page 5, column 1:

To a cottage by the sea come a famous English detective and his very Dr. Watson[-]ish friend.

1929 June 23, “The Weekly Review—A Page About Books”, in Donald Davidson, editor, The Knoxville Sunday Journal, volume 5, number 48, Knoxville, Tenn.:

Charlie [Robinson] enlightens: […] “In my Dr. Watsonish way, I have rawther deducted that the policy of the Round Table might be summed up thusly: No regular meetings are scheduled, but as activities an occasions demand, the club is called together and I believe past history warrants the conclusion that they have done a better than average job of getting things done.[…]”

1942 February 11, Lee Russell, “Sittin’ in the Press Row with Lee Russell”, in The Idaho Daily Statesman, number 173, Boise, Ida., page eleven, column 1:

One of the most irritating auctorial devices is that of having a story told through the eyes of a character who takes no part in it, who merely looks and listens in a sort of Dr. Watsonish fascination.

1945 April 15, Mary-Carter Roberts, “Reviewing The New Books”, in The Sunday Star, number 2,089/36,871, Washington, D.C., pages C—3, column 1:

There was an easy power in Maxwell Knights’ professor, but Reg. Hubbard, as Pickering, tended to be too much a secondary character, a Doctor Watsonish yes-man rather than a character in his own right.

1950 October 18, M.S., “Civic Interest In Theatre Project: Melton’s “Pygmalion” Was A Town Occasion”, in Leicester Evening Mail, page eight:

I was flattered that he should consider me worthy of his acquaintance; I felt a certain Doctor Watson-ish admiration for the charm and confidence of his manner.

1961, Colin Wilson, Adrift in Soho, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →LCCN, page 39:

Joseph Sedley, a Dr. Watsonish-type character, provided some chuckles.

1961 January 13, Bill Summers, “Becky Uses Charms To Climb, Plot”, in Orlando Evening Star, 85th year, number 9, Orlando, Fla., pages 6—B, column 1:

John Jericho has gained a Dr. Watsonish raconteur in Hugh Pentecost’s “Hide Her From Every Eye;” […]

1966 March 6, Frankie Matthesen, “The Courant Coroner”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXXIX, number 65, Hartford, Conn., page 15, column 1:

Gwyllum Evans, as a kilted Dr. Watsonish commander who sees the warfare through his own fantasies, provides some with his bagpipe entrances and with one of the many great songs of the production.

1973 June 21, Paul Dellinger, “Barter’s ‘The Hostage’ Combines Stage Ploys”, in The Roanoke Times, volume 173, number 172, Roanoke, Va., page 46, column 3:

We then apprehend our criminals by a process of deduction and elimination in the true Sherlock Holmes’ manner, although if the truth be known most of us, including our policemen, are more Doctor Watsonish, and not clear, incisive Holmes types.

1978 June 18, Brian Roberts, “Farewell to Hawaii”, in Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, page F-3, column 2:

Robert Conrad’s tough, lady-killing Jim West and Ross Martin’s urbane, Dr. Watsonish Artemus Gordon were James Bond types 100 years before Bond’s era, technocratic super-spies in the Gilded Age of the American West (cheez — I’m starting to sound like Kevin Starr).

1979 May 9, Bill Mandel, “The $600 Man”, in San Francisco Examiner, 114th year, number 284, page 23, column 1:

In these pages, an astute Sherlock Holmesian character solves all kinds of mysteries with help from a somewhat inept Dr. Watsonish assistant.

1984 August 21, Deborah H. Williams, “Storytime”, in The Evening Press, Binghamton, N.Y., page 1C, column 1:

The voice of Boyle’s Doctor Watson-ish narrator is deadpan-perfect (“Beersley was known for his composure, his stoicism, his relentless pursuit of the evidence under even the most distracting circumstances”), but the spoofy plot quickly becomes a tedious joke.

1985 August 11, Ken Tucker, “GREASY LAKE By T. Coraghessan Boyle. Viking. $16.95”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 313, number 42, page 9, column 3:

There’s strong support from Bryan Pringle as an anarchic, gravel-voiced Alfred Doolittle and Michael Medwin as an agreeably Doctor-Watsonish Col Pickering, and the stamping ensemble dance routines during such great numbers as With a Little Bit of Luck and Get Me to the Church on Time exude an infectious exuberance.

1992 February 19, Charles Spencer, “A musical humming with ideas”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 42,504, page 16:

[…] Dr. Watsonish diagnostician Hamish Wakefield makes bull-headed statements but is easily offended, possibly due to being a closeted homosexual; […]

2009, Quill & Quire, volume 75, page 32, column 3:

Desolation Island, the fifth book in O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series (Stephen Maturin being the Captain’s phlegmatic, slightly Dr Watson-ish sidekick and confidante), follows Aubrey’s new charge, the HMS Leopard, on a voyage from England to Botany Bay in Australia.

2013 July 24, Pete Naughton, “Why radio trumped TV for royal baby coverage”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 49,192, page 30, column 2:

Resembling or characteristic of the character Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories.


Holmesiana

Rights to further discussion of the March additions to published Holmesiana are now released to Vincent Starrett, who plays a considerable role in all three books.

1944 April 2, Charles Collins, “Bookman’s Holiday”, in Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume CIII, number 14, page 16:

Here, the veteran scholar of Holmesiana gives us an imaginative account of Watson’s early life—before the meeting with Holmes.

1985 spring, Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor, “A Catalogue of Crime”, in The Armchair Detective, volume 18, number 2, page 220:

The two Sherlockian special-interest books I would recommend to any casual reader who loves the character are Vincent Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes—a glimpse of the time of its own creation as much as of Holmesiana itself—and James Edward Holroyd’s happy-go-lucky Baker Street By-ways.

2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2016, →ISBN, page 301:

Memorabilia or writings related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.


Sherlock Holmesiana

Side by side with the revival of “Sherlock Holmesiana” (if we may be pardoned such a fabrication) comes another story from the industrious pen of Mr. Guy Boothby, dealing with his wondrous figure Doctor Nikola.

1901 November 14, “Books of the Day”, in Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire, Cheshire, and General Advertiser, number 16,813, page 10, column 2:

I hear that Conan Doyle “fans” are frantic to add the Frank fake to their Sherlock Holmesiana.

1929 April 15, “News Notes From Abroad”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, forty-third year, number 89, Asbury Park, N.J., page 10, column 4:

Experts on Sherlock Holmesiana may also find food for thought in the bullet that Dr. John H. [or James] Watson carried in his sturdy body.

1939 October 27, “A Line o’ Type or Two”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVIII, number 257, page 12, column 3:

SHERLOCK HOLMESIANA / An Evening in Baker Street

1951 September 2, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 103, number 346, St. Louis, Mo., page 4C:

Eve Titus has written a delightful book, “Basil of Baker Street” (Whittlessey House, McGraw-Hill), with the hope, she states, of attracting new readers to Sherlock Holmesiana.

1959 November 15, “Young Readers Should Enjoy Recent Books”, in The Chickasha Daily Express, 67th year, number 229, Chickasha, Okla., page seven, column 7:

‘Let me show you the original manuscript of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ’ Alex said, and showed me glass-enclosed display case in lobby containing Sherlock Holmesiana.

1965 February 20, Lillian Ross, “Pitching for Holmes”, in The New Yorker, section “The Talk of the Town”; published in Talk Stories, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1966, →LCCN, page 256:

Mr. French does not make the mistake, which some Wodehouse men do, of treating this branch of literature as if it were Sherlock Holmesiana.

1966 August 27, Douglas Johnson, “The Woosters Decoded”, in The Birmingham Post, number 33,642, page II, column 6:

He has one of the outstanding American collections of Eric Gill, G.K. Chesterton, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Francis Thompson, Lafcadio Hearn, Aldous Huxley, Sherlock Holmesiana and T.S. Eliot.

1970 November 12, “John Bennett Shaw to lecture on Sherlock Holmes cult at Stables”, in The Taos News, Taos, N.M., page 8, column 3:

SHERLOCK HOLMESIANA / Anthondy Douglas Howlett, a founding member and former chairman of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, will speak on stage and screen portrayals of the famous sleuth at 7:30 p.m. in the MPC Theatre.

1976 March 4, “Calendar”, in The Carmel Pine Cone, page 19, column 1:

Ed’s hobbies include chamber music (viola) and Bohemian Club orchestra. Also Sherlock Holmesiana (Baker Street Irregulars).

1977 May, Whitworth Ferguson, Oscar Horovitz, “Classes”, in Technology Review, volume 79, number 6, page B6, column 3:

Doctor Ronchese was a Baker Street Irregular and gave his Sherlock Holmesiana material to the Library.

1977 October, Helen DeJong, “Doctor Ronchese”, in Rhode Island Medical Journal, volume 60, number 10, page 501, column 1:

Appendices the list 50 stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, biographies of Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, a selection of literary studies and reference works, and collections of Sherlock Holmesiana.

1986, Allen Eyles, Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN:

[…] The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary by his son Adrian Conan Doyle and a collection of Sherlock Holmesiana; […]

1979 September 22, The Sydney Morning Herald, number 44,235, page 52:

THE insatiable appetite for Sherlock Holmesiana is being delightfully fed by author M. T. Trow who is busy chronicling the adventures and the case[-]book of dear old bumbling Insp. Lestrade.

1986 May 10, PC, “Feckless flatfoot”, in Evening Telegraph, page six:

Exhibits at the festival abound, including children’s author Judy Delton’s manuscripts in Walter Library and a collection of Sherlock Holmesiana.

1988 September 4, Dave Wood, “Pending Festival of the Book promises volumes of activity”, in Star Tribune, volume VII, number 153, page 9F, columns 3–4:

[about the Leepers' r.a.b. FAQ list] […] POSTSCRIPT: This is not intended as a Leepers Bash; I delight in their Sherlock Holmesiana.

1992 February 27, Francis Muir, “rec.arts.books Frequently Asked Questions”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

[…] a load of books, Sherlock Holmesiana inc. an album of personal photos of A. Conan Doyle, […]

1993 August 5, The Sacramento Bee, volume 274, page D9:

The author often receives letters announcing the birth of babies named Kinsey, and Holt recently published G is for Grafton, a guide to the fictional universe of Kinsey Millhone as obsessive as any volume of Sherlock Holmes[-]iana.

2000, Jonathan Bing, editor, Writing for Your Life, volume 4, Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 85:

Kaveney places Buffy academia in the context, not of other series which have acquired an intellectual edge to their cult-status, but of far older phenomena like Sherlock Holmesiana.

2004, Keith Topping, Slayer: The Last Days of Sunnydale, Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 77:

[…] a classical pianist and organist, he was a devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan, a scholar of Sherlock Holmesiana, and a fervent Trumper disciple.

2016, Gideon Haigh, Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 251:

The first floor of Mystery, Inc. is American books; the second floor is British and foreign-language books, and Sherlock Holmesiana (an entire rear wall); […]

2016, Joyce Carol Oates, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Thorndike, Me.: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, page 307:


bibliotekka

bibliotekka (nominative singular)
bibliotekat (nominative plural)
bibliotekan (genitive singular)
bibliotekkoin (genitive plural)
bibliotekkaa (partitive singular)
bibliotekkoja (partitive plural)
bibliotekkaa (illative singular)
bibliotekkoihe (illative plural)
bibliotekaas (inessive singular)
bibliotekois (inessive plural)
bibliotekast (elative singular)
bibliotekoist (elative plural)
bibliotekalle (allative singular)
bibliotekoille (allative plural)
bibliotekaal (adessive singular)
bibliotekoil (adessive plural)
bibliotekalt (ablative singular)
bibliotekoilt (ablative plural)
bibliotekaks (singular translative)
bibliotekoiks (plural translative)
bibliotekkanna (essive singular)
bibliotekkaan (essive singular)
bibliotekkoinna (essive plural)
bibliotekkoin (essive plural)
bibliotekkant (exessive singular)
bibliotekkoint (exessive plural)

Borrowed from Russian библиотека (biblioteka).

Miä kysyin bibliotekast Tolstoin „Sottaa ja rauhaa”.

1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 68:

I requested Tolstoi's „War and peace” at the library.

Nyt ono paljo radioita, kinoja, teatroja, kluubija, bibliotekkoja.

1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 36:

Now, there are a lot of radios, movies, theatres, clubs, libraries.

Yks osa lapsija istuis pehmiäis kreslois i ei tahtont männä täst pois, no peräst kaik veetii kinnoa, radiota, tipograafiaa, stolovoita, bibliotekkaa katsomaa.

1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 361:

One group of the children sat in the soft armchairs and didn't want to go away, but afterward all started to look at the movies, the radio, the printshop, the canteen, the library.


pozytywizm

pozytywizm (nominative singular)
pozytywizmu (genitive singular)
pozytywizmowi (dative singular)
pozytywizm (accusative singular)
pozytywizmem (instrumental singular)
pozytywizmie (locative singular)
pozytywizmie (singular vocative)

Internationalism; compare English positivism, French positivisme, German Positivismus, ultimately from Latin positīvus.

(historical, literature, sociology) Polish Positivism (social, literary, and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland following the suppression of the January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire)


Conan Doylish

Conan Doylish (comparative more Conan Doylish, superlative most Conan Doylish)

more Conan Doylish (comparative)
most Conan Doylish (superlative)
Conan-Doylish (alternative)

The impecunious position of the hero is cleverly sketched in the first pages; but the device that is resorted to by way of extricating him from it is deficient in true humour, even although it smacks of Conan Doylish ingenuity.

1894 May 5, William Wallace, “New Novels”, in The Academy. A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art., volume XLV, number 1148, London: Publishing Office: […], page 368, column 2:

This proved satisfactory to us, but we cannot quite comprehend why Dr. Wood so strenuously objected to our frequently tying down his dip, so it would not run away; or hiding his book bag so as to give him some experience in using his latent Conan Doylish deduction.

1909 May, “A History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Nine”, in Pickout 1909: The Year Book of the Lowell Textile School, Lowell, Mass., page 33:

After years of reading of Sherlock Holmes, it was rather expected to see a few Scotland Yard men with double-peaked plaid caps and curved pipe stems. The Scotland Yard men are here, but they are not at all “Conan Doylish.” Instead, they are dressed in correct frock coats and tall hats in strict contrast to the American secret service men, who appear like men just out of a business office or commercial house.

1917 April 24, “Spirit of England Is Brought to U.S. Lobbies and Lounges of Washington Hotels Appear Like Halls of London.”, in The Champaign Daily News, volume XXII, number 229, Champaign, Ill., page twelve, column 3:

The sane dweller in the United States can hardly hope to succeed in the Conan Doylish task of looking at the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a British plot to deprive his mind of independence or to corrupt popular taste by some twenty expensive volumes, at their lightest, too heavy for his pocket.

1917 May, M. B. S., “Reviews: Misinforming a Nation. By W. H. Wright. […]”, in The Smith College Monthly, volume XXIV, number 7, pages 376–377:

Rose Macaulay, author of “Potterism,” “The Dangerous Age,” and “Orphan Island,” in an article in the London Nation and Athenæum, says: “The crude, stilted, Conan Doylish English of his detective stories goes far to bear out the common theory that Mr. Bramah has a literary dual personality.”

1925, The Literary Digest International Book Review, volume III, Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 553, column 1:

Mind, I don’t know or care a rap about spiritualism, though this may sound Conan Doylish.

1928, Godfrey Elton, Against the Sun, London: Constable & Co Ltd, page 52:

Ah, well, I must hear mamma out, — / How, using methods Conan Doylish, / So many doctors have no doubt / It’s Syndrom-e of Alfred Fröhlich.

1961 November 9, Park J. White, “It Ain’t Necessarily Fröhlich’s”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 265, number 19, page 952, column 2:

Much of the plot—Stevensonian and Conan Doylish—is derived and formular: the author herself spoke of “lamentable lacunae . . . due to technical ignorance.”

1979, Ralph E. Hone, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography, Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 42:

This old-fashioned narrative method (more 1913 than 1936) is immensely seductive in a Conan Doylish sort of way — especially when Condor turns out to have such a tale to tell.

1982, Books and Bookmen, page 37, column 1:

Anthony Burgess’s Enderby triology is now a tetralogy, with a new volume “Composed to placate kind readers of The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End, who objected to my casually killing my hero.” But this is no basely motivated literary opportunism, no Conan Doylish grave-robbery to repossess an obvious winner.

1984 May 5, Keith Wilson, “Burgess raises Clockwork man from the dead”, in The Weekend Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page 44:

Cheadle tapped Robinson’s last item with his pencil. ‘Spider webs?’ ‘A bit Conan Doylish, that one, sir.’ ‘Meaning you didn’t see any?’

1990, Russell Braddon, Funnelweb, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 127:

In the more Conan Doylish of these studies, literature is regarded as if it were the scene of some recent large-scale crime, littered with clues—fingerprints, bloodstains, dropped wallets, spent bullets—all capable of undergoing forensic examination, and of supporting some Holmesian hunch which might ultimately lead to the apprehension of a culprit, the narration of a real-life story more absorbing than the fictional one which had lightly covered it.

1997, Ian Donaldson, “Politic Picklocks: Reading Jonson Historically”, in Jonson’s Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 128:

Time for some pseudonyms. Can’t use X and Y – too Conan Doylish.

2002, Norman Lebrecht, The Song of Names, Review, →ISBN, page 13:

A wonderful setup of an opening chapter—Conan Doylish and yet quite stylish and Chabonesque in its own right.

2004 November 21, Alan Cheuse, “Michael Chabon’s deft tribute to novels of detection”, in Chicago Tribune, 158th year, number 326, section 14, page 4, columns 3–4:

“[…] You were born, what, more than 20 years before me and in those days there would have been quite a few people who would have brewed their own real ale. As for the amount you drink, it can’t be too much because you don’t have a beer belly. How is that for a little detective work of my own?” “Well, your reasons are a little, may I say, Conan Doylish. Sherlock Holmes may well have used the same reasoning but, unfortunately those twenty odd years you mentioned so cruelly may have had something to do with the fact that I can no longer tolerate the beer I so loved in my youth, which was of course… real ale![…]”

2020, Charles C Baines, The Grave Deception, →ISBN:

Resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes.


Isaianic

Isaianic (comparative more Isaianic, superlative most Isaianic)

more Isaianic (comparative)
most Isaianic (superlative)

From Isaiah + -n- + -ic or Isaian + -ic.

Synonym of Isaian (“of or relating to the Biblical Isaiah”)


遞修本

/ti⁵¹ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ti⁵¹ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

frequently-repaired book or edition (of a premodern text)


Conan Doylean

Conan Doylean (comparative more Conan Doylean, superlative most Conan Doylean)

more Conan Doylean (comparative)
most Conan Doylean (superlative)

Connie, at great length and with great patience, explained the difference between Conan Doylean and Shakespearian heroes.

1935 April 6, Malcolm D. Phillips, “When Friends Fall Out”, in Picturegoer, volume 4, number 202, page 8, column 2:

For a while I smoked away making rings in the air and then attempted a Conan Doylean approach. Necessarily a poor imitator of Sherlock Holmes, I said, ‘If I’m not mistaken, you’re not only rich but rolling in affluence. You make even your shortest trips in a car—you’re not used to going around on foot. You travel by air instead of boarding a train and when passing a night outside home, your place is a five-star hotel, not a railway retiring room. Right?’

1987, Diganta Rāẏa, Untold Stories of Shop-Lifters, New Delhi: National Publishing House, →ISBN, page 43:

Gaston Leroux is an early writer who spurns the Conan Doylean tradition and invents a detective with a doubting Thomas attitude toward material clues.

1990, Gillian Gill, Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 39:

Thus, the Granada series became haunted by a ghoul of its own making, striving for the impossible dream of definitive, Conan Doylean episodes that dutifully brought Holmes to life for a later twentieth-century audience.

2011, Neil McCaw, Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives, Continuum, →ISBN, page 39:

If Jabez Wilson is a Conan Doylean Everyman, Clay sheds some light on how Conan Doyle adapted real criminal history and lore. […] Sherlock—which, as of 2015, consisted of ten episodes released over four years—contains the essence of such Conan Doylean details, remixing them with modern techno-thriller plotting and mesmeric film techniques.

2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, published 2016, →ISBN, pages 94 and 249:

The London edition appeared in November 1887—in another Conan Doylean coincidence, only a few days before Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, which carried the novella A Study in Scarlet.

2017, Stephen Knight, Towards Sherlock Holmes: A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:


Holmesy

Holmesy (comparative more Holmesy, superlative most Holmesy)

more Holmesy (comparative)
most Holmesy (superlative)

There were detectives enough to populate a village. […] “Nothing Holmesy about those dicks,” he observed, sotto voce, to Rainfall. “They wouldn’t know a steamfitter from a country parson by his coat lapel;[…]”

1931, Vincent Starrett, Dead Man Inside, The Crime Club, Inc., page 57:

‘Look, it was the first holiday I’d ever had in my life and I wanted it to be a real holiday, a real rest. I didn’t want to spend it interrogating a girl just on the basis of a Holmesy hunch, did I? I was tired.’

1971, Adrian Mitchell, The Bodyguard, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 53:

According to him, believing that Sherlock Holmes is a detective and believing that Dr Watson is a detective amount to a certain three-place relation obtaining between the subject, the gappy detective proposition, and different ways of believing (cf. Braun 2002, 2005). Whatever it precisely means to believe a proposition in a Holmesy way (as opposed to a Watsony way), this proposal obviously will result in an unexpectedly large number of different ways of believing.

2014, Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Peter Pagin, “Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names”, in Manuel García-Carpintero, Genoveva Martí, editors, Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Accounts of Empty Representations), page 127:


kiikar

cim-noun

kiikar m (plural kiikar, feminine kiikaren)

kiikar (plural)
kiikaren (feminine)
kiikar (nominative singular)
kiikar (definite nominative plural)
kiikar (accusative singular)
kiikar (accusative definite plural)
kiikar (dative singular)
kiikarn (dative definite plural)


kiikaren

kiikaren f (plural kiikaren, masculine kiikar)

kiikaren (plural)
kiikar (masculine)
kiikaren (nominative singular)
kiikaren (definite nominative plural)
kiikaren (accusative singular)
kiikaren (accusative definite plural)
kiikaren (dative singular)
kiikaren (dative definite plural)


Phony Stark

Blend of phony (“fraudulent or fake”) + Tony Stark, referencing the fictional business magnate, inventor, and playboy from the Marvel franchise.

blend

so, yeah, five years on and people on Twitter just kinda endured the Nazis, but now Phony Stark might just tank the whole thing anyway.

2022 November 10, Muhammad (@muhammad@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

Phony Stark seems to want to drive Twitter off a cliff for whatever reason.

2023 February 6, Simon Zerafa (@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange), Mastodon:

I'm not mad at anything Phony Stark does to Twitter. I am mad (or at least dumbfounded) at respectable professionals still using that service, though.

2023 April 5, Leon Cowle (@leoncowle@hachyderm.io), Mastodon:

“As always,” Elon patronised, “please try to stay as close to the truth as possible, even for stuff you don’t like.” Likewise, Phony Stark. Likewise.

2023 October 10, Marina Hyde, “Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it”, in The Guardian:

(derogatory) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Coined as an ironic reference to the nickname "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" used by characters who fear speaking Lord Voldemort's name within Rowling's Harry Potter series.

She Who Must Not Be Named (alternative)
she-who-must-not-be-named (alternative)
she who must not be named (alternative)

Depending on who you ask, JK Rowling is either a heroine of free speech or She Who Must Not Be Named.

2021 July 28, Charlotte Runcie, “JK Rowling is more than just a Twitter talking point”, in The Telegraph:

Witchcraft and wizardry have been the subject of fascination for centuries—just look at the success of a certain magical franchise written by She Who Must Not Be Named.

2022, Josie Anne Gaitens, “Witch Hunt”, in Reykjavík Grapevine, number 5, page 30:

I used to worship She Who Must Not Be Named of Harry Potter before she started using her platform to peddle a bunch of harmful garbage.

2022 December 8, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:

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

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort


ܢܘܚ

aii-proper-noun

ܢܘܿܚ • (nōḥ) m

The sense of “Noah” is from Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ (nōaḥ).


미련

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 尾聯 /尾联 (wěilián, “final lines of the Chinese lüshi”).

obor

Holonym: 율시(律詩) (yulsi)

(poetry) the seventh and eighth lines of a 율시 (律詩, yulsi, “Chinese eight-line verse”)


formizm

formizm (nominative singular)
formizmu (genitive singular)
formizmowi (dative singular)
formizm (accusative singular)
formizmem (instrumental singular)
formizmie (locative singular)
formizmie (singular vocative)

(historical, literature) formizm (Polish avant-garde literary and art movement active in the years 1917 to 1922 which postulates the superior role of form in the work of art)


katastrofizm

katastrofizm (nominative singular)
katastrofizmu (genitive singular)
katastrofizmowi (dative singular)
katastrofizm (accusative singular)
katastrofizmem (instrumental singular)
katastrofizmie (locative singular)
katastrofizmie (singular vocative)

Internationalism; compare English catastrophism, French catastrophisme, German Katastrophismus. By surface analysis, katastrofa + -izm.

(literature, philosophy) catastrophism (pessimistic attitude to life based on the conviction of the inevitability of the destruction of the modern world)


wierzgać przeciw ościeniowi

/ˈvjɛʐ.ɡat͡ɕ ˈpʂɛ.t͡ɕif ɔɕ.t͡ɕɛˈɲɔ.vi/

Literally, “to buck/kick against the goads”.

lit

wierzgać przeciwko ościeniowi (alternative)

kick against the pricks
kick against the pricks

(intransitive, biblical, idiomatic, literary) to buck, to kick against the pricks (to oppose authority obstinately, to struggle against one's fate)


Darth Vaderish

en-adj

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

more Darth Vaderish (comparative)
most Darth Vaderish (superlative)
Darth Vader-ish (alternative)
Darth Vader–ish (alternative)
Darth-Vaderish (alternative)

From the Darth Vaderish heavy breathing that opens this show to the whooping and ooga-booga caveman gibberish, whistling chimes, and seductive African percussion, Levine’s score is a trash compacter powered by pure silliness.

1983 May 24, David Edelstein, “Man out to lunch”, in The Boston Phoenix, section three, page 3, column 4:

In our actual practice in daily life and thought, though, we are all fuzzies, even we economists, however glinty and Darth Vaderish we think we are made by mastery of the identification problem and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions.

1985, Donald N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics, The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 51:

I had just opened the rear door when out the corner of my eye I began to get an inkling maybe somebody had figured where Cifelli had an office as a very Darth Vaderish black-windowed sedan slid into view, the windows slowly lowering.

1991, Stan Cutler, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, Signet, published 1993, →ISBN, page 14:

Resembling or characteristic of Darth Vader.


Easdras

Easdras (genitive)
Easdras
nEasdras
hEasdras

From Latin Esdrās, from Ancient Greek Ἔσδρᾱς (Ésdrās), from Biblical Hebrew עֶזְרָא (ʿezrāʾ). Doublet of Eazrá.

Esdras (any of four books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Bible)


爬格子

/pʰä³⁵ kɤ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/pʰaː²¹ kaːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/

/pʰä³⁵ kɤ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/pʰaː²¹ kaːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/

(literature, of a writer) to work hard on writing articles


tân cổ điển

[tən˧˧ ko˧˩ ʔɗiən˧˩]

[təŋ˧˧ kow˧˨ ʔɗiəŋ˧˨]

[təŋ˧˧ kow˨˩˦ ʔɗiəŋ˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 新 (“neo-”) and 古典 (“classical”).


Shakespearemania

His veneration and imitation of the English playwright, part of a German tradition of “Shakespearemania” initiated by Herder’s “Shakespeare” essay, has been well documented.

1979, William C. Reeve, Georg Büchner, →ISBN, page 27:

Michael Bristol’s Shakespeare’s America explores the philosophical and cultural background that gave rise to Shakespearemania in the nineteenth century and that has supported its various manifestations down to the present day.

1990, College & Research Libraries, page 570:

Shakespearemania may have waned slightly since then, but as the 1996 autumn festival in Madrid showed, it is always capable of returning.

Shakespearemania prevailed in 1828. Only one year later, another English troupe arrived in Paris featuring William Macready in Macbeth, and some months later, still another exciting visitor, the renowned Edmund Kean, performed in Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear.

2007, Bettina Knapp, Marie Dorval: France’s Theatrical Wonder: A Book for Actors, Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 75–76:

Enthusiasm for the works of English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564–1616).


악서

Sino-Korean word from 惡書, from 惡 (“evil, wicked”) + 書 (“book”).

ko-sino

그 惡書는 靑少年들에게 害로운 影響을 줄 수 있다.
그 악서는 청소년들에게 해로운 영향을 줄 수 있다.
Geu akseo-neun cheongsonyeon-deur-ege haeroun yeonghyang-eul jul su itda.
That harmful book can have a negative influence on teenagers.


superdictionary

From super- (“above, over”) + dictionary.

The law is a kind of superdictionary that knows in advance what any possible combination of words and expressions means.

1998, Harriet Murav, Russia's Legal Fictions, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 104:

Mr. [Michael] Proffitt was reluctant to place the O.E.D. at the forefront of such a project. The dictionary, he said, lacks resources to transform itself this way. Instead, he advocates a federation of reference works. "The superdictionary may be, in fact, superdictionaries," he said. "What you want is some kind of search that then sends you to the right place."

2014 January 22, Tom Rachman, “O.E.D.'s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

[…] will anyone ever have enough time and motivation to consult them all, for the entire alphabet, and thus arrive at a truly complete superdictionary?

2019, David Crystal, “The Nature of the Lexicon”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 129:

The current direction in Estonian lexicography is a unification of lexical resources (dictionaries and term bases) into a central superdictionary, the online public dictionary CombiDic.

2022 December 21, Geda Paulsen, Maria Tuulik, Ahti Lohk, Ene Vainik, “From verbal to adjectival: evaluating the lexicalization of participles in an Estonian corpus”, in Slovenščina 2.0, volume 10, number 1, Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68:

(lexicography) An exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.


Hồng bảo thư

[həwŋ͡m˨˩ ʔɓaːw˧˩ tʰɨ˧˧]

[həwŋ͡m˦˩ ʔɓaːw˧˨ tʰɨ˧˧]

[həwŋ͡m˨˩ ʔɓaːw˨˩˦ tʰɨ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 紅寶書, composed of 紅 (“red”), 寶 (“precious”) and 書 (“book”).

vi-etym-sino

(communism) Little Red Book (a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong)


redemptive arc

A grim social-realist drama from New Zealand that labors to twist its narrative into a redemptive arc, “The Justice of Bunny King” has an unsteady tone to match its ungainly title.

2022 September 29, Ben Kenigsberg, “‘The Justice of Bunny King’ Review: No Way Out”, in The New York Times:

(literature) Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”).


NYP

North Yorkshire Police
w:North Yorkshire Police


인소

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

인터넷 소설(小說)
인터넷 소설#Korean

(Internet, literature) Short for 인터넷 소설(小說) (inteonet soseol, “web fiction”).


fantasy world

If she thinks she can become President, she's living in a fantasy world!

A person's unrealistic individual notions of the real world.


Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary

the Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary (canonical)

Coined by English linguist Rosamund Moon in a 1989 paper (see first quote).

coinage

The dictionary most cited in such cases is the UAD: the Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary, usually referred to as 'the dictionary,' but very occasionally as 'my dictionary.'

1989, Rosamund Moon, “Objective or Objectionable: Ideological Aspects of Dictionaries”, in English Language Research Journal, volume 3, Birmingham, West Midlands: University of Birmingham, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63; quoted in Words Words Words, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2010, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

The individual lexicographer has ceded power to the team, the computerised corpus has come to stand side by side with, if not actually to replace, the readers of earlier research, but what has been termed the 'Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary' is still the court of last resort.

1996, Jonathon Green, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 11:

This war ended with the death of both men and their replacement by Johnson as authors of the "Unidentified Authorising Dictionary".

1996 March 24, David Honigmann, “Abecedarians in the war of the words”, in The Independent, London: Independent Digital News & Media Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-07:

Have you hear^([sic]) of the Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary?

2004 June 22, Raymond S. Wise, “tarot”, in alt.english.usage (Usenet):

The reference here, certainly, is to a generic compilation, not to any specific collection. This is the 'Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary' identified by Rosamund Moon, and the purpose for which it might be consulted is decidedly utilitarian.

2018, Elizabeth Knowles, 'And I Quote...', Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(lexicography, humorous) A fictional supremely authoritative dictionary, supposed to be referenced by laypeople in discussions of "the dictionary".


Izaak

Icek (diminutive)
Izaak (nominative singular)
Izaakowie (nominative plural)
Izaaka (genitive singular)
Izaaków (genitive plural)
Izaakowi (dative singular)
Izaakom (dative plural)
Izaaka (accusative singular)
Izaaków (accusative plural)
Izaakiem (instrumental singular)
Izaakami (instrumental plural)
Izaaku (locative singular)
Izaakach (locative plural)
Izaaku (singular vocative)
Izaakowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Isaāc, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Biblical Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq).

(biblical) Isaac (son of Abraham and Sarah)


Blessed Virgin Mary

“Rust” has elements of Tara Westover’s “Educated,” but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme. She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun.

2020 March 3, Mary Norris, “Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill”, in The New York Times:

(Christianity) Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).


Crìosd

Chrìosda (genitive)
Crìosd
Chrìosd
Crìost (alternative)

/kʰɾʲiəs̪t̪/

From Old Irish Críst, from Latin Chrīstus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “anointed”), a semantic loan of Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ, “anointed”)).


সাহিত্য

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit साहित्य (sāhitya)


সাহিত্য

head

সাহিত্য • (śahitto)

bn-noun

সাহিত্য • (śahitto)


އަދަބިއްޔާތު

head

އަދަބިއްޔާތު • (adabiyyātu)

dv-noun

އަދަބިއްޔާތު • (adabiyyātu) (plural އަދަބިއްޔާތުތައް (adabiyyātutak̊))

adabiyyātu (romanization)
އަދަބިއްޔާތުތައް (plural)

އަ‧ދަ‧ބިއް‧ޔާ‧ތު

Borrowed from Arabic أَدَبِيَّات (ʔadabiyyāt), via Persian


ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ

head

ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ • (sāhitya)

kn-noun

ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ • (sāhitya)

Borrowed from Sanskrit साहित्य (sāhitya)


ସାହିତ୍ୟ

head

ସାହିତ୍ୟ (sāhitya)

or-noun

ସାହିତ୍ୟ (sāhitya)


සාහිත්‍යය

head

සාහිත්යය • (sāhityaya)

si-noun

සාහිත්යය • (sāhityaya)

සාහිත්යය (canonical)
sāhityaya (romanization)


walking dead

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

The term I've typically seen used for the latter is "walking dead" -- meaning you can still wander around, but no progress can be made, and therefore you have effectively lost the game -- ie "died" -- and just don't know it.

2005 March 4, M. Damian Dollahite, “Re: Boundlessness & IF”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):

There are numerous ways to instantly get killed, as well as walking dead situations, which were practically banned across all other adventure games when this game was released in 1996.

2018 October 3, Kurt Kalata, “Dragon Lore II: Heart of the Dragon Man”, in Hardcore Gaming 101:

[I]t’s inevitable that we’d have some walking dead scenarios. Regretfully, I hit one. [...] I left my Boysenberry computer at my house when I headed off to the airport. [...] I [...] jumped into a cannibal-infested jungle before discovering that I lose immediately if I parachute in without the computer.

2021 February 23, Joe Pranevich, “Missed Classic: Bureaucracy - Won! And Final Rating”, in The Adventurers Guild:

(video games) Corresponding to an unwinnable game state, where the player can still act in the game world but victory is impossible.


parochet

parocheth (alternative)
paroket (alternative)

(biblical) The curtain that covered the Ark of the Covenant.


scisaac

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scott McCall and Isaac Lahey from the Teen Wolf series.


cereka

ms-noun

cereka (Jawi spelling چريک, plural cereka-cereka, informal 1st possessive cerekaku, 2nd possessive cerekamu, 3rd possessive cerekanya)

چريک (Jawi)
cereka-cereka (plural)
cerekaku (first-person informal possessive)
cerekamu (possessive second-person)
cerekanya (possessive third-person)

Blend of cerita (“story”) + rekaan (“creation”).


chanson de geste

fr-noun

chanson de geste f (plural chansons de geste)

→ English: chanson de geste

→ Italian: canzone di gesta (calque)

→ Portuguese: canção de gesta (calque)

→ Spanish: cantar de gesta (calque)

chanson de geste
chanson de geste#English


Heldensage

de-noun

Heldensage f (genitive Heldensage, plural Heldensagen)

Heldensage (genitive)
Heldensagen (plural)
Heldensage (nominative singular)
Heldensagen (definite nominative plural)
Heldensage (genitive singular)
Heldensagen (definite genitive plural)
Heldensage (dative singular)
Heldensagen (dative definite plural)
Heldensage (accusative singular)
Heldensagen (accusative definite plural)


thi ca

[tʰi˧˧ kaː˧˧]

[tʰɪj˧˧ kaː˧˧]

[tʰɪj˧˧ kaː˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 詩歌, from Chinese 詩歌 /诗歌 (shīgē). Compare Japanese 詩歌 (shiika, shika).


ffuglen

From ffug (“fake, false”) + llên (“literature”).


هوشنك

head

هوشَنْك • (Hûşenk)

ota-proper noun

هوشَنْك • (Hûşenk)

هوشَنْك (canonical)
Hûşenk (romanization)

Turkish: Huşenk


ہوشنگ

ur-proper noun

ہوشَن٘گ • (hośaṅg) m (Hindi spelling होशंग)

ہوشَن٘گ (canonical)
hośaṅg (romanization)
होशंग (Hindi)

Borrowed from Classical Persian هوشَنْگ (hōšang).


roʻznoma

Inherited from Chagatai روزنامه, from Persian روزنامه (ruznâme).


urban fantasy

en-noun

urban fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural urban fantasies)

(literature) A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.

More recently, Amanda Hocking, author of young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasies, self-published nine of her own novels, several of which made the New York Times best-seller list.

2012, Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss, Carole Clark Papper, Everyone's an Author, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 666:

(literature) An individual work in this genre.


future war

Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books.

1997, Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:

(literature) A subgenre of science fiction which involves warfare and how it might be conducted in the future.


slipstreamer

"Britain is soaring into the future with a wealth of talented science fiction writers”—Zenith's blurb overstates the case; but it could be truthfully said that "Britain is motoring sedately into a retro-eclectic fantasyland with a talented clique of slipstreamers and true-quill weirdos."

1989 September, Bruce Sterling, “Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction”, in The New York Review of Science Fiction, number 13, Pleasantville, N.Y.: Dragon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

For the rest of us — slipstreamers, alpha males, difficult women, neophytes, neighbours, expats — it's down the long chute together, into a heap at the heart of a late year.

1993, John Clute, “Science Fiction Novels of the Year”, in New Worlds 3, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 203:

In his provocative 1998 essay, "The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction", sometime slipstreamer Jonathan Lethem proposed an alternate history of our genre.

2004 February, James Patrick Kelly, “On The Net”, in Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 28, number 2, Norwalk, C.T.: Dell Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

(literature) Someone who writes slipstream fiction ("a genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries").


book town

It has an appealing medieval centre and its population is enthusiastic about throwing open its doors to book-loving visitors. Bellprat is also the first book town in Catalonia (the second in Spain, after Urueña).

2018 April 26, Alex Johnson, “10 of the world’s best book towns”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A town or village with many used bookstores, often visited by bibliophile tourists.


mowa pozornie zależna

mowa pozornia zależna (nominative singular)
mowy pozorniej zależna (genitive singular)
mowie pozorniej zależna (dative singular)
mowę pozornią zależna (accusative singular)
mową pozornią zależna (instrumental singular)
mowie pozorniej zależna (locative singular)
mowo pozornia zależna (singular vocative)

Literally, “seemingly dependent speech”.

free indirect speech
free indirect speech

(grammar, narratology) free indirect speech


mowa wiązana

mowa wiązana (nominative singular)
mowy wiązanej (genitive singular)
mowie wiązanej (dative singular)
mowę wiązaną (accusative singular)
mową wiązaną (instrumental singular)
mowie wiązanej (locative singular)
mowo wiązana (singular vocative)

(poetry) verse (utterance in the form of verse)


pärleport

pärleport (indefinite nominative singular)
pärleports (genitive indefinite singular)
pärleporten (definite nominative singular)
pärleportens (definite genitive singular)

(biblical, usually in the definite "pärleporten") pearly gates


Iiliä

Iiliä (nominative singular)
Iiliät (nominative plural)
Iiliän (genitive singular)
Iiliöin (genitive plural)
Iiliää (partitive singular)
Iiliöjä (partitive plural)
Iiliää (illative singular)
Iiliöihe (illative plural)
Iiliääs (inessive singular)
Iiliöis (inessive plural)
Iiliäst (elative singular)
Iiliöist (elative plural)
Iiliälle (allative singular)
Iiliöille (allative plural)
Iiliääl (adessive singular)
Iiliöil (adessive plural)
Iiliält (ablative singular)
Iiliöilt (ablative plural)
Iiliäks (singular translative)
Iiliöiks (plural translative)
Iiliännä (essive singular)
Iiliään (essive singular)
Iiliöinnä (essive plural)
Iiliöin (essive plural)
Iiliänt (exessive singular)
Iiliöint (exessive plural)
Iilia (alternative)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías).


teksbuk

ᜆᜒᜃ᜔ᜐ᜔ᜊᜓᜃ᜔ (Baybayin)
tesbuk (alternative)


శబరి

a woman belonging to a savage tribe (Shabari) in the epic Ramayana


JKR

Pen name from the initials of Rowling’s and her paternal grandmother’s names, Joanne and Kathleen, respectively.

Initialism of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author.


Linny

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.


Pansmione

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pansy Parkinson and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.


Monteskiusz

Monteskiusz (nominative singular)
Monteskiusza (genitive singular)
Monteskiuszowi (dative singular)
Monteskiusza (accusative singular)
Monteskiuszem (instrumental singular)
Monteskiuszu (locative singular)
Monteskiuszu (singular vocative)

(law, literature, philosophy) Montesquieu (French man of letters)


Revised Version

(biblical) A late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of the Bible.


Amaziah

From Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ.

der

Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ

(biblical) A male given name from Hebrew.


wilamowitzianus

Named after the German classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

(poetry, Ancient Rome) a meter consisting of two choriambs, used in Attic tragedy and in Roman comedy, used by Plautus and Terence.

Metres of Roman comedy#Wilamowitzianus
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff


psalmista

psalmista (nominative singular)
psalmiści (nominative plural)
psalmisty (derogatory nominative plural)
psalmisty (genitive singular)
psalmistów (genitive plural)
psalmiście (dative singular)
psalmistom (dative plural)
psalmistę (accusative singular)
psalmistów (accusative plural)
psalmistą (instrumental singular)
psalmistami (instrumental plural)
psalmiście (locative singular)
psalmistach (locative plural)
psalmisto (singular vocative)
psalmiści (plural vocative)

(biblical) psalmist (composer of one of the Biblical Psalms)


Писание

ru-proper noun+

Писа́ние • (Pisánije) n inan (genitive Писа́ния, nominative plural Писа́ния, genitive plural Писа́ний)

Писа́ние (canonical)
Pisánije (romanization)
Писа́ния (genitive)
Писа́ния (nominative plural)
Писа́ний (genitive plural)
Писа́ние (nominative singular)
Писа́ния (nominative plural)
Писа́ния (genitive singular)
Писа́ний (genitive plural)
Писа́нию (dative singular)
Писа́ниям (dative plural)
Писа́ние (accusative singular)
Писа́ния (accusative plural)
Писа́нием (instrumental singular)
Писа́ниями (instrumental plural)
Писа́нии (prepositional singular)
Писа́ниях (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsanьje. By surface analysis, писа́ть (pisátʹ) + -а́ние (-ánije).

surf

(religion) Scripture (a religion's foundational holy text; most commonly, the Bible)


کتایون

head

کتایون • (katâyun)

fa-proper noun

کتایون • (katâyun)

→ Azerbaijani: Kətayun

desctree

→ Georgian: ქეთევანი (ketevani), ქეთინო (ketino), ქეთი (keti)
→ Armenian: Քեթևան (Kʻetʻewan)
→ Ossetian: Кетеван (Ketevan)
→ Russian: Кетева́нь (Ketevánʹ)

→ Ottoman Turkish: كتایون (Ketâyûn)

[kʰä.t̪ʰɑː.júːn]

[kʰä.t̪ʰɑː.júːn]

[kʰä.t̪ʰɑː.júːn]

[kʰʲæ.t̪ʰɒː.júːn]

(Iranian mythology) Katayun (wife of Goshtasp)


كتایون

head

كتایون • (Ketâyûn)

ota-proper noun

كتایون • (Ketâyûn)

Turkish: Ketayun


Kətayun

az-proper noun

Kətayun (definite accusative Kətayunu, plural Kətayunlar)

Kətayunu (accusative definite)
Kətayunlar (plural)
Kətayunum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
Kətayunlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
Kətayunun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
Kətayunlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
Kətayununuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
Kətayunlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
Kətayununu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayununu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
Kətayunlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
Kətayununuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayununu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunuma (dative first-person possessive singular)
Kətayunlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
Kətayununa (dative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayununa (dative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
Kətayunlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
Kətayununuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayununa (dative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
Kətayunlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
Kətayununda (locative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayununda (locative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
Kətayunlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
Kətayununuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayununda (locative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
Kətayunlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
Kətayunundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
Kətayunlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
Kətayununuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
Kətayunlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
Kətayununun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
Kətayunlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
Kətayununun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
Kətayunumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
Kətayunlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
Kətayununuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
Kətayunlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
Kətayununun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
Kətayunlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


كشتاسب

ar-proper noun

كُشْتَاسْب • (kuštāsb) m

كُشْتَاسْب (canonical)
kuštāsb (romanization)
كُشْتَاسْف (alternative)

كشتاسب

1885, الجزء الاول من تاريخ الخميس في أحوال أنفس نفيس, page 163:

كشتاسب

1887, Butrus al-Bustani, Da'irat al-Ma'arif, volume 9, page 198:

كشتاسب


كشتاسب

head

كشتاسب • (Güştâsb)

ota-proper noun

كشتاسب • (Güştâsb)


گشتاسپ

head

گشتاسپ • (goštâsp)

fa-proper noun

گشتاسپ • (goštâsp)

desc

→ Arabic: كُشْتَاسْب (kuštāsb), كُشْتَاسْف (kuštāsf)

→ Azerbaijani: Güştasp

→ Gujarati: ગુશતાસ્પ (guśtāsp)

→ Ottoman Turkish: كشتاسب (Güştâsb)

[ɡʊʃ.t̪ʰɑ́ːsp]

[ɡʊʃ.t̪ʰɑ́ːsp]

[ɡʊʃ.t̪ʰɑ́ːsp]

[ɡuʃ.t̪ʰɔ́ːsp]

[ɡ̥oʃ.t̪ʰɒ́ːsp]


Güştasp

az-proper noun

Güştasp (definite accusative Güştaspı, plural Güştasplar)

Güştaspı (accusative definite)
Güştasplar (plural)
Güştaspım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
Güştasplarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
Güştaspın (nominative possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspı (nominative possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
Güştasplarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
Güştaspınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
Güştasplarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
Güştaspı (nominative plural possessive third-person)
Güştaspları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
Güştaspımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
Güştasplarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
Güştaspını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
Güştasplarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
Güştasplarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
Güştasplarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
Güştaspınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
Güştasplarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
Güştaspını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
Güştasplarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
Güştaspıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
Güştasplarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
Güştaspına (dative possessive second-person singular)
Güştasplarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspına (dative possessive singular third-person)
Güştasplarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
Güştasplarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
Güştaspınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
Güştasplarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
Güştaspına (dative plural possessive third-person)
Güştasplarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
Güştaspımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
Güştasplarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
Güştaspında (locative possessive second-person singular)
Güştasplarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspında (locative possessive singular third-person)
Güştasplarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
Güştasplarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
Güştaspınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
Güştasplarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
Güştaspında (locative plural possessive third-person)
Güştasplarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
Güştaspımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
Güştasplarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
Güştaspından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
Güştasplarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
Güştasplarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
Güştasplarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
Güştaspınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
Güştasplarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
Güştaspından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
Güştasplarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
Güştaspımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
Güştasplarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
Güştaspının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
Güştasplarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
Güştaspının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
Güştasplarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
Güştaspımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
Güştasplarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
Güştaspınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
Güştasplarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
Güştaspının (genitive plural possessive third-person)
Güştasplarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


powieść rzeka

powieść rzeka (nominative singular)
powieści rzeki (nominative plural)
powieści rzeki (genitive singular)
powieści rzek (genitive plural)
powieści rzece (dative singular)
powieściom rzekom (dative plural)
powieść rzekę (accusative singular)
powieści rzeki (accusative plural)
powieścią rzeką (instrumental singular)
powieściami rzekami (instrumental plural)
powieści rzece (locative singular)
powieściach rzekach (locative plural)
powieści rzeko (singular vocative)
powieści rzeki (plural vocative)
powieść-rzeka (alternative)

Literally, “novel-river”. Probably a calque of French roman-fleuve.

(literature) novel sequence; family saga


powieść-rzeka

powieść-rzeka (nominative singular)
powieści-rzeki (nominative plural)
powieści-rzeki (genitive singular)
powieści-rzek (genitive plural)
powieści-rzece (dative singular)
powieściom-rzekom (dative plural)
powieść-rzekę (accusative singular)
powieści-rzeki (accusative plural)
powieścią-rzeką (instrumental singular)
powieściami-rzekami (instrumental plural)
powieści-rzece (locative singular)
powieściach-rzekach (locative plural)
powieść-rzeko (singular vocative)
powieści-rzeki (plural vocative)

(literature) Alternative spelling of powieść rzeka


-장

장 (canonical)
-jang (romanization)
帳 (hanja)

Sino-Korean word from 帳 (“ledger; notebook”).

ko-sino

연습(練習) (yeonseup, “practice”) + 장 (-jang) → 연습장(練習帳) (yeonseupjang, “exercise book”)

일기(日記) (ilgi, “daily record”) + 장 (-jang) → 일기장(日記帳) (ilgijang, “diary”)


gut gebrüllt, Löwe

Literally, “well roared, lion”, from August Wilhelm Schlegel's translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In Washington war dazu nur ein Kommentar zu vernehmen: gut gebrüllt, Löwe.

1972 March 31, Klaus Bölling, “Großkonzern und große Politik”, in Die Zeit:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
August Wilhelm Schlegel


fruita prohibida

(biblical or figurative) forbidden fruit