Tolkienish

en-adj

Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)

more Tolkienish (comparative)
most Tolkienish (superlative)

Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed.

1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, page 51:

Early on, the trail passes a tiny cedar lake with Tolkienish overtones. A hobbit-size table and chairs have been carved out of wooden stumps.

1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver, page 55:

The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.

2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301:

Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.


ichthyocentaur

From Ancient Greek ἰχθυοκένταυρος (ikhthuokéntauros).

der

ἰχθυοκένταυρος

(Greek mythology) A centaurian sea being with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and forelegs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.


Tolkieny

en-adj

Tolkieny (comparative more Tolkieny, superlative most Tolkieny)

more Tolkieny (comparative)
most Tolkieny (superlative)

Pauline Baynes' illustrations have always seemed to me more suited to the atmosphere of "Hans Christian Andersen” tales, but this time she has come up with a very appealing cover design with a far more "Tolkieny” feel about it .

1968, Gandalf's Garden, numbers 1-4, page 31:

If this sounds a bit Tolkieny, why not? So is Wagner’s Ring cycle.

2016 February 6, Ismene Brown, “Unforgettable fire”, in The Spectator, page 50:

Those little leggies of yours make the trek to Orchid Avenue downright Tolkieny.

2021, Bryan CP Steele, Shadowrun: Tourist Trapped, unnumbered page:

(informal) Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.


rivermaiden

(mythology, fantasy) A nymph or female spirit associated with a river.


мавка

uk-noun

ма́вка<*.pr>

ма́вка • (mávka) f pers (genitive ма́вки, nominative plural ма́вки, genitive plural ма́вок)

ма́вка (canonical)
mávka (romanization)
ма́вки (genitive)
ма́вки (nominative plural)
ма́вок (genitive plural)
ма́вка (nominative singular)
ма́вки (nominative plural)
ма́вки (genitive singular)
ма́вок (genitive plural)
ма́вці (dative singular)
ма́вкам (dative plural)
ма́вку (accusative singular)
ма́вок (accusative plural)
ма́вкою (instrumental singular)
ма́вками (instrumental plural)
ма́вці (locative singular)
ма́вках (locative plural)
ма́вко (singular vocative)
ма́вки (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

ма́вка<*.pr>

→ English: mavka

Originally навка, derived from Proto-Slavic *navь (“deceased”). Later forms мавка and нявка likely come from association with the words мали́й (malýj, “small”) and нявкати (njavkaty, “to meow”).


ча̄нн

head

ча̄нн (čānn)

From Proto-Samic *čānā, from Proto-Uralic *śänä.
Related to Finnish sieni. Compare Northern Sami čátná and Skolt Sami čäänn.


bleidhmhíol

bleidhmhíol m (genitive singular bleidhmhíl, nominative plural bleidhmhíolta)

bleidhmhíl (genitive singular)
bleidhmhíolta (nominative plural)
bleidhmhíol (indefinite nominative singular)
bleidhmhíolta (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhleidhmhíl (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhleidhmhíolta (indefinite plural vocative)
bleidhmhíl (genitive indefinite singular)
bleidhmhíolta (genitive indefinite plural)
bleidhmhíol (dative indefinite singular)
bleidhmhíolta (dative indefinite plural)
an bleidhmhíol (definite nominative singular)
na bleidhmhíolta (definite nominative plural)
an bhleidhmhíl (definite genitive singular)
na mbleidhmhíolta (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbleidhmhíol (dative definite singular)
don bhleidhmhíol (dative definite singular)
leis na bleidhmhíolta (dative definite plural)
bleidhmhíol (mutation mutation-radical)
bhleidhmhíol (lenition mutation)
mbleidhmhíol (eclipsis mutation)

/ˈbʲlʲɛjvʲiːl̪ˠ/


wodnica

wodnik (masculine)
wodnica (nominative singular)
wodnice (nominative plural)
wodnicy (genitive singular)
wodnic (genitive plural)
wodnicy (dative singular)
wodnicom (dative plural)
wodnicę (accusative singular)
wodnice (accusative plural)
wodnicą (instrumental singular)
wodnicami (instrumental plural)
wodnicy (locative singular)
wodnicach (locative plural)
wodnico (singular vocative)
wodnice (plural vocative)

(Slavic mythology) malevolent demon inhabiting bodies of water, believed to be the partner of topielec and the soul of a young girl who drowned out of despair or bitterness, or who was deliberately drowned by someone else


briesmonis

briesmonis (nominative singular)
briesmoņi (nominative plural)
briesmoni (accusative singular)
briesmoņus (accusative plural)
briesmoņa (genitive singular)
briesmoņu (genitive plural)
briesmonim (dative singular)
briesmoņiem (dative plural)
briesmoni (instrumental singular)
briesmoņiem (instrumental plural)
briesmonī (locative singular)
briesmoņos (locative plural)
briesmoni (singular vocative)
briesmoņi (plural vocative)

From briesmas (“danger, peril”) + -onis.


power level

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

The figurative senses are a reference to the Japanese franchise Dragon Ball, where many characters have "power levels" indicating how powerful they are.

The black and gold paint job is a subtle but still stylish way to hide your power level.

2018 April 3, Sam Rutherford, “MSI's GS65 Stealth Is a Gaming Laptop Made for Adults”, in Gizmodo:

(Internet slang) An interest or specialized knowledge in a subject seen as uncool, especially related to video games and otaku culture.


ꯆꯤꯡꯂꯥꯏ

From ꯆꯤꯡ (cheeng, “mountain”) + ꯂꯥꯏ (laaʼi, “god”)


red wedding

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning "associated with or supportive of communism." The second sense derives from The Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”

1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15:

They celebrated “red weddings” at factories, bride and groom standing before a piece of machinery and pledging their loyalty first to the communist state, then to each other.

1994, Woodford McClellan, Russia: The Soviet Period and After, page 77:

Soon "Red weddings" replaced church weddings for dedicated Communists.

1998, Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, page 186:

(dated, communism) A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.


пәри

head

пәри • (päri)


ふらり火

ふらり火 (canonical)
furaribi (romanization)

[ɸɯ̟ɾa̠ɾʲibʲi]


bœuf-garou

fr-noun

bœuf-garou m (plural bœufs-garous, feminine vache-garou)

bœufs-garous (plural)
vache-garou (feminine)


rat-garou

rat-garou m (plural rats-garous, feminine rate-garou)

rats-garous (plural)
rate-garou (feminine)


werebat

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


requin-garou

From requin (“shark”) + -garou (“were-”).


cochon-garou

cochon-garou m (plural cochons-garous, feminine cochonne-garou)

cochons-garous (plural)
cochonne-garou (feminine)


léopard-garou

léopard-garou m (plural léopards-garous)


louve-garou

louve-garou f (plural louves-garous, masculine loup-garou)

louves-garous (plural)
loup-garou (masculine)

From louve (“wolf”, feminine) + -garou (“were-”).


vache-garou

fr-noun

vache-garou f (plural vaches-garous, masculine bœuf-garou)

vaches-garous (plural)
bœuf-garou (masculine)


chauve-souris-garou

chauve-souris-garou f (plural chauve-souris-garous)

From chauve-souris (“bat”) + -garou (“were-”), from analogy with loup-garou (“werewolf”).


louveteau-garou

fr-noun

louveteau-garou m (plural louveteaux-garous, feminine louvetelle-garou)

louveteaux-garous (plural)
louvetelle-garou (feminine)

(fantasy, mythology) werewolf cub or pup


rate-garou

rate-garou f (plural rates-garous, masculine rat-garou)

rates-garous (plural)
rat-garou (masculine)


lion-garou

lion-garou m (plural lions-garous, feminine lionne-garou)

lions-garous (plural)
lionne-garou (feminine)


ours-garou

ours-garou m (plural ours-garous, feminine ourse-garou)

ours-garous (plural)
ourse-garou (feminine)


panthère-garou

panthère-garou f (plural panthères-garous)


thérianthrope

thérianthrope m or f (plural thérianthropes)

From Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast, animal”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “person, human being”).


thériomorphe

From Ancient Greek θηριόμορφος (thēriómorphos, from θηρίον (thēríon, “animal”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”)). See also thérien and morphe.

der

Une divinité thériomorphe.


-garou

From loup-garou (“werewolf”). See also garou.


animal-garou

From animal + -garou (“were-”), by association with loup-garou (“werewolf”).

(fantasy, mythology) wereanimal, werecreature


louvetelle-garou

fr-noun

louvetelle-garou f (plural louvetelles-garous, masculine louveteau-garou)

louvetelles-garous (plural)
louveteau-garou (masculine)

(fantasy, mythology) female werewolf cub or pup


gorgonă

gorgone (plural)
gorgonă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
o gorgonă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
gorgona (accusative definite nominative singular)
gorgone (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște gorgone (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
gorgonele (accusative definite nominative plural)
gorgone (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unei gorgone (dative genitive indefinite singular)
gorgonei (dative definite genitive singular)
gorgone (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor gorgone (dative genitive indefinite plural)
gorgonelor (dative definite genitive plural)
gorgonă (singular vocative)
gorgono (singular vocative)
gorgonelor (plural vocative)


multiattack

The purple worm has a multiattack consisting of a bite and a sting.


დიდამანგისა

head

დიდამანგისა • (didamangisa) (Latin spelling didamangisa)

დი‧და‧მან‧გი‧სა

From დიდა (dida, “old woman”) + Ancient Greek μάγισσα (mágissa, “witch”).

af

შუკა მეწილანა დიდამანგისა გიჲონასენ

If you pluck the cucumber, the didamangisa will take you

a scary creature that grown-ups used to make up to prevent kids from picking cucumbers before they grew


貓妖

/mɑʊ̯⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

/mɑʊ̯⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/


archpaladin

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈpælədɪn/

From arch- + paladin. Originally from the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, in which the fictional deity, Heironeous, is known as The Archpaladin, and the AdventureQuest game.

Foremost in her mind has always been to serve the Archpaladin [Heironeous] and improve the lives of others with His teachings.

2004 August, Rick LaRue, “Greyhawk’s Knights of Holy Shielding: Valor Is Our Blood!”, in Dungeon, number 113, page 94:

Heironeous, The Invincible, The Archpaladin, is the champion of rightful combat and chivalrous deeds.

2007 April, Sean K Reynolds, “Heironeous”, in Dragon, volume XXXI, number 11, issue 354, page 19:

Mostly whiteshirts, from initiate Healers to patrolmen to Electors and ArchPaladins in full battle gear.

2010, Tim Akers, The Horns of Ruin, Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, →ISBN, page 266:

It's best if you can find a friend or some players to help you out with each quests for Archpaladin.

2019 August 1, SyedXD123, the_beast69, “What Class?”, in reddit.com:

History was wrought romanticised tales of grand crusades lead by heroic Archpaladins of old, spreading God's word to the dark and corrupt corners of the kingdom through their might and zeal.

2021, C. R. Butterworth, The Exile, Liberation (Book 1), C. R. Butterworth:

Things like using Archpaladin to mitigate true damage, or recommending Health Vamp on farming classes that don't benefit from it.

2022 February 18, xiaomole, “Combatting Misinformation”, in reddit.com:

(very rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A supreme paladin.


Wéët

From Old Limburgish *wiht, from Proto-West Germanic *wihti (“thing, creature”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“thing”).

inh

(rare) a small creature, particularly a goblin, sprite, leprechaun, kobold


cognitohazard

Blend of cognition + hazard. Probable origin is from the SCP Foundation website.

The symbol on that piece of paper is a cognitohazard which puts everyone who reads it in a week-long coma.

SUMBITCH. I started listening to http://nyan.cat/ again and now I can't turn it off. #memetic #cognitohazard #scp

2011 April 28, @triggurgoat, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

CAUTION! High-grade Cognitohazard in effect!

2011 July 29, @LexLevinholt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

The one about Qpple hardware being a cognitohazard?
(I made that up, BTW. :D )

2013 February 27, neurotrashboy, “Place name of the week”, in alt.running.out.of.newsgroup.names (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-09:

SCP-2359’s primary anomalous property is a cognitohazard that propagates to anyone who makes visual, auditory or informational contact with it. The infection impresses a false identity and memories of SCP-2359 onto the mind of the affected subject.

2016 January 29, StringentCurry, “SCP-2359”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Numerous people have reported, or, more accurately, been discovered, as having been subjected to the proscribed work The King in Yellow. […] For one thing, we’re not even sure there’s anything useful in the King play. It’s a complete cognitohazard.

2017, Zachary Adam, Sanity Line (Arcane Revolution Series), CreateSpace, →ISBN:

The last week was devoted to an equally theoretical threat—weaponized cognitohazards. Brown notes. Things that you could be hurt, or possibly killed, by just seeing or hearing them… and what would happen if they got on the Internet. How would people protect themselves?

2018, Paul Briggs, Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, Secant Publishing, →ISBN:

“Says here you’re on the front lines, not search and rescue. Do you have the cognitohazard equipment?”

2020, Azalea Ellis, Gods of Ash and Amber (Seeds of Chaos), Seladore Publishing, →ISBN:

TL;DR: “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “cognitohazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.

[2020 February 2, eukaryote, “A point of clarification on infohazard terminology”, in LessWrong, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Curses! Foiled again by the cognitohazard of Harry Styles’ painted nails!!!!!!

2022 August 26, Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day, retrieved 2023-10-16:

Awawawa is a cognitohazard that spreads specifically among submissive trans people

2022 December 6, @circleoflust, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) An image, pattern, sound, or any other kind of sensory signal that directly causes harmful or undesired physiological or physical effects to one who senses or perceives it.


cognitohazardous

en-adj

cognitohazardous (comparative more cognitohazardous, superlative most cognitohazardous)

more cognitohazardous (comparative)
most cognitohazardous (superlative)

Rapidly-flashing lights are cognitohazardous to people with certain forms of epilepsy, resulting in seizures.

Had the unknown girl who'd written those things somehow added to the end of the book without realizing what it was? Or had it acquired cognitohazardous properties after she was already dead?

2014, Matt Dymerski, The Portal in the Forest, Proximate Publishing, →ISBN:

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


wastelander

(science fiction, fantasy) One who inhabits a wasteland.


allocamelus

THE ALLOCAMELUS is a Beast of Peru; it is about two Yards high, and about five Feet in length : His Head, Neck, and Ears, are like a Mule's; but his Neck as white as a Swan's, his other Parts of a yellowish Colour: His Body is like a Camel, […]

1769, Thomas Boreman, A description of three hundred animals ... tenth edition, page 22:

There were many wondrous Arainian beasts in these groves: star-spotted pantheons, allocameli like donkey-eared dromedaries, the trogodryces whose antlers grow down rather than up, the argasills that resembled antelopes but for their[…]

2007 September 3, Alison Baird, The Archons of the Stars, Aspect, →ISBN:

By late afternoon, Van's lower back and inner thighs ached from riding on the allocamelus for so long. The bindings on her wrists had turned them raw and bloody. The grandfather clock Van had seen in Uxa's office haunted her every[…] Jorie's anger flared, and she released an animalistic growl so guttural it upset the allocameli tied to the trees. Some of them let out rapid, high-pitched shrieks and struggled against their binds. Others stomped their front hooves and[…]

2017 April 11, D. L. Armillei, Shock of Fate: Anchoress Series Book One, Diamond Cove Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:

Blythe was ahead of them all, keeping pace with Silas and one of the allocameluses he was leading. As she tied up her curls, she observed the two. There was really nothing else to look at, and she couldn't exactly converse with her[…]

2020 October 16, Octavia J. Riley, Sand Dunes & Blood Moons, Poisoned Apple Publishing, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 188:

A fictional animal, apparently based on early reports of llamas, which has the head of an ass or mule and the body of a camel.


giantish

(fantasy) A fictional language spoken by giants.


pouke

English: puck, Puck

>? English: pug

From Old English pūca, from Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô. The shortening of /uː/ before /k/ is possibly regular; compare souken.


D&Der

Being geeky has always been about making and doing things. That’s nothing new—kids who went to Space Camp constructed and launched their own model rockets, and D&Ders painstakingly hand-drew maps, or painted their own pewter figures.

2011, Susan Beal, “Introduction”, in World of Geekcraft: Step-by-Step Instructions for 25 Super-Cool Craft Projects, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 6:

René, an aficionado himself, never missed an opportunity to find fellow D&Ders.

2018, Cara Black, Murder on the Left Bank, Soho Crime, →ISBN, page 17:

Regardless of how you do or don’t play games—whether you are an MMORPGer, a console gamer, a D&D'''er, a Settlers of Catan enthusiast, or someone who has never gamed before but who is perhaps curious about gaming or instructional design—I hope that in reading this book you will find a lens that will be useful to you in your own life, whether for teaching, writing, learnining, training, game development, or simply the enjoyment of games.

2018, Carly Finseth, Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games (Studies in Gaming), Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 12:

A player of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.


asuang

From Greater Central Philippine *aswang (“witch”). Compare Tagalog aswang, Cebuano aswang, Hiligaynon aswang, and Malay ason (“evil spirit of the night”).

(folklore, mythology) aswang (shapeshifting evil creature in Philippine mythology)


swordbrother

Once initiated into the band, a swordbrother was bound to serve for life. Consequently, most crofters still preferred to serve in the king's shieidhost.

2006, Josephine Godby, To Suffer the Crown, page 22:

He was a swordbrother to the last, our commander.

2015, Paul E. Horsman, Ordelanden: The Shadow of the Revenaunt, Book 3:

(fantasy) A man who is a member of a military brotherhood.


simiot

(Northern, Spain, folklore) One of a race of demonic ape-like creatures which according to local legends once terrorised the city of Arles-sur-Tech in the comarca of Vallespir and surrounding areas of Baix Empordà


Ularu

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A primordial snake-like creator deity


вълколак

bg-noun

вълкола́к • (vǎlkolák) m

вълкола́к (canonical)
vǎlkolák (romanization)
вълкола́к (indefinite singular)
вълкола́ци (indefinite plural)
вълкола́кът (definite singular subjective)
вълкола́ците (definite plural subjective)
вълкола́ка (definite objective singular)
вълкола́ците (definite objective plural)
вълкола́ка (count-form plural)

desc

→ Byzantine Greek: βουλκόλαξ (boulkólax, “vampire”)

From Proto-Slavic *vьlkolakъ (“werewolf”).


bitca

From an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which a character mishears an oral spelling of the word "bitch".
*
1997 September 15, “When She Was Bad”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon):
Willow: That's what it was! I mean, why else would she be acting like such a B-I-T-C-H?
Giles: Willow, I think we're all a little too old to be spelling things out.
Xander: A bitca?

quote-av

w:Buffy the Vampire Slayer

(humorous, fandom slang) Alternative form of bitch


Snamione

Pairing names are often portmanteaus of characters' names, although fans may not always agree on the forms that these amalgamations take — the Snape/Hermione ship, for example, may be called Snamione, Sevmione, Snermione or Snanger, depending on the preferences of the fans who participate in it.

2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 279:

Therefore, it is logical that the selected trope will more often be used in fics which have a non-normative ship: fandomstats relays that, within the EWE tag, some of the most prolific ships include Drarry, Dramione (Draco/Hermione, not a slash ship but still one that does not conform with Rowling’s normative ideas as it contains Draco, an antagonistic character), and ships involving Snape, including Snamione and Snarry.

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 120

And the love bred a shameful number of Snamione fanfics in the coming years.

2021, Leighann Hart, “About the Author”, in Loving Rosenfeld, Crooked Hart Press, LLC, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hermione Granger and Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series.


zmiennokształtny

zmiennokształtny (nominative singular)
zmiennokształtni (nominative plural)
zmiennokształtnego (genitive singular)
zmiennokształtnych (genitive plural)
zmiennokształtnemu (dative singular)
zmiennokształtnym (dative plural)
zmiennokształtnego (accusative singular)
zmiennokształtnych (accusative plural)
zmiennokształtnym (instrumental singular)
zmiennokształtnymi (instrumental plural)
zmiennokształtnym (locative singular)
zmiennokształtnych (locative plural)
zmiennokształtny (singular vocative)
zmiennokształtni (plural vocative)

(fantasy, science fiction) changeling, shape-shifter


otherlandish

en-adj

otherlandish (comparative more otherlandish, superlative most otherlandish)

more otherlandish (comparative)
most otherlandish (superlative)


niziołek

niziołek (nominative singular)
niziołki (nominative plural)
niziołka (genitive singular)
niziołków (genitive plural)
niziołkowi (dative singular)
niziołkom (dative plural)
niziołka (accusative singular)
niziołki (accusative plural)
niziołkiem (instrumental singular)
niziołkami (instrumental plural)
niziołku (locative singular)
niziołkach (locative plural)
niziołku (singular vocative)
niziołki (plural vocative)

(fantasy) halfling, hobbit (fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction)


Dungeons & Dragoner

en-noun

Dungeons & Dragoner (plural Dungeons & Dragoners)

And looking out from the Lookout were the Dungeons & Dragoners he’d phoned a half hour earlier.

1982, William Kotzwinkle, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, London: Sphere Books Limited, →ISBN, page 235:

This disgusted the other students, all of them: those engaged in African American pride, the brainiacs from decent homes, even the burnouts, who shared a tiny patch of brownish lawn with the Dungeons & Dragoners.

2007, Jennifer Blowdryer, “Style Your Own Damn Self”, in Michelle Tea, editor, It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 270:

“Students here cover a spectrum,” muses a senior, including “preppy pop-collars, hardcore hippies, emo punk rockers, jocks, semi-goths, and Dungeons & Dragoners.”

2008, Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue, the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008, twenty-fourth edition, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 129:

(rare) A player of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.


эльфийский

ru-adj

эльфи́йский • (elʹfíjskij)

эльфи́йский (canonical)
elʹfíjskij (romanization)
эльфи́йский (masculine nominative)
эльфи́йское (neuter nominative)
эльфи́йская (feminine nominative)
эльфи́йские (nominative plural)
эльфи́йского (genitive masculine neuter)
эльфи́йской (feminine genitive)
эльфи́йских (genitive plural)
эльфи́йскому (dative masculine neuter)
эльфи́йской (dative feminine)
эльфи́йским (dative plural)
эльфи́йского (accusative animate masculine)
эльфи́йское (accusative neuter)
эльфи́йскую (accusative feminine)
эльфи́йских (accusative animate plural)
эльфи́йский (accusative inanimate masculine)
эльфи́йские (accusative inanimate plural)
эльфи́йским (instrumental masculine neuter)
эльфи́йской (feminine instrumental)
эльфи́йскою (feminine instrumental)
эльфи́йскими (instrumental plural)
эльфи́йском (masculine neuter prepositional)
эльфи́йской (feminine prepositional)
эльфи́йских (plural prepositional)

эльф (elʹf, from English elf) + -ский (-skij).

af

from English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">elf</i>

(fantasy) Related to elves; elven; elvish.

Эльфи́йские ру́ны

(fantasy) Related to any fictional language used by elves.


эльфийский

ru-noun+

эльфи́йский • (elʹfíjskij) m inan (genitive эльфи́йского, uncountable)

эльфи́йский (canonical)
elʹfíjskij (romanization)
эльфи́йского (genitive)
эльфи́йский (nominative singular)
эльфи́йского (genitive singular)
эльфи́йскому (dative singular)
эльфи́йский (accusative singular)
эльфи́йским (instrumental singular)
эльфи́йском (prepositional singular)

Эльфи́йский тако́й тру́дный язы́к.

(fantasy) "Elvish" language; any fictional language used by a race or culture of elves.

an Elvish language from Tolkien's writings


fėja

fė́ja (canonical feminine)
fė́jà (nominative singular)
fė́jos (nominative plural)
fė́jõs (genitive singular)
fė́jų̃ (genitive plural)
fė́jai (dative singular)
fė́jóms (dative plural)
fė́ją (accusative singular)
fė́jàs (accusative plural)
fė́jà (instrumental singular)
fė́jomìs (instrumental plural)
fė́jojè (locative singular)
fė́josè (locative plural)
fė́ja (singular vocative)
fė́jos (plural vocative)


haldjas

head

haldjas (genitive haldja, partitive haldjat)

haldja (genitive)
haldjat (partitive)
haldjas (nominative singular)
haldjad (nominative plural)
haldjas (accusative nominative singular)
haldjad (accusative nominative plural)
haldja (accusative genitive singular)
haldjad (accusative genitive plural)
haldja (genitive singular)
haldjate (genitive plural)
haldjat (partitive singular)
haldjaid (partitive plural)
haldjasse (illative singular)
haldjatesse (illative plural)
haldjaisse (illative plural)
haldjas (inessive singular)
haldjates (inessive plural)
haldjais (inessive plural)
haldjast (elative singular)
haldjatest (elative plural)
haldjaist (elative plural)
haldjale (allative singular)
haldjatele (allative plural)
haldjaile (allative plural)
haldjal (adessive singular)
haldjatel (adessive plural)
haldjail (adessive plural)
haldjalt (ablative singular)
haldjatelt (ablative plural)
haldjailt (ablative plural)
haldjaks (singular translative)
haldjateks (plural translative)
haldjaiks (plural translative)
haldjani (singular terminative)
haldjateni (plural terminative)
haldjana (essive singular)
haldjatena (essive plural)
haldjata (abessive singular)
haldjateta (abessive plural)
haldjaga (comitative singular)
haldjatega (comitative plural)

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *haltijas, from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᛚᛞᛁᛃᚨᛉ (*haldijaʀ). Compare Finnish haltija.

elf (magical, typically forest-guarding creature)


mutapelle

Verb-object compound, composed of muta (“to change”) + pelle (“skin”).

it-verb-obj

Egli è un mutapelle e talvolta si dice appartenga ad una stirpe di nani.
He is a shapeshifter and is sometimes said to be of dwarven bloodline.


Smok Wawelski

Smok Wawelski (nominative singular)
Smoka Wawelskiego (genitive singular)
Smokowi Wawelskiemu (dative singular)
Smoka Wawelskiego (accusative singular)
Smokiem Wawelskim (instrumental singular)
Smoku Wawelskim (locative singular)
Smoku Wawelski (singular vocative)


ਪਿਸ਼ਾਚ

pa-noun

ਪਿਸ਼ਾਚ • (piśāc) m (Shahmukhi spelling پشاچ)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पिशाच (piśāca).


ਅਸੁਰ

pa-noun

ਅਸੁਰ • (asur) m (Shahmukhi spelling اسُر)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit असुर (asura).


Hogwart

Hogwart (nominative singular)
Hogwartu (genitive singular)
Hogwartowi (dative singular)
Hogwart (accusative singular)
Hogwartem (instrumental singular)
Hogwarcie (locative singular)
Hogwarcie (singular vocative)


unicornback

They travelled the magical realm on unicornback.

(fantasy, with on) The back of a unicorn.


tryton

tryton (nominative singular)
trytony (nominative plural)
trytona (genitive singular)
trytonów (genitive plural)
trytonowi (dative singular)
trytonom (dative plural)
trytona (accusative singular)
trytony (accusative plural)
trytonem (instrumental singular)
trytonami (instrumental plural)
trytonie (locative singular)
trytonach (locative plural)
trytonie (singular vocative)
trytony (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) merman


dark fantasy

A subgenre of fantasy which incorporates elements of horror.


different story

en-noun

different story (plural different stories)

(science fiction fandom slang, dated) Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).


impossible story

impossible story (plural impossible stories)


మత్స్యకన్య

te-noun

మత్స్యకన్య • (matsyakanya) ? (plural మత్స్యకన్యలు)

matsyakanya (romanization)
మత్స్యకన్యలు (plural)

Borrowed from Sanskrit मत्स्यकन्या (matsyakanyā), compare cognate Malayalam മത്സ്യകന്യക (matsyakanyaka).


நீர்மங்கை

ta-noun

நீர்மங்கைகள்

நீர்மங்கை • (nīrmaṅkai) (plural நீர்மங்கைகள்)

nīrmaṅkai (romanization)
நீர்மங்கைகள் (plural)
நீர்மங்கை (nominative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகள் (nominative plural)
நீர்மங்கையே (singular vocative)
நீர்மங்கைகளே (plural vocative)
நீர்மங்கையை (accusative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளை (accusative plural)
நீர்மங்கைக்கு (dative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளுக்கு (dative plural)
நீர்மங்கைக்காக (benefactive singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளுக்காக (benefactive plural)
நீர்மங்கையுடைய (genitive genitive-i singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளுடைய (genitive genitive-i plural)
நீர்மங்கையின் (genitive genitive-ii singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளின் (genitive genitive-ii plural)
நீர்மங்கையில் (locative locative-i singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளில் (locative locative-i plural)
நீர்மங்கையிடம் (locative locative-ii singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளிடம் (locative locative-ii plural)
நீர்மங்கையோடு (singular sociative sociative-i)
நீர்மங்கைகளோடு (plural sociative sociative-i)
நீர்மங்கையுடன் (singular sociative sociative-ii)
நீர்மங்கைகளுடன் (plural sociative sociative-ii)
நீர்மங்கையால் (instrumental singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளால் (instrumental plural)
நீர்மங்கையிலிருந்து (ablative singular)
நீர்மங்கைகளிலிருந்து (ablative plural)

/n̪iːɾmɐŋɡɐɪ̯/

Compound of நீர் (nīr, “water”) + மங்கை (maṅkai, “virgin, maiden”).

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நீர்மங்கை கொங்கைக்கு நித்திலக்கச் சொக்குமால்...
nīrmaṅkai koṅkaikku nittilakkac cokkumāl...(—சிதம்பர செய்யுட்கோவை)


கடற்கன்னி

ta-noun

கடற்கன்னிகள்

கடற்கன்னி • (kaṭaṟkaṉṉi) (plural கடற்கன்னிகள்)

kaṭaṟkaṉṉi (romanization)
கடற்கன்னிகள் (plural)
கடற்கன்னி (nominative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகள் (nominative plural)
கடற்கன்னியே (singular vocative)
கடற்கன்னிகளே (plural vocative)
கடற்கன்னியை (accusative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளை (accusative plural)
கடற்கன்னிக்கு (dative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளுக்கு (dative plural)
கடற்கன்னிக்காக (benefactive singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளுக்காக (benefactive plural)
கடற்கன்னியுடைய (genitive genitive-i singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளுடைய (genitive genitive-i plural)
கடற்கன்னியின் (genitive genitive-ii singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளின் (genitive genitive-ii plural)
கடற்கன்னியில் (locative locative-i singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளில் (locative locative-i plural)
கடற்கன்னியிடம் (locative locative-ii singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளிடம் (locative locative-ii plural)
கடற்கன்னியோடு (singular sociative sociative-i)
கடற்கன்னிகளோடு (plural sociative sociative-i)
கடற்கன்னியுடன் (singular sociative sociative-ii)
கடற்கன்னிகளுடன் (plural sociative sociative-ii)
கடற்கன்னியால் (instrumental singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளால் (instrumental plural)
கடற்கன்னியிலிருந்து (ablative singular)
கடற்கன்னிகளிலிருந்து (ablative plural)

/kɐɖɐrkɐnːɪ/

Compound of கடல் (kaṭal, “sea, ocean”) + கன்னி (kaṉṉi, “virgin, maiden”, from Sanskrit कन्या (kanyā)).

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from Sanskrit <i class="Deva mention" lang="sa">कन्या</i> (kanyā)


кудесник

ru-noun+

куде́сник • (kudésnik) m anim (genitive куде́сника, nominative plural куде́сники, genitive plural куде́сников)

куде́сник (canonical)
kudésnik (romanization)
куде́сника (genitive)
куде́сники (nominative plural)
куде́сников (genitive plural)
куде́сник (nominative singular)
куде́сники (nominative plural)
куде́сника (genitive singular)
куде́сников (genitive plural)
куде́снику (dative singular)
куде́сникам (dative plural)
куде́сника (accusative singular)
куде́сников (accusative plural)
куде́сником (instrumental singular)
куде́сниками (instrumental plural)
куде́снике (prepositional singular)
куде́сниках (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic кудесникъ (kudesnikŭ).


godsdamned

Bet they're not godsdamned bandits at all, but more like, godsdamned deserters.

2010, Chris Bunch, Dragonmaster: The Omnibus Edition:

(fantasy) Synonym of goddamned (in fictional worlds having more than one god)


Soulsborne

Blend of souls + bloodborne, after the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne.

As the director of each of the Soulsborne games, Miyazaki is a strong influence on all aspects of the final product, including visual design, gameplay, and narrative content.

2019, “Introduction”, in Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, editor, Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame, page 4:

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was created by FromSoftware, the developers behind the Soulsborne titles.

2020, James Palmer, "Why did UK games sales drop in 2019?", The Boar (University of Warwick), 13 February 2022, page 32

Sure, “Death's Door” does little to hide its love for both the Zelda and Soulsborne franchises, cramming in dense lore to creepy dungeons filled with puzzles and enemies galore, but it manages to take the best part of these series and form something wholly unique.

2021 July 29, M. Deitz, “Fighting against your death in 'Death's Door'”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 9:

(fandom slang, video games) A loose series of dark fantasy action role-playing video games developed by FromSoftware, generally held as including Demon's Souls (2009), the Dark Souls trilogy (2011-2016), Bloodborne (2015), and Elden Ring (2022).


ਭੂਤ

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

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


dokkaebi

en-noun

dokkaebi (usually uncountable, plural dokkaebis)

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

トッケビ

a creature in Korean mythology, a Korean goblin


tarākoni

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


zombieness

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


sleep flower

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

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

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

1995, Squaresoft, Seiken Densetsu 3, SNES:

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


موسیقار

ur-noun

مُوسِیقار • (mūsīqār) m (Hindi spelling मूसीक़ार)

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

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


dragonlet

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

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

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

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

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

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


thanatomancy

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


thaumic

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

af

(chiefly fantasy) Relating to magic; magical.


Potterlock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ޖިންނި

head

ޖިންނި • (jin̊ni)

dv-noun

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

jin̊ni (romanization)
ޖިންނިތައް (plural)


antelabbit

Synonym of jackalope (“folkloric animal”)


sfenks

head

sfenks (definite accusative sfenksi, plural sfenksler)

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


majokko

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

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

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


sejmitar

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

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

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

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

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

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


adragonist

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

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


aleprechaunist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


con tinh

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


femme-renarde

fr-noun

femme-renarde f (plural femmes-renardes)


dragonflame

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

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

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

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

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

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


dragonfire

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

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

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

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

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

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


وامپیر

Turkish: vampir

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

vampire, a mythological creature said to feed on blood


Horcrux

Alternative letter-case form of horcrux.


Rowldemort

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

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

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

2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:

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

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

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


Rowlingian

en-adj

Rowlingian (comparative more Rowlingian, superlative most Rowlingian)

more Rowlingian (comparative)
most Rowlingian (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Harry-Potterish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Harry Potteresque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2015, Suzanne Brockmann, Free Fall, →ISBN:

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.


Hogwarts-esque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.


Middle-earther

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Middle-earthian

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

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

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

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

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

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


Hogwartsy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Harry Potterish

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

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

Last summer interest in U.K. Garage reached Harry Potterish levels in Britain (David’s debut CD alone went six times platinum); […]

2001 April 30, Christopher John Farley, “The Garage Door Opens”, in Time:

‘[…] Oh, you could be something Harry Potterish.’ ‘Or maybe . . . Yes! If I could find the gear, I could go as a character from that book I’ve been reading to them.[…]’

2002, Judith Cutler, Hidden Power, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 204:

In Not Just a Witch, Heckie has just finished Witches’ School where all the witches learn how to make the world a better place. Sound a bit Harry Potterish? It is, but it came before the J.K. Rowling adventures began.

All this is to say that the night after the dinner party from hell, I had a redemptive, Harry Potterish sort of dream.

2004, Patricia J. Williams, Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons and the Search for a Room of My Own, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 11:

This time, my mind stayed centered in my body, getting off on the scents in the air, the mysterious, mystical copse of Harry Potterish pines in the middle of the hike, and the curious looks on the faces bf the cows.

2004, Jessica Porter, The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and Fabulous Body, New York, N.Y.: Avery, →ISBN, page 55:

On the one hand this attention has brought the promise of extra funding - though few at the Universities UK annual conference in the Harry Potterish surroundings of Keble College, Oxford believe that undergraduate fees of up to £3,000 a year from 2006 are the magic wand to solve their problems.

2004 September 15, “Conference call”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2014-09-16:

He hoped that the rumour about the Canadian school with neckties was true. How bad could that be? It sounded kind of Harry Potterish.

2005, Kathrine K[ristine] Beck, Snitch, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 87–88:

There is something rather Harry Potterish about them: they can suddenly appear in huge quantities or alternatively disappear. […] Remember that receptors are Harry Potterish, appearing and disappearing.

2005, Vivienne Parry, The Truth About Hormones, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, pages 12 and 55:

I had no idea what was going on until I heard one of my roommates ordering my other roommate back into her room to change into something that was more “Harry Potterish.” Somehow, I managed to tear myself away from my Middle East Politics paper to discover the two of them uncontrollably hyper and wearing head-to-toe gold and burgundy. The new Harry Potter movie was opening at midnight, and they had picked up tickets a week in advance.

2005 December 8, Brooke Nevils, “Brining Potter’s lessons to campus”, in The Johns Hopkins University News-Letter, volume CX, number 13, the students of The Johns Hopkins University, page B4, column 1:

A visit to any favourite legal drinking den, El Vino’s, say, in Blackfriars, Daly’s Wine Bar on the Strand, or Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese beside Gough Square, confirms immediately the peculiar Harry Potterish sociality of the Bar – its abiding clubbishness which confirms belonging while also asserting exclusion.

2006, Hywel Williams, Britain’s Power Elites: The Rebirth of a Ruling Class, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 130:

It was where the Glomerels studied Glomery – no, I’m not making this up but it does sound Harry Potterish (or the other way round) – which was a corruption of grammarye or Latin grammar.

2006, Benedict le Vay, Eccentric Cambridge: The Bradt City Guide, Bradt Travel Guides; The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 116:

“Do not name him. He knows when his name is spoken and seeks out the speaker.” Jack had heard this before. It struck him as Harry Potterish, but he respected the sources and so he abided.

2006, Francis Paul Wilson, Harbingers, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 81:

I, of course, did not tell Kenneth what I’d done – burning his letter at a wayside shrine – because in some Harry Potterish way he could have made a counter curse to that, too.

2007, Marianne Faithfull, Memories, Dreams & Reflections, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 53:

I looked up to find an arc of almost-teens around me in Harry Potterish garb. A couple of adults appeared, in robes, pointed hats, and affected accents, beckoning the children to follow closely through this “dangerous” space.

2007 August 9–15, “The war on fun: “Family-friendly” is really a code word for “adult-hostile””, in See Magazine, number 715, page 7, column 3:

Pitch it right to the children, and ‘Taking a walk through a graveyard’ takes on a Harry Potterish aura, and Ireland offers you plenty of chances to do just that.

2008, Terry Marsh, Frommer’s Ireland with your Family: From Vibrant Towns to Picnic Perfect Countryside, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:

I flung out one hand at them. I didn’t have time to think of catchy phrases. No Die Hardish Yippee ki yay motherfuckers or Harry Potterish wand waving Or Bewitched inspired nose twitches.

2009, Leigh Bridger, Soul Catcher, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 100:

The only thing that keeps me from sheer madness is that Mr. Specter looks like a wizard. He has a severe comb-over of thin, dyed red hair and long yellow teeth. I’d love to leap up, stick my pencil out like a wand and yell something Harry Potterish, like, “Expelliderus!”

2010, Mary Hanlon Stone, Invisible Girl, Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 193:

Buildings date back to 1924 (when they were home to the local senior girls school) consequently there is lots of wood-panelling (slightly Harry Potterish feel to some of it) but, more importantly, lots of dedicated space.

2010, The Good Schools Guide, 15th edition, Lucas Publications, →ISBN, pages 1501–1502:

MapQuest displays it in a place where I’m sure no street exists. The Harry Potterish mystery has a boring resolution; an apartment building called Sheldon Court sits where, presumably, a cul de sac of that name once existed.

2010 September 20, David Guaspari, “Republicans in Ithaca”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 16, number 1, page 19, column 2:

At least one critic has complained that this is a Harry Potterish portrayal of Death, and I must admit that from time to time I found myself wishing this Death had a bit more edge.

2011, Steve Rasnic Tem, “Death and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak”, in Danel Olson, editor, 21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:

As it was the platform number for the Ardrossan train was given as 11A. That sounded a little Harry Potterish to me but there really was such a platform. I have to report that it was far from magical.

2011, Craig Stevenson, John Mackay, The Cheap Way Round, East Kilbride: Cheapwayround Publishers, →ISBN, page 78:

Tegmark’s story sounds a bit like something I read in one of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. In fact, much of what you’re about to read concerning the multiverse will seem a bit Harry Potterish. You will find it stretching your imagination. A few of the multiverse concepts described in this book are perhaps as fictitious as the Harry Potter series, […] This little apparent loophole in energy conservation provides a strange, Harry Potterish avenue to an understanding of the forces of nature via a theoretical framework known as quantum field theory.

2011, Steven Manly, Visions of the Multiverse, Pompton Plains, N.J.: New Page Books, →ISBN, pages 21–22 and 93:

That bespectacled, Harry Potterish face, frowning earnestly at the assorted jumble of Ben’s computer, stirred the soppiest memories in my breast of the days when my son had himself been just such a pink-cheeked cherub.

2002, Kate Fenton, Picking Up, Flame, →ISBN, page 104:

His dark brown hair was all over the shop, sticking out in tufts, and his spectacles were Harry Potterish.

2003, Jill Mansell, Falling for You, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 80:

I know about projectile vomiting because L—one of my brothers, the Harry Potterish one—had it when he was a baby.

2004, Nicola Morgan, Chicken Friend, Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 40:

Tina points to a Harry Potterish lightning bolt on her chin.

2006, Mary Hogan, Susanna Sees Stars, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 199:

These were round, Harry Potterish, horn-rimmed glasses of zero prescription which increasingly strengthened as you pumped a clear gel solution attached to the frame inside the glass.

2007, Robert D[avid] Kaplan, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 307:

He was tall, reed-thin in a heavy coat, and absurdly Harry Potterish with round glasses and an owlish gaze.

2009, Noel Hynd, Countdown in Cairo (The Russian Trilogy; 3), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 365:

The core Tangent group would be joined for the next four nights by the visiting crew from Jo’burg: […] Juan the make-up man, surprisingly (and disappointingly, for Guy at least, as he was tall and rather gorgeous in a Harry Potterish way) straight.

2009, Tarras Wilding, Leopard Rock, Little Black Dress, →ISBN, page 115:

He was maybe a fifth- or sixth-grader. Kind of early Harry Potterish. Short and skinny. Glasses. Short, dark hair that cowlicked in the back.

2010, Susan Fletcher, Ancient, Strange, and Lovely (The Dragon Chronicles), Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 181:

It was him, only more so. The curls were wilder and darker. The glasses were not as Harry Potterish.

2011, Angie Smibert, Memento Nora, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 28:


Hogwartsian

Hogwartsian (comparative more Hogwartsian, superlative most Hogwartsian)

more Hogwartsian (comparative)
most Hogwartsian (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wand was a stunning piece of Hogwartsian work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(comparable) Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(not comparable) Of or relating to Hogwarts.


Potteresque

Potteresque (comparative more Potteresque, superlative most Potteresque)

more Potteresque (comparative)
most Potteresque (superlative)

A young teen who reads Rowling’s books, for example, might seek a Potteresque type of excitement by joining the London-based Ordo Anno Mundi (OAM), a sect of occultists who practice Ophidian Witchcraft (i.e., serpent-venerating). Like Hogwarts, which takes its wizards through seven years of training, the OAM has seven degrees of “Magical Training” that include classes strikingly similar to those offered at Hogwarts: […]

2001, Richard Abanes, Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace behind the Magick, Camp Hill, Pa.: Horizon Books, →ISBN, pages 126–127:

Joanne was delighted at the choice of Daniel as she was with the ten-year-old Emma Watson and eleven-year-old Rupert Grint – a Potteresque name if ever there was one – to play Hermione and Ron.

2001, Sean Smith, J. K. Rowling: A Biography, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, →ISBN, page 178:

Marketing is inherently mysterious, and we forget this at our peril. It is mysterious not only in the sense that we still don’t know how advertising works, why Potteresque fads and crazes occur, or what the marketing philosophy is, exactly.

2005, Stephen Brown, Wizard!: Harry Potter’s Brand Magic (Great Brand Stories), Cyan Books, →ISBN, page 175:

Later in the day (hopefully after a solid night’s sleep, rather than any Potteresque nocturnal adventures) the children will return to the Great Hall of the castle for a Hogwarts-style banquet.

2005 June, Tanya Brown, “UK Report”, in Chronicle, number 260, DNA Publications, Inc., page 30, column 3:

GRYFFINDOR GRUNGE: Joe and Paul’s Potteresque style gets kids listening.

2005 June 6, Rachel Deahl, “Wizards Of Rock”, in Express (a publication of The Washington Post), page 16:

If live-action debutant Andrew Adamson and his team can spin the numbers right, a franchise is born of Potter'''esque proportions that will make the Rings look like a quota quickie.

2006 April, Nick Lowe, “Mutant Popcorn”, in Interzone, number 203, page 68, column 1:

The Grey School of Wizardry website has a number of very Potteresque features, including the ‘Magick Alley’ site from which textbooks and school equipment may be purchased. Although this is a virtual site, it is conceptually similar to Diagon Alley (‘diagonally’) in Harry Potter’s parallel London, where wands and robes, spell ingredients and companion animals (usually owls and cats, but sometimes rats and toads) can be purchased.

2010, Carole M. Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 76:

Parents can expect to pay £20,000 for their children to board at the school and former pupils have the marvellously Potteresque name of Old Dragons.

2011, David Nolan, Emma Watson: The Biography, John Blake, →ISBN, page 5:

In his own adventures Buslaev’s world seems less Potteresque; like Volkov before him, Yemets started with an imported fictional world but, having grown confident from working with it, is taking it in a different direction from the one chosen by its original creator.

2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:

The story was illustrated by Joe Kubert, best known for his work on the DC Comics character Sgt. Rock, and set at a Potteresque school, where instructors with names like Professor Rumbledoore teach army officers about the proper maintenance of magical equipment, including a flying jeep.

2011, Richard Lukas Graham, Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s–2000s, New York, N.Y.: Abrams ComicArts, →ISBN, pages 90–91:

Other scenes set at Hogwarts were filmed in the magnificent medieval cloisters, while some of the impressive statues in the abbey’s grand hall have a distinct Potteresque feel.

2011, Great Breaks: Bath, Insight Guides, →ISBN, page 72:

Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.


dragonstone

en-noun

dragonstone (countable and uncountable, plural dragonstones)

(fantasy) A stone or gem having magical powers in relation to dragons.


dragonmaster

(fantasy) One who has the ability to control dragons; someone with mastery over dragons.


dragon whisperer

dragon whisperer (plural dragon whisperers)

(fantasy) One who has the ability to talk to and control dragons.


ma gia

(Vietnamese folklore) The murderous ghost of an unrecovered drowned person, trying to drown travelers and capsize boats.


ma troi

will o' the wisp (in Vietnamese folklore)


ma lai

A type of evil spirit of Vietnamese folklore


She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

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

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

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

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

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

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

2022 December 30, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:

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

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort


shapechange

en-verb

shapechange (third-person singular simple present shapechanges, present participle shapechanging, simple past and past participle shapechanged)

shapechanges (present singular third-person)
shapechanging (participle present)
shapechanged (participle past)
shapechanged (past)

He clapped the big man on the shoulder and quickly left. In the shadows of the bridge he shapechanged and headed for Greenvale.

2004, Keri Arthur, Generation 18, London: Piatkus, published 2009, →ISBN, page 161:

(science fiction, fantasy) To shapeshift.


shapechange

I watched Michael's face and asked, "Why was he there then? I'd have put down money that it was a demon, but it was just a shapechange. There was a mortal inside it. Who was he?"

2003, Jim Butcher, Death Masks, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 78:

(science fiction, fantasy) An instance of shapechanging.