werewildcat

[…] Rozika, part vampire, part were-wildcat, who spits and yowls, […]

1966 April 14, “Community Senior Play To Be Presented Friday and Saturday”, in The Wylie News, page 7:

In Scotland there was a were-wildcat, in Russia a were-bear, and throughout Africa tales of were-lions or were-leopards abounded.

1981, Daniel Cohen, Everything You Need to Know About Monsters and Still Be Able to Get to Sleep, page 25:

Celican - werewildcats. Thought extinct in the Middle Ages, now almost _certainly_ wiped out by the Black Spiral Dancers

2000 November 22, I. Inayat, “The Splats: A Quick Guide”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wildcat or a wildcat-like human.


werelioness

A fact her mortal-purist father discouraged having disclosed was that the great monster-hunting Van Helsings had werelionesses for both a great- grandmother and a great-aunt. This ancestry Jane took great pride in.

2005, Minda Webber, The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing, →ISBN:

Rue was pretty certain Miss Sekhmet would rather keep her identity as a werelioness secret. It was all very well to reveal weremonkeys to the British government but werecats was taking things too far.

2015, Gail Carriger, Prudence, Orbit, →ISBN:

A lanky werelioness with black, spiky hair—and two semiautomatic pistols in holsters that formed an X on her chest— sprawled in a chair outside the door. Ari raised an eyebrow, but the sight wasn't entirely unexpected.

2015, Ally Shields, Eternal Fires, Etopia Press, →ISBN:

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


weremonkey

For quotations using this term, see Citations:weremonkey.

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


bonnet ripper

Blend of bonnet + bodice ripper. From being a genre of romance having women wearing bonnets, and frequently shown on the covers wearing such; whose characters harken back to the historical settings of bodice rippers.

[…] or you're reading a bonnet ripper about Jebediah the Amish farmer casting his steely gaze at Abigail the spinster, […]

2018, “How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living”, in The Babylon Bee, Crown Publishing Group:

The bonnet-ripper usually features a female protagonist who comes from an Amish or Mennonite background.

2017, Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction, Edinburgh University Press:

In her article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Valerie Weaver-Zercher, author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels, educates readers on the phenomenon of the bonnet ripper.

2015, Jack Holmes Jr., New in Anabaptist Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press:

The dubious appeal of the bonnet-ripper: "His warm, gentle lips moved over hers, and she returned the favor, until Hannah thought they might both take flight right then and there. Finally desperate for air, they parted."

2009, Michelle Legro, “Semi-sweet Wallace Shawn, Dining with John Irving”, in The New Yorker Magazine:

What do you get when you cross bodice rippers with Amish fiction? That’s right, bonnet rippers.

2013, Husna Haq, “'Bonnet rippers'? Amish romances are only gaining in popularity”, in Christian Science Monitor:

Bonnet Rippers. I LOVE it. An update on the bodice ripper, but so much more chaste.

2013, Rebecca Armstrong, “Bonnet rippers: a new kind of romantic fiction”, in The Independent:

A work in a genre of romantic fiction and Christian fiction that presents chaste representations of romantic love, where the most intimate action may be the removal of a bonnet or other similarly chaste actions. The genre is aimed at conservative devout Christian women, and frequently feature protagonists who are Amish, Mennonite, Quaker, Shaker, Puritan, or similar.


Disneyphobe

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

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

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


Lovecraft Country

From Lovecraft + country. Coined by Keith Herber, later used and popularized by the role-playing games publisher Chaosium.

2009, Keith Herber, Miskatonic River Press, "New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley", →ISBN
An anthology of six scenarios designed for use with the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Set in Lovecraft Country, a fictional area of New England created by horror author H.P. Lovecraft.

Ramsay Campbell, who created a version of Lovecraft country in and around Liverpool, and Southern Gothic writer Fred Chappell.

2013, Charles L. Crow, A Companion to American Gothic, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

It also established Miskatonic University and Arkham as key locations in Lovecraft Country

2014, Paul Roland, The Curious Case of H.P. Lovecraft, Plexus Publishing, →ISBN:

Very early, he started to create Lovecraft country; a geography of terror that came to include “witch-haunted Arkham” and “shadowed Innsmouth," places he describes in such minute detail that ingénues in Lovecraft lore, for almost a century now, have often assumed these places could be located on maps of Massachuesetts and set out in search of them.

2016, W. Scott Poole, In the Mountains of Madness:

Lovecraft's writing has inspired games as well: a popular role-playing game, The Call of Cthulhu, is set within Lovecraft country, the blend of fictional and real locales, mostly in New England, in which he set his tales.

2018, H.P. Lovecraft, Leverett Butts, H.P. Lovecraft, page 1:

Horror in Lovecraft Country: 2 Hours of Music for Lovecraftian Gaming

2019, Graham Plowman, "Horror in Lovecraft Country", ASIN B07X5VPYC6

2020, Golden Goblin Press, "Children of Lovecraft Country", →ISBN
Children of Lovecraft Country: Six Stories of Growing Up in Arkham, Kingsport, Dunwich, and Innsmouth.

(horror fiction) The fictionalized universe populated by the supernatural beings of H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction and that of other authors inspired by Lovecraft's works, especially the fictionalized version of New England.


robodroid

The police authorities and the press portray them as modern-day robodroids, programmed to kill their own people—"black-on-black crime ...

Mona: They've sent to the robodroids to soften us up! Run!

1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a)

All the robodroids had followed his command and shut themselves down.

2018, Rhoda Belleza, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Penguin, →ISBN, page 141:

(science fiction, rare) A droid; a robot.


Three Musketeer

en-noun

Three Musketeer (plural Three Musketeers)

Formed due to a misinterpretation of Three Musketeers as a compound noun that includes the stem three rather than as a plurale tantum proper noun.

Is d'Artagnan a Three Musketeer?

(nonstandard) Any one of the Three Musketeers in Alexandre Dumas' novel of the same name, i.e. either Athos, Aramis, or Porthos.


Gileadean

en-adj

Gileadean (comparative more Gileadean, superlative most Gileadean)

more Gileadean (comparative)
most Gileadean (superlative)

Strictly speaking, it was not a manuscript at all when first discovered, and bore no title. The superscription “The Handmaid’s Tale” was appended to it by Professor Wade, partly in homage to the great Geoffrey Chaucer; but those of you who know Professor Wade informally, as I do, will understand when I say that I am sure all puns were intentional, particularly that having to do with the archaic vulgar signification of the word tail; that being, to some extent, the bone, as it were, of contention, in that phase of Gileadean society of which our saga treats.

1985, Margaret Atwood, “Historical Notes”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 313:

It is certainly no accident that Offred emphasizes the large collection of books she observes in her first secret unofficial visit to the Commander's study, thus linking books directly with this serious transgression of Gileadean law.

1995, M. Keith Booker, A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism, page 262:

To equate the Gileadean repression of Offred's voice with Pieixoto's reconstruction of it is to narrow the set of possible meanings too much.

1998, John Whalen-Bridge, Political Fiction and the American Self, page 180:

The central preoccupation of the Gileadean society is human reproduction, because most members are sterile or infertile due to the build-up of toxic wastes and nuclear fallout.

1999, Virginia Olessen, Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, page 234:

Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional theocratic dystopian nation of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale.


Gileadean

If I may be permitted an editorial aside, allow me to say that in my opinion we must be cautious about passing moral judgement upon the Gileadeans.

1985, Margaret Atwood, “Historical Notes”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 314:

Not surprisingly, the Gileadeans immediately distanced themselves from this act by blaming the massacre on Islamic extremists.

2010, J. Brooks Bouson, editor, Critical Insights: The Handmaid’s Tale, Salem Press, →ISBN, page 61:

The classification of the Gileadeans, for example, is explicitly based on the biblical story of Jacob, Rachel, and Bilhah (Genesis 30:1–3), with the Commanders officially assuming the role of Jacob, the Wives thereby being given the role of Rachel, and the Handmaids that of Bilhah.

2017, Maria Christou, “Food in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopias”, in Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth-Century Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 123:

Both Gileadeans and contemporary want-to-be parents foster genetic information as the imperative condition to define the baby belonging to its family, its identity, and, in consequence, familiar relationships.

2023, Esther Muñoz-González, Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood’s Dystopias (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature), Routledge, →ISBN:

An inhabitant of the fictional theocratic dystopian nation of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale.


spamfic

From spam + fic, the implication being that such fanfics flood newsgroups or archives.

This was originally supposed to be just a quickie spamfic -- but as I wrote, many of the relationships expanded and took on lives of their own, as I started to almost believe that they were possible.

1998 June 8, Gary Kleppe, “[Ranma][Fanfic] Tangled Web”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

Not that most of what I write ISN'T silly, but it's usually not this short. I generally refer to this as my spamfic.

1999 June 14, Mordaxy, “[Ranma][Fanfic] "It's Too Perilous..."”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

It's gonna be a series of short spamfics that add up to a bigger collection called "Confession".

2000 March 27, Oliver Reyes, “[Ranma][FanFic] Secrets - Genma Saotome”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A short or quickly-written fanfic.


Nopeville

That messy project you gave me can take a bus ticket to Nopeville.

"Is this some fictional story you just now created? Because both you and it can hop on a train to Nopeville,” Charlie replied.

2017, Lenelle Lewis, Demons vs Angels, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:

[…] black dress with one strap and an uneven hemline that wouldn't even cover my butt—which was likely the point—but that dress was a short train to Nopeville for me. I shook my head.

2017, Aimee Gilchrist, Mele Kalikimaka Murder: A Charlotte Conner Aloha Lagoon Mystery, Gemma Halliday Publishing, →ISBN:

Nope, nope, nope. I was going to board the first train to Nopeville. I was terrified and Nick was insane, but I wasn't going out that easily.

2018, Erin McCarthy, Silence of the Ghost, Erin McCarthy, →ISBN:

Go and become acquainted with your bonded.” The tone of her voice brokered no argument as she dismissed me from the clearing. Yeah, right. The only thing I was going to become acquainted with was a one-way bus ticket to Nopeville.

2019, Brian Paone, Rayona Lovely Wilson, KM Reynolds, Jason Pere, Laurie Gardiner, Ausin P Sheehan, Mika Spruill, R Roy Lutz, Kyle Lechner, Bethany Hoeflich, Maria Delaney, William Thatch, Sunanda J Chatterjee, DW Vogel, Phil Hore, John Peagh, Lisa Dranzik, Douglas Esper, Rm Deemester, Carolyn Young, Lilith Sinclair, Travis West, Sarah Kaminski, Sheena Robin Harris, Carl D Jenkins, Dawn Taylor, Zachary J Ivens, Donise Sheppard, David Lee Crites, A Bond of Words: 29 Short Stories, Scout Media, →ISBN, page 119:

(slang, neologism, humorous) A fictitious location mentioned to express disapproval.


macroverse

Coordinate term: microverse

(science fiction) A macroscale universe.


microverse

Coordinate term: macroverse

(science fiction) A microscale universe.


Garnet

Garnet (Steven Universe)
Garnet, California
Garnet, Michigan
Garnet, Montana
Garnet, Wisconsin

census-designated place
census-designated place

Riverside County
Riverside County#English

A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.

An unincorporated community in Mackinac County, Michigan, United States.

A ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States.

Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County#English

An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ruby and Sapphire from the Steven Universe series, who combine to create the character Garnet.


Langford's basilisk

en-noun

Langford's basilisk (plural Langford's basilisks)

After an object in David Langford's short story "BLIT".

Dead easy: the ones who watched it all died. (Invoke Langford's Basilisk if you need a real reason.)

2002 February 27, Charles Stross, “What to throw in?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <slrna7qjct.sdj.charlie@raq981.uk2net.com.antipope.org>:

The technical term is "Langford basilisk". I expect the real deal would induce nothing more permanent than an inconveniently-timed reboot, if it can even exist.

2013 December 29, RecArtsSfPolicyWonk, “What Did You Watch? 2013-12-29 (Saturday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), message-ID <w3nrp8vuk7cz.m05n26piatio$.dlg@40tude.net>:

(science fiction) An image which causes insanity or death on viewing.


memetic hazard

Warning. Unidentified object. Warning. Unknown hazard. Possible radiation hazard. Possible biohazard. Possible memetic hazard.

2008 July 18, Sam Hughes, “halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones”, in Fine Structure, retrieved 2020-08-31:

(caution: TV Tropes is a recognized memetic hazard. Don't click the link unless you have a high resistance to interesting things and/or a day or two of spare time to kill)

2009 December 22, Bryan Derksen, “The old "Galactic Federation" meme”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet), message-ID <8HhYm.116799$gg6.81292@newsfe25.iad>:


infohazard

Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.

A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.

[2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:

If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.

2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, retrieved 2020-08-31:

(chiefly science fiction) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.


dormantory

(science fiction) A cryogenic warehouse for storing people in suspended animation.


aspidochelone

From Ancient Greek ἀσπιδοχελώνη (aspidokhelṓnē).

bor

ἀσπιδοχελώνη

A fabled sea creature according to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back. It is often mistaken for an island, enticing unwitting sailors and drowning them.


Spangel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Spike and Angel from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


shippery

en-adj

shippery (comparative more shippery, superlative most shippery)

more shippery (comparative)
most shippery (superlative)

I'm a noromo. I mostly care about the story. I don't pick up on or remember shippery things that Mulder and Scully do with each other during the ep that don't advance the story.

2000 June 13, laura capozzola, “Re: Noromos, help me understand...”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Related to, characteristic of, or appealing to a shipper (a person who ships characters).


simworld

(science fiction) A simulated world, as in virtual reality or cyberspace.


helionaut

IIRC from the director's commentary the name was chosen to add a bit of humility to the mission, lest the helionauts get too cocky about their cutting edge technology.

2008 January 10, Jared, “Re: SUNSHINE (no spoilers)”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films (Usenet):

(science fiction, rare) Someone who travels to the Sun; an explorer of the Sun.


on stun

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(science fiction) An intensity setting of the fictional phaser energy weapon, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69), which non-lethally stuns its target.


werebird

(fantasy, mythology) A being that can change between human and bird form.


abhuman

(science fiction) A partially human creature.


murder mystery

en-noun

murder mystery (plural murder mysteries)

(fiction) A subgenre of crime fiction in which characters must investigate and solve a murder.


pull to publish

en-verb

pull to publish (third-person singular simple present pulls to publish, present participle pulling to publish, simple past and past participle pulled to publish)

pulls to publish (present singular third-person)
pulling to publish (participle present)
pulled to publish (participle past)
pulled to publish (past)

Such a definition allows us to consider the implications of ‘pulling to publish’ Twilight fanfics.

2014 August, Joseph Brennan, David Large, “‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction”, in Media International Australia, volume 152, number 1, page 28:

E. L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey (originally a Twilight fan fiction) has enjoyed tremendous success, inspiring other fan fiction authors to ‘pull to publish’, particularly via new fan-launched digital publishing houses […]

2015, Jessica Seymour, Jenny Roth, & Monica Flegel, "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Fan-creator interactions and new online storytelling", Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 4, Numbers 2-3, June 2015, page 108

While attention capital drove her success, it was not entirely positive: the fan community perceived James’ “filing off the serial numbers” (deleting identifiable references to its source text) and pulling to publish as a betrayal of the community and an exploitation of community efforts to improve the work through feedback.

2019, R. Lyle Skains, Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy, page 68:

To withdraw a work of fan fiction from circulation and commercially publish a reworked version of it as original fiction.

Cthulhu Mythos
Les Misérables
Sherlock Holmes
Star Wars


plastiglass

(science fiction) A clear material combining the characteristics of plastic and glass.


slaughterbot

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(science fiction) Synonym of killbot (“robot designed for killing”)


biosuit

(science fiction) A protective suit that enhances or monitors the wearer's biological functions.


vidiscreen

(science fiction) Alternative form of vidscreen


holodisplay

(science fiction) A holographic display.


Dickensiana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Charles Dickens (1812–1870), English writer and social critic.


be there and be square

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

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

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

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


ecofiction

After the publication of The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver rose to a position of authority in feminist writings and ecofiction for her command of political allegory set during the Congo's turbulent emergence from colonialism.

2015, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion, McFarland, →ISBN, page 3:

This coming-of-age story signals that eco-fiction has come of age as well: wilder, more reckless and more breathtaking than previously thought, a wager and a promise that what emerges from the 21st century will be as good as any from the 20th, or the 19th.

2017 May 5, Wai Chee Dimock, “There’s No Escape From Contamination Above the Toxic Sea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In 1941, George R. Stewart’s novel “Storm” — chronicling the 12-day life of a fictional cyclone — was published. It is, arguably, the first modern eco-fiction novel.

2021 November 16, Omar El Akkad, “Neal Stephenson’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Fiction that deals with environmental issues and the relation between humanity and the physical environment.


spellsword

From spell + sword, perhaps modeled after sellsword.

An archetype in fantasy stories and games that is capable of harnessing both magic and melee weaponry in combat.


plastoid

(science fiction) A plastic-like material.


Latin lover

I began to consider the contradictions in these descriptions: that although Mastroianni, as commodity, was often marketed as the quintessential Italian man, his characters betrayed instead a much more conflicting image of Italian masculinity than the category of Latin lover allowed.

2008, Krin Gabbard, William Luhr, Screening Genders, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 49:

(film) A stereotype of a passionate and attractive male of Latin or Romance European origin.


timegate

(science fiction) A portal enabling time travel.


litfic

True. But as many genre writers who otherwise learn well in classes have found out, if they want to learn writing, it's hard to do it in a group that sneers at anything not litfic.

2002 December 20, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, “Seton Hill University”, in rec.arts.sf.composition:

It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.

2014 July 18, Thomas Christie, Notional Identities: Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 202:

I was once described on Twitter as a “litfic writer” who was “Quite Put Out” by a genre writer's mindless repetition of the above tropes[…]

2019 October 13, Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams, editors, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page xviii:


literary fiction

I don't think "A is for Apple" qualifies as literary fiction.

The present book is mainly about literary fiction, because this is where the confusion is most profound, but in some contexts it may be useful or interesting to include non-fiction.

2014 January 30, Geir Farner, Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:

Any work of fiction regarded as having literary merit.


metatime

en-noun

metatime (countable and uncountable, plural metatimes)

This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.

1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, →ISBN, page 213f.:

How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe[…]

2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity, →ISBN, page 38:

Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.

2009 May 13, William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, →ISBN, page 149:

My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.

2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, →ISBN, page 148:

A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.


Calzona

And as long as they were together, Calzona (Callie + Arizona) were a model couple.

2016, Claudia Riconda, Grey’s Pride: How Grey’s Anatomy Has Changed Our Lives, unnumbered page:

As for Ramirez, she'd debut on CBS's Madam Secretary a year and a half later, and with a new look that restored the pulses of Calzona fans everywhere.

2021, Lesley Goldberg, quoted in Lynette Rice, How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy, unnumbered page

Javi also delivered a eulogy memorializing the breakup of Calzona and their sapphic love.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


techno-orientalism

The origins of the cyberpunk genre involve Western anxieties about the East. Techno-orientalism is the use of Asian aesthetics in cyberpunk, futuristic, and dystopian settings.

2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(science fiction) Use of Asian aesthetics and cultural elements in Western works of science fiction.


socioengineer

There will be massive campsite development for X number of campers that some socioengineer has computed will be screaming for tent pads with hot water and electricity in 1980.

At this point, enter the socioengineer — the new breed of technologist with social concerns and a liberal education to match his technical competence, the specially equipped engineer who tackles the massive problems of society […]

1970, Professional Engineer, volume 40, page 37:

'You were a socioengineer, before you dropped dead,' he said bluntly. 'You'll confirm what I say. It seems to me that the Xeelee war or wars were no more than still another ghastly, epochal error of mankind. […]

(rare, sometimes science fiction) A social engineer, one who uses scientific data to influence social attitudes and behaviors.


alux

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya alux or via Spanish alux.

(mythology) A kind of sprite in the folklore of certain Maya peoples.


yinglong

(Chinese mythology) a winged dragon and rain deity in Chinese mythology


hulijing

(Chinese mythology) nine-tailed fox in Chinese mythology


huldre

Learned borrowing from Norwegian hulder, with the same meaning.

In Norway, the Huldre drive cattle before them, which are as blue as they are themselves.

1828, T. Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, volume 3, page 138:

"Well, the first time I came across the huldre, I was about eight or nine years old, and it was somewhere up on the main road between Bjerke and Mo."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:

The mention of the tail relates the wood-fairy to the Huldre who were very beautiful except for a long tail which they always tried to hide, as the Wood Elves hid their hollow back.

1978, Katherine M. Briggs, The Vanishing People, page 76:


dezombification

The process of dezombifying somebody or something.


Common

Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other.

2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 395:

universal language
universal language#Noun

(science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.


Queequeg

This type of programme envisaged might do something towards combating the 'Queequeg Syndrome', which is an induced psychiatric illness, due to the patient being treated as abnormal. The cause is similar to that of institutional neurosis, but it affects patients outside hospital and is due to the attitudes of family, general practitioner, community workers and society. The patient is now expected to be more normal than normal.

1969, John Anthony Whitehead, Morgan David Enoch, “Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?”, in Mental Health, volume 28 (Autumn), London: National Association for Mental Health, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, pages 22–24:

After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

For Ishmael, unparented and self-abhoring, accession requires that he find, then lose himself in a Queequeg, preparatory to finding, then losing himself in an Ahab, both of whom he will, at the end of the adventure, kill.

2000, Suzanne B. Stein, The Pusher and the Sufferer: An Unsentimental Reading of Moby Dick, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 36:

A person, fictional character, or other foil who literally or symbolically fulfills one or more of the roles Queequeg played in Moby-Dick such as the noble savage, Entwicklungsroman guru or exemplar, or racially-inflected spear carrier role.


manga mark

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Compound of manga + mark. Compare Japanese 漫符(まんぷ) (manpu, “manga icon”).

Cultural learning experiences are required to understanding manga''' marks. For example, adults of Botswana interpreted a sweat mark used in Western comics as blood, rain, and tears (Byram and Garforth, 1980).

2006, David Shwalb, Jun Nakazawa, Barbara J. Shwalb, Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan, page 29:

In a previous preliminary experiment, we determined facial expressions for the robot KOBIAN-R with manga marks. Those expressions included four manga marks as “Cross popping veins” for “Anger”, “Tear mark” for “Sadness”, “Vertical lines” for “Fear” and “Wrinkle” for “Disgust”.

2014, Tatsuhiro Kishi, Hajime Futaki, Gabriele Trovato, Nobutsuna Endo, A Robotic Head that Displays Japanese “Manga” Marks:

Nakazawa (2005b) asked the meaning of the twelve manga''' marks to a sample of kindergartners, first-, fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-graders. Understanding of manga''' marks progressed along with grade level (Figure 7.2)

2016, Jun Nakazawa, “Manga literacy and manga comprehension in Japanese children”, in Neil Cohn, editor, The Visual Narrative Reader, page 248:

The comprehensive techniques that composes manga is immature. But there is a very high expressiveness in some aspects, such as the creation of a face viewed from the front and the expression of expressions using manga marks.

2020, Kurobokuya, Kurobokuya manga lesson 4:

(cartooning, manga, anime) A cartoon icon; a symbol used to indicate emotion, movement, etc. in a drawing; especially one used in or associated with Japanese-style manga.


hill-troll

There is a hill on the lands of Skjelverod near Bingsted called Kirsten's-hill (Kirsten's Bjerg). In it there lived a Hill-troll whose name was Skynd, who had from time to time stolen no less than three wives from a man in the village of Englerup.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 198:

"What shall I do now? he said. As soon as the king had had time to consider, he told him that he must go the hill-troll, who had taken his grandfather's sword.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:

(mythology) A troll that lives in or under a hill.


love story

→ German: Lovestory

→ Italian: love story


Disneybounding

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

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


uruisg

(European folklore, mythology) A brownie in Scottish folklore.


lost world

lost world (countable and uncountable, plural lost worlds)

Developed by such popular writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Abraham Merrit, the lost world novel presents small, encapsulated worlds, inhabited by the living fossils of some prehistoric culture, often with dinosaurs or other extinct beasts thrown in for good measure.

2014, Elana Gomel, Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature, Routledge, →ISBN:

(uncountable) A subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown world out of time, place, or both.


Houyhnhnm

Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as a humorous, onomatopoeic play on the sound made by horses.

I retain in my Mind the Lectures and Example of my noble Maſter and the other illuſtrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had ſo long the Honour to be an humble Hearer.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Veracity. His Design in Publishing this Work. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 340–341:

"The Squire says you know a good deal about horses, so I suppose you understand the Houyhnhnm language? I'm learning it, and it is very nice," laughed Miss Celia, as Chevalita gave a little whinny and snuffled her nose into Ben's pocket.

1878, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 7, in Under the Lilacs:

”The moment he called me his ‘gentle and reasonable Houyhnhnm,’” an archivist notes, “I should have known that the man was deranged.”

1995 February 19, Marilyn Stasio, “What to Read: Crime”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-03-03:

Certainly the philosopher was not a pessimistic luncheon companion. He […] loped off in the direction of the London Library, leaving me with an impression of twinkling eyes, laughter lines (he whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm), and a sensibility genuinely focused on what will happen in the next five minutes - or five years - albeit one steeped in knowledge of the past.

2014 January 28, Will Self, “John Gray: Forget everything you know”, in Independent, retrieved 2021-03-03:

(fiction) One of a fictional race of exceptionally civilized creatures, who look exactly like horses, inhabiting the same land as the brutish Yahoos.


facehoof

From face + hoof, by analogy with facepalm.

(My Little Pony fandom slang) A facepalm.


facehoof

en-verb

facehoof (third-person singular simple present facehoofs, present participle facehoofing, simple past and past participle facehoofed)

facehoofs (present singular third-person)
facehoofing (participle present)
facehoofed (participle past)
facehoofed (past)

(My Little Pony fandom slang) to facepalm.


incubatorium

The place is an incubatorium where hybrid fetuses are nourished. In the climactic episode, an extractor is inserted in her vagina to withdraw an unusually well-developed fetus that has gestated three or four months.

2012, Allan Mazur, Implausible Beliefs: In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs, page 136:

(science fiction) A place where fetuses are stored in a state of incubation.


longfather

From long + father. Coined by British writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien.

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'I would have things as they were in all the days of my life,' answered Denethor, 'and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.

1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Pyre of Denethor”, in The Return of the King:

Not until I could no longer feel behind me the contamination that was the temple where the Warlock's longfather had ruled did I pause to clean myself again with dust.

1982, Ardath Mayhar, Warlock's Gift, page 65:

If you were to walk among them, O cherished Becca, as our own longfather did, who himself ran and played in the old man's field, you would be dazzled by their beauty, just as our longfather was, for they grow higher and ever higher, and brighter and ever brighter.

2005, Gene Wolfe, “The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun”, in Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories, page 43:

Three kings ago, my longfather taught the Everran lords that a king is not a corsair's figurehead.

2005, Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane, page 20:

And if thou wouldst aid me for the sake of sworn friendship, promise me only this—take my place, as once you took the place of my longfather William.

2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Battle of Evernight:


wishing cap

(fiction) A hat or cap that magically lets the wearer's wishes come true


Kekistan

From kek (Internet interjection representing laughter) or Kek (an anglicization of kkw, the name of an Ancient Egyptian god of darkness sometimes depicted as a frog, used in reference to Pepe the Frog) combined with -stan (stereotypical Middle Eastern country suffix, used ironically). Analyzable as Kek/kek + -i- + -stan.

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Kekistan has not only a fictional flag but an anthem, the 1980s pop song Shadilay.

2019, Paul Mason, Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being, unnumbered page:

The new “national flag” of “Kekistan” made its appearance not only in Twitter avatars and on 4chan boards, but also in real life.

2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

The Kekistan flag is a German Nazi regimental design with the swastika replaced by a series of Ks, serving as a symbol of one's alignment with neo-fascism.

2020, Christopher Ketcham, Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump's America, unnumbered page:

(Internet slang, 4chan, alt-right) A fictional country associated with Western alt-right values.


fulldive

From a fictional technology in the Japanese light novel and anime Sword Art Online.

Experts say it will take at least another ten years before we create real fulldive technology.

(science fiction) Virtual reality technology that inputs sensory data directly into a user's brain (especially when the brain may also act upon the technology)


Trimalchio

(fiction) A wealthy freedman in the 1st century CE Roman work of fiction Satyricon.


Jupiterian

en-adj

Jupiterian (comparative more Jupiterian, superlative most Jupiterian)

more Jupiterian (comparative)
most Jupiterian (superlative)

(astrology, rare) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.

He soon discovered that the role itself was anything but normal in a nation that wants presidents to be at once Jupiterian and close to the people.

2023 June 10, Roula Khalaf, “Lunch with the FT: François Holland”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(figurative) Jovian; elevated, rarefied.


Jupiterian

(chiefly science fiction, rare) An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.


carisack

Pulling a little carrisack from his pack, he began to fill it with small but essential pieces of his Wyvern's survival kit.

2014, Scott Ashby, Assignment to Earth, page 82:

Beside her the men left a soft tube of nutrient gel and a carisack of water.

2016, Elizabeth Moon, Rules of Engagement:

She fished in her carisack for drops, then tilted her head back to administer them.

2017, Maggie Lynch, Eternity: Virus Wars:

(science fiction) A bag for carrying things.


reactionless drive

en-noun

reactionless drive (plural reactionless drives)

A hypothetical device producing motion without the exhaust of a propellant.


Dean drive

After the inventor, Norman Lorimer Dean (1902–1972).


Biefeld-Brown effect

Named by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown after himself and astronomy professor Paul Alfred Biefeld, his former teacher and possibly co-experimenter.

An electrical phenomenon that produces an ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, observed on an asymmetric capacitor when high voltage is applied to the electrodes.


Chad Thundercock

Chad Thundercock (plural Chad Thundercocks)

(Internet slang, vulgar, humorous) A stereotypical male who is especially sexually attractive.


stefnal

en-adj

stefnal (comparative more stefnal, superlative most stefnal)

more stefnal (comparative)
most stefnal (superlative)

"We" is us newsstand-borne writers, such, for particular instance, as Frederik Pohl, whose literary career began in the 1930s pulps and has been wedded to stefnal evolutions as few other careers have.

2012, Algis Budrys, Benchmarks Revisited 1983-1986, →ISBN, page 144:

Throughout the novel, in fact, Cambias alludes to many stefnal icons and tropes in knowing and humorous ways that never go over the border to self-indulgence or parody.

2021 May 16, Paul Di Filippo, “Paul Di Filippo Reviews The Godel Operation by James L. Cambias”, in Locus:


gnomekind

(fantasy) All gnomes, considered as a group.


untrinilium

systematic element name
systematic element name

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 130 (symbol Utn).


land shark

(fantasy) Any shark-like creature that dwells on land.


saucercraft

A hypothetical flying vehicle with a disc-like shape; flying saucer.


get 'em story

(fandom slang) A piece of fan fiction based around a character being hurt or harmed.


DPPt

From the initials of Diamond, Pearl and Pt, the chemical symbol for Platinum.

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.


SuMo

Pokémon Sun and Moon
w:Pokémon Sun and Moon

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Sun and Moon.


Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
w:Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.


USUM

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
w:Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.


LGPE

w:Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.


SwSh

Pokémon Sword and Shield
w:Pokémon Sword and Shield

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Sword and Shield.


PoGo

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Go.


gillygaloo

(US folklore) A fictional bird said to nest on hillsides and to lay square eggs that will not roll downhill.


Chadband

After the character of Mr Chadband in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (1852).

Chadbands have nothing to do with art, and their appearance on every possible occasion is an insult to artistic intelligence. The priest is the enemy of art; always has been, and always will be. Art is pagan, and the prattle of the preacher will never make it anything else.

1891, Alfred Trumble, The Art Collector: A Journal Devoted to the Arts and the Crafts, page 50:

Would a Chadband, a deliberate hypocrite, have achieved the stern self-abandonment with which he now set himself to readjust Edward Albert's affairs?

1941, H. G. Wells, You Can't Be Too Careful:


Loudcest

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(fandom slang) Incestuous shipping of The Loud House characters, particularly those from the Loud family, most notably Lincoln Loud and any of his sisters.


Hyrule

First use appears in 1986 with the release of The Legend of Zelda.

... Hyrule was ruled by Princess Zelda, who used the magic of her Triforce triangles to help her people.

1989, Art Ellis, Kim Ellis (illustrators), The Legend of Zelda - Molblin's Magic Spear:

The scenery of Hyrule includes roads, water, mountains, plains, deserts, graveyards, forests, swamps, bridges, caves, towns, and, of course, the Palaces.

1990, Donald R. McCrary, Conquering Zelda - The Unauthorized Guide, page 81:

Also included is a fold-out map that shows the layout of the land of Hyrule, describes some of the creatures you'll meet and the weapons you can obtain, and offers still more playing tips.

1991, Steven A. Schwartz, The Big Book of Nintendo Games, page 182:

Hyrule's large bodies of water have several whirlpools.

2002, Bryan Stratton, Stephen Stratton, The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 172:

(video games) The kingdom that serves as the iconic setting for a majority of the games in the Legend of Zelda series.


Mickey Mouse ring

en-noun

Mickey Mouse ring (plural Mickey Mouse rings)

2020 NBA Bubble
Championship ring
LeBron James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Scroogian

en-adj

Scroogian (comparative more Scroogian, superlative most Scroogian)

more Scroogian (comparative)
most Scroogian (superlative)


Scroogean

Scroogean (comparative more Scroogean, superlative most Scroogean)

more Scroogean (comparative)
most Scroogean (superlative)


subetheric

The Central AI instantly noted unusual fluctuations in the Subetheric Domain.

True reality is subetheric and not perceptible through our etheric senses, though we get hints of synchronicities (apparent coincidences mediated by nonlocal communication). Subetheric reality is, of course, nonmaterial.

2016, Dennis J. Parizek, Everyverse RPG Paranormality:

Gerda looked down on the wrecked radio—wrecked by her own fair hands—awaiting its reassembly into a subetheric radio set.

2018, Kenneth Bulmer, The Earth Gods Are Coming:

(science fiction) Relating to or involving the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel").


podcar

(science fiction) A small pod-like passenger vehicle.


plot armor

(colloquial, fiction, sometimes derogatory) A plot device wherein a fictional character or other entity repeatedly and inexplicably avoids harm or misfortune, due to their importance to the work's continued plot; the property of being prone to deus ex machina.


clanspeak

Carl understood clanspeak, of course, but only someone with two independent sets of vocal chords could speak it fluently.

2010, Edward M. Lerner, InterstellarNet: New Order:

He spoke the grymjek, the clanspeak, better than Anna's own father.

National Geographic: The hidden world of whale culture https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-hidden-world-of-whale-culture-feature
CLANSPEAK
Members of a sperm whale family near the Caribbean island of Dominica are part of a clan that's culturally distinct from others. Each clan communicates in its own dialect of click patterns, like Morse code.

(rare, chiefly fantasy) The language or dialect of a certain clan.


Joha

A famous character in Arabic popular literature

جُحَا

a famous character in Arabic popular literature


Eatanswill

Name of the fictitious setting of riotous parliamentary elections in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Derived from eat and swill; see swill (“to drink”).

The area where a disorderly, argumentative and riotous election takes place.


magocracy

en-noun

magocracy (countable and uncountable, plural magocracies)

In a magocracy, arcane spellcasters usually have the greatest rights and freedoms, and nonspellcasters are looked down upon.

2000, Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams, Dungeon Master's Guide: Core Rulebook II, page 156:

Of course, he knew that his attitude about magic making one superior came from having been raised in a magocracy, where the most powerful mage was made the King or Queen at each five-year turning of the throne's succession.

2008, Jean Johnson, The Master: A Novel of the Sons of Destiny, page 11:

The Tevinter imperium is ruled by a magocracy. The most powerful of mages wield the greatest influence.

2020, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, page 7:

(fantasy) Government or rule by those with magical powers; a hierarchy composed of wizards or mages.


genship

There had been doubts that a genship crew would be able to handle a starship after five generations or so post departure, ...

2018, Wes Boyd, Destiny, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Second, genship endurance is still a het dependent plan. Maybe we can hack cryophase, just sleep for thousands of years on your ship, become space vampires. The breeders can keep breeding."

2016, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Contraction of generation ship.


hypercarry

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From hyper- + carry, in the sense that this character "carries" the player through the game.

Alice is a hypercarry: level her up and she will take you all the way to endgame.

2015, Dignitas, Hypercarries: Misconceptions and Reality, Dignitas.gg
Be it hyper carry, hypercarry, hard carry, or any other term you want to call it, a hypercarry is a specific subclass of the carry role.

Her Elemental Burst also gets stronger for every attack that Eula lands, making her a hypercarry similar to Hu Tao and Razor.

2021, Marc Santos, “'Genshin Impact' Guide: Best Team Compositions For Eula”, in International Business Times:

(video games) A video game character that does so much damage that success in the game is mainly dependent on that character.


bury your gays

(fandom slang) A fiction trope where gay characters tend to die or generally meet an untimely demise.


Phinabella

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

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

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


earthberg

In some senses, a blend of earth + iceberg; in other senses from earth + berg.

The landscape of the Elemental Chaos is broken up by rivers of lightning, seas of fire, floating earthbergs, ice mountains, and other fantastic terrain features.

2008, Jennifer Clark Wilkes, Wizards Presents Worlds and Monsters, page 16:

Marrec mentally labeled the floating islands 'earthbergs.' He saw a few perfect cubes, each face a mirror, tumbling through the darkness.

2010, Bruce R. Cordell, Lady of Poison: The Priests:

All land is floating islands, like icebergs of earth, or “earthbergs,” honeycombed with caves.

2019, Mike Pritchard, A Player's Guide to Strinrath, page 26:

(fantasy) A mass suspended or floating in water, similar to an iceberg, but consisting of earth (dirt, soil, etc.).


EPR telephone

From EPR + telephone. From being a method of transmission (telephone) in non-linear quantum physics where faster-than-light (FTL) communication (non-local communication) is possible, as described in the EPR paradox proposed by Einstein, Poldolsky, Rosen, violating relativity. Coined by American physicist Joseph Polchinski in 1990.

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Schrödinger equation
Schrödinger equation#English

A method of transmission of information non-locally, allowing FTL communication and back-in-time communication, through application of Steven Weinberg's proposed non-linear fields in quantum physics on entangled particles, accessing hidden variables of the Schrödinger equation.


princess carry

en-noun

princess carry (plural princess carries)

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Calque of Japanese お姫様だっこ (“o-hime-sama dakko”).

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Elize was being held in a princess carry, and while she found that embarrassing, now wasn't really the time to complain.

2020, Yukiya Murasaki, Altina the Sword Princess: Volume 4, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

“A princess carry?” “Yeah, well, how do I describe it? I put my arm under your knees and behind your back and carry you.

2021, Tsunehiko Watanabe, The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 4, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

“Oh! W-With a princess carry, then? Also known as a bridal carry?”

2019, Supana Onikage, Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 7, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

year unknown, Justin Miller, World Keeper: Advent, Justin Miller
So, I scooped her up in my arms in a... yes... in a princess carry, and jumped out the window ...

She noticed that Flora's complexion was off, but she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable at the novel sight of Rio holding Flora in a princess carry.

2020, Yuri Kitayama, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Volume 8, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:


princess carry

en-verb

princess carry (third-person singular simple present princess carries, present participle princess carrying, simple past and past participle princess carried)

princess carries (present singular third-person)
princess carrying (participle present)
princess carried (participle past)
princess carried (past)

Naturally, he was going to princess carry her back.

2017, Ryo Shirakome, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Volume 2, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction) To carry another person in a bridal carry.


spookological

In an autobiographical essay published in 1997, Money explains “[t]he general tendency is to want to say that gender identity is either biological or not biological — to which my jocular response is that if it’s not biological, then it must be spookological or occult, for there is a biology of learning and remembering, and it does affect the brain, doesn’t it?”

2017 June 30, Michaela Koch, Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies Between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123, →ISBN:

(informal) Relating to the study of ghosts.


warsuit

(science fiction) A suit equipped with technology for use in combat.


flanderization

en-noun

flanderization (countable and uncountable, plural flanderizations)

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alternative letter-case form of Flanderization


mindfile

(sometimes science fiction) A digital database of a person's life, seen as a mechanism for preserving human knowledge or consciousness.


cyberconsciousness

en-noun

cyberconsciousness (usually uncountable, plural cyberconsciousnesses)

The emergence of mindfiles and cyberconsciousness suggests that technology is advancing the notion of mind beyond the human.

2015, Ilia Delio, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness:

Once a biological consciousness is copied into a cyberconsciousness, the possibilities for longevity skyrocket.

2019, Jacob Shatzer, Transhumanism and the Image of God, page 102:

(science fiction) The use of computer technology to replicate consciousness as in living individuals.


Catradora

I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?

2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:

From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.

2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:

While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]

2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Catra and Adora (She-Ra) from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


Finnrey

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

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

FinnRey fan art

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

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

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

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


bronyspeak

Brony communities invented ‘bronyspeak’ and use codes of community-enforced niceness so that ‘nopony’ has to suffer social rejection.

2013 April 7, Jon Coumes, “What Do Men's Rights Activists and Bronies Have in Common?”, in The American Prospect:

This playful "ponyspeak" is innocent and easy to decode, but it inspired the much more vernacular "bronyspeak," a hybrid of this official wordplay with oral urban slang.

2015, Bill Ellis, "What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet", Journal of American Folklore, Volume 128, Number 509, Summer 2015

In the Brony fandom, despite referencing phrases and catch phrases from the show, the bronies have created a separate language, Bronyspeak.

2016, Nicolai Puggaard Hansen, "Fandom In The Digita; Age: An Exploration of Value Co-Creation in Online Fan Communities", thesis submitted to Copenhagen Business School, page 53

(fandom slang) The special slang used within the brony community.


biorg

Blend of biological + organism(?), modelled on cyborg, which is from cybernetic + organism.

In this case, the story concerns three pets who have gone missing—a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate. These pets have been transformed by the US Air Force into computer-enhanced "biorgs," as part of an army of "efficient animal slaves" designed to take the place of humans […]

2018, David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life:

Biorgs are both cyborgs and companion animals, […] Vint's reading of the biorgs' speech underscores how the comic blurs the division between nature and culture as well as between human and non-human animals. The biorgs may not speak exactly like humans, but their speech communicates […] While canine biorgs' speech […]

2020, Sidney I. Dobrin, EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels, McFarland, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

Metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in her hair, I am presently a doctoral student […]

2021, Florence Ashley, "'X' why? Gender Marks and Non-binary Transgender People", in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson (editors), Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, Springer Nature, pages 33-34

(neologism, science fiction, rare) A non-human animal cyborg.


silver fork novel

silver fork novel (plural silver fork novels)

Coined by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt in 1827.

coin

In addition, the chapter also explores the influence of the London Season on the content and form of the silver fork novel. One common critique of the silver fork novel was that the genre was formulaic and, thus, easily produced by any hack writer who might put pen to paper.

2015, Cheryl A. Wilson, Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:

A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.


crisitunity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


gamecraft

There are three primary means of establishing dominance: the facedown, the gamecraft and the duel.

1994, Mark Rein-Hagen, Robert Hatch, Bill Bridges, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, page 36:

In gamecraft, the Garou compete in a contest of skill or wits: a riddle contest, a chess match or the like. Gamecraft is usually considered a valid means of establishing dominance when facing mental conundrums.

Do you think these scars I wear are badges of gamecraft?

2001, Gherbod Fleming, Werewolf, page 266:

(fantasy) A type of dominance competition practiced by werewolves that focuses on cleverness, wit, and cunning.


Encyclopedia Galactica

Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic

blend

(science fiction) A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.


Baumian

en-adj

Baumian (comparative more Baumian, superlative most Baumian)

more Baumian (comparative)
most Baumian (superlative)

Of or relating to L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author of children's books, notably The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.


superbreath

en-noun

superbreath (countable and uncountable, plural superbreaths)

From super- + breath. Originally from the DC Comics Superman franchises.

His enormous muscles allowed him to perform any action at superspeed, and incredible lung power gave him superbreath, so he could blow the snow from an entire mountain range with one breath.

1982, John W. Presley, Essential Reading Skills, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 230:

Another creep he blew off the roof with his superbreath.

1992, Michael Kandel, Captain Jack Zodiac, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 63:

They had the power of flight — Red Thread could cover thousand of miles in a night — and the power to disappear and transform: they had the power of superbreath that sent the enemy flying, as well as the power to create armies out of cutouts: they knew of magic drugs and powerful medications.

1999, Victoria Baldwin Cass, Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 81:

(rare) An extremely powerful breath (exhalation).


hanahaki

From Japanese 花吐き病 (hanahaki-byō), from 花 (hana, “flower”) + 吐く (haku, “to vomit”). An invention of Matsuda Naoko (松田奈緒子) for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).

The cascading emotions are
giving me hanahaki tonight, they're
beautiful but it's suffocating.

2019, Unzila Iftikhar, Before Your Eyes - Despite It All, You Still Rise, page 9:

It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics.

2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 27

However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.

2020, Ivy Wong, "The Cure for Hanahaki", English Literary Magazine (St. Paul's Co-Educational College, Hong Kong), page 22

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.


gumiho

Borrowed from Korean 구미호 (gumiho, “nine-tailed fox”).

Gumihos are able to transform into human form, generally beautiful women, in order to seduce men.

2012, “Translation Notes”, in Laon, volume 5, unnumbered page:

In their human guise the gumiho will seduce a man, kill him, and then consume his liver.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, page 146:

Somin had grown up hearing stories about gumiho—nine-tailed foxes with the ability to live forever as long as they devoured the energy of men.

2020, Kat Cho, Vicious Spirits, pages 15–16:

(Korean mythology) A shape-shifting fox spirit, typically said to take the form of a beautiful woman, in order to seduce men and eat their livers.


shockfic

shockfic (countable and uncountable, plural shockfics)

It probably makes no sense to folks here who know nothing of my argument with an author who tries to elicit attention by writing shockfic in which she offs Mulder and Scully, or they off each other, in excruciatingly gory detail.

1998 September 21, storml...@hotmail.com, “Re: Dark Nasal in: WRITING ON EMPTY”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

There is no insecurity or hidden meaning about the warnings on this story, its her first fanfic that she has posted, and I didnt get to see which warnings she was putting on before it was posted. It isnt shockfic, I mean the ending isnt exactly a total surprise, we just made a mistake ok????

1998 December 27, Bullen's, “REPOST "A keychain in the snow" 1/2”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Best Darkfic/Shockfic

2002 March 30, Megane 6.7, “FINALISTS FOR 2002 CHICKENBALLS....”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction which has shocking or disturbing elements.


humorfic

(Okay, yes, Fraser's intentions were a lot... better. But, you know,the road to hell is paved with good intentions-- Oh my. Seriously odd humourfic a-brewing.)

2000 May 4, Sasscat Bu-to-y [username], “Re: The character formerly know as Melina Kakaredes :) (was: A Birthday)”, in alt.tv.due-south (Usenet):

(If this gives anyone an idea for a really evil humorfic, yay.)

2002 October 10, Farfalla [username], “help... *a wibbly little K/S rant* Sorry guys! :-p”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

In terms of "other parts of the site" - we have four fanfic houses, Schnoogle (novel-length fics of all genres), AstronomyTower.org for romances, Riddikulus.org for humorfics and TheDarkArts.org for fics containing drama (aka the catchrest category).

2003 February 13, heidi, “Re: Favorite fanfic sites/stories?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fanfic intended to be humorous.


clairalient

en-adj

clairalient (comparative more clairalient, superlative most clairalient)

more clairalient (comparative)
most clairalient (superlative)


hyperbeam

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"I'm not saying that, Vil. I only say what you hear me say and you haven't heard me say that. But, Vil, to get out we're depending on you. I can't call for help because I can't aim a hyperbeam without knowing where we are: I can't find out where we are because I can't pinpoint any stars—"

1972, Robert Silverberg, New Dimensions II: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 122:

"Unless that fellow was lying, they do have some combat-worthy units. And hyperbeams must be flying from end to end of their fleet."

1990, Isaac Asimov, The Diplomacy Guild, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Wasting no time, Crossfire aims her hyperbeam cannon and fires her spatial blast which engulfs Charlemagne and punches a hole in the ground.

2018, Xavier J. Fulwood, Knighthood: The Dangerous Adventures, Page Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

(science fiction, video games, rare) An extraordinarily intense beam of any size (of energy or matter); a superbeam.


hyperbomb

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The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 33:

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


dwaggy

From dwagon (“dragon”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”). Compare doggy.

(diminutive, Internet slang, usually furry subculture) a dragon, especially one that is much-loved or cute.


Cuckistan

Bordered by the nations of ‘Normistan’ and ‘Cuckistan’, Kekistan is the ethnic homeland of Kekistanis/Shitposters: […]

2017, Eleanor K. Newton, "What's So Alternative About 'The Alt-Right'?", dissertation submitted to Lancaster University, page 42

The alt-right’s fictional/meme country of Kekistan is often depicted as being at war with ‘Cuckistan’.

2019, Jay Marquis-Manicom, "From the Red Pill to ‘White Genocide’: An Ethnography of the Alt-Right in Montreal", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 83

It developed a theology: the battle of the “Kekistanis” against their rivals, “Normiestan” and “Cuckistan.”

2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

(Internet slang, 4chan, alt-right) A fictional country jokingly held to border and constantly be at war with the fictional alt-right nation of Kekistan.


Polonius

After the character of Polonius in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

From the winged words of corporation executives, from the pulpits of economic Poloniuses, the same evil is identified and decried: the collapse of productivity. But are the sermons total myths?

2012, George Caffentzis, In Letters of Blood and Fire, page 30:


MerDer

With Izzie Stevens' treatment going on and MerDer's wedding looming, there's going to be lots of drama at Seattle Grace in the last few episodes of the fifth season.

2009 April 16, CeCe Brooks, “Summer TV GUide”, in Old Black & Gold, Wake Forest University, page B5:

With the MerDer drama heating up and Meredith's job on the line, the two-hour season premiere is looking at keeping viewers glued to the screen from beginning to end.

2011 August 31, Ashley Hite, “Fall returning television series provide relief, relaxation from studies”, in The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University, page 9:

But then they had to go and create a montage of MerDer's relationship and it suddenly got very real.

2015 May 7, Danielle S. Tepper, “Derek Deserved Better”, in Town & Country Gazette, page 40:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


Kadena

Even so, the show succeeds in establishing the Kadena connection with heartfelt love and deep respect.

2017, Melissa Lee, “The Bold Type Big Buzz”, in F-Yeah, volume 1, page 5:

During the first two seasons while the Kadena relationship develops onscreen, the pair dominated fanfiction writing.

2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted to the University of Lousiana at Lafayette, page 231

While the show has had issues when it comes to diversity […], Kadena never fails to make our gay hearts happy.

2021 July, Roxy Bourdillon, “Get The Look: The Bold Type”, in Diva, page 22:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kat Edison and Adena El-Amin from the television series The Bold Type.


Naomily

In the case of Naomily however, the relationship is endorsed within the official text by the end of Series 3, and by Series 4 they are unambiguously presented and recognized as a couple.

2012 February, Deborah F. Hunn, “'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 26, number 1, page 93:

There was no difference between the handling of Naomily and that of other couples on the show because it was a story about falling in love—the fact that the lovers happened to be a pair of schoolgirls was incidental.

2020, Ann-Marie Cook, “Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon”, in Stefano Ramello, editor, Fascination of Queer, page 173:

The details of their romance are lovingly expanded upon, developing the Naomily narrative in multiple ways.

2020, Kate McNicholas Smith, Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Naomi Campbell and Emily Fitch from the British television series Skins.


Vauseman

Note: If you don't ship 'Vauseman' by the end of the season, then I'm judging you.

2014, Jenna Benson, in "Reviews", Blitz Mag (University of New South Wales), Session 2, Week 3 + 4 (2014), page 34

However, Clexa (Clarke Griffin and Lexa) from The 100 (2014-), Vauseman (Alex Vause and Piper Chapman) from Orange is the New Black (2013-) and Karmy (Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld) in Faking It (2014-2016) are further examples.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 6

I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.

2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black", thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Alex Vause and Piper Chapman from the television series Orange Is the New Black.


Paily

Commenters are generally supportive of the possibility of a Paige and Emily coupling, either expressing surprise or that they had been expecting this, with one commenter even expressing her love for “Paily” (Emily and Paige’s relationship name) (ABC Family, 2011).

2013, Caitlin Campisi, "Homonationalism on TV?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Queer and Trans* Youth Representations on Mainstream Teen Television Shows", thesis submitted the University of Ottawa, page 98

They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.

2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 74

Strategies which fanfiction authors use to create fanfiction, such as closely analysing homoerotic moments in the source text, are investigated through analysing similar trends investigated in section one and by employing the same method outlined above but are applied to Paily fics instead of the slash texts explored in section one.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 100

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Paige McCullers and Emily Fields from the television series Pretty Little Liars.


Karmy

Fans rooting for "Karmy" – the official couple name for the two of them – may still have hope.

2014, Sophia Kaufman, "'Faking It' midseason finale forgoes subtlety", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 3 December 2014, page 5A

But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV Social Media Fans”, in Television & New Media, volume 19, number 5:

Fans were especially disappointed when Covington revealed to the Hollywood Reporter, “It was always my intention to make ‘Karmy’ happen during our final season. Karma would finally realize that her possessiveness of Amy might be a sign of deeper feelings for her best friend.”

2019, Carter Covington, quoted in Francesca Petronio, "Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities", thesis to The City University of New York, page 42

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld from the American television series Faking It.


Kataang

Are you a supporter of Katara and Aang’s relationship? Then you’re a member of the Kataang club.

2006, "United Nations: The Fans of Avatar", Nick Mag Presents, Winter 2006, page 40

I still prefer Kataang, because I can't imagine Aang and Katara ever drifting apart when Katara is the one person he could not let go and Katara's life truly began because she met him and he is basically the light and joy in her life.

2014, "paulina101", quoted in Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, pages 98-99

Konietzko, for his part, suggests a great awareness: “There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead?....Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara.”

2017, Jake Pitre, "Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading", Reader Feather Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2017, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katara and Aang from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)


Femlock

Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).

2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112:

As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.

2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31

Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.

2021, Emma Byrne, How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) A female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.


Fawnlock

Certainly it would be hard to guess why individuals dressed as humanoid woodland animals would be at a Holmes convention if you weren’t familiar with Fawnlock stories and art, in an Alternate Universe where Sherlock is a deer-like creature with antlers and fur.

2014, Lynne Stephens, "The Game Is Never Over: A 221B Con Review", Canadian Holmes: The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Volume 36, Number 4, Summer 2014, page 4

One of my oldest informants, adagio, confirms this in an e-mail interview and admits to sometimes feeling as if fandom is deviating too far from the story told on the show: "I don‘t really see the point when the names is all that‘s left. I don‘t get things like fawnlock or tunalock at all, but I guess it‘s amusing. … Sometimes I think the internet has made it too easy to publish stories."

2015, "adagio", quoted in Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 76

(Sherlock fandom slang) A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature.


Wishverse

Even though the later episode 'Doppelgangland' (Buffy 3.16) suggests that the 'Wishverse' exists parallel to the Buffyverse and that characters can move from one parallel universe to another by magic, none of the characters except vengeance demon Anyaka can remember anything about the other world.

2005, Gaby Allrath, “Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel”, in Gaby Allrath, Marion Gymnich, editors, Narrative Strategies in Television Series, pages 144–145:

In the Wishverse, many of the good characters have been turned bad or are dead.

2015, Pamela Achenbach, “A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick: A Look at the Use of Time Travel in Unconventional Series”, in Gillian I. Leitch, Sherry Ginn, editors, Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past, page 64:

Whedon couldn't resist the pull of the Wishverse either.

2015, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 132:

(fandom slang) The dark alternate universe featured in the episode "The Wish" of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Mirrorverse

I love the subtle beginning to the fic, so that you don't realize it's Mirrorverse until the start of the third paragraph, where everything goes a bit askew.

2004 March 18, ASC Awards - Stephen, “ASC Awards Comment Digest #132: DS9 Bashir Pairing”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Does the alternate Star Trek timeline created by Nero have a Mirrorverse 2 in which a Mirror Nero went back in time after the destruction of Mirror Romulus to destroy Mirror Vulcan as Mirror Spock watched?

2009 May 18, Tim Bruening, “Re: Star Trek 11 Movie Spoilers”, in alt.tv.star-trek (Usenet):

Besides the Klingon desire for cultural purity, humanity in the Mirrorverse is also shown as a fascistic tyranny (the Terran Empire) centered on racial purity.

2020, Ina Batzke, “From Series to Seriality: Star Trek's Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era”, in Mareike Spychala, Sabrina Mittermeier, editors, Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery, page 170:

(fandom slang) The Mirror Universe of Star Trek, a dark parallel universe to the main setting of the franchise, in which humans are brutal, despotic conquerors.


fantroll

HEY Also, send me scans of your fantroll and trollsona so I can draw them for you 8D

2011 January 22, 🦎 Tseren (6.2!) 💚💜 (@neogrotesque_), Twitter:

i can't believe three separate people linked me that post about how tieflings are just fantrolls for people who claim to be over homestuck

2017 September 11, @kismetnemesis, Twitter:

its 2021 and i will also keep drawing fantrolls based on homestuck

2021, "MIAC End of the Quarter Zine SP21", Multi-Identity Art Collective (University of California San Diego), page 20

(Homestuck fandom slang) A troll original character created by a fan.


blonde bombshell

en-noun

blonde bombshell (plural blonde bombshells)

Derived from bombshell (“a very attractive woman”).

(slang) A stereotypical blonde woman who is very assertive and sensual but unintelligent.


bhoot

From Hindi भूत (bhūt), from Sanskrit भूत (bhūta).

(India) A supernatural creature, usually the ghost of a deceased person.


shipperdom

If there has never been a psychological examination of shipperdom, then there should be one.

2008, Jon Lachonis, Amy J. Johnston, Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a Fandom Like No Other:


lost in time

Possibly a shortening of the phrase lost in the mists of time.

(science fiction) Lost during time travel.


null-grav

(science fiction, attributive) Relating to, producing, or designed for a condition of zero gravity.


null-grav

null-grav (countable and uncountable, plural null-gravs)


pocket monster

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Borrowed from Japanese ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket + monster.

bor+

A fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.


Headless Horseman

A mythical figure who has appeared in folklore around the world since the Middle Ages, who is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head.

ruiter zonder hoofd

chiefly associated with Washington Irving


mating bite

Differences in courtship behavior among higher taxa include use of the spurs by male pythons and boas, mating bites by some colubrids, […]

1997, Harry W. Greene, Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, page 127:

Most of the wounds inflicted by these mating bites heal fairly quickly, but sometimes they can be quite severe.

Females bearing mating bites are seen from early May to early August, with the majority seen in May.

2017, Jose I. Castro, The Sharks of North America, page 436:

(zoology) A bite performed during copulation in certain species.

“When the mating bites are exchanged, the two souls link. Then the werewolf can live as long as his vampire mate.”

2017, Cynthia Eden, Forbidden Bite, unnumbered page:

Once mated with another character, characters have the option of performing the “mating bite,” which irreversibly bonds the lovers to one another.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 10

He sucked a hickey along the side of Ash's throat, right where his mating bite would soon go.

2021, Marcy Jacks, Mating for Convenience, page 36:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.


mating mark

The male crab observed in this study did not have mating marks prior to picking up the female.

1966, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, volume 23, numbers 7-2, page 1323:

Dependable indicators of female mating activity have been revealed, but mating activity of males has only been indirectly inferred through examination of so-called “mating marks”, presumably created during the premating embrace between a male and female.

2006, Justin C. Ainsworth, "An evaluation of the use of mating marks as an indicator of mating success in male Dungeness crabs", thesis submitted to Humboldt State University, page iii

Observations of female White Sharks with relatively recent mating marks are rare in CC [Central California].

2012, Michael L. Domeier, Global Perspectives on the Biology and Life History of the White Shark, page 165:

(zoology, rare) A lasting mark or wound sustained during copulation in certain species.

Especially not after seeing a mating mark on Wilder's shoulder.

2017, Rosa Swan, My Mate's Mark, unnumbered page:

As romance novels often end with a marriage, ABO fics will often end with the mating mark.

He wore no mating mark on his neck, but he often referred to us as his “pack.”

2019, Kallie Traylor, Divided We Fall, unnumbered page:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.


claiming mark

But all I could do, all I wanted to do, was hold her tight against my chest and breathe in the scent of our union and the blood trickling from her new claiming mark.

2019, Nora Ash, Ragnarök Rising, unnumbered page:

He knew that I enjoyed discipline as much as I enjoyed feeling the nip of his teeth over the claiming mark.

2020, L. V. Lane, Omega Awakening, unnumbered page:

Once I give her my claiming mark, Roderick can't do anything to me.

2021, Vivian Murdoch, Dark Revolution, unnumbered page:


claiming bite

“The neck, the chest, I've heard of men with claiming bites on their ass or thighs.”

2015, Ellis Leigh, Claiming Their Forever, unnumbered page:

In the full glow of the moon, I could just make out the dark bruise of my claiming bite on her neck.

2017, Steffanie Holmes, Wedding the Wolf, unnumbered page:

They wore matching wedding bands instead of claiming bites.

2021, Tanya Chris, Omega Revealed, unnumbered page:


hardsuit

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Armored hard-suits are sealable to protect the wearer from extremes of temperature and atmosphere. Standard equipment includes an onboard mini-frame and a communications, navigation, and sensing suite.

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

(science fiction) A powered exoskeleton.


God Emperor

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign/emperor”), referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
In reference to Donald Trump, from Trump-supporting Internet users humorously depicting him as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000.

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The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician, 45th president and 47th president of the United States.


BDSP

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(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.


Brobot

-butter pats for Dad , and lug nuts for Brobot- Thanks Kumquat! Thanks. Mom! Oh look. Brobot, it's your brother! Hey, Jimmy. You're naked. In the tub!

2003, John A. Davis, Jimmy Neutron, Tokyopop, →ISBN:

The gravitational laws of space allow Brobot's potential to be fully realized!

Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger. Brobot did not sputter , cough , wheeze , or SPLORK ! He beep - bloop - bweedle - eedle - eeped ! BROBOT WAS ALIVE ! " I have a brother ! A ROBOT BROTHER !

2020, Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger, Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

This will give you a good insight into personality too, as Brobot's code is written to hassle its users and act just like a 'bro'.

2020, Nicola O’Brien, Heather Catchpole, Ready, Set, Code!: Coding Activities for Kids, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 23:

(science fiction) A name given to a robot that emulates a brother.


microdetonator

The microdetonators, manufactured commercially, utilize a material that includes lead styphnate. This detonator is readily ignited by laser energy but is relatively insensitive to other stimuli.

1981, NASA Tech Briefs, volume 6, page 24:

As soon as they were down, Landor hit the microdetonators he had installed in the few seconds he'd had. There was a tiny crack, and the wall of the water storage area crumbled into a side corridor.

2014, Allan Kaster, Stephen Baxter, Michael Blumlein, The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4:

(chiefly science fiction) A very small detonator.


underpants gnome

en-noun

underpants gnome (plural underpants gnomes)

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Named for the Underpants Gnomes, characters in the South Park episode “Gnomes” (1998) who stole underpants from children as part of a plan to make a profit, but their plan lacked the means by which that profit was to be made.

2. ? 3. Profit! Do you think their plan is missing something? They know Success in Programming 53 There Is No Try It's a Question of Passion Don't Plan Like an Underpants Gnome.

2014, Frederic Harper, Success in Programming: How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding, Apress, →ISBN, page 53:

... an underpants gnome! Any time you read an inspiring news story, watch a YouTube video of somebody doing something amazing, or read a book like this one that encourages you to make changes in your life, you are collecting underpants.

2016, Steve Kamb, Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story, Rodale Books, →ISBN:

Don't be an underpants gnome. Have a clear Step Two. You clearly need to make some profit, to be financially stable during your retirement, and you know how to do something, if only how to collect underpants. And you may have some more ...

2020, Art Mitchell, Grateful, Not Dead, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) Someone who makes incomplete plans with missing steps; someone who plans unsuccessfully.


Cartmanian

en-adj

Cartmanian (comparative more Cartmanian, superlative most Cartmanian)

more Cartmanian (comparative)
most Cartmanian (superlative)

(rare) Characteristic of or relating to Eric Cartman, a character in the adult animated sitcom South Park.


keystrip

He froze a moment there, keystrip already against the contact plate, hesitant to go on.

1975, Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, page 117:

You'll need your keystrip to reenter.

2014, Pat Cadigan, Pat Cadigan SF Gateway Omnibus:

(science fiction) A long thin piece of material that serves to operate a lock.