təkbuynuz

az-noun

təkbuynuz (definite accusative təkbuynuzu, plural təkbuynuzlar)

təkbuynuzu (accusative definite)
təkbuynuzlar (plural)
təkbuynuz (nominative singular)
təkbuynuzlar (nominative plural)
təkbuynuzu (accusative definite singular)
təkbuynuzları (accusative definite plural)
təkbuynuza (dative singular)
təkbuynuzlara (dative plural)
təkbuynuzda (locative singular)
təkbuynuzlarda (locative plural)
təkbuynuzdan (ablative singular)
təkbuynuzlardan (ablative plural)
təkbuynuzun (definite genitive singular)
təkbuynuzların (definite genitive plural)
təkbuynuzum (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzun (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzu (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzu (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumu (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzunu (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzunu (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzunu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzuma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzuna (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzuna (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzuna (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzunda (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzunda (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzunda (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzundan (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzundan (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzundan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumun (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzunun (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzunun (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzunun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


unicorn beast

It was exactly that, Prince Empyrean had changed into the unicorn beast of white, holy fire.

2015, Elizabeth Wilde, The Apprentice, The Swordsman, and The Impossible Mission, page 185:

The unicorn-beast, the same one from the alley, stepped to the fore.

2023, Megan Mackie, Saint Code: The Lost:

(fantasy) Any animal having a single horn on its head; a unicorn.


Calydonian Boar

(Greek mythology) A giant boar, who was sent by the goddess Artemis to ravage the area of Calydon.


divoženka

divoženka (nominative singular)
divoženky (nominative plural)
divoženky (genitive singular)
divoženek (genitive plural)
divožence (dative singular)
divoženkám (dative plural)
divoženku (accusative singular)
divoženky (accusative plural)
divoženko (singular vocative)
divoženky (plural vocative)
divožence (locative singular)
divoženkách (locative plural)
divoženkou (instrumental singular)
divoženkami (instrumental plural)

[ˈɟɪvoʒɛŋka]

From divý + -o- + žínka. Commpare Polish dziwożona.

wild woman, she-woodwose (Slavic mythology)


amphithere

(heraldry, fantasy) Alternative form of amphiptere


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.


scisaac

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


catman

(fantasy) A man having physical characteristics of a cat.


telekineticist

"Kids—like girls and boys?" Squid asks. "I've only ever heard of female telekineticists."

2017, Corey J. White, Killing Gravity, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 67:

(science fiction, fantasy) Someone who has the ability to move objects with their mind; a telekinetic.


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.


JKR

Initialism of Joanne Kathleen Rowling (born 1965), British author.


영애

(fantasy) aristocratic girl; young noble lady


Hogwartian

en-adj

Hogwartian (comparative more Hogwartian, superlative most Hogwartian)

more Hogwartian (comparative)
most Hogwartian (superlative)

You cannot go to Turin without expecting to see its greatest attraction: the Sindone, or as we call it in English, the Shroud. The problem is that the Turin Shroud is kept well and truly shrouded in the Duomo, the rather subdued Renaissance cathedral. Enclosed in a Hogwartian trunk behind a sheet of plate glass, bulletproofed in case anyone wanted to assassinate it, the shroud’s appearances are strictly controlled.

2003, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 14:

With just the right sequence, we can get a computer to read a book out loud, understand human speech, anticipate (and prevent) a heart attack, or predict the movement of a stock-market holding. If an incantation is just slightly off mark, the magic is greatly weakened or does not work at all. One might object to this metaphor by pointing out that Hogwartian incantations are brief and therefore do not contain much information compared to, say, the code for a modern software program.

2005, Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Viking, →ISBN, page 5:

Despite the Hogwartian allure of Yale’s Gothic-style colleges, Muggle undergraduates may have to look elsewhere to catch a true glimpse of the magical world of Harry Potter.

2007 October 30, Patrick Lee, “For seminar selection, Potter will have to wait”, in Yale Daily News, page 3:

Consider the role of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. From the first volumes, Hogwarts played a tremendous role in the story, gathering the young protagonists—Harry [Potter] and his friends—into its curious and often-changing halls. It became the place where magic was learned and friendships formed. It stood for what must be saved: the ideals of the Hogwartian school, where magical powers were taught for the sake of good.

2008, Philip Martin, “Developing a Sense of Place”, in Philip Martin, editor, The New Writer’s Handbook: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft & Career, volume 2, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Press, →ISBN, pages 98–99:

To me, the UO [University of Oregon] is Hogwarts, a secretive organization that pirates the best of the very poor, teaches them to value their new status much too highly and leaves the suffering to understand that they, of the inferior mundane class, simply don’t deserve housing, legal care, medical care, dental care or even a basic sense of belonging. […] Getting a Ph.D. in sociology or mathematics must be a fascinating exercise in Hogwartian mysticism, but what on earth does that do for the very poor, the despairing, those left on the other side of the town-gown wall?

2008 April 17–24, Hugh Massengill, “UO = Hogwarts”, in Eugene Weekly, page 5:

But I’d never seen a hurling match before and sat fixated by the TV in our room, which showed one of the fastest, most bizarre, and seemingly most dangerous games I’ve ever experienced. Harry Potter would love it. Fifteen men a side hurtled by and into one another in seemingly total Hogwartian disarray, flailing long cáman paddle-sticks on which they carried—yes, carried—a small white leather ball (sliotar)—although in the truly wild days when the game first emerged I heard it was often a human skull.

2009, David Yeadon, At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, pages 17–18:

[…] part of [J. K.] Rowling’s skill lies in the way in which she makes this bygone world instantaneously modern to an age of children who live in an electronic multimedia world. For example, moving staircases, portraits of ancient Hogwartian dignitaries who talk and move, the Marauder’s Map and flying dragons are familiar features of computer virtual reality games.

2009, Diane Duncan, Teaching Children’s Literature: Making Stories Work in the Classroom, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 195:

Bookended by J.K. Rowling at Harvard [University]’s Commencement and the traditional laying-on of hands at Clare [College]’s, her year had a Hogwartian quality.

2010, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report, Cambridge, Mass., page 35:


Hogwartian

The departed Hogwartians in the portraits that line the school’s corridors leave their frames and visit one another.

[Robbie] Coltrane’s performance as the noble if slightly buffoonish [Rubeus] Hagrid is the standout among the sterling adult cast, and the Sorting Hat, a sort of garrulous talking napkin that assigns new Hogwartians to their houses, is a low-tech effect put to hilarious use.

2001 November 16, Andrew O’Hehir, ““Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”"”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2011-12-29; published in Scot Peacock, editor, Children’s Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People, volume 80, Gale, 2002, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 198:

“But how did you know I go to Hogwarts?” inquired Harry [Potter]. “Ah! I can always tell a, um, Hogwartian,” said Jack Flash cheerily.

2003, J.B. Miller, “J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Rolling Stone”, in The Satanic Nurses: And Other Literary Parodies, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN:

Screams of terror rent the air: The fighters scattered, Death Eaters and Hogwartians alike, and red and green jets of light flew into the midst of the oncoming monsters, which shuddered and reared, more terrifying than ever.

2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Interactions between the Trio, the Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Hogwartians, and house-elves and other magical creatures are relevant not only in critical analysis, but in the overall context of the story.

2012, Todd S. Waters, “Is Hermione Granger the Real Chosen One?”, in Christopher E. Bell, editor, Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 198:

Zombie Snow-White and zombie Bo-Peep picnicked alongside Zombie hobbits and Hogwartians.

2013, Jennifer Rutherford, Zombies, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:

In the book’s [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] version of the “Battle of Hogwarts” an armed collective of many different magical creatures and wizards comes to the aid of the defeated Hogwartians as the battle recommences.

2016, Vincent F. Rocchio, Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN:

The retrieval of the memory of the Death Eaters trial suggestively presents the trial as a moment that renders transgression visible – a transgression that is repressed by the conscious – but simultaneously demonstrates the reestablishment of order through the punishment of the defendants. It represents therefore a repetition of violence that is overcome by the process of law. The memory of this moment is in fact a menace to institutional order because it suggests its fragility and reminds Hogwartians of the ever-present possibility of transgression.

2018, Isabel Capeloa Gil, “Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility”, in Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race; 33), Koninklijke Brill nv, →ISBN, part 2 (Justice), pages 108–109:

5.2¾ INDEXICALITY AND INFERENCE / This is a concealed section that only Hogwartians will find.

2020, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, 4th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:


landsider

What else but the quest for knowledge would tempt a sane person away from a comfortable home? What else would persuade a landsider to take to the ocean, except the chance of getting to meet more strangers in a shorter time?

1983, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 103:

He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.

1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.

1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 82:

Not a man I'd trust alone with her, you understand. Not a man I trust entirely on anything—too involved with the landsiders, the traders, the political people.

1988, Thomas T[hurston] Thomas, An Honorable Defense, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 108:

It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises. We tend to think of officers and ratings — deck sailors. We might, if pricked, think about the engine room crew — who with the onset of oil, then diesel, just kept on shrinking per ship.

1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly science fiction or fantasy) Someone who lives on land (as opposed to the sea or space).


提灯お化け

提灯お化け (canonical)
chōchin'obake (romanization)

[t͡ɕo̞ːt͡ɕĩɰ̃o̞ba̠ke̞]

提灯(ちょうちん) (chōchin, “a type of collapsible cylindrical paper lantern”) + お化(ば)け (obake, “a ghost”)

com-ja

chochinobake (a ghost or yokai that is believed to come from a lantern that has reached one hundred years of age)


𐰠𐰇

→ Middle Mongol: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Classical Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ／луу (luu)

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 龍 (MC ljowng, “dragon”), specifically from a dialect without the final -ŋ.

𐰠𐰇:𐰘𐰃𐰞𐰴𐰀:

8th century CE, Ongin Inscription, Supp. 4


Saurona

Named in 2023 after the fictional Sauron, the villain from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, likening his all-seeing eye to the eye pattern on the butterfly's wings.

A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain butterflies.


އިބިލީސް

head

އިބިލީސް • (ibilīs)

dv-noun

އިބިލީސް • (ibilīs) (plural އިބިލީސްތައް (ibilīstak̊))

ibilīs (romanization)
އިބިލީސްތައް (plural)

Borrowed from Arabic إِبْلِيس (ʔiblīs). Cognate to Hindi इबलीस (iblīs)


космодесант

ru-noun+

космодеса́нт

космодеса́нт • (kosmodesánt) m anim (genitive космодеса́нта, nominative plural космодеса́нты, genitive plural космодеса́нтов)

космодеса́нт (canonical)
kosmodesánt (romanization)
космодеса́нта (genitive)
космодеса́нты (nominative plural)
космодеса́нтов (genitive plural)
космодеса́нт (nominative singular)
космодеса́нты (nominative plural)
космодеса́нта (genitive singular)
космодеса́нтов (genitive plural)
космодеса́нту (dative singular)
космодеса́нтам (dative plural)
космодеса́нта (accusative singular)
космодеса́нтов (accusative plural)
космодеса́нтом (instrumental singular)
космодеса́нтами (instrumental plural)
космодеса́нте (prepositional singular)
космодеса́нтах (plural prepositional)

From ко́смос (kósmos, “space”) + деса́нт (desánt, “landing troops”).

af

Мы космодеса́нты, и мы не бу́дем знать стра́ха.

We are the Space Marines, and we shall know no fear.

My kosmodesánty, i my ne búdem znatʹ stráxa.

Бро́ня космодеса́нта помога́ет ему́ ориенти́роваться на вулкани́ческой плане́те.

The Space Marine's armour helps him navigate the volcanic planet.

Brónja kosmodesánta pomogájet jemú orijentírovatʹsja na vulkaníčeskoj planéte.


Lilit

(biblical, Judaism) Alternative spelling of Lilith


keythong

Unclear. From Middle English keythong: attested in one medieval document describing Edward IV’s French Expedition of 1475, which records that the badge of John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, featured a "peyr [pair] keythongs". Later writers including Colin Cole (The Coat of Arms 98, 1976) argued this denoted "male griffins" and that these were definitely separate monsters from "griffins" in the medieval period (although both the animals termed male griffins and those termed griffins are depicted with penises in medieval art), while Roger Barnes argues it referred to the two interlinked thongs of an Ormond knot.

The Earl of Ormonde,—a pair of keythongs. (?) * […] * The word is certainly so written, and I have never seen it elsewhere. The figure resembles the Male Griffin, which has no wings, but rays or spikes of gold proceeding from several parts of his body, and sometimes with two long strait horns.—Vide Parker’s Glossary, under Griffin.

1852, J[ames] R[obinson] Planché, “Badges”, in The Pursuivant of Arms, or Heraldry Founded upon Facts, London: W. N. Wright, […], page 183:

Ormond. Earl of Ormond. Temp. Edward. IV. A pair of keythongs.

1870, [Fanny] Bury Palliser, “Badges”, in Historic Devices, Badges, and War-Cries, London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, […], page 317:

English armory knows an animal which it terms the male griffin, which has no wings, but which has gold rays issuing from its body in all directions. [Hugo Gerard] Ströhl terms the badge of the Earls of Ormonde, which from his description are plainly male griffins, keythongs, which he classes with the panther; and probably he is correct in looking upon our male griffin as merely one form of the heraldic panther.

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, “Beasts”, in The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack […] and Edinburgh, page 136, column 2:

Infrequently, a griffin is portrayed without wings; in 15th-century and later heraldry such a beast may be called an ‘alce’ or a ‘keythong.’

[2001, Osita Iroku, A Day in the Life of God, →ISBN, page 85:

Folks gave the beast many names. Griffin, griffon, gryphon, alce, keythong, gryphen, griffen, gryphen, and opinicus…

[2009, Benjamin Towe, The First Wandmaker (Elfdreams of Parallan; II), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:

The more common representation of the griffin is the female griffin, a creature with wings. Male griffins do NOT have wings and are termed “alces” or “keythongs.”

[2009 June, The Celator, volume 23, number 6:

They’d befriended him because he fed them the tastiest morsels, Alce, the gilded griffin, preferred Marvel while Keythong, the agate stone one, craved DC Comics.

2010, Shirin Dubbin, Dreams’ Dark Kiss, Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:

There were griffins in all their variety—the standard winged, lion-rumped, eagle-headed; the wingless keythong; the opinicus, with a lion’s forelegs; and the hippogriff, with its horse parts thrown in for good measure. They all looked more or less the same to Meg, and she was surprised to see each kind grouped in its own offish little clique, the keythongs eyeing the hippogriffs with dark suspicion, who in turn raised their hackles at the traditional griffins.

2011, Laura L. Sullivan, Guardian of the Green Hill, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 287:

figure 11 Cloven-hoofed, wingless griffin (also called an alce or a keythong in later heraldry) symbolizing the sun, and two-legged dragon (wyvern) symbolizing the moon.

[2011, Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 58:

Gryphons are egg-layers, though it is the Keythong who guards the nest and warms the eggs. Keythongs are somewhat larger, considerably faster and far more vicious than their female counterparts.

2012, Timothy Groves, “[The Creatures] Keythong”, in The Book of Creatures, →ISBN, page 115:

He didn’t even know the animal’s gender. But most gryphons were supposed to be female. Male gryphons were quite rare — what were they called in heraldry? Keythongs, that was it.

2015, D.R. Ranshaw, “Allies and Foes”, in Gryphon’s Heir (The Annals of Arrinor; I), FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45:

Alce / Variations: Anthalops, Alcida, Calopus, Keythong, Panthalops, Tapopus / In heraldic symbology the alce is a wingless, male griffin with rays or spikes of gold protruding from several parts of its body; on occasion it also sports two long straight horns atop its head. A pair of such creatures is present on the coat of arms of the Earl of Ormande.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 22, column 1:

"Wait, I thought griffins had wings," said Julia. "Why don't you just fly up and we'll meet you at the top?" "For the last time, I am a keythong. Female griffins have the wings and the grace and all that nonsense. Keythongs have spikes on their back and the balance of a drunken hobgoblin.[…]"

2017, David A Wilson, “This Quest Thing”, in Aaron Gray and the Dragon War, →ISBN, page 23:

The live-born gryphlets and opiniclets are revered as prophets and leaders of the future, primarily because they will soar high above their wingless brothers and sisters, that subset of gryphonic beings known as keythongs and kryphons. […] “Jo and Roonen, there is a group of wingless gryphons ahead of you in a clearing. They have some sort of encampment there.” “Those are what the gryphons call ‘keythongs,’ Warford,” Jophriel responds, “They are part of a ground squadron. Don’t do anything. Let us talk to them first.” Warford grumbles about it being dangerous to try to communicate with the keythongs but does not try to dissuade them.

2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, pages 4 (Opinicus) and 237 (The Quest Begins):

They had the opportunity to secure animals for their treasure hunting—griffins (fore-half of an eagle with wings and hind-half of a lion), griffinoids like opinicuses (full lion's body with eagle head and wings), keythongs (fore-half of a giant eagle, hind-half of a lion and spiky protrusions on its back and head), axex (peacock-like head, wings, wild cat-like body), hieracosphinxes (strong lion body with an eagle head, larger than all). […] Also, the hall was a menagerie of beasts. Noble keythongs (wingless griffinoid with the body of a lion and the head and forelegs of an eagle), axex (head of a hawk and a body of a very slim, sleek lion), and opinicuses (often mistaken for griffins — all four of its legs are those of a lion with a giant eagle head with or without wings).

2021, Austin Dragon, Kingdom at Titan’s End (The Fabled Quest Chronicles; 6), California: Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:

A mythical beast resembling a griffin with no wings, often classified as a male griffin.

John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond
Ormond knot


keythong

English: keythong

peyr keythongs

1475, manuscript in the College of Arms collection describing Edward IV’s French Expedition of 1475 (Coll. Arms ms. 2nd M.16, f. xvi):


wiwern

wiwern (nominative singular)
wiwerny (nominative plural)
wiwerna (genitive singular)
wiwernów (genitive plural)
wiwernowi (dative singular)
wiwernom (dative plural)
wiwerna (accusative singular)
wiwerny (accusative plural)
wiwernem (instrumental singular)
wiwernami (instrumental plural)
wiwernie (locative singular)
wiwernach (locative plural)
wiwernie (singular vocative)
wiwerny (plural vocative)


epimacus

Supporters 2 Epimacus’s, the Necks purfled and the ſlip of their Bellies Or, Beaked Sable and Wings extending upward gules.

1708, A New View of London: or, An Ample Account of That City, in Eight Sections. […], volume II, London: […] John Nicholson […], and Robert Knaplock […], page 613, column 2:

Here are a great collection of antique gems in intaglio; a canopus of agate, an epimacus of chalcedony; a head of Tiberius of one ſingle turquoiſe as large as a hen’s egg, a very great curioſity: […]

1770 December 28, [Anna, Lady Miller], “Letter XXIX.”, in Letters from Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &c. of That Country, in the Years mdcclxx and mdcclxxi, to a Friend Residing in France, by an English Woman, volume II, London: […] Edward and Charles Dilly, published 1776, pages 117–118:

The Opinicus, or Epimacus / This creature appears to be a variety of the griffin family.

1906, John Vinycomb, Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry, Chapman and Hall, Limited, […], page 162:

It would be a very interesting but a lengthy task to trace out the origin and history of the various traditional monsters, such as the basilisk, the gorgon, the cockatrice, the salamander, and the epimacus, which have come into European legend and belief, and to give some account of the special deadly qualities of each.

1910, Ray Lankester, “The Dragon: A Fancy or a Fact”, in Science from an Easy Chair, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], page 125:

Thus were born from credulity, fancy and fertile imagination, in successive ages, dragons, medusas, basilisks, salamanders, gorgons and unicorns, the cocatrice, the epimacus and the seductive mermaid.

1930, Indian State Railways Magazine, page 15:

On another shield is engraved the Company’s crest—an epimacus, an imaginary beast resembling a griffin.

1966, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, volume 39, page 367:

[…] a shop named Charms and Marvels, the marvelousness if it supposedly a presence of wizards with magical powers to clothe a naked visitor like myself in the wink of an eye and free of charge, but where instantly its marionettes, foliage on bureaus, specimens in apothecaries’ gallipots, taxidermized epimacuses, hippogriffs, manticores, and unbashful bijou putti sprung to life; […]

2009, William Penn, “Garden Speedwells, Rain Lilies”, in Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, page 586:


ਬਲ਼ਾ

pa-noun

ਬਲ਼ਾ • (baḷā) m

ਵਲ਼ਾ ਵਲ਼ਾ#Punjabi


ਦੁਮੂੰਹੀ

ਦੁਮੂੰਹੀ • (dumū̃hī) f

From ਦੁਮੂੰਹਾਂ (dumū̃hā̃).


sædraca

sǣdraca (canonical masculine)
sǣdraca (nominative singular)
sǣdracan (nominative plural)
sǣdracan (accusative singular)
sǣdracan (accusative plural)
sǣdracan (genitive singular)
sǣdracena (genitive plural)
sǣdracan (dative singular)
sǣdracum (dative plural)

Compound of sǣ (“sea”) + draca (“dragon”).


magic spell

(fantasy) Words or a formula with magical powers.


agbọghọ mmụọ

head

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

ig-pos

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

ig-noun

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ

àgbọghọ̀ m̀mụọ


슬라임

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


flightmare

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest.

2020, Gaston D. Cox, Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories:

(fantasy, D&D) A type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.


цуэҏҏьт

head

цуэҏҏьт (cuer̥r̥’t)


dragonlength

Further investigation proved that the plateau was isolated and ample to pasture a huge herd of food[-]beasts for the dragons. It ended in a sheer drop of several dragonlengths into denser jungle on one side, the sea-side escarpment on the other.

1968, Anne McCaffrey, “The Cold Between”, in Dragonflight, Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 262:

An elv’in scoutship was not a large ship, less than two dragonlengths.

2002, James Clemens (pseudonym; James Paul Czajkowski), Wit’ch Star, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 28:

The Copper stood before the massive Black Rock in the center of the Lavadome; it was dozens of dragonlengths high, heavy and black and forbidding.

2007, E. E. Knight (pseudonym; Eric Frisch), chapter 22, in Dragon Outcast (The Age of Fire; 3), Roc Books, →ISBN, page 257:

(fantasy) A distance equal to the length of a dragon.


banŝio

eo-head

banŝio (accusative singular banŝion, plural banŝioj, accusative plural banŝiojn)

banŝion (accusative singular)
banŝioj (plural)
banŝiojn (accusative plural)


baba jaga

baba jaga (nominative singular)
baby jagi (nominative plural)
baby jagi (genitive singular)
bab jag (genitive plural)
babie jadze (dative singular)
babom jagom (dative plural)
babę jagę (accusative singular)
baby jagi (accusative plural)
babą jagą (instrumental singular)
babami jagami (instrumental plural)
babie jadze (locative singular)
babach jagach (locative plural)
babo jago (singular vocative)
baby jagi (plural vocative)

A jak się na mnie denerwuje, to stwierdza, że jestem babą jagą.

And when he gets upset with me, he says that I am a hex.

(colloquial, derogatory) hag, harridan, vixen, virago, witch (ugly or unpleasant woman)


baba-jaga

(colloquial, derogatory, Slavic mythology) Alternative spelling of baba jaga.


Cerber

Cerber (nominative singular)
Cerbera (genitive singular)
Cerberowi (dative singular)
Cerbera (accusative singular)
Cerberem (instrumental singular)
Cerberze (locative singular)
Cerberze (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos).

(Greek mythology) Cerberus (giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades)


DBZ

This is an RPG experience DBZ fans must have, but even if you've never seen DBZ, it's still an interesting game due to the unique fighting scenes and the ability to fly around the map.

1993 April, “Dragon Ball Z”, in GameFan, page 89:

If you’re a DBZ fanatic, the release of Dead Zone (and the announcement of two more DBZ movies coming soon to DVD) is reason enough to purchase a player.

1998, Shidoshi, Dragon Ball Z the Movie: Dead Zone review, GameFan, April 1998, page 89

Even in Japan, there has been no weakening of DBZ mania, despite the fact that it's almost nine years since the series ended.

2004, Satoshi Ikeda, Martin Foster, The Dragon Ball Z Legend: The Quest Continues, page 12:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Ball Z.


hemomancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hemomancer.

(fantasy) One who practices magic or divination involving blood.


chronomancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chronomancer.

(fantasy) One who specializes in magic involving time, for example manipulating time or divining the future.


bloodmage

“But it is hard, lady, and dark. Some would say that death is cleaner. I learned the way in Asshai, and paid dear for the lesson. My teacher was a bloodmage from the Shadow Lands.”

1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, illustrated edition, published 2016, page 744:

Hated and feared, magic was banished from the land. But now, freed from spells of the wicked bloodmages, magic–both good and evil–returns.

2003, advertisement for The Hob's Bargain, in Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood, page 286 (approx.)

“It seems that was the event being celebrated at Dun Ardagh when the bloodmage came and put this curse on his family.”

2006, Laura J. Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh, page 89:

(fantasy) Alternative spelling of blood mage.


blood mage

Garahel, the hero of the Fourth Blight, had had a sister who was a blood mage.

2014, Liane Merciel, Dragon Age: The Last Flight, page 167:

Blood mages were draining his blood, carrying it off in small bowls to pour on the drums, on the platform, and the stone floor below, feeding the magic.

2015, Margaret Weis, The Seventh Sigil, page 569:

The military took care of the blood mages and the practitioners of the Arts of Air had their own schools and secrets.

2017, M. J. Scott, The Forbidden Heir, page 8:

(fantasy) One who practices magic involving blood.


Cleganebowl

From Clegane + bowl (“a postseason football competition”).

compound

Believers in the Cleganebowl were a unique brand of fans who embraced the tagline “GET HYPE.”

2019, Kim Renfro, The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones, page 173:

In a similar vein to Cleganebowl, I feel almost certain that Hodor will appear as a wight in the Night King's army.

2019, Joe Cunningham, "Game of Thrones Season 8", University Express (University College Cork), 2 April 2019, page 18

The style evident in the ‘Cleganebowl’ scene contrasts with that apparent in the intercut scenes, which follow the narrative perspective of Arya Stark.

2021, Daniel Clarke, “A city in flames: King’s Landing as artistic archive in HBO’s Game of Thrones”, in Landscape Research, volume 47, number 7, page 905:

(ASoIaF/GoT fandom slang) The showdown between brothers Sandor Clegane and Gregor Clegane on the television series Game of Thrones.


you know nothing, Jon Snow

From a catchphrase said repeatedly by the character Ygritte to Jon Snow in the novel A Storm of Swords (2000) by George R. R. Martin. The phrase, initially used reproachfully and then later affectionately after Jon and Ygritte fall in love, was popularised by its use in the television adaptation Game of Thrones.

People in New York are complaining about how hot it is and I’m like you know nothing Jon Snow.

2014, @becafarmer, quoted in Metro (New York), 3 July 2014 - 6 July 2014, page 2

All your planning is done. Your bag is packed. You've got your pass. You've finished marathoning Orphan Black. It's con time. But if you think you're ready to head inside just because you've done all this planning, you know nothing, Jon Snow. There is a lot to deal with once you're through the front doors.

2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Geek Girls, page 124:

Charles nodded, understanding. "I know."
From up front, Pete said, "You know nothing, Jon Snow."

2023, Jason Powell, No Man's Ghost, unnumbered page:

(humorous) Used to imply that someone lacks experience, knowledge, or understanding, especially as a rebuttal of a previous statement.

A Storm of Swords
Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Jon Snow (character)
Ygritte


I choose violence

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-I choose violence.wav

Cersei Lannister
Game of Thrones
No One (Game of Thrones)

Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "No One" (2016) of the television series Game of Thrones, in which Cersei Lannister, facing clerical detention and ordered to restrain her bodyguard, calmly responds, "I choose violence."

You see, I have this funny thing I say every morning and to my close circle of women friends quite often, especially when they're looking for advice on how to deal with white privilege and entitlement, and that is: 'Choose violence' I don't mean this literally. But when we say what needs to be said, a Black woman will always be seen as aggressive or arrogant, instead of confident, unafraid and assertive. […] But choosing the easier path doesn't benefit me, harmlessness does not benefit me. I choose violence.

2022, Haji Mohamed Dawjee, Here's the Thing, unnumbered page:

On my last night in town before heading to the Midwest, I decide to try the hot dog at the Cape Cod Cafe. The suggestion draws some mockery on both sides of the family, who know damn well that coming to CCC without getting a bar pizza is a waste of their money (I offer to pay: "Oh my God, Mrs. Hollywood with her own frickin' money, huh," an aunt says before slapping down a Visa with travel points). It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except "hot dog." I choose violence. I order the hot dog.

2023, Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, unnumbered pages

The boring asss griiiiind. I usually enjoy the grind, I’m currently up to my ears in Diablo4 grind. It was just so bland and monotonous. Same with Witcher3 and Skyrim……I choose violence.

2023 June 28, u/KickballJamal, Reddit, r/AskReddit:

(Internet slang, humorous, idiomatic) Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.


dracarys

en-verb

dracarys (third-person singular simple present dracaryses, present participle dracarysing, simple past and past participle dracarysed)

dracaryses (present singular third-person)
dracarysing (participle present)
dracarysed (participle past)
dracarysed (past)

A Song of Ice and Fire
Daenerys Targaryen
David J. Peterson
Game of Thrones

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in the fictional language of High Valyrian featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).

coin

It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.

2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35:

What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch

2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 90:

On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.

2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page:


round-ear

From an allusion to the round pinnae of humans, as contrasted to the long, pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves, fairies, and similar fictional species.

Even though the round-ear wore a short, loose deerskin tunic, awkwardly stitched and beaded, Bearclaw could tell that the body beneath was almost as slender and fragilely boned as an elf’s, with the exception of the big hands and clumsy feet.

1993, Richard Pini, Dark Hours: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, page 296:

‘You stinking, cowardly round-ear,’ she snarled, baring her canines at him.

2011, Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates, page 22:

"Shut up, round-ear," he barked back. There were a couple of laughs at that. And a few of the elves did look like they thought making a cage of human limbs could be a fun way to pass the time.

2017, Jon Hollins, The Dragon Lords: False Idols, page 229:

(fantasy, slang, often derogatory) A human or half-human.


valar morghulis

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase, which means "all men must die" in the fictional language of High Valyrian, is used as a greeting by the Faceless Men, a combination death cult and assassin's guild. The traditional response is valar dohaeris (“all men must serve”).

On a philosophical note, there has never been a moment in my life where I’ve truly considered the gravity of death. Yes I know, “All men must die,” but I’m a writer, not a BASE jumper. I spend most of my time behind a bright computer screen, thinking. Yet as I started driving along the edge of a snowy cliff tumbling hundreds of meters downwards to the rocky sea, without snow tyres, the possibility was getting a little bit too real. Valar morghulis.

2015, Hannah Jane Cohen, "A Road Trip To Djúpavík", The Reykjavík Grapevine, 5 June 2015 - 18 June 2015, page 31

In 2015, different beasts threaten our lives—heart disease, cancers, and chronic airway diseases comprise the majority of our disease burden. Valar morghulis—all men must die.

2015, Keegan Guidolin & Matthew Douglas-Vail, "What kills us and what costs us: An examination of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge", University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, Volume 84, Issue 1, Winter 2015, page 18

You fought a good battle, and it was an honour to be there right beside you. I will miss you. “Valar Morghulis” my friend. The God of Death has called one of its valiant warrior home, albeit, too soon.

2019, "Dedication", in Jennifer P. B. Price, "Testing Construct Redundancy: Resilience, Grit, Hardiness, and Mental Toughness", thesis submitted to Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS), page 7

(fandom slang) An expression used as an acknowledgement of human mortality and the inevitability of death.


knife-ear

From an allusion to the pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves. Popularised by Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and its subsequent use in the Dragon Age franchise. Possibly influenced by the earlier round-ear.

You've a lot of nerve, knife-ears. This'll go badly for you.

2009 November 3, BioWare (developer), David Gaider (lead writer), Dragon Age: Origins, →OCLC, scene: wedding cutscene in the City Elf origin:

"Hard to believe the elves wiped out the Knights of Saint Augustine. Their captain was capable of summoning the angel, you know? How did a couple of knife-ears stand up to the Kingdom's strongest knights and an angel?”

2020, 616th Special Information Battalion (trans. ZackZeal), Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1, unnumbered page

"Get your ass in here. It's time you started acting like the chicano ork you are and not some pansy elf listening to Americano music by yourself all the time. That's what knife-ears do! Now get in here!"

2022, O. C. Presley, Shadowrun: Kings of the Street, unnumbered pages


valar dohaeris

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase means "all men must serve" in the fictional language of High Valyrian. It is a traditional response to valar morghulis (“all men must die”).

If Valar Morghulis, then I shall do my very best in paying it forward in the time I have left. Valar Dohaeris.

2014, "Acknowledgements", in Kathleen A. Moore, "Scrutiny on the Bounty: From Crisis Communication To Crisis Conversation", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, page xi

But soon there will be a new clickbait queen, as HBO's Game of Thrones gears up for its penultimate season this weekend. After that, you can expect endless recaps and speculations for the next two months, clogging up your social media feed (not to mention the endless memes) as the show moves beyond the source material and into the realm of "everyone will have theories." We'll try to steer clear of that business, but no promises: We are a free alt-weekly in 2017, after all, and everyone's got bills to pay. Valar dohaeris.

2017 July 14, Josh Kupecki, “Stream Analysis”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 43:

Although Dr. Murphy’s “watch has ended,” her trailblazing legacy and extreme passion to improve kidney and health care will live on in many ways (14), but forever in our hearts and minds. Indeed, Valar dohaeris (15).

2021, Steven G. Coca, "Tribute to Barbara Murphy", Kidney360, Volume 2, Issue 9, page 1500

(fandom slang) An expression used as an affirmation of duty to a higher purpose or authority.


High Valyrian

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. First referenced in his 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones. Developed into a usable conlang by David J. Peterson.

The HBO series Games of Thrones, which premiered in 2011, has included the languages of Dothraki and High Valyrian, both created by David Peterson.

2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, pages 148–149:

Though two language courses (High Valyrian and Klingon) are constructed languages from popular TV series (Game of Thrones and Star Trek, respectively), there are reportedly more than 100,000 learners doing the High Valyrian course.

2017, David M. Palfreyman, “Learner Autonomy and Groups”, in Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas, page 79:

The use of High Valyrian mirrors the use of Latin both in the medieval Christian church and as a common language used among the educated elite.

2019, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones, page 113:

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language developed for use in the television series Game of Thrones.

A Game of Thrones
David J. Peterson
Valyrian languages


Patronus

From Latin patrōnus (“protector”). A reference to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; the term first appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999). Doublet of padrone, patron, and pattern.

Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.

2017, Luvvie Ajayi, “Know Your Worth”, in Beverly Bond, editor, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth., 37 INK/Atria Books, →ISBN, page 64, column 2:

The day after the last episode of Totally Biased aired in November 2013, I found out that the head of MSNBC was interested in meeting with me. Rachel Maddow, who I consider my Patronus, had set it up.

2017, W. Kamau Bell, “My Awkward Joking Around with the KKK”, in The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, Dutton, →ISBN:

For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.

2017, Susan Dennard, “Acknowledgments”, in Windwitch, Tor, published 2018, →ISBN:

That’s what I love about her: she confronts her fears. She’s my Patronus.

2019, Rafi Mittlefehldt, chapter IX, in What Makes Us, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 132:

My Patronus Agent Gemini Twin, Barbara Poelle: For never giving up on me.

2019, James Brandon, “Acknowledgments”, in Ziggy, Stardust and Me, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 2022:

She’s my patronus. When I can’t deal with real life, I escape into her virtual space, where everything is perfectly lit, perfectly coifed, and perfectly accompanied by neo-soul music I never hear anywhere but natural hair videos and the beauty supply shop.

2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water, Tor Teen, published 2021, →ISBN:

Then Quinn, my friend, my confidant, my Patronus, outstretches the microphone and drops it onto his chest.

2020, Ashley Poston, Bookish and the Beast (Once Upon a Con), Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 242:

‘Avinash when and how are you… Oh, sorry I will come back later.’ Seriously, Gautham? You couldn’t have come like, five minutes ago when this drama queen was on a roll? Suddenly feeling okay, I backed out of his arms and looked in the direction of my Patronus. ‘Oh, no it’s fine Gautham! Shwetha and I were just talking.’

2020, Lavnya Krishnamurthy, I Prescribe Love, Inkstate Books, →ISBN:

The screen came alive with a little ‘Hi’ / I knew you were my patronus

2021, VeeKay, Runa: Fleeting Thoughts Collected, →ISBN:

We rode all the way to the lake, and because Billy was my Patronus, he rode straight past the picnic benches and into the hidden glade only locals knew about.

2021, Garrett Leigh, Unforgotten, Carina Press, →ISBN:

Since then, Jimmie joined my relay team, and the rest is history. I’m convinced he’s my patronus. I need his fire, jokes and brotherly love to get across Death Valley.

2021 November 26, Kelaine Conochan, “Badwater ultramarathon: What I lost and found during 135 miles of the world's most impossible run”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 2021-11-26; published in J.A. Adande, editor, The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022, Triumph Books, 2022, →ISBN:


my watch has ended

Derived from a misquotation of a phrase used in the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. In the novels, "and now his watch is ended" is used to conclude eulogies honouring fallen members of the Night's Watch, a brotherhood of men who swear lifelong vows to defend the Wall. "My watch is ended" is used in the episode "Oathbreaker" (2016) by a character who resigns from the Watch.

My watch has ended.
For the last eight years – four of them here at Courier Life Publications – I have had the privilege to be your eyes and ears, your evaluator, and a watchdog in New York City's local sports scene.

2016, Joseph Staszewski, "Farewell – but not goodbye", Brooklyn Courier, 20 May 2016 - 26 May 2016, page 44

My watch has ended. After six years, I'm about to conclude my last three-year term as department chair.

2018, Gary W. Lewandowski, "My Watch Has Ended: A Chair's Exit Interview", The Department Chair, Fall 2018, page 10

"I really enjoyed my time on city council the last eight years. I've learned a lot, developed some really good relationships. I'm proud of the work we've done. And you know, I'm going to be thinking of our achievements as I move forward but for now, my watch has ended."

2020, Ryan Bater, quoted in John Cairns, "Bater concedes race", Regional News-Optimist (The Battlefords, SK), 12 November 2020, page 3

(fandom slang) Used to indicate that one's duties or tenure in a position have ended.

A Song of Ice and Fire
Game of Thrones
Night's Watch
Oathbreaker (Game of Thrones)
The Wall (A Song of Ice and Fire)


ਪਰੀ

(figurative) very beautiful or graceful woman


'saur

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

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

The city-folk had learned not to run screaming at the sight of a 'saur with a human being on it, but they were still in sufficient awe that trouble was unlikely.

2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, The Sky People, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 75:

Are there other good candidates for a collective term? Mesosaur might work. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other saurs all lived during the Mesozoic Era – the age of reptiles – 252 to 66 million years ago.

[2014 September 30, JV Chamary, “Paleosaurs: A Solution To The Dinosaur Dilemma?”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings. Only as it lands, crashing into the reeds at the edge of the river, does Willem realize that it is not a bird, but a winged saur.

2015, Brian Falkner, Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:

Who better to prank with dinosaurs than the king of 'saurs himself?

2015 June 16, Allison Bagg, “These Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scared The Sh*t Out Of Chris Pratt”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2023-06-28:

And her most recent tune, "Dinosaurs in Love," is about a pair of smitten 'saurs who find themselves dining at a party just before the apocalyptic event that wiped-out their race.

2020 January 29, Hannah Sparks, “3-year-old sings heartbreaking song about ’Dinosaurs in Love’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-30:

(informal or science fiction, fantasy) A dinosaur.


巫妖

/u⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

/u⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/


furface

Look, kid ... forget about what ol' fur face there said about alien abduction. I suspect you were sleepwalking. Have you ever done that before?

2005 August 19, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

(fiction, comics, fantasy) A term of address used for any animal with fur, ranging from playful mocking to utmost derision.


morpher

(science fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter.


svartfolk

Compound of svart (“dark; black”) + folk (“people”). Coined by Swedish game designer and author Anders Blixt in 1986. Based on the terms svartalf (“dark elf”) and svartnisse (“goblin”).

coinage

"Vilken roll man väljer beror till stor del på vilken upplevelse man är ute efter", påpekar Mikael. "Är man svartfolk är det mer spänning och fajter, medan människorna i byn mer ägnar sig åt fest och sång". Alla fem har provat på svartfolksroller. Nu har de dock övergått till människoroller. Då blir lajvandet mer inriktat på intriger.

2001 March 23, Sandra Janrell, “Förvandlingen [The metamorphosis]”, in Blekinge Läns Tidning:

"Which role you choose largely depends on the experience you’re looking for", Mikael points out. "If you play as goblinoids, it’s more about excitement and fighting, whereas the humans in the village are more focused on feasting and singing". All five have tried playing goblinoid roles. However, they have now switched to human roles, which makes the live-action role-playing more centred on intrigue.


ucipital mapilary

Pseudo-Latinate/medical-sounding term invented for the 1941 film Suspicion, and popularized by the 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Compare similar sounding words like occipital.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ucipital mapilary.

(uncommon, chiefly fantasy) The suprasternal notch, the visible dip in the human neck between the clavicles.


Buffyatric

I'm Harper. Resident breadbaker, librarian, Buffyatric, occasional pirate wench, and quondam Irish harper.

1997 October 28, SjPete, “Stranger enters, goes to corner table”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet):

Uh-oh, better be careful what you say in that regard. I made the same point here just a few weeks ago and got flamed by one of the posting board's "Buffyatrics" (which group actually doesn't seem distinguishable from the younger set, at least not according to some of the items posted at their website).

1998 October 4, David Samuel Barr, “Joss Answers Questions — Spoilers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

The word "gay" has been adopted as a generic term to cover both male and female homosexuals (aka lesbians). Even *I* know that and I'm an ageing Buffyatric!

2004 April 1, Dave K, “BtVS on new gay channel”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(fandom slang) An elderly fan of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).


barbegazi

en-noun

barbegazi (plural barbegazi or barbegazis)

Both male and female barbegazi wear white fur garments which help them blend into the snowy scenery.

1996, D. J. Conway, Magickal, Mythical, Mystical Beasts, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 199:

Some humans living in the region say that the Barbegazi are very helpful, but the credit is more often than not given to the St. Bernard dogs.

2001, D. J. Conway, Magickal Mystical Creatures: Invite Their Powers into Your Life, Llewellyn Publications, published 2018, →ISBN:

Barbegazi are such expert rescuers, you see.

2013, Raynetta J. Stocks, The Isle of Kishi Mora (The Lova Chronicles), book 2, RJS Books, →ISBN, page 122:

A halfling has been hiding in the snow outside the barbegazi village.

2016, Kim McDougall, Hibernaculum, Kim McDougall, →ISBN:

You couldn't keep a barbegazi inside a house. […] Similar to polar bears, barbegazi are covered in an insulating underfur, topped by long guard hairs.

2019, H. S. Norup, The Missing Barbegazi, North Star Editions, →ISBN:

Frozenfalls are specifically for the Queen herself; there are, however, some small ice creatures such as qiqirns, barbegazis, ice-cream cats, snow aliens, ice wraiths and there is also one ice dragon; but no other guardian or creatures are allowed on this island.

2022, Bianca Steyn, Reborn, Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page vi:

(mythology) A kind of gnomelike or dwarflike mythical creature.


grey folk

One of the most important of all Yuletide observances was the 'saining' required to guard life or properties from the Trows. If the proper observances were omitted, the 'grey-folk' were sure to take advantage of the opportunity.

1888, Biot Edmonndston, Jessie Saxby, The Home of a Naturalist, page 136:

(Scotland, mythology) elves, the fae, the wee folk.


ホムンクルス

[ho̞mɯ̟̃ŋkɯ̟ɾɯ̟sɨ]

Learned borrowing from Latin homunculus.


wolf-child

Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:

(mythology, fantasy) A being that is part wolf, part child.


archmagus

A powerful archmagus, who could whisk himself from place to place with a few words of magic, did not travel the dusty roads of Ansalon on the back of a donkey unless he had good reason to want to dawdle in inns and gossip with the innkeepers, all the while keeping an eye on who came in and who went out.

1999, Margaret Weis, Don Perrin, Brothers in Arms (The Raistlin Chronicles; 2), TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:

The archmagus had absolute authority over the Isle of Mid and everyone on it.

2008, Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 5:

Gate of Archmagus Ginan’i: One of the five elder magic gates created to end the war between demons and elvenkind in the year 35,398 of the elven calendar. Created by Ginan’i Azurebright at the cost of the archmagus’s own life. […] By the rules of the magic he’d outlined, this gate demanded uncorrupted blood. In the parlance of the elven archmagi, that meant the blood of their own, nigh-immortal people.

2018, Xavier P. Hunter, House Rules (Metagamer Chronicles; 2), Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN:


rohkelikko

rohkelikko (nominative singular)
rohkelikot (nominative plural)
rohkelikko (accusative nominative singular)
rohkelikot (accusative nominative plural)
rohkelikon (accusative genitive singular)
rohkelikot (accusative genitive plural)
rohkelikon (genitive singular)
rohkelikkojen (genitive plural)
rohkelikkoa (partitive singular)
rohkelikkoja (partitive plural)
rohkelikossa (inessive singular)
rohkelikoissa (inessive plural)
rohkelikosta (elative singular)
rohkelikoista (elative plural)
rohkelikkoon (illative singular)
rohkelikkoihin (illative plural)
rohkelikolla (adessive singular)
rohkelikoilla (adessive plural)
rohkelikolta (ablative singular)
rohkelikoilta (ablative plural)
rohkelikolle (allative singular)
rohkelikoille (allative plural)
rohkelikkona (essive singular)
rohkelikkoina (essive plural)
rohkelikoksi (singular translative)
rohkelikoiksi (plural translative)
rohkelikotta (abessive singular)
rohkelikoitta (abessive plural)
rohkelikoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
rohkelikkoni (nominative singular)
rohkelikkoni (nominative plural)
rohkelikkoni (accusative nominative singular)
rohkelikkoni (accusative nominative plural)
rohkelikkoni (accusative genitive singular)
rohkelikkoni (accusative genitive plural)
rohkelikkoni (genitive singular)
rohkelikkojeni (genitive plural)
rohkelikkoani (partitive singular)
rohkelikkojani (partitive plural)
rohkelikossani (inessive singular)
rohkelikoissani (inessive plural)
rohkelikostani (elative singular)
rohkelikoistani (elative plural)
rohkelikkooni (illative singular)
rohkelikkoihini (illative plural)
rohkelikollani (adessive singular)
rohkelikoillani (adessive plural)
rohkelikoltani (ablative singular)
rohkelikoiltani (ablative plural)
rohkelikolleni (allative singular)
rohkelikoilleni (allative plural)
rohkelikkonani (essive singular)
rohkelikkoinani (essive plural)
rohkelikokseni (singular translative)
rohkelikoikseni (plural translative)
rohkelikottani (abessive singular)
rohkelikoittani (abessive plural)
rohkelikkoineni (comitative plural)
rohkelikkosi (nominative singular)
rohkelikkosi (nominative plural)
rohkelikkosi (accusative nominative singular)
rohkelikkosi (accusative nominative plural)
rohkelikkosi (accusative genitive singular)
rohkelikkosi (accusative genitive plural)
rohkelikkosi (genitive singular)
rohkelikkojesi (genitive plural)
rohkelikkoasi (partitive singular)
rohkelikkojasi (partitive plural)
rohkelikossasi (inessive singular)
rohkelikoissasi (inessive plural)
rohkelikostasi (elative singular)
rohkelikoistasi (elative plural)
rohkelikkoosi (illative singular)
rohkelikkoihisi (illative plural)
rohkelikollasi (adessive singular)
rohkelikoillasi (adessive plural)
rohkelikoltasi (ablative singular)
rohkelikoiltasi (ablative plural)
rohkelikollesi (allative singular)
rohkelikoillesi (allative plural)
rohkelikkonasi (essive singular)
rohkelikkoinasi (essive plural)
rohkelikoksesi (singular translative)
rohkelikoiksesi (plural translative)
rohkelikottasi (abessive singular)
rohkelikoittasi (abessive plural)
rohkelikkoinesi (comitative plural)
rohkelikkomme (nominative singular)
rohkelikkomme (nominative plural)
rohkelikkomme (accusative nominative singular)
rohkelikkomme (accusative nominative plural)
rohkelikkomme (accusative genitive singular)
rohkelikkomme (accusative genitive plural)
rohkelikkomme (genitive singular)
rohkelikkojemme (genitive plural)
rohkelikkoamme (partitive singular)
rohkelikkojamme (partitive plural)
rohkelikossamme (inessive singular)
rohkelikoissamme (inessive plural)
rohkelikostamme (elative singular)
rohkelikoistamme (elative plural)
rohkelikkoomme (illative singular)
rohkelikkoihimme (illative plural)
rohkelikollamme (adessive singular)
rohkelikoillamme (adessive plural)
rohkelikoltamme (ablative singular)
rohkelikoiltamme (ablative plural)
rohkelikollemme (allative singular)
rohkelikoillemme (allative plural)
rohkelikkonamme (essive singular)
rohkelikkoinamme (essive plural)
rohkelikoksemme (singular translative)
rohkelikoiksemme (plural translative)
rohkelikottamme (abessive singular)
rohkelikoittamme (abessive plural)
rohkelikkoinemme (comitative plural)
rohkelikkonne (nominative singular)
rohkelikkonne (nominative plural)
rohkelikkonne (accusative nominative singular)
rohkelikkonne (accusative nominative plural)
rohkelikkonne (accusative genitive singular)
rohkelikkonne (accusative genitive plural)
rohkelikkonne (genitive singular)
rohkelikkojenne (genitive plural)
rohkelikkoanne (partitive singular)
rohkelikkojanne (partitive plural)
rohkelikossanne (inessive singular)
rohkelikoissanne (inessive plural)
rohkelikostanne (elative singular)
rohkelikoistanne (elative plural)
rohkelikkoonne (illative singular)
rohkelikkoihinne (illative plural)
rohkelikollanne (adessive singular)
rohkelikoillanne (adessive plural)
rohkelikoltanne (ablative singular)
rohkelikoiltanne (ablative plural)
rohkelikollenne (allative singular)
rohkelikoillenne (allative plural)
rohkelikkonanne (essive singular)
rohkelikkoinanne (essive plural)
rohkelikoksenne (singular translative)
rohkelikoiksenne (plural translative)
rohkelikottanne (abessive singular)
rohkelikoittanne (abessive plural)
rohkelikkoinenne (comitative plural)
rohkelikkonsa (nominative singular)
rohkelikkonsa (nominative plural)
rohkelikkonsa (accusative nominative singular)
rohkelikkonsa (accusative nominative plural)
rohkelikkonsa (accusative genitive singular)
rohkelikkonsa (accusative genitive plural)
rohkelikkonsa (genitive singular)
rohkelikkojensa (genitive plural)
rohkelikkoaan (partitive singular)
rohkelikkoansa (partitive singular)
rohkelikkojaan (partitive plural)
rohkelikkojansa (partitive plural)
rohkelikossaan (inessive singular)
rohkelikossansa (inessive singular)
rohkelikoissaan (inessive plural)
rohkelikoissansa (inessive plural)
rohkelikostaan (elative singular)
rohkelikostansa (elative singular)
rohkelikoistaan (elative plural)
rohkelikoistansa (elative plural)
rohkelikkoonsa (illative singular)
rohkelikkoihinsa (illative plural)
rohkelikollaan (adessive singular)
rohkelikollansa (adessive singular)
rohkelikoillaan (adessive plural)
rohkelikoillansa (adessive plural)
rohkelikoltaan (ablative singular)
rohkelikoltansa (ablative singular)
rohkelikoiltaan (ablative plural)
rohkelikoiltansa (ablative plural)
rohkelikolleen (allative singular)
rohkelikollensa (allative singular)
rohkelikoilleen (allative plural)
rohkelikoillensa (allative plural)
rohkelikkonaan (essive singular)
rohkelikkonansa (essive singular)
rohkelikkoinaan (essive plural)
rohkelikkoinansa (essive plural)
rohkelikokseen (singular translative)
rohkelikoksensa (singular translative)
rohkelikoikseen (plural translative)
rohkelikoiksensa (plural translative)
rohkelikottaan (abessive singular)
rohkelikottansa (abessive singular)
rohkelikoittaan (abessive plural)
rohkelikoittansa (abessive plural)
rohkelikkoineen (comitative plural)
rohkelikkoinensa (comitative plural)

Gryffindor (a member of the Gryffindor house in Harry Potter)


リヴァイアサン

Borrowed from English leviathan, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (liv'yatán).


вадзянік

be-noun

вадзяні́к<b.pr>

вадзяні́к • (vadzjaník) m pers (genitive вадзяніка́, nominative plural вадзянікі́, genitive plural вадзяніко́ў)

вадзяні́к (canonical)
vadzjaník (romanization)
вадзяніка́ (genitive)
вадзянікі́ (nominative plural)
вадзяніко́ў (genitive plural)
вадзяні́к (nominative singular)
вадзянікі́ (nominative plural)
вадзяніка́ (genitive singular)
вадзяніко́ў (genitive plural)
вадзяніку́ (dative singular)
вадзяніка́м (dative plural)
вадзяніка́ (accusative singular)
вадзяніко́ў (accusative plural)
вадзяніко́м (instrumental singular)
вадзяніка́мі (instrumental plural)
вадзяніку́ (locative singular)
вадзяніка́х (locative plural)
вадзянікі́ (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

вадзяні́к<b.pr>

be-tarask:вадзянік be:вадзянік


вадзяны

be-noun

вадзяны́<+.pr>

вадзяны́ • (vadzjaný) m pers (genitive вадзяно́га, nominative plural вадзяны́я, genitive plural вадзяны́х)

вадзяны́ (canonical)
vadzjaný (romanization)
вадзяно́га (genitive)
вадзяны́я (nominative plural)
вадзяны́х (genitive plural)
вадзяны́ (nominative singular)
вадзяны́я (nominative plural)
вадзяно́га (genitive singular)
вадзяны́х (genitive plural)
вадзяно́му (dative singular)
вадзяны́м (dative plural)
вадзяно́га (accusative singular)
вадзяны́х (accusative plural)
вадзяны́м (instrumental singular)
вадзяны́мі (instrumental plural)
вадзяны́м (locative singular)
вадзяны́х (locative plural)

be-ndecl

вадзяны́<+.pr>


цмок

be-noun

цмок • (cmok) m animal (genitive цмо́ка, nominative plural цмо́кі, genitive plural цмо́каў)

cmok (romanization)
цмо́ка (genitive)
цмо́кі (nominative plural)
цмо́каў (genitive plural)
цмок (nominative singular)
цмо́кі (nominative plural)
цмо́ка (genitive singular)
цмо́каў (genitive plural)
цмо́ку (dative singular)
цмо́кам (dative plural)
цмо́ка (accusative singular)
цмо́каў (accusative plural)
цмо́кам (instrumental singular)
цмо́камі (instrumental plural)
цмо́ку (locative singular)
цмо́ках (locative plural)
цмо́кі (count-form plural)

Inherited from Old Belarusian смокъ (smok), from Proto-Slavic *smokъ. Compare Polish smok.

inh+

Шум русалак разбудзиў. Запалиўся смок агнями.

1906, Alaiza Pashkevich, “Мора”, in Хрэст на свабоду, Жоўква, page 5:

The noise stirred mermaids. A dragon ignited his flames.

Šum rusalak razbudziŭ. Zapaliŭsja smok ahnjami.

Szum rusałak razbudziŭ. Zapaliŭsia smok ahniami.

1906, Alaiza Pashkevich, “Mora”, in Chrest na swabodu, Wilnia, page 10:

Bieda ciapier budzie wam, bo heta Cmok, jaho nichto nia može zabić, apryč swiatoha Illi.

1912, Лявон Гвозд, “Cmok”, in Zbornik «Našaj Niwy», number 2, Wilnia: Drukarnia M. Kuchty, page 29:

Now you are going to be in trouble, because that's a Dragon, nobody is able to slay it except for saint Ilia.

Ад не́йкага часу пасяліўся на нашай зямлі ў заварожаным балоце страшны смок-упыр…

1919, Janka Kupała, Раскіданае гняздо, Вільня: Выдаве́цтва Народнага Камісарыяту Асьве́ты, page 55:

Since some time ago, a dreadful dragon-vampire settled on our land in an enchanted swamp…

Ad njéjkaha času pasjaliŭsja na našaj zjamli ŭ zavaróžanym balócje strašny smok-upyr…

Пошасьць, трасца бярэ, есьць дзяцей страшны Цмок, усіх поедам есьць і калеча.

1922, Źmitrok Biadula, “Зачарованы край”, in Пад родным небам, Менск: Адраджэньне, page 83:

Diseases, fever is spreading, children are eaten by a terrible Dragon, who eagerly eats and maims everyone.

Póšasʹcʹ, trasca bjare, jesʹcʹ dzjacjej strašny Cmok, usix pójedam jesʹcʹ i kalječa.

Tajamničy kraj bałot, dzie maŭkliva źziaje sonca,
Dzie kryvioju ad pryhod kormicca ziamla biaskonca.
Tam nivodny adnaroh nie praciahnie i hadziny,
A ŭ piačory drychnie cmok, i nas čakaje šlach adziny.

2020, Soul Strings (lyrics and music), “Adziny šlach”, in Ephemeral III: Imhnieńnie ščaścia, performed by Soul Strings, Koron Korak, and Pavel Lipski, published 2021:

The mysterious land of swamps, where the sun shines in silence,
Where the ground feeds endlessly from the blood of adventures.
No unicorn would survive there even for an hour
And there's a dragon sleeping in the cave, and the only path awaits.

Цмок не адступаўся, біў крыламі зусім нізка, віўся над самымі вершалінамі, сычэў і гнеўна роў, шалёна пляваўся агнём.

2022, Маргарыта Латышкевіч, Вершнікі на дарозе, Litres, published 2023, →ISBN:

The dragon wasn't backing down, it was flapping its wings at a very low altitude, hovering just over the treetops, hissing and roaring angrily, ferociously spitting fire.

Cmok nje adstupaŭsja, biŭ krylami zusim nizka, viŭsja nad samymi vjeršalinami, syčeŭ i hnjeŭna roŭ, šaljóna pljavaŭsja ahnjóm.


балотнік

be-noun

бало́тнік<a.pr>

бало́тнік • (balótnik) m pers (genitive бало́тніка, nominative plural бало́тнікі, genitive plural бало́тнікаў)

бало́тнік (canonical)
balótnik (romanization)
бало́тніка (genitive)
бало́тнікі (nominative plural)
бало́тнікаў (genitive plural)
бало́тнік (nominative singular)
бало́тнікі (nominative plural)
бало́тніка (genitive singular)
бало́тнікаў (genitive plural)
бало́тніку (dative singular)
бало́тнікам (dative plural)
бало́тніка (accusative singular)
бало́тнікаў (accusative plural)
бало́тнікам (instrumental singular)
бало́тнікамі (instrumental plural)
бало́тніку (locative singular)
бало́тніках (locative plural)
бало́тнікі (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

бало́тнік<a.pr>

be-tarask:балотнік be:балотнік


балотнік

be-noun

бало́тнік<a>

бало́тнік • (balótnik) m inan (genitive бало́тніка, nominative plural бало́тнікі, genitive plural бало́тнікаў)

бало́тнік (canonical)
balótnik (romanization)
бало́тніка (genitive)
бало́тнікі (nominative plural)
бало́тнікаў (genitive plural)
бало́тнік (nominative singular)
бало́тнікі (nominative plural)
бало́тніка (genitive singular)
бало́тнікаў (genitive plural)
бало́тніку (dative singular)
бало́тнікам (dative plural)
бало́тнік (accusative singular)
бало́тнікі (accusative plural)
бало́тнікам (instrumental singular)
бало́тнікамі (instrumental plural)
бало́тніку (locative singular)
бало́тніках (locative plural)
бало́тнікі (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

бало́тнік<a>

be-tarask:балотнік be:балотнік

water starwort (any species of Callitriche genus)


Thiên Ma

[tʰiən˧˧ maː˧˧]

[tʰiəŋ˧˧ maː˧˧]

[tʰiəŋ˧˧ maː˧˧]


васіліск

be-noun

васілі́ск<a.anml>

васілі́ск • (vasilísk) m animal (genitive васілі́ска, nominative plural васілі́скі, genitive plural васілі́скаў)

васілі́ск (canonical)
vasilísk (romanization)
васілі́ска (genitive)
васілі́скі (nominative plural)
васілі́скаў (genitive plural)
васілі́ск (nominative singular)
васілі́скі (nominative plural)
васілі́ска (genitive singular)
васілі́скаў (genitive plural)
васілі́ску (dative singular)
васілі́скам (dative plural)
васілі́ска (accusative singular)
васілі́скаў (accusative plural)
васілі́скам (instrumental singular)
васілі́скамі (instrumental plural)
васілі́ску (locative singular)
васілі́сках (locative plural)
васілі́скі (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

васілі́ск<a.anml>

Either cognate or borrowing of Russian василиск (vasilisk) or Ukrainian василіск (vasylisk). Likely either inherited from Old East Slavic василискъ (vasiliskŭ) or borrowed from Old Church Slavonic василискъ (vasiliskŭ), ultimately from Byzantine Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos). Alternatively, might be borrowed from German Basilisk or Latin basiliscus and modified under the influence of Greek borrowings like Васи́лий (Vasílij).

bor+

(mythology) basilisk (mythological or heraldic creature)


reapparate

en-verb

reapparate (third-person singular simple present reapparates, present participle reapparating, simple past and past participle reapparated)

reapparates (present singular third-person)
reapparating (participle present)
reapparated (participle past)
reapparated (past)


Warg

de-noun

Warg m (strong, genitive Wargs, plural Warge)

Wargs (genitive)
Warge (plural)
Warg (nominative singular)
Warge (definite nominative plural)
Wargs (genitive singular)
Warge (definite genitive plural)
Warg (dative singular)
Wargen (dative definite plural)
Warg (accusative singular)
Warge (accusative definite plural)


zombiak

zombiak (nominative singular)
zombiaki (nominative plural)
zombiaka (genitive singular)
zombiaków (genitive plural)
zombiakowi (dative singular)
zombiakom (dative plural)
zombiaka (accusative singular)
zombiaki (accusative plural)
zombiakiem (instrumental singular)
zombiakami (instrumental plural)
zombiaku (locative singular)
zombiakach (locative plural)
zombiaku (singular vocative)
zombiaki (plural vocative)

From zombi(e) + -ak. Compare Russian зомбяк (zombjak).

(colloquial, fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)


infohazardous

en-adj

infohazardous (comparative more infohazardous, superlative most infohazardous)

more infohazardous (comparative)
most infohazardous (superlative)

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) Being, containing, or pertaining to a infohazard.


antimemetic

antimemetic (comparative more antimemetic, superlative most antimemetic)

more antimemetic (comparative)
most antimemetic (superlative)

From antimeme + -etic or anti- + memetic.

(neurology, sociology, chiefly science fiction) Of, being, containing, or pertaining to antimemes.


კაპკაპი

head

კაპკაპი • (ǩap̌ǩap̌i) (Latin spelling ǩap̌ǩap̌i)

Inherited from Proto-Kartvelian *ḳaṗ- : ḳṗ- (“to chatter; to rattle with one's teeth”). Georgian რუკაპი (ruḳaṗi, “Baba-Yaga”) and Svan კაპრა (ḳaṗra, “chin”).

inh+

ბერე ბორტიში მწკუპაში ოხორიშე ამაშქვიმუ შენი კაპკაპითე მოშქურინამტეს

When I was a kid, they used to scare me with ghouls to get me into the house when it got dark

bere borťişi mǯǩup̌aşi oxorişe amaşkvimu şeni ǩap̌ǩap̌ite moşkurinamťes

(Vitse, Borghola) (male) ghoul, some sort of witch

კოჩიქ კაპკაპი სთერი იწკერს. სეჲი ქეწემილაზნა გური მიტკვაცუნ.

He looks like a ghoul. I'll be scared to death if I see him at night.

ǩoçik ǩap̌ǩap̌i steri iǯǩers. seyi keǯemilazna guri miťǩvaʒun.


overdeity

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

Their liege —, the Undoing,—was the last to convene. He was a being of unknown descent, but Rune believed he was lt least a demigod. Perhaps a full deity, even an overdeity.

2015, Kresley Cole, Sweet Ruin, Simon & Schuster, pages 24-25:

Are there equivalent overdeities in other settings such as Eberron or Grayhawk? Like a top dog who gets to decide if someone can be a god or not as one of their jobs.

2020 May 29, CosmicWolf14, “Alabastor: Age of Heroes”, in reddit.com:

I generally assume that, whatever they are, you’re not going to face any problems with the local overdeities deciding you don’t belong and just noping you the moment you Jump in; whether that’s by power or negotiation is up to you.

2020 July 7, AmazonClimber, RandomOTP, “The Jumpchain Benefactor versus A Jump's Gods”, in reddit.com:

As I said overdeities don't require worship to survive, as such other Gods of Death can form without intruding, but they can't become a Overdeity of Death without somehow destroying the one currently there. As such they would more likely become another form of overdeity, assuming they get that far. And no Discord server as of yet, I might make one if the quest becomes more popular.

2021 April 29, nwish425, “Apotheosis - A Deity Quest”, in forums.sufficientvelocity.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A superior or supreme deity.


Akkadia

(uncommon; often in fantasy) Akkad, the kingdom of the Akkadians.


魔族

Coordinate term: 魔王 (maō, “leader of the underworld”)


ungorn

cy-adj

ungorn (feminine singular ungorn, plural ungorn, not comparable)

ungorn (feminine singular)
ungorn (plural)
ungorn
hungorn (prothesis-h)

From un + corn. Calque of Latin unicornis.


elfština

elfština (nominative singular)
elfštiny (nominative plural)
elfštiny (genitive singular)
elfštin (genitive plural)
elfštině (dative singular)
elfštinám (dative plural)
elfštinu (accusative singular)
elfštiny (accusative plural)
elfštino (singular vocative)
elfštiny (plural vocative)
elfštině (locative singular)
elfštinách (locative plural)
elfštinou (instrumental singular)
elfštinami (instrumental plural)


flamestrike

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

I could teach you a bit – healing and so forth: it’s part of my priestly skills – but that’s not what you want. You need attack spells – flamestrikes, lightning bolts, thundercrushes, that sort of thing.

1988, J[ames] H[erbert] Brennan, “Barmy Jeffers”, in Adventure Stories, St Michael, published 1989, →ISBN, page 328:

I do like your evasive maneuvers, by the way. Perenor will never expect me to drop to the ground to avoid a flamestrike.

1990, Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon, “Knight of Ghosts and Shadows”, in Bedlam’s Bard, Guild America Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 183:

Uncouth threw a Flamestrike spell at me, while Arnold stole all of my Recall spells and then bashed me.

1995, Rawn Shah, Jim Romine, “Stories and Virtual Occurrences”, in Playing Muds on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part I (DikuMuds), page 133:

For ultimate hilarity, have a mage throw fireballs at you, call in flamestrikes, and so on while your shielded character whistles a tune.

2001, David Chong, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets, Sybex, →ISBN, page 105:

“[…] Did you see what happened to the white dragon?” / “I saw it take to the air after the first couple of flamestrikes.[…]”

2009, Stephen Deas, The Adamantine Palace (The Memory of Flames; I), Roc Books, published 2011:

These packs can put out massive damage if your group isn’t careful; watch out especially for the Flamestrikes and Blizzards cast by the Ring-Lord Sorceresses, and the Charged Skin ability cast by the Conjurers.

2009, World of Warcraft: Dungeon Companion III, BradyGames, →ISBN, page 126, column 2:


homem-hiena

[ˌõ.mẽɪ̯̃ˈjẽ.nɐ]

[ˌõ.mẽɪ̯̃ˈjẽ.nɐ]


caça-fantasma

pt-noun

caça-fantasma m or f by sense (plural caça-fantasmas)

From caçar (“to hunt”) + fantasma (“ghost”).

Rivaldo aparece com mais força para enfrentar o Gasparzinho. Como um autêntico caça-fantasma, ele lembra que, ao chegar em La Coruña, só ouvia de Bebeto.

1997 December 30, Rogério Daflon, “três por 1”, in Placar, number 1134, cidadão do mundo, page 61:

Rivaldo comes out stronger to face Gasparzinho. Like a true ghosthunter, he recalls that when he arrived in La Coruña, all he heard about was Bebeto.


fyrdraca

(mythical creature) firedragon, firedrake


hellehund

hellehund (nominative singular)
hellehundas (nominative plural)
hellehund (accusative singular)
hellehundas (accusative plural)
hellehundes (genitive singular)
hellehunda (genitive plural)
hellehunde (dative singular)
hellehundum (dative plural)

From helle (“hell”) + hund (“dog, hound”)


fagwyrm

fāgwyrm (canonical masculine)
fāgwyrm (nominative singular)
fāgwyrmas (nominative plural)
fāgwyrm (accusative singular)
fāgwyrmas (accusative plural)
fāgwyrmes (genitive singular)
fāgwyrma (genitive plural)
fāgwyrme (dative singular)
fāgwyrmum (dative plural)

From fāg (“multicolored, pied”) + wyrm (“worm”)


Monstro do Lago Ness

head

Monstro do Lago Ness m (plural Monstros do Lago Ness)

Calque of English Loch Ness monster. First attested in 1944.

Seguindo a quinta hipotese, que é, aliás, a mais possivel, o monstro do Maranhão é um produto da imaginação popular e um caso igual ao do monstro do Lago Ness, visto, dizem, em 1925, na Escocia, e cuja existencia na expressão de sir Arthur Keith, “não é um problema de zoologia, mas de psicologia”.

1944 October 1, “O mostro marinho do Maranhão”, As Grandes Reportagens Exclusivas, in Diario Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, page 7, column 6:

Following the fifth hypotesis, which is, by the way, the most likely, the monster of Maranhão is a product of folk imagination and a case similar to the Loch Ness monster, seen, they say, in 1925 in Scotland, whose existence, as said by sir Arthur Keith, “is not a problem for zoologists but for psychologists.”

Are you by chance referring to the legend of the Loch Ness monster?

2004, 6:16 from the start, in Scott Jeralds, Joe Sichta, directors, Scooby-Doo! e o Monstro do Lago Ness (DVD), spoken by Velma Dinkley (Nair Amorim), Rio de Janeiro: Warner Bros., dubbing of Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster:

A teoria de que o Monstro do Lago Ness poderia ser um plesiossauro ganhou força nos últimos anos.

2024 September 15, Maria Eduarda Moutinho, “O 'Monstro do Lago Ness' realmente existiu? Entenda a história”, in Terra:

The theory that the Loch Ness monster could be a plesiosaurus has gained traction over the last years.

Privacidade invadida transforma humanos comuns em monstros do Lago Ness. E era isso que Fábio temia.

2024, Bia Willcox, A vida on-line como ela é : baseado em histórias reais, São Paulo: Matrioska, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

An invaded privacity transforms common humans into Loch Ness monsters. And that's what Fábio is afraid of.


latający dywan

latający dywan (nominative singular)
latające dywany (nominative plural)
latającego dywanu (genitive singular)
latających dywanów (genitive plural)
latającemu dywanowi (dative singular)
latającym dywanom (dative plural)
latający dywan (accusative singular)
latające dywany (accusative plural)
latającym dywanem (instrumental singular)
latającymi dywanami (instrumental plural)
latającym dywanie (locative singular)
latających dywanach (locative plural)
latający dywanie (singular vocative)
latające dywany (plural vocative)

(aviation, fantasy, fiction) flying carpet, magic carpet (carpet capable of magical flight)


deanimate

en-verb

deanimate (third-person singular simple present deanimates, present participle deanimating, simple past and past participle deanimated)

deanimates (present singular third-person)
deanimating (participle present)
deanimated (participle past)
deanimated (past)

Near-synonym: devitalize

'Don't bother attempting to deanimate the undead,' says Joachim.

2011, J. L. Connew, Origins of the Geomancer, page 163:

(transitive, fantasy) To reverse the animation of; to remove the life force from.


hortkuluk

head

hortkuluk (definite accusative hortkuluğu, plural hortkuluklar)

hortkuluğu (accusative definite)
hortkuluklar (plural)

Blend of hortlak (“spectre, ghoul”) + korkuluk (“scarecrow”) with the intention of phono-semantic matching of English horcrux.


agathodémon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγαθοδαίμων (agathodaímōn).


Auvermännke

head

Auvermännke n (plural Auvermännker or Auvermännkes)

Auvermännker (plural)
Auvermännkes (plural)

From Auv (“elf”) + -er- (linking element) + Männke (“little man”).


Auv

PIE word
 *albʰós
Regular L-vocalisation of Alf, Alv, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz.

Auf

Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, German-based spelling

(Germanic folklore) creature that sits on one's chest while one sleeps


snowdragon

“This is the northern edge of the darklands,” said Hargoth. “We live all our lives in a state of siege. Anyone, anything, may come. Sometimes the great snowdragons, with the frost white on their wings and their hungry teeth showing.[…]”

1974, Leigh Brackett, “The Ginger Star”, in The Book of Skaith: The Adventures of Eric John Stark, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., published 1976, page 85:

In the sky a blizzard of mighty snowdragons wheeled in impatient spirals, their white riders eager to join the fray.

1991, Andrew Bill, The Well of Hope, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.: Holland Studio Craft Ltd., →ISBN, page 1:

Mournfully, Barbara the Barbarian stroked the proud back of Fearless, while her six bodyguards tested their arrows and dreamed of riding through the snowy wastes of Barbaria on the backs of their snowdragons, wind streaming through their mustaches, cats meowing happily on their shoulders, flying back, back in time to a village that no longer existed.

2015, Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury: The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking (How to Train Your Dragon; 12), New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 86:

(rare, fantasy) A dragon associated with snow.


plate mail

Of mail there are two forts, viz. chain and plate mail. Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it; the whole exhibiting a kind of net-work, with circular meshes, every ring[…]

1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature:

Crusaders all wear light plate mail or a chain mail and plate mail mix.

2010 November 21, Joseph Barresi, Gods of Arator Volume 1 the Gods of Life, midnightrise, →ISBN, page 71:

The first armor, flexible chain mail with gambesons (a quilted garment worn under the mail), was far more effective than the later plate mail. To be effective against arrows, plate mail had to be so heavy as to render its use[…]

2011, Vic Hurley, Arrows Against Steel: The History of the Bow and how it Forever Changed Warfare, Cerberus Books, →ISBN, page 25:

[…] however, his legs are completely covered by plate mail. This combination of chain and plate mail, similar to that which we noted already in the Wenceslas Bible, appears in a number of cases here[…]

2014 May 5, Eduard Wagner, Zoroslava Drobná, Jan Durdík, Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 30:

(academically obsolete, now fiction, fantasy) Brigandine.


Free City of Tri-Insula

The Tri-Insula element derives from Latin tri- (combining form of trēs, tria, “three”) + īnsula (“island”).

The commercial interests of New York were ever opposed to war. Meetings were held repeatedly in January, 1861, to petition Congress for peace. Meanwhile Mayor Fernando Wood proposed to the Common Council that Manhattan Island, Long Island and Staten Island should secede from the Union and constitute the free city of “Tri-Insula.”

1925, William Thompson Bonner, New York: The World’s Metropolis, 1623–4—1923–4. A Presentation of the Greater City at the beginning of its Second Quarter Century of Amalgamated Government and the 300ᵗʰ Anniversary of Its Founding with review of the Interim Accomplishments of Its Citizens., 524 Broadway, New York: R. L. Polk & Co., Inc., Section One: “New York — The Metropolis”, Chapter VII: «New York’s Military History — Events and Personnel», ‘Civil War’, ‹Wood’s Proposed Free City›, page 104/1:

“Are you trying to tell me that the mayor of New York wants to proclaim independence from the United States of America?” asked Pinkerton.
“The council approved the plan in January,” Mannion said, delighted by the reaction he had so deliberately provoked. “They’re going to merge Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island into the ‘Free City of Tri-Insula.’ Best goddamn idea Fernandy Wood ever had.”

2011, Dominic Lagan, The Coming Storm: A Red Mannion Novel, Morrisville: Lulu.com, →ISBN, chapter three, page 34:

Like any debate, it goes on and on and nothing is said that hasn’t been said a thousand times before, so I pull out my thin screen and enjoy the ride into the Free City of Tri-Insula, or what used to be the old City of New York.

2013 May, Sam A. Patel, Data Runner (Data Runner Series; Book One), first edition, New York: Diversion Books, →ISBN, part II: “When Security is the Only Option”, chapter 5, no pagination:

(history and fantasy) A city-state comprising Long, Manhattan, and Staten Islands, proposed on the 6th of January, 1861 by the seventy-fifth mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War.


dragonrider

Those handsome dragonriders, too, so brave in their wher-hide accouterments, proud on the necks of their great beasts—they did not submit kindly to close examination without a few disappointing revelations.

1968, Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 108:

The dragonriders turned their beasts, two hundred beasts at least, treading once again over the crops they had already destroyed.

1984, Eric Affabee, The Siege of the Dragonriders (Wizards, Warriors & You; 2), New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 4:

Once asleep, a dragon is extremely difficult and even dangerous to wake,[…]. An experienced dragonrider never allows his animal to sleep unless he knows there is a competent wizard nearby.

1989, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, The Prophet of Akhran (Rose of the Prophet; 3), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:


upixûara

head

upixûara (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tupixûara, R1 rupixûara, R2 supixûara)

→ Portuguese: tupuxuara

→ New Latin: Tupuxuara


ma da

[maː˧˧ zaː˧˧]

[maː˧˧ jaː˧˧]

[maː˧˧ jaː˧˧]

(mythology) a kind of aquatic ghost or demon, believed to cause swimmers to drown


świtezianka

świtezianka (nominative singular)
świtezianki (nominative plural)
świtezianki (genitive singular)
świtezianek (genitive plural)
świteziance (dative singular)
świteziankom (dative plural)
świteziankę (accusative singular)
świtezianki (accusative plural)
świtezianką (instrumental singular)
świteziankami (instrumental plural)
świteziance (locative singular)
świteziankach (locative plural)
świtezianko (singular vocative)
świtezianki (plural vocative)

(folklore) water nymph living in Lake Svityaz


mancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mancer.

(uncommon, fantasy) A practitioner of magic or divination.


jättinna

jättinna (indefinite nominative singular)
jättinnas (genitive indefinite singular)
jättinnan (definite nominative singular)
jättinnans (definite genitive singular)
jättinnor (indefinite nominative plural)
jättinnors (genitive indefinite plural)
jättinnorna (definite nominative plural)
jättinnornas (definite genitive plural)


bán thần

Sino-Vietnamese word from 半神, composed of 半 (“demi-”) and 神 (“god”)


síofróg

head

síofróg f (genitive singular síofróige, nominative plural síofróga)

síofróige (genitive singular)
síofróga (nominative plural)
síofróg (indefinite nominative singular)
síofróga (indefinite nominative plural)
a shíofróg (indefinite singular vocative)
a shíofróga (indefinite plural vocative)
síofróige (genitive indefinite singular)
síofróg (genitive indefinite plural)
síofróg (dative indefinite singular)
síofróig (archaic dative dialectal indefinite singular)
síofróga (dative indefinite plural)
an tsíofróg (definite nominative singular)
na síofróga (definite nominative plural)
na síofróige (definite genitive singular)
na síofróg (definite genitive plural)
leis an tsíofróg (dative definite singular)
leis an tsíofróig (archaic dative definite dialectal singular)
don tsíofróg (dative definite singular)
don tsíofróig (archaic dative definite dialectal singular)
leis na síofróga (dative definite plural)
síofróg (mutation mutation-radical)
shíofróg (lenition mutation)
tsíofróg (lenition mutation)


JRRT

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
w:J. R. R. Tolkien

Initialism of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.