deep sleep

en-noun

deep sleep (countable and uncountable, plural deep sleeps)

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

Donnchadh and Gwalcmai, along with the other fourteen teams selected for planetary infiltration, had been put into deep sleep shortly after liftoff from their planet.

2004, Robert Doherty, Area 51: Legend, →ISBN:

The Kironian had remained in deep sleep until alerted by a high-pitched squeaky sound. When the Kironian woke, everything seemed as though it had just left Kiron.

2005, Bob Ticer, Visiting the Strange Planet Called Earth, →ISBN, page 13:

There is also the possibility that our aliens perfected cryogenics and simply went into deep sleep until the environment improved.

2008, Cavin Wright, The Golden Prize, →ISBN, page 17:

(rare, fiction) Artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of long distance space travel.


seme

Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).

[…] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]

2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:

Sebas has always been the seme.

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:

The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.

2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World, Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.


IMF

Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a plan.

2018, Deborah Cornelious, “‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ review: mission successful”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 2022-12-07:

Impossible Mission Force
w:Impossible Mission Force

(fiction) Initialism of Impossible Mission Force, a fictional spy organization from the Mission: Impossible franchise.


編

From Middle Chinese 編 (MC pen|pjien|penX).


星

/posi/ → /ɸoɕi/ → /hoɕi/
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pəsi.

See also: 星人 (seijin)

この星を守ると決めた


星

From Middle Chinese 星 (MC seng).
The Singapore sense derives from the pre-World War Two kanji spelling 星加坡 (modern kanji spelling 新加坡) as borrowed from Chinese, itself a transliteration of Malay Singapura.

1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “なにがなんだか 前編 [What’s What: First Chapter]”, in SHORT PROGRAM(ショート・プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 256:

——Oh, my name is Maxim AGF. I came here from planet Lipton. I’m still taken aback by Earth’s coldness. It is a pleasure to meet all of you.

——あ、わたくしマキシムＡＧＦです。リプトン星からやってまいりました。地球の寒さにおどろいてます。どぞよろしく。

——A, watakushi Makishimu Ējīefu desu. Riputon-sei kara yatte mairimashita. Chikyū no samusa ni odoroitemasu. Dozo yoroshiku.

(loosely, especially fiction) attached to names of planets


fireball

en-verb

fireball (third-person singular simple present fireballs, present participle fireballing, simple past and past participle fireballed)

fireballs (present singular third-person)
fireballing (participle present)
fireballed (participle past)
fireballed (past)

/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/

Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole

The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

(transitive, fiction, chiefly fantasy, science fiction) To attack (someone or something) with balls of fire.

hyökätä tulipalloin

to attack (someone or something) with balls of fire


mail

en-noun

mail (usually uncountable, plural mails)

From Middle English mayle (“mail armor”), borrowed from Old French maille (“loop, stitch”), from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh₁-tleh₂, from *smeh₁- (“smear, rub”). Compare maillot.

thurak

armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together

(uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.


draconian

From Latin dracō (“dragon”) (stem dracōn-) + -ian.

... Draconians are fast. They'll fly to meet us no doubt. I remember after a few moments that the human queen is here as well. I call out to her, “Human queen, you are rescued by the Draconians. Come forth and know that you are safe under[…]

(Can we date this quote?), Miranda Martin, Draconians Queen, Looking Glass Publications INC:

... Draconians keep for pets . Vithacan - Symbionts that attach themselves to other creatures and survive off their emotional energy . Soul suckers is a disrespectful term for their race . Zelerians Race of squid like creatures with few[…]

2021 August 31, Miranda Martin, Draconians Shared Bride, Looking Glass Publications INC:

... draconians lifted the webbed bodies of the kender's friends and bore them away . Other draconians followed behind , carrying the companions ' packs and their weapons . As the draconians marched along a path very near the hidden kender[…]

2006, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles, →ISBN:

(fiction) A creature resembling a dragon.


arc

Inherited from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.


imp

From Middle English impe, ympe (“tree branch; shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling; tree”) [and other forms], from Old English impa, impe (“shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling”), from impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”) (see etymology 1).

"Yes, there are a great, great many coming after us; at least a score," said the lad.—"Well, that's the troll," said the horse; "he is coming after us with his imps."

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “The Widow’s Son”, in H[ans] L[ien] Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 218:

It was as if there were little imps dancing in my mouth, and every so often, when a situation arose, they'd get together, giggle wickedly, and try to push words out of my open mouth.

1981 December 1, Ruth Geller, “The Lesbian Teacher”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 5:

(chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).


golem

nl-noun

golem m (plural golems, diminutive golempje n)

golems (plural)
golempje (diminutive neuter)

Ultimately from Hebrew גולם \ גֹּלֶם (gólem).

der

גולם \ גֹּלֶם

(folklore, fiction) a golem, a clay automaton


Frankenstein

en-proper noun

Frankenstein (countable and uncountable, plural Frankensteins)

From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein.

(fiction) Victor Frankenstein, a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

(fiction, sometimes proscribed) The unnamed monster created by Victor Frankenstein: a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as the main antagonist.


chaser

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

преследва́ч

person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases

(fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.


Romeo

Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).

der

(fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.


Dracula

Dracula
Order of the Dragon
Vlad II Dracul
Vlad the Impaler

From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).

(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.


zombie

Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.

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


Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes

Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe

I hope D—ds—y will look to theſe literal Errors, he being the only one of the Trade I can venture to truſt.

1748, a Lady, in a Letter to her Friend in the Country, A Free Comment on the Late Mr. W—g—n’s Apology for His Conduct; Which Clears Up the Obscurities of That Celebrated Posthumous Work, and Dissipates the Clouds in Which the Author Has Thought Proper to Envelope His Meaning (in English), London: […] W. Webb, page 15:

(dated, fiction) Used to replace part or all of a person's name, a place name, a date, or so forth.


cenobite

cenobites (plural)
coenobite (alternative)
cœnobite (alternative)

From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

(fiction) A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.


Middle-earth

Middle Earth (alternative)
Middle-Earth (alternative)

(fiction) The main setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other works.

Միջերկիր

fictional place on Earth where most of the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien are set


vamp

en-verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

vamps (present singular third-person)
vamping (participle present)
vamped (participle past)
vamped (past)

A Fool There Was (1915 film)
Derby shoe
Oxford shoe
Theda Bara

Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.
The verb is derived from the noun.

If I knew what I know now before I got vamped, I'd do the same thing.

2004, David Sosnowski, Vamped: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 277:

Astonishing how few peasants and regular people got vamped back in the olden days, when it wasn't regulated.

2012, Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan, Team Human, Harper Collins, →ISBN:

Nobody ever got the drop on Shades, not even when he was alive, and certainly not in the fifty years since he got vamped.

2017, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Blackout, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.


SF

en-noun

SF (countable and uncountable, plural SFs)

→ Japanese: エスエフ, SF (SF)

speculative fiction
speculative fiction#English

(fiction) Initialism of science fiction or speculative fiction, often used to avoid having to choose between the two.


SF

サイエンス・フィクション サイエンス・フィクション#Japanese

(fiction) SF: abbreviation of サイエンス・フィクション (“science fiction”)


magistra

Your grandmother must have provided assistance to the magistra at some point.

2002, Evelyn Vaughn, Forest of the Night, →ISBN, page 13:

What the magistra hadn’t said was that a number of the other students were children, some as young as eight or nine.

2007, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Natural Ordermage, →ISBN, page 119:

“You will take the magistra and magister wherever they need to go, please. They have done my household great service tonight.”

2009, Alison Sinclair, Darkborn, New American Library, →ISBN:

The Magistra was waiting for him in the entrance hall, the vast double doors already opened.

2013, R. S. Ford, Herald of the Storm (Steelhaven: Book One), Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

It was, after all, addressed to the magistra of the branch, and technically she fit the description.

2013, Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant’s Law (book 3 of The Dagger and the Coin), Hachette, →ISBN:

With some difficulty, the magistra managed to undo the clasp.

2015, Paul E. Horsman, Rhidauna: The Shadow of the Revenaunt, Book 1, Red Rune Books, →ISBN:

Giving the magistra an apologetic nod, he turned to the karanat and observed, “You do speak Esse. Let’s have no more pretense of that kind. I have questions, which I can put to you in civilized fashion here, under Magistra Ilia’s eye, or elsewhere, under no concerned gaze.[…]”

2016, Rachel Neumeier, The Mountain of Kept Memory, Saga Press, →ISBN:

“On the contrary, show them both in, and bring us a can of Tulamyde Gold and some cookies. It will not be said that I am stingy with important guests,” Emmeran Stoerrebrandt proclaimed. Yet another violation of his dietary rules. He regretted it almost at once. At least until the Magistra rushed into the room, her face set in a grim scowl.

2017, Kevin MacGregor, editor, The Dark Eye: Starless Sky, Ulisses Spiele, →ISBN:

The magistra, who came to inspect the cleaning, interrupted her, “Why are you standing there staring at the wall when there’s much work to do, Floriana?[…]”

2019, Eleanor Cripps, The Countess Choir Woman, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

She had always been jealous of the Magistras and their proximity to Queen Leona and now she could solve a problem for one of them.

2020, A.N. Sage, Kartega, Cauldron Press, →ISBN:

It didn’t help that Zuri pulled out her saltiest language in Ky’s required meetings with the coven council. He was convinced she did it on purpose. For one thing, she always looked far too smug at the outraged expressions on the magistras’ faces.

2020, E.J. Russell, Witch Under Wraps, Riptide Publishing, →ISBN, page 34:

Our physician is not available, and we have sought aid from the magistra and Leah Sara Garcia.

2022, Esther Erman, Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder, She Writes Press, →ISBN:

(fiction, especially fantasy) A woman with power or authority, such as a teacher or archmage; a mistress.


villain

villains (plural)
villan (alternative archaic)

→ Korean: 빌런 (billeon)

Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Doublet of villein.

Count Dracula
Darth Vader
Dracula
Harry Potter
Othello
Sauron
Star Wars
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.

2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:

In some ways, it’s a relief to see tech bros, especially AI entrepreneurs, reach full, unambiguous movie-villain status.

2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.


super-

Learned borrowing from Latin super-. Doublet of sur-, over-, and hyper-.

superheroic


smurf

Peyo
The Smurfs
fr:Les Schtroumpfs
nl:De Smurfen

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”), either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

der

He occasionally used the proper noun of the restaurant as an adverb, the way a Smurf would.

2021 December 8, Geraldine DeRuiter, “Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever”, in The Everywhereist:

(comics, fiction) A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.


smurf

nl-noun

smurf m (plural smurfen, diminutive smurfje n)

smurfen (plural)
smurfje (diminutive neuter)

Changed from the original French schtroumpf as described above.


smurf

smurf (indefinite nominative singular)
smurfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smurfen (definite nominative singular)
smurfens (definite genitive singular)
smurfar (indefinite nominative plural)
smurfars (genitive indefinite plural)
smurfarna (definite nominative plural)
smurfarnas (definite genitive plural)
smurf (indefinite nominative singular)
smurfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smurfen (definite nominative singular)
smurfens (definite genitive singular)
smurfer (indefinite nominative plural)
smurfers (genitive indefinite plural)
smurferna (definite nominative plural)
smurfernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Dutch smurf, from French schtroumpf.


fusion

en-noun

fusion (countable and uncountable, plural fusions)

fission

antonym(s) of “nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine”

First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.

The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.

(fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.


gray hat

gray hats (plural)
grayhat (alternative)
grey hat (alternative)
greyhat (alternative)

From being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil.

(idiomatic, fiction) A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.


multiverse

First appears c. 1895. Blend of multiple + universe, coined by American philosopher William James. By surface analysis, multi- + -verse.

coined

In the DC multiverse, our reality is called "Earth-33". But in the Marvel multiverse, it's "Earth-1218".

(fiction) The different canons, continuities or timelines of a fictional property, considered as a whole.


probe

For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.

сонда

any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc

You know, XR178.9, we haven't done any anal probes in a while.

2004 August 2, Bayard Russell, nonemorecomic:

You listen here! We don't do anal probes like other aliens, but I'm about to make an exception!

2009 September 14, Ryan Hudson, “Can I Abduct You?”, in ChannelATE:

(surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

(comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.

1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction; paperback), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN:


zombi

(computing, fiction, voodoo) alternative spelling of zombie


conscience

en-noun

conscience (countable and uncountable, plural consciences)

From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

der

(chiefly fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.


transformer

transformers (plural)
tformer (alternative)
t-former (alternative)
transformator (alternative archaic)

/tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/

(fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.


biter

From Middle English biter, bitere, equivalent to bite + -er. Cognate with West Frisian biter (“biter”), Dutch bijter (“biter”), German Low German Bieter (“biter”), German Beißer (“biter”).


verisimilar

en-adj

verisimilar (comparative more verisimilar, superlative most verisimilar)

more verisimilar (comparative)
most verisimilar (superlative)

/ˌvɛɹɪˈsɪmələ/

/ˌvɛɹɪˈsɪməlɚ/

/ˌvɛɹəˈsɪməlɚ/

From Latin vērisimilis, prop. vērī similis (“having the appearance of truth”), from vērī (genitive of vērus (“true”)) + similis (“like, similar”); see very and similar.

af

genitive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">vērus</i> (“true”)

(fiction) Faithful to its own rules; internally consistent.


Krypton

(fiction, DC Comics fictional milieu) A fictional planet, the native world of Superman, named after the element krypton.


Shylock

Possibly derived from Hebrew שלח (Šélaḥ, the grandson of Shem), or Old Saxon [Term?] (“white-haired”), referring to goldsmiths and scriveners. It may also be derived from Michael Lok and an archaic meaning of shy (“untrustworthy”).

(fiction) A moneylender (Jewish stereotype) in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.


TS

ちなみに、なぜ日本で「TS」が一般的になったかというと、私が「yaysの性転換の館」開始時に、性同一障害に関するサイトから「TS」という用語を拝借してきて盛んに使っていたのも一因かもしれません。

2000, Yaesu, 八重洲メディアリサーチ [Yaesu Media Research], archived from the original on 2000-09-19:

By the way, as for why 'TS' became popular in Japan, it might be because when I started 'Yays Gender Transformation Mansion,' I borrowed the term 'TS' from websites related to gender dysphoria and used it extensively.

F氏「ＴＳの定義についての明記なんですが一体ＴＳの定義って・・・・？例の決まりあるあの一言でいいのかな？「このサイトは男性が女性、あるいは女性が男性に変化するようなことを主題として扱っているサイトです〜」

2000 May 28, Mr. F, “TS学入門 [Introduction to TS Studies]”, in TS-WEEK, archived from the original on 2006-06-06:

"Regarding specifying the definition of TS... what exactly is the definition of TS? Is it enough to have that one specified phrase like, 'This site deals with themes where men become women, or vice versa'?"

ＴＳＦという言葉が使われ始める前（１９９９，２０００年頃）には、Ｔｒａｎｓｓｅｘｕａｌの略語であるＴＳという言葉が、前述のＴＳＦの意味と同様の意味を表す言葉として用いられていました。この用法は、八重洲性転換の館（現：八重洲メディアリサーチ）の主催者である八重洲さんの提案によるものです。なお、今でも多くの人がＴＳＦと同じ意味でＴＳという言葉を使っています。

2015 June 4, F_TSF, “ＴＳＦとは [What is TSF?]”, in TSFのF [blog], archived from the original on 2015-08-10:

Before the term TSF came into use, the abbreviation "TS," standing for Transsexual, was used to convey a similar meaning around 1999-2000. This usage was proposed by Yaesu-san, the organizer of Yaesu Gender Transformation Mansion (now: Yaesu Media Research). Many people still use the term "TS" with the same meaning as TSF.

(fiction) genderswap; genderbend; sex change


TS

ja-verb-suru

T(ティー)S(エス)する • (tī-esu suru) suru (stem T(ティー)S(エス)し (tī-esu shi), past T(ティー)S(エス)した (tī-esu shita))

TSする (canonical)
tī-esu suru (romanization)
TSし (stem)
TSした (past)
TSし
ティーエスし
tīesu shi
TSする
ティーエスする
tīesu suru
TSすれ
ティーエスすれ
tīesu sure
TSせよ (imperative literary)
TSしろ (colloquial imperative)
ティーエスせよ (imperative literary)
ティーエスしろ (colloquial imperative)
tīesu seyo (imperative literary)
tīesu shiro (colloquial imperative)
TSされる (passive)
ティーエスされる (passive)
tīesu sareru (passive)
TSさせる (causative)
TSさす (causative)
ティーエスさせる (causative)
ティーエスさす (causative)
tīesu saseru (causative)
tīesu sasu (causative)
TSできる (potential)
ティーエスできる (potential)
tīesu dekiru (potential)
TSしよう (volitional)
ティーエスしよう (volitional)
tīesu shiyō (volitional)
TSしない (negative)
ティーエスしない (negative)
tīesu shinai (negative)
TSせず (continuative negative)
ティーエスせず (continuative negative)
tīesu sezu (continuative negative)
TSします (formal)
ティーエスします (formal)
tīesu shimasu (formal)
TSした (perfective)
ティーエスした (perfective)
tīesu shita (perfective)
TSして (conjunctive)
ティーエスして (conjunctive)
tīesu shite (conjunctive)
TSすれば (conditional hypothetical)
ティーエスすれば (conditional hypothetical)
tīesu sureba (conditional hypothetical)

美少女にTSしたい。

(fiction) to undergo a genderswap, genderbend, or sex change


Tonto

From Spanish tonto (“fool, idiot”), the Spanish name for the tribe, a calque of Western Apache kounʼnde (“wild rough people”). The fictional character (described as Comanche or Potawatomi) either from Potawatomi or named after Tonto Basin, Arizona.

cal

(fiction) The Native American sidekick of the Lone Ranger.


Yahoo

Century Dictionary
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)

Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. According to the Century Dictionary, "[a] made name, prob[ably] meant to suggest disgust".

I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Relates Several Particulars of the Yahoos. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 271–272:

(fiction) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.


middle-earth

(fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings mythos.


pulp

en-adj

pulp (comparative more pulp, superlative most pulp)

more pulp (comparative)
most pulp (superlative)

From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.

The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^([sic]) incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.

1997 July 22, Eric Gimlin, “Re: Annual theme '98”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <33D504B4.105@swbell.net>:

Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).

2003 January 3, Mark Wheatley, “Re: PULP 2003 READING”, in alt.pulp (Usenet), message-ID <3E159FC7.70409@insightstudiosgroup.com>:

(fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.


zombify

en-verb

zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)

zombifies (present singular third-person)
zombifying (participle present)
zombified (participle past)
zombified (past)
zombiefy (alternative)

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She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.

1994, A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions, Arnold, et al:

(transitive, fiction) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).


technobabble

'Dimensional incursion? What kind of ludicrous technobabble is that supposed to—' ¶ Unexpectedly, he fell silent.

1997, Lawrence Miles, chapter 4, in Alien Bodies, page 84:

'We are self-sufficient...We don't rely on clear skies and satellite access and not being deep underground, because of your wonderful technobabble devices.'

1998, Peter Anghelides, chapter 1, in Kursaal, page 6:

"And despite all the weird events the dialogue is naturalistic and light on technobabble", says Peter. "Such a relief after recent stories."

2006 November, Michael Pritchard, Doctor Who Magazine, number 376, page 45:

Destroying the sphere doesn’t work, so the Discovery crew hatches a plan, with some incoherent technobabble: They’re going to launch the time traveling suit and the sphere so far into the future that, somehow, this will save sentient life in the universe.

2019 March 29, Sopan Deb, “‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 2, Episode 11: Struggle Is Pointless”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(fiction) Technical or scientific language used to convey a false impression of meaningful technical or scientific content.


fey

en-noun

fey (countable and uncountable, plural fey or feys)

From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.


suspense

(fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), referencing the gay men's magazine Barazoku, which was the first of its kind published in Japan, itself named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Japanese fiction, strictly) A genre of homoerotic media, usually also pornographic, typically created by gay men and targeted at gay men in Japan.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

ja-ryk

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


esqueleto

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).


superpower

en-noun

superpower (countable and uncountable, plural superpowers)

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Administered in such a way, in that superpowers it assures.

1994, C. J. Lee, Caldwell Lee the Poet to Be: The Forthright Omnipotence Era, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 46:

This is his superpower, I think. The comic geek always has one, and Oliver's is a poker face that would leave even the Holy Trinity guessing what he's thinking.

2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 258:

If I could have a superpower id^([sic]) want to be able to teleport. I hate walking and driving gives me headaches.

2021 December 6, Givinuplol, belugasareneat, “What superpower you would like?”, in reddit.com:

(countable, fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.


Oompa Loompa

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Apparently a fanciful formation in line with whimsical English words like fuzzy-wuzzy, Humpty Dumpty, etc. Perhaps reminiscent of "exotic" ethnonyms to Westerners; note Roald Dahl spent time in Tanganyika, East Africa, during his service in the Royal Air Force. Also compare oom-pah (“genre of German folk music”) (the Oompa Loompas dance to quirky, rhythmic songs).

Dr. Evil: Is he giving off too much of a creepy Umpa Lumpa vibe? / What’s wrong, Mini-Me?

1999 June, Mike Myers, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, New Line Cinema

Nobody, not even an Umpa Lumpa, had warned me what would happen to a blind guy who refuses to close his eyes.

2006, Ryan Knighton, Cockeyed, A Memoir, page 152:

It could be worse, but I've learned to become invisible to Machiavellian dilettantes, faux radical Satanistas, and bloodsucking Oompa-Loompas of the painfully ordinary variety.

2006, Adrian C. Louis, Logorrhea, Northwestern University Press,, →ISBN, page 44:

[Referring to the male member] It's not one of the Muppets or an Umpa Lumpa.

2006, Sherry Argov, Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart, page 89:

Don’t be afraid to write your name in the books and on the pans that were yours before you found yourself sharing a studio apartment that would normally not be big enough for an Oompa-Loompa.

2006, Anna Jane Grossman, Flint Wainess, It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Ultimate Breakup Book, page 129:

Nevertheless, some subtle market forces are at work which pressure the canny shopkeeper into giving up valuable shelf space to the contents of an Oompa Loompa’s cocktail cabinet.

2006, Simon Trewin and Michael Moran, The Encyclopaedia of Guilty Pleasures, John Murray, page unknown

For women with skin of color, it's so, so important to get the shade and tone right. If it's wrong, you can look incredibly ashy, or like an Oompa Loompa.

2006, Iman, The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color, page 34:

The men[…]have gone way overboard with the spray-on tan. They’re as orange as Oompa Loompas, and they stare at my boobs for a very long time before acknowledging me.

2007, Meta Smith, Queen of Miami, Hachette Digital, →ISBN:

I don't know who decided all porn actors must be the same shade of orange as Oompa Loompas.

2009, Reverend Jen, Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 172:

Dahl insisted there was no racist intent behind the Oompa Loompas but also said he found himself sympathising with the NAACP.

2017 September 13, Haroon Siddique, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hero 'was originally black'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) Any of the fictional pygmies who manufacture candy in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.


Igor

From the hunchbacked lab assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the 1931 U.S. film Frankenstein of Universal Studios, which was named "Fritz", and the successor to Dr. Frankenstein found in the third and fourth films, named "Ygor"; which have been conflated in popular culture to become "Igor".

(fiction) A stock character, the lab assistant to a mad scientist, vampire, or miser frequently depicted as being deformed in some manner, physically and/or psychologically.


persoon

nl-noun

persoon m or f (plural personen, diminutive persoontje n)

personen (plural)
persoontje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: persoon

→ Indonesian: person

From Middle Dutch persone, ultimately from Latin persōna. Doublet with persona.

(fiction) person, character, personality


lolicon

en-noun

lolicon (usually uncountable, plural lolicons)

lolicons (plural)
lolicom (alternative)
loli-con (alternative)
lolikon (alternative)
roricon (alternative)
rorikon (alternative)

Borrowed from Japanese ロリコン (rorikon), clipping of ロリータ・コンプレックス (“Lolita complex”), culturally adapted from the 1966 American academic thesis of the same name that had its name by Russell Trainer, of itself taken from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita and English complex (not from English Lolita complex, which comes from the Japanese term). Lolita comes from Spanish Lolita, diminutive of Lola, from the given name Dolores. By surface analysis, loli + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

clipping

ロリータ・コンプレックス

surf

Innocence’s story—about female sex androids that kill their owners—is possible only in a Lolicon country like Japan. The androids are modeled after little girls[.]

2004, Patrick Macias, Tomohiro Machiyama, Cruising The Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo, Stone Bridge Press, page 48:

A Japanese term derived from the English phrase “Lolita complex,” lolicon describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in varying degrees of erotic behavior.

2014 October 15, Matt Alt, “Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video”, in The New Yorker:

(uncountable, Japanese fiction) Attraction (often erotic) to young, typically prepubescent girls, or the fictional depictions thereof.

I don't need to hear you are becoming a lolicon.

1993 October 29, "Eldrick Tobin, Master of Perversion" (username), "The Arc: Joyful Noise Omakefic Unit 01: Sentenced: A Fanboys! Crossover "jnomk01.txt" (1/1)", in alt.hentai.sailor-moon, Usenet

Ken's a lolicon (pedophile).

1998 March 9, Chadwick Ngan, “BLAND Manga Capsules 3/4/98”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet):

Hey, don't take me for a lolicon: I'm not! It is just that I find that kind of anime... fun, refreshing.

2000 July 6, OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol, “:: chokes :: :: passes out ::”, in alt.hentai.sailor-moon (Usenet):

I like lolis, I consider myself a lolicon, but I'm not attracted to real children. Your argument fails immediately there since most lolicons are not attracted to real children. Am I a pedophile?

2016 July 14, Aiko_Hiroshi, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

Let me say it again, lolicon and pedo are a different thing. japanese people are just saying it lolicon because in their mind, they already implanted the word of lolicon as pedo, but in anime community, pedo and lolicon are a different thing. why make it different ? so that we can see the difference from people who likes "fictional" little girl and from people who likes "real" little girl.

2016 July 15, YizelTro, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

(countable, Japanese fiction) An individual who is attracted to underage girls.

If you are into bishojo, loli-con, or bishonen materials, be advised that customs *does* frown on what might be considered pornography.

1989 September 23, Mark Crispin, “bringing stuff into the US from Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

the whole gamut of lolicon and girls-with-guns genres

1993 March 27, Rafael Brown, “Anime Potrayal of Japanese Women”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Some critics of lolicon claim that those who enjoy it also necessarily enjoy real child porn […]

2006, Lawrence Eng, Otaku Engagements: subcultural appropriation of science and technology, page 168:

Bizarrely, viewing and collecting lolicon seems to have become a subcultural norm, especially in Japan, […]

2010, Sarah D. Goode, Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children: a Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society, page 29:

Most importantly, because German child pornography and child abuse laws forbid representation of children as sexual objects, there is a complete ban on shota or lolicon.

2010, Paul M. Malone, “From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export”, in Boys’ Love Manga, page 33:

(uncountable, Japanese fiction) Erotic or suggestive artwork depicting underage girls.


frigate

From French frégate, from Italian fregata, of uncertain origin.

Frigates are light escort and scouting vessels. They often have extensive GARDIAN systems to provide anti-fighter screening for capital ships, and carry a squad of marines for security and groundside duty. Unlike larger vessels, frigates are able to land on planets.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Frigates Codex entry:

(fiction) A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.


battlecruiser

battlecruisers (plural)
battle cruiser (alternative)
battle-cruiser (alternative)

Blend of battleship + cruiser, from being a cruiser-like ship with battleship-like capabilities and possibly operating in the battleline.

(fiction) A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.


хаос

ru-noun+

ха́ос or хао́с • (xáos or xaós) m inan (genitive ха́оса or хао́са, nominative plural ха́осы or хао́сы, genitive plural ха́осов or хао́сов, relational adjective хаоти́чный)

ха́ос (canonical)
хао́с (canonical)
xáos (romanization)
xaós (romanization)
ха́оса (genitive)
хао́са (genitive)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
хаоти́чный (adjective relational)
ха́ос (nominative singular)
хао́с (nominative singular)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́оса (genitive singular)
хао́са (genitive singular)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
ха́осу (dative singular)
хао́су (dative singular)
ха́осам (dative plural)
хао́сам (dative plural)
ха́ос (accusative singular)
хао́с (accusative singular)
ха́осы (accusative plural)
хао́сы (accusative plural)
ха́осом (instrumental singular)
хао́сом (instrumental singular)
ха́осами (instrumental plural)
хао́сами (instrumental plural)
ха́осе (prepositional singular)
хао́се (prepositional singular)
ха́осах (plural prepositional)
хао́сах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

bor+

(fiction, usually capitalised) Chaos, demonic entities, their monsters, and armies from the Warhammer franchises by Games Workshop


polymorph

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(fiction) The transformation of an item or creature into something different by magic.


polymorph

en-verb

polymorph (third-person singular simple present polymorphs, present participle polymorphing, simple past and past participle polymorphed)

polymorphs (present singular third-person)
polymorphing (participle present)
polymorphed (participle past)
polymorphed (past)

I got hemmed in by the werewolf again and, in desperation, tried an experimental new wand on it; and polymorphed it into a black pudding.

1999, Robin Johnson, “My gnomish healer has been having a rough time of it”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

(fiction, ambitransitive) To transform into something different by magic.


adrenochrome

en-noun

adrenochrome (countable and uncountable, plural adrenochromes)

“[…]He's one of these Satanism freaks. He offered me human blood—said it would make me higher than I'd ever been in my life,” he laughed. “I thought he was kidding, so I told him I'd just as soon have an ounce or so of pure adrenochrome—or maybe just a fresh adrenalin gland to chew on.”

1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 132:

It also revives old slurs, but instead of openly accusing Jews of drinking the blood of gentile children, various euphemisms are employed: “Coastal elites,” “Hollywood,” and “George Soros” are now said to be harvesting a chemical called adrenochrome to prolong their life spans.

2020 September 30, Helen Lewis, “The Joke’s on Us”, in The Atlantic:

(fiction) A fictional drug obtained from human adrenal glands.


dwerg

head

dwerg (plural dwerge, diminutive dwergie)

From Dutch dwerg, from Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.

(fiction, folklore, fantasy, mythology) dwarf (small folkloristic humanoid)


dwerg

nl-noun

dwerg m (plural dwergen, diminutive dwergje n, feminine dwergin)

dwergen (plural)
dwergje (diminutive neuter)
dwergin (feminine)

Afrikaans: dwerg

From Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
Compare West Frisian dwerch, German Zwerg, English dwarf, Danish dværg.


Gotham

Salmagundi (periodical)
Washington Irving

“Homestead where goats are kept”, from Old English gāt (“goat”) + hām (“home”).
* (New York City nickname): First used 1807 by Washington Irving in his Salmagundi Papers.

(fiction) Ellipsis of Gotham City: a fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Batman franchise.


yaoi

en-noun

yaoi (countable and uncountable, plural yaoi or yaois)

From Japanese やおい (yaoi), a blend of 山(やま)無(な)し (yama nashi, “no climax”) + 落(お)ち無(な)し (ochi nashi, “no point”) + 意味(いみ)無(な)し (imi nashi, “no meaning”), originally mocking those who criticised early yaoi works for being too focused on sex scenes instead of storylines.

ja-blend

(Japanese fiction) A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationships between two or more men.


yaoi

pt-noun

yaoi m (countable and uncountable, plural yaois)

(uncountable, Japanese fiction) yaoi (narrative genre)

Amo ler meus yaois antes de dormir

I love to read yaoi [works] before sleep.

(countable, Japanese fiction) an issue of a yaoi work


yaoi

head

yaoi (definite accusative yaoiyi, plural yaoiler)

yaoiyi (accusative definite)
yaoiler (plural)
yaoi (nominative singular)
yaoiler (nominative plural)
yaoiyi (accusative definite singular)
yaoileri (accusative definite plural)
yaoiye (dative singular)
yaoilere (dative plural)
yaoide (locative singular)
yaoilerde (locative plural)
yaoiden (ablative singular)
yaoilerden (ablative plural)
yaoinin (genitive singular)
yaoilerin (genitive plural)
yaoim (first-person nominative singular)
yaoilerim (first-person nominative singular)
yaoin (nominative second-person singular)
yaoilerin (nominative second-person singular)
yaoisi (nominative singular third-person)
yaoileri (nominative singular third-person)
yaoimiz (first-person nominative plural)
yaoilerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
yaoiniz (nominative plural second-person)
yaoileriniz (nominative plural second-person)
yaoileri (nominative plural third-person)
yaoimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
yaoilerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
yaoini (accusative definite second-person singular)
yaoilerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
yaoisini (accusative definite singular third-person)
yaoilerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
yaoimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
yaoilerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
yaoinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
yaoilerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
yaoilerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
yaoime (dative first-person singular)
yaoilerime (dative first-person singular)
yaoine (dative second-person singular)
yaoilerine (dative second-person singular)
yaoisine (dative singular third-person)
yaoilerine (dative singular third-person)
yaoimize (dative first-person plural)
yaoilerimize (dative first-person plural)
yaoinize (dative plural second-person)
yaoilerinize (dative plural second-person)
yaoilerine (dative plural third-person)
yaoimde (first-person locative singular)
yaoilerimde (first-person locative singular)
yaoinde (locative second-person singular)
yaoilerinde (locative second-person singular)
yaoisinde (locative singular third-person)
yaoilerinde (locative singular third-person)
yaoimizde (first-person locative plural)
yaoilerimizde (first-person locative plural)
yaoinizde (locative plural second-person)
yaoilerinizde (locative plural second-person)
yaoilerinde (locative plural third-person)
yaoimden (ablative first-person singular)
yaoilerimden (ablative first-person singular)
yaoinden (ablative second-person singular)
yaoilerinden (ablative second-person singular)
yaoisinden (ablative singular third-person)
yaoilerinden (ablative singular third-person)
yaoimizden (ablative first-person plural)
yaoilerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
yaoinizden (ablative plural second-person)
yaoilerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
yaoilerinden (ablative plural third-person)
yaoimin (first-person genitive singular)
yaoilerimin (first-person genitive singular)
yaoinin (genitive second-person singular)
yaoilerinin (genitive second-person singular)
yaoisinin (genitive singular third-person)
yaoilerinin (genitive singular third-person)
yaoimizin (first-person genitive plural)
yaoilerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
yaoinizin (genitive plural second-person)
yaoilerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
yaoilerinin (genitive plural third-person)
yaoiyim (first-person singular)
yaoilerim (first-person singular)
yaoisin (second-person singular)
yaoilersin (second-person singular)
yaoi (singular third-person)
yaoidir (singular third-person)
yaoiler (singular third-person)
yaoilerdir (singular third-person)
yaoiyiz (first-person plural)
yaoileriz (first-person plural)
yaoisiniz (plural second-person)
yaoilersiniz (plural second-person)
yaoiler (plural third-person)
yaoilerdir (plural third-person)


redshirt

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Redshirt (college sports)
Star Trek: The Original Series
Starfleet
redshirt (stock character)

Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uniformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Sensing danger, Captain Kirk decided to beam down to the surface with Spock, McCoy, and a couple of redshirts.

I am not a goddamn redshirt! I have a purpose!

2017, 42m, in 12 Monkeys, season 3, episode 6:

(fiction, science fiction, fandom slang) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.


homem

homens (plural)
Homem (alternative)
home (alternative dialectal)
homẽe (alternative obsolete)
homẽ (alternative abbreviation obsolete)
hómi (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
hômi (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
ómi (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

Guinea-Bissau Creole: omi

Indo-Portuguese: homm

Kabuverdianu: ómi

Korlai Creole Portuguese: ɔm

Kristang: omi

Macanese: home

Principense: omi

>? Saramaccan: ómi, wómi

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Etymology tree
Latin homō
Old Galician-Portuguese ome
Portuguese homem
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ome, from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese omẽe, from Latin hominem (“a human”), from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ (“an earthling”).

inh

homem-aranha

homem-formiga

(in compounds, fiction) a being who is half man and half creature, or a man with some characteristics of a creature


duende

Borrowed from Spanish duende, from Old Spanish duen de casa (“house master”).

der

(by extension, fiction) any small fictional humanoid, especially a mischievous or evil one


duende

→ Cebuano: dewende

→ Chamorro: duendes

→ English: duende

→ Portuguese: duende

→ Russian: дуэ́нде (duénde)

desctree

→ Tagalog: duwende, dwende — nonstandard, duende, duwinde, ruwinri — dialectal, Rizal, rare
→ English: duwende

→ Ukrainian: дуе́нде (duénde)

Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.

inh+

(by extension, fiction) goblin, leprechaun, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin


diegetic

/ˌdaɪəˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διηγητικός (diēgētikós).

lbor

(fiction) Existing within a fictional universe (rather than as background), and able to be perceived by the characters.


Tarzan

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.
Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

(fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.


مجنون

ur-noun

مَجنُون • (majnūn) m (Hindi spelling मजनून)

مَجنُون (canonical)
majnūn (romanization)
मजनून (Hindi)
مَجْنُوں (alternative)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَجْنُون (majnūn), from Arabic مَجْنُون (majnūn, “crazy”, literally “possessed by a jinn”).

der

(fiction) Qays ibn al-Mullawah (the hero of the romance Layla and Majnun)


slipstream

en-noun

slipstream (countable and uncountable, plural slipstreams)

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

coin

Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.

2000, Damien Broderick, quoting Justina Robson and Rozanne Rabinowitz, Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 88:

(uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.


fairy dust

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Based on the story of the fictional character Peter Pan, see quotations.

Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.

1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “Come away, Come away!”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 54:

(fiction) A magical powder that would give the power of flight to whoever it was sprinkled on.


black spot

en-noun

black spot (countable and uncountable, plural black spots)

black spots (plural)
blackspot (alternative)

I went down on my knees at once. On the floor close to his hand there was a little round of paper, blackened on the one side. I could not doubt that this was the black spot; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: “You have till ten to-night.”

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 31:

(fiction) A fictional judicial device among pirates, consisting of a black circle indicating condemnation.


méchant

fr-noun

méchant m (plural méchants, feminine méchante)

From the present participle of the Old French verb mescheoir, from *mé- + cheoir (choir). Compare also mauvais.


X-ray vision

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(fiction, by extension) The ability or superpower to see through most or all solid objects as if they were transparent.


coded

en-adj

coded (comparative more coded, superlative most coded)

more coded (comparative)
most coded (superlative)

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The character comes across as being female-coded.

This character is coded as autistic.

He is aware of a number of programs with more "capable" characters like Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, who are autistic coded without being explicitly named as such. James notes that, despite being more visible, the autistic traits of these characters tend to be used for comic relief, while autistic people in everyday situations are never seen.

2020 May 21, Noah Adams, Bridget Liang, Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 72:

(fiction, slang) Portrayed in a way that suggests or resembles having a specific trait or inspiration, without being officially explicitly stated as having that trait.


encanto

(fiction, paranormal) charm; spell; enchantment (a magical effect on someone or something)


superluminal

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The first thing to understand about superluminal expansion is that it isn't visible to the unaided eye. The objects that appear to be moving faster than light are emitting radio waves, not visible light.

1984, Edward Edelson, “Faster than light?”, in Popular Science, retrieved 2013-11-20, page 70:

(astronomy, physics, fiction, fantasy) Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.

(unpreferred translation due to hyperphoton, hyperphotonic: υπερφωτονικός (yperfotonikós))


Newspeak

Newspeak
Newspeak (programming language)
Nineteen Eighty-Four

From new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.

(fiction) The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.


chàng

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 郎 (“young person”, SV: lang). The same development of the initial can also be seen with chạp and possibly also chuồng (if the latter were indeed an early Chinese loan according to Alves, 2018).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">lang</i>

vi-etym-sino

chàng hoàng tử

chuyện chàng Hậu Nghệ bắn hạ Mặt Trời

the tale of Hou Yi, the man who shot down the Suns

(humorous) anh chàng

(chiefly fiction, endearing) an admirable/lovable young/young adult man


chàng

俍众妾胋陳濁

c. 1800, Hồ Xuân Hương, Đánh cờ [A Game of Xiangqi]:

(archaic, now literary, chiefly fiction, women's speech, endearing) you (referring to beloved man)


nàng

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 娘 (“lady”, SV: nương). Doublet of nường.
Compare Northern Thai ᨶᩣ᩠ᨦ, Lao ນາງ (nāng), Lü ᦓᦱᧂ (naang), Tai Dam ꪙꪱꪉ, Shan ၼၢင်း (náang), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥒᥰ (läang) or ᥢᥣᥒᥰ (näang), Aiton ꩫင် (naṅ), Ahom 𑜃𑜂𑜫 (naṅ), Thai นาง (naang), all from Proto-Tai *naːŋᴬ (“lady”).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">nương</i>

vi-etym-sino

nàng tiên cá

(humorous) cô nàng

(chiefly fiction, endearing) an admirable/lovable young/young adult woman


yuri

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Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love. See Yuri (genre) § “Terminology and etymology” at Wikipedia.

(Japanese fiction) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more women.

Yuri (genre)
Yuri (genre)#Terminology and etymology

ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu, literally “girls' love”)

가르즈라부 (gareujeurabu, literally “girls' love”)


spin-off

spin-offs (plural)
spinoff (alternative)

→ Russian: спин-о́фф (spin-óff)

carveout

partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization

tie-in

work of fiction based on an original media property

"Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".

The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.

2023 October 27, “Fantastic Beasts: JK Rowling franchise has been ‘parked’, director says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.


spin-off

spin-off (nominative singular)
spin-offy (nominative plural)
spin-offu (genitive singular)
spin-offów (genitive plural)
spin-offowi (dative singular)
spin-offom (dative plural)
spin-off (accusative singular)
spin-offy (accusative plural)
spin-offem (instrumental singular)
spin-offami (instrumental plural)
spin-offie (locative singular)
spin-offach (locative plural)
spin-offie (singular vocative)
spin-offy (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off.

ubor

(fiction) spin-off (fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect)


spin-off

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off


Alucard

/ˈæləˌkɑː(ɹ)d/

(chiefly fiction) A male given name originating as a coinage, often used in Dracula- or vampire-related fiction.


living dead

(fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.


nó

Probably originally a variant of nọ (“that yonder”).
For semantic relationship, compare French il, Spanish él (and other reflexes of Latin ille), Macedonian тој (toj), Japanese 彼 (kare), Turkish o.

(literary, fiction, narratology, disrespectful or familiar) he; him; she; her (used by the author when talking about a young person (especially the protagonist) or a non-human animal)


strumpur

is-noun

strumpur m (genitive singular strumps, nominative plural strumpar)

strumps (genitive singular)
strumpar (nominative plural)
strumpur (indefinite nominative singular)
strumpurinn (definite nominative singular)
strumpar (indefinite nominative plural)
strumparnir (definite nominative plural)
strump (accusative indefinite singular)
strumpinn (accusative definite singular)
strumpa (accusative indefinite plural)
strumpana (accusative definite plural)
strumpi (dative indefinite singular)
strumpinum (dative definite singular)
strumpnum (dative definite singular)
strumpum (dative indefinite plural)
strumpunum (dative definite plural)
strumps (genitive indefinite singular)
strumpsins (definite genitive singular)
strumpa (genitive indefinite plural)
strumpanna (definite genitive plural)


Schlumpf

de-noun

Schlumpf m (strong, genitive Schlumpfes or Schlumpfs, plural Schlümpfe, feminine Schlumpfine or Schlümpfin)

Schlumpfes (genitive)
Schlumpfs (genitive)
Schlümpfe (plural)
Schlumpfine (feminine)
Schlümpfin (feminine)
Schlumpf (nominative singular)
Schlümpfe (definite nominative plural)
Schlumpfes (genitive singular)
Schlumpfs (genitive singular)
Schlümpfe (definite genitive plural)
Schlumpf (dative singular)
Schlumpfe (dative singular)
Schlümpfen (dative definite plural)
Schlumpf (accusative singular)
Schlümpfe (accusative definite plural)

Alteration of French schtroumpf, itself probably from German Strumpf (“stocking”). Whether the form was coined at random by the German translator or whether it was influenced by the surname below or perhaps by some other word, appears to be unknown.


WIA

W.I.A. (alternative)
W. I. A. (alternative)

(military fiction) Initialism of wounded in action.


tricorder

The name of such a device in Star Trek, from tri- (referring to its three input keys, which by default cover geological, meteorological, and biological functions) + (re)corder

PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES AND TRICORDERS

1999-2003, Matt Groening, opening title screen from the start, in Futurama, FOX Television Network:

(fiction) A fictional futuristic handheld device used for scanning, which may be specialized for medical, technical, or other purposes.


Antarctican

...customs which the Antarcticans might have. How he wished he had made the trip alone, and need not share with Adam the scientific triumphs to come!
Of course she was—the daughter of Morrison, Hull’s companion who had befriended and protected him against the Antarcticans.

1935, Edison Marshall, Dian of the Lost Land, H. C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., pages 53 and 62

Had the US Navy icebreakers been unable to rescue them from the ice in early 1948 her child might have been the first native-born Antarctican.

1956, Walter Sullivan, Quest for a Continent, McGraw-Hill, page 273:

Gonneville departed this enchanted land...taking with him...an “Indian” prince called Essomeric. The land was not, of course, the southern continent, and Essomeric was not an Antarctican. De Gonneville had probably been to southern Brazil.

2001, Kieran Mulvaney, At the Ends of the Earth: History of the Polar Regions, Island Press, →ISBN, page 67:

Recall the exercise at the end of the previous chapter, and imagine that you discover just one Antarctican, and you measure his or her body temperature. If you know the population mean for Antarcticans (perhaps it is 98.6°F), then you have one piece of information about variability.

2004, R. Brooke Lea, Barry H. Cohen, Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:

Part of the reason is that there is an indigenous tradition of consuming seals in the north for subsistence, whereas sealing in the south was done almost exclusively for commercial reasons, there being no native Antarcticans.

2006, William L. Fox, Driving to Mars, Shoemaker & Hoard, →ISBN, page 227:

(fiction or hypothetical) A native of Antarctica.


diabo

diabos (plural)
diá (alternative)
diabro (alternative)
diacho (alternative)
dianho (alternative)
dienho (alternative)

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese diaboo, displacing the collateral forms diabre, diabro and diablo, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus (“devil”) (probably borrowed as a semi-learned term), itself from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”). Doublet of diabolô and diábolo.

der

(religion, fiction) devil; demon; fiend (creature from Hell)


goede

Substantivization of the adjective goed.


555-2368, 1-555-321-2368, and (555)234-2368 are all 555 numbers; they aren’t real.

(Canada, US, fiction) Pertaining to a fake telephone number. The local exchange and area code number 555 was reserved in North American dialing plan for fictional numbers, prior to the 21st century.


sky marshal

(fiction) A military rank in fiction for air force, space force, or armed forces, usually the topmost rank


lobsterman

lobstermen (plural)
lobster-man (alternative)
lobster man (alternative)

So they are unprepared when the lobsterman, in a symbolic evolutionary leap, cracks his shell and steps out as the rock superman; and, unappreciated, he is left to attempt suicide at the end.

2014, Gerald M. Berkowitz, American Drama of the Twentieth Century:

The movie nods to Robot Monster by giving the lobsterman a sidekick who is a gorilla with a space helmet.

2016, Thomas Kent Miller, Mars in the Movies: A History:

As the show progressed during its second season, the Cold War villains disappeared and Voyage settled into an entertaining, kid-friendly “monster of the week” formula, with the Seaview crew encountering aquatic beasts, ghosts, aliens, dinosaurs, an evil brain, a lobsterman, an ancient alchemist, and even a werewolf.

2018, Michael Eury, “Irwin Allen: Voyage to the Bottom of...the Barrel??”, in RetroFan, volume 3, page 33:

Poor Lobsterman. Out there living among regular men with regular hands. Misunderstood. Impaired, Shunned.

2020, Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, page 42:

(fiction) A fictional alien or monster that looks like a lobster/human hybrid.


Middle Earth

From Middle English middelerthe, myddyl erthe; an alteration of earlier middel-erde, middelerd; in turn an alteration of earlier middenerd; from Old English middaneard (“Middle Earth”), variant of middanġeard (“Earth, the world”, literally “the middle yard, enclosure, or realm”) mis- or reinterpreting its meaning, from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) and *gʰórdʰos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Norwegian & English Midgard (q.v.) and Danish, Norwegian, & Swedish Midgård.

middle earth (alternative)
middle-earth (alternative)
Middle-earth (alternative)
Middle-Earth (alternative)

Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information

1994, Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier, →ISBN, page 141:

The place might as well be called Noplace; it is a sort of magic island, like Thomas More’s Utopia or Homer’s Ogygia or Aristophane’s Cloudcuckooland—or Oz, or Narnia, or Middle Earth, or Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

1999, Frederick Turner, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180:

Some game ideas (such as the fanciful recreation of Middle Earth where the whole world is modeled with strong AI, 3D graphics capable of great indoor and terrain rendering, where an unlimited number of players can join in on both sides of epic conflict between good and evil) cannot be reconciled with the business parameters[…]

2003, Erik Bethke, Game Development and Production, Wordware Publishing,, →ISBN, page 76:

This is not an account of the Middle Ages, nor is it a tale from Middle Earth. This is our world.

2004, Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 27:

(fiction) Alternative form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings series.


catgirl

catgirls (plural)
cat girl (alternative)
cat-girl (alternative)

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But publishers cannot survive on cute catgirls alone.

2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, page 222:

Back in 1997, the Japanese magazines made a big deal out of the fact that the catgirl detective anime Hyper Police was on at one in the morning[…]

2010, Jonathan Clements, Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade:

"Why do we need to leave the mall first?" "Even if I can undo this myself, I don't know how to do it or how it works! I might become more cat-like first, or turn you into a cat, or unleash a shockwave of catness that turns everyone in the mall into cat girls!"

2016 October 7, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Oct 7, 2016:

(Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.

貓人 /猫人

female character with feline characteristics


supe

supes (plural)
sup (alternative)
super (alternative)


scale mail

en-noun

scale mail (countable and uncountable, plural scale mails)

scale mails (plural)
scalemail (alternative)

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(academically obsolete, now fiction, fantasy) Scale armor.


magic carpet

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Have you ever been, have you ever been, to Electric Ladyland? / The magic carpet waits for you, so don't you be late

1968, Jimi Hendrix, “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)”, in Electric Ladyland, performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience:

(fiction) A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.


South Park

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(fiction) A small fictional snow-capped mountainous Colorado town, the setting of the adult animated sitcom South Park.


šmoula

šmoula (nominative singular)
šmoulové (nominative plural)
šmouly (genitive singular)
šmoulů (genitive plural)
šmoulovi (dative singular)
šmoulům (dative plural)
šmoulu (accusative singular)
šmouly (accusative plural)
šmoulo (singular vocative)
šmoulové (plural vocative)
šmoulovi (locative singular)
šmoulech (locative plural)
šmoulou (instrumental singular)
šmouly (instrumental plural)


nieumarły

pl-noun

nieumarły m pers (female equivalent nieumarła)

nieumarła (feminine)
nieumarły (nominative singular)
nieumarli (nominative plural)
nieumarłego (genitive singular)
nieumarłych (genitive plural)
nieumarłemu (dative singular)
nieumarłym (dative plural)
nieumarłego (accusative singular)
nieumarłych (accusative plural)
nieumarłym (instrumental singular)
nieumarłymi (instrumental plural)
nieumarłym (locative singular)
nieumarłych (locative plural)
nieumarły (singular vocative)
nieumarli (plural vocative)

From nie- + umarły. Sense 2 was coined by Robert Fidura, an abused person.

(fiction) undead (dead yet still animate creature)


นาง

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *naːŋᴬ⁴ (“lady”), from Proto-Tai *naːŋᴬ (“lady”), from Old Chinese 娘 (OC *naŋ, “young woman”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨶᩣ᩠ᨦ, Lao ນາງ (nāng), Lü ᦓᦱᧂ (naang), Tai Dam ꪙꪱꪉ, Shan ၼၢင်း (náang), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥒᥰ (läang) or ᥢᥣᥒᥰ (näang), Aiton ꩫင် (naṅ), Ahom 𑜃𑜂𑜫 (naṅ), Tày nàng. Cognate via Old Chinese: Old Khmer នាង (nāṅa, nāṅ°), nâ, nõ (“courtesy title for females”), Khmer នាង (niəng), Vietnamese nàng, Burmese နန်း (nan:).

(fiction, literature, etc) heroine; female protagonist; leading lady.


kabouter

nl-noun

kabouter m (plural kabouters, diminutive kaboutertje n)

kabouters (plural)
kaboutertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: kabouter

Possibly already from Middle Dutch. Equivalent to a compound of koof (from Middle Dutch kove, from Old Dutch *kovo, from Proto-Germanic *kubô (“hut, shed”)) and a less certain second element that might be hou (“friendly, favorable disposition”). Related to German Kobold.

(fiction, folklore) a (now usually benevolent) tiny folkloric bearded man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms or trees, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or brownie


weretiger

(fiction, mythological) A creature of Southeast Asian myth; a shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a tiger.


wererat

The only other animal he'd seen hadn't been an animal at all, but a wererat who had given him a curious look before darting away into an alley.

2006, Christine Warren, Wolf at the Door: A Novel of The Others, page 205:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a rat.


dimensie

dimensie f (plural dimensies, diminutive dimensietje n)

dimensies (plural)
dimensietje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: dimensie

→ Indonesian: dimensi

Borrowed from French dimension, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin dīmēnsiō.

(fiction) dimension (plane of existence)


adamantium

Unadapted borrowing from English adamantium.

ubor

(fiction) adamantium (fictional indestructible metal)


gia

Dương huynh, ngươi dùng thương pháp dương gia thì ngọn đinh ba kia cũng hợp.

2005 [1957–1959], chapter 1, in Cao Tự Thanh, transl., Anh hùng xạ điêu, Nhà xuất bản Văn học, translation of 射雕英雄传 by Kim Dung [Jin Yong]:

Mr Yáng, you fight the spear in the style of the Yáng lineage, making the trident over there appropriate.


yandere

/ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/

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Borrowed from Japanese ヤンデレ (yandere), a portmanteau of 病んでる (yanderu), contraction of 病んでいる (yande iru), progressive tense of 病む (yamu, “to be sick”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).
Developed on the model of tsundere (“being cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time”).

And it finally answered the question as to whether Senjougahara is tsundere or yandere.

2009 October 4, sanjian [username], “Re: Bakemonogatari - comments on the end of the TV broadcast”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Looking at anime charts, there's always the harem series with the dense hero and a bunch of girls whose personalities are pulled out of a set cast of tropes (the Childhood Friend, Tsundere, Yandere, and Lolita, for instance).

2012, Jazmine Brusola, Rabble Rousers: A Fate/Zero Anime Review, Flyleaf (Ateneo Literary Association), page 14:

“Believe it, man. In fact, she's seriously creepy. Like creepier than that pink-haired girl from Future Diary.”
 “Wait, what?” Sam got that reference quickly, but was not happy with the comparison. She wasn't a psychopathic, murderous Yandere stalker, from what he could see.

2014, Olivia D. Knight, Please, Let Me Be a Seiyuu!, BookRix, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an exclusive bond.

يَانْدِرِي

character who fits the archetype of being genuinely kind, loving, or gentle, but suddenly switching to being aggressive or deranged


dhampir

dhampirs (plural)
dhampire (alternative)
dhampyr (alternative rare)
damphyr (alternative rare)

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(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.


hammerspace

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From hammer + space, referring to the large mallets often produced from nowhere by cartoon characters.

Okay, now just picture what you want to pull out of hammerspace and just reach in and grab it.

1996, Vincent Tagle, “Love and a single Ukclone...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

...it's a commonly known fact that dust is physically incapable of collecting in Hammerspace, so everything is always looking brand new! I for one would want to keep my collection of--I think it's sixty-four--manga spotless!

2000, Jason Howe, “Hammerspace Cleaning”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

I just learned how to take my sword out of my hammerspace, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Each incident involved some implement or skill SCP-6549 could not possibly utilize without additional anomalous qualities, a lack of detail or proper observation of which currently prevents concrete inference from being made regarding its ability to actually carry out said attacks. Usage of telepathically-linked accomplices, ectoentropic nanotechnology, and/or an antimemetic extradimensional hammerspace have not been ruled out as possibility.

2023 December 28, Billith, “SCP-6549”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2025-01-01:

(humorous, fiction) A notional extradimensional storage space able to contain objects larger than itself.


loli

From Japanese ロリ (rori) or a clipping of lolicon.

Coordinate term: shota

(fandom slang, chiefly Japanese fiction) A childlike female character, particularly in the lolicon genre.


ecchi

en-adj

ecchi (comparative more ecchi, superlative most ecchi)

more ecchi (comparative)
most ecchi (superlative)
etchi (alternative)

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From Japanese エッチ (etchi, “dirty; perverted”), which is derived from English aitch (“name of the letter ⟨H⟩”), which is an initialism of the romaji of Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).
エッチ (etchi) is not a genre in Japanese; this is a development in English.

der

(Japanese fiction) Of animation, erotic, lascivious, lewd, naughty, sexy, suggestive.


ecchi

en-noun

ecchi (countable and uncountable, plural ecchi)

The manga fan was disturbingly proud of his extensive ecchi collection.

(uncountable, Japanese fiction) A genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized scenes and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic. Often used to differentiate from hentai which features overt sexual themes.

There was a moment of ecchi for comic relief in the otherwise serious story.

(rare, countable, Japanese fiction, proscribed by fandom) A situation within a story, especially anime and manga, which ventures into the ecchi genre.


skurk

(fiction) villain (an evil character in a work of fiction)


werebear

/ˈwɪəbɛə(ɹ)/

/ˈwɛəbɛə(ɹ)/

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between bear and human form


puffo

Onomatopoeic; or the word might contain an allusion to the adjective "buffo", meaning "funny".


slow burn

slow burns (plural)
slow-burn (alternative)

The second episode of tonight’s two part finale is the culmination of a storyline first introduced way back in the first season (episode ten, “Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind”). That aired over seven years ago. Even shows that pay very close attention to serialization rarely manage that kind of slow burn.

2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in The A.V. Club:

You might politely describe this werewolf thriller set in the English countryside, in which the werewolf is kept off-camera, as a slow-burn. A devastating revelation awaits us at the end, but for the first two-ish-thirds of the movie we watch a man in a cottage […] looking alarmed and perturbed, possibly having a psychotic breakdown.

2023 May 2, Cath Clarke, “Wolf Garden review – English rural werewolf horror is a major slow burn”, in The Guardian:

Despite its dramatic opening, this is a slow burn of a novel. Salvioni might not display the flair of [Elena] Ferrante, but Francesca and Maddalena are vibrant characters for whom we quickly root.

2024 June 16, Lucy Popescu, “The Cursed Friend by Beatrice Salvioni review – rebels with a cause”, in The Observer:

(idiomatic) Something that emerges or unfolds slowly or gradually.

(fiction) A work of fiction with a slow-paced plot; also, such a storyline.

Another familiar trope, the slow burn, teases the reader as characters secretly pine for one another . . . for a long time.

2018, Francesca DiPiazza, Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers, page 30:

Slow burns are torture. Why wait? I want my characters getting down and dirty ASAP, and there's nothing wrong with that.

2019, Robinwritesallthethings, “porn with plot”, in Lemon, page 62:

On some nights, I want a good long, juicy 70k word slowburn, mutual pining, angst (with a happy ending, of course, I'm not a monster).

2021, Aditi Dubey, “Considering Fanfic”, in Rabbit Hole, number 1, Australian National University, page 33:

(fiction, fandom slang) A romantic story (especially a work of fan fiction) in which the central relationship develops slowly.


Oger

de-noun

Oger m (strong, genitive Ogers, plural Oger)

Ogers (genitive)
Oger (plural)
Oger (nominative singular)
Oger (definite nominative plural)
Ogers (genitive singular)
Oger (definite genitive plural)
Oger (dative singular)
Ogern (dative definite plural)
Oger (accusative singular)
Oger (accusative definite plural)

(fiction) ogre (in fairy tales, a brutish giant)


ковёр-самолёт

ru-noun+

ковёр-самолёт • (kovjór-samoljót) m inan (genitive ковра́-самолёта, nominative plural ковры́-самолёты, genitive plural ковро́в-самолётов)

kovjór-samoljót (romanization)
ковра́-самолёта (genitive)
ковры́-самолёты (nominative plural)
ковро́в-самолётов (genitive plural)
ковёр-самолёт (nominative singular)
ковры́-самолёты (nominative plural)
ковра́-самолёта (genitive singular)
ковро́в-самолётов (genitive plural)
ковру́-самолёту (dative singular)
ковра́м-самолётам (dative plural)
ковёр-самолёт (accusative singular)
ковры́-самолёты (accusative plural)
ковро́м-самолётом (instrumental singular)
ковра́ми-самолётами (instrumental plural)
ковре́-самолёте (prepositional singular)
ковра́х-самолётах (plural prepositional)

[kɐˈvʲɵr səmɐˈlʲɵt]

ко вёр- са мо лёт

From ковёр (kovjór) + самолёт (samoljót).

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


נבל

he-noun

נָבָל • (navál) m (plural indefinite נְבָלִים, feminine counterpart נְבָלָה)

נָבָל (canonical)
navál (romanization)
נְבָלִים (indefinite plural)
נְבָלָה (feminine)


schtroumpf

Coined by Peyo, probably from German Strumpf (“stocking, sock”), which is not semantically related, but peculiar and “funny sounding” to the French ear because of the unfamiliar combinations of consonants. See also smurf.


smerf

smerf (nominative singular)
smerfy (nominative plural)
smerfa (genitive singular)
smerfów (genitive plural)
smerfowi (dative singular)
smerfom (dative plural)
smerfa (accusative singular)
smerfy (accusative plural)
smerfem (instrumental singular)
smerfami (instrumental plural)
smerfie (locative singular)
smerfach (locative plural)
smerfie (singular vocative)
smerfy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Dutch smurf, from French schtroumpf.


kemonomimi

en-noun

kemonomimi (plural kemonomimi or kemonomimis)

kemonomimi (plural)
kemonomimis (plural)

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From Japanese 獣(けもの)耳(みみ) (kemonomimi), from 獣(けもの) (kemono, “animal”) + 耳(みみ) (mimi, “ear”).

(Japanese fiction) A humanoid fictional character who has animal ears and/or tail(s).


トロール

[to̞ɾo̞ːɾɯ̟]


粽子

→ English: zongzi

→ Guiqiong: ʥiɐʂi

→ Korean: 쭝쯔 (jjungjjeu)

→ Russian: цзу́нцзы (czúnczy)

/t͡sʊŋ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/

/t͡soŋ²¹³ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/t͡sʊŋ³³ t͡siː³⁵/

/t͡ɕyŋ⁴⁵ t͡səʔ⁴/

/t͡søŋ⁵⁵ t͡si³³/

/t͡soŋ³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡soŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/

/t͡soŋ⁵³ t͡sz̩³¹/

/t͡soŋ³⁴ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/t͡soŋ⁵⁵ t͡sz̩³³/

/t͡sʊŋ⁴⁵ t͡sz̩³/

/t͡sɤŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩³/

/t͡sɤŋ³²⁴⁻³¹ t͡sz̩³/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/

/t͡soŋ²¹³ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/t͡sʊŋ³³ t͡siː³⁵/

/t͡ɕyŋ⁴⁵ t͡səʔ⁴/

/t͡søŋ⁵⁵ t͡si³³/

/t͡soŋ³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡soŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/

/t͡soŋ⁵³ t͡sz̩³¹/

/t͡soŋ³⁴ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/t͡soŋ⁵⁵ t͡sz̩³³/

/t͡sʊŋ⁴⁵ t͡sz̩³/

/t͡sɤŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩³/

/t͡sɤŋ³²⁴⁻³¹ t͡sz̩³/

Sūsū zài Lín Fēng de shēnshàng chán mǎn le bēngdài, ránhòu xiàoxiào shuō: “Nǐ biànchéng zòngzi le.”

蘇蘇在林楓的身上纏滿了繃帶，然後笑笑說：「你變成粽子了。」

苏苏在林枫的身上缠满了绷带，然后笑笑说：「你变成粽子了。」

yìnggāi bùhuì yǒu shénme jiāngshī zòngzi le

應該不會有什麼僵屍粽子了

应该不会有什么僵尸粽子了

Yī kàn jiù shì méi hùn chūlái de báimáo zòngzi.

一看就是沒混出來的白毛粽子。

一看就是没混出来的白毛粽子。


rogues' gallery

rogues' gallery (plural rogues' galleries)

rogues' galleries (plural)
rogue gallery (alternative)

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From rogue + gallery. Popularized by American detectives Allan Pinkerton and Thomas F. Byrnes.

(fiction) The set of supervillains associated with a particular superhero or comic book title.


قهرمان

fa-noun

قهرمان • (qahramân) (plural قهرمانان (qahramânân), or قهرمانها (qahramân-hâ))

qahramân (romanization)
قهرمانان (plural)

→ Azerbaijani: qəhrəman

→ Chagatai: قهرمان

Uyghur: قەھرىمان (qehriman)

Uzbek: qahramon

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: क़हरमान (qaharmān)

Urdu: قہرمان (qahrmān)

→ Georgian: ყარამანი (q̇aramani)

→ Kazakh: қаһарман (qaharman)

→ Ottoman Turkish: قهرمان

Turkish: kahraman

→ Turkmen: gahryman

[qäɦ.ɾä.mɑ́ːn]

[qäɦ.ɾä.mɑ́ːn]

[qɑː.ɾä.mɑ́ːn]

[qɔː.ɾä.mɔ́ːn]

[qæɦ.ɹæ.mɒ́ːn]

From original کهرمان (kahramân), from a dialectal form of Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kʾlplmʾn /kārframān/, “overseer, manager”), from Old Median *karhramāna-. The form with initial q- by association with Arabic قَهْر (qahr, “conquest, subjugation, violence, wrath”).

der

قهرمان فیلم اکشن


Mimantean

Mimanteans (plural)
Mimantian (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Μίμᾱς (Mímās) + -ean.

I went back to the grind of reviewing that day's Cassini photographs. Imagine my shock when I noticed that Mimas, one of the inner moons of Saturn, had acquired a concave depression in it since the last fly-by! Of course, I immediately realized that the Mimanteans had constructed a fully armed and operational Death Star!

2010 February 19, Hulles, “Mimas!”, in sardonic postmodern humor:

(fiction) An inhabitant of the Saturnian moon Mimas


cô

Sino-Vietnamese word from 孤 (“lonesome”).

vi-etym-sino

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14th century, Luo Guanzhong Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Ch. 78; 1909 Vietnamese translation by Phan Kế Bính
Hán Trung vương nói: - Cô kết nghĩa với Quan, Trương hai em ở vườn đào, thề cùng sống thác với nhau. Nay Vân Trường chẳng may bị hại, cô sao hưởng phú quý một mình được!

The King of Hanzhong said: - I swore an oath of fraternal rectitude with my two younger oath-brothers Guan, Zhang in the peach garden, pledging to live and die together. Now [Guan] Yunzhang unfortunately has been maliciously murdered, how can I enjoy riches by myself?


spokon

Borrowed from Japanese スポ根 (supokon), a blend of スポーツ (supōtsu, “sports”) + 根性 (konjō, “guts, willpower, spirit”).

blend

(Japanese fiction) A genre that focuses on sports, emphasizing perseverance, hard work, and overcoming adversity.


break the fourth wall

en-verb

break the fourth wall (third-person singular simple present breaks the fourth wall, present participle breaking the fourth wall, simple past broke the fourth wall, past participle broken the fourth wall)

breaks the fourth wall (present singular third-person)
breaking the fourth wall (participle present)
broke the fourth wall (past)
broken the fourth wall (participle past)

(idiomatic, fiction) To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.

rompi la kvaran muron

direct communication with the viewer or reader


escolhido

pt-noun

escolhido m (plural escolhidos, feminine escolhida, feminine plural escolhidas)

escolhidos (plural)
escolhida (feminine)
escolhidas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese escolledo, from escoller (“to choose”).


worldbuilding

world-building (alternative)
world building (alternative)

The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive.

2013 February 8, Charlie Jane Anders, “7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding”, in io9, archived from the original on 2016-11-25:

High fantasy of the George RR Martin kind hinges on world-building. When there really is a whole world to build, and not just a historical period or a particular country, world-building does not take a few paragraphs in a short story; it takes chapters.

2015 May 20, Natasha Pulley, “Fantasy cannot build its imaginary worlds in short fiction”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.

աշխարհկառուցում

act or process of building of a fictional world


Rodina

From romanization of Russian ро́дина (ródina, literally “homeland”).


horror story

The film is based on a horror story by Edgar Allan Poe.

(fiction) A fictional narrative of distressing events.


barrufet

Uncertain, perhaps a metathesis of rebufet, from rebuf (“gust of wind”).


smurffi

smurffi (nominative singular)
smurffit (nominative plural)
smurffi (accusative nominative singular)
smurffit (accusative nominative plural)
smurffin (accusative genitive singular)
smurffit (accusative genitive plural)
smurffin (genitive singular)
smurffien (genitive plural)
smurffia (partitive singular)
smurffeja (partitive plural)
smurffissa (inessive singular)
smurffeissa (inessive plural)
smurffista (elative singular)
smurffeista (elative plural)
smurffiin (illative singular)
smurffeihin (illative plural)
smurffilla (adessive singular)
smurffeilla (adessive plural)
smurffilta (ablative singular)
smurffeilta (ablative plural)
smurffille (allative singular)
smurffeille (allative plural)
smurffina (essive singular)
smurffeina (essive plural)
smurffiksi (singular translative)
smurffeiksi (plural translative)
smurffitta (abessive singular)
smurffeitta (abessive plural)
smurffein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
smurffini (nominative singular)
smurffini (nominative plural)
smurffini (accusative nominative singular)
smurffini (accusative nominative plural)
smurffini (accusative genitive singular)
smurffini (accusative genitive plural)
smurffini (genitive singular)
smurffieni (genitive plural)
smurffiani (partitive singular)
smurffejani (partitive plural)
smurffissani (inessive singular)
smurffeissani (inessive plural)
smurffistani (elative singular)
smurffeistani (elative plural)
smurffiini (illative singular)
smurffeihini (illative plural)
smurffillani (adessive singular)
smurffeillani (adessive plural)
smurffiltani (ablative singular)
smurffeiltani (ablative plural)
smurffilleni (allative singular)
smurffeilleni (allative plural)
smurffinani (essive singular)
smurffeinani (essive plural)
smurffikseni (singular translative)
smurffeikseni (plural translative)
smurffittani (abessive singular)
smurffeittani (abessive plural)
smurffeineni (comitative plural)
smurffisi (nominative singular)
smurffisi (nominative plural)
smurffisi (accusative nominative singular)
smurffisi (accusative nominative plural)
smurffisi (accusative genitive singular)
smurffisi (accusative genitive plural)
smurffisi (genitive singular)
smurffiesi (genitive plural)
smurffiasi (partitive singular)
smurffejasi (partitive plural)
smurffissasi (inessive singular)
smurffeissasi (inessive plural)
smurffistasi (elative singular)
smurffeistasi (elative plural)
smurffiisi (illative singular)
smurffeihisi (illative plural)
smurffillasi (adessive singular)
smurffeillasi (adessive plural)
smurffiltasi (ablative singular)
smurffeiltasi (ablative plural)
smurffillesi (allative singular)
smurffeillesi (allative plural)
smurffinasi (essive singular)
smurffeinasi (essive plural)
smurffiksesi (singular translative)
smurffeiksesi (plural translative)
smurffittasi (abessive singular)
smurffeittasi (abessive plural)
smurffeinesi (comitative plural)
smurffimme (nominative singular)
smurffimme (nominative plural)
smurffimme (accusative nominative singular)
smurffimme (accusative nominative plural)
smurffimme (accusative genitive singular)
smurffimme (accusative genitive plural)
smurffimme (genitive singular)
smurffiemme (genitive plural)
smurffiamme (partitive singular)
smurffejamme (partitive plural)
smurffissamme (inessive singular)
smurffeissamme (inessive plural)
smurffistamme (elative singular)
smurffeistamme (elative plural)
smurffiimme (illative singular)
smurffeihimme (illative plural)
smurffillamme (adessive singular)
smurffeillamme (adessive plural)
smurffiltamme (ablative singular)
smurffeiltamme (ablative plural)
smurffillemme (allative singular)
smurffeillemme (allative plural)
smurffinamme (essive singular)
smurffeinamme (essive plural)
smurffiksemme (singular translative)
smurffeiksemme (plural translative)
smurffittamme (abessive singular)
smurffeittamme (abessive plural)
smurffeinemme (comitative plural)
smurffinne (nominative singular)
smurffinne (nominative plural)
smurffinne (accusative nominative singular)
smurffinne (accusative nominative plural)
smurffinne (accusative genitive singular)
smurffinne (accusative genitive plural)
smurffinne (genitive singular)
smurffienne (genitive plural)
smurffianne (partitive singular)
smurffejanne (partitive plural)
smurffissanne (inessive singular)
smurffeissanne (inessive plural)
smurffistanne (elative singular)
smurffeistanne (elative plural)
smurffiinne (illative singular)
smurffeihinne (illative plural)
smurffillanne (adessive singular)
smurffeillanne (adessive plural)
smurffiltanne (ablative singular)
smurffeiltanne (ablative plural)
smurffillenne (allative singular)
smurffeillenne (allative plural)
smurffinanne (essive singular)
smurffeinanne (essive plural)
smurffiksenne (singular translative)
smurffeiksenne (plural translative)
smurffittanne (abessive singular)
smurffeittanne (abessive plural)
smurffeinenne (comitative plural)
smurffinsa (nominative singular)
smurffinsa (nominative plural)
smurffinsa (accusative nominative singular)
smurffinsa (accusative nominative plural)
smurffinsa (accusative genitive singular)
smurffinsa (accusative genitive plural)
smurffinsa (genitive singular)
smurffiensa (genitive plural)
smurffiaan (partitive singular)
smurffiansa (partitive singular)
smurffejaan (partitive plural)
smurffejansa (partitive plural)
smurffissaan (inessive singular)
smurffissansa (inessive singular)
smurffeissaan (inessive plural)
smurffeissansa (inessive plural)
smurffistaan (elative singular)
smurffistansa (elative singular)
smurffeistaan (elative plural)
smurffeistansa (elative plural)
smurffiinsa (illative singular)
smurffeihinsa (illative plural)
smurffillaan (adessive singular)
smurffillansa (adessive singular)
smurffeillaan (adessive plural)
smurffeillansa (adessive plural)
smurffiltaan (ablative singular)
smurffiltansa (ablative singular)
smurffeiltaan (ablative plural)
smurffeiltansa (ablative plural)
smurffilleen (allative singular)
smurffillensa (allative singular)
smurffeilleen (allative plural)
smurffeillensa (allative plural)
smurffinaan (essive singular)
smurffinansa (essive singular)
smurffeinaan (essive plural)
smurffeinansa (essive plural)
smurffikseen (singular translative)
smurffiksensa (singular translative)
smurffeikseen (plural translative)
smurffeiksensa (plural translative)
smurffittaan (abessive singular)
smurffittansa (abessive singular)
smurffeittaan (abessive plural)
smurffeittansa (abessive plural)
smurffeineen (comitative plural)
smurffeinensa (comitative plural)

Dutch smurf, changed from the original French schtroumpf.


slechte

Substantivization of the adjective slecht.


muội

(Chinese fiction) I; you (refers to the female junior among the speakers)


zumbi

Borrowed from English zombie, with spelling influenced by Etymology 1.


white knight

white knights (plural)
white-knight (alternative)
whiteknight (alternative)

(fiction) A hero, savior, or righteous individual.


Undine

From German Undine (“undine”), first used as a given name in the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and in 19th-century operas based on the book.

The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city.

1818 Translation by George Soane of Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, W.Simpkin and R. Marshall, pages 24-25

(rare outside fiction) A female given name from Latin.


rebis

From Latin rēs (“matter”) + Latin bīna (“double”).

af

While the rebis is the final form of alchemical variability, the larger process of alchemy looked to mercury as both the agent and patient of transformative possibilities.

2023, Micah James Goodrich, “Trans Animacies and Premodern Alchemies”, in Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements, page 214:

(alchemy, fiction) The end product of the alchemical magnum opus, a reunion of opposing qualities such as spirit and matter or male and female, represented by an androgynous being.


reset button

But after a year of sagging ratings, Dallas hit the reset button, by having Pam wake up to see Bobby, very much alive, lathering up in their shower. The entire 1985–86 season, including Bobby's death, had been a bad dream of Pam's, and now that she was awake, Dallas could go on the way it should have, with the previous year's events effectively wiped away.

2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:

Voyager the show ambles and meanders just like Voyager the ship, hypothetically exploring new territory but actually doomed to retreads and consequence-free episodic storytelling (heavy on what fans came to call “the Reset Button” that restores the status quo), exacerbated by overuse of technobabble.

2020, Murray Leeder, “Confessions of an Anti-Fan”, in Robert L. Lively, editor, Exploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays, McFarland, →ISBN, page 250:

(fiction) A plot device that interrupts continuity in works of fiction, by returning characters and situations to the status quo they held before certain changes were introduced.


設定

二次創作で、公式とは違う設定

niji sōsaku de, kōshiki to wa chigau settei

personalities that are different from the canonical personality in fan works

(narrative, fiction) in-universe information (of a character, the background, or any part of a fictional universe); lore