Mouse

The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus.

At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]

2001 January 1, Richard E. Foglesong, Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 93:

They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review.
Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.

2005, Ralph E. Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World:

[…] take eventually eked up to $33 million worldwide, but not before Walt Disney Studios declared the whole experiment a disappointment. […] But when the Mouse cut bait, MAGI was forced to close its LA office and sell off Synthavision.

2013, Tom Sito, Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 165:

This has led to the public believing that every animated film is made by the Mouse or, at least, is family-friendly entertainment. (A similar situation: Many people refer to all 3D animated films as “Pixar” films.) The cause dates back to Walt Disney's early days as an animator.

2017 August 11, Whitney Grace, Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation, McFarland, →ISBN:

(US, metonymically, uncountable, with "the") The Walt Disney Company.


yuanyang hudie pai

Borrowed from Mandarin 鸳鸯蝴蝶派 (yuānyāng-húdié pài, literally “Mandarin ducks and butterflies school”).

bor

There is no good reason to keep replicating the terminological blunders and ideological biases of the anti-popular May Fourth critics, who used yuanyang hudie pai xiaoshuo as a sweeping epithet of dismissal for rival turf on the literary scene.

2000, Tamkang Review - Volume 31, Issues 1-3:

The Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school (yuanyang hudie pai; henceforth Butterfly) has its origins in the mid-1910s boom in commercial periodicals.

2003, Joshua S. Mostow, The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, →ISBN, page 355:

Even a shallow reading tells us that some of Ye's stories have features of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School (yuanyang hudie pai 鸳鸯蝴蝶派).

2008, Women, Men, Love and Sexual Discourse in Ye Lingfeng's Fiction, →ISBN, page 18:

Leftist critics coined for them the depreciative polemical label yuanyang-hudie pai 鸳鸯蝴蝶派, "Mandarin-ducks-and-butterflies School", and construed in their critical discourse the overwhelmingly negative image of popular fiction as a purely commercial product for superficial entertainment and diversion, steeped in old-fashioned values and atavistic modes of behaviour, and adhering to outdated literary forms and techniques.

2009, Roland Altenburger, The Sword Or the Needle, →ISBN:

A type of Chinese fiction modeled after classical romances involving a tragic love between an effeminate male protagonist and a tender young woman.


In fact, I think one of the main reasons people write and read Treksmut (tm), is that the show very rarely shows these extremely attractive and appealing characters in romantic situations or settings, except for one-episode flings, which are usually conveniently forgotten by the next show, although this is refreshingly rare on DS9 and Voyager.

1997 May 5, Joanne Collins, “Re: TrekSmut, PWPs and Emotional Subtexts (Long and involved)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

I've had hardcore Fivers point to both Jadzia Dax AND Kira as ripoffs of Ivanova (they can't decide which, I suppose) despite the fact that both premiered on DS9 first, and JMS didn't get rid of Ivanova until AFTER The Gathering, which showed when DS9 first came around.

2001 September 25, Steve Garrett Jr., “Re: The breen: total ripoffs of Star Wars”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):


planetality

From planet + -ality from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”).

der

He shifted his record board into the crook of his arm as he came up and punched for a new entry. "Name?" he said. "Place of departure? Planetality?

1980, Gordon R. Dickson, In Iron Years, →ISBN, page 38:

By 'static' above in describing the Sun Signs I mean that from a mundane view point the interactions between are relatively fixed (in a temporal sense), as opposed to the planetality archtypes which are constantly moving and interacting in different ways.

1996 June 13, Nicholas Lee, “Inter-religion relations - TAO/GOD same/different”, in alt.astrology (Usenet):

He doubted if half a dozen Irwadians had mastered it, yet the Irwadi branch of Interstellar Transfer Service was made up of seventy-five hyper space pilots-of-divers planetalities.

(science fiction, rare) Membership of a particular planet or moon, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.


Buffyology

The academic study of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Hermia

From the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream.


ice maiden

(mythology, fantasy) A woman who comes from a frozen climate.

(idiomatic) An ice queen; a beautiful but heartless woman.


imploder

Ship to ship actions once again became brutally short. Warhead designers quickly realized that they could change the compression pattern and sequence of the new gravitic imploders to somewhat shape the resulting release of radiation.

2011, David Weber, In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V:

(science fiction) A weapon or other device that causes implosion.


rarepair

/ˈɹɛə(ɹ).pɛə(ɹ)/

Rare pairs might also slash together people or creatures that are considered unnatural, such as a human character with a magical creature such as a centaur or a house elf, or Dumbledore with any young student from Hogwarts.

2011, Nina Kaipia, "Drarry, Snarry and Snape: The Queerest of the Queer - Heteronormativity and Queer Theory in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Helsinki, page 61

If a Yuletide reader requested a rare pair (Silver Surfer/Aunt May?) in The Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers, that story will now assemble with its more popular Hulk/Iron Man and Captain America/Bucky Barnes fanfic colleagues in the Avengers tag.

2018, Anne Jamison, “Kant/Squid (The Fanfiction Assemblage)”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 534:

With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.

2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49

(fandom slang) A ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks.


nursebot

Small arms unwound from the nursebots and began to press nozzles and needles into Ramon's flesh.

2009, Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained:

(science fiction) A robot that carries out nursing.


tarrasque

In the fantasy sense, introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, derived from tarasque (“mythical European dragon”).

What's the best way to kill that goddam Tarrasque? I do have resist disenchant + elemental resist + temporary fire/cold, but after 10 or so tries, the Tarrasque is still alive and well, and I get really close only one time, but I ran out of arrows, and then later he summoned way too many nasties.

1998, Virtual, “Tarrasque”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):

(fantasy) A gigantic lizard-like monster.


anti-villain

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

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

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

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

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


Utopian

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

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

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


Utopian

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language created by Thomas More and Peter Giles for the fictional island Utopia, from 1516 Thomas More’s book of the same name.


wereghost

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


weredingo

“Weredingos are crazy anyway,” Christian said.

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

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


Duckburg

Carl Barks
Duckburg
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

From duck + -burg. Coined by Carl Barks in 1944, for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #49.

Self-contempt follows megalomania fast on its heels: The Vorarlberg Rhine valley has the settlement structure of Los Angeles – a Duckburg-like reduced Los Angeles to be sure, in which almost only Mickey Mice live, scarcely a Donald Duck, surely no Uncle Scrooge Duck, not even a Gladstone Gander (but many who conduct themselves as such).

1999, Kathleen Sagmeister with Otto Kapfinger and Kunsthaus Bregenzaut, Architecture in Vorarlberg Since 1980: A Guide to 260 Noteworthy Buildings, Hatje, →ISBN:

And [Springfield is] east to Duckburg, Calistoa?^([sic])

1999 August 6, grosse, “Re: where is springfield?”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet), message-ID <1AEq3.97$l53.8405@typ12.nn.bcandid.com>:

The nation 'Nationwide', like the inhabitants of Duckburg, seems to be principally concerned with the process of consumption. Unlike Duckburg, though, we consume principally in families -- entering the Supersize competions (Monday nights 1975) together, and even enlarging our family size together ('Citizen '76' Monday nights 1976).

2005, Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley, The Nationwide Television Studies, →ISBN:

To this day, I am still confused about the fact that, in this town of anthropomorphic ducks (Duckburg, duh), there were non-anthropomorphic ducks that the anthropomorphic Ducks sometimes fed at the park, with absolutely no acknowledgment that they were one and the same species, or that the other ducks were technically naked by anthropomorphic Duck standards.

2012 October 5, Robyn Pennacchia, “Did Scrooge McDuck die in 1967?”, in Death and Taxes:

Now, of course, some would argue that even if someone were stuffing a large fraction of the money supply into a money bin sitting on a hill in Duckburg, Say’s Law could continue to hold.

2013 March 13, Louis Woodhill, “Sorry Paul Krugman, But We Still Need Say's Law”, in Forbes:

What if your counterparty is the airport of Duckburg? Where are you going to imply default probabilities from, let alone credit volatilities and credit-underlying "correlations”?

2013, Damiano Brigo, Massimo Morini, Andrea Pallavicini, Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding, →ISBN:

A fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.


werehorse

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

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

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


wereowl

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

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

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

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


were-elephant

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


wereelephant

(fiction) Alternative spelling of were-elephant.


wereboar

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


Japanime

en-noun

Japanime (countable and uncountable, plural Japanimes)

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Blend of Japan (“the country”) + anime (“an animated work”)

blend

(anime, dated) Synonym of anime; Japanese animated cartoons.


menk

Borrowed from Mansi (compare Northern Mansi менкв (menkv)).

This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.

1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:

Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.

1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:

A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^([sic – meaning Mansi]) word for Yeti — may have been responsible.

2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post:

(Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.


werehuman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


were-elf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


xenologist

(science fiction) Someone whose field of study is xenology.

xénologiste

someone whose field of study is xenology


spacedive

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


hyperfield

It would take a phenomenally advanced technology to create that; but then, as we've all suddenly been granted superhuman powers, quantum hyperfield theory is the least of our problems.

2002 -, Peter F. Hamilton -, Misspent Youth:

The hyperfield itself could not be moved and remained there on the lava field suspended in the suds of the continuum at the exact point where the arc had entered the inertial frame of the Earth. Unless the titanohematite brain returned to that precise point where the connectionto 5-space waited, the hyperfield would weaken and in a few days smear away in the expansion of the universe.

2014, A.A. Attanasio, Arc of the Dream: Radix Tetrad, →ISBN:

The land was originally seeded for Prima Matra by those we call the 'Timewalkers' in conjunction with High Devas mythologically depicted as Unicorns. When the implosion occurred, the 'seed' material was heated, not only to very high levels, but in a contained hyperfield, which is created by two or more dimensions touching.

2015, Joyce Strahn, From Here to Ascension, →ISBN:

(science fiction) One of various fictional fields in which special physical properties are supported.


spacedrive

(astronautics slang, science fiction) A non-Newtonian propulsion system (a drive that propels while violating the Newtonian law requiring an equal and opposite reaction to an action); a reactionless drive (a drive which does not use propellant).

impossible drive

A drive violating physics, such as Newton's Laws


wereman

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

1962, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Scarlet Boy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


'vator

(chiefly science fiction) Abbreviation of elevator.


LIA

(military fiction) Initialism of lost in action.


LIA

(military fiction) Initialism of lost-in-action.


Chaon

Andromache informs Aeneas that Helenus named the region Chaonia after the Trojan Chaon (334-5).

1997, Michael Paschalis, Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 132:

(Greek mythology) A character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.


Orion drive

en:Orion drive
en:Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

From Orion + drive, since it originated from Project Orion, a U.S. government study from the 1950s.

(astronautics, science fiction) A theoretical means to propel spacecraft through space, by detonating nuclear bombs behind the spaceship and riding the nuclear explosions that push against the rear mounted pusher plate.


tightbeam

“Do I have those tightbeams yet?” “We're acknowledged and pending, sir,” Chen said. “They know we want to talk.”

2013, James S. A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate:

(science fiction) A focused beam of energy (such as a laser) that contains and transmits information.


Earthboy

(usually science fiction) A young male inhabitant of Earth.


Earth day

(science fiction) A day in Earth time; the period it takes planet Earth to revolve once; a period of 24 hours.


burninate

en-verb

burninate (third-person singular simple present burninates, present participle burninating, simple past and past participle burninated)

burninates (present singular third-person)
burninating (participle present)
burninated (participle past)
burninated (past)

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Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.

Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!

2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.

2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:

These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.

2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:

(slang, humorous) To destroy by fire; to burn.


sexdroid

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Spocking

(Canada, slang) The practice of defacing certain editions of the Canadian five-dollar banknote, using ink to alter Sir Wilfrid Laurier's features to resemble the character Spock from Star Trek.


weretroll

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

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

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

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

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


weredwarf

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


robotess

(science fiction, dated) A robot designated female; a gynoid.


red piller

The so-called "red pillers" believe that society favors women over men, disenfranchising them and leaving them subject to laws and societal rules they feel are unjust to their gender.

2015 June 16, Trijcomm, “Men's rights fanatics defend Iowa mall shooter fired for sexual harassment: It's 'hard to blame him'”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

The red pill – while hinting that Simpson might become Nuke in the Marvel universe – seems in this context to function also as an obvious reference to “red pillers”, men’s rights activists who see themselves as proud anti-feminists interested in dominance, traditional gender roles, and the subjugation of women, whose flaws make that subjugation necessary.

2015 November 27, Lili Loofbourow, “Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control”, in The Guardian:

Instead "red pillers" believe in a shared delusional system in which "Feminazis" and "Social Justice Warriors" have taken over the world.

2015 December 30, Damian Walter, “Geek male identity has been reduced to Kylo Ren thrashing a computer with his sword - this needs to change”, in The Independent:

Its members often refer to themselves as “red pillers,” a reference to the Matrix scene in which Keanu Reeve’s character has the choice between taking a blue pill that will keep him in a fantasy world or a red pill that will thrust him into reality.

2016 December 26, Angelina Chapin, “Chapin: Why it’s impossible to reason with the alt-right”, in Ottawa Citizen:

Those requirements are apparently daunting to “red pillers.”

2017 April 30, Sarah Palermo, “My Turn: In defense of the f-word – how feminism aims to benefit everyone”, in Concord Monitor:

(Internet slang) One who believes that society is gynocentric.


Who

After three event episodes in a row (the finale, Christmas special and season opener), “Tooth and Claw” is the first “regular” episode of Who we've had in a while.

2012, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith., Who Is the Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who, →ISBN, page 78:

This is as wildly different to any episode of Who so far. It's fab.

2015, Ray Dexter, Doctor Who Episode By Episode: Volume 1 William Hartnell, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The television show Doctor Who.


Machete Order

Introduced in the 2011 article "The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order", from the website "No Machete Juggling".

(fandom slang) A sequence in which to watch the Star Wars film saga, minus episode I.


teep

He was conscious that the Directorate's teep Corps was close by; he didn't particularly want his intimate thoughts in the hands of eighty bored telepaths.

What are you doing, bringing a teep here when we're ready to move?

1997 June 9, Straczynski, Joseph Michael, “The Face of the Enemy”, in Babylon 5, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Number One (Marjorie Monaghan):

She didn't need to be a teep to know what he was thinking.

2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft: Ghost—Spectres, →ISBN, page 16:


teep

en-adj

teep (comparative more teep, superlative most teep)

more teep (comparative)
most teep (superlative)

He broke off, because one of the QCA men was bringing out a teep rod, a receptor that would pick up and record his thoughts for police inspection.

1969, Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer:

(science fiction) Relating to telepathy.


teep

en-verb

teep (third-person singular simple present teeps, present participle teeping, simple past and past participle teeped)

teeps (present singular third-person)
teeping (participle present)
teeped (participle past)
teeped (past)

Irritated, Benteley answered, "You're being teeped while you stand here. Verrick has them planted all over the place."

Heads up everyone. Mantis is teeping into our poor tired brains.

2008 August 13, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, “Legacy”, in Guardians of the Galaxy, volume 2, number 2, page 18:


bodyjack

bodyjack (third-person singular simple present bodyjacks, present participle bodyjacking, simple past and past participle bodyjacked)

bodyjacks (present singular third-person)
bodyjacking (participle present)
bodyjacked (participle past)
bodyjacked (past)

My accent may be Brooklyn, not the BBC, pal, but I still got a brain in my head. We've been bodyjacked. Some kind of mind-switch—yours to our bodies, ours ta yours. No offense but this ain't exactly the first time we've been cut loose in that particular neighborhood.

1998 November 13, Chris Claremont, “The First The Final? Fire!”, in Fantastic Four, volume 3, number 11, page 17:

This sounds like a spinoff of "The Boys From Brazil"—until about page 70, when D.T. reveals that he's actually a devil who'd bodyjacked an SS officer.

2007 January 15, “The Devil Wears Swastikas”, in Newsweek, page 66:

I'm not a big fan, however, of the daleks stealing the Cyberman's bodyjacking schtick, and I thought the hybrid looked embarrassingly silly.

2007 April 22, Scott Bennie, “Re: Daleks In Manhattan”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), retrieved 2017-03-31, message-ID <1177302553.825978.79940@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:

Then I did something that astonished both of us: I took control of our body. […] What are you doing? demanded Seymour. Where are you going? This is my body. Give it back! […] I've been bodyjacked! accused Seymour.

2014, Bruce Coville, Aliens Stole My Body, →ISBN, page 24:

(science fiction) To forcibly seize control of someone's body, sometimes by replacing or exchanging minds.


bend the knee

bend the knee (third-person singular simple present bends the knee, present participle bending the knee, simple past and past participle bent the knee)

bends the knee (present singular third-person)
bending the knee (participle present)
bent the knee (participle past)
bent the knee (past)

From the medieval European practice of genuflecting to show respect for a superior. Popularized by its use on the television series Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

The timid among them declared that he would burn the houses and hang all that had bent the knee to King Louis.

1905, Max Pemberton, The Hundred Days, page 137:

The Earls have power over their lands and people, but must bend the knee to the King and serve as his vassals, just as their own vassals bend the knee to them, and serve them.

Joffrey, Renly, Robb Stark: they're all thieves. They'll bend the knee or I'll destroy them.

2012, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, “The North Remembers”, in Game of Thrones, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane):

(idiomatic) To swear fealty or allegiance to another person.


Doomguy

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KOTOR lets you feel like a Jedi for the first time, instead of the Doomguy with a light saber.

2004, George Jones, Maximum PC 2005 Buyer's Guide, page 247:

In the novelization of the game, Doomguy is called Flynn Taggart.

2016, James Egan, 3000 Facts About Video Games, page 60:

Unable to leave, the only course of action for the Doomguy is to fight through the base.

2019, Dawn Stobbart, Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!, page 47:

(fandom slang, video games) The unnamed protagonist in the Doom series of video games.


Indiana Jones

After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981.

There are many Indiana Joneses in the fields of science, history, and art who are willing to find ancient artifacts and remains.

Their sights firmly set on unlocking their mysteries, these Indiana Joneses, it seems, summarily failed to solve the riddle – returning empty-handed to the shores of Western academe […]

2016, Renate Dohmen, Encounters Beyond the Gallery:

Ambitious and hard-charging—an Indiana Jones of the Hawaiian bird world— Storrs would go on to become the world's greatest expert on Hawaiian fossil birds, discovering numerous species new to science […]

2018, Daniel Lewis, Belonging on an Island, page 22:

An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations.


Maycomb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


artificial stupidity

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From the analogy with artificial intelligence.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(humorous, artificial intelligence, computing, science fiction) Artificial intelligence that is not well developed.


artificially intelligent

en-adj

artificially intelligent (comparative more artificially intelligent, superlative most artificially intelligent)

more artificially intelligent (comparative)
most artificially intelligent (superlative)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(artificial intelligence, computing, science fiction) Possessing artificial intelligence.


kuudere

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


South Parkian

South Parkian (comparative more South Parkian, superlative most South Parkian)

more South Parkian (comparative)
most South Parkian (superlative)

(rare) Of or related to the adult animated sitcom South Park.


South Park Republicanism

South Park Republicans
South Park Republican#English

(rare, US politics, colloquial) The center-right political ideology held by the South Park Republicans.


Transformer

/tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/

From transformer (something that transforms).

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

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

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

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

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

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


xenonatomy

Until yesterday, McCoy had been teaching a course in Xenoanatomy at the Starfleet medical school on Prima, parsecs away.

The argument was that decisions had to be made by someone who was not herself a specialist, so she wouldn't give preferential treatment to xenoanatomy or linguistics or whatever. Martian cuisine.

I took a course in xenoanatomy. We dissected a variety of human corpses.

“I didn't know you were all up on xenoanatomy.” “I'm not.” Ressk set the blade above the uppermost hole in the skull and began to draw the saw back and forth. It caught on the desiccated flesh, bucked, then bit into bone.

(science fiction) The study of alien anatomy.


xenotechnology

en-noun

xenotechnology (usually uncountable, plural xenotechnologies)

And the Yard would most likely become the very center of Starfleet's xenotechnology studies. “An intriguing proposal,” said Spock. Bishop pointed to the space station nearest them.

2006, Marco Palmieri, Star Trek: The Original Series: Constellations Anthology:

You can parade the Navy and the Union Earth Colonies around in front of congress and parliament and the Chinese president, but at the end of the day it's xenotechnology that keeps us in the black.

(chiefly science fiction) Alien, extraterrestrial technology.


xenotech

You can parade the Navy and the Union Earth Colonies around in front of congress and parliament and the Chinese president, but at the end of the day it's xenotechnology that keeps us in the black. It's xenotech that keeps us from getting ...

(rare, informal, science fiction) Clipping of xenotechnology.


xenobotany

An oddly lucid part of his stunned mind registered that these were the first fruiting bodies he'd seen. But this was hardly the time for exercising one of the specialties that had got him onto the intercept ship, xenobotany.

2008, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, Slow Train to Arcturus:

Terrell quipped to the new tactical officer, “He also holds doctorates in archaeology and xenobotany. So, if you get the urge to debate him about fossils or flowers . . . don't.”

2012, David Mack, Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven:

(science fiction) The study of alien plants.


xenogeography

He found the relaxed atmosphere fresh and exciting and actually began to excel in many areas of flight systems, propulsion, and even xenogeography.

2009, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Nightsword: A Starshield Novel:

“Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an exploration spacer, so I got my Blevel certificate in xenogeography. Once I actually met some of them, though, I couldn't see being stuck on a ship with a bunch of arrogant wankers for years at a time.

2016, Carol Van Natta, Pico's Crush: Central Galactic Concordance, Book 3:

(rare, science fiction) The study of exoplanet geography.


xenophysics

Stormchases had always had an interest in xenophysics. He felt his wings furl with shock as he realised that the object might show that heatpattern if it had warmed its belly with friction as it entered the atmosphere, but the upper part were still ...

2012, Jonathan Strahan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Pat Cadigan, Edge of Infinity:

Xenophysics, especially at this level, were not his strong suit. But you didn't go about busting artefact smugglers for a decade without learning something.

I graduated top of my class in Xenophysics and have been pushing for missions ever since.' Mark found her story slightly embarrassing. In some ways, she'd had it harder than him.

(rare, science fiction) The study of extraterrestrial physics.


xenochemistry

The engineering scale shows “simple copy” at the biological “system or structure” level down to “xenochemistry of engineered systems” at the “molecular level.”

2012, Norman M. Wereley, Janet M. Sater, Plants and Mechanical Motion: A Synthetic Approach to Nastic Materials and Structures:

(rare, science fiction) The study of extraterrestrial chemistry.


May the Fourth be with you

Blend of May the Fourth + may the Force be with you.


BEWD

I wouldn't call that card "rare"- Konami packages one BEWD in each Seto Kaiba starter deck... That is a far cry from 'rare.'

2002 July 4, Edson plays Green Eyed Ctarl-Ctarl, “Re: YU-GI-OH CARDS”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet), message-ID <hlOU8.403520$cQ3.27251@sccrnsc01>:

Out of curiosity, I looked at some pricelists, and BEWD is usually one of the most expensive cards on them. Yes, these are rare BEWDs from the Blue Eyes White Dragon sets, […]

2002 December 18, Chris Mattern, “Re: Shonen Jump Yugioh card”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), message-ID <uQqdnS5-EYKY2JyjXTWcqQ@comcast.com>:

After Duelist's Kingdom, Yuugi duels the granddaughter of his grandfather's friend, Arthur Hawkins, for the rights to Sugoroku's BEWD, which, if you remember, Seto Kaiba tore up.

2003 October 5, Mizu-chan (P. Frederickson), “Re: Yu-Gi-Oh cards site?”, in rec.arts.anime.games (Usenet), message-ID <3f8035cf_6@corp.newsgroups.com>:

There are two very collectible BEWD cards. This one, and the 1st Edition card from Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon.

2005, Bill Gill, Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh! Annual 2005, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 83:

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Blue-Eyes White Dragon (a trading card in the game of Yu-Gi-Oh!).


xenomedicine

There had been people studying xenomedicine in the same class as the two of them who turned out not to have been particularly well fitted for it. Well, he thought, better they should find out in training, rather than in practicing on a patient.

You seem to be the first person in the history of xenomedicine who's simply been bitten by a yagghorth instead of disassembled into component pieces.”

“I understand, Tobin. Being joined is a great responsibility.” Dax stared, flushing with panic. “You . . . you know?” “Don't look so surprised. I'm an expert in xenomedicine and I've been around the quadrant once or twice.

2015, Christopher L. Bennett, Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic:

(science fiction, rare) The study and practice of medicine involving alien species.


xenopathology

/zɛnəpəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/

“I just completed my boards in theoretical xenopathology. You really should have been at the graduation party.

... being able to deal with battlefield injuries, were also expert in specific fields: xenopathology, bioweapons and battlestress analysis. And so it went. All carried laser carbines, grenades, missile launchers, mines—a whole panoply of death.

oo bad M'Benga is still attending that xenopathology conference on Samaritan Station, McCoy thought. We could use another MD at the moment.

2013, Greg Cox, Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds:

Of course she wouldn't, or Dr. Bonn, her redundancy. Xenopathology and emergency medicine are more practical.

2015, C. Gockel, Murphy's Star: A Story of First Contact:

(science fiction, rare) The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences among different sentient species of the galaxy.


xenomythology

/zɛnəmɪˈθɒləd͡ʒi/

KaFrahkan was no student of xenomythology, but his intelligence briefing on the Humans had told him the origin of the name, and he found it grimly appropriate as he watched the massive, heavily armored giants grinding into position.

2005, David Weber, Keith Laumer, Old Soldiers:

Did you know that my first degree was in xenomythology?' 'I did not. Please continue.' 'The volcryn story was among the Nor T'alush myths.

2008, George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective:

(science fiction, rare) The study of myths and legends of alien species.


xenohistory

“He is a specialist in xenohistory and has recently written a paper on the Terran system and human social interactions.” “Doctor,” To'Jopeviq said, nodding his head. “Any initial thoughts?”

Xenohistory and sociology was her passion and it was rare that she was given a chance to explore it.

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien history.


xenosociology

/zɛnəˌsəʊʃiːˈɒləd͡ʒiː/

The almostvirgin xeno- prefix should be used to designate extraterrestrial entities [...], concepts and subdisciplines (for example, xeno-biology, xenosociology), and exo- reserved for life outside of but native to Earth.

2007, Jeff Prucher, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction:

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien sociology.


ROTJ

(Star Wars) Initialism of Return of the Jedi (a 1983 movie in the Star Wars series).


xenopsychology

/zɛnəɛθsaɪˈkɑləd͡ʒi/

Dr. Robert A. Freitas, Jr. XENOPSYCHOLOGY So far we have very little direct knowledge of alien minds — but we have some fascinating bases for speculation.

1984, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction:

Specializations in xenopsychology and -psychiatry, and longterm experience as CMO of the Enterprise— thus an acquaintance with what amounted to a gestalt life form, for that defined the multi-racial, multi-species environment aboard the ...

2000, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, The Romulan Way: Rihannsu #2:

Galactics were doing little to wrap their minds around xenopsychology as it applied from them to humans. The Tong was already gradually increasing its business transactions directly with various Galactics.

2009, John Ringo, Julie Cochrane, Honor of the Clan:

My original area of interest was in xenopsychology, but I had never been able to get even an entrylevel post in either the public or private sphere. Thus, social work. And now, everything changed.

2013, Kate Elliott, The Price of Ransom:

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien psychology.


xenopsychiatry

Xenopsychiatry. Yvette Heloise Renaud. Xenopsychology. Harold Nelson Bennett. Xenosociology.

Specializations in xenopsychology and xenopsychiatry, and long-term experience as CMO of the Enterprise — thus an acquaintance with what amounted to a gestalt life form, for that defined the multi-racial, multi-species environment aboard the […]

[…] between that of parole adviser for Hawk, and Chief of Xenopsychiatry. There were others equally qualified for the xeno position, but I fear I rather pulled strings and emphasized the illegal and unethical treatment Hawk received […]

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien mental and behavioral health (psychiatry).


astrotechnology

en-noun

astrotechnology (usually uncountable, plural astrotechnologies)

/əˈstɹɑtɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/

Ford hunted excitedly through the technical specs of the ship, occasionally gasping with astonishment at what he read – clearly Galactic astrotechnology had moved ahead during the years of his exile.

2009, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

He observed using astrotechnology at his disposal to search out a civilization using updated technology.

2014, Darryl Gopaul, Escape from Jipadara: A Solar System of Three Planets with Sentient Life Forms:

Our scientist-kings and our brave new age of biotechnology (and then astrotechnology: the engineering of space) are the latest in giant steps that will take this Babel drive to a new level.

2016, Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization:

(science fiction, informal, rare) Space technology.

(science fiction) Synonym of xenotechnology


spacescraper

Spacescraper city on the outskirts of New York–five miles square with nine buildings, each exactly one mile from the next, each a mile square, three miles high, 1,000 stories, 1,000 people per floor, a million folk behind its walls, nine million ...

The ultimate game of belief is an unstoppable intonation. A word that spells the end of Jack and Susie. Twenty-eight missiles into a corporate spacescraper.

It showed the lights of a city at night, viewed from great height, as if the room were the penthouse suite of a spacescraper. A huge black bed dominated the far wall. It was only a foot off the floor. "Amazing!" Arakaki exclaimed.

2013, Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Hunt::

The biggest one packed enough punch to blow through a spacescraper all the way to the basement.

2014, Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Revolution::

(science fiction) A building that is tall enough to reach outer space.


earthscraper

/ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/

By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.

2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45:

So then I dreamed up a subterranean skyscraper (or,if you will, an earthscraper) with various floors, each of them constituting a different infernal abode;

2014, Leopoldo Marechal, Adam Buenosayres: A Novel:

The earthscraper burst from the tunnel into daylight, sparks trailing. Elara turned hard against the wheel, corrected itstrajectory and spun one hundred and eighty degrees into a brigade of sentinels their weapons drawn.

(science fiction, architecture) A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.


seascraper

"I'm going to build a seascraper. Those don't exist yet." Paul looked at me, totally amazed that I had uttered such a long sentence.

2013, Antonia Michaelis, The Secret Room:

Niki gestured for her AI to once again allow communications to come through from the outside world, something she'd turned off for the duration of her visits with the occupants of the seascraper.

2014, Colin Wright, Real Powers: Trilogy:

Soon the printer head is going to move so fast all you'll see is a blur. As that capability expands, we can create more ambitious projects, whether it's the FLIP or the seascraper." What does Chris mean by "seascraper"?

2017, Joe Quirk, Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians:

(science fiction, architecture) A tall building that is built underwater; an underwater skyscraper.


cloudscraper

Milord Lucyd's cloudscraper, the Villa de Reve: Traitor. Regim crouched behind the garden wall of the aetherist's cloudscraper and watched him approach.

1999, Lisa Mason, Pangaea: Imperium Without End:

Hogg turned to look at Daniel. "Lad," he said quietly, "I didn't try to wrap you in gauze, you know that. But I wouldn't have let you try to fly from the top of a cloudscraper pine either." "Now, it's not as bad as that, Hogg,"

The journey was soon over, as the car broke away from the main route, and turned towards the nearest cloudscraper.

2016, Alexander Lawes, Ring of Stones: Portal to Another World:

(chiefly science fiction) A very tall building; a skyscraper.


backwards time machine

backwards time machine (plural backwards time machines)

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the past, but cannot also allow travel to the future.


forward time machine

forward time machine (plural forward time machines)

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the future, but cannot also allow travel to the past.


artificial superintelligence

artificial superintelligence (plural artificial superintelligences)

Coordinate term: AGI

(artificial intelligence, science fiction) Artificial intelligence that is far greater than any human intelligence.


Tolkienology

The academic study of the works of British author J. R. R. Tolkien.


cli-fi

From climate + fiction (modeled after sci-fi). Coined by Dan Bloom in 2006.

Perhaps the most high-profile cli-fi author is Margaret Atwood, whose 2009 The Year of the Flood features survivors of a biological catastrophe also central to her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, a book Atwood sometimes preferred to call "speculative fiction".

2013 May 31, Rodge Glass, “Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi'”, in The Guardian:

The issue is so pressing that some have started to use the term “cli-fi” for climate fiction — but this faddish coinage obscures a longer history of sf’s engagement with the environment and leaves unexamined the question of why sf has proven such a valuable genre for thinking about environmental futures.

[2021 July 20, Sherryl Vint, “A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment”, in The MIT Press Reader:

A subgenre of ecofiction with issues about climate change as the main focus.


Jedicide

OK, so we know that many of the force powers used by the Jedi of Old have been lost due to the Imperial policy of Jedicide *:o)
In the movies and books we are only exposed to a handful of the Jedi that survived and were able to make HoloVision headlines.

1994 April 14, Andrew R. Jackson, “SWRPG: House rules: New Jedi Powers...”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars (Usenet), message-ID <1994Apr14.011426.23046@dal1>:

I wonder how long before Luke was born did the Jedicide begin. I'm guessing about 30 years before ANH, because I believe Anakin was about 25 when that all happened, since Vader was 50 in ESB (according to my ESB trading cards).

1997 March 2, JEDI AL, “Re: Han didn't believe in the Force?”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), message-ID <19970302233500.SAA22306@ladder02.news.aol.com>:

> Also, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader helped the Emporer^([sic]) hunt down and kill the Jedi Knights.
[…]
But we only have Obi-Wan's word about the Jedicide. And we know how trustworthy *that* is!

2000 November 28, SpammersDie, “Re: CD-Copy”, in alt.games.thief-dark-project (Usenet), message-ID <K1zA5.2855$7I4.160528@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>:

(rare, fandom slang, Star Wars) The killing of Jedi.


Shatnerverse

(fandom slang) The alternate fictional Star Trek universe described in a series of novels co-written by William Shatner, based on the premise that Captain Kirk was brought back to life after the events of the film Star Trek Generations.


Airavata

From Sanskrit ऐरावत (airāvata, “produced from the ocean”).


Marvel

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

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


abracadabrangle

A representation of the word "abracadabra" in the visual form of a triangle, used as an amulet or charm.


Stucky

A lot of people ship Stucky, and they ship it hard.

2016, Brittani Howell, “#LeaveCapAlone”, in Connect Statesboro, 1 June - 14 June 2016, page 4:

In her 'Domestic Stucky (feat. IKEA)' art project, Kurozawa Shiro decided to draw the characters Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes into a spare IKEA catalogue she had lying around (Stucky is the portmanteau name for the Steve/Bucky pairing).

2017, Francesca Coppa, “Hollywood of Our Own: Media Fandom as Female Artworld”, in Mary Harrod, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, editors, Women Do Genre in Film and Television, unnumbered page:

The Stucky fandom encompasses all kinds of fans, and acts as a vast space for fans to find their preferred content.

2018 December, Alen Ríos, Diego Rivera, “Vulnerability and Trash: Divisions within the Stucky fandom”, in Otherness: Essays and Studies, volume 6, number 1, page 35:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Bucky Barnes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


holocorder

Blend of holo- + recorder; compare camcorder.

(science fiction) A device for making holographic recordings.


Malec

I think the fans of the book are really going to be excited about the "Malec" relationship.

2016, Isaiah Mustafa, quoted in Aleksander Tomovic, "Isaiah Mustafa", Bello, January 2016, page 34

Shadowhunters season 3 has been such a blessing for Malec fans.

2018 May, “Hollywood Tea News”, in Cinespirit Magazine, page 80:

"Malec" shippers will clamor for installments to come.

2019, The Red Scrolls of Magic review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2019, page 143

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from The Shadowhunter Chronicles franchise.


lindwyrm

Cognate with Old Norse linnormr (“constrictor snake”), Norwegian lindorm (“serpent”), German Lindwurm (“dragon”).
The word wyrm is a contemporary or recent borrowing from the Old English word wyrm.

cog

Lindwyrms are wingless dragons that look like huge snakes. Some lindwyrms have two tiny feet that are almost useless.

2008, Matt Doeden, Dragon Life, →ISBN, page 24:

I've seen her plug a lindwyrm through the eyestalk from a moving helicopter.

2012, Larry Correia, The Monster Hunters, →ISBN:

That lindwyrm'll keep you safe.

2013, Christina Mercer, Arrow of the Mist, →ISBN:


Cibola

a legendary city in North America, rich in gold, similar to El Dorado


timeship

(science fiction) A vehicle like a spaceship that travels through time.


FMA

Fullmetal Alchemist
w:Fullmetal Alchemist

Abbreviation of Fullmetal Alchemist (“manga and anime series”).


Fomalhautian

(science fiction) Of or relating to the star Fomalhaut.


scavvy

(science fiction, slang) A scavenger; one who looks for discarded objects.


cybererotica

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Erotic or pornographic material in cyberspace or on the Internet.


protomatter

The No Damage option occurs when the computers are directed to control the protomatter environment from directly harming the user. This is because MegaCorps prefer their executives alive rather than dead.

1995, Elaine Hinman-Sweeney, Hardwear/Softwear: Take a Walk on the Cyber Side, West End Games, Incorporated, →ISBN:

No worlds, no stars, nothing but a raging sea of churning no-forms, the empty vessel of another universe eaten alive by protomatter, consumed and converted and fed upon until nothing else remained.

2009, James Swallow, Titan #6: Synthesis, →ISBN, page 375:

Pioneering work performed at the Vulcan Science Academy by Dr. Temok and at the Daystrom Institute by Dr. Glenn Hauman indicate that the instabilities in protomatter are the result of interactions between its subatomic constituents and a nine-dimensional 5/2 spin variant on the quark stragelet, which Temok and Hauman have agreed to dub a "changelet."

2012, John Vornholt, The Genesis Wave Book One: Star Trek The Next Generation, →ISBN:

Once quantum compression is achieved, if the singularity has excess collapse inertia it will continue to compress the protomatter until a singularity begins to form at the core, venting protomatter through the regional stellar orifices across the multiverse.

2016, Ralph Rotten, Memoirs of a Timelord:

(science fiction) An unstable substance that is powerful and dangerous.


Deimosian

He paled in comparison to the eight foot tall Deimosian female.

2013 August 2, Nathan Skaggs, The Onslaught, →ISBN:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the moon Deimos.


Deimosian

I was taking Valerie's kid to the Central Park Zoo when the Phobosians and the Deimosians started uprooting the city's power cables.

2002, Peter Crowther, Mars Probes, →ISBN, page 221:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Deimos.


rejuve

The spacers thought that he was just the only person lucky enough to be able to take an infinite number of rejuves.

1980, Jack L. Chalker, The Return of Nathan Brazil:

He was a true kid of only twenty-five years old, no rejuves yet.

2017, Travis S. Taylor, Kill Before Dying:

(science fiction) The process of making somebody young again.


Phobosian

The Phobosians are encamped outside Grand Central Station, barely a block away.

2013, James Morrow, The Cat's Pyjamas, →ISBN:

After four days of thorough medical examinations, physicians from each species concluded a high level of mutualism could exist between the Phobosians and the Interspecies Coalition species.

2013, Nathan Skaggs, The Red Star Encounter: The Dream Seers, →ISBN:

Meanwhile, the female Phobosian who had introduced herself as Jay Jay led the passengers down a long, narrow ramp that was just wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

2015, E.M. Smith, The Shadow of Olympus, →ISBN, page 203:


Phobian

If his stature in earthly measurement be taken as five feet ten inches, he would tower into the Phobian sky to a height over one and one-tenth miles.

1892, Scientific American - Volume 67, page 112:

From the period of precession of the Phobian orbit the oblateness of Mars is computed to be about 1/192, which exceeds that of the Earth.

1960, Krafft A. Ehricke, Space flight - Volume 1, page 216:

This produces the unusual (to Earthmen) situation that the Phobian "month" is shorter than the Martian "day."

1972, Benjamin Franklin Howell, Earth and Universe, page 86:

I understood (again from the brochures) that our little Phobian virus was extremely virulent.

2006, Alex De Witt, The Phobian Project, →ISBN:


Phobian

In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet.

You know the answer already as to why the Phobians acquired the plague.

After conferring amongst themselves, the majority of the representative suspected that the Phobians were about to announce plans for another annexation of some economically troubled world.

2010, Lonnie Holman I, Ultimate Dichotomization, →ISBN, page 42:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Phobos.


Phobian

To mark the end of Relations Week a fun run over 8 km was held at the Phobians Athletics Club.

1988, South African Panorama - Volume 33, page 50:

The determination of the Porcupine Warriors to make amends is not far-fetched as they matched the Phobians squarely in two off-season matches.

2001, Alex Akurgo, Camillus Abongo, May 9 at Accra Stadium: A Gripping Story of a Disaster that Turned Ordinary People Into Heroes:

The club's supporters (estimated to be in excess of 2 million) painted the whole of Ghana amber that night, their elation especially informed by the fact that apart from winning the first Champions League of the Millennium, the Phobians now stay firmly on the rail of bitter rivals Kotoko, who won the old-format Champions Cup twice and were losing finalists on five other occasions.

(Ghana) A member of Accra Hearts of Oak S.C., Ghana's premier football club.


werecrab

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

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

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

Apparently werecrabs did.

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

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


malebot

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


greenskin

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


xenoscience

(science fiction, rare) The science of extraterrestrial life.


xenogeology

/zɛnəd͡ʒiːɑləd͡ʒɪ/

(science fiction, rare) The science of extraterrestrial geology.


xenoengineering

/ˌzinoʊˌɛn.d͡ʒɪnˈɪəɹ.ɪŋ/

(science fiction, rare) Engineering of extraterrestrial species.


exocommunication

/ɛɡˈzɔːkʌˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃən/

(science fiction, rare) Communication with extraterrestrial species.


heat vision

The fictional ability to burn objects with one's gaze.


Gulliver

en-proper noun

Gulliver (countable and uncountable, plural Gullivers)

English surname of Norman origin, nickname for a greedy person, from Old French goulafre (“glutton”), from goule (“mouth”).

The main character in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.


xenobacteriology

/zɛnəbækˌtɪəɹ.ɪˈɒləd͡ʒi/

(science fiction, rare) The science of studying extraterrestrial bacteria.


xenomicrobiology

(science fiction, rare) The science of studying extraterrestrial microorganisms.


xenocytology

(science fiction, rare) The study (cytology) of extraterrestrial cells.


xenomorphology

/zɛnəmɔɹˈfɑləd͡ʒi/

(science fiction, rare) The science or study of extraterrestrial biological structures.


xenofiction

[...] escape from their threatened warren and establish a new home has become a classic of xenofiction, a subgenre of science fiction encompassing stories set among species or cultures dramatically different from humanity or human society.

2006, Christopher Harter, Anthony Tedeschi, Jodine Perkins, Places of the Imagination: A Celebration of Worlds, Islands, and Realms, Bloomington, Ind.: Lilly Library, →ISBN, page 64:

(science fiction, rare) Fictional stories about non-humans, especially extraterrestrials.

Raise your hand if you love xenofiction! There’s something about experiencing the world through non-human eyes that makes just about any plot more exciting to me.

2018 February 24, Lydia Schoch, “Saturday Seven: Non-Human Protagonists”, in lydiaschoch.com:

(science fiction, rare) Fiction written with a non-human point of view character.


xenoencyclopedia

The competent reader gradually learns more and more about the genre's own grand-scale xenoencyclopedia in order to understand each new work's specific xenoencyclopedia...

2012, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “Of Enigmas and Xenoencyclopedias”, in Science Fiction Studies, volume 39, number 3:

The (xeno)encyclopedia of the (science fiction) reader In L'empire du pseudo, Richard Saint-Gelais applies Umberto Eco's textual cooperation theory to the science fiction genre. He proposes to call “xenoencyclopedia” all the cognitive ...

2015, Maylis Rospide, Sandrine Sorlin, The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity: New Perspectives on Genre Literature:

They offer a supplement—or possibly a starting point—to the reader's “personal encyclopedia” (Eco 1985 [1979]) or, in this case, “xeno-encyclopedia” (Saint-Gelais 1999), which was constituted through previous Marvel readings and which these publications help to configure according to the publisher's...

2018, J.M. Méon, “Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Marvel Superhero Comics”, in Comics Memory:

(science fiction, rare) An encyclopedia of science fiction.


xenoethics

(science fiction, rare) (The study or elaboration of) extraterrestrial ethics.


astrogeography

/ˈæstɹəd͡ʒɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

(rare, science fiction) The study of exoplanet geography.


astrohistory

/ˈæstɹəˈhɪstəɹi/

(rare, science fiction) The study of alien history.


astrozoology

/ˈæstɹəzəʊˈɒləd͡ʒi/

(rare, science fiction) The branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial animals.


astrophilosophy

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien philosophy.


astrogeometry

(science fiction, rare) The study of geometry of the universe or stars.


xenoarchitecture

/zɛnəˈɑɹkəˌtɛkt͡ʃɚ/

(science fiction, rare) Extraterrestrial architecture.


extraterrestrialization

(neologism) The process of displacing from the Earth; decentralization of the Earth.


mundie

The mundies, the mundane daylight people, were able to sleep well thinking that these kinds of things never actually happened, and there were more than enough people devoted to helping them sleep in peace.

2015, Derek J. Goodman, The One Stop Apocalypse Shop: The Apocalypse Shift:

Simon might speak up for mundies in class, but it mattered more that George and Marisol and Sunil spoke up too. Simon didn't want to change things by being the special one, the exceptional mundane, the former Daylighter and former hero.

2016, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, page 249:

(fantasy, slang) A mundane; an ordinary person.


thalassogen

(astronomy, science fiction) A substance capable of forming a planetary ocean.


Memory Alpha

(rare) A collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek; Star Trek wiki.

As noted earlier, some researchers cite species as a significant factor in determining the value of Memory Alpha cards. If species affect the value of Memory Alpha cards, why does it fail to do so in this sample?

2012, Ortiz Zezzatti, Carlos Alberto Ochoa, Logistics Management and Optimization through Hybrid Artificial Intelligence:

Approaching Memory Alpha, which Looks Just Like it Did on the Original TV Series I thought I had this when I learned Memory Alpha still existed in this Trekverse.

Memory Alpha was to have been the pride of the Federation's scientific and educational delegations.

2013, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Star Trek: Signature Edition: Worlds in Collision:

In response, online fandoms have turned to the creation and maintenance of wikis to help sort through and organize the often overwhelming amount of detail in the source material. Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki, is one such fandom example.

2014, Marta González-Lloret, Lourdes Ortega, Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks:

(science fiction, Star Trek) An inhabited planetoid and the home for a Federation central library.


nuckelavee

From Orcadian Scots knoggelvi, from Scots neugle (“water spirit in the form of a horse”). Related to English nicker (“water demon”).

der

An aquatic horse-like demon from Orcadian mythology, said to cause droughts and epidemics and to harm crops and animals.


tri-D

Photos of smaller versions of him — I guessed his children — lined the ultra-modern furniture; as I swept a hand over a cabinet, a couple of tri-Ds even came to life.

2016, Jamie Sawyer, Origins, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 245:

(science fiction) Synonym of tri-V (“a system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video”).


tri-D

They were still engaged in their mental game of tri-D chess, whispering moves back and forth when they assumed Captain Gold wasn't listening.

2007, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Aftermath, page 452:


Wizard of Oz experiment

en-noun

Wizard of Oz experiment (plural Wizard of Oz experiments)

Referring to a scene in which the Wizard of Oz hides behind a curtain to project an intimidating shadow image.

human-computer interaction
human-computer interaction

In the field of human-computer interaction, a research experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that they believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated by an unseen human being.


demolecularize

en-verb

demolecularize (third-person singular simple present demolecularizes, present participle demolecularizing, simple past and past participle demolecularized)

demolecularizes (present singular third-person)
demolecularizing (participle present)
demolecularized (participle past)
demolecularized (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To disassemble the molecular structure of.


Dexit

Blend of Pokédex + exit. Also a pun on Brexit.

Game Freak came clean, stating that it simply couldn’t include all Pokémon in the games — a first for the series — because of technical limitations. This controversy, known as Dexit by the fans, might have prompted less blowback if Game Freak could show that its decision led to better graphics and performance.

2022 November 18, Jhaan Elker, “After ‘Pokémon Scarlet’ and ‘Violet,’ we can’t give Game Freak a pass”, in The Washington Post:

(Pokémon, fandom slang) The decision by Game Freak to make the National Pokédex absent from Pokémon Sword and Shield as well as for many Pokémon to be completely unavailable in these games.


Fenders

"Im going to sleep!" Reads fenders fics on phone until 4am

2015 July 23, Tentacle (@10takler), Twitter:

EVERYBODY SHIPS FENDERS WRONG!!!! less angry makeouts more talking about feelings

2015 August 2, silver stars (@naiakiir), Twitter:

In my Fenders headcanon, Anders accompanies Fenris in Blue Wraith.

2023 June 26, BinkyProd (@BinkyProd), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fenris and Anders from Dragon Age II.


cabbit

(anime, manga) A fictional hybrid of a cat and a rabbit.


Merlion

In 1995, a second Merlion was built on the island of Sentosa. This new Merlion is actually a 37-metre high panoramic tower, from which it is possible to view mainland Singapore and the Straits of Singapore[…]. A new "ancient legend" was created for this creature with this tower. The legend alleged that the Merlion landed on Sentosa and saved Singapore from a storm. It would save Singapore again if the island ran into trouble (according to a film in the Merlion Tower). […] Some locals are upset by this fabrication. The STB [Singapore Tourism Board] maintains that the Merlion reflects the combination of Singapore's national animal (the lion) and Singapore being an island. Many Singaporeans have come to accept this mythical creature as a quintessential symbol of Singapore. To the unaware tourists, the product was packaged in a convincing manner, with the legend, film clip, and chronotopic dimensions of when and where the Merlion supposedly visited Singapore.

2002, Can-Seng Ooi, Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, →ISBN, pages 109–110:

Like Changi Airport or the Merlion, Singlish is something that is quintessentially Singaporean. It is a dialect that everyone speaks and understands and is something that could provide the cornerstone for a unifying cultural identity.

2005, Neil Humphreys, chapter 11, in Notes from an Even Smaller Island: Singapore through a Young Brit’s Eyes, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, page 174:

Alternative letter-case form of merlion (“imaginary creature that is a national symbol of Singapore”).


nasnas

(Islam, folklore) A monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).


rocketpunk

A subgenre of speculative fiction based on space exploration.


tachyonic antitelephone

en-noun

tachyonic antitelephone (plural tachyonic antitelephones)


alienish

en-adj

alienish (comparative more alienish, superlative most alienish)

more alienish (comparative)
most alienish (superlative)

The bruise on my cheek had ripened into an underlying violet with an alienish green tinge. My ear had a red cut nicked out of it. The hot curling iron burn on my neck was starting to scab but it looked like it might hang around a lifetime.

2007, Nancy Bush, Electric Blue, page 212:

(science fiction) Characteristic of an alien; alienlike


Dynamic Duo

A nickname for the fictional superheroes Batman and Robin as a team.


Star Trekkian

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

more Star Trekkian (comparative)
most Star Trekkian (superlative)

Of or relating to the Star Trek media franchise.


Trekkian

Trekkian (comparative more Trekkian, superlative most Trekkian)

more Trekkian (comparative)
most Trekkian (superlative)


NuTrek

Obviously you've brought up NuWars and NuTrek the absolute rock bottom of modern blockbusters which I'm not going to defend

2020 April 21, anonymous author, “Re: How are western comics and cartoons art style received in Japan as opposed to how many westerners want to draw in an anime style?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

NuTrek and the ass goblins who tpost about it make my eyes bleed. It's so fucking boring watching retards shill the newest slop from Paramount

2024 June 25, anonymous author, “Re: /trek/”, in 4chan, retrieved 2024-08-26:

(fandom slang, derogatory) The films and television series in the Star Trek franchise from 2009 onward.


Abramsverse

From Abrams + -verse, after the American film director J. J. Abrams, involved in the reboot franchise's creation.

The "triumvirate" of Kirk-Spock-McCoy, often represented as central to the appeal of ST: TOS, is also seen as diminished by the Abramsverse in favor of emphasizing the Kirk-Spock relationship, […]

2015, Matt Hills, “From 'Multiverse' to 'Abramsverse': Blade Runner, Star Trek, Multiplicity, and the Authorizing of Cult/SF Worlds”, in J. P. Telotte, Gerald Duchovnay, editors, Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text, page 32:

Partly as a result of this division in intellectual property ownership, and the fact that Paramount had reimagined Star Trek via its differentiated 'Abramsverse,' it was actually not necessarily in Paramount's commercial interest to link Beyond to the anniversary of The Original Series.

2018, Derek Johnson, “Spin-offs, Crossovers, and World-building 'Energies'”, in Paola Brembilla, Ilaria A. De Pascalis, editors, Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes: A Narrative Ecosystem Framework, unnumbered page:

By comparison, the Abramsverse is a smaller and less interesting place, and it tends to be far more violent, frequently using the threat of genocide itself as entertainment, […]

2019, Ace G. Pilkington, “Science Fiction and the New Trek Timeline”, in Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Ace G. Pilkington, editors, The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier, page 124:


tenday

They're confident of having the main walls complete in just under ten tendays.

1993, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, page 284:


catboy

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

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


holopod

As usual IT didn't turn up until the end of the lesson and Caitlin had to share Michaela's holopod as there wasn't a spare one available.

2010, Caroline Hunter, The Present Future, →ISBN, page 20:

Altman shielded the holopod in his hands, watched the image that appeared, rotating slowly between his palms.

The object appears to be a holopod. Preliminary data scans indicate that it contains nothing more than a holographic presentation.

“It'll be different, that's for sure,” said Addie looking around the celebration holopod.

2015, Louise Park, Three's a Crowd, →ISBN, page 9:

(science fiction) A pod-like device that projects and/or records holographic images.


vampirina

Star, Old Mother Hubbard, Vampirina. She herself had bestowed the titles.

1922, William Rose Benét, The First Person Singular, page 13:

If the blonde vampirina was truly beautiful, then this vampirina was even more so.

2013, Rick Hall, The Chosen One, page 274:


Targ

If the Targ looks were carried by dominant genes, they wouldn't be so rare.

2005 January 18, Jenny Chase, “Re: Ashara Dayne”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):

Targs do like to marry other Targs.

2005 July 20, Palpie, “Re: *Bringing up an old topic*”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):

AND, if, in fact Jon turns out to be R+J^([sic]) after all, making him a Targ by blood if not even legally (who's to say Rhaegar didn't marry Lyanna? Wouldn't be the first time a Targ had two or more wives), what issue would this create with Jon having been made legally a Stark?

2008 July 9, vecki, “Jon Snow-Stark-Targaryen?”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):

(ASoIaF/GOT fandom slang, often attributive) Any member of House Targaryen.


Devdas

Borrowed from Hindi देवदास (devdās) or Bengali দেবদাস (debdaś), the name of the male lead in the 1917 Bengali-language story Devdas, readapted several times since.

"I don't know," he had said and sighed, Devdas style: "I don't know," Everyone wants to be a Devdas, at least for a while — or perhaps only for a while. Tragic hero.

1980, Sāhitya Akademi, Indian Literature, volume 23, page 539:

It reminds me very much of the Devdas character that so suffuses Indian cinema, not just in the 1935 and 1955 film versions, but as a 'Devdas effect' in Hindi melodramas, especially those of Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt.

1996, Bruce Bennett, Crossing Cultures: Essays on Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific:

Indians everywhere recognized that when somebody pined, longed, and raged for someone else, they were "doing a Devdas."

2007, Anupama Chopra, King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema:

The character of Kashyap's Dev, although it is built on the same model as traditional Devdases, is different and suffers for other reasons.

2017, Cornelius Crowley, Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema, page 198:


ASoIaF

There is an infinite amount of foods to choose from in ASoIaF, enough to fill an entire cookbook of its own.

2015, Cassandra Reeder, The Geeky Chef Cookbook: Real-Life Recipes for Your Favorite Fantasy Foods:

A Song of Ice and Fire
w:A Song of Ice and Fire


wereorc

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

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

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


Doggettfic

No deadline to this challenge--but if you write fast, my birthday's on Thursday and a box full of Doggettfic would be a great present. ;)

2001 April 18, Bigbeautifulspoon, “Smash That Cliche! a Doggettfic challenge”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Although I won't archive Doggettfic on Xemplary, it isn't outlawed on the XF Creative Mailing List, where just about anything goes.

2001 July 13, Shannara, “Re: What's with the witch hunt of XF authors?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

there is less and less xf fanfic being written now, and most of it seems to be either Doggettfic or based on spoilers for season 9, neither of which i care for.

2001 October 12, Kelly, “update at A Quiet Plaace to Read”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-files fandom slang) Fan fiction about the character John Doggett from The X-Files.


big bad

The noun was back-formed in 1998 in the episode “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is a nominalization derived from the long-established adjectival pattern within Big Bad Wolf and collocative constructions inspired by it (e.g., I tried to reason with her, but to her I'm just the big bad authority figure who can't be trusted).

Charlie, now menacingly equipped with a bionic arm, is these days in the service of new pantomime big bad, Poppy Adams, played with lysergic glee by Julianne Moore.

2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:

A major adversary or antagonist of a piece of fiction.


steamsona

My 'steamsona' has a backstory based on alternative historical Indochina, […]

2012, Diana M. Pho, quoted in Jeff VanderMeer & S. J. Chambers, The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature, page 152

Many steamsonas are created around professions or are derived from trades.

2013, Katherine Gleason, Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism, page 171:

So choose your persona, or steamsona, as it is known, and let's do a little shopping: […]

2014, Paul Roland, Steampunk: Back to the Future with the New Victorians, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang, neologism) A persona developed to be used within the steampunk subculture.


Valyrian

From Valyria (“fictional location”) + -n.

A family of constructed languages created by David J. Peterson for the television adaptation of Game of Thrones.


glawackus

(New England, mythology) A mythical monster resembling a mixture of a bear, panther, and lion, and having a fearsome screech.


werewoman

(mythology) A woman who takes the form of an animal through a process of lycanthropy.


solarpunk

en-noun

solarpunk (countable and uncountable, plural solarpunks)

From solar + -punk, modeled after cyberpunk.

Coordinate term: biopunk

So, in honor of the Beluga Skysail's maiden voyage, I'm going to suggest a new literary genre: solarpunk.

2008 April 30, john-roberts, “From Steampunk to Solarpunk”, in Republic of the Bees, Blogspot:

In a short blog written for the LGBT magazine Vitality, Claudie Arsenault explains that “solarpunk is all about envisioning a positive future, deeply rooted in sustainability, community, and acceptance.”

2015, Evelyn Deshane, Beyond Monsters and Myths: The Transgender Future and Progress Narrative in Speculative Fiction:

“Letters to Lovelace” takes place before the “revelation” as mentioned by Novice Broder in “Moss Piglets.” and is pre-greentech, but is the catalyst for the founding of their solarpunk world.

2017, Marisha Knutson, Summus Deus: A Collection of Short Stories (Honors Thesis, Portland State University):

Lastly (although actually the first paper on the panel), Rhys Williams explored the merits and limitations of the emerging sub-genre of 'solarpunk'.

2017, Paul March-Russell, “Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction, Birkbeck College London, 16 September 2017”, in Foundation, volume 46, number 128:

Most of my novels, I think, are actually fun because I'm doing realism in a way the world needs. As for anyone picking up the mantle, there's a group of young writers who call themselves solarpunk, and what they're trying is all about adaptation.

2017 June, Sally Adee, “The power of good”, in New Scientist, volume 234, number 3129:

Drawing from literary movements like Afrofuturism, hopepunk and solarpunk, this collection of 12 short stories approaches climate change with hope for the radically different futures humans might create.

2023 February 2, “Newly Published, From Climate Fiction to a Lost Congolese Princess”, in The New York Times:

(uncountable) A movement and subgenre of speculative fiction that focuses on community, sustainability, technology powered by renewable energy, and a free and egalitarian society.


prostibot

(science fiction, slang) A sexbot hired out as a prostitute.


Jellyby

After the character of Mrs Jellyby in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (1852), who busies herself with charity work for Africa while her own household goes to ruin.

My mother, devoted to music, was a Jellyby. Strictly brought up, straight backed, never careless of her person, but still as to her children, a Jellyby.

1992, Bernard Shaw, Rebecca Swift, Letters from Margaret: correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Margaret Wheeler 1944-1950:

Chuck Collins, a great-grandson of Oscar Mayer, is a rare non-fictional example of someone who gave away all his assets during his lifetime—a half-million-dollar inheritance, which he donated to charity nearly twenty years ago. […] He now has a daughter, who does not live like a Jellyby.

2005, American Society of Magazine Editors, The Best American Magazine Writing 2005, page 360:

A philanthropist who cares only for people in distant regions, or people away from their own household.


rougarou

From Cajun French rougarou (“werewolf”).

Like the European werewolf and loup-garou, the French Canadian rougarou also often appears in the form of a dog. Whoever neglects his Easter duties or goes unconfessed for seven years finds himself changed into a rougarou at night.

1961, Maria Leach, God Had a Dog: Folklore of the Dog:

“I told you, I'm not the rougarou. And if I say anything, the rougarou will kill me. I may be old, but I don't want to go that way.” “Selena, I'm going to hurt you worse than any rougarou.”

2016, Heather Graham, Blood on the Bayou: A Cafferty & Quinn Novella, Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated, →ISBN:

“The rougarou—him's a big, bad wolf.” “Bad?” asked Lizabeth. “What do you mean?”

2016, Jonathan Maberry, The Orphan Army, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:

(folklore) A werewolf or werewolf-like creature said to inhabit swamps in Louisiana (and sometimes French Canadian) folklore.


Ivan Ivanovich

Ivan Ivanovich (plural Ivan Ivanoviches or Ivan Ivanovichs)

Ivan Ivanoviches (plural)
Ivan Ivanovichs (plural)

/ɪˈvɑːn ɪˈvɑːnəvɪt͡ʃ/

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

bor

Ива́н Ива́нович

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


science fantasy

en-noun

science fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural science fantasies)

(chiefly uncountable) A hybrid genre of science fiction and fantasy, typically with settings combining futuristic and supernatural or magical elements.


isekai

isekai (countable and uncountable, plural isekai or isekais)

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

bor+

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

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

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

(countable) Any piece of media in this genre.


isekai

en-verb

isekai (third-person singular simple present isekais, present participle isekaiing, simple past and past participle isekaied or isekai'd)

isekais (present singular third-person)
isekaiing (participle present)
isekaied (participle past)
isekaied (past)
isekai'd (participle past)
isekai'd (past)

The protagonist was isekai'd by Truck-kun.

(fandom slang, transitive) To transport (someone) into an alternative world, often by killing them.


exoscience

(science fiction) Science concerning exoplanets and anything on them.


arslikhan

Alteration of arse-licking. Coined by Private Eye.

The constituency's large Jewish population is in open revolt over the Foreign Secretary's Arafat arslikhan.

As this passage suggests, Masters is a graduate of the Arslikhan school of biography.

1996, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, Verso, →ISBN, page 226:

We'll have a couple of after-dinner speeches – I'll say a few words, interspersing a couple of jokes with a vote of arslikhan thanks for their business, and then introduce our guest speaker.

2012, David Croydon, The Unprincipled, Hilltop Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

(UK, slang) Overt flattery, especially in print.


forceshield

(science fiction) A forcefield (invisible barrier).


sidehill gouger

en-noun

sidehill gouger (plural sidehill gougers)

A creature from North American folklore, adapted to living on hillsides by having legs shorter on one side than on the other.


cynocephalic

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

cog

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


spriggan

Borrowed from Cornish spyrysyon (“spirits; fairies”).

In Cornish folklore, a malicious spirit in the form of a wizened old man.


goblette

"I am Gwendolyn Goblin, soon to be chief on Goblin Mountain. Now get out of the way before I move you out."
"Ho, ho, ho. It is to laugh. You can't move me out, you skirted goblette. You must pay"
..
"So you're stuck, goblette," Hugh Mongous said. "Pay."
"This is outrageous!" Gwenndy said, stamping her little foot.
..
“Cups, glasses, containers, bottles, mugs—”
“Goblets?”
"Whatever."
“Nothing interesting,” Gwenny said, hoping the demoness would go away. There was no point in correcting her about the distinction between a goblet and a goblette, or in reminding her that there was only one goblin in this party. They had enough problems without having them complicated by a supernatural creature. Demonesses were supposed to be less worse than demons, being mischievous rather than mean, but their mischief could be formidable.

1992 "The Color of Her Panties" book 15 in Piers Anthony's Xanth series page 29

A girl Goblin. Happy Halloween to all you Goblins and Goblettes!

My dear, dear goblette, there is really nothing to it.

2015 "Goblin" The Adventures of Puss in Boots (Puss speaking to Cleevil)

I decided a "Goblette" was a shortstacked android goblin girl.


Smurfette principle

Named after the character Smurfette, the only major female character in The Smurfs. Coined by Katha Pollitt in 1991.

The practice in fiction, such as in film and television series, of including only one woman in an otherwise male ensemble.


romantopia

en-noun

romantopia (usually uncountable, plural romantopias)

Blend of romance + utopia; originally coined by evolutionary psychologists Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons in their book Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female Sexuality (2001; →ISBN) to describe the setting in romance novels.

But why, one might wonder, is there no commercial erotic genre that combines the ingredients of pornotopia and romantopia, thereby doubling the potential audience and the potential profit?

2001, Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons (2001), Warrior lovers: erotic fiction, evolution, and female sexuality (New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press), page 68

The crucial difference between romantopia and intimatopia is that in intimatopia, intimacy is normally established before sexual interaction and is always maintained after it, whereas in romantopia, it is only established by sexual interaction and is frequently transitory.

2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays, (Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland), page 106

In opposition to romantopia and intimatopia and their respective romance and intimacy foci, paratopia’s interest in the fantastic is more radical.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 66

A fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by women.


romantopic

Like war novels, medieval literature is also sexually ambiguous (see Appendix one for more on medieval queerness). An example is slash inspired by the medieval-set Merlin, for which romantopic and intimatopic frameworks are useful.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 15


troll job

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Leaning over his back, she glanced past his shoulder and recognized the receipts and paperwork from the troll job. Bittersweet nostalgia swept over her as she recalled the night she and Rosa had transformed a desperately lonely troll into a confident kickass female.

2014, Camille Anthony, Werewulf Journals, →ISBN:

It's common knowledge that trolls aren't the sharpest swords in the arsenal, so mog diving is a pretty common troll job.

2016, Rob Harrell, Life of Zarf: Troll Overboard, →ISBN, page 14:

(fantasy) A job suitable for or focused on a troll.


zipway

I never cared for zipways as a way to get around megastructures like this. I always thought that there was a reason God invented taxis.

He could only stay there, suspended halfway between the top of the wall and the zipway, and wish would all come out all right. He'd taken a gamble, and sometimes you lost gambles. He felt more than saw the flyers stop, and he dropped down the remaining meter and a half to the surface of the zipway.

2012, Connie Willis, Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, A Cosmic Christmas:

(science fiction) A high-speed elevator, corridor, or similar transit route.


macrokinesis

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

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

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


Lukomorye

From Russian Лукомо́рье (Lukomórʹje, literally “the curve of the sea”).

bor

(folklore, Slavic mythology) A fictional land in Russian folklore.

Loukomorie

a fictional land in the Russian folklore


love quadrangle

en-noun

love quadrangle (plural love quadrangles)

(rare) A situation in which three people vie for the love of a fourth person.


Amalgamverse

From amalgam + -verse, after Amalgam Comics.

Understandably, as both Cyborg and Deathlok were by and large good guys for most of their appearances. But, I guess the answer could be much like the Age of Apocalypse (where some formerly very good X-men were awfully mean) -- some events in the Amalgamverse were so different from regular continuity that a few of the good guys were warped (and some of the bad guys were un-warped, too, I think, though no examples come to mind).

1997 April 16, shawn h, “Re: Magnetic Men amalgams, part 2”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <5j1aks$mo0$1@news.fas.harvard.edu>:

Not to mention the fact that bringing Access into continuity emphasizes the existence of at least two alternate Universes, the Marvelverse and the Amalgamverse.

1997 November 23, Bala Menon, “Re: return to glory”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <658hj5$krl@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of the Amalgam Comics, which is populated by alternate versions of characters merged from Marvel Comics and DC Comics.


Nolanverse

From Nolan + -verse, after Christopher Nolan, the director of the films.

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of the Batman film trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).


Arrowverse

From arrow (“projectile that is shot from a bow”) + -verse, after Arrow (TV series), from Green Arrow (a fictional archer and superhero, the protagonist of the TV series).

af

(fandom slang) The fictional shared universe that serves as the setting of various live action series based on DC Comics superheroes: Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014), Legends of Tomorrow (2016), etc.

Arrow (TV series)
Arrowverse
Green Arrow


DCverse

From DC (ellipsis of DC Comics, originally initialism for Detective Comics) + -verse.

That said, I think the poster meant JUST AFTER the 9/11 attacks in 2001, no one woulda freaked out about them in the DCverse or Marvelverse since they would be par for the course from various supervillains, extradimensional gods and outer space aliens.

2013, Ken from Chicago, “Re: CW's Wonder Woman project gets new writer”, in rec.arts.sf.tv (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The fictional universe created by DC Comics.


Batmanverse

Not exactly, because in the Batmanverse, Robin's love is reciprocated by the super hero, so his leaving would be a romantic betrayal. >:-)

2003 February 27, Rose, “Re: ME vs The Fans (Storyteller spoilers)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet), message-ID <20030227110035.23170.00000150@mb-mk.aol.com>:

I think it is too soon for talking about the details of the story, but I can't wait to have the chance to work again with Jeph Loeb, the man who has stated the pillars of the modern Superverse and Batmanverse.

2003 December 1, Briker, “Loeb es la rehostia, Pacheco dixit”, in es.rec.comics (Usenet), message-ID <bqfts0$2339c3$1@ID-112383.news.uni-berlin.de>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe depicted in the Batman comics, films, television series and video games.


Timmverse

From Timm + -verse, after Bruce Timm, one of the creators of this universe.

I think the Batcave came from Batman's radio show. Renee Montoya, Harley Quinn from the animated series. Hey, before the Adam West show did anybody know Alfred was British? (maybe.) And a lot of the recent redesigns across the DCU have come from the Timmverse, including Robin's spiffy new duds.

2007 September 29, Denny Colt, “Re: JLA Movie: You Knew It Would Suck But This Badly?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <1191098202.149049.200890@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:

(fandom slang) The DC Animated Universe (DCAU).