hoverpack

(science fiction) A piece of equipment that is strapped to a person's back and allows them to hover in the air.


brolic

en-adj

brolic (comparative more brolic, superlative most brolic)

more brolic (comparative)
most brolic (superlative)

Reportedly coined in reference to the extremely muscular character Broly from the Dragon Ball anime franchise, with the suffix -ic. Broly is a transliteration of the Japanese ブロリー (Burorī), itself coined as a pun on the English broccoli, a theme used in the naming of members of the fictional Saiyan alien species (e.g. Vegeta, from vegetable).

Lonnie and Shotgun Pete had beef with Black Boy, a big brolic drug dealer from Thomasville Heights, the projects up the street from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, not far from Englewood.

2005, Ca$h, Trust No Man: Loyalty To Those Who Are Loyal, unnumbered page

He was mad brolic. Since he been in prison, he didn't have nothing else to do but work out.

2013, Allison van Diepen, Street Pharm, page 65:

There were twelve brolic security guards lined up against just the two of us. Imagine having to fight a dozen guys who were all the size of a WWE wrestler like The Undertaker.

2022, Fat Joe, The Book of Jose, unnumbered page:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) Having large, well-developed muscles.


greataxe

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From great + axe. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

The Saint-Commander rested his famous greataxe against his chair. Gil recalled its name, Red Pilgrim.

1979, Brian Daley, The Starfollowers of Coramonde, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 48:

Dragon King Greataxe can be buffed by spells and consumables, while the Dragon Greatsword cannot.

2020 July 23, Corvo Attano, EdgeOfDreams, “Dragon king greataxe or Dragon greatsword?”, in reddit.com:

Last few days I played outpost rush or wars, the team with the most hammers + greataxes just wins.

2021 November 16, Leandermann, “PvP is only the highest number of greataxe + hammer wins”, in reddit.com:

(rare, video games, fantasy, weaponry) A giant axe; a broadaxe.


greatshield

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Probably modeled on greathelm, greatsword, etc.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:greatshield.

(especially fantasy and video games) A particularly large, durable shield.


dwelf

The dwelf brought them boiling water and let them choose the leaves for the tea. Patience inquired about the possibility of getting rooms with closable windows for the night. “That depends,” said the dwelf. “On what? Tell us the price. […]”

2003, Orson Scott Card, Wyrms, Orb Books, →ISBN, page 167:

“Dwelves are half-elf, half-dwarf.” “Certainly not! We are not half-elves or half-anything. We are not dwarves. We are not elves. We are a unique race.” “Do their peoples descend from yours?” “Maybe. Giants did descend from fairies.”

2018, Austin Dragon, Comes the War Wizards' Wrath: Fabled Quest Chronicles (Book 3), Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A member of a fictional race of creatures which combine the qualities of, or are hybrids of, dwarves and elves.


greathammer

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From great + hammer. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

A knife may inflict 5 points on a hit, but a Greathammer would inflict 25 points of Damage, shatter bone, and severely dent a suit of armour. This reflects the differences in size, weight and design of various weapons.

1993, David B. Pilurs, Sun and Storm: The Enchiridion, →ISBN, page 60:

[…]some gigantic man spinning a polearm or greathammer—struck her sister a solid blow in the chest, knocking the woman to the floor. The hammer danced, and the woman holding it rushed to capitalize on the heavy strike she had just landed.

2011, Christopher Rowe, Sandstorm: A Forgotten Realms Novel, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:

Just to the left of these is the final Rhogar Statue we can destroy with the Tor Greathammer for the final piece of the Armour Set (Chest - Last Traitor).

2015, GamerGuides.com, Lords of the Fallen - Strategy Guide, Gamer Guides, →ISBN:

White Hair Ancestor looked carefully, only to see that in Qin Feng's hand, a pitch black octagonal greathammer had already appeared. "Hello..." "Then ..." Qin Feng bellowed, and threw the Sky-splitting Hammer over to the other party.

2019, Deng XiaWuYu, Supreme Emperor: Volume 8, Funstory, →ISBN:

Ti'erra went to the middle of the tavern and placed the head of her greathammer on the floor, with the haft in the air. When it was set this way, at the top of the greathammer was a leather loop, […]

2021, Nicholas Stanosheck, Vhaidra & the DRAGON of Temple Mount, Notion Press, →ISBN:

(fantasy and video games) A gigantic (combat) hammer; a particularly large or powerful hammer.


spokesbeing

By analogy from spokesman, spokesperson, etc., with being.

(science fiction) A spokesperson, whether human or extraterrestrial.


satfeed

(informal, chiefly science fiction) satellite feed


Romancelandia

From romance + -land + -ia. Popularized within the romance literature community beginning in the late 2000s to early 2010s. First attested in print in 2009.

Paranormals had been on the fringes of Romancelandia almost since its inception but became huge business in the early 2000s.

2009, Sarah Wendell, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels, page 125:

I became a native of Romancelandia, writing “from the heart” (as the disgruntled woman at my talk said), from my dual but not dueling hearts, simultaneously crafting academic and fiction writing about falling in love.

2016, Catherine M. Roach, Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture, page 43:

RT was created and run by RT Book Reviews magazine, formerly known as Romantic Times, which was for many years the paper of record in Romancelandia.

2020, Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist, unnumbered page:

The sphere or community of romance writers, readers, and novels.

In other words, fictionalized Arabiastan in desert romancelandia bears some resemblance both to contemporary Saudi Arabia and to a historical notion of the Arabian Peninsula.

2015, Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, unnumbered page:

In real life, I hope these kind of IVF mistakes don't happen, but in Romancelandia, when it happens, there's always a sexy, single billionaire involved!

2016, Andrea Laurence, The CEO's Unexpected Child, page 2:

In Romancelandia, it was easy to miraculously find a couple of stray dogs for Adam and crew to train as service dogs, but in real life, it takes a lot of hard work, money, and time to find the right dog to do the amazing things a service animal can do.

2019, Teri Anne Stanley, Big Chance Cowboy, unnumbered page:

The idealized fictional setting of romance novels.


paranormal romance

A subgenre of romance literature and speculative fiction involving paranormal elements, such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, or time travel.


monster porn

A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction involving sexual encounters between humans and monstrous or fantastical creatures.


bodice-rippery

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She says that her first novel was born out of a profound love of medieval history, but I fear that what she really loves is historical romance, fantasy, and bodice-rippery.

1990 May, Peter T. Garratt, “Ys OK”, in Interzone, page 66:

A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.

2016, The Chemist review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 November 2016, page 188

While the genre has generally distanced itself from bodice-rippery, romance authors do continue to play with the look or feel or meaning of non-consensual sex and what’s sometimes called “dubious consent” or “dub-con” sex.

2020, Hannah McCann, Catherine M. Roach, “Sex and sexuality”, in Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo, editors, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction, page 422:

(informal) The archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction.


point of divergence

en-noun

point of divergence (plural points of divergence)

In an alternate history, the point in time where events diverge from real history.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Generation Four (“the fourth generation of the My Little Pony toy franchise, sometimes known as Friendship is Magic”).


Santa Paws

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No no not Santa Paws! Bean O'brien. Everyone deserves a second chance maybe he was just being a poophead cuz he need a hug Bessa Phaneuf. You a bad troll...!! Mattie Bissmeyer. He's a very norty Troll. But i don't like to see anyone cry ...

year unknown, Josephine Tuckfield, Saving Santa Paws, Lulu.com

It turned out that Snowy was upset because at Christmas all the animals are left out and he wants to be SANTA PAWS. Well, Ithought what a great idea this was and went back into the room and said to Snowy, “What a kind dog you are ...

2009, Buckham Derek, Santa's Christmas Story Book, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 24:

Duke happily trotted to the main stand Where Santa Paws sat, all dressed in red and looking very grand. The mall was filled with Christmas delight; Mistletoe, holly and Santa were a welcoming sight. Duke happily trotted to the main ...

2011, Blossom Albuquerque, Dashing Duke and His Dodgy Adventures, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 28:

"Santa Paws is always willing to hear Christmas wishes." He winkedat Eva as Savannah buried her head under Eva's arm. "Aww, don't be afraid, sweetie. He won't bite." "Unless you're a cookie." Adam struggled to get the Santa cookie he'd ...

2014, Meda White, Christmas Give: A Holiday Novella, Meda White, →ISBN:

Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too! Brittni Vega. plate of cookies and a glass of milk. I don't mean to ruin the . . . I am almost twelve in dog years. I stopped believing in Santa Paws a few months ago.

2015, Brittni Vega, Harlow & Indiana (and Reese): Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too!, Penguin, →ISBN:

Santa Paws knows Santa Claus, because he was his first and favourite pet. Santa Claus loved Santa Paws so much, that every Christmas, Santa Claus would take Santa Paws with him in his sleigh. Santa Paws would look at the beautiful night ...

2017, Hanna L. Farha, Santa Paws, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

When Belle opened her eyes , she saw Santa Paws. " I got your letter , Belle , " chuckled Santa Paws. " I have to say, when I was a young pup, I also made some mistakes. Look at me now! I grew up just fine!

2020, Sara J J Gunkel, Dear Santa Paws, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 13:

(humorous, fiction) An equivalent to Santa Claus as an anthropomorphic dog or cat.


Soulslike

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From Souls + -like, referencing the Dark Souls video game series, after the pattern of roguelike (“any of a genre of computer role playing games influenced by Rogue”).

Amid the tsunami of Soulslikes, Deck13's The Surge stands out as the one game to take the genre in a new direction.

2018 April, “The Surge 2 gets tooled up”, in PlayStation Official Magazine, UK, page 11:

And that's what you ultimately want from a soulslike. Challenge, struggle, and ultimate triumph. And in that sense, "Hollow Knight" is a soulslike.

2020 April 28, James Hamilton, “Hollow Knight Video Game Review”, in TechNews, Illinois Institute of Technology, page 13:

Beyond its cuteness, what makes Tails of Iron stand out from other Soulslikes is how forgiving it can feel – relatively, anyway.

2021 October, Chris Wallace, “When We Made...Tails of Iron”, in MCV Develop, page 64:

(video games) A subgenre of action role-playing video games influenced by the Dark Souls trilogy, characterized by high difficulty, trial-and-error progression, esoteric enemy movesets, environmental storytelling, and complex lore.


Rip Van Winkle

From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1819).

That is, it makes a lot of sense to see Biden’s problems getting his plans across the finish line as being caused by the Rip Van Winkle caucus, Democrats who checked out intellectually a couple of decades ago and haven’t caught up with America as it now is.

2021 September 27, Paul Krugman, “Biden Versus the Rip Van Winkle Caucus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The characters do seem Rip Van Winkle-like, as they stumble upon and blink in amazement at very unsurprising things. “Wow! Instagram? Podcasts?” marvels Miranda at some of Carrie’s latest endeavors, as if these were edgy new enterprises.

2022 January 5, Rhonda Garelick, “Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Tory Rip Van Winkle waking from decades of sleep to look round that cabinet table now would be aghast.

2022 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Finally the Tory papers have caught on that Johnson is a liar – what kept them?”, in The Guardian:

(fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.


Scorbus

Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.

2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian:

For Harry Potter fandom, the idea of a romantic relationship (or ship) between Albus/Scorpius or "Scorbus," the ship's portmanteau, is nothing new.

2018, Emily E. Roach, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child”, in Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse, page 133:

For years, Scorbus fans had almost no canonical information with which to base their fan works, therefore fics varied wildly in characterisation.

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 98

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.


EWE

EWE (countable and uncountable, plural EWEs)

A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows.

2009, Peggy Lin Duthie, “The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings”, in Giselle Liza Anatol, editor, Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays, pages 45–46:

'EWE' (Epilogue-What Epilogue?) fics are similar to some AU stories in that they ignore the often-disliked epilogue of Rowling's Deathly Hallows, and instead create their own future of the Wizarding World.

2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 280:

Bringing beloved characters back to life is one of the most recurrent elements of EWE fics, […]

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

(Harry Potter fandom slang) Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.


Severitus

In the early 2000s, a fan going by the pseudonym Severitus (presumably constructed from Severus + -itis) issued a challenge requesting fanfics with several specific elements, including Snape being revealed as Harry's true father. This became known as the Severitus Challenge, which was later shortened to Severitus, and came to refer exclusively to the paternity trope.

Arguably Snape's lifelong obsession with Lily in canon is more disturbing than the least imaginative and most derogatory Severitus conception, the drunken one night stand.

2007 September 5, A. G. McDowell, “Re: The Future of Fan Fiction”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Unlike the other Severitus fanfics analysed in this chapter, there is not a simple progression from dislike to affection and family feeling.

2011, Suzanne Passmore, "Rereading the Magical World of Harry Potter: Fanfiction as an Alternative Critical Modality", thesis submitted to the University of Western Australia, page 52

[…] and in making Lily break her vows to James, Severitus fanfiction authors undermine the status of the heteronormative family in the original series.

2015, A. J. Koning, "The Famous and Their Followers: Fanfiction as an Alternative Form of Literary Criticism", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 22

(Harry Potter fandom slang) A subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction in which Severus Snape is the biological father of Harry.


Treknological

en-adj

Treknological (comparative more Treknological, superlative most Treknological)

more Treknological (comparative)
most Treknological (superlative)

Blend of Trek (“Star Trek”) + technological.

blend

The accurate technological order parallels the corresponding virtual Treknological terrain.

2004, Karen Anijar, Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum, page 84:

While these Treknological wonders were introduced as story devices, they also serve as testaments to Roddenberry's faith in the potential of human intellect.

2012, Mark Clark, Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise, unnumbered page:

[…] and debating details of accuracy ranging from paint schemes and decal placement to the configuration of warp nacelles and colors of running lights. Indeed, the latter area directly inherits a tradition of "Treknological" argument in which fans' endless charting and policing of the franchise's timeline and established “facts” function not so much as a stabilizing force but an arena of contestation and negotiation between canonical and fanonical spheres of knowledge, enacted both in material and virtual forms.

2017, Bob Rehak, “From Model Building to 3D Printing: Star Trek and Build Code Across the Analog/Digital Divide”, in Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Scott, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Of, related to, or characteristic of Treknology.


kinkfic

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What kink-fic does, in parallel with BDSM real world practices, is to explicitly enact sexual and emotional power dynamics.

2004 December, Jenny Alexander, “A Vampire is Being Beaten: DeSade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel”, in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, number 15, unnumbered page:

Similarly, the heteronormative sexual identities ascribed to the action heroine in her official texts is confounded in queer fan-fic in general, and in kink-fic specifically.

2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, page 205:

Our findings show that there is a continued and highly active interest in kinkfic among fanfic authors working from the selected canons […]

2014, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, page 144:

(fandom slang) Fan fiction featuring kink (particularly BDSM) content.


Vorkosiverse

Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series that takes place in the "Vorkosiverse" is excellent for many reasons.

2008, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan, "Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today", in The Vorkosigan Companion (John Helfers & Lillian Stewart Carl), unnumbered page

The early Vorkosiverse novels were inter alia a late-Cold War product whose Barrayarans — green-uniformed and predominantly of Russian stock — are typically atheists given to ancestor-worship.

2013, John Lennard, “(Absent) Gods and Sharing Knives: The Purposes of Lois McMaster Bujold's Fantastic Ir/Religions”, in Janet Brennan Croft, editor, Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 173:

Athos and Cetaganda are the two worlds of the Vorkosiverse most reliant on uterine replicator births.

2020, Ally Wolfe, “Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World”, in Regina Yung Lee, Una McCormack, editors, Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold, page 201:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.


woodelf

Eddie looked around at the magnificently gowned trees, happy and proud, enjoying themselves to the music of the woodelves

1999, Ralph Hunter, Autumn's Dancing Leaves, →ISBN, page 202:

The beatific face broke into a grin and the man's eyes twinkled merrily, like a woodelf's eyes.

2001, Ralph Hunter, Winter's Stormy Rage, →ISBN:

Somewhere in that craggy wilderness called Mirkwood laired the dragon Fafnir; there trolls and woodelves peeped and crept

2003, Victoria Randall, The Ring of the Dark Elves, →ISBN, page 143:


bishoujo

/bɪˈʃəʊd͡ʒəʊ/

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

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

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):

A genre of anime and manga depicting cute young girls.


spacepad

(science fiction) A launch pad for spacecraft.


siscon

en-noun

siscon (countable and uncountable, plural siscons)

Borrowed from Japanese シスコン (shisukon), from clipping of シスターコンプレックス (“sister complex”). By surface analysis, sis (“sister”) + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

surf

What's up with Da Capo? Siscon and lolicon in episode 1, a catgirl later -- is the target market fetishists?

2003 July 17, Galen Musbach, “The Summer of Our Discontent”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Heck, it's not too hard to find incest themes in non-H these days. Bro/Siscon relationships date back even before the seminal "Revolutionar [sic] Girl Utena", and still crop up in today's harem styled shows like "Sister Princess", and the still hilarious "Majikano".

2006 March 26, Abraham Evangelista, “Re:Protecting the Children at anime cons”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Perhaps you're wondering about what '80s anime would have thought of the siscon aspect. It likely wouldn't have been permitted as such a central concept on an anime TV show […] but the siscon theme was the focus of a relatively popular 1980s OAV series named for its main character, Ami.

2015 July 13, Tsukasa Fushimi, edited by Jemiah Jefferson, Oreimo: Kuroneko Volume 2, →ISBN, page 163:

“Imouto sae Ireba Ii” - Adaptation of a light novel with a strong siscon slant.

2017 September 19, Dave Baranyi, “Fall 2017 New Anime Try--Out List”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(anime, manga, uncountable) Strong attachment or romantic/sexual attraction to one's own sister.

(anime, manga, countable) A person with such an attachment.


Buyan

From Russian Буя́н (Buján). See there for further information.

(Slavic mythology, folklore) In medieval Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.

Bouïane

a mysterious island in the Russian folklore


clowncel

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The thing about Joker that specifically appeals to clowncels is the heroic mirage imparted on the Joker.

2019, Caroline Cabe, "Inside Todd Phillips’ Joker and the Rise of the ‘Clowncel’, The Texas Orator, 22 October 2019

As for Joker, after the FBI warned of mass-shooting threats from so-called “Clowncels,” some theaters in the United States banned makeup and costumes during the screening of Phillips’s movie (Margolin and Katersky).

2021 March, Manuel Herrero-Puertas, “Super Whitman 1885”, in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, volume 47, number 1, page 311:

There is a key difference here, however, in that clowncels seem to replace the self-pitying discourse common in incel forums with anger towards the rich and the powerful.

2021, Aylin Kuryel, “Looking at and with images: Crowds in Joker, Joker in the crowd”, in Sean Redmond, editor, Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy, unnumbered page:

(incel slang) An incel who identifies with the Joker from the Batman franchise.


Inner

Capitalization of inner, from Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the inner planets of the Solar System


ASB

(aviation) Initialism of anti-shock body.


shocked Pikachu

en-noun

shocked Pikachu (plural shocked Pikachus)

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From an Internet meme based on a screencap of Pikachu with a shocked expression from the 1997 episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" of the animated series Pokémon: Indigo League.

Olivia's shocked-Pikachu face shifts into a full-on scowl.

2020, Anna Meriano, “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer”, in Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, page 180:

I swear to god I had both of my eyes bulging out with my mouth wide open looking like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Sunehar Aneja, Angela Mathew, editors, And The Dandelions Fell Apart, page 83:

She didn't have to look so friggin' surprised about it. Like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Yayoi Ogawa, translated by Rose Padgett, Knight of the Ice 7, page 56:

(Internet slang) A Pikachu with a specific open-mouthed, erect-ear expression signifying shock and astonishment, especially regarding something that one should have expected.


Spenderfic

You can find it at (shameless plug) The Ferret Cage, along with Hal's other Spenderfic.

1999 October 10, drovar, “Re: Fave slash stories?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

A bit of everything this week - x-file, slash, MSR, humor, vignettes and Spenderfic!

2000 January 3, Kelly, “A Quiet Place to Read update”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Damn ... and here I thought this was going to be Spenderfic.

2003 June 26, SamPiper, “Re: I have a question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) Fan fiction about the character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.


Weasel Boy

From a humorous reference to a scene in which Dana Scully warns Spender not to "weasel" (i.e. trick) her in the 1998 episode "Triangle".

At least Weasel Boy makes no bones about his hatred for Mulder, though.

1998 November 12, StarGzrMC, “Re: *Getting rid DIANA FOWLEY - Survey*”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Skinner berates her in front of Weasel Boy and CSM.

1998 November 24, rmun...@yahoo.com, “The chaser? ”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I hardly think the solution is to pair Scully up with a dead Weasel Boy.

2000 July 16, Sandy Waddell, “Spender will be Scully's new partner,”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) The fictional character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.


Ratboy

From rat + boy. Coined by fans as a humorous reference to the character's amoral and duplicitous nature. Popularized on alt.tv.x-files, the main Usenet newsgroup for the show, where it is first attested in 1994.

Do you know who Ratboy is?

1996, Susan J. Clerc, “DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy”, in David Lavery, Angela Hague, Marla Cartwright, editors, Deny All knowledge: Reading the X-files, page 37:

But this Krycek—self-consciously multivoiced, focalizing as a fan reader through his obsession with Mulder, Ratboy yet sympathetically damaged—is carefully constructed as a recognizable source character interpreted in a new light.

2014, Deborah Kaplan, “Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, page 143:

Given his credentials, Ratboy seems like the perfect candidate for the job.

2016, Natalie Clubb, The X-Files: The Official Collection - The Agents, The Bureau, and The Syndicate, page 144:

(X-Files fandom slang) The fictional character Alex Krycek from The X-Files.


KSR

Since, I've written more, mostly MSR and KSR.

1998 July 13, Athena1600, “Re: ARCHIVISTS AND AUTHORS!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

It's the identification thing... maybe some of the people writing KSR *do* hate Mulder.

1998 December 3, Daddy793, “Re: Question for SKipper fic authors”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm a MSR and a KSR type myself, these are the stories I WANT to read.

1999 January 2, Char Priolo, “Re: "A KeyChain in the snow"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) Krycek/Scully romance; fan fiction involving a romantic relationship between the characters Alex Krycek and Dana Scully of the The X-Files.


carbrain

carbrain (countable and uncountable, plural carbrains)

The carbrain honked and started the engine when the clock reached 00:30.

1992, James Patrick Kelly, “Pogrom”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, page 429:

If the carbrain goes off track (or even off-line), the result is a freeway pile-up.

2006, Science-fiction Studies - Volume 33, Issues 1-3, page 281:

What would your carbrain say if it could talk? Would it say Jump In? Would it say Get out and walk?

2009, Sheldon G Brown, Scalable City, page 41:

(countable, science fiction) The thinking part of a sentient car.


ojousama

(Japanese, usually fiction) A rich girl.


monoeye

→ Japanese: モノアイ (monoai)

From mono- + eye. The monster girl type sense is possibly a reborrowing from Japanese モノアイ (monoai) or a calque of Japanese 単眼 (tangan).

Tysm Hitomi!! They are both so cute! 😳💖 Why does everyone have a cute monoeye OC~

2022 December 10, Akiko✨ (@Akiko_oc), Twitter:

It's also the first day of the month, that means it's monoeye day! Cyclops art RT bomb incoming!

2022 February 1, Hitomi 👁🎧 (@HitomiOnpa), Twitter:

(chiefly anime and manga) A humanlike monster girl species with a single large eye.


love polygon

/ˈlʌv ˈpɒlɪɡən/

This entangled love polygon (for it is far larger than a triangle) would seem to be at the heart of the conflict among the characters.6 Clearly, unrequited love, love triangles, intense fascinations, the absurdities of love,[…]

2020 November 17, Dianne Rothleder, Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 43:

A situation in which at least two people vie for the love of another individual.


Rowlingesque

en-adj

Rowlingesque (comparative more Rowlingesque, superlative most Rowlingesque)

more Rowlingesque (comparative)
most Rowlingesque (superlative)

Part of the fun of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are the names she comes up with; the author said in a recent online chat that she’s amassed dozens of notebooks where she jotted down unusual names she saw or thought up. Here are the Rowlingesque meanings behind a few:[…]

2000 July 1, The Detroit News, page 16C:

[…]Scamander’s account is clearly rooted in the ancient descriptions, with some Rowlingesque revisions in the role of Herpo the Foul (“a Greek dark wizard and Parselmouth” who create the first Basilisk (3), among other things[…]

2005, Cynthia Whitney Hallett, Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text, The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 69:

Mr. Larsen’s Hairy Pothead learns to play Qannabbi instead of Quidditch, meets Delirious Bake instead of Sirius Black — and on it goes with other Rowlingesque characters such as Master Head Alwaze Duinthadope.

2007 September 21, National Post, volume 9, number 276, page A8:

The book contains such typically Rowlingesque characters as tree stumps with eyes and hairy hearts, and includes a frontispiece noting that the stories were “translated from the original runes.”

2007 November 2, “Rowling bids farewell to Harry for charity”, in The Ottawa Citizen, page A10:

Strong sales (a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) and some serious online obsession from teen girl fans have vaulted Meyer to Rowlingesque heights of popularity;

2008 July 30, John Burns, “Twilight Saga fans prepare for Friday midnight release”, in The Vancouver Sun, page D3:

Why, then, are we so wedded to the romantic illusion of authors as poor, tortured, hungry souls, labouring in unheated garrets until the day they are discovered and rewarded with fairy[-]tale fortunes of Rowlingesque proportions?

2010 February 16, “Now we can all believe in ghostwriters”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 20:

The emphasis in the script by Steve Kloves (a credited contributor to all but one of the Potter screenplays) is on intensity, as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and best friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint — a Rowlingesque name in its own right) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) make their way back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in hopes of destroying the last of the magical “horcruxes” that contain the divided pieces of Voldemort’s soul.

2011 July 14, John Beifuss, “‘Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ ends Potter saga”, in The Commercial Appeal, page M4:

2010’s “The Lightning Thief” was way too Rowlingesque, a fantasy-adventure set in a magical boarding school directed by “Potter” vet Chris Columbus.

2013 August 9, The Anniston Star, volume 133, number 221, page 4B:

The classroom had been transformed to look like one from Hogwarts, with cobwebs and ‘traditional desks’ and one student teacher was performing the role of a ‘Rowlingesque’ potions teacher quite beautifully.

2016, Adrian Copping, Being Creative in Primary English, SAGE Publications, page 17:

And more intimately, the Rowlingesque celebration of discovering kinship in the unlikeliest places, and being who you are without apology.

2016, Ian Nathan, Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, HarperCollins:

My sixth novel didn’t do so well with the critics, though the sales were Rowlingesque.

2018, Ian McEwan, My Purple Scented Novel, Vintage, →ISBN:

Another retooled technique is that of fantasy or fairy tale, now used not for the purposes of magic realism but by a novelist like Hamid in Exit West (2017), as his characters commute between war zones and other places, through magic doors reminiscent of Rowlingesque portals.

2021, Justin Quinn, Gabriela Kleckova, “Introduction”, in Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education: Curriculum Innovation through Intercultural Communication, Routledge:

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


philactory

"Know thy own worth, and reverence the lyre," is a line that should be as a fillet bound round the brow—a philactory embroidered on the garments of every son and daughter of Adam distinguished by the possession of that sacred gift, which, whether used or abused, applauded in itself or derided in its possessor, is the highest and the most inalienable distinction humanity ever has or ever can be gifted with, whether bestowed on the highest or the humblest being, in the great mass to which we all belong.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 252:


horcrux

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
horcrux

Coined by author J. K. Rowling through the random "transposition of syllables," though fans have pointed to the possible influence of Middle English hore (“iniquity, evil, sin”) and English crux (“the central or essential part”). The term first appears in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005).

They stared at it as if it was the one ring or the holy grail or a horcrux, or perhaps all of them rolled into one. An empty, plastic cat food bowl.

2013, Adam Rawlins, The Strange Encounter of Sally Shakespeare and Toby Tinker, page 24:

They were standard fit, vintage wash, pretty expensive, and I showed them to him and I said, “These are yours if you want them.” And do you know what he did? He actually flinched. Like these were haunted pants or something. Like these were Horcrux jeans with a piece of Lord Voldemort’s soul in them.

2013, Teddy Steinkellner, Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, page 20:

Again, he didn’t say anything and she asked him about the arrowhead—was it his Horcrux or something? was there a piece of his soul trapped inside it?—and he shrugged it off.

2016, Joe Halstead, West Virginia, page 38:

In the Harry Potter series, an object in which a wizard has concealed a part of their soul through magic, rendering them immortal until the object is irreparably damaged or destroyed.


Scroogesque

Scroogesque (comparative more Scroogesque, superlative most Scroogesque)

more Scroogesque (comparative)
most Scroogesque (superlative)

The Tories have been positively Scroogesque with our accumulated billions.

1981 May 21, William Thorsell, “Life’s a ball, a Fund-thing”, in Edmonton Journal, page A4:

To me, growing increasingly Scroogesque, each day is a Winterreise, without the snow, the linden tree, the cold (though a chute or two is pneumonia-drafty) or the weather-vane.

1986, Studs Terkel, Chicago, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 2:

I mean three years ago in this very supplement of your newspaper some fool actually wrote an article called ‘How to Ruin Your Child’s Christmas’. That kind of stuff gets back to me and it hurts. I mean, we can do without that sort of Scroogesque rubbish.

1987 December 24, “Santa Claus”, quotee, “The Santa Interview”, in The Age, 134th year, number 41,364, page 1:

Many gardeners are lukewarm toward poinsettias. The main trouble with them is they stay in bloom till March, but I suppose it’s Scroogesque to complain of a pot plant that behaves so well.

1988 December 23, Henry Mitchell, “‘Rotten’ gifts for gardeners grow cheer”, in The Daily Sentinel, volume 97, number 23, Grand Junction, Colo., page 1C:

The great guru X Moore, former lead singer of Trotskyist skinhead band The Redskins, took a less Scroogesque view. He claimed that Xmas is but a foretaste of the coming socialist millennium[…]

To the Scroogesque reference to a Christmas party which I attended, along with City staff, I must clear up the events that actually took place.

1995 January 19, “An Open Letter to the Community from Willie Preston, Mayor Pro Tem”, in Lincoln News Messenger, volume 104, number 16, Lincoln, Calif., page 3:

Gardner suggests the perfect gift for the person in your life who has it all — nothing! It’s not as Scroogesque as it sounds. She recommends giving a gift from her Global Gift Guide instead. Such gifts might include clothing and shelter for a homeless child in Vietnam for $35 a month or dental exams for children in Cambodia.

1996 December 10, Dolores Tropiano, “Putting Heart in the Holidays: Generous deeds bring out true meaning of the season”, in The Arizona Republic, 107th year, number 206, Phoenix, Ariz., page C1:

I’ve owned and ridden a motorcycle for three years, and on Sunday morning I took part in the 20th annual Vancouver Toy Run for the third time. It is a great event that provides a little bit of joy not only for the participants, but also for the thousands of Lower Mainland children who are recipients of the donated toys. I’m saddened by Burnaby’s Scroogesque attitude to the Toy Run, as are many others (‘Families disadvantaged’ by disappointing run, Oct. 26).

1998 October 29, Mike Stanger, “Happy event hurt by image of bikers as bad guys”, in The Vancouver Sun, page A18:

Of course, I love giving gifts, because I’m a loving and giving sorta girl. But not that loving and giving, because I’ll only do it on my terms, which unfortunately also means that I don’t like giving gifts when you’re meant to give them. So I am rubbish at birthdays and only slightly better at Christmas (and then only because I like expensive, glitzily-themed wrapping concepts). The problem is, I worry so extraordinarily about getting it right that, forever teetering on the brink of extravagant impulse buys and Scroogesque denial, I sometimes don’t get it at all rather than get it remotely wrong.

1998 November 22, The Observer, page 44:

What is it about each passing Christmas that causes the next to seem so appealing? Maybe it’s the fact that the next is a full year away! That may seem Scroogesque, but there is a bit of truth in it for a lot of adults.

1998 December 24, Clay McFerrin, “What’s in the value of a gift?”, in The Charleston Sun-Sentinel, volume 75, number 52, Charleston, Miss., page 4:

Buying shoes without shoe boxes bespeaks cheapness of Scroogesque proportions.

2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 96:

The lines, in short, suggest themselves as a Scroogesque anti-echo of verse written at the century’s start: / My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, / Dishes of agat set in gold, and studded / With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths and rubies.

2003, Anthony Fowles, John Dryden: A Critical Study, Greenwich Exchange, page 92:

Although overall holiday-sales forecasts range from Panglossian to Scroogesque, analysts agree that online shopping is booming.

2003 December 15, Paul Andrews, “Christmas Clicking”, in U.S. News & World Report, page 42:

Perhaps I’m being a little Scroogesque to inform Susie “No Mates” Rushton about all the beautiful Christmas cards that have been dropping heavily into our hallway, courtesy of our friendly postman.

2008 December 24, David Fee, quotee, The Independent, number 6,925, page 26:

Truth is for me I didn't know whether it was managerial incompetence or planned Scroogesque mismanagement. Always being such a tight arse to this extreme is bad management in the restaurant game.

2014, Stephen Scala, Curly Dish Pig Tales, Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 123:

Resembling or characteristic of Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.


somepony

From some + pony, by analogy with somebody.

I messaged somepony over Tumblr last night / She said "RAWR X3" so it's true love at first sight

2021, Vylet Pony (lyrics and music), “ANTONYMPH”, in CUTIEMARKS (And The Things That Bind Us):


mageocracy

en-noun

mageocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mageocracies)

She was the greatest wizard of her age and might have reconciled the church with the mageocracy.

2016, Luke Scull, Sword of the North, page 276:

A mageocracy like the Setharii Empire was probably not the most efficient of governments, but nobody else could ever dream of controlling the hundreds of Gifted throughout the empire.

2018, Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God, unnumbered page:

With the fanatical Qunari seeking to topple the Tevinter mageocracy, the Inquisition sends some of their best agents to retrieve a powerful elven relic before the Tevinter magisters can unleash it to devastating effect.

2020, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, back cover blurb:


alien space bats

Coined in the Usenet newsgroup soc.history.what-if.

(fandom slang) An implausible point of divergence from reality, used as a plot device in alternate history.


cute girls doing cute things

cute girls doing cute things (uncountable)

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:cute girls doing cute things.

(fandom slang) A genre of anime and manga featuring appealing young women in fun everyday situations.


Eurostan

Yeah, and guess what, I still don't care. And by "the rest of the world"
you're referring to Eurostan and Muslim nations.

2004 November 22, Don Swayser, “Terrorism in Iraq”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

Ok, let them all receive their lessons from the imams in Arabic and
Urdu. I think all of the European countries should do this, since the
native Europeans will be dhimmis soon enough. With it becoming Eurostan
and all.

2006 April 28, Evron, “'Separate laws for Muslims' idea slammed (Sweden)”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

It is remarkable to me that the overwhelming majority have not turned
towards radical Islam because that sure as hell is where many on the right
would like to see them go on this group and their talk of 'Eurostan',
'Londistan' and all other manner of derisory comments is designed to make
them feel, "if that's how they see us, we might as well be that ( better to
die on our feet than live on our knees )".

2007 September 27, The Happy Hippy, “Iran president's ignorance”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):

true, since it becoming Islamic Republic of Eurostan

2007 November 14, GeekBoy, “Why I hate America”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):

I don’t think Orwell foresaw this multicultural superstate. This is something new. All we can be sure of is that this Eurostan—the new European superstate now in the making—will be a multicultural dystopia rife with race wars, gang rapes, cheap foreign labor, widespread unemployment for the dispossessed White minority, bullying bosses, cowed workers, overflowing prisons, fatcat lawyers, psychotic politicians, police state surveillance, fabricated news items, false flag attacks, demoralized families, dysfunctional children, schools for morons, mass suicides, manufactured diseases, promoted perversions, drug addiction, gambling, prostitution, pornography, serial killers on the rampage, and nonstop mindless entertainment for the zombified masses.

2016 September 3, track...@yahoo.com.au, “Germany: Rape on an Industrial Scale...”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet):

(derogatory, offensive) A supposed future Europe which has undergone Islamization.


Omagua

A Tupí-Guaraní language closely related to Cocama.


far far away

Long long ago, in a land far far away there lived a beautiful princess.

(colloquial, fairy tales) Used to add emphasis to the fact that the story takes place in a far away land.


long long ago

(colloquial, fairy tales) Used to add emphasis to the fact that the story takes place in the distant past.


fairy-tale ending

fairy-tale ending (countable and uncountable, plural fairy-tale endings)


hyperplasma

hyperplasma (usually uncountable, plural hyperplasmas)

Somewhere in the midst of searing, blinding pain a tiny mode of coherence bobbed, buffeted on shrieking data currents. O’Neill felt cosmic fingers trying to rip her self apart, to abolish her mind orders and meld her with the formless hyperplasma of the universe’s beginning.

1986, Victor Milán, The Cybernetic Samurai, Berkley, →ISBN, page 139:

A concentrated hyperplasma of Energon, drawn via a transdimensional gateway from the endless supply of Energon that enlivened the planet Cybertron itself.

2010, Alexander Christian Irvine, Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron, Titan, →ISBN, page 198:

The big thing about the hyperplasma torp is that all of it's ^([sic]) torps are destructible, so against any enemy with AOE, they're completely worthless.

2015 February 10, alexea56, Mastajdog, “Tricobalt torpedo's ^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(science fiction, rare) Very advanced and powerful plasma; superplasma.


hypermissile

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The sight of another hypermissile impacting the Shield mollified him only a little; the backup fire-control comp had taken over without a hiccup, but precious little good did that do him, isolated on the bridge with no way of knowing what was going on. The only comfort, and bare comfort at that, was that there was only one lance. And it was damaged, too.

1993, Sherwood Smith, Dave Trowbridge, The Phoenix in Flight, TOR, →ISBN, page 181:

Pavanaz tripped into hyperspace, burned the cruiser with his exhaust, threw all power to his screens and deflected the carrier's hypermissiles.

2006, Brian Lumley, Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 124:

He did not need what it represented: a ship-size heat signature, something out in space beyond the asteroid, just a few kelvins. In the tactical display, blue diamonds shot toward the spot, hypermissiles tracking the tiny difference in temeprature. The ship did not fight back.

2017, Craig DeLancey, Evolution Commandos, 496\Perfect Number Press:

(science fiction, rare, video games) An extremely advanced and powerful missile or projectile; a supermissile.


demilich

(fantasy, roleplaying games) A type of lich, a type of undead.


greatbow

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He hooked the tip of his own greatbow under the door’s hasp, muttered som thing under his breath and pulled, hard. Nothing happened. Again, and again nothing.

1981, Peter Morwood, The Warlord's Domain, DAW, →ISBN, page 84:

You can turtle with a crossbow but you're wide open after every shot. Greatbows have knockdown but you're superslow.

2021 April 12, the_3rdist, “What is your all time favourite themed runs?”, in reddit.com:

Maybe samurai would give you a head start for a greatbow build.

2022 February 14, ytinifniozob, Zamoku, “Greatbows”, in reddit.com:

(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.


archcommander

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.kəˈmændɚ/

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And they said,"We beseech thee, Michael , our Archcommander, transfer (μεταθες) us from them, for we cannot abide with evil and foolish men, because there is no good in them but all wickedness and greediness. We beg then that we may depart from them."

1903, Christian Faith and Life, Volume 7, page 5:

Jagiello acted chivalrously; he had the body washed, covered with a purple shroud and sent to Malbork on a carriage drawn by four horses, together with the bodies of other dignitaries, such as the archcommander and the grand marshal.

1978, Paweł Jasienica, Jagiellonian Poland, American Institute of Polish Culture, page 103:

The archcommander caught his arm and tried to draw him away, counseling caution, but the enraged Patrician shook him off, saying, "He gave you this place that should have been your prison and turned it into a palace, let you work your damned unnatural magics wherever you pleased, let you recruit more of your own kind...”

1995, Martha Wells, City of Bones, TOR, →ISBN, page 316:

There's some major design flaws as well. Scaling for one is a pitta. Never liked it myself on any MMORPG, it's cheap, tacky, destroys tension and for me inserts a huge wad of loss of realism, oh, yes, those wasps I destroyed at level one in two seconds can now fight my uber level 200 with the 'Archcommanders Sword of Cheese Shoes' for ten minutes now! Go figure.

2019 April 23, Goromhir, yucklawyers, “Discussion / MOD 16 The End of Neverwinter. Lead Desinger failed.. ^([sic])”, in forums.mmorpg.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) The supreme commander; a commander-in-chief.


omnielemental

Like for a turn or three he deals piercing damage or Omnielemental damage with attacks and unlock something like Apotheosis and all it's^([sic]) source skills for one turn. Something.

2018 August 17, divinedpk, terrovek3, “Is summoning getting any changes in the definitive edition?”, in reddit.com:

I don’t like the omnielemental builds for the Cra, that is why I didn’t go omnielemental/critics^([sic]), but this is my opinion, and I want to know yours. What do you think?

2019 October 8, “Do you believe a water/air lvl. 199 Cra is viable?”, in reddit.com:

I am skeptical of becoming of Harbinger, simply because the Traveler will be omnielemental at that point, removing the need for a delusion.

2022 February 13, azadeth24, Patient_Insect_4463, “pure speculation here - a lil theory about the upcoming plot that I came up with recently. feel free to add your thoughts or debunk this entire thing in the comments 🛐 btw i have no idea why wouldn’t celestia just stop the tsaritsa^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(rare, fantasy, science fiction, video games) Encompassing all elemental attributes possible.


Isonade

/ˌiːsəʊˈnɑːdeɪ/

Transliteration of Japanese 磯撫で (いそなで, Isonade, literally “shore stroker”).

translit

With more than 70% of the Earth's surface submerged beneath water, it comes as no surprise that throughout history mankind has been fascinated with the seas and oceans. In earlier years this fascination manifested itself in the form of fear and mystery; […] in Japanese stories, fierce winds would blow whenever Isonade, a shark-like sea monster, appeared.

2009 June, Marios Christou, “Introduction”, in Fully Nonlinear Computations of Waves and Wave-structure Interaction (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), London: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, →DOI, →OCLC, page 25:

Another Japanese giant fish is Isonade, a sharklike sea monster that causes strong winds and also capsizes boats or catches unwary fishermen with the hooks on its huge tail.

2011, Gene Helfman, Bruce Collette, “Fishes in Stories and Literature”, in Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 131:

Nipponese sailors traveling along the western coast of Japan are warned to keep a weather eye open for the Isonade, akin in form to a huge shark with hook-like barbs on its tail. Much as the giant namazu catfish of Japanese legend is associated with earthquakes, the movements of the gigantic Isonade are said to be the source of sudden changes in sea currents and winds from the north.

2014 summer, Jonathan Maniscalco, “Seven Entries from The New Book of Imaginary Beings”, in Jonathan Maniscalco, Frances Gossen, editors, Clarion, number 17, Boston, Mass.: The Pen & Anvil Press; Boston University Literary Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-16, section iii (The Isonade), page 107:

(Japanese mythology) A mythological monster that resembles an enormous shark, said to live off the coast of western Japan.

إيسونادي

mythological monster that resembles an enormous shark said to live off the coast of western Japan


hysterical realism

Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

coin

This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked.

2000 July 24, James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

(literature) A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.


Elsanna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


pro-shipper

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From pro- + shipper (“one who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between characters”). Some posit that the second sense originated as a blend of problematic + shipper.

prefix

I think this whole thing is a semantic misunderstanding.. the anti-shippers and the pro-shippers are putting entirely different meanings into the phrase 'in love'.

1996 July 9, Chris Byler, “Re: 'PUSHER was a 'Shipper!! *gak*!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

For all you pro-shippers and anti-shippers keep posting and debating. Someone is watching you.

1997 April 25, Terry Luck, “Re: 'SHIPPERS SUCK!!!!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

As a pro-shipper, I think it's gonna be a long season. Will spring ever get here?

1997 November 24, Susan J. Daniell, “Re: Shippy parts lead into MOVIE!!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) One who supports a specific ship or shipping in general.


multiglobal

en-adj

multiglobal (comparative more multiglobal, superlative most multiglobal)

more multiglobal (comparative)
most multiglobal (superlative)

your CHERISHED MULTIGLOBAL EMPIRE

2011 November 11, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck:

“Be careful what you say, Ms. Modane. VectorCorp does not respond well to baseless accusations. We are a multiglobal company.

2014 December 18, Joseph R. Lallo, Artificial Evolution: Big Sigma #3, Joseph R. Lallo, →ISBN:

“[…] A multiglobal harmony of thought and reason.”

2017 December 5, Gareth L. Powell, Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy, Solaris, →ISBN:

[…] let us consider the story of “Bonk Business,” the imaginary corporation made up by Finnish artist Alvar Gullichsen: Bonk Business Inc. is a multiglobal industrial conglomerate employing 13,000 in 52 countries.

2020 August 12, Pekka Aula, Saku Mantere, Strategic Reputation Management: Towards A Company of Good, Routledge, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Spanning multiple globes.


anti-relationshipper

I realize the subject of the nature of M&S's relationship is a sore point around here, but I've never written about it before, and was invited to share my two cents. I'd like to propose that in addition to relationshippers and anti-relationshippers, there is a third faction of viewers, such as myself, who for lack of a better word I'll call "fence-sitters."

1996 June 24, Deb Mikels, “Never say never”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I would probably be classed as an anti-relationshipper myself, because my advice would be to close out the Tease and have them settle down to a deep, abiding, nonsexual love.

1996 November 6, Lee Burwasser, “Re: Are shippers dumb?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I am a fervent and proud anti-relationshipper. No non-platonic relationship whatsoever, and I'm happy.

1998 April 2, Sean Carroll, “Re: RELATIONSHIPPER OR FRIENDSHIPPER?????”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) A person who opposes the idea of a romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.


relationshipper

From relationship + -er. Emerged in early online fandom of the television series The X-Files as a term for fans who supported the possibility of a Mulder/Scully romance. First attested on alt.tv.x-files in January 1996, but it was seemingly already in use by then.

I don’t care what the relationshippers say, it’s just so OBVIOUS to try to get the two of them together and the X-Files has never been obvious.

1996, Paul Mitchell, The Duchovny Files: The Truth Is In Here, page 190:

There were the relationshippers whose focus was on Mulder and Scully’s relationship, or the MSR as it was called (with a possible emphasis on romance).

2002, Tom Kessenich, EXaminations: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6-9 of The X-files, page 4:

In media fan lingo, the idea of an OTP—the One True Pairing, a fan's absolute favorite fictional couple—can be tossed around rather casually. In terms of my history as a relationshipper, Willow and Oz will always be mine, but the real OTP in my fan identity is Buffy and me.

2012, Lily Rothman, “'I'd Very Still': Anthropology of a Lapsed Fan”, in Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion, page 134:

(fandom slang) A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.


hopping vampire

en-noun

hopping vampire (plural hopping vampires)


purple shirt of sex

The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.

2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page:

She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”

2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, page 109:

Little did they know, there would soon be legions of fans armed with evidence to the contrary like the button-down that was labeled the “Purple Shirt of Sex,” because, well, it was both fairly low cut and stirred all kinds of feelings.

2020, Esther Zuckerman, A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z, unnumbered page:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.


Pokeyman

Okay, let me explain something to you.
This is a Pokémon newsgroup. This is where people who like Pokémon come to talk, not where bashing of Pokémon is encouraged. If you dislike Pokémon to such a degree, and think so lowly of those who like it, then you are lowering your own mental activity by visiting this newsgroup and posting TWICE.
Also, you never did explain what's wrong with Pokémon, besides that it's popular among seventh-grade students.
You didn't understand that? Okay, let me put it in your language:
U fuckin' fag, dis is a damn Pokeyman newsgrup! Why da hell are u fuckin' dissin' Pokeyman in a fuckin' Pokeyman newsgrup?!
There. Did you understand that? Good.

1999 December 4, Andrusi, “I HATE POKÈMON!”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

Is DBz bigger or going to be bigger than Pokeyman?

2000 June 1, Denis de Laplante, “OT: 1 Question”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

My kids like pokeyman. I've treated them to pokeyman toys, books, videos, "snap" nintendo 64 game, and even a live show at the coleseum.
But pokeyman is still not the world's greatest hobby. Not by any stretch.

2001 February 9, Brian, “Who Is What?”, in rec.radio.amateur.policy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

Must be tough to rub one out to a Pokeyman movie then...

2001 April 25, Thomas Wharry, “My Wings Changes”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.det-redwings (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

And wasn't there an anime about some racer who was speedy? Maybe not quite as much of a phenomenon as Pokeymans or Saylermans (with no sub release like the others mentioned here), but still did well on its own?

2007 August 9, Megane, “Re: ADV and the A, B, C-titles”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:


pokeyman

(humorous) Alternative letter-case form of Pokeyman.


clairolfaction

The term olfaction was first known to be used in the early to mid 19th century. French clair 'clear' + from Latin olfactic 'a smell' (from olere 'to smell' + fact 'made', from the verb facere) + -ion.

The ability to acquire psychic knowledge or information using ones sense of smell


sexyman

Wheatley would not reach the same fame as the sexymen that would come later, but he was still given the original sexyman treatment. He was given a universally accepted humanized form so that Tumblr users could feel okay about wanting to fuck a robot—a skinny white man with blonde hair and glasses. My thoughts on Wheatley himself? None, he seems cool, I guess. My thoughts on him being a sexyman? I hate it.

2021, Belle, "Tumblr Sexymen: A Never-Ending Cycle of Questionable Taste", LOCO Mag, 2 August 2021

Whatever’s in store, fans can rest easy knowing their lil skeleton guy [Sans of Undertale] is now the undisputed sexyman of Tumblr.

2022 September 8, Isaiah Colbert, “Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story”, in Kotaku:

It's… pretty involved, but it eventually turns out that the key to being a sexyman is not to be sexy at all—which is great news for me—and Reigen was brought low by his conventional attractiveness.

2022 September 15, Joshua Wolens, “Toby Fox wrote a fanfic to explain why Undertale's Sans is the 'ultimate Tumblr sexyman'”, in PC Gamer:

(fandom slang) Ellipsis of Tumblr sexyman.


cybermind

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A computer system capable of conscious thought; a computerized mind, or artificial intelligence.


Batfamily

Ace the Bat-Hound, a formerly lost dog, joined the Batfamily in 1959, wearing a black mask while assisting Batman and Robin […]

2010, Mitzi M. Brunsdale, Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes, page 15:

To put it simply, Dick Grayson has always been the “Relationship Robin”; he's the member of the Batfamily most known for cultivating relationships, and deeply trusting those who he cares for.

2015, Jordan Hass, Star Schneider, “The New 52 (2011-present)”, in Kristen L. Geaman, editor, Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder Scholars and Creators on 75 Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman, page 160:

Each member of the Batfamily merges the world of Batman with different subject positions.

2018, Jeffrey A. Brown, Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The superhero Batman and his closest allies as a group.


BakuDeku

Blend of Bakugou (爆豪) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katsuki Bakugou and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


IidaDeku

Blend of Iida (飯田) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Tenya Iida and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#Class 1-A students


KamiDeku

Blend of Kaminari (上鳴) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Denki Kaminari and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


KiriDeku

Blend of Kirishima (切島) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Eijirou Kirishima and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


ShinDeku

Blend of Shinsou (心操) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hitoshi Shinsou and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


TodoDeku

Blend of [Shouto] Todoroki (轟) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Shouto Todoroki and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


DekuJirou

Blend of Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶) and Jirou (耳郎).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Kyouka Jirou from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#Class 1-a students


DekuMeli

Blend of Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶) and Melissa.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Melissa Shield from the My Hero Academia series.


DekuMomo

Blend of Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶) and Momo (百).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Momo Yaoyorozu from the My Hero Academia series.


IzuMina

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Mina Ashido from the My Hero Academia series.


IzuOcha

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka from the My Hero Academia series.


TogaDeku

Blend of Toga (渡我) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Himiko Toga and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#League of Villains


MidoTsu

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Tsuyu Asui from the My Hero Academia series.


Green Tea

Calques of Japanese 緑 (みどり midori) and 茶 (お茶 ocha), homonymous to green tea.


Mordetwi

(fandom slang) The crackship of characters Mordecai from Regular Show and Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.


electrogravity

(physics, science fiction) A hypothetical unification of electromagnetism and gravity.


Charontian

en-adj

Charontian (comparative more Charontian, superlative most Charontian)

more Charontian (comparative)
most Charontian (superlative)

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

The Charontian imagery is more subtle [...] the lameness of one of the horses makes the hearse toss and roll like a boat.

1979, Gerald Wade, Sylvia Bowman, Studies in Honor of Gerald E. Wade, page 126:


Charontian

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).


lycan

Are you a vampire... or are you a lycan... pledge your bloodoath to your coven or pack..

2006 February 7, trigunvamp, “[PBEM News] Vampire or Lycan, which side are you on?”, in rec.games.pbm (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-04:

Castlevania is Metroid Prime? So Gabriel and the lycans and Vampires have all grown suits and plasma weapons, can roll in to morph balls bombing eveything, and Gabriel is a woman in a space suit?

2011 January 6, skidz, “Castlevania Lords of Shadow”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-04:

The other Lycan sprung towards her and she fought him as Drago shifted to his Lycan form and faced his adversary.

2012, Anastasia Maltezos, Lycan King, page 113:

It was soon discovered that Lycans were now attacking humans for food.

2015, Drago Lavito, Order of the Lycans, page 37:

He staggered for a moment, then gritted his teeth, turning to face the Woodland lycan, his arms raised to block the next punch, and the next. The Woodland pack gathered close, shouting encouragement to their alpha prime.


merwolf

When Malcolm is in the water he is transformed into the Lord of the Sea (a part-time job), and he must save his Dominion from the evil sea-wizard Nptananan who takes on many forms, his favorite being that of a merwolf with fangs like a viper.

The Humdrum had turned the merwolves against the school, and they were crawling around, dragging their fins, getting everything wet and gnashing their teeth at little kids, and then Penelope Bunce, the hero of our story, cast a spell that made the clouds rain silver—

2013, Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 431:

Merwolf: On full moons, this creature transforms into a vicious wolf with the lower body of a fish. On other nights it is just a regular wolf, furiously dog-paddling in the ocean.

2013, Frank Lesser, Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside, →ISBN:

A short drive down to a resort on the south coast and a chat with a woman who has had a Merwolf encounter. That'll be a new one for me. Merwolves... Amphibians, obviously. I’ve heard they have razor sharp teeth.

2016, Richard Foreman, Wilful Misunderstandings, Lepus Books:

love is a stream that sometimes flows inside of me / first it’s black and then it’s green / a merwolf’s dream

2018, Will Oldham, “Love Streams”, in Songs of Love and Horror: Collected Lyrics of Will Oldham, →ISBN:

“Maledian merwolf hair?” suggested Galvin, waving his hand over a clear pouch bulging with coarse blue hair.

2020, Shivaun Plozza, chapter 2, in The Boy, the Wolf, and the Stars, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 22:

This “merwolf” used the claws of its webbed paws to scale the strut.

2021, P. Benjamin Mains, The Phoenix Rises: Beyond Imagination, number 1, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 235:


Freedonian

I sagged with relief, delighted to finally talk to someone who didn't speak Freedonian, and an adult besides.

2011, Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places, page 49:

A lodge decides it can reach out to men from a variety of variety of nations who speak Freedonian and live in greater Washington.

2012, Kenneth D. Fuller, “Grand Lodge Community Outreach Competition Begins”, in The Voice of Freemasonry, volume 29, number 1, page 24:

An imaginary language spoken in the imaginary country Freedonia.


wampyr

'[A]nd in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as "wampyr", which we all understood too well.'

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xviii. 241:

"This is difficult to prove as there are no remains — ergo, no brain — to dissect following a wampyr's death."

2015, William Mark Simmons, One Foot in the Grave:


main character syndrome

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-main charcater syndrome.wav

Furthermore,
Goku is still the main character of the series, and thus by the rules
of the main character syndrome, no one on the same side of the main
character shall surpass the main character, and the main character will
always (eventually) save the day.

1996 June 5, Dr. Briefs, “[DBGT] Pans potental.”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fiction) The phenomenon of the protagonist of a show or movie receiving unrealistic special treatment from the worldbuilders.


alt.horrorian

I'm beginning to think I'm the only alt.horrorian who actually *like* the actor Sean Connery.

1999 May 3, Henrik (at ze office), “The Crow -- Salvation”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

Met up with Marc Walkow from Image Entertainment, another alt.horrorian who sold me his awesome LBX copy of Ferrera's BODY SNATCHERS a while back.

1999 May 30, WideScreenPig, “Pig Returns, Tells Long Story!! (Names Drop Like Flies)”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

Supposedly there's a remake of House on Haunted Hill coming out in the fall. I haven't read a thing about it anywhere, other than the fact that its in development. Any Alt.horrorians heard anything about this project? Without Vincent Price, it probably won't be too worthwhile, IMHO.

1999 August 4, Jason Roth, “House on Haunted Hill?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

See, I'm not like some of the alt.horrorians who hate aping. I have no complaints if something is copied if it's well copied.

2001 February 27, Ringo, “Is PREACHER a good horror comic?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

I was surprised at how well the film cleaned up. The print looks great considering the source. And yes, it is uncut. Our own alt.horrorian Craig H. wrote a very nice review on our site at:
http://www.icehouse.net/cultcuts/ispitonyourgrave.htm

2002 February 23, cultcuts, “Elite Entertainment edition I spit on Your Grave”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

*shrug* It's up to you, man. Assuming you live under a democracy, it's entirely within your rights to make yourself look like a complete turdchunk, not only before the alt.horrorians, but also in front of those posters over here whom relish such self-immolation. Have at it, numbnuts.

2007 November 5, The 2-Belo, “net halloween greeting”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.horror.


Lumity

Lumity isn't the only queer couple confirmed in the lastest episode!

2021 August 3, Mey Rude, “Disney's The Owl House Just Made Lumity's Relationship Official”, in Out:

The most popular and well-known aspect of this in The Owl House is Lumity, or the bond between Luz and Amity.

2021 September 10, Emma Tong, “Review of the second season of The Owl House”, in The Stute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, page 10:

Fans wait eagerly for the next episode excited to see more Lumity and to see how the story will progress despite the shortened season.

2022, Tiffany Wells, "The Gay Agenda: Being Accepted in Children's Media", thesis submitted to Georgia Southern University, page 36

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luz Noceda and Amity Blight from the animated television series The Owl House.


Lower Slobbovia

From the name of a fictional country in the Li'l Abner comic strip.

Mr. Gates said that disclosing what subjects the C.I.A. was researching could influence events abroad. “Let's say it was officially confirmed that the C.I.A. had authorized a study of the possibility of financial collapse in Lower Slobbovia,” he said. “One could see how that would make international institutions lending to Lower Slobbovia very nervous.”

1986 January 20, Stephen Engelberg, quoting Robert Gates, “C.I.A. Says It Has Restored Link To Campuses to Get More Advice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

“Academies do not win the Davis Cup,” Tom Gorman, the Davis Cup captain, said this summer after Boris Becker relegated the United States to Lower Slobbovia, a full year in the American Zone sector.

1987 September 6, George Vecsey, quoting Tom Gorman, “Third World Tennis”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


MPDG

manic pixie dream girl
manic pixie dream girl#English

(film) Initialism of manic pixie dream girl.


Dark Knight

A moniker for Batman, the fictional superhero.


pouchling

Instead, she secretes a narcotic fluid which is designed to keep her pouchlings dormant. They will remain effectively comatose until the flow of her milk has stopped, and will only awaken and begin to grow and develop when she has died, […]

2011, Arinn Dembo, The Deacon's Tale, page 301:

The Elaki Mother-One stopped abruptly and David expected the pouchlings, following so closely, to run into her. They didn't.

(science fiction, fantasy) A young creature that is raised in a pouch.


fleshbag

I've died numerous times before (in this life time alone) and trembled at nothing. In fact, I was overjoyed to be able to leave this fleshbag I call home.

1999 October 4, Aazari Cantharess, “Across The Menai”, in alt.pagan (Usenet):

"We're interested in getting this robot out into this world," says Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert in the video, as part of MIT's FAB 11 conference. He seems calm and blithely unafraid, ignoring the fact that his creation is moving through the trees with an ease of motion that would make Gort weep. "We're working on a version that doesn't have that [power tether]," Raibert says of Atlas, which is code for "Run, you helpless fleshbag fools. RUN!"

2015 August 17, BTR1701, “The Terminators Are Almost Here...”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Human civilization is not immortal, you know. Even if we manage to avoid the death trap that is this Earth, and even *IF* we manage to free ourselves from these weak fleshbag bodies so that we may exist in enviroments^([sic]) that are uninhabitable to biological lifeforms, we would still be limited by the lifetime of our universe.

2017 July 2, rantingri...@gmail.com, “Re: The Collapse Of Complex Societies”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

(usually science fiction) A human or human body, as opposed to a robot or incorporeal being.


cybernet

(science fiction) Short for cybernetwork.


Warhammer

desc

→ Russian: Вархаммер (Varxammer), ва́ха (váxa) (slang)

Warhammer, a British tabletop military game set in a dystopian mediaeval fantasy world.

the Warhammer 40, 000 franchise and everything related to it

AoS

Age of Sigmar, the successor for Warhammer Fantasy Battles

GeeDubs

Games Workshop, the company that produces Warhammer merchandise

God Emperor

the ruler of one of the factions in Warhammer 40, 000

kitbashing

conversion; using different pieces to create a new character or unit, also known as

lizardman

a reptilian warrior, one of the playable factions in Warhammer Fantasy

mini

a piece representing a unit controlled by a player

plastic crack

the miniature figurines and gaming equipment being an expensive obsession for many fans of the franchises

psyker

a person who uses psychic powers in Warhammer 40, 000

orc

a monstrous warrior, one of the playable factions in both games

space marine

a superhuman soldier from one of the playable factions in Warhammer 40, 000


[ˈfɔɹɾi kʰeɪ]

From 40 + k. From 40,000, part of "Warhammer 40,000", referring to the future year where the game was set in.

(informal, slang, science fiction) Warhammer 40,000, a British tabletop military game set in a dystopian future Galaxy torn by war.


DAI

Dragon Age: Inquisition
w:Dragon Age: Inquisition

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Disney rash

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


Shakarian

There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.

2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter:

UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]

2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter:

Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂

2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.


plastic crack

From plastic + crack, comparing the collecting habit to a drug addiction.

2021 November 5, u/Extraturbulence, “[Serious] How do I handle the plastic crack addiction.”, in Reddit, r/Warhammer40k, archived from the original on 2024-02-14:

(humorous, slang, derogatory) Expensive plastic scale models that are very popular, such as those from the Warhammer franchise.


Poképhile

3)Which Pokemon would you have sexual intercourse with if you were a Pokephile.

1999 April 5, C. Hanson, “Giving in to the Survey virus.”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

Even if Silly Putty *is* a girl Ditto, what he did is *still* disgusting. I'm not some sort of Poképhile!

2000 February 10, RobfromVoid, “[PW!] A Silly Birthday Party”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

Besides doing it with pokemon is much more fun than doing it with that pokephile. . . wait, I'm doing the same thing. . .

2000 June 20, ChocoZell, “Jenny vs. Team Rocket MSTd”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

he's a pokephile

2000 July 1, pst0kely, “Professor Oak molests pokemon”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

(fandom slang) A person who is sexually attracted to Pokémon.


space-happy

en-adj

space-happy (comparative more space-happy, superlative most space-happy)

more space-happy (comparative)
most space-happy (superlative)

He worried Ground Control might think he'd gone space-happy, like Titov.

2007, David Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, page 23:

(science fiction, slang) Crazy as a result of too much time spent in space.


maidenless

maidenless (comparative more maidenless, superlative most maidenless)

more maidenless (comparative)
most maidenless (superlative)

Elden Ring
GamesRadar+
Know Your Meme
Kotaku

From maiden + -less. Popularized by its use in a quotation in the video game Elden Ring, released on February 25, 2022, referring to the "Maiden" guide who allows the player to progress.

big divorce energy ()

psychological state characteristic of a recently-divorced person

You might be maidenless, but this Banished Knight's Greatsword replica from Elden Ring will give you the confidence you need to absolutely slay in all arenas of your life.

2023 February 6, Adam Rothbarth, “The Best Unique Video Game Merch 2023”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

(Internet slang) Single; lacking a girlfriend.


Miltonist

One who studies the English poet John Milton (1608–1674).


dragonspeak

(fantasy) The language spoken by dragons.


AoS

Initialism of Age of Sigmar (“British tabletop fantasy game set after the events of Warhammer Fantasy Battle”).


GeeDubs

From gee + dubs, from the initial letters for Games Workshop, G and W.

(slang, derogatory) Games Workshop, a British board games company that created the Warhammer board game franchise.


swordmage

From sword + mage. Rarely used before December 2007 (or November: see quotation), when it was included in the first preview of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Wizards Presents: Races and Classes.

However, IMC, magic is treated as a form of energy that can be shielded or grounded by various metals (e.g. soft iron) before it is converted into another form. That's why elvish swordmages can use elfin chain - it is a 'magical' metal, one which acts as a magical superconductor and an electrical semiconductor. That's also why high concentrations of transition metals in unbroken or closely-arranged arrays will retard the casting of a spell.

1998 September 22, Autolycus, “Mages/armour rules”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

Nearly two dozen of Evermeet’s swordmages lay writhing on the ground, their palms pressed to their ears in a futile attempt to shut out illithid mind blasts, but Khelben did not pause to hurl any spells into that quarter of combat.

2001 March, Troy Denning, The Summoning (Forgotten Realms; Return of the Archwizards, book I), Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 195:

> They are by 3 school Melee/Archers =P / No such thing ; ) / Bowmage / Swordmage / etc.

2002 November 21, George, “quest items?”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.asherons_call (Usenet):

Some wild talents can take shortcuts, but usually only with specific things, such as a swordmage who can bring out the best in any edged weapon with but a whim.

2006 October 15, Dave Van Domelen, “[ASH] Info: Magic Items - A Menagerie”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet):

A Windship manned by Cymrilian Swordmages (ability level 3) arrived after the battle had commenced.[…]If the defenders of Ikarthis can hold out until daybreak, they will be re-enforced by a contingent of 100 Cymrilians (average ability level 3: +3), wearing chain mail (Armor Factor: +2). Half of their number are Swordmages (Magic modifier of +2), and they will be arriving in a windship armed with light ballistae (Weapon Factor: +6).

2007 August, A Gamemaster’s Guide to Talislanta (Talislanta, Fantasy Role Playing Game, fifth edition), →ISBN, page 207:

I was today at my FLGS here in Hungary, and to my big surprise they already had the Races & Classes preview book for sale.[…]The classes section had details about five classes: Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, and Warlock. Each of thes^([sic]) gets 3-4 pages. Then - as with the classes - there is an "other classes" section with 3-4 paragraphes^([sic]) for each class. I remember paladins, rangers, druids, barbarians, swordmages and warlords among those.

2007 November 24, fabio.mili...@gmail.com, “QUARTA edizione 4th - razze e classi..... Draconici e avanzamento unico”, in it.hobby.giochi.gdr.dnd (Usenet):

He was a swordmage, one who could wield a steel blade in one hand and the full power of the sphere in the other. It was a fearsomely powerful concordance of skills, but one that came at a terrible price. The disruption that came to all mages came also to the swordmage, it just came slower. A glacial crawl opposed to a flash freeze.

2012, Martin F. Hengst, The Last Swordmage: A Magic of Solendrea Novel (The Swordmage Trilogy; volume 1), published 1 November 2013, →ISBN, page 60:

(fantasy) One who is skilled in both swordfighting and magic use.

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space marine

Named after the marines, infantry soldiers who serve in coastal areas to assist naval forces.
The earliest usage of this term was from Bob Olsen's short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" in 1932, in which the titular soldiers rescue celebrity twins on Saturn's moon, Titan.

(science fiction) a soldier who fights in outer space or extraterrestrial worlds.


cecaelia

Apparently coined around 2007 on a discussion thread on Seatails, a mermaid-enthusiast messageboard created by Kurt Cagle, who created a Wikipedia article on the cecaelia (originally “Cecælia”), inspired by Cilia (a cilophyte in “Cilia”, a seven-page short comic story published in issue #16 of the Vampirella comic magazine, released in March of 1972), cilophyte, Coleoidea, and the song “Cecilia” by Simon and Garfunkel, about a fickle and demanding lover (according to Cagle).

During planning for the film, Ursula was not originally designed as a cecaelia (a composite mythical being, combining the head, arms and torso of a woman, and from the lower torso down, the tentacles of an octopus or squid as a form of mermaid or sea demon). It was thought that she would be another sea creature, such as a rockfish-like mermaid.

2010, Joshua C. Shaffer, Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 40:

A mundane company had hired him to summon up a cecaelia demon. For the amount of money they were paying, and considering that cecaelia demons were lesser demons who could scarcely cause all that much fuss, Magnus had agreed to not ask questions.

2013, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway) (The Bane Chronicles), Margaret K. McElderry Books, →ISBN:

A spear of flame lanced out to strike the cecaelia. It shrieked and writhed as the heat seared its flesh, dropping its spear to bat at the smoldering wounds. Torius took the opportunity to drive his cutlass up into its chest. Still the thing clutched him, tentacles wrapping his arm and snaking around his neck. Celeste darted forward, but before she could reach him, an arrow transfixed the cecaelia’s head, and it fell.[…]She had seen that the pirates outnumbered the cecaelias, but the longer reach of the invaders’ spears and their entangling tentacles were wreaking havoc.

2013 April, Chris A. Jackson, “A Surprise Engagement”, in Pirate’s Honor (Pathfinder Tales), Paizo, →ISBN, pages 113–114:

An officious Cecaelia rapped the floor of the platform sternly and called the court to order. After a few more raps and some stern looks, there was silence. She bowed deeply to Atlantica who bid her to continue with a wave.

2014, Jolie Jaquinta, “Throne of the Sea”, in Red Queen, →ISBN:

URSULA |Film| “The Little Mermaid” (1989) |Voiced by| Pat Carroll |Special attributes| She’s a cecaelia (a human-octopus mashup) with magical powers.

2014 May 30, Sarah Bryan Miller, “They’s the Best at Being the Worst”, in Go! Magazine (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), page 17:

Mademoiselle halted momentarily to marvel at a cecaelia rising furiously from the waves being whipped into foam by her tentacles and brandishing a trident high above.

2014 June, Christian Vago, The Rotted Garden (The Mademoiselle de Commercy Series; volume one), FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 441:

Ursula’s form is a cecaelia, a half human and half octopus.

2015, Harpa Omarsdottir, “Ursula”, in Disney Villains Hairstyles & Looks, Edda Publishing USA LLC, →ISBN, page 6:

While the Disney’s corporate Wiki site page on Ursula identifies her as a “villainous cecaelian sea witch” and characterises the cecaelia as “a legendary hybrid of human and octopus”, the figure of a monstrous tentacled female has little precedent in Western mythology or folklore. Rather than deriving from these sources, the cecaelia is a more modern figure that developed as a distinct entity within a dispersed node of fantasy aficionados and artists.

2017, Philip Hayward, “Becoming Ariel, Becoming Ursula”, in Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mermen) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media, John Libbey Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 37:

“Do you know what happens when you swallow a cecaelia’s tentacles” smirked Agalia when suddenly Zwart let out a squeak and grabbed his stomach and to everyone’s surprise cried out helplessly.[…]“They are the Seven High Sentinels of the Kingdom of Durkinbird, appointed by the King himself from each clanring to serve the palace and the kingdom, don’t be deceived by their cheerful behaviour, they are dignified warriors that guard the King and his palace and each one of them is strong enough to take down an entire army of cecaelias in mere seconds, the fact that the King has summoned all of them to carry out a task, the task must be mighty dangerous.”

2017, Daryl Rodrigues, Quzil Scarlett & the Kingdom of Durkinbird, Notion Press, →ISBN:

Ursula is a Cecaelia; half-human, half-octopus.

2020, James Egan, 3000 Facts about Animated Films, Lulu, →ISBN, page 191:

The lead cecaelia ship left its fleet formation to dock with the main mermaid ship. Aboard Titan’s Caravan’s ship, all watched as the cecaelia leaders walked with their long tentacles, their bodies riding along.[…]The same water fae were present from the meeting on Queen Issaleth’s red ship, and the room was filled with water to everyone’s chest—except the cecaelia. With their tentacles, their upper torsos hung well above the water.[…]Cecaelia are said to have bodies free of bones (though not true) because of their seemingly impossibly fast movements, flexibility, reflexes, and speed.

2021, Austin Dragon, Siren Storms of Madness (Fabled Quest Chronicles; book five), Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:

In Asian and North American folklore, Cecaelia is described as an “octopus-woman.”

2022, Phoebe Im, Cute Chibi Mythical Beasts & Magical Monsters: Learn How to Draw Over 60 Enchanting Creatures, Rock Point, →ISBN, page 16:

“I saw a man with a shark tail before,” Elva put in. “They are called triakis, and the octopus people? Those are cecaelia.”[…]They turned to find an elderly cecaelia entering the pavilion, flanked by four guards.[…]Morgan bellowed to the mass of mermaids, naiads, triakis and cecaelia.

2022, C.A.Watts, Mattara (The Ventura Series), Ballads & Bards Bookhouse, →ISBN:

Risa can manipulate the power of the High Seas, and transform into a cecaelia, famous throughout Nassau as Sumitomo’s sorceress, predicts the outcomes of battles and potential threats, she tells the fortunes of pirates whether they die at land or sea, also Sumitomo’s lover, Risa’s devoted to Sumitomo, would do anything he asks of her, she betrayed clan Fujiwara for him, she’s blinded by love and lust, Sumitomo completely has her under his control.

2022, Marcel, Revenge Tale: Kill Mara, Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 149:

A composite mythical being, combining the head, arms and torso of a woman (more rarely a man) and, from the lower torso down, the tentacles of an octopus or squid as a form of mermaid, sea witch, or sea demon.


Y/N

Y/N grabbed their keys and left the room.

“Y/N, come here.” He wrapped you in a tight hug.

In many imagines posted in 2013 on one blog, the scenario ends with “Y/N” (Your Name) being asked on a date. In one imagine, “Y/N” is Niall’s cousin and is going to meet his band mates for the first time. She is worried they won’t like her but Harry is especially friendly and watches her all day. Finally, he says, “You’re just really beautiful (Y/N). And I was wondering if I could take you on a date tomorrow?”

2017, Millicent Ellen Lovelock, "You and I: One Direction, Fans and the Co-Construction of Identity", thesis submitted to the University of Otago, page 28

Y/N fanfiction differs from Mary-Sue fanfiction in that it allows readers to imagine and enter the story as a protagonist.

2022, Jasdeep Kaur Chandi & Kulveen Trehan, "Clutching on to Gendered Tropes?: Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction", Volume 3, Issue 4, page 717

Often, these slippages occurred when the author described the Y/N character’s hair (“long hair, “braided hair”, “thick, tousled hair”, or hair that another character can “[run] their fingers through”), or when providing the Y/N character’s physique (“small frame”, “bikini”, “slim waist”).

2022, Effie Sapuridis & Maria K. Alberto, "Self-Insert Fanfiction as Digital Technology of the Self", Humanities, Volume 11, Issue 3 (link)

(fandom slang) Initialism of your name; a placeholder for the reader's name in self-insert fanfiction.


anitwt

hi if you're ready to convert to an anime accout^([sic]) I am here to guide u into anitwt

2016 June 1, moved (@ichjmaru), Twitter:

idk its that one side of anitwt that is really ugly the rest of us are just decent people who want to watch anime without being disgusting

2016 December 26, meeb ze dong (@azuraonlyfans), Twitter:

anitwt is THE place to have every anime ridiculously spoiled and yet i still dont have any clue what the fuck that toilet anime is about

2020 October 18, zu has moved accs (@zuxkrul), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The community of anime fans and anime-focused accounts on Twitter.


Femquisitor

You know what's nice? The Qunari Femquisitor is taller than everyone else. Yes. Good.

2014 June 11, Bryce (@robothyenas), Twitter:

Been looking at too many cool Femquisitors and now I want to restart again :(

2015 January 8, Garrus Dating Sim (@aitchsee), Twitter:

i fucking love blackwall, his romance is SO underrated. when i'm playing a femquisitor, he's the one i default to. 💖

2020 December 15, ϯ♄𝚎 ƃစဌ 𝜛ῑϯ⸦♄ (@dalishkadan), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


FemQuis

As a future FemQuisitor I appreciate all awesome artwork and posters that feature our awesome Femquis.

2014 November 6, Rogue_Slayer (@Rogue_Slayer), Twitter:

Luckily, I found a Youtube^([sic]) of the scene that exactly mirrors mine (Dalish Femquis, same mix of companions, etc)

2015 April 1, AutographedCat (@autographedcat), Twitter:

No kidding. I kept trying to romance Cass as a Femquis on PS4 but forgot about that. Flirting with Harding eased the pain.

2015 September 5, Bubblegumnex (@bubblegumnex), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) Synonym of Femquisitor.


Quizzy

From an affectionate shortening of inquisitor + -y.

I'm just glad that I can't lose approval with Cullen. He hearts my Quizzy no matter what. TRUE LOVE GUYS TAKE NOTE.

2014 December 24, Ash (@LadyFaceshred), Twitter:

Most of my DA art is of Fenris and Hawke (male) or my elf Quizzies and Iron Bull.

2018 November 29, Diana Davidsson (@Omegasama_art), Twitter:

FINALLY played The Decent DLC with a dwarf Quizzy and I flippin love it more than ever.

2022 June 1, Jen (@jentrevellan), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.