dollarydoo

Blend of dollar + didgeridoo. A faux-Australianism originally coined as "dollaridoos" by television writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein for “Bart vs. Australia”, a 1995 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons.

Bruno: "Nine hundred dollaridoos? Tobias! Did you accept a six-hour collect call from the states?"
Tobias: "It was an emergency call from the International Drainage Commission in Springfield."
Bruno: "Oh my God! There's nothing wrong with the bidet, is there?"

1995 February 19, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, “Bart vs. Australia”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 17, production code 2F13:

2015 24 December, Cam Tyeson, Merry Christmas to All Y'all, from Yr Gr8 m8s at Pedestrian.tv, Pedestrian.tv.
"And maybe spare a thought - or a spare dollarydoo or two - for those less fortunate than you.

2016 23 March, Shayen de Silva, Premiere: A picture of restlessness and weathered love, Tom Stephens will leave you heartbroken on Down to Rest, Happymag.tv.
"Tickets will be available at the door for a cool 10 dollarydoos."

Bandit: "I'd like that one, please."
Bluey: "Four hundred dollarydoos."

2018 October 6, Joe Brumm, “The Weekend”, in Bluey, season 1, episode 6:

2019 12 May, Labor Will Pump Over $30 Million Into Aussie Music, Ban Scalpers If It Wins The Election, Musicfeeds.com.au.
"Opposition leader Bill Shorten & co popped the cork on their arts funding plan at Melbourne’s Espy this weekend, allocating a mouth-watering $20 million dollarydoos to the Australian Music Live Music Fund to support live music venues, hotels, restaurants, cafes, festivals, precinct events and musos."

(Australia, informal, finance) The Australian dollar.

Bart vs. Australia
Bill Oakley
Josh Weinstein
The Simpsons


Kylux

(Examples: how people feel about Reylo, how people perceive Kylux, etc.)

2016, "Dark Side of the Mind", quoted in Kimberly Leerkes, "Fandom As A Remixing Culture", thesis submitted to the University of Amsterdam, page 87

In May 2016, a month after TFA was available for legal download and purchase on DVD, Kylux was already the most popular pairing in the fandom with over two thousand stories; […]

2017 December, Cait Coker, Karen Viars, “Welcoming the Dark Side?: Exploring Whitelash and Actual Space Nazis in TFA Fanfiction”, in NANO: New American Notes Online, volume 12:

On the other hand, a handful of my Mutuals ship Kylux […]

2018, Indira J. C. Neill, "Tumblr as Platform Architecture, User Experience, and Interaction Artifacts", dissertation submitted to the University of Illinois at Chicago, page 102

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kylo Ren and Armitage Hux from Star Wars.


Stormpilot

Stephanie didn't immediately latch onto Stormpilot after her first viewing of The Force Awakens, but now sees the developing relationship as playing on classic romantic beats.

2016 February, “Stormpilot: The Breakout Couple Of 2015”, in Colorblock Magazine, page 13:

The popularity of Stormpilot as a slash pairing is grounded in canonical signifiers, as Andrew Wheeler (2016) writes: […]

2017, Anastasia Salter, Bridget Blodgett, Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, And Identity Politics, page 199:

The ambiguity act doesn't work as well for Boyega and Isaac, but The Rise of Skywalker appears to offer Stormpilot shippers (and you know who you are) no definitive reason to jump ship.

2019, André Hereford, “Forceful Finale”, in Metro Weekly, 16 December - 26 December 2019, page 39:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Poe Dameron from Star Wars.


Reylo

In The Force Awakens fandom, for example, there is a vocal contingent of anti-Reylo fans, […]

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

It has now been a month since my last letter to you, and Reylo is closer to becoming canon than ever.

2018, anonymous author, “Letters to Editors”, in Lot's Wife, Monash University, Edition 2 (2018), page 3:

The final instalment of this Star Wars trilogy will be in our cinemas in December to answer all our burning questions: will Reylo ever happen?

2019, Emily Webb-Mortimer, "2019: year of the remake?", InQuire (University of Kent), 25 January 2019, page 15

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars.


Rumbelle

Many Rumbelle stories take place after Belle and Rumple have already undergone a terrible loss, using the hurt/comfort trope to show how they cope afterwards.

2014, Christa M. Baxter, "The Challenge of Happily Ever After: How Once Upon a Time Fanfic Fairy Tales Model Strategies for Ordinary Life Challenges", thesis submitted to Brigham Young University, page 19

We'd obviously be bummed to lose Giles Matthey as Rumbelle's adorably evil baby boy, but at least there's still some hope that the couple can get their baby back instead of missing out on his entire life.

2017, Lindsay Macdonald, "'Once Upon A Time': All Hope Is Not Lost For Gideon", TV Weekly (Magic Valley Times-News), 29 January - 4 February 2017, page 12

Fan websites indicate that the "Rumbelle" couple has become a fan-favorite specifically because viewers of the show relate to Rumple as an imperfect man and can identify with his rocky love relationship.

2019, Claudia Schwabe, Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Rumpelstiltskin and Belle from the television series Once Upon a Time.


Swan Queen

Swan + Queen, a combination of Emma Swan's surname and Regina Mills' title as the Evil Queen, likely chosen to reference the character in the ballet Swan Lake.

Swan Queen fans argue that the show runners of OUAT use subtextual codes within canonical storylines in an effort to queerbait the show’s queer audience members.

2017, Shannon A. Suddeth, "(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time Queer Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page iii

[…] for OUaT, the “Swan Queen” ship, pairing protagonist Emma Swan and evil queen Regina Mills, is one of the most dominant on Tumblr.

2018, Pauline Greenhill, “Cinematic”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:

While not all queer female OUAT fans are SQ shippers, and other femslash ships do exist within the fandom, the Swan Queen fandom is the largest and most vocal femslash fandom (and possibly ship fandom in general) within the broader OUAT fandom and is the fandom SUAS is written about and for.

2019, Colleen E. Johnson, "Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 8

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Emma Swan and Regina Mills from the television series Once Upon a Time.


Oncer

And fun because, well, he gets to interact with “Oncers” at fan events like PaleyFest and Comic Con […]

2013 June, Hiko Mitsuzuka, “Charmed & Generous: Josh Dallas”, in Bello, number 47, page 14:

Katy Lewis, a resident of Whitehorse, Yukon, is a 'Oncer'—a super fan of the popular TV show Once Upon a Time.

2014, Matthew Hoekstra, "Once draws super fans to Steveston", The Richmond Review, 21 March 2014, page 1 (image caption)

A horde of 'Oncers' from all over the continent are descending on little Steveston/Storybrooke this weekend.

2015 October 2, “Contents”, in Richmond News, page A3:

(fandom slang) A fan of the television series Once Upon a Time.


Captain Swan

Captain + Swan, a combination of Killian Jones' title as Captain Hook and Emma Swan's surname.

And the 'Captain Swan' fans would have been like, grr!

2015, Merrin Dungey, quoted in Mars Tonic, "Once Upon a Time - It's Good to Be Bad", GayCalgary Magazine, May 2015, page 30

In its annual “Year in Review” for 2015, Tumblr listed Captain Swan, a “ship” or relationship between Captain Hook and Emma Swan of the TV program Once Upon a Time as one of its most popular pairings.

2016, Susan Henneberg, 20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Tumblr, page 43:

Additionally, wittyoncer states that Swan Queen is “compelling,” echoing the shared belief that Outlaw Queen and Captain Swan are anything but […]

2017, Shannon A. Suddeth, "(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time Queer Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page 31

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Emma Swan and Killian Jones from the television series Once Upon a Time.


say the quiet part out loud

en-verb

say the quiet part out loud (third-person singular simple present says the quiet part out loud, present participle saying the quiet part out loud, simple past and past participle said the quiet part out loud)

says the quiet part out loud (present singular third-person)
saying the quiet part out loud (participle present)
said the quiet part out loud (participle past)
said the quiet part out loud (past)

say the quiet part loud
say the quiet part loud#English

Alternative form of say the quiet part loud


Disney point

Cast members are taught to use the “Disney point” when giving directions; the “Disney point” involves the entire palm or two fingers - never a single finger, which is considered rude!

2004, Rocco M. Angelo, Andrew Vladimir, Hospitality Today: An Introduction, Educational Institute of American Hotel & Motel Association:

Don't point with your index finger, either: use “the Disney point,” a reassuring two-fingered gesture (index plus middle finger, if you're wondering).

2012, Ross Perlin, Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 21:

Cast members use the “Disney point” (a minimum of two fingers) to direct guests.

2016, James D. Walsh, Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

The act of pointing with the index and middle finger, used by staff at Walt Disney resorts when giving directions.


Disneyphobe

Yet sooner or later, even the most devout Disneyphobe would break down and admit that, as a child, they'd shed an elephant tear or two for Dumbo's mummy; or felt their nose growing Pinocchio-style every time they fibbed about the dog eating their homework; or simply swooned at some gooey gouached sunset.

1997, Jonathan Romney, Short Orders: Film Writing, London: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, page 129:

(rare) A person who hates the films or theme parks of The Walt Disney Company.


geislasverð

is-noun

geislasverð n (genitive singular geislasverðs, nominative plural geislasverð)

geislasverðs (genitive singular)
geislasverð (nominative plural)
geislasverð (indefinite nominative singular)
geislasverðið (definite nominative singular)
geislasverð (indefinite nominative plural)
geislasverðin (definite nominative plural)
geislasverð (accusative indefinite singular)
geislasverðið (accusative definite singular)
geislasverð (accusative indefinite plural)
geislasverðin (accusative definite plural)
geislasverði (dative indefinite singular)
geislasverðinu (dative definite singular)
geislasverðum (dative indefinite plural)
geislasverðunum (dative definite plural)
geislasverðs (genitive indefinite singular)
geislasverðsins (definite genitive singular)
geislasverða (genitive indefinite plural)
geislasverðanna (definite genitive plural)


Stjörnustríð

is-proper noun

Stjörnustríð n (proper noun, genitive singular Stjörnustríðs)

Stjörnustríðs (genitive singular)
Stjörnustríð (indefinite nominative singular)
Stjörnustríð (accusative indefinite singular)
Stjörnustríði (dative indefinite singular)
Stjörnustríðs (genitive indefinite singular)


Svarthöfði

Svarthöfði m (proper noun, genitive singular Svarthöfða)

Svarthöfða (genitive singular)
Svarthöfði (indefinite nominative singular)
Svarthöfða (accusative indefinite singular)
Svarthöfða (dative indefinite singular)
Svarthöfða (genitive indefinite singular)

From Old Norse Svarthǫfði. Equivalent to svartur (“black”) + höfði (“head”).


be there and be square

From the phrase be there or be square. Originally in The Simpsons, episode "Mayored to the Mob", aired in 1998.

All nerds welcome. Be there... and be square.

2000, Network World, volume 17, number 40, page 74:

(slang, humorous) Used to encourage someone to go somewhere considered nerdy.


Disneybounding

Named after the blog DisneyBound. Hence, Disney + -bound + -ing.

(fandom slang) Incorporating Disney-themed elements in one's fashion.


Mickey Mouse ring

en-noun

Mickey Mouse ring (plural Mickey Mouse rings)

2020 NBA Bubble
Championship ring
LeBron James

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Mickey Mouse ring.wav

Likely from Mickey Mouse (“of inferior quality”), or in reference to the 2020 NBA Bubble shortened basketball season held at Walt Disney World, or both of these; with ring as a metonym for “championship” after the Championship ring presented to members of winning teams.

Q: I have a child’s Mickey Mouse ring. I think it’s sterling silver and from the 1930s. Could you please tell me what it’s worth?

2010 July 11, Terry Kovel, “Each cupboard had its own special purpose”, in The Flint Journal, page C3:

In addition, Pandora has also added some new charms to style alongside this limited edition piece, including a sterling silver Mickey Mouse ring, a stone-encrusted Minnie Mouse charm and an exclusive Mary Poppins capsule collection, which features an enamel umbrella charm and Mary Poppins Bag charm, decorated with clear gemstones.

2018, All India Gems, Jewels Federation, “Pandora marks 90 years of Mickey Mouse with limited edition charm”, in Policies on Gems and Precious Stones:

One time on a trip to Walt Disney World, he bought her a Mickey Mouse ring.
"She had that kind of sense of humor," he said. It wasn't a diamond, but "I think the Mickey Mouse ring probably meant more to her."

2020 March 3, Maureen O’Donnell, “Jan Brent, a giving suburban Montessori preschool teacher, dead of COVID at 72”, in Chicago Sun-Times, News:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Mickey Mouse, ring.


Phinabella

I could have been your girlfriend / I could have been your fella / We might have been an item / They would have called us "Phinabella"

2015 February 20, “Act Your Age”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 47:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Phineas Flynn and Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from the animated television series Phineas and Ferb.


flanderization

flanderization (countable and uncountable, plural flanderizations)

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

Irene's whole gimmick is that she's the one woman in the world who can outwit Holmes. Although in the actual story, her victory is extremely limited, flanderization takes hold in adaptations.

2012 December 21, David Johnson, “Re: Elementary – Episode 8 – The Long Fuse”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

'[Crayon] Shin-chan' can often get very repetitive with its humor, absurdity and the flanderizations of the main character; but then what more can you expect from a comedy anime that has been here since the past three decades?

2019 September 20, Dhruv Sharma, “Crayon Shin-chan: Review, Premiere Date, Recap, English Dub”, in TheCinemaholic, archived from the original on 2020-11-24:

A common form of this ["character derailment"] is flanderization, in which a character's very singular, minor, yet notable attributes exaggerate as a serial continues. […] I would attribute flanderization to Rick and/or Jerry, if anyone of the main cast.

2020, Edward K. Eckhart-Zinn, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Rick and Morty”, in The Sequel Superior, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 233:

Alternative letter-case form of Flanderization


Finnrey

People have started to look at fandom through a social justice lens, so there are now progressive/good ships (Finnrey = interracial, good) and regressive/bad ships (Reylo = white, racist, abusive and sexist = bad).

2020, Shuang, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, page 280

FinnRey fan art

2020, Abigail Reed, "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars Films", dissertation submitted to Florida State University, page vi

I've been following "Finnrey" a lot, which is a dark horse in the realm of shipping. Even people who don't love Finnrey recognize that the first movie did set up that Finn (played by black actor John Boyega) and Rey (white actor Daisy Ridley) had a deep emotional connection that producers later dropped.

2021, Greg Carter, quoted in "UWM historian takes on race, relationships, and representation", In Focus (University of Wisconsin-Millwaukee), January 2021, page 11

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Rey from Star Wars.


crisitunity

Blend of crisis + opportunity; introduced as a gag in the animated television series The Simpsons (season 6, episode 11, "Fear of Flying", first broadcast on 18 December 1994):
* LISA: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"?
* HOMER: Yes. "Crisitunity"! You're right.

Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?

2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25:

Communicate the “crisitunity.” Originally coined by Homer Simpson, a “crisitunity” is the moment when crisis meets opportunity—and it has a slightly better ring than “opporisis.” Regardless of the word choice, the principle is straightforward: by communicating a time-sensitive problem your organization faces, along with how your online community can help solve the problem, people will be motivated to act.

2011, Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Nonprofit Management 101, page 267:

On lost crisitunities, vanishing post-Soviet and decolonization of thinking, being and perception.

2017, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power, and Memory, page 147:

In addition to the challenges of Chinese lending raised above, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) presents another possibility for crisitunity (crisis-opportunity) in Africa.

2021, Gorden Moyo, African Agency, Finance and Developmental States, page 116:

(informal, rare) A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.


Мики Маус

mk:Мики Маус


Клапчо

mk-proper noun

Клапчо • (Klapčo) m


Пајо Паторот

Пајо Паторот

mk:Пајо Паторот


Војна на ѕвездите

Војна на ѕвездите

Војна на ѕвездите • (Vojna na dzvezdite) f


Јода

Yoda (a wise old Jedi Master in the Star Wars films)


ジェダイ

Borrowed from English Jedi, said to be adapted from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki, “period drama”).

der

(religion, fiction) A follower of Jediism (fictional religion)


Elsanna

Ultimately, Elsanna femslash considers the repressive power of sexual taboo insofar as it can reject that power, electing instead, as Elsa's character sings in the film's coming-out scene par excellence, to "let it go."

2019, Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, “Introduction: Entering the Fringe”, in Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, editors, Representing Kink: Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture, page 11:

Fans of the show Supernatural have created digitally manipulated images of its two male leads, the Wincester brothers, in bed together (aka “Wincest”), and fan-fiction stemming from the popular children’s film Frozen (2013) casts the two sisters, Elsa and Anna, as lovers (aka “Elsanna”).

2019, Lara Karaian, “Relative Lust: Accidental Incest’s Affective and Legal Resonances”, in Law, Culture and the Humanities, volume 15, number 3, pages 8–9:

While other male/male fan pairings were referred to more often than elsanna, it was the first and only female/female pairing that I came across during my search.

2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 43

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of the fictional sisters Elsa and Anna from the Frozen franchise.


Disney rash

So called because it is sometimes experienced by visitors to Walt Disney resorts, who find themselves undertaking an unusual amount of exercise (sports, etc.) in hot weather.


光劍

/ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/


Mouse Kingdom

My brother (the minor regional poet and CnW artiste) went to Orlando (in the Mouse Kingdom) for a minor regional poet's confab oncet and hooked up with a cowboy poet from Wyoming.

1994 July 26, Ted Samse, “ORLANDO [not the sound of Florida in my ears]”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Don't know what the temperture is by Maryjo, but the weather in Sarasota, Fl. is supposed to be up in the low 80's today. It is usually warmer here than Lakecity.
It is supposed to be in the same in Orlando, at the Mouse Kingdom where my husband and I are heading in just a couple of hours.

1999 November 6, Catherine Hassard, “OT A Message From George Carlin”, in alt.support.crohns-colitis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Not only do they have Mikey's stuff at the Mouse Kingdom, they have it at the Bullseye Boutique.

2001 April 8, Charlie Perrin, “More Magazine--and what magazines do you read?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I am from Central Florida in the United States. About 45 miles from the giant mouse kingdom of Orlando.

2004 December 28, Mary, “RE: New Member”, in alt.healing.reiki (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I am not in fact a Tampan. My ISP is located in Tampa but I am from further east. I AM regrettably close to the Mouse Kingdom, I admit. Tampa and Orlando kinda suck all the oxygen out of the air here.

2008 April 22, Jim Vandewalker, “Clansdell and Jim V.”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

The coming August, before the start of school, I was planning on going with some friends to the Mouse Kingdom in Florida.

2022 July 17, Obvious-Wrongdoer-18, “AITA For Saying That I Don't Love My Niece To Her Face?”, in Reddit, AmItheAsshole, archived from the original on 2022-07-18:

"On the Disney side--remember these people own a movie studio, cable TVvhannels and ABC--there's plenty of people who are technicall astute. Bran Ferren, Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papret, and Danny Hillis, geeks all, have found comfortable homes in the mouse kingdom."

1998 March 10, Tripp1901, “Disney Buying Apple Computers???”, in alt.disney.disneyland (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

There's a current fan-myth that Mulan was directly inspired by Mononoke, which is incredibly unlikely given Disney's film began production long before Ghibli's. (Unless the Mouse Kingdom ransacked Miyazaki's early treatments - which were a variant on the Beauty and the Beast story, with a young girl forced to marry a mononoke (monster)).

1998 July 16, andrew osmond, “summer is here”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Robin the mad photographer (not terribly impressed with the Mouse Kingdom, if you couldn't tell)

1999 June 24, Robin Colleen Moore, “Three More Bodies Found In Disney Pond”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I have a pair of co-workers (husband and wife, but she kept her name... we didn't know they were husband and wife for a while) who are great Mouse Kingdom freaks. She in particular wears Mickey Mouse stuff to work all the time.

The mouse kingdom has invaded the big apple on Broadway where the Lion King has been playing to sold out audiences for years.

2002 January 25, JSTONE9352, “NYINC”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Welcome from another Californian. We seem to be getting quite a group here. I'm kind of near the mouse kingdom, but not as close as Sandra. Guess we are spread out everywhere. : )

1997 September 19, Bev, “WHO IS FORTY OR MORE?”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I sold the trip to Track Worlds on the proximity to the Mouse Kingdom (Le Royaume de Souris to you, Brian). It's spring break so the rest of my family is available to travel. Note, if you refer to the Mouse Kingdom to a travel agent they know exactly what you are talking about. You might have to explain Le Royaume de Souris though.
So Thursday, while I'm grooving on the Men's Points race, they are making the pilgrimmage. This is a big deal since my kid is old enough now that a lot of her friends have been there, or to the alternate Royaume de Souris in Florida.

2005 March 26, Bob Schwartz, “True Story”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

We were at Disneyland, so long ago there was still a submarine ride, and this loud talking hot woman with another group who looked just like Kelly Harmon and honestly might have been her
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/kelly-harmon-1.jpg
said, as I put my video camera up against the sub window, “I bet that creep is going to put his video camera right up against the sub window“
And my mouse kingdom accomplice asked what cutie pie had said and I told her and she says “I don’t believe it, she’s too pretty to be that mean“

2021 June 10, anim8rfsk, “"Loki" Starts Today”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

(humorous, uncommon) The Disneyland Resort.


bolt thrower

(science fiction) A mechanical crossbow used by Alliance Special Forces infiltration units in Star Wars.


Star Warsesque

en-adj

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

more Star Warsesque (comparative)
most Star Warsesque (superlative)

Moments of ID4 were so like SW, it was unreal. From the mothership, similar to the Death Star docking bay 327 (not to reveal anything), to the air battles similar to the battle of Hoth, Endor, and Yavin. ID4 is the supreme Star Warsesque film since ROTJ nearly 15 years ago.

1996 July 7, Mikefjedi2, “STAR WARS NEWSLETTER Vol.1 #3”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-16:

No, you can't add stars to a movie that, to be honestdoesn't have nearly as much appeal as does star wars. You need to put money into its quality so that it can BECOME a Star-Warsesque seller. ESPECIALLY since-lets be honest-more people like sci-fi then fantasy.

1998 December 8, PlayBumSp1, “Dragonlance Movie”, in alt.fan.dragonlance (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-16:

Gertu Wrikir, sounds pretty Star Warsesque to me.

1999 June 15, Xen7, “How to get your 'Star Wars name'”, in alt.fan.starwars (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-16:


lekku

Either of the two appendages that protrude from the head of a Twi'lek (a race of creatures in Star Wars)


Donald Ducking it

From the cartoon character Donald Duck, who is almost always depicted with no clothing below the shirt.

Wear clothes on the bottom half of your body. During the lockdown, many people got caught out when they rose from their computer only to be discovered “Donald Ducking” it.

2021, Nancy Bishop, Auditioning for Film and Television: A Post #MeToo Guide:

'Hope your neighbours don't catch me Donald Ducking it,' I call, returning to the bedroom still knickerless, holding the bottle and the glasses.

He is wearing eighties-style dark sunglasses and completely Donald Ducking it in a Hawaiian shirt with the sleeves cut off.

(slang) Wearing no clothes below the waist.


cromulence

Results from a numerical simulation of a compression test are also presented in Figure 6 and serve as an initial indicator of the cromulence of the proposed model.

2015, Cesar Ovalles, Carl Rechsteiner Jr, Analytical Methods in Petroleum Upstream Applications, page 1571:

The material circumstances may raise questions as to the cromulence of this perspective, but the UK's elite appear, for the moment, to be as firmly committed to a Great Power role as they ever were under the Coalition.

2021, Timothy Oliver, The Cameron–Clegg Coalition and Britain's Role in the World, page 199:

(humorous, uncommon) Acceptability, correctness.


Dickney

Now The Black Hole (which is one movie I do want) isn't being released by Disney on DVD but is being released by Anchor Bay. So I don't know which is worse...I'd rather see Dickney release it than Artifact Bay.

1998 December 27, ´ceith, “Disney Fucked up Armageddon”, in alt.video.dvd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-11-27:


Disneyphile

While a few of the pictures harken back to the 1951 animated film of Alice, most are unlike anything Disneyphiles have seen before, […]

1989, Knight Letter, Lewis Carroll Society of North America:

McElwee also mentions the Perspecta Process that simulated stereo, and was applied to re-issues of Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Jolson Story (1946), and a reissue of Disney's Fantasia (1940) with a Dolby track that apparently annoyed Disneyphiles.

1993, Moving Image Works and Manifestations, University of California, Los Angeles, page 104:

Steve Watts is both a scholar and a Disneyphile, which makes him an ideal author for this much-needed volume about Walt Disney’s place in American culture.

1997, Steven Watts, quoting Leonard Maltin, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, Columbia, Mo., London: University of Missouri Press, back cover:


miecz świetlny

miecz świetlny (nominative singular)
miecze świetlne (nominative plural)
mieczu świetlnego (genitive singular)
mieczy świetlnych (genitive plural)
mieczowi świetlnemu (dative singular)
mieczom świetlnym (dative plural)
miecz świetlny (accusative singular)
miecze świetlne (accusative plural)
mieczem świetlnym (instrumental singular)
mieczami świetlnymi (instrumental plural)
mieczu świetlnym (locative singular)
mieczach świetlnych (locative plural)
mieczu świetlny (singular vocative)
miecze świetlne (plural vocative)

Literally, “light sword”. Calque of English lightsaber.


ROTS

It may be surprising, but the plot for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was revealed early in the ROTS and LEGO Star Wars video games.

2022 April 3, John Feliciani, “Star Wars Spoiled Revenge of the Sith Months Early In Games”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-08-14:

Revenge of the Sith
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(Star Wars) Initialism of Revenge of the Sith (a 2005 movie in the Star Wars series).


Glup Shitto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


anti-Reylo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Darth Vader-esque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.


Star Warsian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of the Star Wars franchise.


Darth Vaderian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His heavy breathing fell to a Darth Vaderian murmur.

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

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

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


Darth Vaderish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resembling or characteristic of Darth Vader.


Disneybounder

A Disneybounder might wear a yellow skirt, blue top, red bow and apple pin as a quiet shout-out to Snow White or go all-green with a feathered fedora to represent Peter Pan.

2015 May 18, Dewayne Bevil, “Disney fans display devotion”, in Sun Sentinel, volume 56, number 23, page 3B:

In time, Disneybounders began wearing their costume-related dress to work and social occasions beyond the theme parks.

2019, Therèsa M. Winge, Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

When a Disneybounder designs an outfit, they decide which elements are most important to that character and the Disneybounder’s representation of it on the Disney stage.

2022, Rebecca Rowe, “To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks”, in Sabrina Mittermeier, editor, Fan Phenomena: Disney, Intellect, →ISBN, part 2 (The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans):

As a Disneybounder myself, my best advice is to have fun with it. That might sound cliché, but it’s true. Don’t stress about not looking like a carbon copy of your favorite character or princess.

2023 March 1, Casey Clark, “Disneybounding lets you dress up as your favorite Disney characters”, in The Daily Journal, volume 149, number 51, page 5B:

(fandom slang) One who incorporates The Walt Disney Company–themed elements in one’s fashion.


Disneyphilia

All the other shoppers were mousepeople, too, each one a nightmarish assemblage of disparate organs, the hideous creation of some demented vivisectionist, some latter-day Dr. Moreau with Disneyphilia and a sharp scalpel.

1987 July, Vance Aandahl, “Deathmatch In Disneyland”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 73, number 1 (whole 434), →ISSN, page 149, column 1:

Arlene and Irwin Isaacs, psychotherapists from Fort Lauderdale, gush with Disneyphilia. “We believe that Walt Disney was a visionary person who had certain spiritual revelations of how the world should be, and we’d love to live in the middle of it.”

1995 December 10, “Celebration — it’s a small town, after all”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 278, section “Forum”, page 6:

Brazil: Disneyphilia is so rampant that the Magic Kingdom issued etiquette kits to Orlando-bound Brazilians.

1996 December 30/1997 January 6, “Globoculture Creep: From Beijing to Rio, from São Paolo to Shiraz, American pop style finds a home away from home”, in Newsweek, volume CXXIX, number 1, page 72:

Among them were folks who made a point of not identifying as Disneyphiles, and who vocally berated those who were infantilized as “Disney nuts” or mindwashed “Disnoids.” Predictably, it was among the most highly educated and professional residents that the scorn for Disneyphilia was most pronounced.

1999, Andrew Ross, “Our Much-Rumored Life”, in The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Values in Disney’s New Town, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 110:

Finally, it would be no fun working on a book like this if I couldn’t share my Disneyphilia with my wife, Alice, and daughter, Jessie.

2000, Leonard Maltin, The Disney Films, Disney Editions, →ISBN:

Different selections from Dress Shop, created by Disney Parks Merchandise, match the level of Disneyphilia of the customers.

2017 April 28, Dewayne Bevil, “Dress Shop makes snazzy Disney duds”, in Orlando Sentinel, page D8:


Disneybound

en-noun

Disneybound (countable and uncountable, plural Disneybounds)

Coined by Leslie Kalbfleisch (a.k.a. Leslie Kay) in 2011 with her Tumblr blog called DisneyBound, from Disney + -bound. Kay described the context: “It was a travel site. My best friend and I were heading to Disney World, and we had been planning that trip since we were young … I was using this blog as a way to channel my excitement because we were literally Disney-bound. So I started doing these outfits, which is something that I always did when I was a little kid … I could dress up in these clothes without it actually being a costume.”

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When showing off a Disneybound outfit online, it’s good form to link to where others can buy those clothes.

2017, Zoe Fraade-Blanar, Aaron M. Glazer, Superfandom: How Our Obsessions Are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, Profile Books, →ISBN:

Disneybound has an even stronger impact when it’s seen on a pair or group, [Leo] Camacho said. […] The objective of Disneybound is to extract the essence of the character’s outfit and convey it subtly. […] Ultimately, “Disneybound is all about individuality,” she [Leslie Kay] said, and what she wants is for people to take the idea and use it to express their personal style, whether it’s punk, goth, sporty, vintage or preppy.

2015 November 18, Lisa Liddane, “Can’t dress up at Disneyland? Streetwear meets Disney in ‘Disneybound’ style”, in The Orange County Register, archived from the original on 2017-05-04:

In addition, one of the more formal ways that Cosplayers extend the Cosplay experiences in everyday life is by practicing Disneybound, […] Disneybound Bambi is accomplished by wearing light brown clothing and a scarf with white dots, […] In addition to the sartorial practice of Disneybound, there is Princessing and Princing, which range from dressing and performing as princesses and princess to wearing portions of costumes or clothes color blocked similar to a princess or prince characters. […] Cosplayers participate in Disneybound and Princessing/Princing because it allows them to share their love of their favorite characters beyond the fandom too.

(fandom slang, uncountable) The practice of Disneybounding; incorporating The Walt Disney Company–themed elements in one’s fashion.

Instead of wearing full-on costumes as cosplayers do, Disneybounders dress up in stylish, everyday outfits (known as Disneybounds) that are simply inspired by a particular character. […] Leslie Kay, the woman behind the DisneyBound Tumblr, showing off her Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" Disneybound. […] One big misconception, according to Leslie, is that a Disneybound is a costume. Disneybounders think of a character’s clothes and style as more of a jumping off point, rather than something to replicate exactly.

2017 November 15, Kelsey Borresen, “‘Disneybounding’ Is The Dress-Up Trend Creative Fans Are Obsessed With”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2018-10-03:

Since I got my start with Disney-inspired outfits, I’ll open this guide with Disneybounds, including everyone’s favorite princesses and villains, as well as some lesser-known characters. […] I found a dress on Amazon for thirty dollars, which is more than I would usually spend on a single piece, but since it was a plain dress that I could use for other Disneybounds and casual cosplays, it was worth it.

2021, Krystal Everdeen, Casual Cosplay: Character-Inspired Fashion You Can Wear Anywhere, Tiller Press, →ISBN, page 11:

One prominent social media influencer in the world of Disneybounding, Leslie Kay, contends that the appeal of the practice is that ‘it uses clothes to recreate the outfits of your favorite Disney characters without being costume-y. You could go to school or the mall in a Disneybound and not get pegged for being in costume.’

2021, Emma Pett, Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience Economy, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

It did not occur to me that my Disneybounding and scholarly plans might intervene, yet I was quickly fascinated by how guests and Cast Members alike would interact with me more the more recognizable my Disneybound was. […] Figure 9.1: The author wearing a Belle Disneybound. […] For example, if I had looked angry or upset, other guests may have been less likely to interact with me, even when I was in full Disneybound.

(fandom slang, countable) An outfit that incorporates The Walt Disney Company–themed elements; or, the incorporation itself.


Disneybound

en-verb

Disneybound (third-person singular simple present Disneybounds, present participle Disneybounding, simple past and past participle Disneybounded)

Disneybounds (present singular third-person)
Disneybounding (participle present)
Disneybounded (participle past)
Disneybounded (past)

“I have Disneybounded Merida, Minnie Mouse, Buzz Lightyear. … I have two different Ariel ones,” said [Elyssa] Kivus, 27. “I really like meeting the character when you’re Disneybounding as that character,” she said.

Stephanie Danet Disneybounding as Princess Jasmine from "Aladdin." […] Leslie [Kay] Disneybounding as the bird Becky from "Finding Dory." […] Brittani Enos-Blake Disneybounding as Snow White. She wore a Magic Mirror pin instead of carrying an actual mirror. […] Sara Katz-Scher Disneybounding as Minnie Mouse. […] Keshia [Sih-Tseng] and her husband Kevin Disneybounding as Han Solo and Chewbacca from "Star Wars." […] Sarah [Sterling] and her boyfriend, Leo [Camacho], Disneybounding as Dory and Nemo from "Finding Nemo."

Fans can also cosplay as Disney characters (although notably, not at the Disney parks themselves), or even ‘Disneybound’, a practice where fans dress in similar colours or looks to their favourite Disney characters (see also Rebecca Rowe’s chapter in this volume). […] [Rebecca Rowe, “To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks”] Moreover, on multiple occasions that day, people singled me out to talk to me, ignoring the rest of my family who were not Disneybounding. […] The one day that I did not Disneybound, I immediately faded into the background. / This experience deeply fascinated me: why would others treat me differently when they see me Disneybounding? […] On the other hand, guests may be more likely to approach someone who seems to be having a good time, whether or not they are Disneybounding, because childlike wonder and playfulness are part of Disney’s image of the child, suggesting that the guest is performing Disney’s script of childhood. […] BIPoC guests, likewise, can reimagine their chosen characters simply by Disneybounding as them (i.e. a Black Ariel).

2022, Sabrina Mittermeier, editor, Fan Phenomena: Disney, Intellect, →ISBN, part 2 (The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans):

Most folks who Disneybound do so specifically for trips to Disney World or Disneyland, but the more subtle the references are in an outfit, the more likely they can be inconspicuous out in public.

(fandom slang, transitive, intransitive) To incorporate The Walt Disney Company–themed elements (of a specific character) in one’s fashion.


Disneyphobia

Harriette Hunt of Port St. Lucie traced her Disneyphobia back through the years. “I’ve never liked Disney,” Harriette Hunt explained.

1982 September 26, Ray Washington, “And then there are those who haven’t been to Disney World”, in The News Tribune, Fort Pierce, Fla./Port St. Lucie, Fla., page B13:

Add to these the writers who’ve seen their prices drop and their work “managed” beyond recognition, the directors who have been stripped of their autonomy, the agents who have been left sitting alone at the negotiating table, and the long list of litigants who’ve felt the heat of Disney’s legendarily voracious legal team, and you have a fairly large population of Disneyphobes. Last spring, the conclusion to a pair of brutal alley fights with the Muppets and Peggy Lee moved Disneyphobia from the back tables at Mortons into the mainstream of public opinion.

1991 November, Peter J. Boyer, “Katzenberg’s seven-year itch: Showtown superstition has it that Jeffrey Katzenberg’s winning streak at Disney is over, but the studio boss is determined to beat the odds”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 3:

Comments one French writer bemused by the outbreak of Disneyphobia: “We’ve never really forgiven the Americans for liberating us.”

1992 April 8, Alex Beam, “Eek! A mouse!”, in The Boston Globe, volume 241, number 99, page 19:

Strange affliction, Disneyphobia — and not very flattering. The dark pronouncements about Disney’s purchase of ABC contain an element of condescension; Disney’s products have widespread appeal, making them easy targets for snobs. The company also enjoys considerable success, which attracts the enmity of liberals who resent winners because winners have no need for liberalism’s pet virtue: compassion.

1995 August 11, “The Disneyphobes”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, 145th year, number 223, Richmond, Va., page A14:

The issues of control and corporatism in community development that Beardsley raises deserve serious debate with less pop Disneyphobia and a little more historical professional perspective.

The 12-cartoon, 90-minute program, beginning Friday at the Cinema Village (22 E. 12th St., 212-924-3363, Manhattan), includes some truly outrageous racial stereotypes, sexist imagery, xenophobia and even Disney[-]phobia: “Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs” a parody of “Snow White,” has some terrific animation but is rampant with racist cliches.

1997 March 12, John Anderson, “When That Outwageous Bunny Was Bad”, in Newsday, volume 57, number 191, page B11:

One explanation for the strength of this Disneyphobia is that the vast majority of film critics do not like movies that are not obviously difficult and complicated. […] A more general reason for Disneyphobia is that the middle class seems naturally inclined to the Stoic error that enjoyment is incompatible with edification.

1999 October 26, Matthew d’Ancona, “Disney as the New Shakespeare”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A16:

Times Square, Disneyphobia, HegeMickey, The Ricky Principle, and the downside of the entertainment economy: it’s fun-dumb-mental

2001 December, Morris B. Holbrook, Marketing Theory, volume 1, page 139:

I had all but made peace with my Disneyphobia until one day last week while wandering through Target hunting a bath mat. […] a hoss of a woman screeched into her cell phone, rattling the lamps in the light fixture aisle. […] “[…] we thought we’d run on down to Disney for a few days.[…]” […] She had uttered the worst word possible: Disney. I fear it like a child scared of spooks under a bed. We have lucked out in the Disney department, thanks to the fact that Myrtle Beach, S.C., has Lazy Rivers and plenty of stucco’d and plastic wonders to entertain the children. […] Even in my in-laws do Disney every other year or so, and they’re almost 100. How come they can withstand 11 hours of driving that boring old highway fighting traffic, then checking into a crowded motel packed with obnoxious parents and hacking children?

2004 December 8, Susan Reinhardt, “Facing my fear: Doing Disney with the crowds”, in Asbury Park Press, page 18:

The entire experience was more overwhelming than a case of Disney-phobia. I’d just as soon hit four theme parks than ever return to a high school football game where rivals are playing and the teens are out en masse.

2005 August 30, Susan Reinhardt, “Football game injected me with a dose of culture shock and an eye full of hoochie-coochie”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, page D1:

Jon Harrison copes with Disneyphobia

But now I think I’ve found a particularly disturbing and personally resonant reason for my Disneyphobia. About ten minutes into Frozen, there’s a crucial and decidedly dark plot twist, when Anna and Elsa’s parents, the king and queen of Arendelle, board a sailing ship. In a startlingly graphic ten-second sequence, the ship is caught in a violent storm, overwhelmed by towering waves and dragged under. Small wonder she doesn’t want ‘to sink to the bottom of the water’. Who can blame her? Curse you, Mickey Mouse.

2018, Jonathan Gornall, How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:


Disneylandification

Thus it becomes inevitable that the border to kitsch and ‘Disneylandification’ will be crossed, quite often even under the formally correct surveillance of the authorities.

2010, Susanne Oberheu, Michael Wadenpohl, Cappadocia: A Travel Guide Through the Land of Fairychimneys and Rock Castles, →ISBN, page 26:

If it is the case elsewhere that the tourist industry has ‘touristified’ urban centres that already existed, subjecting them to a process of Disneylandification, Las Vegas is a tourist city created from scratch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, designed purely for the function of drawing in and accommodating tourists.

2021, Marco D'Eramo, The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 127:

Residents distance themselves from the Disneylandification of the city

2022, Zara Pinto-Coelho, Helena Pires, editors, The City of the Senses, the Senses in the City, UMinho Editora, →ISBN, page 116:

(informal) The process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.


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From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.

I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26:

If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:

Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:

(humorous or derogatory) Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.

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Treehouse of Horror II
W. W. Jacobs

From the 1902 short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, in which a mummified monkey's paw is enchanted to grant a family three wishes, but with terrible consequences for them. Popularised by a segment based on Jacobs' story in the 1991 episode "Treehouse of Horror II" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

It’s given me everything I thought I wanted – riches, lucre, affluence, having lots of money, and being very wealthy – but with monkey’s-paw precision it’s turned all my dreams against me.

2015 October 19, Sam Kriss with Thom Phipps, “Who really ever owns a tweet? The story of a 140-character message gone viral, and the man who stole it”, in The Daily Telegraph:

It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.

2017 October 11, Helen Rosner, “What Le Cirque Will Be Remembered For”, in The New Yorker:

For many people, the extended period of quarantine and working from home necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak has turned into a monkey’s paw situation — a theoretical wish come true that has significant downsides.

2020 April 2, Brian Feldman, “Welcome (Back) to the Appointment Internet”, in New York:

One person joked that Chet was the result of a monkey's paw situation with his father. ¶ 'Chet hanks is the price tom hanks paid to become tom hanks,' they wrote.

2021 March 27, Brian Marks, “Tom Hanks' rapper son Chet Hanks gets lambasted on social media after declaring that 'white boy summer' is on the way”, in The Daily Mail:

(idiomatic, usually attributive) A situation in which a wish or desire has been fulfilled, but at significant cost or with ironic, usually unfavourable consequences.


Simpsonwave

Vaporwave and its more developed form, Simpsonwave, are of course concerned with an entirely different set of tropes–but they are no less hauntological for it. Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.

2019, Tom Whyman, “Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now?”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 212:

A genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.


Pixarify

Pixarify (third-person singular simple present Pixarifies, present participle Pixarifying, simple past and past participle Pixarified)

Pixarifies (present singular third-person)
Pixarifying (participle present)
Pixarified (participle past)
Pixarified (past)

It turns out there's a lot more to designing dinosaurs than just teeth and scales and claws. [Jon] Reisch said that, behind the scenes, there was a lot of discussion with paleontologists, "learning about all the different kinds of dinosaur, which ones we could cast in our movie in certain roles, and how to take those and Pixarify them in terms of design and how to use them in our story."

2015 November 25, Richard Whittaker, “Chasing The Good Dinosaur: FX director Jon Reisch on Pixar's newest animation”, in The Austin Chronicle:

While the traditional NFL game broadcast will be streamed on ESPN+, so too will the Toy Story Funday Football alt-cast, a fully rendered, Pixar-ified version of the action. Viewers on Disney+ and NFL+ will have that option as well, as Sony-owned Beyond Sports takes live game tracking data to recreate game play.

2023 September 29, Joe Lemire, “ESPN's Toy Story Funday Football: The tech behind Falcons-Jaguars fully animated alt-cast”, in Sports Business Journal:

(transitive) To adapt to the style of the animated films produced by Pixar.


Turkish Star Wars

From Turkish + Star Wars, in reference to being a Turkish-language film that became notorious for containing plagiarized clips, music and sound effects from the Star Wars films, among others.

(film) Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam; a Turkish science-fiction film from 1982.


cornplate

cornplate (third-person singular simple present cornplates, present participle cornplating, simple past and past participle cornplated)

cornplates (present singular third-person)
cornplating (participle present)
cornplated (participle past)
cornplated (past)

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Compound of corn + plate; coined by Twitter user teyaミ☆ (@camascamshafts) in October 2022 in reference to a tweet about a scene from the film Encanto in which the character Dolores Madrigal briefly holds a plate of corn.

Keep in mind that not every instance of digging deep into small details is cornplating: sometimes, there can be interesting things hidden in the background!

2023 July 21, Philipp Kachalin, “What Does 'Cornplate' Mean? The Slang Word About Obsessing Over Minuscule Details Explained”, in Know Your Meme, retrieved 2024-04-30:

[T]he next time you find yourself captivated by the smallest details of a book, movie, or historical event, remember that cornplating is, in a a way, a testament to our passion and the depth of our curiosity.

2023, Daniela Bogoricin, LinkedIn, retrieved 2024-04-30:

By the way, Will 100% recognized Brenner here. If y'all are going to cornplate Mike's microexpressions I need y’all to do the same here because it’s clear as day!

2024 April 29, danceonth3moon, Twitter, retrieved 2024-04-30:

(fandom slang, humorous) To discuss or scrutinize insignificant or inconsequential details in media.


rake-stepping

Popularised by a gag in the 1993 episode "Cape Feare" of The Simpsons, in which Sideshow Bob, already injured, accidentally steps on several rakes, causing the handles to hit him in the face.

But the rake-stepping won’t stop, and the attacks won’t go away, raising the question of whether there will come a tipping point for Biden.

2019 August 13, Tina Nguyen, “Biden Advisers Worry the Gaffes Are Becoming a Problem”, in Vanity Fair:

And despite occasional attempts at reform, usually in response to some epic rake-stepping by the agency, federal disaster relief has gotten no simpler or more effective.

2023 September 12, Mark Gongloff, FEMA Isn’t Ready for Our New Age of Climate Disasters, Bloomberg:

VP of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf oozes with, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing …” and has deftly escaped any blame for the personnel rake-stepping of the past few seasons.

2024 June 19, Tom E. Curran, “Five burning questions the Patriots need to answer this summer”, in NBC Sports Boston:

(slang) The act of repeatedly making damaging and avoidable mistakes.


disnejowski

pl-adj

disnejowski (not comparable, no derived adverb)

disnejowski (masculine nominative singular)
disnejowska (feminine nominative singular)
disnejowskie (neuter nominative singular)
disnejowscy (nominative plural virile)
disnejowskie (nominative plural)
disnejowskiego (genitive masculine singular)
disnejowskiej (feminine genitive singular)
disnejowskiego (genitive neuter singular)
disnejowskich (genitive plural)
disnejowskich (genitive plural virile)
disnejowskiemu (dative masculine singular)
disnejowskiej (dative feminine singular)
disnejowskiemu (dative neuter singular)
disnejowskim (dative plural)
disnejowskim (dative plural virile)
disnejowskiego (accusative animate masculine singular)
disnejowski (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
disnejowską (accusative feminine singular)
disnejowskie (accusative neuter singular)
disnejowskich (accusative plural virile)
disnejowskie (accusative plural)
disnejowskim (instrumental masculine singular)
disnejowską (feminine instrumental singular)
disnejowskim (instrumental neuter singular)
disnejowskimi (instrumental plural)
disnejowskimi (instrumental plural virile)
disnejowskim (locative masculine singular)
disnejowskiej (feminine locative singular)
disnejowskim (locative neuter singular)
disnejowskich (locative plural)
disnejowskich (locative plural virile)

(relational) Walt Disney (American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur)

(relational) Disney (The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney)


monkey paw

"Seems we were all living bad dreams," he said. "Wishes coming true in a monkey-paw way."

1995, Marcia Golub, Wish-bone, page 334:

It was Tom's monkey paw, that wish that he could be the provider in the family. Suddenly my father was dead and the gauntlet was passed to my oldest brother.

2003, Darren Greer, Tyler's Cape, page 120:

For obvious reasons, I didn't trust demon favors. I had to think quickly, something that wouldn't backfire. There was a lesson to be learned from that whole monkey paw deal.

(idiomatic, usually attributive) Alternative form of monkey's paw.


Sith

In him [Garry Cook] was distilled the very essence of the modern football executive – the Nike heritage, the mad expansionism, the sense that a major part of Manchester City's future lay in energy drink retail, and of course the laserlike focus on "the product" that resulted in him occasionally saying Manchester United when he meant Manchester City. He was the Premier League's most bungling Sith.

2011 September 8, Marina Hyde, “Manchester City's Garry Cook – a man for football's crazy times”, in The Guardian:

PAQ is a refreshing example of what “millennial snowflakes” are capable of. At the age of 20, these guys are conscious of their position of influence and they want to use it to enact positive change. “We’re the four musketeers,” says Elias. “The Avengers,” chimes in Shaq. “I would say we’re Jedis,” says Dex. “But I wear black so I can be a sith.”

2018 April 29, Juliana Piskorz, “‘We’re Top Gear for clothes’: the guys behind PAQ”, in The Guardian:

[Sean] Longstaff. [Dan] Burn. Joelinton. Miguel Almirón. Matt Ritchie. This is not, if we’re brutally honest, the stuff of evil empires. This is not a team the Siths would ever have put out, unless the Siths were trying to make a late burst for the Championship playoffs.

2023 February 26, Jonathan Liew, “Newcastle not yet an evil-empire side but cup final feels like a springboard”, in The Guardian:

(Star Wars) One of a fictional order of creatures from the Star Wars universe who represent the antithesis and ancient enemies of the Jedi.


Sithlike

en-adj

Sithlike (comparative more Sithlike, superlative most Sithlike)

more Sithlike (comparative)
most Sithlike (superlative)

When the stardust settles, [Ray] Park’s acting career awaits. And he’ll pursue it with Sithlike tenacity, he promises.

1999 June 25, Ian Spelling, “Ray Park turns Darth Maul into ‘Phantom Menace’ breakout role”, in The Daily News, volume 143, number 280, West Bend, Wisc., page A10:

Matters came to a head in the most striking and Sithlike manner, as Snoke attempted to persuade Kylo Ren to kill Rey. Instead, Kylo Ren carefully guarded his thoughts from his master, engineering events so his lightsaber cut Snoke in two – killing his master in a surprise blow.

2024 May 13, Thomas Bacon, “Kylo Ren May Not Be A Sith, But He Followed The Rule Of Two Better Than Darth Vader”, in Screen Rant:

Resembling or characteristic of the Sith.


Disney adult

The "Disney adult" became code for a certain type of human, generally childless, with disposable income, an unsophisticated palette, who was overly "theatrical" and overly enthusiastic. Essentially, a golden retriever with a credit card, most likely a Disney Visa.

2024, Jennifer A. Kokai, Tom Robson, Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 129:

(sometimes derogatory) An adult who is a devout fan of Disney, often to an extent that may seem excessive to others