tsundere

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Borrowed from Japanese ツンデレ (tsundere), from つんつん (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + でれでれ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.

2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.

2010 August 14, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).

2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A fictional character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side.

تْسُونْدِرِي

character who fits the archetype of being cold or hostile before gradually showing a warm and caring side


pitufo

es-noun

pitufo m (plural pitufos, feminine pitufa, feminine plural pitufas)

pitufos (plural)
pitufa (feminine)
pitufas (feminine plural)

Named after Patufet, a child character in Catalan folklore.
The bread rolls sense comes from a comparison to the small size of the smurfs, a popular cartoon at the time.

El alcalde, David Fernández, asegura que tan sólo quedan tres casas por pintar en esta localidad de 250 habitantes, elegida por Sony Pictures Releasing para representar el pueblo pitufo.

2011 June 10, “Pueblo pitufo”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN:

Los Pitufos ya no podrán vivir legalmente en su pueblo de Málaga, Júzcar: desde el próximo día 15, el llamado "primer pueblo pitufo del mundo" dejará de serlo porque los herederos del dibujante belga Peyo, creador de los enanos azules de gorro frigio blanco, quieren cobrar al municipio serrano derechos de imagen y el pueblo se niega a hacerlo.

2017 August 7, El País, “Los Pitufos reniegan del pueblo pitufo”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN:


smølf

head

smølf c (singular definite smølfen, plural indefinite smølfer)

smølfen (definite singular)
smølfer (indefinite plural)
smølf (indefinite nominative singular)
smølfen (definite nominative singular)
smølfer (indefinite nominative plural)
smølferne (definite nominative plural)
smølfs (genitive indefinite singular)
smølfens (definite genitive singular)
smølfers (genitive indefinite plural)
smølfernes (definite genitive plural)

From Dutch smurf, changed from French schtroumpf.


estrumpfe

estrumpfes (plural)
estrunfe (alternative)

(Portugal, comics, fiction) smurf (fictional blue pixie character of The Smurfs)


antag

(informal, fiction, writing) Clipping of antagonist.


HAL

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(fiction, computing) A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.


結界

/t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

(fiction, chiefly ACG) force field; invisible barrier


小女子

小 (ko-, “small”) + 女子 (onago, “female child”)


suicide booth

(fiction) A booth that contains equipment to kill a user who wants to commit suicide, often automatically.


handwavium

From hand waving + -ium (“the chemical element suffix”).

af

My handwavium was an invented mineral, but - reading up - what about platinum? Could I substitute platinum for handwavium?

2008 February 3, Jacey Bedford <jacey@artisan-harmony.com>, “Handwavium”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

It made no sense to him that their very impossibility was their pleasure. He puzzled over the spacecraft and their handwavium drives. "The thousand and one nights of Scheherazade, told by an engineering student who failed his graduation exams," was his literary judgment.

2008 March, Alexander Jablokov, “The Boarder”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 114, number 3, Concord, N.H.: Fantasy House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

She writes romantic fantasy and science fiction, and makes liberal use of the substance known as handwavium.

2012, Imogen Howson, Blood of the Volcano, Cincinnati, Oh.: Samhain Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:

(informal, fiction) Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.


meido

From Japanese メイド (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid.

uder

I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido.

2006 October 13, Abraham Evangelista, “Re: Crescent Love - dull new anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!

2008 October 12, Kitty Sensei, “Playing pirate”, in Malaysia Star:

Although this is a manga about maids, don’t expect to see the submissive and fawning maids of the meido category. The protagonist here is a faithful, skilled and courteous maid from the old English society.

2008, Memedi, "Loyal helper", Malaysia Star, 9 November 2008

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.


変身

Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Shapeshifting
ja:変身

Probably from Middle Chinese as compound 變身 (MC pjenH syin, “change” + “body; self”). Compare modern Mandarin 變身／变身 (biànshēn).
First attested in Japanese in 1060.

ltc-l

A shout called out when metamorphising into one's powerful alter-ego. Found in tokusatsu, mecha and magical girl fiction.


Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu

the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu (canonical)

law (“rule”) + of + conservation (“preservation”) + of + ninjutsu (“a martial art used by ninjas”)
The law implies that each team of ninjas has the same finite amount of "power" of martial arts, therefore a team with fewer ninjas has more powerful ninjas.

> The more creativity and ingenuity you give your aliens, the less is
> available for your humans, generally the protagonists, which means
> things will end poorly for Our Heroes. [...]
Sort of like a SCIENCE application of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu?

2007 December 3, sw <sw@eyrie.org>, “Re: Why so few creative aliens?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <slrnfl8dbu.6gg.sw@haven.eyrie.org>:

In other words, if I can tweak the minion->normal->elite->solo system into a^([sic]) in-game representation of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu, there will be much win.

2008 May 19, Nockermensch <ralgomes@gmail.com>, “Re: Ampersand: The Scoop on D&D Insider”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), message-ID <11398510-50ce-4342-a223-ca68b86c8b89@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>:

The Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu was working in the main characters' favor, but even so, it was hard going.

2011 February 19, Andrew Perron <pwerdna@gmail.com>, “LNH/RACCies: Just Imagine Saxon Brenton vs. Andrew Perron in the Return of the RACCies! #10: Poledancing Phantoms of Limbo”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet), message-ID <1hmvlegtnnkih$.1p14289mto1ro.dlg@40tude.net>:

(narratology, fiction, informal, humorous) The ability of one or few people to win fights against many opponents.


superhero insurance

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(fiction, humorous) A supposed form of insurance held by superheroes, who often cause excessive damage to property without having to deal with payments or lawsuits.


explodium

(chiefly fiction) Any material that explodes extremely easily.


村雨

(Japanese fiction) a character in Kan'ami's Noh play Matsukaze


lobsterwoman

lobsterwomen (plural)
lobster-woman (alternative)
lobster woman (alternative)

From lobster + -woman, modelled after lobsterman.

Pat's looks like a washerwoman, and mine, which I like the best, is a lobsterwoman with a lobsterbaby on her lap.

1996, Joan MacCracken, The Sun, the Rain, and the Insulin: Growing Up with Diabetes, page 210:

'You can't be Pamela Macx,' says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobsterwoman-thing.

They ranged from the display of tattooed women as exotic pictures—like Salome/ "the famous Oriental beauty tattooed in seven colors," seen at Luna Park in 1912 (ATP, Fonds Soury, vol. 19, 149 top and bottom), a deeply erotic, nonnormative performance—to the virile displays of the female animal tamer's courage, to the gender inappropriate but familiar woman wrestler, and to the “monsters” such as mule women or lobster women.

2010, W. Spurlin, J. Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, Comparatively Queer:

The low-budget 1964 horror movie Vengeance of the Lobsterwoman provided Meryl Streep with her first starring role, opposite Roger Moore who played the Lobsterwoman.

2013, Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, The Unbelievable Truth, page 185:

(fiction) A female alien or monster that appears like a hybrid of a human and a lobster.


weredog

Weredogs dread the same things which vampires, viscera suckers, and witches fear. But weredogs and witches are especially afraid of the sting ray's tail.

1968, California Folklore Society, Western folklore: Volumes 27-28:

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


werelion

She dies before Anita can explain that it's unnecessary; but in a scuffle, one of the werelions is mortally wounded, and Anita uses his death to call up her power.

2011, Candace R. Benefiel, Reading Laurell K. Hamilton, page 60:

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

lion-garou

shapeshifter assuming the shape of a lion


Drachenfutter

de-noun

Drachenfutter n (strong, genitive Drachenfutters, no plural)

Drachenfutters (genitive)
Drachenfutter (nominative singular)
Drachenfutters (genitive singular)
Drachenfutter (dative singular)
Drachenfutter (accusative singular)

Das nächstemal that der Mann ein bischen Rattengift in das Drachenfutter.

The next time the man put a little rat poison in the dragon fodder.

(fantasy, fiction) dragon fodder, dragon food


コラボレーション

[ko̞ɾa̠bo̞ɾe̞ːɕõ̞ɴ]


ahegao

en-noun

ahegao (countable and uncountable, plural ahegao or ahegaos)

From Japanese アヘ顔(がお) (ahegao), from アヘアヘ (aheahe, “panting”) + 顔(かお) (kao, “face”).

"The ahegao you draw is the best ever, ■■-sensei!."

2017, Takashi Kajii, My Little Sister Can Read Kanji: Volume 3, unnumbered page:

During the set of intercourse at the end of the story, Sherlock is also drawn featuring ahegao expressions, frequently used in hentai or pornographic works.

2017, Carolina Lindström, The power of characterization […] , thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 26:

Without anime I would never have been introduced to such thought provoking concepts as ahegao or 15 year old girls with boobs the size of basketballs.

2019 March 6, “Personals”, in The Medium, Rutgers University, page A6:

Princess Berpl, an adult performer and cosplay artist, says that many of Delphine’s self-branding tactics, such as using the ahegao face in videos or appealing to the gaming community, originated in the sex work community.

2019 July 11, Ej Dickson, “Is Belle Delphine, a.k.a. Bathwater Gamer Girl, the Greatest Troll On the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone:

In addition to standard cosplay and PG-13, NSFW pictures, she also became known for her ahegao — facial expressions meant to mimic the orgasms of hentai characters.

2019 October 8, Madeleine Aggeler, “Who Is Belle Delphine, the Gamer Girl Selling Her Bathwater?”, in New York:

I sauntered out of the bathroom and over to Joel, standing in front of him. I mentally counted to ten before he looked up to see the Ahegao^([sic]) expression I'd practiced. I stuck my tongue out, rolling it to the side while crossing my eyes and moaning.

2020, Kat Addams, Just Between Us, →ISBN:

I knew she she didn't look at anything of mine online except my Instagram, which used to be 100 percent clothed ahegao with me wearing the pink wigs and the fake face tats and the kitten ears, but was getting a little more risky.

2024, Rafael Frumkin, “Like and Subscribe”, in Bugsy & Other Stories, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 127:

(Japanese fiction) An exaggerated facial expression consisting of flushed cheeks, rolled-back eyes, and the tongue hanging out, intended to depict a person having an orgasm.


sea king

(mythology or fiction) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A ruler of the seas, e.g. Poseidon.


Gothamite

(fiction) An inhabitant of the fictional Gotham City, the home of the superhero Batman.


bodyswap

bodyswaps (plural)
body swap (alternative)
body-swap (alternative)

(fiction) The act or event of two people or other thinking creatures exchanging minds (by magic, technology, or other means), so that each one ends up in the physical body of the other.


black knight

(fiction) A villain or evil character who masks their identity and that of their liege by not displaying heraldry.


twinner

The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]

2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149:

Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]

2020, Debbie Olson, Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 185:

(fiction, uncommon) One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.


nekomimi

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From Japanese 猫耳 (nekomimi), from 猫 (neko, “cat”) + 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

Thank you, Galen - I was pretty sure that she wasn't really a nekomimi, but this gives me some proof.

2005 February 17, Rob Kelk, “Re: DiGi Charat without her hat”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(chiefly Japanese fiction, by extension) A fictional character who has cat ears on an otherwise human body, and possibly other feline characteristics such as a tail.


catperson

I haven't seen one of my earliest acquaintances in the game, a catperson berserker named Silverkat, since Ugeta was just a lowbie.

2012, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of, EverQuest, Left Coast Press, →ISBN, page 69:

(fiction) An anthropomorphic feline, or a person who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body, such as cat ears and a cat tail.

katmens

anthropomorphic feline, or person with characteristics of a cat


redskirt

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From red + skirt. Patterned after redshirt, which derived from the tendency for male security officers, who wore red shirts, to die on episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Female crew members wore minidresses, but only one red-uniformed female character was killed during the series' run, in the episode "By Any Other Name."

Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.

2007 February 10, Marc Goodman, “Re: Response to Steven Pinker's 'The Mystery of Consciousness'”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

(fiction, fandom slang, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.


tiểu nhân

[tiəw˧˩ ɲən˧˧]

[tiw˧˨ ɲəŋ˧˧]

[tiw˨˩˦ ɲəŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 小人 (“villain”).

vi-etym-sino

Zuo Zhuan; 2018, Vietnamese translation by Huỳnh Chương Hưng

I, the low-born one, still have an elderly mother; she has tasted every kind of foods at home, yet she has never tasted delicacies belonging to you, my ruler. Now I beg you the ruler to allow the low-born me to bring these pieces of meat home to my mother.

Tiểu nhân còn mẹ già, những thứ ở nhà bà đều đã ăn qua, chỉ chưa nếm được những món ngon của quốc quân. Nay xin quốc quân cho phép tiểu nhân đem những miếng thịt này về nhà cho mẹ.

(Chinese fiction, humble) I/me, a low-born person


mệnh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 命; this is the Northern form. Doublet of mạng, the Southern form.

Tuân mệnh/lệnh/chỉ!

(archaic or Chinese fiction) order from the monarch


thiếp

Sino-Vietnamese word from 妾 (“concubine”).

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) I/me (referring to a beloved woman)


kitchen sink

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

back-formation

(by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.

työväestön arkielämää käsittelevä

of or pertaining to a genre of drama, fiction, etc., depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre


Stark

* As a Scottish and English surname, from the adjective stark.
* As a Jewish, German, and Swedish surname, from stark (“strong”), related to the above. This surname also appears in Czech and Slovak as Štark.

(fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.


tỉ

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

(Chinese fiction) you (used when speaking to a young woman on equal footing)


Metropolis

My city need a hero, so I treat it like Metropolis / And it's a few bad Lois Lanes I can't name

2012, “Higher”, in Detroit, performed by Big Sean:

(fiction) A fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Superman franchise, published by DC Comics.


microkinesis

It features a fully coded Talent system including 'pathing, 'porting, merging, clairvoyance, clairaudience and microkinesis.

1998 October 10, Greg Kempe, “AD: [tinymush] TowerMUSH - AM's Tower and the Hive books”, in rec.games.mud.announce (Usenet):

In our telekinesis case, the psi. might pick up microkinesis or macrokinesis at a certain level.

2000 April 5, Kelly Ross Pederson, “Re: 3E psionics ideas?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

[…], to arrange for him to be treated by a Guild medic who could repair the heart with microkinesis.

2014, Alexandra Hughes, Marked, Penguin Group, page 55:

(fiction) The ability to move objects and effect matter on a microscopic, molecular, atomic and subatomic level with the power of one's mind.


thermokinesis

en-noun

thermokinesis (countable and uncountable, plural thermokineses)

(fiction) The ability to manipulate the motion of molecules, slowing them down or speeding them up, thus changing temperature in the immediate vicinity with the power of one's mind. This is a wide spectrum ability than simply pyrokinesis or cryokinesis.


phu nhân

[fu˧˧ ɲən˧˧]

[fʊw˧˧ ɲəŋ˧˧]

[fʊw˧˧ ɲəŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 夫人, composed of 夫 (“husband”) and 人 (“person”), from Chinese 夫人 (fūrén).

vi-etym-sino

(historical, now chiefly fiction) a mistress, the wife of a wealthy man


godsdamn

"Thet!" he half-shouted, his voice deeper than one would expect coming from his frame. "Godsdamn it! You know the bloodmages are supposed to be notified [...]"

1994, Ed Stark, The fifth horseman, →ISBN, page 7:

“Godsdamn, Airell.” He pushed himself from the bench and began pacing.

2006, Cheyenne McCray, Seduced by Magic, →ISBN, page 55:

(vulgar, nonstandard, slang, fiction, fantasy) An expression of anger, surprise, or frustration.


godsdamn

Every godsdamn crevice and crack and water tank in the city would be a fucking encampment.

2004, China Mieville, The Scar, →ISBN, page 164:

(vulgar, nonstandard, slang, fiction, fantasy) Damned by gods; used as an intensifier.


Crowley

(fantasy fiction) The name of a demon, found in several different works of fiction by several different authors. Named in reference to Aleister Crowley, a famous 19th-century occultist.


selfcest

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And this is where selfcest comes in. For those unfamiliar with Adventure Time, it has two series: the main, phallogocentric one, Adventure Time, and another spin-off version, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, in which gender-flipped versions of the original characters are presented. Marceline spawns Marshall Lee, Jake turns into Cake, Finn becomes Fionna, Princess Bubblegum is chewed up and spat out as Prince Gumball… you get the picture. Enter Fanfiction, which causes them to hook up. Creepy, yes.

2013, Boo Patrick, "Selfcest", Manifesto (University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts), April 2013, page 8

Several Loki fans shared their horror over the idea of Loki and Sylvie getting together, as it would be an example of selfcest.

2021 July 2, Sabrina Barr, “Loki fans defend Marvel series over ‘queerbaiting’ claims as director says God of Mischief’s bisexuality won’t be explored further”, in Metro, UK:

'"The Time Traveler's Wife” having selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card,' another [Twitter] user commented.

2022 May 25, Erica Tempesta, “'Selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card': The Time Traveler's Wife baffles viewers with 'wild' and 'disturbing' oral sex scene between the HBO show's protagonist and HIMSELF”, in The Daily Mail:

(fandom slang, fiction) Sexual activity with an alternate version of oneself, such as a clone, duplicate, alter ego, or a version of oneself from a different time or alternate universe.


Conehead

Coneheads (plural)
conehead (alternative)

(fiction) One of a fictional race of humanoid aliens with conical skulls.


αρειανός

head

αρειανός • (areianós) m (plural αρειανοί)

areianós (romanization)
αρειανοί (plural)
αρειανός (nominative singular)
αρειανοί (nominative plural)
αρειανού (genitive singular)
αρειανών (genitive plural)
αρειανό (accusative singular)
αρειανούς (accusative plural)
αρειανέ (singular vocative)
αρειανοί (plural vocative)


science fact

en-noun

science fact (countable and uncountable, plural science facts)

science facts (plural)
science-fact (alternative)

From science + fact, by analogy with science fiction.

Is it that science fact has gone beyond science fiction?

2004, Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis, Conversations with Ray Bradbury, page 108:

It is based on science fact.

2005, Rosemary Feasey, Creative Science: Achieving the WOW Factor with 5-11 Year Olds:

Is it real or fictional? Does it represent science fiction, or does it represent science fact?

2013, Nick Hubble, Aris Mousoutzanis, The Science Fiction Handbook:

(fiction) Reality, especially scientific and technological reality, as contrasted with what is depicted in science fiction.


ドリル

ja:ドリル
ja:ドリル (動物)
ja:ドリル (工具)


ユー

2004, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, spoken by Lt. Surge:

「ユーは スペシャル！これは ミーの きもちね！」

“Yū wa supesharu! Kore wa mī no kimochi ne!”

You're a special kid! That's how I feel!


saas-bahu

(India, fiction) A genre of drama fiction concerning the relationship between the controlling evil mother of a husband (mother-in-law) and her dominated, downtrodden, meek daughter-in-law.


Middle-Earth

(fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Middle-earth.


werejackal

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


Tintim

(fiction) a Belgian comic book character created by Hergé


morto-vivo

pt-noun

morto-vivo m (plural mortos-vivos, feminine morta-viva, feminine plural morta-vivas, metaphonic)

mortos-vivos (plural)
morta-viva (feminine)
morta-vivas (feminine plural)
metaphonic (feminine plural)

Literally, “dead-alive”, or more loosely translated as “both dead and alive”.

lit

(fiction) zombie, an undead person or creature


máquina do tempo

pt-noun

máquina do tempo f (plural máquinas do tempo)

(fiction) time machine (device used to travel in time)


ageless sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdman Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, where-in the recipient is placed in a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.


eternal sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdmann Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.


teletransportar

pt-verb

teletransportar (first-person singular present teletransporto, first-person singular preterite teletransportei, past participle teletransportado)

teletransporto (first-person present singular)
teletransportei (first-person preterite singular)
teletransportado (participle past)
teletransportar (impersonal infinitive)
teletransportar (first-person infinitive singular)
teletransportares (infinitive second-person singular)
teletransportar (infinitive singular third-person)
teletransportarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
teletransportardes (infinitive plural second-person)
teletransportarem (infinitive plural third-person)
teletransportando (gerund)
teletransportado (masculine participle past singular)
teletransportados (masculine participle past plural)
teletransportada (feminine participle past singular)
teletransportadas (feminine participle past plural)
teletransporto (first-person indicative present singular)
teletransportas (indicative present second-person singular)
teletransporta (indicative present singular third-person)
teletransportamos (first-person indicative plural present)
teletransportais (indicative plural present second-person)
teletransportam (indicative plural present third-person)
teletransportava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
teletransportavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
teletransportava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
teletransportávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
teletransportáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
teletransportavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
teletransportei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
teletransportaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
teletransportou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
teletransportamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
teletransportámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
teletransportastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
teletransportaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
teletransportara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
teletransportaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
teletransportara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
teletransportáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
teletransportáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
teletransportaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
teletransportarei (first-person future indicative singular)
teletransportarás (future indicative second-person singular)
teletransportará (future indicative singular third-person)
teletransportaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
teletransportareis (future indicative plural second-person)
teletransportarão (future indicative plural third-person)
teletransportaria (conditional first-person singular)
teletransportarias (conditional second-person singular)
teletransportaria (conditional singular third-person)
teletransportaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
teletransportaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
teletransportariam (conditional plural third-person)
teletransporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
teletransportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
teletransporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
teletransportemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
teletransporteis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
teletransportem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
teletransportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
teletransportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
teletransportasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
teletransportássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
teletransportásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
teletransportassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
teletransportar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
teletransportares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
teletransportar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
teletransportarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
teletransportardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
teletransportarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
teletransporta (imperative second-person singular)
teletransporte (imperative singular third-person)
teletransportemos (first-person imperative plural)
teletransportai (imperative plural second-person)
teletransportem (imperative plural third-person)
não teletransportes (imperative negative second-person singular)
não teletransporte (imperative negative singular third-person)
não teletransportemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não teletransporteis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não teletransportem (imperative negative plural third-person)

(transitive, fiction) to teleport (move an object, supposedly by telekinesis)

(reflexive, fiction) to teleport (move instantly from one place to another without using a vehicle)


teletransporte

pt-noun

teletransporte m (plural teletransportes)

/ˌtɛ.lɛ.tɾɐ̃ʃˈpɔɾ.tɨ/

(fiction) teleportation (supposed displacement of a body or object through a process of dematerialization of that body or object in a place of origin and subsequent materialization in a place of destination)


pedra filosofal

pedra filosofal f (plural pedras filosofais)

(alchemy, fiction) philosopher's stone (substance able to turn base metals into gold or silver or provide immortality)


xì trum

[sɪj˦˩ ʈum˧˧]

[sɪj˨˩ ʈʊm˧˧]


protag

When things have gotten as bad as they can get for the protags, with seemingly no way out, just as they are about to be overpowered by the superior horrific force, something enables them to triumph […]

2008, Robert Brewer, The Craft & Business Of Writing, page 116:

(informal, fiction, writing) Clipping of protagonist.


lapis philosophorum

la-noun

lapis philosophōrum m (genitive lapidis philosophōrum); third declension

lapis philosophōrum (canonical masculine)
lapidis philosophōrum (genitive)
lapis philosophōrum (nominative singular)
lapidēs philosophōrum (nominative plural)
lapidis philosophōrum (genitive singular)
lapidum philosophōrum (genitive plural)
lapidī philosophōrum (dative singular)
lapidibus philosophōrum (dative plural)
lapidem philosophōrum (accusative singular)
lapidēs philosophōrum (accusative plural)
lapide philosophōrum (ablative singular)
lapidibus philosophōrum (ablative plural)
lapis philosophōrum (singular vocative)
lapidēs philosophōrum (plural vocative)

philosopher's stone
philosopher's stone#English


thổ địa

Journey to the West (1986 TV series)
Sun Wukong
Xuanzang

Short for Chinese 土地神 (thổ địa thần) or 土地公 (thổ địa công, literally “land lord; land duke”), popularized by the 1986 Chinese TV series Journey to the West, based on the way the main character Sun Wukong calls on "land spirits" for intel, usually on the local monsters that have kidnapped his master Xuanzang.

[tʰo˧˩ ʔɗiə˧˨ʔ]

[tʰow˧˨ ʔɗiə˨˩ʔ]

[tʰow˨˩˦ ʔɗiə˨˩˨]

(mythology, especially Chinese mythology or fiction) Tudigong


kết giới

[ket̚˧˦ zəːj˧˦]

[ket̚˦˧˥ jəːj˨˩˦]

[kəːt̚˦˥ jəːj˦˥]

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Penn Zero MSSJ-kết giới.wav

Sino-Vietnamese word from 結界, from Japanese 結界, introduced in Japanese manga

(fiction, fantasy, manga, anime, video games) energy barrier/shield, forcefield


kết giới sư

[ket̚˧˦ zəːj˧˦ sɨ˧˧]

[ket̚˦˧˥ jəːj˨˩˦ ʂɨ˧˧]

[ket̚˦˧˥ jəːj˨˩˦ sɨ˧˧]

[kəːt̚˦˥ jəːj˦˥ ʂɨ˧˧]

[kəːt̚˦˥ jəːj˦˥ sɨ˧˧]

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Penn Zero MSSJ-kết giới sư.wav

Sino-Vietnamese word from 結界師, from Japanese 結界師, introduced in the Japanese manga Kekkaishi

(fiction, fantasy, manga, anime) barrier master, kekkaishi


moeblob

What really bugs me is that they changed Yotsuba's speech pattern. I don't want my favorite manga character to sound like a moeblob.

2009 September 14, José Manuel García-Patos, “Re: Yotsuba”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

I think it should have been qualified as "people who like K-on _because it has schoolgirls_". I liked K-on for the funny and slice-of-life parts. It was no Azumanga Daioh, but it had moeblobs AND writing.

2010 January 16, Megane, “Re: 2ch and the 2 types of otaku”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

A young girl is growing up in the town of Muhlenberg, somewhere in Germany (looks like it is based on Rothenburg from the end titles), but she is growing up without her parents. Her father never really gets a mention but it seems that her mother, a talented pianist, was killed a few years before the opening of this story and, as a result, Saga is now living with her grandmother. She is, however, NOT a moeblob.

2010 March 27, Chika, “Review - A Little Snow Fairy Sugar”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A moe character with a generic design and no defining personality traits.


super-herói

pt-noun

super-herói m (plural super-heróis, feminine super-heroína, feminine plural super-heroínas)

super-heróis (plural)
super-heroína (feminine)
super-heroínas (feminine plural)

(fiction) superhero (a hero with superpowers)


teleportar

pt-verb

teleportar (first-person singular present teleporto, first-person singular preterite teleportei, past participle teleportado)

teleporto (first-person present singular)
teleportei (first-person preterite singular)
teleportado (participle past)
teleportar (impersonal infinitive)
teleportar (first-person infinitive singular)
teleportares (infinitive second-person singular)
teleportar (infinitive singular third-person)
teleportarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
teleportardes (infinitive plural second-person)
teleportarem (infinitive plural third-person)
teleportando (gerund)
teleportado (masculine participle past singular)
teleportados (masculine participle past plural)
teleportada (feminine participle past singular)
teleportadas (feminine participle past plural)
teleporto (first-person indicative present singular)
teleportas (indicative present second-person singular)
teleporta (indicative present singular third-person)
teleportamos (first-person indicative plural present)
teleportais (indicative plural present second-person)
teleportam (indicative plural present third-person)
teleportava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
teleportavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
teleportava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
teleportávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
teleportáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
teleportavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
teleportei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
teleportaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
teleportou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
teleportamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
teleportámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
teleportastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
teleportaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
teleportara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
teleportaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
teleportara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
teleportáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
teleportáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
teleportaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
teleportarei (first-person future indicative singular)
teleportarás (future indicative second-person singular)
teleportará (future indicative singular third-person)
teleportaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
teleportareis (future indicative plural second-person)
teleportarão (future indicative plural third-person)
teleportaria (conditional first-person singular)
teleportarias (conditional second-person singular)
teleportaria (conditional singular third-person)
teleportaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
teleportaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
teleportariam (conditional plural third-person)
teleporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
teleportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
teleporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
teleportemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
teleporteis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
teleportem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
teleportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
teleportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
teleportasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
teleportássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
teleportásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
teleportassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
teleportar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
teleportares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
teleportar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
teleportarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
teleportardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
teleportarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
teleporta (imperative second-person singular)
teleporte (imperative singular third-person)
teleportemos (first-person imperative plural)
teleportai (imperative plural second-person)
teleportem (imperative plural third-person)
não teleportes (imperative negative second-person singular)
não teleporte (imperative negative singular third-person)
não teleportemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não teleporteis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não teleportem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From English teleport. By surface analysis, tele- + portar.

(fiction) to teleport (travel without physically crossing distance)


zumbificar

zumbificar (first-person singular present zumbifico, first-person singular preterite zumbifiquei, past participle zumbificado)

zumbifico (first-person present singular)
zumbifiquei (first-person preterite singular)
zumbificado (participle past)
zumbificar (impersonal infinitive)
zumbificar (first-person infinitive singular)
zumbificares (infinitive second-person singular)
zumbificar (infinitive singular third-person)
zumbificarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
zumbificardes (infinitive plural second-person)
zumbificarem (infinitive plural third-person)
zumbificando (gerund)
zumbificado (masculine participle past singular)
zumbificados (masculine participle past plural)
zumbificada (feminine participle past singular)
zumbificadas (feminine participle past plural)
zumbifico (first-person indicative present singular)
zumbificas (indicative present second-person singular)
zumbifica (indicative present singular third-person)
zumbificamos (first-person indicative plural present)
zumbificais (indicative plural present second-person)
zumbificam (indicative plural present third-person)
zumbificava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
zumbificavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
zumbificava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
zumbificávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
zumbificáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
zumbificavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
zumbifiquei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
zumbificaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
zumbificou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
zumbificamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
zumbificámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
zumbificastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
zumbificaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
zumbificara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
zumbificaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
zumbificara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
zumbificáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
zumbificáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
zumbificaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
zumbificarei (first-person future indicative singular)
zumbificarás (future indicative second-person singular)
zumbificará (future indicative singular third-person)
zumbificaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
zumbificareis (future indicative plural second-person)
zumbificarão (future indicative plural third-person)
zumbificaria (conditional first-person singular)
zumbificarias (conditional second-person singular)
zumbificaria (conditional singular third-person)
zumbificaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
zumbificaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
zumbificariam (conditional plural third-person)
zumbifique (first-person present singular subjunctive)
zumbifiques (present second-person singular subjunctive)
zumbifique (present singular subjunctive third-person)
zumbifiquemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
zumbifiqueis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
zumbifiquem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
zumbificasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
zumbificasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
zumbificasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
zumbificássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
zumbificásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
zumbificassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
zumbificar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
zumbificares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
zumbificar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
zumbificarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
zumbificardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
zumbificarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
zumbifica (imperative second-person singular)
zumbifique (imperative singular third-person)
zumbifiquemos (first-person imperative plural)
zumbificai (imperative plural second-person)
zumbifiquem (imperative plural third-person)
não zumbifiques (imperative negative second-person singular)
não zumbifique (imperative negative singular third-person)
não zumbifiquemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não zumbifiqueis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não zumbifiquem (imperative negative plural third-person)
zombificar (alternative)

(transitive, fiction, Brazil) to zombify (to turn into a zombie)


super-homem

Calque of German Übermensch. By surface analysis, super- + homem.

(fiction) superman (person of extraordinary or superhuman powers)


dandere

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

Borrowed from Japanese ダンデレ (dandere), a portmanteau of 黙り (danmari, “keeping completely silent”), emphatic noun form of verb 黙る (damaru, “to be silent”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

A tsundere-type character will engender a hostile on the outside but sweet on the inside reaction towards the player, while a dandere will show little to know emotion except for subtle displays of affection.

2017, Luca Paolo Bruno, "Grand Narratives Blossom still: Character database and political narratives in the Muv Luv franchise", thesis submitted to Ca' Foscari University of Venice, page 13

The kuudere and dandere characters have more reserved personalities, hence those qualities are also reflected in their designs.

2019, Samneang Peo, "Visual Development Of A Visual Novel: Visual Storytelling in an Interactive Game", thesis submitted to South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, page 12

Then there is Yuri, the blue oni to Natsuki’s red oni, who is shy, cute, and literary but hides a maddening love for the player; she is the archetypical dandere character thought to emerge from the blue-haired Rei Ayanami of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion […]

2022 March, Christopher B. Patterson, “Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels”, in American Literature, volume 94, number 1:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A character archetype who stays silent, not expressing their feelings.


ma nữ

[maː˧˧ nɨ˦ˀ˥]

[maː˧˧ nɨ˧˨]

[maː˧˧ nɨ˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 魔女 (“witch”), literally "magical female". The syllable ma is often associated with its non-Sino-Vietnamese meaning (which is "ghost"), hence the common misapplication of the term.
Alternatively, simply from a compound of ma (“ghost”) + nữ (“female”).

(fiction) the ghost of a dead girl or woman


alternative history

en-noun

alternative history (usually uncountable, plural alternative histories)

(fiction) A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history).


Acme

Acme
Acme Corporation
Looney Tunes
Warner Bros.
trademark
yellow pages

From acme (“highest, best”). As a threading, from the original 1894 manufacturer, the Acme Screw Machine Company of Hartford, Connecticut. In its use as a generic company for comedic effect or to avoid trademark issues, most popularized by the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes cartoons but already very commonly used by 20th century American companies as a way to lead the professional listings in yellow page phone books.

Henry knew better than to alienate one of the Acme secretaries.

1968 July, Stan Dryer, “The Fully Automated Love Life of Henry Keanridge”, in Playboy Magazine, page 152:

[ Netanyahu ] showed everybody how close Iran was to getting nuclear weapons by having this spherical cartoon bomb with a wick coming up like Acme style. I was watching this thing thinking, are we worried about Ahmadinejad or are we worried about Inspector Clouseau?

2012 September 29, Adam Felber, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

(fiction) A generic or monopoly company.


mumak

Introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in the form mûmak.

If you see a mumak and do not have a way of killing it before it gets near you, run.

2008, rpresser, “YAASP”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

(fantasy fiction) A creature resembling a huge elephant.


hư cấu

[hɨ˧˧ kəw˧˦]

[hɨ˧˧ kəw˨˩˦]

[hɨ˧˧ kəw˦˥]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 虛構 (“to fabricate”).

vi-etym-sino

nhân vật hư cấu


blood and thunder

blood (noun) + and (conjunction) + thunder (noun). First attested in 1696.

com

blood-and-thunder stories

Not Buffalo Bill's! He gave us a jack-o'-lantern scare once upon a time, which I don't believe any of us will ever forget. We had never seen that weird species of pumpkin, and Will embroidered a blood-and-thunder narrative.

1899, Helen Cody Wetmore, Zane Grey, Last of the Great Scouts:

"Your husband is an American. He should be able to keep you well entertained with blood-and-thunder stories," said he.

1904, George Barr McCutcheon, chapter VI, in Beverly of Graustark:

Very sincerely do we wish that at least one of the many romance writers who are so industriously inventing wild-animal blood-and-thunder stories would do more work with his eyes and less with his imagination.

1922, William T. Hornaday, The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals:

(especially of language, action, or fiction) Both melodramatically violent and aggressive; characterized by anger, or forthright ideas and expression.


shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (Japanese 少年愛(しょうねんあい) (shōnen'ai)) using Japanese vocabulary.

(Japanese fiction) Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.

(Japanese fiction, slang) A genre of manga, anime, or hentai featuring lesbian sex and romance; yuri.


shounen ai

shounen ai (plural)
shōnen-ai (alternative)

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


universo alternativo

pt-noun

universo alternativo m (plural universos alternativos)

(fiction) alternate universe (imaginary realm where a story takes place)


lavatorium

en-noun

lavatorium (plural lavatoriums or lavatoria)

Borrowed from Late Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatory.

After that, Probono fades into obscurity, save for a reference in the third volume of Caesar’s Gallic Suits pertaining to an inscription engraved on a wall in a public lavatorium which, freely translated, means “Probono gives it away-call MXC-IIVD.”

1985, S. Sponte [pseudonym; David J. Millstein], “To Wit: Pro Bono Publico, and how he grew”, in The Pennsylvania Lawyer, volume 7, Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Bar Association, page 38, columns 2–3:

They say that because he’s missing so much of his liver, he can’t digest his food like normal people and hasn’t been to the lavatorium in years. They say he’s gonna blow like a volcano.

2008, Carolyn Hennesy, “Newly ‘Maid’”, in Pandora Gets Jealous, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 18:

He barely made it to the lavatorium, throwing up again and again.

2010, Kate Quinn, chapter 11, in Mistress of Rome, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 164:

Do you need the lavatorium, Hilarious? I need to go.

2014, Jeanne Willis, “Julius Teaser: The World’s Worst Prankster”, in Hysterical Historicals (TreeTops Chucklers), Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 37:

“The heating is back on, but we’ve got a big problem with the lavatorium,” Bumptius explained. “The toilet drains are still blocked with frozen poo.[…]”

2015, Shoo Rayner, Stinkius Maximus (Roman Brit; 3), London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

(rare, historical fiction) An ancient Roman lavatory.


werejaguar

The rain god appears as a werejaguar, part human, part snarling beast.

A pottery figure of a Mexican god who was thought to assume the shapes of many animals. Here he is shown as a werejaguar.

1973, Nancy Garden, Werewolves, Lippincott (1973), page 115 (image caption)

Before your eyes, the shaman has transformed himself into a werejaguar!

2008, Buried Treasures: Young Explorers' Guide, QA International, →ISBN, page 33:

(fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.


werecrocodile

Werecrocodile legends are quire common wherever crocodiles are found.

2000, Rosalyn Greene, The Magic of Shapeshifting, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 77:

As though responding to some unseen signal, one of the submerged werecrocodiles reared up in a spray of water and transformed into its human shape

2005, Kameron Franklin, Maiden of Pain: The Priests, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:

The werecrocodile laughed at him, the feral grin of a predator displaying nightmarish fangs.

2012, Ilona Andrews, “Retribution Clause”, in P. N. Elrod, editor, Hex Appeal, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 32:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.


antimagia

(fiction, occult) antimagic (serving to counteract magic or its effects)


werebeaver

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


werepanther

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

panthère-garou

shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a panther


werepuma

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


super-humano

pt-noun

super-humano m (plural super-humanos, feminine super-humana, feminine plural super-humana)

super-humanos (plural)
super-humana (feminine)
super-humana (feminine plural)

(fiction) superhuman (person with superpowers)


ゆめおち

ゆめおち (canonical)
ゆめオチ (canonical)
yumeochi (romanization)

(fiction) Revealing that the a story was all part of a dream; the "it was all a dream" ending.


Sinbad

Borrowed from Arabic سِنْدِبَاد (sindibād), from Middle Persian (compare Persian سندباد (sendbâd)), possibly borrowed from Sanskrit सिद्धपथ (siddhapatha, “path of the Blessed”).
According to folk etymology, from سند (send) + باد (bâd), whence also the Arabic هِنْدِبَاد (hindibād).

der

(fiction) A fictional sailor, the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin, who encountered monsters and magic while travelling the seas east of Africa and south of Asia.


đại ca

[ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ kaː˧˧]

[ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ kaː˧˧]

[ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ kaː˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 大哥 (“eldest brother”), from Mandarin 大哥 (dàgē).


cythraul

cythreuliaid (plural)
cythraul
gythraul (soft)
nghythraul
chythraul

From Middle Welsh kythreul, alternative form of kythrawl (whence modern cythrol), from Proto-Brythonic *kuθrọl, modification after the suffix *-ọl of Latin contrārius.

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


đệ

Sino-Vietnamese word from 弟 (“younger brother”).


đệ

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


ผีดิบ

th-noun

ผีดิบ • (pǐi-dìp)

/pʰiː˩˩˦.dip̚˨˩/

From ผี (pǐi, “corpse; ghost; etc.”) + ดิบ (dìp, “uncremated”).

com

(fiction) preternatural being believed to be a reanimated corpse, such as vampires, zombies, etc.


minh ti

Sino-Vietnamese word from 冥 (“underworld”) and 司 (“department”).

vi-etym-sino

minh ty (alternative)
minh-ty (alternative)
Minh ti (alternative)
Minh ty (alternative)
Minh-ty (alternative)
Minh Ty (alternative)

[mïŋ˧˧ ti˧˧]

[mɨn˧˧ tɪj˧˧]

[mɨn˧˧ tɪj˧˧]

Hắn quyết chống chọi với nhà thầy, hiện đã kiện thầy ở Minh ti. Tôi thừa lúc hắn đi vắng nên lén đến đây báo cho nhà thầy biết để mà liệu kế, khỏi phải chết một cách oan uổng.

1952, Nguyễn Dữ, “Chuyện chức phán sự đền Tản Viên [The Story of the Judge at the Tản Viên Temple]”, in Ngô Văn Triện, transl., TRUYỀN-KỲ MẠN-LỤC [THE INFORMAL RECORDS OF STRANGE TALES], volume 1, quoted in NGỮ VĂN 10 NÂNG CAO, translation of 傳奇漫錄:

He's trying to take you down at all costs, and has sued you at the Underworld Department. I surreptitiously came here when he was away to warn you, so that you won't die of unjust cause.

Hơn nữa, lại có lời ghi chú là : « Trạng nguyên Mạc Đĩnh Chi chết xuống Minh ty (tức Âm ty) bảy ngày, thấy cảnh các địa ngục; sau được sống lại, làm bài phú dạy con ».

1978, Đinh Gia Khánh with Bùi Duy Tân and Mai Cao Chương, VĂN HỌC VIỆT NAM THẾ KỶ THỨ X ĐẾN NỬA ĐẦU THẾ KỶ THỨ XVII [VIETNAMESE LITERATURE FROM THE 10TH CENTURY TO THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY], Nhà xuất bản Đại học và Trung học Chuyên nghiệp:

There is also a note, “Zhuangyuan Mạc Đĩnh Chi descended to the Underworld Department seven days after he died and had a good view of the hells; when he was resurrected, he made a fu to teach his child.”

Năm giác quan dần dần dần liệt hoại, ôm căm hờn xuống tận minh ty, mối thù này muôn thuở còn ghi, lòng hận ấy nghìn năm khôn cởi.

2001, Phạm Gia Tín with Trần Hoàn and Toàn Minh, SÁNG TÁC VĂN NGHỆ Khu Tả Ngạn sông Hồng (1950-1955) [LITERARY WORKS on the Right Bank of the Red River (1950-1955)], page 60:

The five senses waste away, as one carries their resentment all the way to Hades, this hatred forever etched, that loathing shall never wear off.

Đáp xong lại kể chuyện mình đã nhận chức quan lớn dưới Minh Ty. Nghĩ đến tình giao du thân ái ngày xưa mới tìm thăm bạn.

2003, Hư Chu, NAM HẢI TRUYỀN KỲ [LEGEND OF THE SOUTHERN SEA], Nhà xuất bản Thuận Hoá:

He then told the story of how he got an important post in the Underworld Department. He only looked for his friend because he had reminisced about their earlier friendship.

(rare, fiction) synonym of âm ti (“Yama's underworld department”)


superbohater

pl-noun

superbohater m pers (female equivalent superbohaterka)

superbohaterka (feminine)
superbohater (nominative singular)
superbohaterowie (nominative plural)
superbohatera (genitive singular)
superbohaterów (genitive plural)
superbohaterowi (dative singular)
superbohaterom (dative plural)
superbohatera (accusative singular)
superbohaterów (accusative plural)
superbohaterem (instrumental singular)
superbohaterami (instrumental plural)
superbohaterze (locative singular)
superbohaterach (locative plural)
superbohaterze (singular vocative)
superbohaterowie (plural vocative)

From super- + bohater. Calque of English superhero.


double kill

en-verb

double kill (third-person singular simple present double kills, present participle double killing, simple past and past participle double killed)

double kills (present singular third-person)
double killing (participle present)
double killed (participle past)
double killed (past)

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

(fiction, transitive) To kill an already dead being, such as a ghost, a zombie, a skeleton, etc.


succubitch

(fiction, rare, derogatory) A succubus who is a bitch (an irritating, disagreeable woman).


chưởng

(martial arts, chiefly fiction) move performed by pushing the front of the hand, with all fingers straightened, forward


wereanimal

A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 121:

Lysander was speaking to a confused-looking wereanimal.

2011, Brit Mandelo, Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun: A Tor.Com Original, Tor Books, →ISBN:

His otherworldly energy danced along my skin, and as had happened in New Mexico with a very different wereanimal, it called that piece of Richard's beast that seemed to live inside me. It brought that power in a rush down my skin, ...

2001, J. D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, Maggie Shayne, Out of this World, Penguin, →ISBN:

“You're a fool, Todd. You didn't need anything to protect you,” Muriel said. “Ray was killed by a wereanimal.” “They have the wereanimal that killed Ray locked up. He can't hurt anyone anymore,” she said.

2020, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sucker Punch, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:

(fiction) A shapeshifter that can change between human and some animal form, such as a werewolf or werebear.


werecow

(fiction) A person who transforms into a cow or cowlike creature, like a werewolf transforms into a wolf or wolflike creature.


世紀末

世紀末 (canonical)
seikimatsu (romanization)


science faction

Blend of science fiction + science fact.


Winesburg

Originally named Weinsberg in 1829, after the town in Germany. It was renamed to Winesburg by postal authorities in 1833 when a post office was opened there.
The fictional town came from the name of the actual Ohio town.

(fiction) The town, named after the Holmes County town of the same name, but otherwise based on Clyde, Ohio, that serves as the setting of the novel Winesburg, Ohio.


どろん

(fiction, onomatopoeia) Representing the disappearance of a ninja.


クロスオーバー

ja-noun

クロスオーバー • (kurosuōbā)

[kɯ̟ɾo̞sɨo̞ːba̠ː]


モブキャラクター

[mo̞bɯ̟ kʲa̠ɾa̠kɯ̟ta̠ː]

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from mob + character.

pseudo-loan

(fiction) generic bystander character, extra


romaction

Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story.

2008, 52:48 from the start, in Bedtime Stories:

One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.

2010 July 6, “How movies became love, camera, action”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Like the “romaction” genre that fuses relationships and car crashes (think “Date Night” and “Knight and Day”), hard-R comedies like “The Hangover,” “Bad Teacher” and last year’s “Ted” appeal both to young women and their male companions, a “two-quadrant” win that made studio suits swoon.

2013 June 20, Ann Hornaday, “Why the rom-com is almost extinct”, in The Washington Post:

They reject his suggestion, asking instead to hear a story of action and romance. Skeeter then tells them a "romaction story" about Ancient Greece featuring Skeetacus, the inventor of the X Games.

2013, Amie A. Doughty, "Throw the book away": Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy:


tiên sinh

[tiən˧˧ sïŋ˧˧]

[tiəŋ˧˧ ʂɨn˧˧]

[tiəŋ˧˧ sɨn˧˧]

[tiəŋ˧˧ ʂɨn˧˧]

[tiəŋ˧˧ sɨn˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 先生, composed of 先 (“fore-”) and 生 (“born”).

vi-etym-sino

(Chinese fiction) you, a senior or knowledgeable person


vissenrijk

nl-noun

vissenrijk n (plural vissenrijken, diminutive vissenrijkje n)

vissenrijken (plural)
vissenrijkje (diminutive neuter)
visschenrijk (alternative)

(countable, figurative or fiction) a fish kingdom or empire


weregorilla

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a gorilla.


weredonkey

“Werehorse,” Gettyson said curtly. “There's no such things as weredonkeys.”

2011, Anthony Francis, “Blood Rock”, in The Skindancer Series, volume 2, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 36:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a donkey.


weregoat

In the confusion, I manage to squeeze free between a mountain weregoat wrestling with a pygmy weremammoth and a Yoshi.

2015, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Feral Pride, Candlewick Press:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a goat.


weremammoth

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a mammoth.


Smallville

(fiction) A fictional small town, frequently representing a backwater place of origin, usually a rural farming community in the United States


Piet Snot

17th century. Originated as a form of Pier Snot in comedies and farces.

1691, Molliere (i.e. Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), School voor de jaloerschen. Blyspel, tr. from French, heirs of J. Lescailje (publ.), 32.
Nu ſta ik hier te kyken, als een uil in doods nood, of als den eerzamen diſcreten ſinjeur Piet Snot.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

(fiction, personification) irrelevant person, a nobody


重啟

/ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ kʰɐi̯³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ kʰɐi̯³⁵/

(fiction, entertainment) to reboot (a series)


anti-villain

anti-villains (plural)
antivillain (alternative)

As much the anti-hero initially as Thorpe is anti-villain, Tinley's function in the first volume is to expose to Catherine various modes of triviality and affectation.

1994, Alistair M. Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 95:

The rise of the anti-hero as the protagonist of much of modern fiction was accompanied by the rise of what one might call the “anti-villain,” ironically understood as more interesting than his heroic counterpart.

2019, Martin Jay, “Sociology and the Heroism of Modern Life”, in Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, editors, The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume II, The Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, page 19:

(fiction) An antagonist who has or may have noble or honorable aims, but pursues them destructively.


Utopian

As unusual as these official games may appear, they constitute an integral part in teaching the machiavellian tactics which the Utopians proudly use in their foreign wars.

1998, Gerard B. Wegemer, Thomas More on Statesmanship:

(fiction) A person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system from Thomas More’s 1516 treatise of the same name.


異世界

/i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/


wereghost

Hey, A long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, (...) long, long after the final, final, final, final, final, final, final, final, final, and final subsubchronon's superending, there were no more blood, bone, bonemarrow, organisms, cells, brains, skulls, or any sign of life or organisms, so a wereghost beat the last werewhore to the last droplet of blood's Sabbathless, Sabbathlike smithers.

2012, J.D. Melville, Herstory. The Second Released Norma Shearer Novel, Xlibris, →ISBN, section 64:

"After he hauls you off to the station and leaves me alone in this forsaken neighborhood, some wereghost will come along and tear me to bits."

2012, Lauren Bjorkman, Miss Fortune Cookie, page 147:

I had thought our last meeting had gone well, or as well as it could have with me strapped to a table about to be killed by my homicidal were-ghost uncle.

2015, Andy Goldman, The Fifth House. The Only City Left. Book two:

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a ghost.


weredingo

“Weredingos are crazy anyway,” Christian said.

2006, Kathy Love, I Only Have Fangs for You, Kensington Publishing, page 239:

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a dingo.


werehorse

2011, Anthony Francis, Blood Rock, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 36:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a horse.


wereowl

1993, Patricia Kindl, Owl in Love, Graphia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), →ISBN, page 42.
The garden of a wereowl at midnight makes a perilous salad bar.

There was a wereowl at school who was always complaining that the lights were too bright. Of course, if I'd been a wereowl, I wouldn't have needed to be here.

2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture, Emily Martha Sorensen:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an owl.


were-elephant

were-elephants (plural)
wereelephant (alternative)

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elephant.


wereelephant

(fiction) Alternative spelling of were-elephant.


wereboar

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a boar.


werehuman

Zelf said, “I am a werehuman.” She sobbed as though there could be no greater shame on the face of the earth than this. Zev scratched his head. “A werehuman? What on earth is that?” Zelf took off the cowl that covered her face. The beautiful elfin face of a human female looked back at Zev, [...]. The only part of her that remained wolfish were her two furry ears. [...] Zelf said: "I turn into this monster very month - every time the moon hides his face I lose my wolfish loveliness and become this - […]"

2014, Robert Denethon, Steam Submarine Cryptoloup, Submarine Media Pty Ltd:

Just in case Lady Luck had not ignored her enough already, she was later on attacked by a vampire. […] As a wolf, she was bright. As a werehuman, her boosted IQ was rather low. So, yes, actually, Diz was not even a werewolf, and I probably […]

2014, W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, Tales for the 21st Century, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:

"Bob is a werehuman," he explained. "Most of the time he's a cocker spaniel. But when the moon is full he turns into something sort of like a human being. It's very frightening for him." Bob whined in agreement.

2015, Bruce Coville, The Monsters of Morley Manor: A Madcap Adventure, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

(fiction) A shapeshifter, generally non-human (especially a wolf), who can assume the form of a human.


were-elf

While the Vamwelf were vampire were-elves, tall and slender.

2015, Horace S. Mallette, Hunters of Satan’s Monsters: Rise of the Rolling Calf, →ISBN:

2012, Candace Jane Kringle, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, elfpublished books
Maybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something.

Out inside the works of some neurotic Bavarian cuckoo clock of a village, were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night to leave subversive handbills at door and window ...

2012, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin, →ISBN:

I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, […]

2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf.


spacedive

spacedives (plural)
space dive (alternative)

(fiction) A skydive from outer space, usually an orbital drop or direct insertion from beyond orbit, complete with (re-)entry heating.


wereman

“He's a wereman, my dear George; a wolf that becomes a man during the day.”

1962, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Scarlet Boy:

The story concerns itself rather with a wereman, a wolf cursed with transformation into a man. A nude man is found in the wolf's cage of the zoo, with no knowledge of how he came there. He is taken to a hospital for examination, […]

1966, Drake Douglas, Horror!, New York: Macmillan:

“I'm a wereman, not a monkey.” “Oi! Robbins! I saw that!” They turned to see an elderly man striding across the courtyard, his face blanketed in a thick grey beard and moustache.

2012, Tom Becker, Darkside 5: Blackjack, Scholastic UK, →ISBN:

“The hat turned him into a wereman.” “Most dangerous werebeast of all. So it's said.”

2012, Graham Edwards, Dead Wolf in a Hat, 40K, →ISBN:

“Many vampires came, with a wereman in charge. They set fire to the house. Anna grabbed what she could, and Rip teleported her to safety. Levi fought the wereman, but he lost.” Her voice faltered.

2013, Tara Fox Hall, Immortal Confessions, A Promise Me Origins Tale, →ISBN, page 156:

(fiction) A shapeshifter, generally non-human (especially a wolf), who can assume the form of a man.


LIA

LIAs (plural)
L.I.A. (alternative)
L. I. A. (alternative)

(military fiction) Initialism of lost in action.


LIA

L.I.A. (alternative)
L. I. A. (alternative)


podanie

podanie (nominative singular)
podania (nominative plural)
podania (genitive singular)
podań (genitive plural)
podaniu (dative singular)
podaniom (dative plural)
podanie (accusative singular)
podania (accusative plural)
podaniem (instrumental singular)
podaniami (instrumental plural)
podaniu (locative singular)
podaniach (locative plural)
podanie (singular vocative)
podania (plural vocative)


weretroll

“This is ingenious,” I told the weretroll. “I'm amazed!”

2008, A. Bradbury, Tablets of Immortality, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

“Here,” said The Grunt, “have the boogies back. I'm gonna be the weretroll! You can have the bottle of snot back too.”

2010, tracey Corderoy, The Grunt and the Grouch: Beastly Feast, Capstone, published 2012, →ISBN, page 48:

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a troll.


weredwarf

weredwarfs (plural)
were-dwarf (alternative)

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a dwarf.


Maycomb

Bryan K. Fair (University of Alabama) published Using Parrots to Kill Mockingbirds: Yet Another Racial Prosecution and Wrongful Conviction in Maycomb, 45 Alabama Law Review 403 (1994);

1989, Association of American Law Schools. Section on Minority Groups, Newsletter, page lxii:

In the excerpt from Snapple's novels given here, the sequence of spaces juxtaposes middle-class ladies condemning the squalid lives of Africans, to the squalid lives of White trash in Maycomb, to the condemning values of Mr. Daley about his hillbillies, to Calpurnia's option that "Yo're no better than others." to the disgrace of Indians in the Gallup Rodeo

1999, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Kip Strasma, Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts, →ISBN, page 86:

In his essay on the Maycomb model, Elias claims that the ubiquitous desire for the aggrandizement of one's own group in relation to the deprecation of other groups is based on fear, the fear of enslavement, of exploitation or physical extinction, and that the ensuing rivalries among groups are not just byproducts but rather a basic structural feature of human figurations.

2011, Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes, →ISBN, page 244:

(fiction) The fictional small Alabama town that serves as the setting of Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as the 1962 film of the same name that is based on this novel.


kuudere

Borrowed from Japanese クーデレ (kūdere), a portmanteau of クール (kūru, “calm”), from English cool, and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

True, she wasn't very expressive—or anyway, I didn't feel like I saw a lot of emotion from her—but if I thought of her as a kuudere, or one of those “weird girl” types, that could actually be seen as a positive.

2018, Ichiro Sakaki, translated by Kevin Steinbach, Outbreak Company, volume 5, unnumbered page:

The cool and tough exterior she displays makes for a good kuudere, and the blue eyes and silver hair already sets her up for the role in the Clannad series.

2018, "Moogle", "Cool As Rain", Otakuzine Anime Magazine, Issue #121, page 40

Her words were as cool as ever, but there was a hint of embarrassment in her voice. Could she be one of those “kuuderes” I'd heard so much abou

2021, Rifujin na Magonote, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Volume 11, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A calm, aloof, reserved fictional character (usually a girl) who has a hidden soft side, especially for a love interest.


Transformer

Transformers (plural)
TFormer (alternative)
Tformer (alternative)
T-former (alternative)
T-Former (alternative)
tformer (alternative)
t-former (alternative)

/tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/

From transformer (something that transforms).

“It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”

2015, Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat: A Novel, page 304:

A Transformer may be both a robot and a plane, or a robot and a car, but not both simultaneously.

2014, Barbara Brownie, Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography, page 95:

Halloween? I dressed up as a Transformer. I dressed up as a Power Ranger. I was one of the Chipmunks for God's sake.

(fiction) In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.


Marvel

(fiction, literature, comics) Ellipsis of Marvel Comics.

There’s the Thor fly in tribute of the God of Thunder, played in Marvel by Chris Hemsworth. Its scientific name is “Daptolestes bronteflavus,” which is derived from Latin like most scientific names – and translates to “blond thunder.”

2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN:

(fiction, film, television) Ellipsis of Marvel Studios.


ミー

2004, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, spoken by Lt. Surge:

「ユーは スペシャル！これは ミーの きもちね！」

ja:日本語の一人称代名詞#ミー


phái

Sino-Vietnamese word from 派. Doublet of phe.

Ta đã phái người đến giúp.


藤壺

ja-pos

藤(ふじ)壺(つぼ) • (Fujitsubo) ^(←ふぢつぼ (Fuditubo)?)

藤壺 (canonical)
Fujitsubo (romanization)
Fuditubo (romanization)
ふぢつぼ (hiragana historical)

(fiction) Lady Fujitsubo, a fictional character in The Tale of Genji


werecrab

1999 August 3, Pinky the Werecrab, "question..", alt.romath.
I am a werecrab.

He preached that the Great Spirit had created the Indians but not the whites, whom he hated as the spawn of “an enormous, foul werecrab, which had first crawled out of the sea in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts”; soon an apocalypse would come in which the whites and those Indians who followed their ways would be swept aside.

2014, Jeffrey N. Cox, Romanticism in the Shadow of War, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

Apparently werecrabs did.

2015, Lisa Shearin, Con and Conjure, NLA Digital, →ISBN:

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.


greenskin

(fantasy, fiction, roleplaying games) One of several distinct green-skinned creatures often grouped together, such as orcs, goblins and (sometimes) trolls.


天馬

(Japanese mythology, fiction) Heavenly steed


天馬

天 (“sky”) + 馬 (“horse”). From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), and associated with the term sky horse.

(mythology, fiction) pegasus, a winged horse


hồi

Sino-Vietnamese word from 回 (“to return; occurrence classifier; chapter classifier”).

vi-etym-sino

Đã ba hồi trôi qua rồi mà chẳng thấy có tiến triển gì cả.

Three chapters past and there's still no progress.


人外

ja-noun

人(じん)外(がい) or 人外(ジンガイ) • (jingai) ^(←じんぐわい (zingwai) or ジングワイ (zingwai)?)

人外 (canonical)
人外 (canonical)
jingai (romanization)
zingwai (romanization)
じんぐわい (hiragana historical)
ジングワイ (hiragana historical)


nhân vật

[ɲən˧˧ vət̚˧˨ʔ]

[ɲəŋ˧˧ vək̚˨˩ʔ]

[ɲəŋ˧˧ vək̚˨˩˨]

[ɲəŋ˧˧ jək̚˨˩˨]

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-nhân vật.wav

Sino-Vietnamese word from 人物, composed of 人 (“person”) and 物 (“thing”).

vi-etym-sino

nhân-vật (alternative)
nhơn vật (alternative)
nhơn-vật (alternative)


catboy

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

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


wereorc

As a wereorc who is happily married to a weretroll, Sir Haggis, I must object to your continuing denigration of the race of trolls as some kind of Usenet vermin.

1999 January 21, Mad Molly Malone, WereOrc, “Troll Striptease 8”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):

(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an orc.


ツンデレ

→ English: tsundere

→ Korean: 츤데레 (cheundere)

→ Thai: ซึนเดเระ (sʉn-dee-ré)

Blend of つんつん (tsuntsun, “morosely, aloofly, offputtingly”, adverb) + でれでれ (deredere, “in a lovey-dovey or infatuated manner”, adverb).

blend

(chiefly Japanese fiction) tsundere: a cold, nitpicky character, usually a girl, who conceals (without complete success) a bashfulness in the presence of their crush


Ivan Ivanovich

en-noun

Ivan Ivanovich (plural Ivan Ivanoviches or Ivan Ivanovichs)

Ivan Ivanoviches (plural)
Ivan Ivanovichs (plural)
Ivan Ivanovitch (alternative)

/ɪˈvɑːn ɪˈvɑːnəvɪt͡ʃ/

Borrowed from Russian Ива́н Ива́нович (Iván Ivánovič, literally “John Johnson”).

bor

Ива́н Ива́нович

(fiction) Synonym of John Doe (an unknown person or body), giving a Russian flavour to fiction set in Russia, by using a Russian name in place of the English term.


bối cảnh

[ʔɓoj˧˦ kajŋ̟˧˩]

[ʔɓoj˨˩˦ kɛɲ˧˨]

[ʔɓoj˦˥ kan˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 背景, from Japanese 背景 (haikei).

Câu chuyện diễn ra trong bối cảnh thời hiện đại.


isekai

en-noun

isekai (countable and uncountable, plural isekai or isekais)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-isekai.wav

Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”).

bor+

It's not every day that an isekai author gets published out of the sea of isekai stories on there.

2017, Ryo Shirakome, DxS, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (volume 1)

(Japanese fiction, uncountable) A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.


cường hoá

[kɨəŋ˨˩ hwaː˧˦]

[kɨəŋ˦˩ hwaː˨˩˦]

[kɨəŋ˨˩ waː˦˥]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 強化 (“to strengthen”).


viễn tưởng

[viən˦ˀ˥ tɨəŋ˧˩]

[viəŋ˧˨ tɨəŋ˧˨]

[viəŋ˨˩˦ tɨəŋ˨˩˦]

[jiəŋ˨˩˦ tɨəŋ˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 遠想, composed of 遠 (“far”) and 想 (“to think”), perhaps modeled after giả tưởng. "Far" implies the "far future", and this term is mostly about futuristic science fiction.

khoa học viễn tưởng


パワーアップ

[pa̠β̞a̠ː a̠p̚pɯ̟]

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from power + up, equivalent to パワー (pawā, noun) + アップ (appu, verb), literally “to up power or abilities”. Not to be confused with English power up (“to charge with electrical power”, verb) which is from power (verb) + up (adverb).

cog

(chiefly fiction, especially video games) upgrade; enhancement


パワーアップ

ja-verb-suru

パワーアップする • (pawā-appu suru) suru (stem パワーアップし (pawā-appu shi), past パワーアップした (pawā-appu shita))

パワーアップする (canonical)
pawā-appu suru (romanization)
パワーアップし (stem)
パワーアップした (past)
パワーアップし
pawā-appu shi
パワーアップする
pawā-appu suru
パワーアップすれ
pawā-appu sure
パワーアップせよ (imperative literary)
パワーアップしろ (colloquial imperative)
pawā-appu seyo (imperative literary)
pawā-appu shiro (colloquial imperative)
パワーアップされる (passive)
pawā-appu sareru (passive)
パワーアップさせる (causative)
パワーアップさす (causative)
pawā-appu saseru (causative)
pawā-appu sasu (causative)
パワーアップできる (potential)
pawā-appu dekiru (potential)
パワーアップしよう (volitional)
pawā-appu shiyō (volitional)
パワーアップしない (negative)
pawā-appu shinai (negative)
パワーアップせず (continuative negative)
pawā-appu sezu (continuative negative)
パワーアップします (formal)
pawā-appu shimasu (formal)
パワーアップした (perfective)
pawā-appu shita (perfective)
パワーアップして (conjunctive)
pawā-appu shite (conjunctive)
パワーアップすれば (conditional hypothetical)
pawā-appu sureba (conditional hypothetical)

→ English: power-up (calque)

[pa̠β̞a̠ː a̠p̚pɯ̟]

2001 November 29, “レアメタル・ソルジャー [Rare-Metal Soldier]”, in Mythological Age －蘇りし魂－ [Mythological Age －Resurrected Souls－], Konami:

A warrior who is covered with full metal body armor. He upgrades by fusing with “Rare-Metal Lady.”

全身がメタルの装甲で覆われている戦士。「レアメタル・レディ」と融合し、パワーアップする。

Zenshin ga metaru no sōkō de ōwareteiru senshi.“Rea-Metaru Redi” to yūgō shi, pawā-appu suru.

2001 November 29, “レアメタル・レディ [Rare-Metal Lady]”, in Mythological Age －蘇りし魂－ [Mythological Age －Resurrected Souls－], Konami:

A female warrior who is covered with full metal body armor. She upgrades by fusing with “Rare-Metal Soldier.”

全身がメタルの装甲で覆われている女戦士。「レアメタル・ソルジャー」と融合し、パワーアップする。

Zenshin ga metaru no sōkō de ōwareteiru onnasenshi.“Rea-Metaru Sorujā” to yūgō shi, pawā-appu suru.

(chiefly fiction, especially video games) to get upgraded; to get enhanced


cynocephalic

From cyno- + -cephalic; compare Ancient Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kunoképhalos).

cog

(fiction, history) Of or relating to dogheads, humanoid dog-headed monsters.


macrokinesis

Parapsychologists, whose thinking is based on spiritualistic work, classify the ensemble of these interactions of spirit on matter with such terms as "macrokinesis" or "telekinesis."

2015, Jean Jacques Charbonier, 7 Reasons to Believe in the Afterlife: A Doctor Reviews the Case for Consciousness after Death:

(fiction, rare) The ability to move objects and affect matter at a large-scale level with the power of one's mind.


bá phụ

[ʔɓaː˧˦ fu˧˨ʔ]

[ʔɓaː˨˩˦ fʊw˨˩ʔ]

[ʔɓaː˦˥ fʊw˨˩˨]

(archaic, Chinese fiction) an uncle (father's elder brother or elder sister's husband)


thúc phụ

[tʰʊwk͡p̚˧˦ fu˧˨ʔ]

[tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˧˥ fʊw˨˩ʔ]

[tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˥ fʊw˨˩˨]

(archaic, Chinese fiction) an uncle (father's younger brother or younger sister's husband)


thúc

[tʰʊwk͡p̚˧˦]

[tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˧˥]

[tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˥]


thanh mai trúc mã

[tʰajŋ̟˧˧ maːj˧˧ t͡ɕʊwk͡p̚˧˦ maː˦ˀ˥]

[tʰɛɲ˧˧ maːj˧˧ ʈʊwk͡p̚˦˧˥ maː˧˨]

[tʰan˧˧ maːj˧˧ ʈʊwk͡p̚˦˥ maː˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 青梅竹馬 (“green plums and bamboo horse”), from Chinese 青梅竹馬 /青梅竹马 (qīngméizhúmǎ). Compare Japanese 竹馬の友 (chikuba no tomo, “childhood friend”, literally “bamboo horse friend”).

cog

bạn thanh mai trúc mã

the boy/girl who was one's childhood friend and with whom one's now falling in love

(chiefly fiction) alluding to the notion of being a childhood friend of the opposite sex to someone and growing to be in love with them or vice-versa


召喚獣

ja-noun

召(しょう)喚(かん)獣(じゅう) • (shōkanjū)

[ɕo̞ːkã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑɨː]

From 召喚 (“to summon”) + 獣 (-jū, “beast”).

(fiction, fantasy) beast that has been summoned from somewhere else


tiền bối

[tiən˨˩ ʔɓoj˧˦]

[tiəŋ˦˩ ʔɓoj˨˩˦]

[tiəŋ˨˩ ʔɓoj˦˥]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 前輩, composed of 前 (“fore-”) and 輩 (“generation”). Compare Japanese 先輩 (senpai, tiên bối).

vi-etym-sino

(fiction, especially translations from Japanese or Korean) an upperclassman; a senpai


Tintin

The origin of the name "Tintin" is not known. While the series' creator, Hergé, never explained the reason for the name, it is asserted in The Pocket Essential Tintin (Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, 2002) that the name is from an earlier pulp fiction novel called Les Voyages Aeriens D'Un Petit Parisien A Travers le Monde. Various other theories have also been supposited.

(fiction) a fictional reporter in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin


アル

Mimicing erhua ("~兒") in northern Chinese dialects. Or, from kyōwa-go (協和語).

いつも めずらしい カセキ けんきゅう してる アルよ！

Itsumo mezurashii kaseki kenkyū shiteru aru yo!

(fiction) Stereotypical sentence-final particle used by Chinese.


geldezel

nl-noun

geldezel m (plural geldezels, diminutive geldezeltje n)

geldezels (plural)
geldezeltje (diminutive neuter)

Het ezelken begon te schudden, te schudden, en daar viel, blinkend en klinkend, een heele hoop voskens neer! « Zie, dat ezelken moest ik hebben; dat beestje zou mij rijk schudden! Maar kom; ik heb het al beet! Het middel is gevonden! » En de bazin nam haar eigen ezelken, dat goed op 't andere geleek, en bond het in de plaats van het geldezelken aan de krebbe.

1896, Alfons de Cock, Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes. Het volk naverteld, page 191:

(rare, fiction) a donkey that magically generates money


Red Shirt

Red Shirts (plural)
red shirt (alternative)
red-shirt (alternative)

This strong dilemma is also a fun one, and works particularly well against players who like to use the controversial "Red Shirt" tactic of sending down small away teams to attempt dilemmas.

1995, Decipher, Inc, Star Trek Next Generation Customizable Card Game, →ISBN:

This is a question about responsibility -- Did Michael send his partner (AKA Red Shirt) into the fire zone SPECIFICALLY to be killed? He was the one who suggested to Operations that they set up a rescue attempt -- TO FAIL.

1997 October 1, Judy Williams, “Verdict-Red Shirt”, in alt.fan.la-femme.nikita (Usenet):

Red Shirts are characters with only a little more personality than Random Grunts, but they are expendable, and you can expect them to get killed.

2009, David Perry, Rusel DeMaria, David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox, page 242:

(fiction) Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).


wererabbit

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a rabbit.

lapin-garou

shapeshifter taking the form of a rabbit


werefrog

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a frog.


werealligator

A Mokolé does not change from human to animal along a fixed track of forms. Instead, during adolescence, the young werealligator dreams of the past of the reptile races, and shapes a form for herself from what she [dreams].

1994, Bill Bridges, Werewolf Players Guide, White Wolf Pub:

(fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an alligator.


人設

/ʐən³⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹/

/jɐn²¹ t͡sʰiːt̚³/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ siek̚²/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ siak̚²/

/ʐən³⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹/

/jɐn²¹ t͡sʰiːt̚³/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ siek̚²/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ siak̚²/

Short for 人物設定／人物设定 (rénwù shèdìng), from Japanese 人物設定.

(fiction) in-universe profile of a fictional character


kissaihminen

kissaihminen (nominative singular)
kissaihmiset (nominative plural)
kissaihminen (accusative nominative singular)
kissaihmiset (accusative nominative plural)
kissaihmisen (accusative genitive singular)
kissaihmiset (accusative genitive plural)
kissaihmisen (genitive singular)
kissaihmisten (genitive plural)
kissaihmisien (genitive plural)
kissaihmistä (partitive singular)
kissaihmisiä (partitive plural)
kissaihmisessä (inessive singular)
kissaihmisissä (inessive plural)
kissaihmisestä (elative singular)
kissaihmisistä (elative plural)
kissaihmiseen (illative singular)
kissaihmisiin (illative plural)
kissaihmisellä (adessive singular)
kissaihmisillä (adessive plural)
kissaihmiseltä (ablative singular)
kissaihmisiltä (ablative plural)
kissaihmiselle (allative singular)
kissaihmisille (allative plural)
kissaihmisenä (essive singular)
kissaihmisinä (essive plural)
kissaihmiseksi (singular translative)
kissaihmisiksi (plural translative)
kissaihmisettä (abessive singular)
kissaihmisittä (abessive plural)
kissaihmisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kissaihmiseni (nominative singular)
kissaihmiseni (nominative plural)
kissaihmiseni (accusative nominative singular)
kissaihmiseni (accusative nominative plural)
kissaihmiseni (accusative genitive singular)
kissaihmiseni (accusative genitive plural)
kissaihmiseni (genitive singular)
kissaihmisteni (genitive plural)
kissaihmisieni (genitive plural)
kissaihmistäni (partitive singular)
kissaihmisiäni (partitive plural)
kissaihmisessäni (inessive singular)
kissaihmisissäni (inessive plural)
kissaihmisestäni (elative singular)
kissaihmisistäni (elative plural)
kissaihmiseeni (illative singular)
kissaihmisiini (illative plural)
kissaihmiselläni (adessive singular)
kissaihmisilläni (adessive plural)
kissaihmiseltäni (ablative singular)
kissaihmisiltäni (ablative plural)
kissaihmiselleni (allative singular)
kissaihmisilleni (allative plural)
kissaihmisenäni (essive singular)
kissaihmisinäni (essive plural)
kissaihmisekseni (singular translative)
kissaihmisikseni (plural translative)
kissaihmisettäni (abessive singular)
kissaihmisittäni (abessive plural)
kissaihmisineni (comitative plural)
kissaihmisesi (nominative singular)
kissaihmisesi (nominative plural)
kissaihmisesi (accusative nominative singular)
kissaihmisesi (accusative nominative plural)
kissaihmisesi (accusative genitive singular)
kissaihmisesi (accusative genitive plural)
kissaihmisesi (genitive singular)
kissaihmistesi (genitive plural)
kissaihmisiesi (genitive plural)
kissaihmistäsi (partitive singular)
kissaihmisiäsi (partitive plural)
kissaihmisessäsi (inessive singular)
kissaihmisissäsi (inessive plural)
kissaihmisestäsi (elative singular)
kissaihmisistäsi (elative plural)
kissaihmiseesi (illative singular)
kissaihmisiisi (illative plural)
kissaihmiselläsi (adessive singular)
kissaihmisilläsi (adessive plural)
kissaihmiseltäsi (ablative singular)
kissaihmisiltäsi (ablative plural)
kissaihmisellesi (allative singular)
kissaihmisillesi (allative plural)
kissaihmisenäsi (essive singular)
kissaihmisinäsi (essive plural)
kissaihmiseksesi (singular translative)
kissaihmisiksesi (plural translative)
kissaihmisettäsi (abessive singular)
kissaihmisittäsi (abessive plural)
kissaihmisinesi (comitative plural)
kissaihmisemme (nominative singular)
kissaihmisemme (nominative plural)
kissaihmisemme (accusative nominative singular)
kissaihmisemme (accusative nominative plural)
kissaihmisemme (accusative genitive singular)
kissaihmisemme (accusative genitive plural)
kissaihmisemme (genitive singular)
kissaihmistemme (genitive plural)
kissaihmisiemme (genitive plural)
kissaihmistämme (partitive singular)
kissaihmisiämme (partitive plural)
kissaihmisessämme (inessive singular)
kissaihmisissämme (inessive plural)
kissaihmisestämme (elative singular)
kissaihmisistämme (elative plural)
kissaihmiseemme (illative singular)
kissaihmisiimme (illative plural)
kissaihmisellämme (adessive singular)
kissaihmisillämme (adessive plural)
kissaihmiseltämme (ablative singular)
kissaihmisiltämme (ablative plural)
kissaihmisellemme (allative singular)
kissaihmisillemme (allative plural)
kissaihmisenämme (essive singular)
kissaihmisinämme (essive plural)
kissaihmiseksemme (singular translative)
kissaihmisiksemme (plural translative)
kissaihmisettämme (abessive singular)
kissaihmisittämme (abessive plural)
kissaihmisinemme (comitative plural)
kissaihmisenne (nominative singular)
kissaihmisenne (nominative plural)
kissaihmisenne (accusative nominative singular)
kissaihmisenne (accusative nominative plural)
kissaihmisenne (accusative genitive singular)
kissaihmisenne (accusative genitive plural)
kissaihmisenne (genitive singular)
kissaihmistenne (genitive plural)
kissaihmisienne (genitive plural)
kissaihmistänne (partitive singular)
kissaihmisiänne (partitive plural)
kissaihmisessänne (inessive singular)
kissaihmisissänne (inessive plural)
kissaihmisestänne (elative singular)
kissaihmisistänne (elative plural)
kissaihmiseenne (illative singular)
kissaihmisiinne (illative plural)
kissaihmisellänne (adessive singular)
kissaihmisillänne (adessive plural)
kissaihmiseltänne (ablative singular)
kissaihmisiltänne (ablative plural)
kissaihmisellenne (allative singular)
kissaihmisillenne (allative plural)
kissaihmisenänne (essive singular)
kissaihmisinänne (essive plural)
kissaihmiseksenne (singular translative)
kissaihmisiksenne (plural translative)
kissaihmisettänne (abessive singular)
kissaihmisittänne (abessive plural)
kissaihmisinenne (comitative plural)
kissaihmisensä (nominative singular)
kissaihmisensä (nominative plural)
kissaihmisensä (accusative nominative singular)
kissaihmisensä (accusative nominative plural)
kissaihmisensä (accusative genitive singular)
kissaihmisensä (accusative genitive plural)
kissaihmisensä (genitive singular)
kissaihmistensä (genitive plural)
kissaihmisiensä (genitive plural)
kissaihmistään (partitive singular)
kissaihmistänsä (partitive singular)
kissaihmisiään (partitive plural)
kissaihmisiänsä (partitive plural)
kissaihmisessään (inessive singular)
kissaihmisessänsä (inessive singular)
kissaihmisissään (inessive plural)
kissaihmisissänsä (inessive plural)
kissaihmisestään (elative singular)
kissaihmisestänsä (elative singular)
kissaihmisistään (elative plural)
kissaihmisistänsä (elative plural)
kissaihmiseensä (illative singular)
kissaihmisiinsä (illative plural)
kissaihmisellään (adessive singular)
kissaihmisellänsä (adessive singular)
kissaihmisillään (adessive plural)
kissaihmisillänsä (adessive plural)
kissaihmiseltään (ablative singular)
kissaihmiseltänsä (ablative singular)
kissaihmisiltään (ablative plural)
kissaihmisiltänsä (ablative plural)
kissaihmiselleen (allative singular)
kissaihmisellensä (allative singular)
kissaihmisilleen (allative plural)
kissaihmisillensä (allative plural)
kissaihmisenään (essive singular)
kissaihmisenänsä (essive singular)
kissaihmisinään (essive plural)
kissaihmisinänsä (essive plural)
kissaihmisekseen (singular translative)
kissaihmiseksensä (singular translative)
kissaihmisikseen (plural translative)
kissaihmisiksensä (plural translative)
kissaihmisettään (abessive singular)
kissaihmisettänsä (abessive singular)
kissaihmisittään (abessive plural)
kissaihmisittänsä (abessive plural)
kissaihmisineen (comitative plural)
kissaihmisinensä (comitative plural)

kissa (“cat”) + ihminen (“person, human being”)

compound

(fiction) catperson (anthropomorphic feline, or an individual who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body)


độn thổ

[ʔɗon˧˨ʔ tʰo˧˩]

[ʔɗoŋ˨˩ʔ tʰow˧˨]

[ʔɗoŋ˨˩˨ tʰow˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 遁 (“to flee”) and 土 (“earth; ground; soil”)

vi-etym-sino

Hôm qua quê chết đi được! Chỉ muốn độn thổ thôi!

Yesterday, I was so mortified I just wanted to teleport under the ground!


sư phụ

[sɨ˧˧ fu˧˨ʔ]

[ʂɨ˧˧ fʊw˨˩ʔ]

[sɨ˧˧ fʊw˨˩ʔ]

[ʂɨ˧˧ fʊw˨˩˨]

[sɨ˧˧ fʊw˨˩˨]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師父, composed of 師 (“master”) and 父 (“father”)

Aaaa! Sư phụ tha tội! Con biết lỗi rồi!

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's male teacher


sư mẫu

[sɨ˧˧ məw˦ˀ˥]

[ʂɨ˧˧ məw˧˨]

[sɨ˧˧ məw˧˨]

[ʂɨ˧˧ məw˨˩˦]

[sɨ˧˧ məw˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師母, composed of 師 (“master”) and 母 (“mother”)

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's female teacher


sư nương

[sɨ˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

[ʂɨ˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

[sɨ˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

[ʂɨ˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

[sɨ˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師娘, composed of 師 (“master”) and 娘 (“lady”)


sư bá

[sɨ˧˧ ʔɓaː˧˦]

[ʂɨ˧˧ ʔɓaː˨˩˦]

[sɨ˧˧ ʔɓaː˨˩˦]

[ʂɨ˧˧ ʔɓaː˦˥]

[sɨ˧˧ ʔɓaː˦˥]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師伯, composed of 師 (“master”) and 伯 (“elder uncle”)

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's teacher's male senpai


sư thúc

[sɨ˧˧ tʰʊwk͡p̚˧˦]

[ʂɨ˧˧ tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˧˥]

[sɨ˧˧ tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˧˥]

[ʂɨ˧˧ tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˥]

[sɨ˧˧ tʰʊwk͡p̚˦˥]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師叔, composed of 師 (“master”) and 叔 (“younger uncle”)

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's teacher's kōhai (both male and female)


sư huynh

[sɨ˧˧ hwïŋ̟˧˧]

[ʂɨ˧˧ hwɨn˧˧]

[sɨ˧˧ hwɨn˧˧]

[ʂɨ˧˧ wɨn˧˧]

[sɨ˧˧ wɨn˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師兄, composed of 師 (“master”) and 兄 (“elder brother”)

đại sư huynh

nhị sư huynh

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's male senpai


sư đệ

[sɨ˧˧ ʔɗe˧˨ʔ]

[ʂɨ˧˧ ʔɗej˨˩ʔ]

[sɨ˧˧ ʔɗej˨˩ʔ]

[ʂɨ˧˧ ʔɗej˨˩˨]

[sɨ˧˧ ʔɗej˨˩˨]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師弟, composed of 師 (“master”) and 弟 (“younger brother”)

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's male kōhai


sư tỉ

[ʂɨ˧˧ tɪj˧˨]

[sɨ˧˧ tɪj˧˨]

[ʂɨ˧˧ tɪj˨˩˦]

[sɨ˧˧ tɪj˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師 (“master”) and 姉 (“elder sister”)

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's female senpai


sư muội

[sɨ˧˧ muəj˧˨ʔ]

[ʂɨ˧˧ muj˨˩ʔ]

[sɨ˧˧ muj˨˩ʔ]

[ʂɨ˧˧ muj˨˩˨]

[sɨ˧˧ muj˨˩˨]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 師妹, composed of 師 (“master”) and 妹 (“younger sister”)

(Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's female kōhai


đệ tử

[ʔɗe˧˨ʔ tɨ˧˩]

[ʔɗej˨˩ʔ tɨ˧˨]

[ʔɗej˨˩˨ tɨ˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 弟子, composed of 弟 (“younger brother”) and 子 (“child; diminutive suffix”).

Analects VI.3; 1972, Vietnamese translation and annotations by Nguyễn Hiến Lê

Duke Ai [of Lu] asked: "Among your disciples, who likes to learn?" Confucius answered: "There was Yan Hui who liked to learn; he never shifted his anger [to someone else]; he never repeated any mistake. Unfortunately he died early; now I have none else. I have not heard of anyone else who likes to learn (as Yan Hui did)."

Ai Công hỏi: “Trong số đệ tử của thầy, ai là người ham học?” Khổng tử đáp: “Có Nhan Hồi ham học, anh ấy không giận lây, không mắc tới hai lần một lỗi; chẳng may anh ấy chết sớm; nay không còn ai nữa, tôi chưa được nghe nói có ai là người ham học”.

(archaic or Chinese fiction, especially martial arts) one's disciple


phu thê

Sino-Vietnamese word from 夫妻, composed of 夫 (“husband”) and 妻 (“wife”), from Chinese 夫妻 (fūqī).


đại nhân

[ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ ɲən˧˧]

[ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ ɲəŋ˧˧]

[ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ ɲəŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 大人. The suffix and pronoun are derived from the noun.

(honorific, archaic, now fiction) lord/lady; -sama; -dono


đại nhân

[ʔɗaːj˧˨ʔ ɲən˧˧]

[ʔɗaːj˨˩ʔ ɲəŋ˧˧]

[ʔɗaːj˨˩˨ ɲəŋ˧˧]

(honorific, archaic, now fiction) you, my lord/lady


ái khanh

[ʔaːj˧˦ xajŋ̟˧˧]

[ʔaːj˨˩˦ kʰɛɲ˧˧]

[ʔaːj˨˩˦ xɛɲ˧˧]

[ʔaːj˦˥ kʰan˧˧]

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Hoà ái khanh,...

幽王問曰：「愛卿惡聞音樂，所好何事？」褒妃曰：「妾無好也。曾記昔日手裂綵繒，其聲爽然可聽。」

20th century [17th century], chapter 2, in Nguyễn Đỗ Mục, transl., Đông Chu liệt quốc [Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou States], translation of 《東周列國志·第二回》 by 馮夢龍 [Feng Menglong] (in Literary Chinese):

King You asked: “What do you my darling consort like if not music?” Bao Si said: “I your concubine do not like anything at all; I only remember that I tore a sheet of silk with my hands yesterday and the ripping and rending sounds pleased my ears.”

(Chinese fiction, endearing, by a Chinese monarch to his favorite courtiers or consorts) "my dear courtier"; "my darling consort"; you


bần tăng

[ʔɓən˨˩ taŋ˧˧]

[ʔɓəŋ˦˩ taŋ˧˧]

[ʔɓəŋ˨˩ taŋ˧˧]

(Chinese fiction, Buddhism, humble) "this poor monk;" I; me


cô nương

[ko˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

[kow˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

[kow˧˧ nɨəŋ˧˧]

(Chinese fiction, polite) a young girl or woman