DDLC

Doki Doki Literature Club!
w:Doki Doki Literature Club!

(video games) Initialism of Doki Doki Literature Club!.


'saur

—genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'

2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 79:

The city-folk had learned not to run screaming at the sight of a 'saur with a human being on it, but they were still in sufficient awe that trouble was unlikely.

2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, The Sky People, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 75:

Are there other good candidates for a collective term? Mesosaur might work. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other saurs all lived during the Mesozoic Era – the age of reptiles – 252 to 66 million years ago.

[2014 September 30, JV Chamary, “Paleosaurs: A Solution To The Dinosaur Dilemma?”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings. Only as it lands, crashing into the reeds at the edge of the river, does Willem realize that it is not a bird, but a winged saur.

2015, Brian Falkner, Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:

Who better to prank with dinosaurs than the king of 'saurs himself?

2015 June 16, Allison Bagg, “These Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scared The Sh*t Out Of Chris Pratt”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2023-06-28:

And her most recent tune, "Dinosaurs in Love," is about a pair of smitten 'saurs who find themselves dining at a party just before the apocalyptic event that wiped-out their race.

2020 January 29, Hannah Sparks, “3-year-old sings heartbreaking song about ’Dinosaurs in Love’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-30:

(informal or science fiction, fantasy) A dinosaur.


Aristopia

From Ancient Greek ἄριστος (áristos) + Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos).

af

(fiction) A name for a fictional utopia.


kismesis

en-noun

kismesis (countable and uncountable, plural kismeses)

Blend of kismet (“fate, destiny”) + nemesis. Coined by American author and webcomic artist Andrew Hussie in Homestuck.

coin

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kismesis.

(Homestuck fandom slang) A person with whom one shares an intense but adversarial connection; a nemesis; a rival.


aquan

From Middle English aqua (borrowed from Latin aqua) + -n (adjective and inhabitant suffix).

af

borrowed from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">aqua</i>

One of the patrol enforcers, "hubbers" as they were known, that were bustling about stopped to give a sympathetic burble. They were an aquan, living in a pressure suit that kept them suspended in water.

2020, Thomas Parrott, “To Catch a Thief”, in Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells, editor, KeyForge: Tales from the Crucible, page 155:

(science fiction, rare) An inhabitant of the sea.


furface

Look, kid ... forget about what ol' fur face there said about alien abduction. I suspect you were sleepwalking. Have you ever done that before?

2005 August 19, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

(fiction, comics, fantasy) A term of address used for any animal with fur, ranging from playful mocking to utmost derision.


Han Solo

From a reference to the Star Wars character Han Solo.

So was that the problem? Deep down did I prefer the dangerous ones? The Han Solos?

2011, Vanda Symon, Containment, page 168:

Even at age eight the middle Taylor son had understood the appeal of the bad-boy. Let Luke Skywalker get the glory—the Han Solos of the world were the ones who got the girl.

2012, Leslie Kelly, Here Comes Trouble, unnumbered page:

A skilled raconteur and an unashamed prankster, Feynman was the Han Solo of physics.

2019, Tim James, Fundamental: How Quantum and Particle Physics Explain Absolutely Everything (Except Gravity), unnumbered page

(informal) A man whose rebellious or disreputable nature makes him attractive; a bad boy.


Sanditonian

From Sanditon + -ian. Not used by Jane Austen herself.

It is fitting that all roads in the town Mr. Parker has “planned and built, and praised and puffed” (328) seem to lead to the circulating library, because Sanditonians like Parker, who has built on sand, seem immensely willing to invest in empty convention—in signs in the place of substance. […] Austen is being somewhat disingenuous here. She herself feels free to put novel slang into the mouth of a Sanditonian like Sir Edward Denham; what Anna has not learned from her aunt’s fictions, perhaps, is that in that context novel slang is always in virtual quotation marks. It is never used, and never to be read, “straight.”

1998, Deidre Shauna Lynch, The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part two (Inside Stories), pages 224 (Jane Austen and the Social Machine) and 302–303 (Notes):

The party was to consist of Mr and Mrs Parker, Charlotte, Abigail, Diana, Susan and Arthur, Mrs Griffiths, the Miss Beauforts, the three Hollises and several Sanditonians who had been deemed suitable either by the nature of their ailments or the size of their purses.

2002, Juliette Shapiro, Excessively Diverted, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 227:

As in so many other passages in this manuscript, Jane Austen successfully engages the reader through use of an ambiguous narrative voice, starting the chapter in a sententious tone reminiscent of the opening lines of Pride and Prejudice, which are Mrs. Bennet’s mantra. That every neighborhood should have a great lady, if from the author, drips with a sardonic tone. If from Mr. Parker, the inner narrator, it smacks of sycophancy. And if from Lady Denham, who has been reminding Sanditonians for a long time now that she has a special place in the community, it is merely self-serving.

2010, Arthur M. Axelrad, “Text and Commentary”, in Jane Austen’s Sanditon: A Village by the Sea, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, chapter 3, page 144:

Then there is Miss Lambe, about whom I have written in detail elsewhere: silent, chilly and tender, with the enormous fortune that throws the Sanditonians into such an eager flurry prior to the mysterious woman of colour’s arrival in the seaside town.

2011, Sara Salih, “Pre-Emancipation Stories of Race: Marly and The Woman of Colour”, in Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; 30), Routledge, →ISBN, page 71:

If we want to understand the Sanditonians’ resistance to medical professionals, we will need to understand what forms of care they endorse instead, and why their specifically convalescent population required a different sort of approach.

2021, Talia Schaffer, “Austen, Dickens, and Brontë: Bodies before the Normate”, in Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction, Princeton, N.J., Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 60:

(literary criticism) An inhabitant of the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.


Sanditonian

en-adj

Sanditonian (comparative more Sanditonian, superlative most Sanditonian)

more Sanditonian (comparative)
most Sanditonian (superlative)

Parker himself is a model of bustling absurdity: a lover of healthful living, bathing machines, and the ‘Bracing Sea Air’ of Sanditon, a despiser of old-fashioned houses in ‘little contracted Nooks’, kitchen gardens (‘Who can endure a Cabbage Bed in October?’), and anyone who doubts the fact that Sanditon is ‘the very Spot which Thousands [seem] in need of’. On the rival attractions of Brinshore, a village down the coast, this ‘Enthusiast’ for all things Sanditonian is appropriately withering: ‘Why, in truth Sir, I fancy we may apply to Brinshore, that line of the Poet Cowper in his description of the religious Cottager, as opposed to Voltaire—“She, never heard of half a mile from home”’ (p. 326).

1990, Terry Castle, “Introduction”, in John Davie, editor, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon (The World’s Classics), Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xxx:

A late contribution to the cartography of taste that the Austen canon seeks to register, this presentation of the Sanditonian way of seeing sets out terms for the proper appreciation of the Austen heroine. It puts into place the negative pole of the system of reading relations: and so this exposé of Sanditonian perception sets off to advantage the deep reading that an Austen heroine does or learns to do.

1992, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Face Value: The Economy of Character and the Institution of the Novel, 1750-1820, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, →OCLC, page 170:

Sheridan confirms the accepted belief that colonial wealth stimulated by English investment should circulate back to benefit England: “If the West India trade was in effect a home trade, it was to be expected that the income from this trade should centre in the mother country” (304). A similar sense of entitlement can be detected in Sanditonian efforts to appropriate Miss Lambe, to provide her with consumer goods and satisfying touristic experiences, and to secure her ongoing patronage of the resort—particularly in order to compete with the French tourist sites that became popular following the Napoleonic Wars and thus keep colonial wealth circulating within the domestic economy.

2021 summer, Nancy Marck Cantwell, “Fleecing Miss Lambe: Exploitation, Tourism, and the New National Narrative in Sanditon”, in Persuasions On-Line, volume 41, number 2, The Jane Austen Society of North America, Inc., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-06-30:

(literary criticism) Of or relating to the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.


inediate

Not requiring food (and, in some cases, water) to survive.


inediate

One who does not require food (and, in some cases, water) to survive.


monkey's paw

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The Monkey's Paw
The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror II
W. W. Jacobs

From the 1902 short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, in which a mummified monkey's paw is enchanted to grant a family three wishes, but with terrible consequences for them. Popularised by a segment based on Jacobs' story in the 1991 episode "Treehouse of Horror II" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

It’s given me everything I thought I wanted – riches, lucre, affluence, having lots of money, and being very wealthy – but with monkey’s-paw precision it’s turned all my dreams against me.

2015 October 19, Sam Kriss with Thom Phipps, “Who really ever owns a tweet? The story of a 140-character message gone viral, and the man who stole it”, in The Daily Telegraph:

It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.

2017 October 11, Helen Rosner, “What Le Cirque Will Be Remembered For”, in The New Yorker:

For many people, the extended period of quarantine and working from home necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak has turned into a monkey’s paw situation — a theoretical wish come true that has significant downsides.

2020 April 2, Brian Feldman, “Welcome (Back) to the Appointment Internet”, in New York:

One person joked that Chet was the result of a monkey's paw situation with his father. ¶ 'Chet hanks is the price tom hanks paid to become tom hanks,' they wrote.

2021 March 27, Brian Marks, “Tom Hanks' rapper son Chet Hanks gets lambasted on social media after declaring that 'white boy summer' is on the way”, in The Daily Mail:

(idiomatic, usually attributive) A situation in which a wish or desire has been fulfilled, but at significant cost or with ironic, usually unfavourable consequences.


Discworlder

From Discworld + -er, from disc + world.

To Discworlders steeped in magic, the science of Roundworld—our science—did not always look as alien as you’d imagine.

1999, New Scientist, volume 163, page 48, column 2:

His various voices and accents range from exaggerated Cockney to raspy utterances to adenoidal inflections, and Planer zips effortlessly from Discworlder to Discworlder with aplomb.

1999 November, Bette D. Ammon, “SOUL MUSIC. (A Discworld novel.) Terry Pratchett. 1994/1996. ISIS Audio Books. Read by Nigel Planer. […]”, in Kliatt, volume 33, number 6, page 58, column 3:

Now Discworlders use peculiar units, the appearance of a small white goose or three billiard balls for the Thaum, and the movement of a pound of lead one foot for the Prime.

2011, Peter J[ames] Carroll, The Octavo (Roundworld Edition): A Sorcerer-Scientist’s Grimoire, Mandrake of Oxford, →ISBN, page 83:

Geometry to Flatlanders is as important as magic is to Discworlders. […] Flatlanders favor string theory and Discworlders favor loop quantum gravity as the way to tie the theories of Einstein and quantum mechanics together. […] Discworlders, on the other hand, favor telling the story of loop quantum gravity first because, like Einstein they are enamored with storytelling, and, second; the minuscule but discrete quantum of loop quantum gravity and spin networks are as mysterious as their thaum.

2016, Christopher Ketcham, “The Alchemy of Flat Worlds”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:

In trying to be glamorous, the less astute Discworlders merely end up grubby – alazons open to criticism by their intellectual betters both inside and outside the text. […] At the climaxes of their stories, Discworlders often find themselves in supernatural situations which Pratchett keeps largely free of bathos.

2019, Joseph Rex Young, George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature), Routledge, →ISBN:

And one of the Discworlders was carrying these?

2021, Stephen Briggs, The Shakespeare Codex, Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 60:

An inhabitant of the Discworld from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels.


morpher

(science fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter.


battlecraft

en-noun

battlecraft (countable and uncountable, plural battlecraft or battlecrafts)

battlecraft (plural)
battlecrafts (plural)

(countable, chiefly science fiction) A spacecraft or other vehicle used for combat.


ucipital mapilary

Pseudo-Latinate/medical-sounding term invented for the 1941 film Suspicion, and popularized by the 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Compare similar sounding words like occipital.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ucipital mapilary.

(uncommon, chiefly fantasy) The suprasternal notch, the visible dip in the human neck between the clavicles.


Buffyatric

I'm Harper. Resident breadbaker, librarian, Buffyatric, occasional pirate wench, and quondam Irish harper.

1997 October 28, SjPete, “Stranger enters, goes to corner table”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet):

Uh-oh, better be careful what you say in that regard. I made the same point here just a few weeks ago and got flamed by one of the posting board's "Buffyatrics" (which group actually doesn't seem distinguishable from the younger set, at least not according to some of the items posted at their website).

1998 October 4, David Samuel Barr, “Joss Answers Questions — Spoilers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

The word "gay" has been adopted as a generic term to cover both male and female homosexuals (aka lesbians). Even *I* know that and I'm an ageing Buffyatric!

2004 April 1, Dave K, “BtVS on new gay channel”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(fandom slang) An elderly fan of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).


barbegazi

barbegazi (plural barbegazi or barbegazis)

Both male and female barbegazi wear white fur garments which help them blend into the snowy scenery.

1996, D. J. Conway, Magickal, Mythical, Mystical Beasts, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 199:

Some humans living in the region say that the Barbegazi are very helpful, but the credit is more often than not given to the St. Bernard dogs.

2001, D. J. Conway, Magickal Mystical Creatures: Invite Their Powers into Your Life, Llewellyn Publications, published 2018, →ISBN:

Barbegazi are such expert rescuers, you see.

2013, Raynetta J. Stocks, The Isle of Kishi Mora (The Lova Chronicles), book 2, RJS Books, →ISBN, page 122:

A halfling has been hiding in the snow outside the barbegazi village.

2016, Kim McDougall, Hibernaculum, Kim McDougall, →ISBN:

You couldn't keep a barbegazi inside a house. […] Similar to polar bears, barbegazi are covered in an insulating underfur, topped by long guard hairs.

2019, H. S. Norup, The Missing Barbegazi, North Star Editions, →ISBN:

Frozenfalls are specifically for the Queen herself; there are, however, some small ice creatures such as qiqirns, barbegazis, ice-cream cats, snow aliens, ice wraiths and there is also one ice dragon; but no other guardian or creatures are allowed on this island.

2022, Bianca Steyn, Reborn, Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page vi:

(mythology) A kind of gnomelike or dwarflike mythical creature.


grey folk

One of the most important of all Yuletide observances was the 'saining' required to guard life or properties from the Trows. If the proper observances were omitted, the 'grey-folk' were sure to take advantage of the opportunity.

1888, Biot Edmonndston, Jessie Saxby, The Home of a Naturalist, page 136:

(Scotland, mythology) elves, the fae, the wee folk.


speculum literature

speculum literature or (rare) speculum literature (uncountable)

From Latin speculum (“mirror”) in the title of these works.

Mirror or speculum literature, as Jourda and Cottrell have noted, can be traced back through medieval tradition to Augustinian, Biblical and Platonic sources.

1989, Paula Sommers, “Le Miroir: Biblical Ascent”, in Celestial Ladders: Readings in Marguerite de Navarre’s Poetry of Spiritual Ascent, Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., →ISBN, page 50:

However, insofar as these plays resemble statecraft or speculum''' literature, they also exhibit the rhetorical instability of statecraft discourse, in which antithesis fails to contain the tyrant. […] In “The Background and Sources of Preston’s Cambises,” English Studies 31 (1950): 129–35, and “The Authorship and Political Meaning of Cambises,” English Studies 36 (1955): 289–99, for example, W. A. Armstrong describes Cambyses as an example of speculum''' literature, in which the “naiveness” of characterization reflects the rhetoric of statecraft (p. 294).

1990, Rebecca W[eld] Bushnell, “Tyrannical Vices: Morality Plays and Humanist Drama”, in Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

As Anna Musso has pointed out, the adaptation of the genre to a female dedicatee places the text outside the normal run of speculum''' literature and identifies it with the rising literature in defence of women, which argued against their inferiority to men.

2004, Stephen John Campbell, “Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara”, in The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Paintings), page 184:

The sententious lessons of Lydgate’s great work contributed to the continent-wide development of a sub-genre of speculum''' literature: ‘advice to princes’.

2016, Rory Loughnane, “The Medieval Inheritance”, in Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (Genre), page 39:

The Speculum humanae salvationis, or ‘Mirror of human salvation’, is an anonymous composition, originally written in Latin, in rhyming verse, sometime between 1309 (as a reference to the Avignon papacy indicates) and 1324 (the date on two copies) as part of the genre of encyclopedic speculum literature.

2022, “Introduction”, in An Illustrated Speculum Humanae Salvationis: Green Collection MS 000321, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 1:

A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.

British Library
Jean de Vignay
Vincent of Beauvais


bioborg

I am served brusquely, and wait until the bioborgs kill Lao Tzu. I swap a Carlton for a match, and devise a telephone strategy brilliant enough to reduce hardened Tokyo PAs to putty.

2001, David Mitchell, number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A biologically-based cyborg


Kitezh

(Slavic mythology, folklore) A city in Russian folklore that was believed to have disappeared under a lake, to avoid being conquered by the Mongols.


thopter

Another ’thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.

1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 225:

I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.

1997 September 13, Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion, New York: Bantam, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 363:

Flowstone Thopter gets +1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

2000 February 14, “Flowstone Thopter”, in Magic: The Gathering, Nemesis, Wizards of the Coast:

(fiction) Synonym of ornithopter (“birdlike aircraft”)


boarding craft

boarding craft (plural boarding crafts or boarding craft)

boarding crafts (plural)
boarding craft (plural)

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‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.

1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:

Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!

2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:

A Colicoid creation (like the droideka), this Separatist boarding craft looks like a flying spike—until that spike divides into four sharp prongs that can stab through an enemy hull, revealing a central hatch used by a boarding party.

2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:

(science fiction) A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel


antilithium

Heavy antinuclei, if observed, would also indicate that nucleosynthetic processes are taking place in these antimatter regions, since the usual matter-symmetric cosmologies have no other provision for manufacturing antimatter heavier than antilithium.

1987, Luis W. Alvarez, Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 194:

The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.

2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN:

Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull.

2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN:

(physics, science fiction) The antiatom form of lithium.


wolf-child

Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:

(mythology, fantasy) A being that is part wolf, part child.


airtram

(chiefly science fiction) An aerial tram (type of passenger vehicle).


archmagus

A powerful archmagus, who could whisk himself from place to place with a few words of magic, did not travel the dusty roads of Ansalon on the back of a donkey unless he had good reason to want to dawdle in inns and gossip with the innkeepers, all the while keeping an eye on who came in and who went out.

1999, Margaret Weis, Don Perrin, Brothers in Arms (The Raistlin Chronicles; 2), TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:

The archmagus had absolute authority over the Isle of Mid and everyone on it.

2008, Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 5:

Gate of Archmagus Ginan’i: One of the five elder magic gates created to end the war between demons and elvenkind in the year 35,398 of the elven calendar. Created by Ginan’i Azurebright at the cost of the archmagus’s own life. […] By the rules of the magic he’d outlined, this gate demanded uncorrupted blood. In the parlance of the elven archmagi, that meant the blood of their own, nigh-immortal people.

2018, Xavier P. Hunter, House Rules (Metagamer Chronicles; 2), Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN:


YNFG

(video games, fandom slang) Initialism of Yume Nikki fangame.


skyfish

(ufology) Synonym of rod (“rod-shaped optical phenomenon”)


reapparate

en-verb

reapparate (third-person singular simple present reapparates, present participle reapparating, simple past and past participle reapparated)

reapparates (present singular third-person)
reapparating (participle present)
reapparated (participle past)
reapparated (past)


brocon

en-noun

brocon (countable and uncountable, plural brocons)

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

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


Simpsonwave

Vaporwave and its more developed form, Simpsonwave, are of course concerned with an entirely different set of tropes–but they are no less hauntological for it. Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.

2019, Tom Whyman, “Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now?”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 212:

A genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.


infohazardous

en-adj

infohazardous (comparative more infohazardous, superlative most infohazardous)

more infohazardous (comparative)
most infohazardous (superlative)

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) Being, containing, or pertaining to an infohazard.


antimemetic

antimemetic (comparative more antimemetic, superlative most antimemetic)

more antimemetic (comparative)
most antimemetic (superlative)

From antimeme + -etic or anti- + memetic.

(neurology, sociology, chiefly science fiction) Of, being, containing, or pertaining to antimemes.


overdeity

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Their liege —, the Undoing,—was the last to convene. He was a being of unknown descent, but Rune believed he was lt least a demigod. Perhaps a full deity, even an overdeity.

2015, Kresley Cole, Sweet Ruin, Simon & Schuster, pages 24-25:

Are there equivalent overdeities in other settings such as Eberron or Grayhawk? Like a top dog who gets to decide if someone can be a god or not as one of their jobs.

2020 May 29, CosmicWolf14, “Alabastor: Age of Heroes”, in reddit.com:

I generally assume that, whatever they are, you’re not going to face any problems with the local overdeities deciding you don’t belong and just noping you the moment you Jump in; whether that’s by power or negotiation is up to you.

2020 July 7, AmazonClimber, RandomOTP, “The Jumpchain Benefactor versus A Jump's Gods”, in reddit.com:

As I said overdeities don't require worship to survive, as such other Gods of Death can form without intruding, but they can't become a Overdeity of Death without somehow destroying the one currently there. As such they would more likely become another form of overdeity, assuming they get that far. And no Discord server as of yet, I might make one if the quest becomes more popular.

2021 April 29, nwish425, “Apotheosis - A Deity Quest”, in forums.sufficientvelocity.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A superior or supreme deity.


Spartist

Spartist (comparative more Spartist, superlative most Spartist)

more Spartist (comparative)
most Spartist (superlative)

From Dave Spart (“stereotypical left-winger”) + -ist, itself a clipping of Spartacist (“member of the communist Spartacist League”).

suffix

In between putting the finishing touches to the theory of 'permanent revolution', he even manages a flirtation with the wife of a fellow guest ... and not a spartist gesture in sight.

[...] and what a Spartist crew they are — all revolutionary clap-trap and middle class guilt.

1989, Tom Milne, The Time Out Film Guide:

The C of E primary school that my children go to is a lot better than most , but , no matter how hard it tries, it will always be shackled by the left-liberal orthodoxy imposed on it by the governments, the unions and Spartist educational theorists.

He's a political animal most thought had become extinct, a Spartist dinosaur reeking of hummus and hemp and definitely not the smoky fires of industry.

2017 July 20, Stuart Maconie, Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now, Random House, →ISBN:

(humorous) Far-left, particularly of a revolutionary but bourgeois nature.


San Serriffe

A fictional island nation invented as a 1977 April Fools' Day hoax by the Guardian newspaper, and since widely referenced in humorous writing generally.


Pixarify

en-verb

Pixarify (third-person singular simple present Pixarifies, present participle Pixarifying, simple past and past participle Pixarified)

Pixarifies (present singular third-person)
Pixarifying (participle present)
Pixarified (participle past)
Pixarified (past)

It turns out there's a lot more to designing dinosaurs than just teeth and scales and claws. [Jon] Reisch said that, behind the scenes, there was a lot of discussion with paleontologists, "learning about all the different kinds of dinosaur, which ones we could cast in our movie in certain roles, and how to take those and Pixarify them in terms of design and how to use them in our story."

2015 November 25, Richard Whittaker, “Chasing The Good Dinosaur: FX director Jon Reisch on Pixar's newest animation”, in The Austin Chronicle:

While the traditional NFL game broadcast will be streamed on ESPN+, so too will the Toy Story Funday Football alt-cast, a fully rendered, Pixar-ified version of the action. Viewers on Disney+ and NFL+ will have that option as well, as Sony-owned Beyond Sports takes live game tracking data to recreate game play.

2023 September 29, Joe Lemire, “ESPN's Toy Story Funday Football: The tech behind Falcons-Jaguars fully animated alt-cast”, in Sports Business Journal:

(transitive) To adapt to the style of the animated films produced by Pixar.


Faroffistan

Compound of far off + -stan. Coined in 1958 by Carl Fallberg.

..assistance mission to the United States from the mythical Republic of Faroffistan.

1962, Historic Preservation, volume 14, National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, page 89:

The Republic of Faroffistan has recently inaugurated a bold new program to assist the overdeveloped areas of the world.

1961, Proceedings of the California Street and Highway Conference, Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, page 11:

Are there not many frauds and bankruptcies out there in Faroffistan?

1987, Michael T. Skully, George J. Viksnins, Financing East Asia’s Success, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, page 11:

I think it's great, of course, but my mind keeps flashing back to the John Hanold/Doug Fields debates on Faroffistan in Prof. Berg's class.

1985, Harvard Business School Bulletin, volume 61, The University of California, page 42:


Akkadia

(uncommon; often in fantasy) Akkad, the kingdom of the Akkadians.


flamestrike

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I could teach you a bit – healing and so forth: it’s part of my priestly skills – but that’s not what you want. You need attack spells – flamestrikes, lightning bolts, thundercrushes, that sort of thing.

1988, J[ames] H[erbert] Brennan, “Barmy Jeffers”, in Adventure Stories, St Michael, published 1989, →ISBN, page 328:

I do like your evasive maneuvers, by the way. Perenor will never expect me to drop to the ground to avoid a flamestrike.

1990, Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon, “Knight of Ghosts and Shadows”, in Bedlam’s Bard, Guild America Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 183:

Uncouth threw a Flamestrike spell at me, while Arnold stole all of my Recall spells and then bashed me.

1995, Rawn Shah, Jim Romine, “Stories and Virtual Occurrences”, in Playing Muds on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part I (DikuMuds), page 133:

For ultimate hilarity, have a mage throw fireballs at you, call in flamestrikes, and so on while your shielded character whistles a tune.

2001, David Chong, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets, Sybex, →ISBN, page 105:

“[…] Did you see what happened to the white dragon?” / “I saw it take to the air after the first couple of flamestrikes.[…]”

2009, Stephen Deas, The Adamantine Palace (The Memory of Flames; I), Roc Books, published 2011:

These packs can put out massive damage if your group isn’t careful; watch out especially for the Flamestrikes and Blizzards cast by the Ring-Lord Sorceresses, and the Charged Skin ability cast by the Conjurers.

2009, World of Warcraft: Dungeon Companion III, BradyGames, →ISBN, page 126, column 2:


infinite hotel paradox

(set theory) A thought experiment illustrating a counterintuitive property of infinite sets, showing that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate any number of additional guests.


N7 Day

(fandom slang) An informal commemorative day observed annually on November 7 by Mass Effect fandom.


Laputa

A fictional flying island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).


Bumbleby

Derived from bumblebee, referring to the two characters' colours of yellow (Yang Xiao Long) and black (Blake Belladonna).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna of the web animation series RWBY.


My Little Pony

The original My Little Pony toys were smaller versions of an earlier series of toys, My Pretty Pony.

An American toy and cartoon media-franchise based on anthropomorphic equines.


cryopod

He glanced at the scan display. The contact resolved into a clearer image: definitely a UNSC cryopod.

2003, Eric Nylund, Halo: First Strike, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) A pod in which a person is maintained in cryosleep.


foodwriting

The Gastronomical Me (1943), the fourth book, is a series of autobiographical sketches noted usually for its eloquent apologia for foodwriting: “There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?”

1985, L. Patrick Coyle, Jr., Cooks’ Books: An Affectionate Guide to the Literature of Food and Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File Publications, →ISBN, page 59:

judy schultz is a professional eater. Her special brand of foodwriting has entertained readers for the past ten years, first in the pages of Western Living magazine, then in The Edmonton Journal, where she became food editor in 1982.

1986, Judy Schultz, “About the author”, in Nibbles & Feasts: A Book of Eating, Edmonton, Alta.: Tree Frog, →ISBN, page 159:

This month is devoted to all those bits and pieces that don’t add up to enough for a whole column, otherwise known as “stream of consciousness,” or “gonzo foodwriting,” etc.

1989 April, Emil Franzi, “Veni vidi verdi: Now where d’ya get a bite to eat?”, in City Magazine, Tucson, Ariz.: First City Publications, →ISSN, page 17, column 1:

Trained in music, she turned to foodwriting late.

1996, Elizabeth Riely, “About the Author”, in The Chef’s Companion: A Concise Dictionary of Culinary Terms, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, International Thomson Publishing Inc., →ISBN:

Overseasoning, let us note again, is an American neurosis that we attribute largely to the improverishment^([sic]) of our foods. This is not a view widespread in the foodwriting game.

2000, John L. Hess, Karen Hess, “The Gourmet Plague”, in The Taste of America, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 161:

Specialises in non-fiction: history, popular science, biography, social issues, cooking, foodwriting, gardening; […]

2012, “[Listings] Children’s literary agents overseas”, in Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2013, 9th edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 220, column 2:

Melissa Clark is a foodwriting star. She’s at the New York Times and has authored many cookbooks.

2014 October 5, Philip Weiss, “Food writer Melissa Clark on being Jewish”, in Mondoweiss, archived from the original on 2014-12-19:

She also edited Recipes from Brixton Village and was awarded joint winner for the Young British Foodies Fresh Voices in Foodwriting Award 2013.

2015, “Miss South”, in BBC, London, archived from the original on 2015-09-27:

This is a cookbook for skeptics and paranoiacs. If you’re fearful of agendas, bro-science, half-science and the world of online foodwriting at large, turn to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

2018 August 22, Will Price, “10 Healthy Cookbooks Every Athlete Should Read”, in Gear Patrol, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 2020-09-23:

WB Do you cook? Do you have a favorite food memory from childhood? What is your favorite restaurant? (Pre-Covid-19) What does a typical meal look like to you? (Foodwriting?)

2020 July 2, Warren Bobrow, “Rob Tankson And PrestoDoctor Deepening The Cannabis Evaluation Experience”, in Forbes, Jersey City, N.J., archived from the original on 2021-01-17:

Six years ago, I attended a foodwriting intensive called the LongHouse Food Scholars Program, founded and led by the formidable chef, journalist, and cookbook author Molly O’Neill.

2020 October 15, Ellen Gray, “The Mentor We Miss Most: Molly O’Neill”, in Saveur, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 2020-10-18:

A genre of writing that focuses on food.


ponify

ponify (third-person singular simple present ponifies, present participle ponifying, simple past and past participle ponified)

ponifies (present singular third-person)
ponifying (participle present)
ponified (participle past)
ponified (past)

(transitive, Internet slang) to turn an existing character into a My Little Pony-style cartoon equine.


holophone

The holophone beeped in that strange way that all phones did on Churchill Drift, before it was answered. Relief flooded through him when the holophone clicked on. Then dread filled him when an accented voice answered.

2011, Tom Bielawski, The Centaurus Legacy: The Orion Trilogy Volume 0:

The men appeared at Kid Squad headquarters in a holophone transmission. The holophone was a cool communication device that Gadget had helped invent.

2014, John Perritano, Madness of Captain Cyclops, page 24:

There was another chime and then the screen on the holophone dimmed and began to project a holographic image that was a still frame of a person who looked a lot like Jason.

2019, Robert Ricks, Three Simple Rules, page 43:

(science fiction) A hologrammatic telecommunication device.


manime

en-noun

manime (countable and uncountable, plural manime or manimes)

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Coordinate term: tranime

No teacups or "uguu~~~s" here. This panel is pure MANIME!

2015, Neito, “Archived copy”, in Anime Boston, archived from the original on 2023-11-16:

By MANime I mean Yu Yu Hakusho, OG Yu-Gi-Oh!, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
 Gettin' tired of seeing all these grown-ass men buying $200 upskirt figures of high school girls. Gettin' real tired of it.

2013 October 21, Macklemost, “Does anyone here prefer MANime and MANga to the usual crap you see?”, in GameFAQs:

Love and emotions and stuff can be a part of a Manime. Look at Hokuto no Ken if you've ever seen it.

2011 January 12, Ready Start L_Arc, “Manime- Anime for MEN”, in Neoseeker Forums:

(anime, frequently 4chan) Anime that is manly.


deanimate

en-verb

deanimate (third-person singular simple present deanimates, present participle deanimating, simple past and past participle deanimated)

deanimates (present singular third-person)
deanimating (participle present)
deanimated (participle past)
deanimated (past)

Near-synonym: devitalize

'Don't bother attempting to deanimate the undead,' says Joachim.

2011, J. L. Connew, Origins of the Geomancer, page 163:

(transitive, fantasy) To reverse the animation of; to remove the life force from.


neurostunner

"She fries my synapses with a neurostunner whose insurance warranty ran out around the time of the Skytube, then she asks if I'm okay," he said, attempting to laugh but coughing instead.

1993, Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background:

I grabbed the neurostunner from the drawer — the kind allowed in the house, but not beyond its doors — and hurried toward the front door, querying the system.

2004, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Flash, page 178:

(science fiction) A weapon that stuns a person by affecting their nervous system.


Poképhilia

Probably a back-formation from Poképhile. Analysable as Poké- (pertaining to the Pokémon media franchise) + -philia (abnormal love of something).

con

My sister's owner is taking her to a photoshoot; she'd like me to come & make sure that it's not going to turn into a poképhilia shoot.

If you post poképhilia and hentai, I must follow you :3

Never knew it was Poképhilia that would split the chapter

When I strictly put Poképhilia accounts and freaks do not interact, I get a freaking Bulbasaur account that is disgusting and lewd.

Censoring Poképhilia:
In the Japanese version of Gen 4, a book in the Canalave Library says Pokemon and humans used to marry each other. But it was censored in the English version to remove the icky implication.

(fandom slang, rare) Sexual attraction to Pokémon.


conworlding

[responding to "Aren't you the God and Creator of the Kigdatsi?"] Not a god, but I thought them up, though I was trying to keep that quiet. Did you search the web for "Kigdatsi"? Also, I am *not* a sci-fi author, just a person who likes conworlding.

2007 August 18, Simon Richard Clarkstone, “Question about Dragon Code usage”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):

For those who are not familiar with the term, conworlding is the art of world building. It is the concept of creating an imaginary world.

2010 August 13, Ken, “Welcome!”, in conworlding (Usenet):

Otherwise known as 'subcreation' or 'conworlding' (constructed worlds), the success of these fabrications relies on their consistent upholding of self-instigated internal rules and logic systems.

2021 June 13, Mark Morris, Mike Aling, Worldmodelling: Architectural Models in the 21st Century, Wiley, →ISBN, page 8:

(informal, uncommon) Engaging in the creation of a conworld; worldbuilding.


untriunium

systematic element name
systematic element name

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 131 (symbol Utu).


untribium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 132 (symbol Utb).


untritrium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 133 (symbol Utt).


untriquadium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 134 (symbol Utq).


untrihexium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 136 (symbol Uth).


untriseptium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 137 (symbol Uts).


Turkish Star Wars

From Turkish + Star Wars, in reference to being a Turkish-language film that became notorious for containing plagiarized clips, music and sound effects from the Star Wars films, among others.

(film) Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam; a Turkish science-fiction film from 1982.


romantasy

[ɹoʊˈmæ̃ɾ̃əsi]

Blend of romance + fantasy. The term was popularized during 2020.

I want @lara_adrian 's book 7.! -.- sooo bad.! Best romantasy author ever.! (:

2009 December 14, @xlittleshawty, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Well that's the typical girl in books
Especially romance and "romantasy"

2017 October 29, @loneIydreams, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

[Sarah J.] Maas, whose sales jumped 51 per cent this past year and was largely credited by Bloomsbury for a 15 per cent increase in total revenue, is technically classified as sci-fi or “romantasy”.

2023 November 11, Madison Darbyshire, “Hot stuff”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year's Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch's Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy]^([sic]) has been amazing,” he says.

2024 February 17, Anna Nicolaou, quoting Morgan Entrekin, “‘Romantasy’ writer who could save publishing”, in FT Weekend, Opinion, page 9:

Romantic fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy literature.


snowdragon

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Of icicles and snowdragons […] Prizes were given for some of the best ice statues, which included a Hobbit and home, a lounging mermaid and a snowy-white dragon.

1978, Val Rush, “Of icicles and snowdragons . . . / . . . The blizzard of ’78”, in Renaissance 1978, Kingston, R.I.: University of Rhode Island, page 70, column 1:

Other times, we’d make snowdragons, and snowhorses and a big pile of snowballs.

1992, Isabelle Knockwood, Gillian Thomas, Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Roseway Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:

Dragon liked his new smaller snowman but it was still not quite right. So Dragon turned the snowman into a snowdragon. Dragon had a great time playing with his new snowdragon.

2005, Sonia Sander, Dragon's Snowy Day, page 8:

“Let’s do it,” said Jayden. “We can build snowdragons.” […] Then we spent the next hour: • Building snowmen. • Building snowdragons. (We used old gardening gloves for wings and twigs for claws.)

2017, Tom Nicoll, There’s a Dragon in My Stocking!, London: Stripes, →ISBN, pages 62–64:

(rare) A visual representation of a dragon made from snow.

“This is the northern edge of the darklands,” said Hargoth. “We live all our lives in a state of siege. Anyone, anything, may come. Sometimes the great snowdragons, with the frost white on their wings and their hungry teeth showing.[…]”

1974, Leigh Brackett, “The Ginger Star”, in The Book of Skaith: The Adventures of Eric John Stark, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., published 1976, page 85:

In the sky a blizzard of mighty snowdragons wheeled in impatient spirals, their white riders eager to join the fray.

1991, Andrew Bill, The Well of Hope, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.: Holland Studio Craft Ltd., →ISBN, page 1:

Mournfully, Barbara the Barbarian stroked the proud back of Fearless, while her six bodyguards tested their arrows and dreamed of riding through the snowy wastes of Barbaria on the backs of their snowdragons, wind streaming through their mustaches, cats meowing happily on their shoulders, flying back, back in time to a village that no longer existed.

2015, Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury: The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking (How to Train Your Dragon; 12), New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 86:

(rare, fantasy) A dragon associated with snow.


althistory

en-noun

althistory (countable and uncountable, plural althistories)

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Analysable as alt (“clipping of alternate”, adjective) + history.

compound

I hadn't forgotten the US-British alliance on this doctrine, but I was thinking this AltHistory could easily have sufficient distractions to both that a European power would find it more tempting, but even more, I can't see which would try it.

1994 November 9, Andrew (Drew) H. Clark, “England or other European nation as US State”, in alt.history.what-if (Usenet):

Fallanooran th'Sirris, Omega's chief military strategist, twitched his antennae as he spoke. "Never mind the althistory. If this was a deliberate incursion, what are the Breen after?"

2014 October 28, David Alan Mack, Star Trek: Section 31: Disavowed, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 80:

Author Roderick Edwards, at the time of this writing has written and published over 25 books, ranging from historical biographies of WW2 heroes to althistory of the Americas to his own autobiography of his adoption and reunion with his birth family.

2023 March 20, Roderick Edwards, “Introduction”, in How to Write and Publish a Book Today: A Realistic Approach, →ISBN, page 3:

alternate history
alternate history#English

(Internet slang, fandom slang) Clipping of alternate history (“a genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events”).


althist

Probably a clipping of althistory, itself a clipping of alternate history. Analysable as alt + hist.

I read the following: […] there's a book of micheal^([sic]) moorcock on althists, which isn't too good

1997 October 10, Cairo, “Alt History Book Reviews”, in alt.history.what-if (Usenet):

[Harry] Turtledove is the master of AltHist. I just wish he'd do a decent Japanowank series

[see title]

2023 June 9, u/TechnologyBig8361, “What's a (real) country that sounds like it was created for someone's althist project?”, in r/AlternateHistory, Reddit:

(Internet slang, fandom slang) Synonym of alternate history (“a genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events”)


plate mail

Of mail there are two forts, viz. chain and plate mail. Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it; the whole exhibiting a kind of net-work, with circular meshes, every ring[…]

1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature:

Crusaders all wear light plate mail or a chain mail and plate mail mix.

2010 November 21, Joseph Barresi, Gods of Arator Volume 1 the Gods of Life, midnightrise, →ISBN, page 71:

The first armor, flexible chain mail with gambesons (a quilted garment worn under the mail), was far more effective than the later plate mail. To be effective against arrows, plate mail had to be so heavy as to render its use[…]

2011, Vic Hurley, Arrows Against Steel: The History of the Bow and how it Forever Changed Warfare, Cerberus Books, →ISBN, page 25:

[…] however, his legs are completely covered by plate mail. This combination of chain and plate mail, similar to that which we noted already in the Wenceslas Bible, appears in a number of cases here[…]

2014 May 5, Eduard Wagner, Zoroslava Drobná, Jan Durdík, Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 30:

(academically obsolete, now fiction, fantasy) Brigandine.


Free City of Tri-Insula

The Tri-Insula element derives from Latin tri- (combining form of trēs, tria, “three”) + īnsula (“island”).

The commercial interests of New York were ever opposed to war. Meetings were held repeatedly in January, 1861, to petition Congress for peace. Meanwhile Mayor Fernando Wood proposed to the Common Council that Manhattan Island, Long Island and Staten Island should secede from the Union and constitute the free city of “Tri-Insula.”

1925, William Thompson Bonner, New York: The World’s Metropolis, 1623–4—1923–4. A Presentation of the Greater City at the beginning of its Second Quarter Century of Amalgamated Government and the 300ᵗʰ Anniversary of Its Founding with review of the Interim Accomplishments of Its Citizens., 524 Broadway, New York: R. L. Polk & Co., Inc., Section One: “New York — The Metropolis”, Chapter VII: «New York’s Military History — Events and Personnel», ‘Civil War’, ‹Wood’s Proposed Free City›, page 104/1:

“Are you trying to tell me that the mayor of New York wants to proclaim independence from the United States of America?” asked Pinkerton.
“The council approved the plan in January,” Mannion said, delighted by the reaction he had so deliberately provoked. “They’re going to merge Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island into the ‘Free City of Tri-Insula.’ Best goddamn idea Fernandy Wood ever had.”

2011, Dominic Lagan, The Coming Storm: A Red Mannion Novel, Morrisville: Lulu.com, →ISBN, chapter three, page 34:

Like any debate, it goes on and on and nothing is said that hasn’t been said a thousand times before, so I pull out my thin screen and enjoy the ride into the Free City of Tri-Insula, or what used to be the old City of New York.

2013 May, Sam A. Patel, Data Runner (Data Runner Series; Book One), first edition, New York: Diversion Books, →ISBN, part II: “When Security is the Only Option”, chapter 5, no pagination:

(history and fantasy) A city-state comprising Long, Manhattan, and Staten Islands, proposed on the 6th of January, 1861 by the seventy-fifth mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War.


dragonrider

Those handsome dragonriders, too, so brave in their wher-hide accouterments, proud on the necks of their great beasts—they did not submit kindly to close examination without a few disappointing revelations.

1968, Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 108:

The dragonriders turned their beasts, two hundred beasts at least, treading once again over the crops they had already destroyed.

1984, Eric Affabee, The Siege of the Dragonriders (Wizards, Warriors & You; 2), New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 4:

Once asleep, a dragon is extremely difficult and even dangerous to wake,[…]. An experienced dragonrider never allows his animal to sleep unless he knows there is a competent wizard nearby.

1989, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, The Prophet of Akhran (Rose of the Prophet; 3), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:


moeshit

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(anime, derogatory) Anime with a focus on the portrayal of moe.


girlfailure

/ˈɡɜɹlˌfeɪ.ljəɹ/

Compound of girl + failure. Coined in 2021 as an antonym to girlboss.

Coordinate term: boyfailure

(fandom slang) A fictional girl or woman who is endearingly pathetic or inept.


mancer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mancer.

(uncommon, fantasy) A practitioner of magic or divination.


sunwing

While we still had the giant sunwings we traveled the world, exploring other continents from the air.

2003, Sean Mcmullen, Eyes of the Calculor:

Slowly, on parallel tracks into the breeze, the sunwings rolled off.

(science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.


Conibas

a phantom toponym (village or lake) in old maps (usually placed in modern Northern Canada, more rarely in the western part of modern USA)


Fusang

a legendary country in old Chinese books, assumed to be Japan; in old European maps of North America may sometimes be found north of California


Pagul

a phantom city in Northern Canada (on old maps)


Quivira

a toponym in old maps of America, located north of Mexico or south of Anian


Kong Mountains

a phantom mountain range, which can be found in many old maps of African Guinea in present-day Burkina Faso-area


death game

Japanese: デスゲーム

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(fiction) A subgenre of battle royal in which the winner is the only person, team or faction that survives, outlasting all others; a game of survival.


psychoscope

(chiefly science fiction) A proposed device able to read a person's thoughts or to provide psychiatric diagnosis.


X-ray spectacles

(science fiction) Spectacles that allow the wearer to see through solid objects such as walls or clothing.


JRRT

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
w:J. R. R. Tolkien

Initialism of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.


dwarrow

Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as a back-formation of Middle English dwarrows, an irregular plural of dwergh, which became dwarfs in Modern English through leveling with dwarf. Within Tolkien's legendarium, dwarrow is only used in Dwarrowdelf, an alternative name for Moria (see the quotations by Tolkien).

No reviewer (that I have seen), although all have carefully used the correct dwarfs themselves, has commented on the fact (which I only became conscious of through reviews) that I use throughout the ‘incorrect’ plural dwarves. I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking in a philologist; but I shall have to go on with it. Perhaps my dwarf – since he and the Gnome are only translations into approximate equivalents of creatures with different names and rather different functions in their own world – may be allowed a peculiar plural. The real ‘historical’ plural of dwarf (like teeth of tooth) is dwarrows, anyway: rather a nice word, but a bit too archaic. Still I rather wish I had used the word dwarrow.

[1937 October 15, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “To Stanley Unwin, Chairman of Allen & Unwin”, in Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien, editors, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1981, →ISBN, pages 23–24:

It may be observed that in this book as in The Hobbit the form dwarves is used, although the dictionaries tell us that the plural of dwarf is dwarfs. It should be dwarrows (or dwerrows), if singular and plural had each gone its own way down the years, as have man and men, or goose and geese. But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man, or even of a goose, and memories have not been fresh enough among Men to keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales, where at least a shadow of truth is preserved, or at last to nonsense-stories in which they have become mere figures of fun. […] It is to mark this that I have ventured to use the form dwarves, and so remove them a little, perhaps, from the sillier tales of these latter days. Dwarrows would have been better; but I have used that form only in the name Dwarrowdelf, to represent the name of Moria in the Common Speech: Phurunargian. For that meant ‘Dwarf-delving’ and yet was already a word of antique form.

[1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Appendix F”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, pages 518–519:

The Elven leaders, led by Gwaigilion Elengal, seemed to favor a policy of a forward defense, followed by retreat and hopefully attrition of the Imperial forces. This was no good for Dwarrows, who were doughty warriors and could fight well in their hills and mountains. […] The barbarians (independent men, dwarrows, etc.) organize in the equivalent of the Terran Viking fylking, and the Orcs, Goblins and Corflu Cultists are formed into the equivalent of an understrength Terran Ottoman touman. […] Dwarrows hold a Folkmoot. No Dwarven units or Characters may move or attack on this Game-Turn.

1978, Swords & Sorcery: Quest and Conquest in the Age of Magic: Rules of Play, New York, N.Y.: Simulations Publications, Inc., pages 2, 8, and 9:

Of course, Elves aren't Elves if they don't live in woods (Mallorn trees?), and Dwarves (Ooops, sorry Greg, Thom, and Ben--Dwarrows?)((Really only Ben-tpg)) aren't just the same if they don't live in mountains.

1978 May 29, Adam L. Gruen, “Fantasy Game Design”, in Thomas Philip Gould, editor, Lilaf, number 9, New York, N.Y.: FWS Publications, pages 3–4:

Maegwin is convinced that the Sithi live there, and that they will come to the rescue of the Hemystiri as they did in the old days, but the only inhabitants they discover in the crumbling city are the dwarrows, a strange, timid group of delvers distantly related to the immortals. The dwarrows, who are metalwrights as well as stonecrafters, reveal that the sword Minneyar that Josua’s people seek is actually the blade known as Bright-Nail, which was buried with Prester John, father of Josua and Elias.

1993, Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; 3), part I, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1994, →ISBN, pages xix–xx:

At first I could see nothing; then one of the tree boles shifted and moved and came toward me, and I saw that it was no tree piece but a corrigaun, one of the dwarrows, the halfling faerie folk. […] The flaming sword was gone now, and he was no dwarrow more but a flame himself, white and gold and tall as a spear.

1996, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, The Hedge of Mist (The Keltiad; The Tales of Arthur; III), New York, N.Y.: HarperPrism, →ISBN, pages 129 and 133:

One day, not long—in our reckoning—after thou, Ashalind, hadst taken away the children, he brought me to a glade where a platform was raised. It was inlaid with squares of ivory and ebony and upon it stood sixteen dwarrows in mail, armed, and twelve lords and ladies of Erith, including four mounted knights, also a quartet of stone-trolls, all enchanted, all alive.

2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Lady of the Sorrows (The Bitterbynde; II), New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 394–395:

Every kind of person, every kind of character you could imagine, and a lot that you couldn’t, became more and more frequent as you approached the town center: Dwarrows wearing three-piece suits and carrying Armani ax-cases; strolling, elegant Elves burdened with swords and spears and shopping bags; Men in every kind of human dress; […]

2010, Diane Duane, Omnitopia Dawn (Omnitopia; 1), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 5–6:

SMOOT, THE PRINCE OF PIRATES. HE’LL BE JOINING YE ON YER QUEST AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PROUD NATION OF WATER-DWARROWS.

2011, Grant Morrison, Joe the Barbarian: The Deluxe Edition, New York, N.Y.: DC Comics, →ISBN:

“By the way, we’d prefer it if you called us dwarves,” the small man added. / Dwarves. The old stories told of beings called dweorgas or dwarrows. They were masters of mining and once lived beneath the earth or in rocky regions of Albenmark. Nuramon would never have thought that the dwarves were the children of the Darkalben.

2015, Bernhard Hennen, James A. Sullivan, translated by Edwin Miles, “The Children of the Darkalben”, in The Elven, Seattle, Wash.: AmazonCrossing, →ISBN:

(rare, fantasy) A dwarf (member of a race of beings usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves).

The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary


missing time

The report of abduction, the memory loss, the missing time, and the shape of the UFO are all familiar to UFO investigators, for this is not an isolated episode.

1978, Brad Steiger, Alien Meetings, page 168:

We have already seen how the victims of UFO abductions seem to have 'missing time' - sometimes they have no memories of several hours of their lives.

1984, John Rimmer, The Evidence for Alien Abductions, page 45:

There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account.

1991, David Allen Lewis, UFO: End-Time Delusion:

Hopkins describes "missing time" as a time lapse of approximately two hours, after which the abductee can consciously remember little or nothing of the experience.

1996, Angela Hague, David Lavery, Marla Cartwright (editors), Deny All Knowledge, Reading the X-Files, page 8:

While Johnson doesn't display many of the indications of alien abduction, he does have a period of missing time which can be absolutely verified, unlike most abductees' cases.

1999, Chris A. Rutkowski, Abductions and Aliens - What's Really Going On, page 153:

According to Zerbe, while he and his team were out at the crash site, they experienced a period of what in alien abduction terminology has become known as missing time.

2018, Nick Redfern, Top Secret Alien Abduction Files, What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know, page 127:

(psychology, parapsychology, ufology) A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.


terrestrial time

(science fiction) Time based on the time system used on Earth, consisting of 24-hour days.


Zubaira

Attested as Zuhaïra in a French book. May be related to the phantom country of Zubgara located in the same area.


Moozemlek

First appeared in Baron de Lahontan's map letter mentioning Mozeelek or Mozeemlek.

a phantom toponym located west from the Rocky Mountains (on old maps)


animagus

Coined by J. K. Rowling for her Harry Potter series as a blend of animal + magus. Term is introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999).

There is also the question of what we imagine the universes in the multiverse would look like in general. One is virtually forced to speculate, way beyond anything physics can say, that all possible universes exist, in order to guarantee one like ours coming about. Most of these universes would be dead. Of the tiny minority that had life at all, some would really have mythical creatures like unicorns, werewolves and animagi.

2007, Rodney D. Holder, “Is the universe designed?”, in Denis Alexander, editor, Has Science Killed God? The Faraday Papers on Science and Religion, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, published 2019, →ISBN, part 4 (Science, Faith and Philosophy):

When we match our crown chakras with the topmost lion and its crown, we have the odd experience of looking out from the eyes of the golden lion atop the Ray pillar, as if we have become this lion, shapeshifting like an animagus into a lion’s form, or perhaps into the Lion, as in the Lion archetype, one of the Holy Beasts, the angelic order with the four heads, one for each of the zodiacal quarters and one the figure of a lion.

2011, Richard Leviton, Hierophantic Landscapes: Lighting up Chalice Well, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, the Rondanes, and Oaxaca, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 519, column 1:

Lucifer was an Animagus, not by God’s hand, but perhaps by evolution or by willing it later and he used it in a successful attempt to lead Adam and Eve astray in the Garden of Eden.

2022, Barb Cantrell, I Want My Kids to Know Who God Really Is, Conneaut Lake, Pa.: Page Publishing, →ISBN:

"This is my friend Leonard. Leo you can transform back now." / Alexa smiled at the dog. All of a sudden, the husky jumped up onto his hind legs and before their very eyes the husky turned into a man. / "Dude that was awesome! Are you a..." Shinara questioned. / "An animagus? Yes." Leonard said looking back at Alexa.

2022, C[harlie-]L[ee] Davies, The Dark Elf: The Return of the Queen, London: Europe Books, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A person who can transform into an animal.

animago

a person who can transform into an animal


Time Variance Authority

(comics) A fictional organization appearing in American comic books, depicted as a group of timeline monitors.


manhwaga

Borrowed from Korean 만화가(漫畫家) (manhwaga). Doublet of mangaka and manhuajia.

bor+

I have no idea why but there’s an overwhelming number of cat lovers among Manhwagas (Manhwa artists), a disproportionate number considering how many people there are who don’t even like cats.

2006 August 22, Wann, Can't Lose You, volume 2, Netcomics, →ISBN, page 3:

Hello, I’m Youngran Lee, the manhwaga who is happiest when writing and drawing.

2006 September 5, Youngran Lee, Lie to Me (Manhwa Novella Collection), volume 1, Netcomics, →ISBN, page 4:

The creators of these East Asian comics also have specific titles: a person who makes manga is a mangaka, a person who creates manhwa is a manhwaga, and a person that makes manhua is a manhuajia.

2022 September 30, Jieun Kiaer, Ben Cagan, Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 101:

A manhwa (Korean comic) author or artist.


Klingonish

en-adj

Klingonish (comparative more Klingonish, superlative most Klingonish)

more Klingonish (comparative)
most Klingonish (superlative)

BATTLECRUISER: This ship doesn’t really look like anything in SFB, although its general shape is rather Klingonish. […] HEAVY CRUISER: Another ship that doesn’t look like anything, but is sufficiently Klingonish to be used for the F5L destroyer (at least it’s about the right size).

1984, “Those Starfire Miniatures”, in Nexus: The Gaming Connection, volume 2, number 8, Amarillo, Tex.: Task Force Games, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

Those Klingons who infiltrate Federation space are bent less on outright destruction or even surprise attacks than on subterfuge, intelligence gathering, contacting malcontent groups, and other such missions. They seem to be atttempting^([sic]) to learn more about Federation technology and to come to some sort of Klingonish understanding of the peoples and politics of the Federation.

1986, William A. Barton et al., “The State of the Federation”, in Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update (Star Trek: The Role Playing Game), Chicago, Ill.: FASA Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1:

Another recurring villain that seems inescapable, even with peace treaties signed, are the Klingons. […] It seems there can’t be a Trek movie without Klingons, or Klingon embassadors,^([sic]) or something Klingonish.

1994 November 22, James A. Kimble, “Part V Revisited in Star Trek Generations”, in The Connector, volume XXII, number 11, Lowell, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Lowell, page 15, columns 4–5:

The disruptor is a replica of the weapon used by official Klingons and had to be bought. Mike affixed various pieces like a pin from Norway that his wife had given to him. He felt that, since it looked Klingonish, why not attach it to a sleeve?

1996, Heather R. Joseph-Witham, “Outstanding Artists”, in Star Trek Fans and Costume Art, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 29, column 1:

Malik just stared at him, while seemingly steadying himself for some Klingonish-type deathblow to end this fool’s misery.

2005, Melki [J. K. Russell], “Back to Life: 2020 A.D.”, in 21 Hustle, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 277:

“‘Take him out’? You are very young, Mr. Kirk. In fact, I would go so far as to say your response sounds a bit—Klingonish. Starfleet isn’t about vendettas, sir.” / “Maybe it should be,” the younger man shot back. “Maybe if the Klingons thought we were more like them—instead of, say, the inhabitants of those two worlds they recently occupied—they’d show us a little more respect and stop shooting at our ships.[…]”

2013, Alan Dean Foster, Star Trek Into Darkness: A Novelization, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 90–91:

The edges of the concave bits on each key are sharply angled instead of curved like on other keyboards, giving the G310 a Klingonish vibe. They light up in blue.

2015 October, “Versus: Two new gaming keyboards put to the test”, in Ben Mansill, editor, PC & Tech Authority, St Leonards, N.S.W.: nextmedia Pty Ltd, →ISSN, page 77:

Resembling or characteristic of Klingons.


PokéStop

(Pokémon) An area where players can collect items while playing Pokémon Go.


digipaint

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(anime) The use of computer technology to apply color fills to animation cels.


spec evo

speculative evolution
speculative evolution#English


speculative evolution

A subgenre of science fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life.


elle-people

It is also necessary to watch cattle so that they may not graze in any place where the Elle-people have been. If any animal goes to a place where the Elle-people have spit or done what is worse, it is attacked by some grievous disease, which can only be cured by giving it a handful of St. John's wort, which was pulled at twelve o'clock on St. John's night.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 140:

"I tremble at the very thought of the Elle-people of whom our villagers tell, while thou hast not a single fear. Why is it, sister?"

1861, Dinah Craik, Romantic Tales, Leipzip: Berhard Tauchnitz, page 164:

(mythology) A type of elf of Scandinavian folklore.


elle-maid

The Wilde Frauen or Wild-women of Germany bear a very strong resemblance to the Elle-maids of Scandinavia. Like them they are beautiful, have fine flowing hair, live within hills, and only appear singly or in the society of each other.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 33:

(mythology) A type of female elf of Scandinavian folklore.


elle-folk

"We're none of the elle-folk who dance in the hills and weave fates, ye mun go to them for that."

1860, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance, Boston: J.E. Tilton and Co., page 293:

Still the Elle-folk are often mentioned in the legends he proceeds to give as inhabiting houes, notwithstanding an explicit opening statement that they ‘dwell in the Elle-mosses,’ and notwithstanding the fact also that the so-called Elle-kone of the houes seems evidently to want the hollow back.

1865 November, J[ohn] C[hristopher] Atkinson, “Comparative Danish and Northumbrian Folk Lore. […] Chapter VII. Elle Folk.”, in The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church, volume XXX, part 179, London: John and Charles Mozley, […]; and J[ohn] H[enry] Parker, […], footnote, page 476:

The ellefolk live in mosses, banks and mounds, under alder-trees and in alder-thickets.

1896, William Alexander Craigie, Scandinavian Folk-lore, London: Alexander Gardner, page 175:


Moonite

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


vampire time

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In vampire time Aleya had not really been around that long, but the sound, the scent, the routines that were uniquely her were missing. He missed her.

2010, Oliver Bonewits, Of Blood And Magic - A Vampire's Story, page 215:

Ah, she was young in real time or vampire time?

2016, Kathryn Meyer Griffith, The Last Vampire, page 214:

Such elaborate patterning is made possible by vampire time and enables both stasis – the male vampire's desire for his true love remains unchanged over the years – and change – the object of that love may actually change as it is switched from one female to another.

2016, Lorna Jowett, Kevin Robinson, David Simmons, Time on TV, page 130:

He was younger than Nikolai by a few hundred years which, in vampire time, was not that much.

2020, Isadora Brown, The Vampire's Executioner:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.

Time, when considered relative to a vampire's immortal lifespan.


time vampire

The telephone is to time vampires what blood banks are to real vampires.

1994, Davida Jean Weinberg, Reciprocity Reconsidered, page 287:

TV is the biggest time vampire in our culture.

Believe it or not, a "gentle clue" to a time vampire is the equivalent of a two-by-four over the head for most people.

2004, Shaun Belding, Winning with the Customer from Hell, page 184:

The night is a time-vampire as far as taking care of your skin goes.

2005, Judy Steinberg, Raechel Donahue, The Ropes: Girls Have the Rules, Women Know the Ropes, page 159:

That any systematic critique of the capitalist employer as time vampire is thereby short-circuited is plain.

2013, T. Ferguson, Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, page 24:

Yes, the apps on your computer and phone are the biggest time vampires of all time.

2020, Brent Spencer, A Handbook for the Online Student: Learning in Difficult Times:

(informal, derogatory) A person, obligation, or activity that drains one's time; a time-waster.

Do you mean that Jarmyn Thanatos is some kind of a— a time vampire?

1997, Brad Strickland, John Bellairs, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder:

“I'm a time vampire,” Loretta Vampireclanso-called-jiangshi said. “I can take time from people, or give it away.”

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

But I was laying low, and vampires can't always be choosers, even time vampires.

(science fiction) A variety of vampire that feeds off time or potential years of life.


pawjob

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From paw + job, by analogy with terms like footjob and handjob.

Noop whimpered and humped up into the empty air, his tip drooled more precum as he was massaged by the mist surrounding him. He was so lost in the pleasure of the best pawjob he'd ever received that at first, he didn't notice that his legs were slowly being parted.

2004 February 28, FuzzWolf, “[Fur] New Story: "Whisp" [M/M, Fox, ghost, anal]”, in fur.stories.erotica, Google Groups:

Or at the very least mutual pawjobs... cause that doesn't make ya gay!

there's still time to catch a bus, register, and give me a pawjob

2014 September 26, @CaptainErsatz, Twitter:

Any artist that draws Yoshi pawjobs are a favorite of mine. Amazing work!

Damn, imagine what those beans would feel like....
I need a pawjob so bad rn

2024 February 1, u/Klee_In_A_Jar, “waifu everywhere”, in r/japanpeopletwitter, Reddit:

(furry fandom, anime, uncommon) A foot job performed by a furry or humanoid (such as a catgirl/catboy or other animal-human hybrid) using their paws, i.e. fictionally or as part of their fursuit/costume.


tailjob

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From tail + job, by analogy with terms like handjob.

It DOES have a powerful scripting language, but seriously... what are the chances of someone giving you a lame script which makes you join #dragonrealm and then ask for a tailjob when you're working on your term paper?

1997 August 23, Ryan Tucker, “Crypt Keeper....”, in alt.irc.ircii (Usenet):

wait wat... Miyuri is giving Hisaya a tailjob?!...

Imagine licking her soft smooth tummy 🤤🤤🤤 and rubbing her fluffy ears 🥵🥵🥵 while this hot cutie is giving you a tailjob uoooooohhhhhhh 😭🥵💦😭😭🥵💦😭 I wouldn't last long 😭😭😭💦💦💦

2024 January 14, u/SexWithElysia, “Shun wearing a cat costume”, in r/BlueArchive, Reddit:

(anime slang, furry fandom) A sexual act wherein the genitalia are stimulated by a tail.


Poképhiliac

From Poké- (pertaining to the Pokémon media franchise) + -philiac (pertaining to, or someone with, intense or abnormal love of something).

con

Misty wants Ash, so she uses her bike as an excuse to follow him around. Brock wants Misty because...Well, he's Brock. And to be quite honest, I think Ash is becoming, if he isn't already, a Poképhiliac.

1999 January 12, Joe Bessey, “Misty & Brock”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):

Okay, crazy. If you think so. ^^ Just remember, I'm a Poképhiliac, and you ain't. XD

2008 July 24, Sadistic Typhlosion, “The One Above”, in PokéCommunity:

Said the Poképhiliac. ಠ_ಠ

2011 April 12, u/KabelGuy, “Erika... has strange tastes.”, in r/pokemon, Reddit:

The biggest problem with being a Poképhiliac is I can look at some random Pokémon content and internally react "How did they release this? It's so lewd," and it's just something like SWSH Promo Hydreigon.

(fandom slang, rare) Synonym of Poképhile.


Poképhiliac

en-adj

Poképhiliac (comparative more Poképhiliac, superlative most Poképhiliac)

more Poképhiliac (comparative)
most Poképhiliac (superlative)

I do enjoy the other aspects of Pokémon sexually, even into Poképhiliac sex.

2017 August 28, justinrpg, “Why do YOU like Pokémon preds?”, in Eka's Portal:

Before long, you're downstairs again. Only a few short minutes had passed since your incredible, mind-blowing, furtive Poképhiliac tryst with the hot Lucario upstairs. Now, you were at the bottom of those stairs, standing in the entryway near the front door again.

2019 July 15, NightStalkerNS, “Lucariophilia”, in SoFurry:

Then it's a date. Whenever she's ready, send her to the zone. Or come with her. Always bring your friends for some pokephiliac fun

2023 December 19, @BreedingZne, Twitter:

(fandom slang, very rare) Relating to Poképhilia or to a Poképhile.


octarine

See octa-, -ine. Coined by author Terry Pratchett for his Discworld series.

[…] colors like octarine, the eighth color, an elusive spectral mix that's hard to describe and impossible to perceive. That's the thing about color. Try describing a rainbow or a sunset to a blind person or ask a synesthete[…]

2010 January 14, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 13:

Back in ScienceFictionaLand, octarine is the color of magic, an animating force in the Diseworld series by Terry Pratchett. A fluorescent, greenish-yellow purple, octarine can only be detected by wizards and cats.

2013 September 17, Jude Stewart, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 129:

Another way of looking at the magical character customization option [in which players choose their color] is that it allows players to find their own octarine, the color of their own magical self in Peter Carroll's vision of things. Octarine is a fictitious eighth color of magic invented by Terry Prachett in his novel The Colour of Magic and later used by occultist Peter Carroll in Liber Kaos to describe the color of a magician's rebellious, mischievous sorcerous self[…]

2014 April 22, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Octarine, the color of magic, glows from your finished pages.

2017 April 25, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

The eight types of magic can be attributed to the seven classical planets, plus Uranus for octarine. […] Following Prachett's hypothesis (and many a useful thing is said in jest), the eighth color of the spectrum, which is the magician's personal perception of the color of magic, may be called octarine. […]

2023 July 3, Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos: Chaos Magic for the Pandaemonaeon (Revised and Expanded Edition), Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 87:

(chiefly fiction) The color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.


demand letter

(law) A letter stating a legal claim, usually drafted by a lawyer, issuing a demand for restitution or performance of some obligation.

律師函 /律师函

Letter usually by a lawyer to liquidate a claim


spacelab

(especially science fiction) A laboratory in outer space.


hatchie

From hatch + -ie (suffix that forms diminutive nouns).

suffix

The valentine's hatchie is so dang cute! I was I had snagged more so I could freeze one.

2010 February 17, Hell Puppi, “Re: The Dragon Cave IV: Get Your Own Dragons”, in Giant in the Playground Forum:

What I wonder IS if a dragon has been precogged as male or female, couldn't it just appear where it normally would on the dragons page?
At least for hatchies... I am unsure that could work for eggies because THOSE can, in theory still be influenced.

2018 August 8, JavaTigress, “Show action log on hatchie page (gender-related only)”, in Dragon Cave:

my dragon kid named pondhopper, because she was originally meant to be green and marinating in a pond but she just... became pink
Anyway just finished an adult version of her, she’s a bit cuter as a hatchie (old art)

(fantasy, fandom slang, endearing) A dragon that has just emerged from its shell; a baby/young dragon; a hatchling.


hatchy

From hatch + -y (suffix that forms diminutive nouns).

(fantasy, fandom slang, endearing) Synonym of hatchie.


PokéTuber

Jubilee’s labor during her live streams is particularly attention economy and self-branding based. She has made a name for herself as one of the most popular women Pokétubers (sobriquet given for YouTubers who create Pokémon content).

2019 August 13, Nicholas-Brie Guarriello, “Never give up, never surrender: Game live streaming, neoliberal work, and personalized media economies”, in New Media & Society, volume 21, number 8, Sage Journals, →DOI, →ISSN:

These PokéTubers have amassed massive followings thanks to their likable personality, knowledge of the franchise, and consistency of quality and quantity.

2021 September 28, David Caballero, “10 Most Popular PokéTubers, Ranked By Subscribers”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-11-05:

(fandom slang) A YouTube personality who makes videos about Pokémon.


drop pod

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(science fiction) A re-entry vehicle, often single-use, used to deploy infantry or ground vehicles from an orbiting starship to a planet's surface.


military science fiction

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on military technology, characters, and conflicts.


Larrie

From Larry (“real-person fiction ship of Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles”) + -ie (suffix signifying an associated person).

As 1D are now on a hiatus and band members are pursuing solo carreers,^([sic]) the Larries still live on as a community engaged with support for LGBTQ youths—and producing 1D-themed merchandise for charity.

2019, Paola Brembilla, “Transmedia Music: The Values of Music as a Transmedia Asset”, in Matthew Freeman, Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, editors, The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN:

Representation of the Larry fandom has gone beyond pathologizing fangirls to framing their shipping practice in terms of “fake news.” The conspiracy theory panic around Larries misses the complex ways that subtext and queer reading are mobilized within the fandom to invoke feelings of queer intimacy and belonging. Drawing on a digital ethnography conducted on Twitter with Larries, we argue that these fans engage in queer reading strategies to explicitly imagine and interrupt dominant heterosexual narratives, and thus queer the figure of the fangirl.

2019 spring, Hannah McCann, Clare Southerton, “Repetitions of Desire: Queering the One Direction Fangirl”, in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, volume 12, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 56–57:

The theory is so popular that one of the most retweeted tweets of all time is simply Louis wishing Harry well with “Always in my heart @Harry_Styles. Yours sincerely, Louis,” sent in October 2011. Larries, or Larry Stylinson shippers, believe the message is indisputable proof that the two were and are together, despite the fact that neither party has vocalized an interest in men and have only ever publicly partnered with women. When Tomlinson began dating Eleanor Calder in September 2011, one year into the band’s existence, Larries believed she was acting as a beard, though Louis assured fans that he wasn’t hiding homosexuality.

2020, Maria Sherman, Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS, New York, N.Y.: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, →ISBN:

While I mope my way out of junior year, my classmates meet a person worth skipping class for: our adolescent mainstay; Tumblr’s participation trophy; the face of all things wholesome yet perverse and totally, definitively, how-many-retweets-for-you-to-go-to-prom-with-me, fuck-the-larries-they’re-invasive, masturbate-to-a-Y/N, let’s-sell-out-a-Chelsea-boot, Internet. / Harry Styles.

2021, Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas, New York, N.Y.: Flatiron Books, →ISBN:

There is some room, mostly in offline conversations, to equivocate about Larry. Mina Hughes, a student from Texas, told me she didn’t identify as a Larrie, but she was invested in the story. “I am a grown-up, and I am self-aware enough to know that it’s really childish to want total strangers to be dating,” she told me. […] She [“Lisa”] fields questions nearly every day from new Larries who don’t have the same knowledge of a decade’s worth of lore—if she’s in the mood, that is. Otherwise she might simply command them to “scroll down.” Her bio explains that she has been part of the fandom since 2012 and a Larrie “since day 1.”

2022, Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, New York, N.Y.: MCD × FSG Originals, →ISBN:

From causing friends to drift apart, to committing oversexualization that disrespects Louis' and Harry's individual craft, Larries continue to exist and dominate spaces within the online world. […] “Louis and Harry are one day closer to being free” are the words tweeted daily by a Larrie twitter^([sic]) user @rogueskimo. While its realisation is yet to come, and the not-yet remains to be ever present, the Larrie sub-fandom, through occupying the field of romance and utilizing its unending potential will continue to yield a powerful noise that shall sustain not just their narrative of Louis and Harry’s relationship, but their very existence as a sub-fandom.

2022, Andrea Anne I. Trinidad, “‘Shipping’ Larry Stylinson: what makes pairing appealing boys romantic?”, in Ann Brooks, editor, The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part VI (South and southeast Asian romance communities), pages 231 and 236:

(fandom slang) A shipping conspiracy theorist who believes that former One Direction bandmates Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson have a long-term and secret romantic relationship.


mesugaki

Borrowed from Japanese メスガキ (mesugaki), from 雌(めす) (mesu, “female (animal)”) + 餓鬼(がき) (gaki, “brat”). The term began being used among English speakers around 2020.

ja-compound

WE NEED MORE POKEKID IN EEVEE COSTUME DOUJINS DAMMIT!!
preferably one that presents her as a mesugaki :9

2020 May 26, @harid_ziran, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Riro quickly became one of the company’s most popular idols due to her gimmick as a “mesugaki” type character.

2023 November 28, Brandon Lyttle, “VTuber Riro Ron terminated for ‘dangerous and harmful’ activities”, in Niche Gamer, archived from the original on 2023-11-29:

Mutsuki is a brat that like to be suggestive with sensei. She's a mesugaki archetype, one of the more popular one in fact (despite it starting in azur lane)

2023 December 25, @megamega171, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-20:

Youre Oshi is the vtuber who made the loli song playing into the lolicon fetish of the Mesugaki. Dude cant pick a side on this topic.

2024 April 16, @king_of_games34, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-20:

(manga, anime, pornography) slutty brat girl; young (or young-looking) girl who likes to sexually tease her superiors


lolisho

en-noun

lolisho (countable and uncountable, plural lolishos)

From loli + a clipping of shota, or a clipping of lolishota (itself loli + shota).

(countable) A person interested in, or sexually aroused by, lolicon- and shotacon-themed media.


EClaire

(fandom slang) The ship of Ethan Rom and Claire Littleton from the 2004 television series Lost.


Druna

I ship #Druna because I think Luna's free spirit and open mind would be able to handle Draco and help his vulnerable side come out..

2012 January 22, Its Lily, Bitch! (@Lily_Lovegood), Twitter:

I have found myself shipping Draco/Luna lately, Any other Druna shippers out there?

2012 December 15, lux (@luxkaur), Twitter:

Shipping Druna is so frustrating bc there are never new videos no new material and no good fics

2014 November 4, Inactive (@riinalmighty), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Draco Malfoy and Luna Lovegood of the Harry Potter series.


earbug

This cab couldn't transmit to his earbug.

With the earbug in, she could access data almost as quickly as with the implant.

2010, Elizabeth Moon, Trading In Danger: Vatta's War:

Mitsuharu pressed a finger to his earbug, jumping channels until the hissing growl of the enemy flooded in, making him wince.

2011, Thomas Harlan, Land of the Dead, page 349:

The earbug nanomites in Tan-Tan's ear became infected during the dimensional shift.

2014, Allan Weiss, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus:

(science fiction) Any of various fictional devices that a person can listen to when it is installed in their ear.


fwip

(chiefly manga) A generic sound for movement, or for something appearing.


reverse isekai

reverse isekai (countable and uncountable, plural reverse isekai or reverse isekais)

reverse isekai (plural)
reverse isekais (plural)

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a reverse-isekai show? That's actually a really cool concept

2017 January 22, @alltsun_nodere, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Idea for a reverse Isekai where tired/angry space alien gets to live life as a humble Japanese salaryman observing other humans

2018 October 26, @blackbookalpha, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

Thinking intensely about the reverse isekai story that lives rent free in my head where a depressed writer gives up on her novel and the protagonist and the villain lose their powers so they find a way to travel to the author's world to make her finish her book

2020 December 29, @OccultasHQ, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

The anime is a “cute girls doing cute things” spin on the reverse isekai subgenre and follows a group of two angels and two demons sent to Earth, particularly Gabriel, who arrives on Earth in search of knowledge.

2023 October 18, Maham Arsalan, “10 Best Reverse Isekai Anime to Watch Right Now”, in Comic Book Resources:CBR, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

Quite a number of reverse isekai anime start with a human summoning a being from another world, usually to ask for some assistance. So, in terms of premise, Dropkick On My Devil! is about as predictable as they come; however, the show is anything but typical.

2024 February 13, Mark Sammut, “Best Reverse Isekai Anime Of All Time, Ranked”, in Game Rant, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

One of the biggest hits of the Winter 2024 anime season was Solo Leveling, a show that took the reverse-isekai formula and gave it a dark twist.

2024 April 5, Trent Cannon, “Solo Leveling season 2 release date: Crunchyroll set to Solo Leveling: Arise from the Shadows when it airs - but when?”, in Popverse, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

(Japanese fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.


Chiammay

(geography, historical) Alternative form of Chimay (“an imaginary lake”).


fwop

(chiefly pornographic manga) The sound of skin slapping against skin during sex.


Yugituber

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Myutants, the new World Premiere Theme, have a solid chunk of their cards revealed courtesy of yugituber Ruggles.

2020 October 21, Deadborder, “[PHRA-EN] Myutants”, in YGOrganization, archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

With Yugituber Reveal Openings now out, it’s time to find out just what’s in the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel GX: Duel Academy Box.

2022 March 11, Tinker, “[Speed Duel GX Box] The 8 Decklists”, in YGOrganization, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

Yu-Gi-Tubers provide a constant stream of Yu-Gi-Oh! content, including analysis of new cards and archetypes, combo tutorials, and banlist breakdowns.

2022 September 11, Drew Heckman, “Why Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Fan-Made Community Is an Essential Resource for New Players”, in CBR, archived from the original on 2022-09-11:

(fandom slang) A YouTuber who makes videos about Yu-Gi-Oh!


noona

Borrowed from Korean 누나 (nuna, “older sister of a man”).

bor+

(manhwa, men's speech) An affectionate term of address for an older sister or somewhat older woman.


hyung

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Borrowed from Korean 형(兄) (hyeong, “older brother of a man”).

(manhwa, men's speech) An affectionate term of address for an older brother or somewhat older man.


lab lit

en-noun

lab lit (usually uncountable, plural lab lits)

(literature) a genre of fiction, distinct from science fiction, that centers on realistic portrayals of scientists and science as a profession.


shadow realm

shadow realm (countable and uncountable, plural shadow realms)

4Kids Entertainment
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

The first sense is from Shadow Realm, an invented place by 4Kids Entertainment for their English dub of the Japanese anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000–2004) as an ostensible place of suffering where people could be sent as a euphemism for death. It does not exist in the original Japanese anime. Apparently based on Japanese 闇(やみ)の世界(せかい) (Yami no Sekai, “World of Darkness”), an actual location in the series which is also called the Shadow Realm in the English dub.

ja-r

(fantasy) Alternative letter-case form of Shadow Realm (“a place that is inhabited by darkness, evilness or benevolent entities and creatures, sometimes based around, or said to be, shadows or personifications thereof”).


Shadow Realm

If when doing this quest something should happen and you should leave the Shadow Realm prematurely, speak to Salanar and he helps you return.

2008, Jennifer Sims, Kenny Sims, Dexter Hall, Wrath of the Lich King, BradyGames, →ISBN, page 19:

For these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is a gateway to the Shadow Realm – a dark and chaotic world where all the mischief-making creatures like goblins, boggles and trolls live.

2011, Linda Chapman, Lee Weatherly, “The Shadow Woods”, in The Fog Boggarts (Sophie and the Shadow Woods), HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN:

He is the Shadow Master, Gobregolen, First Lord of the Shadow Realm, he could have called out the Goblin Guard and sent them through your village like unto a plague of locusts, they would have found me, but in so doing he would have ruined my chances of being chosen.

2012, Alec Zandur, Polly and the Shadow Goblin: Goblin Lost, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:

(fantasy) A place, often another world, universe or supernatural plane, that is inhabited by darkness, evilness, or benevolent entities and creatures, sometimes based around, or said to be, shadows, or personifications thereof.


ship and let ship

The second way the fandom anti is seen to transgress fandom mores is to ignore the fandom etiquette of "Ship and Let Ship" and attempt to impose their definition of appropriateness on popular character pairings, or ships, in various media texts.

2024 January 1, Rukmini Pande, “"Get out of here you anti": Historizing the Operation of Structural Racism in Media Fandom”, in Feminist Media Histories, volume 10, number 1, Oakland, C.A.: University of California Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 114–115:

(fandom slang) A pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.


kyaa

(chiefly manga) An expression of surprise or dismay.