jumpship

Ben stared at the hologram. "The megacorps don't have quite the monopoly on fast transit that they think they have," he said. "But it would certainly help if we had a few more jumpships. That would solve a lot of transit problems."

2015, Jacey Bedford, Crossways, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 59:

(science fiction) A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.


lifeship

You target our habs and lifeships, you slaughter us in our millions. We attack your military and infrastructure. And you call us the terrorists.

2004, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 459:

(science fiction) A spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.


Lunite

"Our situation," Lamar remarked, "is similar to that which a Lunite might have encountered had he visited New England in 1690. Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."

1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2:

(science fiction, now rare) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


Lunarite

From Lunar (“pertaining to Luna”) + -ite.

Although his achievements were not numerous, he was able to hammer out a successful trade agreement with the Moon. The Lunarites were certainly pleased that their rich mining resources, needed by the Earth, were traded practically straight across for the air and water which they so desperately needed.

1993, Linda Hall, The Josiah Files, Nashville, T.N.: Thomas Nelson Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


moonman

In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]

1863, William George Caldcleugh, “Story of Chico Capaac, or the Man in the Moon (the Story of the Moonmen)”, in Eastern Tales, James Challen and Son, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 230:

On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again.

1954, Catherine Lucile Moore, Northwest of Earth, Gnome Press, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 54:

As the first moonmen worked to set up their rudimentary base, supply ships would have to be sent periodically with additional provisions for more permanent materials for the eventual large lunar base. Meanwhile, the moonmen would continue to live in their pressurized domes. As supplies accumulated, construction of the permanent base would begin.

1958 March 13, William Leavitt, “Man in space”, in Air Force Magazine, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 122:

en:member of a nation of fictional moon dwellers

(science fiction, dated) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


zoolingualism

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vitakinesis

The ability to control the healing process.


jonbar hinge

A reference to the 1938 novel The Legion of Time, in which the character John Barr having the choice of picking up of one of two objects (a magnet or a pebble) marks a major turning point in history: one will lead to the utopian empire of Jonbar (named after John Barr himself), while the other leads to the rise of the tyrannical state of Gyronchi. Further etymology at John, Barr.

(science fiction) In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.


mindlink

"No," Bean replied. "More likely, the Minkowski Line would learn how to create more efficient mindlinks than the one that the Martians developed without access to advanced technology. But that would be enough."

2009 July, Lawrence Barker, Blood Red Sphere, Arlington, Tex.: Swimming Kangaroo Books, →ISBN, page 231:

(science fiction) A telepathic link or connection between separate minds.


mindmeld

en-verb

mindmeld (third-person singular simple present mindmelds, present participle mindmelding, simple past and past participle mindmelded)

mindmelds (present singular third-person)
mindmelding (participle present)
mindmelded (participle past)
mindmelded (past)

Compound of mind + meld, originally from the Star Trek franchise.

Besides, the old Social Bandit has been soft on Wasps since the moonshot, when he mindmelded with the astronauts.

1993, Norman Mailer, “The Trouble With Harry”, in John Leonard, editor, The Last Innocent White Man in America, and Other Writings, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 189:

We are now deep into jury selection, eight days in court huddled at the table with our jury consultant, trying to mindmeld with strangers whose names have been churned out from computerized voter lists and drivers' license records at DMV.

2005, Steve Martini, Double Tap, Coalville, Leicestershire: Charnwood, published 2006, →ISBN, page 295:

That didn't happen with [Adam] Franklin, who was probably too distracted in 2008 by his underrated band's reunion, as well as his brilliant solo effort Bolts of Melody, to take over the wheel of Magnetic Morning. Instead, the two UK musicians mindmelded and found a middle ground, which sounds very cool indeed.

2008 October 12, Scott Thill, “Swervedriver and Interpol's Magnetic Morning Dawns”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

(colloquial) To form a mind meld; to create a deep connection with someone, as though combining into a single mind.


Luna City

From Luna (“the name of Earth's moon”) + city.

(science fiction) The name of a major colony or city on the Moon in various science fiction works.


threedy

From the pronunciation of 3D (“three-dimensional”).

"Nothing else. We don’t know anything... at all... about what brings St. Andrews into this. But she knows too much, Benny. Lots and lots of stuff that didn't appear—and never will appear—in the newspapes, or on the threedies."

1994 February, Earthsong: Native Tongue III, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 176:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional movie or television program.


ultraphone

Amalfi wondered if the Hruntans understood English; not that he was worried about the present interchange being overheard—the giant planet would block that most effectively, since the Utopians used ordinary radio rather than ultraphones or Dirac communicators—but it was of the utmost importance, if Hazleton's scheme was to be made workable, that the Hruntans should have heard and understood the warning the Earth police had issued to the city.

1955, James Blish, Earthman, Come Home (Cities in Flight; 1), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1958, page 29:

(science fiction) A telephone capable of transmitting communications faster than the speed of light.


ultradrive

Politically, the assistance Marius provided was subtle and invaluable, allowing Ethan to build alliances within the Council and among the Clerics of the Orchard Palace, propelling him to a position where he could put himself forward for election with a great deal of confidence. Included with that was the offer of ultradrives for the Pilgrimage ships, a gift that would generate a near-certain success.

2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 358–359:

(science fiction) A spaceship drive capable of travelling faster than the speed of light.


xenological

"I don't think they'll be in any mood to trade xenological theory, Oma. They might not be so lenient with us now we've put up a fight."

2017, Eric Brown, Binary System, Oxford, Oxforshire: Solaris, →ISBN, page 226:

(science fiction) Relating to xenology ("the study of alien life").


catman

(fantasy) A man having physical characteristics of a cat.


vibroblade

Perhaps the last sound they heard was each other's laughter; or perhaps it was the hum of vibroblades in the seconds before death.

2010, John Meaney, Absorption, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 129:

(science fiction) A weapon or tool with a rapidly vibrating blade.


vibroknife

Beneath my jacket, I tugged the vibroknife from its sheath in the small of my back and activated the motor. With my free hand I pressed down hard on the dead man's spine and started cutting.

2003, Richard Morgan, Broken Angels, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 75:

(science fiction) Synonym of vibroblade (“a weapon or tool with a rapidly vibrating blade”).


tri-V

Moki and Ukatonen weren't supposed to go out without Eerin or Analin, so they spent most of the day watching the Tri-V or listening to Analin and Eerin talk about them. It was fun at first, seeing themselves on the Tri-V, but they only showed the same few pictures and words.

1999, Amy Thomson, Through Alien Eyes, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 85:

(science fiction) A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.


tri-vid

There should have been women in silver suits taking in a show at the tri-vids before indulging in a spot of lunch, the kind that came in three-course pills, great big subservient robots trailing behind them. Instead there was a brown man in overalls collecting rubbish with a long stick outside an adult cinema, and the cars were halted, bumper-to-bumper, beside a traffic light that seemed to be stuck permanently on red.

2011, Lavie Tidhar, Osama: A Novel, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Solaris, published 2012, →ISBN, page 233:

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


trideo

en-noun

trideo (countable and uncountable, plural trideos)

Getting Karissa back to her cabin had been fairly easy, encountering only a few passengers along the way, who were too surprised by the chance encounter to ask for autographs or personal trideos with the star, especially as Grant kept her moving with a firm hand on her elbow.

2017, Veronica Scott, “Star Cruise: Songbird”, in Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2, →ISBN, page 381:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional video.

His father had been Prime Minister for the last twelve years. There had been puff pieces about Randal on the trideo since he was a child.

2011, J. Wesley Bush, Knox's Irregulars, →ISBN, page 78:


tridim

By the time they got to the Wrapateria the line of kids snaked down the block. The usual jokers were taking tri-dims of the crowd and playing them back to each other.

2005, Karen Haber, Crossing Infinity, New York, N.Y.: ibooks, →ISBN, page 51:

(science fiction) Synonym of trideo (“a three-dimensional video”).

I entered theaters where the happy lotus eaters sat slumped in their massage chairs, transfixed by the glowing tridim images—and capered down the aisles. No one grumbled at me.

1963, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Earth in Transit, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., published 1976, page 59:


mutie

Manuel waded through rivulets of the dirty water. It steamed away or gurgled into cracks. Some muties were so addled that they kept slurping at the runoff even though the hunt was storming past, the thumps and snaps of men firing clear in the air.

1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, New York, N.Y.: Avon Eos, published 1998, →ISBN, page 108:


neurolink

The clone soldiers were given basic cognitive advancement via neurolinks while they were still in the tanks.

2010, Alex Irvine, Iron Man: Virus, London: Titan Books, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) A technology that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer.


organlegger

Blend of organ + bootlegger (“an illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol”).

blend

Owen lay dead in the bloody snow, his noble body gashed and punctured in many places, and soaked in his own gore. And that was how the organleggers found him.

2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:

(science fiction) Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.


prespace

"No way to tell now," Miram admitted. "Lots of space junk around the second planet, though. Could be native, an example of a prespace culture making the transition, but the debris could also be the results of a mining operation or something else I have no frame of reference for."

2016, Evan Currie, Warrior King, Seattle, O.R.: 47North, →ISBN, page 233:

(science fiction) Of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.


plastiskin

Gavin's supple, plastiskin face was somber, his voice subdued. Ursula could tell that he had been doing a lot of thinking.

1986, David Brin, “Lungfish”, in The River of Time, Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, →ISBN, page 340:

(science fiction) synthetic skin, especially that of an android.


Loonie

"I used to hate Loonies. All Odans do. But in my opinion, only the Jupiters and generals and Committee members are truly awful. The rest of you are . . . tolerable. And you? Definitely more than tolerable."

2015, Karen Bao, Dove Arising, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 309:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon.


telekineticist

"Kids—like girls and boys?" Squid asks. "I've only ever heard of female telekineticists."

2017, Corey J. White, Killing Gravity, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 67:

(science fiction, fantasy) Someone who has the ability to move objects with their mind; a telekinetic.


telempathy

"Telempathy is a skill that so far exists only in legends and rumors," Sue says. "To be able to master it would be something immensely valuable to the Sekhem."

2013, C[ynthia] J[aynes] Omololu, Intuition, New York, N.Y. […]: Walker Books, →ISBN, page 213:

(parapsychology, science fiction) The paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others; empathy.


telempathic

I did a telempathic analysis of Leo a few weeks back. He was in a difficult situation. Easily twice as intelligent than his family and school mates. I knew he was desperate for just about any kind of change in his life.

2007, Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer, “When Bloomsbury Fails”, in Why I Hunt Flying Saucers & Other Fantasticals: A Science Fiction Short Story Retrospective, Milton, O.N.: Brain Lag, published 2016, →ISBN, page 218:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Relating to or involving telempathy ("the paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others").


telempath

"Very brave of you, but the ancient dragons of the Circle are very powerful telempaths and often use mind control on dragons untrained in mental battle. I will teach you how to protect your mind and fight a telepathic battle just in case you ever encounter one of their enforcers, or a human wizard."

2010, Susan Trombley, Princess's Dragon, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 60:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Someone able to sense the emotions of others by paranormal means; someone who has the power of telempathy.


telescanner

"If you or Dr. Rankin cares to start a search program with the telescanner, you have my blessing."

1985, Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, Emprise, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 259:

(science fiction) A scanner, especially one able to collect information from far away.


threevee

The demon paused before answering, as though listening to an internal voice. Seen up close, he too was slightly blurred — like a threevee picture in the middle of a bad day for sunspots, Kin thought.

1981, Terry Pratchett, Strata, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:

She loved to sit with me when three or four of us went to the Blue Sea, to the Bay of Lue, to threevees in the city, to musical shows, or just to eat iced meloncolion on the showy balconies of the comiche.

2016, John Argo, Moon Berry Wine: A Far Future Science Fiction Novel, San Diego, C.A.: Clocktower Books, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) A screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.


Terranian

Possibly Terra + -an + -ian, thus making the term redundant.

"How we've all longed for this glorious day! And thanks to our glorious Fire Reaper techno, all Terranians can join with us in our final triumph!"

2013, Patricia Robertson, The Fire Reapers, Whitehorse, Y.T.: Linnaea Press, →ISBN, page 370:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


Terranian

The first operator spoke no Terranian languages at all. The second one could only speak French and German.

1954 May, Bill Wesley, “The Primus Curse”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Fiction House, page 53:

(science fiction) Relating to Earth or its people.


imagescreen

As they ate, Hallvard told their visitors what had happened in the City and what they‘d seen on the imagescreen in his cell in the Temple.

2013, Patricia Robertson, The Fire Reapers, Whitehorse, Y.T.: Linnaea Press, →ISBN, page 388:

(rare, sometimes in science fiction) A screen capable of displaying images.


subether

en-noun

subether (countable and uncountable, plural subethers)

Her instrument panel was dead, not a single light across the con- sole on. Evidently the bdellium dish wasn't working. Either that, or the subether was still. Though the subether was never still, filled with voices from unimaginable distances.

1996, Michael Kandel, Panda Ray, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 134:

(science fiction) A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel.


sub-ether

sub-ether (countable and uncountable, plural sub-ethers)

(science fiction) Alternative form of subether


subetherics

That surprised Ariel. ""We don't even know how he died." / "Gruesomely, according to the subetherics. Crushed." He glanced sidelong at her. "Sound familiar?"

2002, Mark W. Tiedemann, Aurora, New York, N.Y>, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) Devices able to communicate using the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel"), considered collectively.


planetographer

From planet + -o- + -grapher, perhaps modelled off of cartographer.

In the century-plus since Eris was settled, we have already raised the temperature of its lithosphere by several degrees, just as we've thickened the atmosphere ot Callisto a thousandfold: if this goes on, the more annoyingly farsighted planetographers warn, we can look forward to an increased incidence ot icequakes and the threat of a year-round atmosphere.

2008, Charles Stross, Saturn's Children: A Space Opera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 269:

(chiefly science fiction) Someone who studies planetography ("the branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets").


spacedog

But Station Yorick's customers liked that first interview. The grizzled old spacedog, pipe in mouth, glass in hand, spinning a yarn.... […]

1980 April, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, Asimov's Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

(science fiction) A person experienced in space travel.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) Relating to the Tau Ceti system or its people.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Tau Ceti system.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) The fictional language spoken in the Tau Ceti system.


JKR

Pen name from the initials of Rowling’s and her paternal grandmother’s names, Joanne and Kathleen, respectively.

Initialism of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author.


Linny

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.


Pansmione

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pansy Parkinson and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.


PJO

Percy Jackson & the Olympians
w:Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Initialism of Percy Jackson & the Olympians.


mooncrete

Blend of moon + concrete, equivalent to moon + -crete.

He gestured at the mooncrete. "Great stuff, huh? And another case of the Builders showing off. They not only make us a moon; they make us one that will remain forever new."

1988, David F Nighbert, Timelapse, Headline, →ISBN, page 159:

The driver slowed down to a crawl; the vehicle's inflated wheels bumped slightly as they moved onto a mooncrete ramp, then the bus began rolling downward toward a pair of double doors.

2007, Allen Steele, Spindrift, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 20:

The design emphasized the use of extra-terrestrial materials preferably from the Moon. "Mooncrete" – or lunar concrete – should be produced by processing lunar rocks in a factory.

2017 March, Werner Grandl, “Human life in the Solar System”, in REACH, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

An otherworldly project is underway. A researcher at the University of Miami is currently making "mooncrete," a material he hopes to perfect for building a habitable base on the moon.

2019 July 25, Tate Jacaruso, “Thanks To A Miami Researcher We Might Actually Be Building A Habitable Base On The Moon Soon”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

Synonym of lunarcrete (“a hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon”).


Hogwartian

en-adj

Hogwartian (comparative more Hogwartian, superlative most Hogwartian)

more Hogwartian (comparative)
most Hogwartian (superlative)

You cannot go to Turin without expecting to see its greatest attraction: the Sindone, or as we call it in English, the Shroud. The problem is that the Turin Shroud is kept well and truly shrouded in the Duomo, the rather subdued Renaissance cathedral. Enclosed in a Hogwartian trunk behind a sheet of plate glass, bulletproofed in case anyone wanted to assassinate it, the shroud’s appearances are strictly controlled.

2003, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 14:

With just the right sequence, we can get a computer to read a book out loud, understand human speech, anticipate (and prevent) a heart attack, or predict the movement of a stock-market holding. If an incantation is just slightly off mark, the magic is greatly weakened or does not work at all. One might object to this metaphor by pointing out that Hogwartian incantations are brief and therefore do not contain much information compared to, say, the code for a modern software program.

2005, Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Viking, →ISBN, page 5:

Despite the Hogwartian allure of Yale’s Gothic-style colleges, Muggle undergraduates may have to look elsewhere to catch a true glimpse of the magical world of Harry Potter.

2007 October 30, Patrick Lee, “For seminar selection, Potter will have to wait”, in Yale Daily News, page 3:

Consider the role of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. From the first volumes, Hogwarts played a tremendous role in the story, gathering the young protagonists—Harry [Potter] and his friends—into its curious and often-changing halls. It became the place where magic was learned and friendships formed. It stood for what must be saved: the ideals of the Hogwartian school, where magical powers were taught for the sake of good.

2008, Philip Martin, “Developing a Sense of Place”, in Philip Martin, editor, The New Writer’s Handbook: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft & Career, volume 2, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Press, →ISBN, pages 98–99:

To me, the UO [University of Oregon] is Hogwarts, a secretive organization that pirates the best of the very poor, teaches them to value their new status much too highly and leaves the suffering to understand that they, of the inferior mundane class, simply don’t deserve housing, legal care, medical care, dental care or even a basic sense of belonging. […] Getting a Ph.D. in sociology or mathematics must be a fascinating exercise in Hogwartian mysticism, but what on earth does that do for the very poor, the despairing, those left on the other side of the town-gown wall?

2008 April 17–24, Hugh Massengill, “UO = Hogwarts”, in Eugene Weekly, page 5:

But I’d never seen a hurling match before and sat fixated by the TV in our room, which showed one of the fastest, most bizarre, and seemingly most dangerous games I’ve ever experienced. Harry Potter would love it. Fifteen men a side hurtled by and into one another in seemingly total Hogwartian disarray, flailing long cáman paddle-sticks on which they carried—yes, carried—a small white leather ball (sliotar)—although in the truly wild days when the game first emerged I heard it was often a human skull.

2009, David Yeadon, At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, pages 17–18:

[…] part of [J. K.] Rowling’s skill lies in the way in which she makes this bygone world instantaneously modern to an age of children who live in an electronic multimedia world. For example, moving staircases, portraits of ancient Hogwartian dignitaries who talk and move, the Marauder’s Map and flying dragons are familiar features of computer virtual reality games.

2009, Diane Duncan, Teaching Children’s Literature: Making Stories Work in the Classroom, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 195:

Bookended by J.K. Rowling at Harvard [University]’s Commencement and the traditional laying-on of hands at Clare [College]’s, her year had a Hogwartian quality.

2010, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report, Cambridge, Mass., page 35:


Hogwartian

The departed Hogwartians in the portraits that line the school’s corridors leave their frames and visit one another.

[Robbie] Coltrane’s performance as the noble if slightly buffoonish [Rubeus] Hagrid is the standout among the sterling adult cast, and the Sorting Hat, a sort of garrulous talking napkin that assigns new Hogwartians to their houses, is a low-tech effect put to hilarious use.

2001 November 16, Andrew O’Hehir, ““Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”"”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2011-12-29; published in Scot Peacock, editor, Children’s Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People, volume 80, Gale, 2002, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 198:

“But how did you know I go to Hogwarts?” inquired Harry [Potter]. “Ah! I can always tell a, um, Hogwartian,” said Jack Flash cheerily.

2003, J.B. Miller, “J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Rolling Stone”, in The Satanic Nurses: And Other Literary Parodies, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN:

Screams of terror rent the air: The fighters scattered, Death Eaters and Hogwartians alike, and red and green jets of light flew into the midst of the oncoming monsters, which shuddered and reared, more terrifying than ever.

2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Interactions between the Trio, the Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Hogwartians, and house-elves and other magical creatures are relevant not only in critical analysis, but in the overall context of the story.

2012, Todd S. Waters, “Is Hermione Granger the Real Chosen One?”, in Christopher E. Bell, editor, Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 198:

Zombie Snow-White and zombie Bo-Peep picnicked alongside Zombie hobbits and Hogwartians.

2013, Jennifer Rutherford, Zombies, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:

In the book’s [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] version of the “Battle of Hogwarts” an armed collective of many different magical creatures and wizards comes to the aid of the defeated Hogwartians as the battle recommences.

2016, Vincent F. Rocchio, Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN:

The retrieval of the memory of the Death Eaters trial suggestively presents the trial as a moment that renders transgression visible – a transgression that is repressed by the conscious – but simultaneously demonstrates the reestablishment of order through the punishment of the defendants. It represents therefore a repetition of violence that is overcome by the process of law. The memory of this moment is in fact a menace to institutional order because it suggests its fragility and reminds Hogwartians of the ever-present possibility of transgression.

2018, Isabel Capeloa Gil, “Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility”, in Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race; 33), Koninklijke Brill nv, →ISBN, part 2 (Justice), pages 108–109:

5.2¾ INDEXICALITY AND INFERENCE / This is a concealed section that only Hogwartians will find.

2020, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, 4th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:


landsider

What else but the quest for knowledge would tempt a sane person away from a comfortable home? What else would persuade a landsider to take to the ocean, except the chance of getting to meet more strangers in a shorter time?

1983, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 103:

He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.

1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.

1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 82:

Not a man I'd trust alone with her, you understand. Not a man I trust entirely on anything—too involved with the landsiders, the traders, the political people.

1988, Thomas T[hurston] Thomas, An Honorable Defense, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 108:

It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises. We tend to think of officers and ratings — deck sailors. We might, if pricked, think about the engine room crew — who with the onset of oil, then diesel, just kept on shrinking per ship.

1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly science fiction or fantasy) Someone who lives on land (as opposed to the sea or space).


groundsider

Near the main airlock she foimd Tregare arguing loudly with persons she had never seen—groundsiders here, she thought.

1976, F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Rissa Kerguelen, Berkley Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 67:

Coming back groundside, you always felt the dissociation. They shouldn't have brought him all the way back here; they should have left him out at a Jupiter station, or somewhere his own kind were. These groundsiders were the real aliens. He couldn't make any connections with contemporary Earth—this wasn't the America he remembered.

1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7:

Trinli paused a second, holding his place with one hand while his whole body quivered with the need for crampons and ropes, and pitons driven solid into the walls around him. Lord. It had been a long time since his groundsider orientation had come back this strongly. He moved forward. Forward. Not up.

1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 109:

The server was cute, and I wondered how she got here, because her physique was groundsider, even more than mine. She had a wedge do with blond highlights and was cheerful without being icky.

2016, Michael Z. Williamson, Angeleyes, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 118:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).


planetsider

Todd knew billions of planetsiders were watching, most of Earth. What would they make of this? They had to take the threat seriously. Pat had to make them understand—as he hadn't made them imderstand the true significance of the alien messenger.

1981, Juanita Coulson, Tomorrow's Heritage, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 349:

Her chest was hurting already — no star-traveller had the stamina to outrun a planetsider—and she knew she could not keep up her pace for much longer.

1985, Melissa Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 307:

The passers-by were mostly planetsiders, some so recent you could see they had trouble handling low-G movement.

1989, Larry Niven, Man-Kzin Wars II, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 216:

"So youre not a planetsider." Raine laughed. "A dirtgrubber? Of course not. I'm from the Habitat. Gryphon torus."

2011, Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes, London: HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN, page 209:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on a planet.


paragade

(fandom slang, video games) A play style in the Mass Effect series in which options from both the paragon and renegade orientations are selected about equally.


moonship

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The space agency has requested the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to develop a method for controlling trace contaminants inside a spacecraft. […] Unlike the Earth's atmosphere, the air inside a moonship doesn't get cleaned by rains or winds.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, pages 22–24:

Other kits were for making aeroplanes, one a scale model of the Scandinavian Air Lines Douglas D.C.-8 which was expected to make the first flight from Britain to Los Angeles in April 1960. There was also a moonship of a type which the firm said will eventually reach the moon: all of which goes to show that sometimes toys precede the actual event and are not necessarily mementoes which come afterwards.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 144:

(astronautics, science fiction) A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.


Disneyphobia

Harriette Hunt of Port St. Lucie traced her Disneyphobia back through the years. “I’ve never liked Disney,” Harriette Hunt explained.

1982 September 26, Ray Washington, “And then there are those who haven’t been to Disney World”, in The News Tribune, Fort Pierce, Fla./Port St. Lucie, Fla., page B13:

Add to these the writers who’ve seen their prices drop and their work “managed” beyond recognition, the directors who have been stripped of their autonomy, the agents who have been left sitting alone at the negotiating table, and the long list of litigants who’ve felt the heat of Disney’s legendarily voracious legal team, and you have a fairly large population of Disneyphobes. Last spring, the conclusion to a pair of brutal alley fights with the Muppets and Peggy Lee moved Disneyphobia from the back tables at Mortons into the mainstream of public opinion.

1991 November, Peter J. Boyer, “Katzenberg’s seven-year itch: Showtown superstition has it that Jeffrey Katzenberg’s winning streak at Disney is over, but the studio boss is determined to beat the odds”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 3:

Comments one French writer bemused by the outbreak of Disneyphobia: “We’ve never really forgiven the Americans for liberating us.”

1992 April 8, Alex Beam, “Eek! A mouse!”, in The Boston Globe, volume 241, number 99, page 19:

Strange affliction, Disneyphobia — and not very flattering. The dark pronouncements about Disney’s purchase of ABC contain an element of condescension; Disney’s products have widespread appeal, making them easy targets for snobs. The company also enjoys considerable success, which attracts the enmity of liberals who resent winners because winners have no need for liberalism’s pet virtue: compassion.

1995 August 11, “The Disneyphobes”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, 145th year, number 223, Richmond, Va., page A14:

The issues of control and corporatism in community development that Beardsley raises deserve serious debate with less pop Disneyphobia and a little more historical professional perspective.

The 12-cartoon, 90-minute program, beginning Friday at the Cinema Village (22 E. 12th St., 212-924-3363, Manhattan), includes some truly outrageous racial stereotypes, sexist imagery, xenophobia and even Disney[-]phobia: “Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs” a parody of “Snow White,” has some terrific animation but is rampant with racist cliches.

1997 March 12, John Anderson, “When That Outwageous Bunny Was Bad”, in Newsday, volume 57, number 191, page B11:

One explanation for the strength of this Disneyphobia is that the vast majority of film critics do not like movies that are not obviously difficult and complicated. […] A more general reason for Disneyphobia is that the middle class seems naturally inclined to the Stoic error that enjoyment is incompatible with edification.

1999 October 26, Matthew d’Ancona, “Disney as the New Shakespeare”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A16:

Times Square, Disneyphobia, HegeMickey, The Ricky Principle, and the downside of the entertainment economy: it’s fun-dumb-mental

2001 December, Morris B. Holbrook, Marketing Theory, volume 1, page 139:

I had all but made peace with my Disneyphobia until one day last week while wandering through Target hunting a bath mat. […] a hoss of a woman screeched into her cell phone, rattling the lamps in the light fixture aisle. […] “[…] we thought we’d run on down to Disney for a few days.[…]” […] She had uttered the worst word possible: Disney. I fear it like a child scared of spooks under a bed. We have lucked out in the Disney department, thanks to the fact that Myrtle Beach, S.C., has Lazy Rivers and plenty of stucco’d and plastic wonders to entertain the children. […] Even in my in-laws do Disney every other year or so, and they’re almost 100. How come they can withstand 11 hours of driving that boring old highway fighting traffic, then checking into a crowded motel packed with obnoxious parents and hacking children?

2004 December 8, Susan Reinhardt, “Facing my fear: Doing Disney with the crowds”, in Asbury Park Press, page 18:

The entire experience was more overwhelming than a case of Disney-phobia. I’d just as soon hit four theme parks than ever return to a high school football game where rivals are playing and the teens are out en masse.

2005 August 30, Susan Reinhardt, “Football game injected me with a dose of culture shock and an eye full of hoochie-coochie”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, page D1:

Jon Harrison copes with Disneyphobia

But now I think I’ve found a particularly disturbing and personally resonant reason for my Disneyphobia. About ten minutes into Frozen, there’s a crucial and decidedly dark plot twist, when Anna and Elsa’s parents, the king and queen of Arendelle, board a sailing ship. In a startlingly graphic ten-second sequence, the ship is caught in a violent storm, overwhelmed by towering waves and dragged under. Small wonder she doesn’t want ‘to sink to the bottom of the water’. Who can blame her? Curse you, Mickey Mouse.

2018, Jonathan Gornall, How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:


Disneyphilia

All the other shoppers were mousepeople, too, each one a nightmarish assemblage of disparate organs, the hideous creation of some demented vivisectionist, some latter-day Dr. Moreau with Disneyphilia and a sharp scalpel.

1987 July, Vance Aandahl, “Deathmatch In Disneyland”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 73, number 1 (whole 434), →ISSN, page 149, column 1:

Arlene and Irwin Isaacs, psychotherapists from Fort Lauderdale, gush with Disneyphilia. “We believe that Walt Disney was a visionary person who had certain spiritual revelations of how the world should be, and we’d love to live in the middle of it.”

1995 December 10, “Celebration — it’s a small town, after all”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 278, section “Forum”, page 6:

Brazil: Disneyphilia is so rampant that the Magic Kingdom issued etiquette kits to Orlando-bound Brazilians.

1996 December 30/1997 January 6, “Globoculture Creep: From Beijing to Rio, from São Paolo to Shiraz, American pop style finds a home away from home”, in Newsweek, volume CXXIX, number 1, page 72:

Among them were folks who made a point of not identifying as Disneyphiles, and who vocally berated those who were infantilized as “Disney nuts” or mindwashed “Disnoids.” Predictably, it was among the most highly educated and professional residents that the scorn for Disneyphilia was most pronounced.

1999, Andrew Ross, “Our Much-Rumored Life”, in The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Values in Disney’s New Town, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 110:

Finally, it would be no fun working on a book like this if I couldn’t share my Disneyphilia with my wife, Alice, and daughter, Jessie.

2000, Leonard Maltin, The Disney Films, Disney Editions, →ISBN:

Different selections from Dress Shop, created by Disney Parks Merchandise, match the level of Disneyphilia of the customers.

2017 April 28, Dewayne Bevil, “Dress Shop makes snazzy Disney duds”, in Orlando Sentinel, page D8:


Disneybounder

A Disneybounder might wear a yellow skirt, blue top, red bow and apple pin as a quiet shout-out to Snow White or go all-green with a feathered fedora to represent Peter Pan.

2015 May 18, Dewayne Bevil, “Disney fans display devotion”, in Sun Sentinel, volume 56, number 23, page 3B:

In time, Disneybounders began wearing their costume-related dress to work and social occasions beyond the theme parks.

2019, Therèsa M. Winge, Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

When a Disneybounder designs an outfit, they decide which elements are most important to that character and the Disneybounder’s representation of it on the Disney stage.

2022, Rebecca Rowe, “To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks”, in Sabrina Mittermeier, editor, Fan Phenomena: Disney, Intellect, →ISBN, part 2 (The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans):

As a Disneybounder myself, my best advice is to have fun with it. That might sound cliché, but it’s true. Don’t stress about not looking like a carbon copy of your favorite character or princess.

2023 March 1, Casey Clark, “Disneybounding lets you dress up as your favorite Disney characters”, in The Daily Journal, volume 149, number 51, page 5B:

(fandom slang) One who incorporates The Walt Disney Company–themed elements in one’s fashion.


Disneybound

en-noun

Disneybound (countable and uncountable, plural Disneybounds)

Coined by Leslie Kalbfleisch (a.k.a. Leslie Kay) in 2011 with her Tumblr blog called DisneyBound, from Disney + -bound. Kay described the context: “It was a travel site. My best friend and I were heading to Disney World, and we had been planning that trip since we were young … I was using this blog as a way to channel my excitement because we were literally Disney-bound. So I started doing these outfits, which is something that I always did when I was a little kid … I could dress up in these clothes without it actually being a costume.”

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Leslie Kalbfleisch (<abbr title="also known as">a.k.a.</abbr> Leslie Kay)

When showing off a Disneybound outfit online, it’s good form to link to where others can buy those clothes.

2017, Zoe Fraade-Blanar, Aaron M. Glazer, Superfandom: How Our Obsessions Are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, Profile Books, →ISBN:

Disneybound has an even stronger impact when it’s seen on a pair or group, [Leo] Camacho said. […] The objective of Disneybound is to extract the essence of the character’s outfit and convey it subtly. […] Ultimately, “Disneybound is all about individuality,” she [Leslie Kay] said, and what she wants is for people to take the idea and use it to express their personal style, whether it’s punk, goth, sporty, vintage or preppy.

2015 November 18, Lisa Liddane, “Can’t dress up at Disneyland? Streetwear meets Disney in ‘Disneybound’ style”, in The Orange County Register, archived from the original on 2017-05-04:

In addition, one of the more formal ways that Cosplayers extend the Cosplay experiences in everyday life is by practicing Disneybound, […] Disneybound Bambi is accomplished by wearing light brown clothing and a scarf with white dots, […] In addition to the sartorial practice of Disneybound, there is Princessing and Princing, which range from dressing and performing as princesses and princess to wearing portions of costumes or clothes color blocked similar to a princess or prince characters. […] Cosplayers participate in Disneybound and Princessing/Princing because it allows them to share their love of their favorite characters beyond the fandom too.

(fandom slang, uncountable) The practice of Disneybounding; incorporating The Walt Disney Company–themed elements in one’s fashion.

Instead of wearing full-on costumes as cosplayers do, Disneybounders dress up in stylish, everyday outfits (known as Disneybounds) that are simply inspired by a particular character. […] Leslie Kay, the woman behind the DisneyBound Tumblr, showing off her Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" Disneybound. […] One big misconception, according to Leslie, is that a Disneybound is a costume. Disneybounders think of a character’s clothes and style as more of a jumping off point, rather than something to replicate exactly.

2017 November 15, Kelsey Borresen, “‘Disneybounding’ Is The Dress-Up Trend Creative Fans Are Obsessed With”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2018-10-03:

Since I got my start with Disney-inspired outfits, I’ll open this guide with Disneybounds, including everyone’s favorite princesses and villains, as well as some lesser-known characters. […] I found a dress on Amazon for thirty dollars, which is more than I would usually spend on a single piece, but since it was a plain dress that I could use for other Disneybounds and casual cosplays, it was worth it.

2021, Krystal Everdeen, Casual Cosplay: Character-Inspired Fashion You Can Wear Anywhere, Tiller Press, →ISBN, page 11:

One prominent social media influencer in the world of Disneybounding, Leslie Kay, contends that the appeal of the practice is that ‘it uses clothes to recreate the outfits of your favorite Disney characters without being costume-y. You could go to school or the mall in a Disneybound and not get pegged for being in costume.’

2021, Emma Pett, Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience Economy, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

It did not occur to me that my Disneybounding and scholarly plans might intervene, yet I was quickly fascinated by how guests and Cast Members alike would interact with me more the more recognizable my Disneybound was. […] Figure 9.1: The author wearing a Belle Disneybound. […] For example, if I had looked angry or upset, other guests may have been less likely to interact with me, even when I was in full Disneybound.

(fandom slang, countable) An outfit that incorporates The Walt Disney Company–themed elements; or, the incorporation itself.


Disneybound

en-verb

Disneybound (third-person singular simple present Disneybounds, present participle Disneybounding, simple past and past participle Disneybounded)

Disneybounds (present singular third-person)
Disneybounding (participle present)
Disneybounded (participle past)
Disneybounded (past)

“I have Disneybounded Merida, Minnie Mouse, Buzz Lightyear. … I have two different Ariel ones,” said [Elyssa] Kivus, 27. “I really like meeting the character when you’re Disneybounding as that character,” she said.

Stephanie Danet Disneybounding as Princess Jasmine from "Aladdin." […] Leslie [Kay] Disneybounding as the bird Becky from "Finding Dory." […] Brittani Enos-Blake Disneybounding as Snow White. She wore a Magic Mirror pin instead of carrying an actual mirror. […] Sara Katz-Scher Disneybounding as Minnie Mouse. […] Keshia [Sih-Tseng] and her husband Kevin Disneybounding as Han Solo and Chewbacca from "Star Wars." […] Sarah [Sterling] and her boyfriend, Leo [Camacho], Disneybounding as Dory and Nemo from "Finding Nemo."

Fans can also cosplay as Disney characters (although notably, not at the Disney parks themselves), or even ‘Disneybound’, a practice where fans dress in similar colours or looks to their favourite Disney characters (see also Rebecca Rowe’s chapter in this volume). […] [Rebecca Rowe, “To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks”] Moreover, on multiple occasions that day, people singled me out to talk to me, ignoring the rest of my family who were not Disneybounding. […] The one day that I did not Disneybound, I immediately faded into the background. / This experience deeply fascinated me: why would others treat me differently when they see me Disneybounding? […] On the other hand, guests may be more likely to approach someone who seems to be having a good time, whether or not they are Disneybounding, because childlike wonder and playfulness are part of Disney’s image of the child, suggesting that the guest is performing Disney’s script of childhood. […] BIPoC guests, likewise, can reimagine their chosen characters simply by Disneybounding as them (i.e. a Black Ariel).

2022, Sabrina Mittermeier, editor, Fan Phenomena: Disney, Intellect, →ISBN, part 2 (The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans):

Most folks who Disneybound do so specifically for trips to Disney World or Disneyland, but the more subtle the references are in an outfit, the more likely they can be inconspicuous out in public.

(fandom slang, transitive, intransitive) To incorporate The Walt Disney Company–themed elements (of a specific character) in one’s fashion.


trimensional

It is owing to this fundamental fact that the two retinal images of the same trimensional object are slightly different from each other, and this difference is technically called lateral disparity.

1920, Hubert Gruender, An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: […], volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Loyola University Press, page 175:

Sutt indicated the trimensional star-map on the table. He adjusted the controls and a cluster of some half-dozen stellar systems blazed red.

1944 August, Isaac Asimov, “The Big and the Little”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 8:

Photographic aggregates, as stated previously, can be made which produce single images with all the attributes of stereoscopic vision and which the writer termed "trimensional images." […] Trimensional pictures, the writer is certain, will replace the present geometric pictures as a matter of course. The trimensional perspective will lend a touch of amazing reality to photographs and reproductions of any and all kinds whatsoever.

1949 August, Theodore Nakken, “The Great Enigma: The Stereoscopic Perspective”, in International Projectionist, volume 24, number 8, New York, N.Y.: International Projectionist Publishing Co., Inc., →OCLC, page 25:

Haskell turned to the captain's desk, studied the trimensional photograph of an Ermesian native. A big creature—over seven feet tall—and heavy, with thick, short legs, hairy torso, long muscular arms terminating in broad, flat hands with multi-jointed fingers tipped with retractile, vermilion-dyed claws.

1950 August, Bernard I. Kahn, “A Pinch of Culture”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XLV, page 90, column 1:

Since Sam had another son who was about three years old, he was interested in the quality of children's fare on television. He could see that my trimensional animation process would be perfect for children's films.

1986, Art Clokey, “Foreward”, in Gumby: The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 2, column 1:

A trimensional scan showed only cuts, bruises and a small fracture in her kneecap. All of the injuries were easily treated.

1996, W[illiam] R[och] Thompson, Infiltrator, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 223:

(chiefly science fiction) Three-dimensional.


belle dame sans merci

en-noun

belle dame sans merci (plural belles dames sans merci)

From French [Term?] (literally “beautiful woman without mercy”). La Belle Dame sans Merci is the title of a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819; this was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier, La Belle Dame sans Mercy.

bor

(literature) A beautiful woman who seduces a man and then consigns him to an unpleasant fate.


roman à tiroirs

en-noun

roman à tiroirs (plural romans à tiroirs)

Borrowed from French roman à tiroirs (literally “novel with/made of drawers”).

bor

A piece of fiction, especially a novel, in which the principal or main narrative (or "frame story") is interrupted by secondary narratives.


Taygetan

Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound.

1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105:

Of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.


Taygetan

Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.


Taygetan

An alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.


Marsscape

These pictures reveal, in the bright region west of the Sinus Meridiani, a totally unexpected Marscape of confused terrain that is like nothing man has seen on Earth, moon, or Mars before.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22:

(astronomy, science fiction) A view of an area of Mars; a Martian landscape.


autofactory

He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.

1986, Vernor Vinge, “Marooned in Realtime”, in Across Realtime, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 312:

"If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city. We could even set up an autofactory there to support the work."

1986, Thomas Wren, The Doomsday Effect, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 103:

Another tunnel took her through to a chamber from which many such tunnels debarked and thence to the small tubular autofactory that had made her.

2016, Neal Asher, War Factory (Transformation; 2), New York, N.Y.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 406:

(science fiction) A factory capable of running autonomously.


autofac

Behind them, the dilapidated settlement lay spread out, a disorderly checkerboard of houses, buildings and streets. Since the autofac network had closed down its supply and maintenance, the human settlements had fallen into semi-barbarism.

1955 November, Philip K[indred] Dick, “Autofac”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 11, number 2, page 87:

The autofacs were a different kind of machine altogether. They could make things. They could make anything from clothing to robots, from weapons to music machines.

1974, Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Medallion, published 1975, →ISBN, page 57:

All around her the holo displays glowed faintly. Even some of the units that had gone blank over her long sleep were replaced, now that she and Jeffers had gotten the autofac working properly up on A Level.

1986, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Heart of the Comet, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 327:

(science fiction) Synonym of autofactory (“a factory capable of running autonomously”).


keythong

Unclear. From Middle English keythong: attested in one medieval document describing Edward IV’s French Expedition of 1475, which records that the badge of John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, featured a "peyr [pair] keythongs". Later writers including Colin Cole (The Coat of Arms 98, 1976) argued this denoted "male griffins" and that these were definitely separate monsters from "griffins" in the medieval period (although both the animals termed male griffins and those termed griffins are depicted with penises in medieval art), while Roger Barnes argues it referred to the two interlinked thongs of an Ormond knot.

The Earl of Ormonde,—a pair of keythongs. (?) * […] * The word is certainly so written, and I have never seen it elsewhere. The figure resembles the Male Griffin, which has no wings, but rays or spikes of gold proceeding from several parts of his body, and sometimes with two long strait horns.—Vide Parker’s Glossary, under Griffin.

1852, J[ames] R[obinson] Planché, “Badges”, in The Pursuivant of Arms, or Heraldry Founded upon Facts, London: W. N. Wright, […], page 183:

Ormond. Earl of Ormond. Temp. Edward. IV. A pair of keythongs.

1870, [Fanny] Bury Palliser, “Badges”, in Historic Devices, Badges, and War-Cries, London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, […], page 317:

English armory knows an animal which it terms the male griffin, which has no wings, but which has gold rays issuing from its body in all directions. [Hugo Gerard] Ströhl terms the badge of the Earls of Ormonde, which from his description are plainly male griffins, keythongs, which he classes with the panther; and probably he is correct in looking upon our male griffin as merely one form of the heraldic panther.

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, “Beasts”, in The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack […] and Edinburgh, page 136, column 2:

Infrequently, a griffin is portrayed without wings; in 15th-century and later heraldry such a beast may be called an ‘alce’ or a ‘keythong.’

[2001, Osita Iroku, A Day in the Life of God, →ISBN, page 85:

Folks gave the beast many names. Griffin, griffon, gryphon, alce, keythong, gryphen, griffen, gryphen, and opinicus…

[2009, Benjamin Towe, The First Wandmaker (Elfdreams of Parallan; II), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:

The more common representation of the griffin is the female griffin, a creature with wings. Male griffins do NOT have wings and are termed “alces” or “keythongs.”

[2009 June, The Celator, volume 23, number 6:

They’d befriended him because he fed them the tastiest morsels, Alce, the gilded griffin, preferred Marvel while Keythong, the agate stone one, craved DC Comics.

2010, Shirin Dubbin, Dreams’ Dark Kiss, Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:

There were griffins in all their variety—the standard winged, lion-rumped, eagle-headed; the wingless keythong; the opinicus, with a lion’s forelegs; and the hippogriff, with its horse parts thrown in for good measure. They all looked more or less the same to Meg, and she was surprised to see each kind grouped in its own offish little clique, the keythongs eyeing the hippogriffs with dark suspicion, who in turn raised their hackles at the traditional griffins.

2011, Laura L. Sullivan, Guardian of the Green Hill, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 287:

figure 11 Cloven-hoofed, wingless griffin (also called an alce or a keythong in later heraldry) symbolizing the sun, and two-legged dragon (wyvern) symbolizing the moon.

[2011, Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 58:

Gryphons are egg-layers, though it is the Keythong who guards the nest and warms the eggs. Keythongs are somewhat larger, considerably faster and far more vicious than their female counterparts.

2012, Timothy Groves, “[The Creatures] Keythong”, in The Book of Creatures, →ISBN, page 115:

He didn’t even know the animal’s gender. But most gryphons were supposed to be female. Male gryphons were quite rare — what were they called in heraldry? Keythongs, that was it.

2015, D.R. Ranshaw, “Allies and Foes”, in Gryphon’s Heir (The Annals of Arrinor; I), FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45:

Alce / Variations: Anthalops, Alcida, Calopus, Keythong, Panthalops, Tapopus / In heraldic symbology the alce is a wingless, male griffin with rays or spikes of gold protruding from several parts of its body; on occasion it also sports two long straight horns atop its head. A pair of such creatures is present on the coat of arms of the Earl of Ormande.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 22, column 1:

"Wait, I thought griffins had wings," said Julia. "Why don't you just fly up and we'll meet you at the top?" "For the last time, I am a keythong. Female griffins have the wings and the grace and all that nonsense. Keythongs have spikes on their back and the balance of a drunken hobgoblin.[…]"

2017, David A Wilson, “This Quest Thing”, in Aaron Gray and the Dragon War, →ISBN, page 23:

The live-born gryphlets and opiniclets are revered as prophets and leaders of the future, primarily because they will soar high above their wingless brothers and sisters, that subset of gryphonic beings known as keythongs and kryphons. […] “Jo and Roonen, there is a group of wingless gryphons ahead of you in a clearing. They have some sort of encampment there.” “Those are what the gryphons call ‘keythongs,’ Warford,” Jophriel responds, “They are part of a ground squadron. Don’t do anything. Let us talk to them first.” Warford grumbles about it being dangerous to try to communicate with the keythongs but does not try to dissuade them.

2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, pages 4 (Opinicus) and 237 (The Quest Begins):

They had the opportunity to secure animals for their treasure hunting—griffins (fore-half of an eagle with wings and hind-half of a lion), griffinoids like opinicuses (full lion's body with eagle head and wings), keythongs (fore-half of a giant eagle, hind-half of a lion and spiky protrusions on its back and head), axex (peacock-like head, wings, wild cat-like body), hieracosphinxes (strong lion body with an eagle head, larger than all). […] Also, the hall was a menagerie of beasts. Noble keythongs (wingless griffinoid with the body of a lion and the head and forelegs of an eagle), axex (head of a hawk and a body of a very slim, sleek lion), and opinicuses (often mistaken for griffins — all four of its legs are those of a lion with a giant eagle head with or without wings).

2021, Austin Dragon, Kingdom at Titan’s End (The Fabled Quest Chronicles; 6), California: Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:

A mythical beast resembling a griffin with no wings, often classified as a male griffin.

John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond
Ormond knot


epimacus

Supporters 2 Epimacus’s, the Necks purfled and the ſlip of their Bellies Or, Beaked Sable and Wings extending upward gules.

1708, A New View of London: or, An Ample Account of That City, in Eight Sections. […], volume II, London: […] John Nicholson […], and Robert Knaplock […], page 613, column 2:

Here are a great collection of antique gems in intaglio; a canopus of agate, an epimacus of chalcedony; a head of Tiberius of one ſingle turquoiſe as large as a hen’s egg, a very great curioſity: […]

1770 December 28, [Anna, Lady Miller], “Letter XXIX.”, in Letters from Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &c. of That Country, in the Years mdcclxx and mdcclxxi, to a Friend Residing in France, by an English Woman, volume II, London: […] Edward and Charles Dilly, published 1776, pages 117–118:

The Opinicus, or Epimacus / This creature appears to be a variety of the griffin family.

1906, John Vinycomb, Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry, Chapman and Hall, Limited, […], page 162:

It would be a very interesting but a lengthy task to trace out the origin and history of the various traditional monsters, such as the basilisk, the gorgon, the cockatrice, the salamander, and the epimacus, which have come into European legend and belief, and to give some account of the special deadly qualities of each.

1910, Ray Lankester, “The Dragon: A Fancy or a Fact”, in Science from an Easy Chair, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], page 125:

Thus were born from credulity, fancy and fertile imagination, in successive ages, dragons, medusas, basilisks, salamanders, gorgons and unicorns, the cocatrice, the epimacus and the seductive mermaid.

1930, Indian State Railways Magazine, page 15:

On another shield is engraved the Company’s crest—an epimacus, an imaginary beast resembling a griffin.

1966, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, volume 39, page 367:

[…] a shop named Charms and Marvels, the marvelousness if it supposedly a presence of wizards with magical powers to clothe a naked visitor like myself in the wink of an eye and free of charge, but where instantly its marionettes, foliage on bureaus, specimens in apothecaries’ gallipots, taxidermized epimacuses, hippogriffs, manticores, and unbashful bijou putti sprung to life; […]

2009, William Penn, “Garden Speedwells, Rain Lilies”, in Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, page 586:


light barrier

On the grounds that special relativity predicts that no object can travel faster than light. Compare sound barrier.

The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.


mathematicist

People approach beliefs based on mathematics.


Disneylandification

Thus it becomes inevitable that the border to kitsch and ‘Disneylandification’ will be crossed, quite often even under the formally correct surveillance of the authorities.

2010, Susanne Oberheu, Michael Wadenpohl, Cappadocia: A Travel Guide Through the Land of Fairychimneys and Rock Castles, →ISBN, page 26:

If it is the case elsewhere that the tourist industry has ‘touristified’ urban centres that already existed, subjecting them to a process of Disneylandification, Las Vegas is a tourist city created from scratch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, designed purely for the function of drawing in and accommodating tourists.

2021, Marco D'Eramo, The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 127:

Residents distance themselves from the Disneylandification of the city

2022, Zara Pinto-Coelho, Helena Pires, editors, The City of the Senses, the Senses in the City, UMinho Editora, →ISBN, page 116:

(informal) The process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.


speculative erotica

Speculative fiction
speculative fiction#English

(fiction) Speculative fiction with erotic themes.


CGDCT

cute girls doing cute things
cute girls doing cute things#English

(anime) Initialism of cute girls doing cute things.


fanficcy

en-adj

fanficcy (comparative more fanficcy, superlative most fanficcy)

more fanficcy (comparative)
most fanficcy (superlative)

Those are the sorts of things they did to the Legion--very fanficcy stuff, massive changes, extreme characterization.

1994 June 8, The Great Elmosby, “Re: DC - Post Zero-Hour (new titles)”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

If you know Twilight well enough then it’s super easy to see the fan-ficcy nature of Fifty Shades. Its structure, its character beats, its emotional pull are all, if not complete replications, clearly cut from the same cloth as Stephenie Meyer’s story.

2019 April 18, Kayleigh Donaldson, “After and When Fanfiction Goes Mainstream”, in Syfy Wire:

Natalia Bryant, daughter of late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, is in the middle of securing the most iconic line any resumé has ever seen: she is now an intern for Beyoncé. Bryant is interning on the superstar's Renaissance World Tour, which is one of the most indulgent, exciting, fanficky sentences ever written.

2023 May 19, Aamina Khan, “Kobe Bryant’s Daughter Natalia Working as Beyoncé’s Intern for Renaissance Tour”, in Teen Vogue:

(informal) Pertaining to or characteristic of fan fiction.


Presumably the mindwipe process is unstable in suspended animation, so they didn't want to bother until they were ready to bring the bizarros up to active use. And any lingering imperfections in the duplicator can explain "out of character" incidents on the part of the SW6ers.

1992 August 5, David VanDomelen, “LSH clones speculation }->”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A member of Batch SW6, a group of time-displaced duplicates of the early Legion of Super-Heroes in the DC Comics Universe.


bifictional

From bi- + fictional, based on bisexual.

I don't know if Henry Wyckoff is bi-fictional, but the stories of his that I've read were gen.

1999 October 2, Sally, “Re: looking for. . .”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):

Recently some Sentinel fans have been discussing the various types of fanfiction written in the fandom. Some were curious about the proportion of gen only, slash only, and bifictional readers.

2000 June 6, S. Mallet (AKA Marmoset), “Preferences in Sentinel Fanfic -- New Poll”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):

At any rate, the first Trekfic I posted was non-slash, and I'm pretty much rampantly bifictional in my reading, although I don't like most het (probably because I don't have good enough filters in place to eliminate the bad stuff).

2000 June 22, laura jacquez valentine, “Re: Slash versus non-slash”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang, dated) Interested in the two predominant genres of fan fiction within a specific fandom (generally genfic and slashfic, or hetfic and slashfic).


non-slash

A lot of the same people read both NGs, thus the people who are interested in TOS there are frequently also reading this one. If they don't like non-slash, tough tacos; I figure there are more than enough people writing that sub-genre, and I don't need to do that just to get people to comment. I don't write slash, period.

2000 April 14, Gamin Davis, “Re: Another Hiatus?”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction that is not slash fiction.


Xfic

en-noun

Xfic (countable and uncountable, plural Xfics)

I have just completed an Xfic, and would like to post it to get some feedback. The story is in 9 parts, with some parts up to 2000 words. Is 2000 words acceptible^([sic]) for a posting length, or should I break the longer parts into smaller lengths for posting?

1997 February 26, Sean, “posting length query”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(countable, fandom slang) A fanfic based on The X-Files television series.

I'd have to reccommend^([sic]) Paige Caldwell's "Comfortably Numb". It has 3 parts right now. It is a stark, daring look at a scenario that can quite possibly happen with Mulder and Scully... and it is something I have not read before in Xfic.

1999 August 18, Exley_61, “Re: WIP recs & so forth”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


simulpub

Probably a blend of simulcast + publish.

Simultaneous publication of manga in multiple markets.


simulpub

en-verb

simulpub (third-person singular simple present simulpubs, present participle simulpubbing, simple past and past participle simulpubbed)

simulpubs (present singular third-person)
simulpubbing (participle present)
simulpubbed (participle past)
simulpubbed (past)

To simultaneously publish manga in multiple markets.


magic spell

(fantasy) Words or a formula with magical powers.


flightmare

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest.

2020, Gaston D. Cox, Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories:

(fantasy, D&D) A type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.


dragonlength

Further investigation proved that the plateau was isolated and ample to pasture a huge herd of food[-]beasts for the dragons. It ended in a sheer drop of several dragonlengths into denser jungle on one side, the sea-side escarpment on the other.

1968, Anne McCaffrey, “The Cold Between”, in Dragonflight, Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 262:

An elv’in scoutship was not a large ship, less than two dragonlengths.

2002, James Clemens (pseudonym; James Paul Czajkowski), Wit’ch Star, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 28:

The Copper stood before the massive Black Rock in the center of the Lavadome; it was dozens of dragonlengths high, heavy and black and forbidding.

2007, E. E. Knight (pseudonym; Eric Frisch), chapter 22, in Dragon Outcast (The Age of Fire; 3), Roc Books, →ISBN, page 257:

(fantasy) A distance equal to the length of a dragon.


old man yells at cloud

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From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.

I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26:

If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:

Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:

(humorous or derogatory) Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.

Grampa Simpson
The Old Man and the Key
The Simpsons


babygirlification

From babygirl (“a male fictional character or celebrity of whom one is extremely fond”) + -ification.

suffix

This entire fiasco stemming from the babygirlification of a tall, masked man is the perfect time to reflect on society’s problem of perceiving both men and women.

2022 December 1, Rachel Choi, “The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels”, in The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, page 4:

My TikTok For You Page bombarded me with edits of Simon “Ghost” Riley, which was how I found out about babygirlfication in the first place.

2023 March 2, Carola Ríos Pérez, “TikTok's Babygirlification: Explained!”, in Her Campus:

The ‘babygirlification’ of the Roy siblings and overabundance of pretentious thought-pieces online is a clear testament to the empathetic portrayal of each character.

2023, Genny Sheara, "'Nothing will come of nothing:' A Succession Retrospective [Spoilers]", The Spectator (Seattle University), 31 May 2023

(fandom slang) The act or process of making a male fictional character or celebrity into a "babygirl."

woobification

general romanticisation of morally ambiguous characters


poor little meow meow

en-noun

poor little meow meow (plural poor little meow meows)

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Emerged from a 2020 viral tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt^([sic]) so much […] ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.

2022 September 13, Madeline Carpou, “Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!””, in The Mary Sue:

Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bads Jesse Pinkman, Marvels Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender's Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.

2022 September 19, Jack Doyle, “Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?”, in The Mary Sue:

Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.

2022 December 11, Jack Doyle, “Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained”, in The Mary Sue:

(fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.

BTS
D-2 (mixtape)
Jim Jones
Suga (rapper)

baby girl

male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

Draco in Leather Pants

any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

woobie

morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos


analogue horror

A horror subgenre using visual signifiers of low-quality analogue video and audio equipment.


DBZ

This is an RPG experience DBZ fans must have, but even if you've never seen DBZ, it's still an interesting game due to the unique fighting scenes and the ability to fly around the map.

1993 April, “Dragon Ball Z”, in GameFan, page 89:

If you’re a DBZ fanatic, the release of Dead Zone (and the announcement of two more DBZ movies coming soon to DVD) is reason enough to purchase a player.

1998, Shidoshi, Dragon Ball Z the Movie: Dead Zone review, GameFan, April 1998, page 89

Even in Japan, there has been no weakening of DBZ mania, despite the fact that it's almost nine years since the series ended.

2004, Satoshi Ikeda, Martin Foster, The Dragon Ball Z Legend: The Quest Continues, page 12:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Ball Z.


/ˌeɪ əʊ ˈθɹiː/

/ˌeɪ oʊ ˈθɹiː/

Shortening of the standard acronym of Archive of Our Own (AOOO) to account for the three consecutive Os.

LiveJournal and AO3 rely largely on tags, whilst Fanfiction.net has genre and character filters as well as a keyword search.

2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author:How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 39:

The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.

2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, page 89:

Gosh. Where on earth had that come from? She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.

2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Archive of Our Own.


geofiction

From geo- + fiction. Ostensibly coined by future members of the Dutch Geofiction Association (founded 1984).

It may, however, be regarded as typical that this is often the type of story in which undue attention is paid to the description of the 'ficticious' ^([sic]) geographical environment (a striking example being the geofiction of The Lord of the Rings).

2011, Stijn Reijnders, Places of the Imagination: Media, Tourism, Culture, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 111:

The conception and creation of a fictional cartographic design that is the setting of a work of fiction or of one's imagination; worldbuilding.


hemomancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hemomancer.

(fantasy) One who practices magic or divination involving blood.


chronomancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chronomancer.

(fantasy) One who specializes in magic involving time, for example manipulating time or divining the future.


bloodmage

“But it is hard, lady, and dark. Some would say that death is cleaner. I learned the way in Asshai, and paid dear for the lesson. My teacher was a bloodmage from the Shadow Lands.”

1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, illustrated edition, published 2016, page 744:

Hated and feared, magic was banished from the land. But now, freed from spells of the wicked bloodmages, magic–both good and evil–returns.

2003, advertisement for The Hob's Bargain, in Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood, page 286 (approx.)

“It seems that was the event being celebrated at Dun Ardagh when the bloodmage came and put this curse on his family.”

2006, Laura J. Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh, page 89:

(fantasy) Alternative spelling of blood mage.


blood mage

Garahel, the hero of the Fourth Blight, had had a sister who was a blood mage.

2014, Liane Merciel, Dragon Age: The Last Flight, page 167:

Blood mages were draining his blood, carrying it off in small bowls to pour on the drums, on the platform, and the stone floor below, feeding the magic.

2015, Margaret Weis, The Seventh Sigil, page 569:

The military took care of the blood mages and the practitioners of the Arts of Air had their own schools and secrets.

2017, M. J. Scott, The Forbidden Heir, page 8:

(fantasy) One who practices magic involving blood.


decopunk

The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin.

2012 February, David Dudley, “Lost City Diner”, in Urbanite, page 57:

Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own.

2015 October 28, “Phoenix Books Presents”, in Seven Days, page 52:

Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally.

2018, Gareth Schott, “What or Who is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock”, in Felan Parker, Jessica Aldred, editors, Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, page 226:

A subset of the dieselpunk science fiction genre and aesthetic that incorporates Art Deco elements and other aspects of the technology, culture, and fashion of the 1920s-1930s.


you know nothing, Jon Snow

From a catchphrase said repeatedly by the character Ygritte to Jon Snow in the novel A Storm of Swords (2000) by George R. R. Martin. The phrase, initially used reproachfully and then later affectionately after Jon and Ygritte fall in love, was popularised by its use in the television adaptation Game of Thrones.

People in New York are complaining about how hot it is and I’m like you know nothing Jon Snow.

2014, @becafarmer, quoted in Metro (New York), 3 July 2014 - 6 July 2014, page 2

All your planning is done. Your bag is packed. You've got your pass. You've finished marathoning Orphan Black. It's con time. But if you think you're ready to head inside just because you've done all this planning, you know nothing, Jon Snow. There is a lot to deal with once you're through the front doors.

2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Geek Girls, page 124:

Charles nodded, understanding. "I know."
From up front, Pete said, "You know nothing, Jon Snow."

2023, Jason Powell, No Man's Ghost, unnumbered page:

(humorous) Used to imply that someone lacks experience, knowledge, or understanding, especially as a rebuttal of a previous statement.

A Storm of Swords
Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Jon Snow (character)
Ygritte


Cleganebowl

From Clegane + bowl (“a postseason football competition”).

compound

Believers in the Cleganebowl were a unique brand of fans who embraced the tagline “GET HYPE.”

2019, Kim Renfro, The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones, page 173:

In a similar vein to Cleganebowl, I feel almost certain that Hodor will appear as a wight in the Night King's army.

2019, Joe Cunningham, "Game of Thrones Season 8", University Express (University College Cork), 2 April 2019, page 18

The style evident in the ‘Cleganebowl’ scene contrasts with that apparent in the intercut scenes, which follow the narrative perspective of Arya Stark.

2021, Daniel Clarke, “A city in flames: King’s Landing as artistic archive in HBO’s Game of Thrones”, in Landscape Research, volume 47, number 7, page 905:

(ASoIaF/GoT fandom slang) The showdown between brothers Sandor Clegane and Gregor Clegane on the television series Game of Thrones.


dracarys

en-verb

dracarys (third-person singular simple present dracaryses, present participle dracarysing, simple past and past participle dracarysed)

dracaryses (present singular third-person)
dracarysing (participle present)
dracarysed (participle past)
dracarysed (past)

A Song of Ice and Fire
Daenerys Targaryen
David J. Peterson
Game of Thrones

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in the fictional language of High Valyrian featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).

coin

It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.

2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35:

What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch

2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 90:

On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.

2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page:


I choose violence

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Cersei Lannister
Game of Thrones
No One (Game of Thrones)

Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "No One" (2016) of the television series Game of Thrones, in which Cersei Lannister, facing clerical detention and ordered to restrain her bodyguard, calmly responds, "I choose violence."

You see, I have this funny thing I say every morning and to my close circle of women friends quite often, especially when they're looking for advice on how to deal with white privilege and entitlement, and that is: 'Choose violence' I don't mean this literally. But when we say what needs to be said, a Black woman will always be seen as aggressive or arrogant, instead of confident, unafraid and assertive. […] But choosing the easier path doesn't benefit me, harmlessness does not benefit me. I choose violence.

2022, Haji Mohamed Dawjee, Here's the Thing, unnumbered page:

On my last night in town before heading to the Midwest, I decide to try the hot dog at the Cape Cod Cafe. The suggestion draws some mockery on both sides of the family, who know damn well that coming to CCC without getting a bar pizza is a waste of their money (I offer to pay: "Oh my God, Mrs. Hollywood with her own frickin' money, huh," an aunt says before slapping down a Visa with travel points). It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except "hot dog." I choose violence. I order the hot dog.

2023, Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, unnumbered pages

The boring asss griiiiind. I usually enjoy the grind, I’m currently up to my ears in Diablo4 grind. It was just so bland and monotonous. Same with Witcher3 and Skyrim……I choose violence.

2023 June 28, u/KickballJamal, Reddit, r/AskReddit:

(Internet slang, humorous, idiomatic) Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.


Patronus

From Latin patrōnus (“protector”). A reference to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; the term first appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999). Doublet of padrone, patron, patroon, and pattern.

doublet

Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.

2017, Luvvie Ajayi, “Know Your Worth”, in Beverly Bond, editor, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth., 37 INK/Atria Books, →ISBN, page 64, column 2:

The day after the last episode of Totally Biased aired in November 2013, I found out that the head of MSNBC was interested in meeting with me. Rachel Maddow, who I consider my Patronus, had set it up.

2017, W. Kamau Bell, “My Awkward Joking Around with the KKK”, in The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, Dutton, →ISBN:

For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.

2017, Susan Dennard, “Acknowledgments”, in Windwitch, Tor, published 2018, →ISBN:

That’s what I love about her: she confronts her fears. She’s my Patronus.

2019, Rafi Mittlefehldt, chapter IX, in What Makes Us, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 132:

My Patronus Agent Gemini Twin, Barbara Poelle: For never giving up on me.

2019, James Brandon, “Acknowledgments”, in Ziggy, Stardust and Me, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 2022:

She’s my patronus. When I can’t deal with real life, I escape into her virtual space, where everything is perfectly lit, perfectly coifed, and perfectly accompanied by neo-soul music I never hear anywhere but natural hair videos and the beauty supply shop.

2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water, Tor Teen, published 2021, →ISBN:

Then Quinn, my friend, my confidant, my Patronus, outstretches the microphone and drops it onto his chest.

2020, Ashley Poston, Bookish and the Beast (Once Upon a Con), Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 242:

‘Avinash when and how are you… Oh, sorry I will come back later.’ Seriously, Gautham? You couldn’t have come like, five minutes ago when this drama queen was on a roll? Suddenly feeling okay, I backed out of his arms and looked in the direction of my Patronus. ‘Oh, no it’s fine Gautham! Shwetha and I were just talking.’

2020, Lavnya Krishnamurthy, I Prescribe Love, Inkstate Books, →ISBN:

The screen came alive with a little ‘Hi’ / I knew you were my patronus

2021, VeeKay, Runa: Fleeting Thoughts Collected, →ISBN:

We rode all the way to the lake, and because Billy was my Patronus, he rode straight past the picnic benches and into the hidden glade only locals knew about.

2021, Garrett Leigh, Unforgotten, Carina Press, →ISBN:

Since then, Jimmie joined my relay team, and the rest is history. I’m convinced he’s my patronus. I need his fire, jokes and brotherly love to get across Death Valley.

2021 November 26, Kelaine Conochan, “Badwater ultramarathon: What I lost and found during 135 miles of the world's most impossible run”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 2021-11-26; published in J.A. Adande, editor, The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022, Triumph Books, 2022, →ISBN:


round-ear

From an allusion to the round pinnae of humans, as contrasted to the long, pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves, fairies, and similar fictional species.

Even though the round-ear wore a short, loose deerskin tunic, awkwardly stitched and beaded, Bearclaw could tell that the body beneath was almost as slender and fragilely boned as an elf’s, with the exception of the big hands and clumsy feet.

1993, Richard Pini, Dark Hours: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, page 296:

‘You stinking, cowardly round-ear,’ she snarled, baring her canines at him.

2011, Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates, page 22:

"Shut up, round-ear," he barked back. There were a couple of laughs at that. And a few of the elves did look like they thought making a cage of human limbs could be a fun way to pass the time.

2017, Jon Hollins, The Dragon Lords: False Idols, page 229:

(fantasy, slang, often derogatory) A human or half-human.


knife-ear

From an allusion to the pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves. Popularised by Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and its subsequent use in the Dragon Age franchise. Possibly influenced by the earlier round-ear.

You've a lot of nerve, knife-ears. This'll go badly for you.

2009 November 3, BioWare (developer), David Gaider (lead writer), Dragon Age: Origins, →OCLC, scene: wedding cutscene in the City Elf origin:

"Hard to believe the elves wiped out the Knights of Saint Augustine. Their captain was capable of summoning the angel, you know? How did a couple of knife-ears stand up to the Kingdom's strongest knights and an angel?”

2020, 616th Special Information Battalion (trans. ZackZeal), Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1, unnumbered page

"Get your ass in here. It's time you started acting like the chicano ork you are and not some pansy elf listening to Americano music by yourself all the time. That's what knife-ears do! Now get in here!"

2022, O. C. Presley, Shadowrun: Kings of the Street, unnumbered pages


valar morghulis

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase, which means "all men must die" in the fictional language of High Valyrian, is used as a greeting by the Faceless Men, a combination death cult and assassin's guild. The traditional response is valar dohaeris (“all men must serve”).

On a philosophical note, there has never been a moment in my life where I’ve truly considered the gravity of death. Yes I know, “All men must die,” but I’m a writer, not a BASE jumper. I spend most of my time behind a bright computer screen, thinking. Yet as I started driving along the edge of a snowy cliff tumbling hundreds of meters downwards to the rocky sea, without snow tyres, the possibility was getting a little bit too real. Valar morghulis.

2015, Hannah Jane Cohen, "A Road Trip To Djúpavík", The Reykjavík Grapevine, 5 June 2015 - 18 June 2015, page 31

In 2015, different beasts threaten our lives—heart disease, cancers, and chronic airway diseases comprise the majority of our disease burden. Valar morghulis—all men must die.

2015, Keegan Guidolin & Matthew Douglas-Vail, "What kills us and what costs us: An examination of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge", University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, Volume 84, Issue 1, Winter 2015, page 18

You fought a good battle, and it was an honour to be there right beside you. I will miss you. “Valar Morghulis” my friend. The God of Death has called one of its valiant warrior home, albeit, too soon.

2019, "Dedication", in Jennifer P. B. Price, "Testing Construct Redundancy: Resilience, Grit, Hardiness, and Mental Toughness", thesis submitted to Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS), page 7

(fandom slang) An expression used as an acknowledgement of human mortality and the inevitability of death.


High Valyrian

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. First referenced in his 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones. Developed into a usable conlang by David J. Peterson.

The HBO series Games of Thrones, which premiered in 2011, has included the languages of Dothraki and High Valyrian, both created by David Peterson.

2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, pages 148–149:

Though two language courses (High Valyrian and Klingon) are constructed languages from popular TV series (Game of Thrones and Star Trek, respectively), there are reportedly more than 100,000 learners doing the High Valyrian course.

2017, David M. Palfreyman, “Learner Autonomy and Groups”, in Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas, page 79:

The use of High Valyrian mirrors the use of Latin both in the medieval Christian church and as a common language used among the educated elite.

2019, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones, page 113:

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language developed for use in the television series Game of Thrones.

A Game of Thrones
David J. Peterson
Valyrian languages


valar dohaeris

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase means "all men must serve" in the fictional language of High Valyrian. It is a traditional response to valar morghulis (“all men must die”).

If Valar Morghulis, then I shall do my very best in paying it forward in the time I have left. Valar Dohaeris.

2014, "Acknowledgements", in Kathleen A. Moore, "Scrutiny on the Bounty: From Crisis Communication To Crisis Conversation", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, page xi

But soon there will be a new clickbait queen, as HBO's Game of Thrones gears up for its penultimate season this weekend. After that, you can expect endless recaps and speculations for the next two months, clogging up your social media feed (not to mention the endless memes) as the show moves beyond the source material and into the realm of "everyone will have theories." We'll try to steer clear of that business, but no promises: We are a free alt-weekly in 2017, after all, and everyone's got bills to pay. Valar dohaeris.

2017 July 14, Josh Kupecki, “Stream Analysis”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 43:

Although Dr. Murphy’s “watch has ended,” her trailblazing legacy and extreme passion to improve kidney and health care will live on in many ways (14), but forever in our hearts and minds. Indeed, Valar dohaeris (15).

2021, Steven G. Coca, "Tribute to Barbara Murphy", Kidney360, Volume 2, Issue 9, page 1500

(fandom slang) An expression used as an affirmation of duty to a higher purpose or authority.


my watch has ended

Derived from a misquotation of a phrase used in the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. In the novels, "and now his watch is ended" is used to conclude eulogies honouring fallen members of the Night's Watch, a brotherhood of men who swear lifelong vows to defend the Wall. "My watch is ended" is used in the episode "Oathbreaker" (2016) by a character who resigns from the Watch.

My watch has ended.
For the last eight years – four of them here at Courier Life Publications – I have had the privilege to be your eyes and ears, your evaluator, and a watchdog in New York City's local sports scene.

2016, Joseph Staszewski, "Farewell – but not goodbye", Brooklyn Courier, 20 May 2016 - 26 May 2016, page 44

My watch has ended. After six years, I'm about to conclude my last three-year term as department chair.

2018, Gary W. Lewandowski, "My Watch Has Ended: A Chair's Exit Interview", The Department Chair, Fall 2018, page 10

"I really enjoyed my time on city council the last eight years. I've learned a lot, developed some really good relationships. I'm proud of the work we've done. And you know, I'm going to be thinking of our achievements as I move forward but for now, my watch has ended."

2020, Ryan Bater, quoted in John Cairns, "Bater concedes race", Regional News-Optimist (The Battlefords, SK), 12 November 2020, page 3

(fandom slang) Used to indicate that one's duties or tenure in a position have ended.

A Song of Ice and Fire
Game of Thrones
Night's Watch
Oathbreaker (Game of Thrones)
The Wall (A Song of Ice and Fire)