Corbynite

A leading KC who as a young barrister represented the Association of London Authorities at the Fennell Inquiry into the King's Cross fire, he is associated with Labour's Corbynite left.

2024 July 24, “Network News: Labour's new team at DfT packed with railway experience”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 9:

(UK politics) A supporter of Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949), British socialist politician elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015.


Liberal Republican

en-noun

Liberal Republican (plural Liberal Republicans)

(US politics, dated) A member of the Liberal Republican Party, a third way party that existed briefly in the 1870s.


feal and divot

No doubt, the want of access by a good road, together with the circumstance of the lands and barony of Torrie, of which this property forms a part, being held in runrigg between the Master of Mortifications of Aberdeen and Mr Menzies of Pit-foddels, and a servitude of feal and divot, which existed over nearly one-third of the muir ground, in favour of the adjoining property of South Loirston, contributed in a great degree to retard the improvement of the land in this locality, notwithstanding its near vicinage to Aberdeen.

1841, Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland:

(Scots law) A predial servitude (a legal interest by a non-owner connected with a piece of land) that grants the dominant tenant the right to cut out portions of turf for the construction or repair of sod structures such as houses, fences, or roofs.


Trumpism

What is Trumpism? Or, to put it more tartly, is there a coherent political philosophy underlying his candidacy?...There can be Reaganism without Reagan. There can be no Trumpism without Trump...Trumpism is not so much a theory of government as a celebration of one individual's claimed capacity to govern.

2015 August 25, Ruth Marcus, “A look inside Trump's political philosophy”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-10-02:

Given Latin America's right-wing turn’s affinities with Trumpism, it is tempting to see it as part of the global wave of right-wing populism making its way through the United States and Western Europe.

2018 April 16, Omar G. Encarnación, “The Trumpification of the Latin American Right”, in Foreign Policy:

In fact, when you review the history of Republican climate denial, it looks a lot like Trumpism.

2018 December 3, Paul Krugman, “Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism”, in New York Times:

A mixture of isolationism, cronyism, nativist rhetoric, somewhat performative authoritarianism, corporate tax cuts and personality cult, Trumpism is what the president says it is.

2020 November 5, “Trump and Trumpism”, in The Economist, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-10-02:

Few are predicting an end to global Trumpism, the nation-first, people-dividing style of governance with a hint of authoritarianism that began to gain traction in Europe and Asia well before Trump's 2016 election.

2020 November 8, “The world's populists are losing their White House ally, but global Trumpism is far from over”, in The Washington Post:

Why Trumpism will endure...Trumpism was a long time coming, and it will be a long time going...The durability of Trump and Trumpism is bringing into harsh relief many of the deeper flaws in the U.S. political system...Emerging class differences had just as much to do with today’s political polarization as race did, and this also helps to explain the continuing populist appeal of Trumpism.

2022 September 4, Michael Hirsh, “Why Trumpism Will Endure”, in Foreign Policy, retrieved 2022-10-02:

The philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump.

تِرَمْبِيَّةٌ

the philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump


Sanderista

Sanderistas (plural)
Sandernista (alternative)

From Sanders + -ista. Blend of Sanders + Sandinista. Coined in reference to the Sandinistas.

7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2

1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38:

A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.

In other cases, groups fostered the creation of current organizations and movements, for example, PACT (tenants' rights) in Burlington, Vermont, laid the groundwork for the Sanderistas.

2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152:

Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.

2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters:

During the war that continued for the rest of the 1980s, Burlington's Progressives identified strongly with the FSLN, to the point of earning for themselves the nickname "Sanderistas."

2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, page 223:

(US politics, colloquial) A supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.


adharma

adharma (countable and uncountable, plural adharmas)

That which is not in accord with dharma, i.e. wrong, immorality, and wickedness.


afterhand

an afterhand rent

(Scots law, archaic) Paid afterwards, rather than in advance.


Trumpish

en-adj

Trumpish (comparative more Trumpish, superlative most Trumpish)

more Trumpish (comparative)
most Trumpish (superlative)
Donald Trumpish (alternative)

Similar to Donald Trump in action, speech, or style.


Trumpesque

Trumpesque (comparative more Trumpesque, superlative most Trumpesque)

more Trumpesque (comparative)
most Trumpesque (superlative)
Donald Trumpesque (alternative)
Trump-esque (alternative)

The day before Trump was presented as an egg on legs in the New York Post, the paper celebrated the re-election of Ron DeSantis, the Trump-esque Florida governor rumored to be planning a presidential run, with a front page which declared him “DeFuture”.

2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian:


Donald Trumpesque

Donald Trumpesque (comparative more Donald Trumpesque, superlative most Donald Trumpesque)

more Donald Trumpesque (comparative)
most Donald Trumpesque (superlative)


Donald Trumpish

Donald Trumpish (comparative more Donald Trumpish, superlative most Donald Trumpish)

more Donald Trumpish (comparative)
most Donald Trumpish (superlative)


Donald Trumpian

Donald Trumpian (comparative more Donald Trumpian, superlative most Donald Trumpian)

more Donald Trumpian (comparative)
most Donald Trumpian (superlative)

Unfortunately, frequent heartburn is a common occurrence during many pregnancies, not just for moms who give birth to babies with Donald Trumpian locks.

2006, Carley Roney, The Nest Newlywed Handbook: An Owner's Manual for Modern Married Life, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 212:

A middle-aged man with a Donald Trumpian comb-over sat at the curb in an expensive Lexus.

2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 106:


bedroom tax

(UK politics) A reduction in housing benefit for people who live in social housing that is deemed underoccupied.


Rasenna

From the Etruscan autonym, 𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀 (rasna, “the people”).

Rasena (alternative)
Rasenae (alternative)
Rasennae (alternative)

The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue.
[…]
The cities of the Rasenna in Campania, whose communications with the mother country, whether by land or sea, were not cut of, surrendered […].

1898, Walter Wybergh How, Henry Devenish Leigh, A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar, pages 12 and 79:

The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.

2013, Fred Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective:


Adamsite

(US politics, historical) A supporter of John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), American statesman who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829.


beerage

Blend of beer + peerage, coined in the late 19th century in response to the awarding of honours to brewers.

(UK politics) The influence of the brewing industry within the British political system.


remeid

en-noun

remeid (countable and uncountable, plural remeids)

remeids (plural)
remead (alternative)
remede (alternative)

From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.

[…] the Commissioners of Burghs […] meet yearly at Inverkeithing “to treat of the welfare of merchandize, the good rule and statutes for the common profit of burghs, and to provide for remeid upon the skaith and injuries sustained within the burghs.”

1878, William Charles Smith, "Borough" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 64

(dialect) Remedy.
(Scots law) Legal redress of a wrong.


subfeu

From sub- + feu. Cognate with subfief and Latin subfeudum, subfeodare.

(Scots law, historical) A feu sublet by a vassal to a subvassal: a right to hold subinfeudated land in perpetuity in exchange for rent.


siddha

(Hinduism, Jainism) One who has achieved a high degree of physical and spiritual development.


Opium War

(historical) The First Opium War or the Second Opium War, two Anglo-Chinese wars relating to opium trade in the mid-19th century.


get to the fireworks factory

en-verb

get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> to the fireworks factory

get to the fireworks factory (third-person singular simple present gets to the fireworks factory, present participle getting to the fireworks factory, simple past got to the fireworks factory, past participle (UK) got to the fireworks factory or (US) gotten to the fireworks factory)

gets to the fireworks factory (present singular third-person)
getting to the fireworks factory (participle present)
got to the fireworks factory (past)
got to the fireworks factory (UK participle past)
gotten to the fireworks factory (US participle past)

From the 1997 Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", which shows an episode of the fictional Itchy & Scratchy Show in which the characters' journey to a fireworks factory is interrupted by the anticlimactic arrival of a new character, Poochie; while watching the episode, Milhouse Van Houten wails, "When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?!".

Jesus falls again, and now some woman brings him a drink. I'm getting so tired of this whole sequence. When are they going to get to the fireworks factory!?

2004 April 9, Johan Gustafsson, “[TAN] Once more, with Passion...”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):

Is Raven ever going to wrestle on TV? Or at least get to the fireworks factory?

2005 November 5, Poot Rootbeer, “Poot's post on TNA iMPACT! primetime, 11/3/05”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

No, that's a different crazy Egyptian tycoon, and that's assuming he even is crazy, which is a pretty safe assumption because once Diana Spencer marries into your family all her new relatives are automatically crazy, especially if any of them produced the terrible Spielberg movie "Hook" in which Robin Williams takes forever to get to the fireworks factory.

2006 September 22, James Kibo Parry, “Re: Further research into the word "braintanning"”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

The narrative going around about the new Godzilla, which waits about an hour before it finally gets to the fireworks factory, is that it’s a radical return to this kind of old-fashioned creature-feature restraint.

2014 May 17, Forrest Wickman, “When Should You Show the Monster? The Rules of “Cinematic Foreplay.””, in Slate:

Punching up and punching down. I've flirted with these terms a bit already, without adequately exploring their trajectories. Here, in Chapter 3, we finally get to the fireworks factory.

2024 April 9, David E. Low, Transgressive Humor in Classrooms: Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1986:

(fandom slang, idiomatic) To reach the most interesting, eventful or important part of a storyline.

Milhouse Van Houten
The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
The Itchy & Scratchy Show
The Simpsons


Trumpist

(US politics) An admirer or fan of Donald Trump.


Ephialtes

From Ancient Greek Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs).

Éphialtès

either the ancient Greek statesman or a mythological Giant


Dave Spart

Coined by Private Eye, playing on the word Spartacist (“a member of the International Communist League”).

Now every Dave Spart up the commune knows that basically, to his mind, the only, like, real theatre, man, is made by the people, you know, in the street, man, in the street.

1981, Reyner Banham, Design by Choice, London: Academy Editions:

But of course there is no shortage of people with ingenious ideas about how public money should be spent, and Ken is quite right when he warns us about a whole new generation of Dave Sparts currently working up from the grass roots

We don't get many Dave Sparts these days chopping hands, invoking the working class and using the word "total" twice in every sentence.

Like McGuinness, Wark's Left is populated by a cast of grotesques; of Dave Sparts who sleep with copies of Trotsky's Literature and Revolution tucked under their pillows.


Giscardian

Relating to, or supporting former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing


Rajya Sabha

Transliteration of Hindi राज्य सभा (rājya sabhā, literally “State House”).

translit

Coordinate term: Lok Sabha

The upper house of the Parliament of Republic of India.


Confederate States

Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America#English

Synonym of Confederate States of America


one-nation conservatism

Refers to the fact that all classes are part of the same nation.

All this links Johnson firmly with his predecessors – Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May. So does (with Thatcher as the exception that proves the rule) his eagerness – on full display in his remarks in Downing Street on Friday – to employ that emptiest of empty signifiers, “one-nation Conservatism”.

[2019 December 14, Tim Bale, “The real Boris Johnson: one-nation Tory or raging populist?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(UK politics) A pragmatic paternalistic form of conservatism, conscious of working-class issues.


one-nation conservative

en-noun

one-nation conservative (plural one-nation conservatives)

one-nation conservatism
one-nation conservatism

(UK politics) A follower of one-nation conservatism.


Edison bulb

From Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, due to the appearance of the light bulb, filament, and light produced, mimicking the appearance of bulbs produced during Edison's era.

the light bulbs produced by Thomas Edison and companies from the early era of electric lighting


putinisation

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

From Putin + -ise + -ation or Putinise + -ation.

(politics, British spelling) The taking over of power utilizing allegedly undemocratic means.


Acoetes

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.

One of several mythological characters.
An attendant of Bacchus.

One of several mythological characters.
The father of Laocoön.

A Theban character in Statius’s Thebaid.


set phasers to

In reference to the 1960s US television series Star Trek, in which the crew could set their phaser weapons either to stun or to kill.

(humorous) Prepare to; commence (used with a following verb or noun)


jiang hu

(crime fiction) the subculture of the criminal underworld


cheese monkey

From cheese-eating surrender monkey, a term coined in a 1995 episode of The Simpsons.

> Ahem, I'm not French ;-)
Darn, right you're not! You used to be a pure cheese monkey. Now, you're simply pure spud.

2003 March 13, Orchid, “OT: naked war protests”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

You'll notice a common cause among all international liberals--the sheep fucker in Australia (192 Day Road, Sydney), the cheese monkey in France, John Kerry--they're all together somehow, all operating along similar lines of force. Is it love of America that unites them? No? Then what is it?

2004 June 20, Jones, “OK, so no WMD and now no link between Iraq and Al-q. My question is........”, in rec.music.beatles (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

Republicans don't deny Bush has isolated the USA. However, they say "Fuck the world. Fuck the UN. The French are surrendering cheese monkeys. The Canadian are cheeseheads, the .... "

2004 September 18, Roedy Green, “Bush isolates more and more the USA in front of the world”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

> Vive la France!
>
Viva for the cheese monkeys? That's how you must have call them in 2003.

2007 May 7, dapra, “The French Revolution”, in us.military.army (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

So what I'm gonna propose as governor of this state is that we plan a massive invasion force and go ahead and invade France. Because if there's one country we can beat in a goddamn arm-wrestle it's them limp-wristed patronizing cheese monkeys.

2013, Jock Cranley, quotee, Grand Theft Auto V, scene: Blaine County Talk Radio:

(slang, derogatory, humorous, uncommon) A French person.


Star Wars Day

(fandom slang) A fan holiday celebrating the Star Wars franchise, on May 4th.


Bremain

Blend of Britain + remain, by analogy with Brexit.

"We want Britain to remain in the EU. We want not "Brexit" but "Bremain"."

2015 June 22, David Milliken, “U.S. and EU face 'heavy lift' to get trade deal: EU ambassador”, in Reuters:

Like the old Tory trouper Michael Heseltine, I think we can rule out him leading the “Outers.” For Brexit, read Bremain.

2015 October 8, Paul Routledge, “Europe referendum is the big political issue – but where do the parties stand?”, in The Mirror:

Brexit or Bremain? That is the question British voters may have to answer in just five months’ time on 23 June, if David Cameron’s renegotiation ends with a deal at the EU summit in February.

2016 February 21, Timothy Garton Ash, “Whether Brexit or Bremain, fear will triumph over fear”, in The Guardian:

But today the disconnect was heightened further as London's army of Bremain-backing resident called on the city's new mayor Sadiq Khan, to declare Greater London and its nine million population an independent state.

2016 June 25, Jon Austin, “Could London become an EU state? Calls for independence after capital votes to Bremain”, in Express:

(UK politics) The fact of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union.


libtardation

(colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Politically liberal thinking.


Sutekh

From Egyptian sw-W-t:x-A40 (swtḫ), a New Kingdom variant of s-t:X (stẖ).

Seth (alternative)
Set (alternative)
Setekh (alternative)
Suty (alternative)

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.


GAR

He was a Yankee and they say he would not hang a man who had been in the G.A.R.

Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army of the Republic#English

(US, historical, military, mid-19th century) Initialism of Grand Army of the Republic.


Aeolic Greek

(Ancient Greece) The dialect group of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly, Boeotia, and Aeolia and on the island of Lesbos, most closely related to Arcadocypriot and contributing some forms to Epic Greek. The language of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.


Salt March

(historical) A 24-day march in colonial India in 1930 to support the production of salt in seawater, against the British salt monopoly.


BoJo

(UK politics, slang) The British politician and journalist Boris Johnson (born 1964), Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.


Nüwa

zh-l

女媧／女娲 (Nǚwā)

The first sovereign was Fuxi, the heavenly sovereign, and first ancestor of 100 emperors. His marriage to his sister, Nüwa, balanced yin and yang.

2008, Essential Visual History Of World Mythology, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 334:

(Chinese mythology) a goddess who repaired heaven and created the Earth


decarchy

decarchies (plural)
decadarchy (alternative)
dekadarchy (alternative)
dekarchy (alternative)

From Ancient Greek δεκαρχία (dekarkhía), from δεκα- (deka-, “deca-: ten”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”). Equivalent to dec- + -archy.

(politics) A government of ten people, especially (historical) various Greek councils of ten men


Putinian

en-adj

Putinian (comparative more Putinian, superlative most Putinian)

more Putinian (comparative)
most Putinian (superlative)

Last but not least, and in the long term, this would mean that the Kremlin eventually has to give up its Putinian delusions of rebuilding the Russian empire.

2022 March 4, Timothy Garton Ash, “In this moment of crisis, opening the door to Ukraine is one thing the EU can do”, in The Guardian:

Of or relating to Vladimir Putin (born 1952), 2nd and 4th President of Russia.


Little Red Book

In reference to the book's red colour, and because red is the traditional colour representing Communism.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a book widely distributed in Communist China.


Round Table

Then, after a while, King Arthur said: "Let us go and see if, haply, this youth's name is marked upon any of the seats of the Round Table, for I think it should be there."

1905, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 21:

(Arthurian legend) King Arthur's table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate, all having equal status since the table has no head.


Brexiteer

/ˌbɹɛksɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/

From Brexit + -eer, playing on musketeer and the novel The Three Musketeers.

After Ken Clarke's "Charge of Light Brigade" hit on Brexiteers in @Daily_Telegraph, Defra SoS likened to Lord Raglan in #CAP reform debate

2013 June 18, Huw Irranca-Davies, “@huw4ogmore”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-16:

Whether you are a Europhile or a Brexiteer, it’s hard to see what’s not to like about a market-driven initiative that aims to pull down barriers to more investment across Europe.

2015 October 4, William Wright, “A plan from Brussels where Britain can take the lead”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2018-11-09:

Denying he [David Cameron] was a "closet Brexiteer", as his former aide Steve Hilton has claimed, the PM told reporters: "I withdraw absolutely nothing I've previously said. Britain is an amazing country. We can find our way whatever the British people choose.

2016 May 27, “David Cameron: I am not a closet Brexiteer”, in The Herald, Glasgow:

A leading Tory Brexiteer has insisted quitting the EU does not mean the numbers of people coming to Britain will be slashed – and claimed Vote Leave never said it would.

2016 June 25, Tim Sculthorpe, “Tory Brexiteer Dan Hannan insists quitting the EU does NOT mean dramatic cuts to the number of immigrants coming to Britain”, in Daily Mail, London, archived from the original on 2016-06-26:

For Brexiteers in the UK, a free trade deal with the US was one of several promises made before and after the 2016 referendum that have failed to come to fruition.

2023 July 8, Jo Harper, “UK-US: What's happened to their free trade deal?”, in dw.com:

[Margaret] Thatcher was no Brexiteer. She was a strong supporter of the Single Market and thought that the [Channel] tunnel would help cement it.

2023 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “Hope springs eternal for greater use of the Channel Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 999, page 26:

(UK politics) Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

Completing the Three Brexiteers is Boris Johnson, the UK's new Foreign Secretary.

2016 July 14, Christian May, “May and the three Brexiteers lead Britain”, in City A.M., London:

For newspapers with only the Olympics to write about during August, the squabbling "Three Brexiteers" – the senior ministers supposedly tasked with executing the will of the British people to remove us from the European Union – came as a gift.

2016 September 7, Simon Heffer, “The Three Brexiteers”, in New Statesman, London, published 9–15 September 2016, archived from the original on 2018-10-20:

She [British Prime Minister Theresa May] urges people to get behind the team of ministers working for Brexit: David Davis, Liam Fox, Priti Patel and Boris Johnson. (It seems Patel has now been co-opted as a fourth Brexiteer.)

2016 October 2, Andrew Sparrow, “May says workers’ rights will be protected as long as she is PM – Politics live”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-01-06:

That was until she announced that Boris Johnson would have to share Chevening, the foreign secretary’s grace-and-favour country retreat, with his fellow cabinet Brexiteers, David Davis and Liam Fox.

2016 October 31, Matt Chorley, “Bluster, bickering and three Brexiteers: Stage is set for a satire made in heaven: Yes Minister creator finds comic gold among Chevening’s trio of new tenants”, in The Times, London, archived from the original on 2017-01-08:

It's worth remembering all the Three Brexiteers, who campaigned to Leave, are still in place.

2017 June 11, Anoosh Chakelian, “Government reshuffle: Who’s who in Theresa May’s new team?: While attempting to cling on to power, the Prime Minister is making some new appointments”, in New Statesman, London, archived from the original on 2017-08-15:

At the moment, our future is being decided by Theresa May’s desperate attempts to remain as prime minister (and to do this she has to kowtow to the wishes of the three Brexiteers Boris Johnson, David Davis, and Jacob Rees-Mogg). The future, therefore, is not being decided by us.

2018 August 11, Athian Akec, “As a 15-year-old youth MP, I can tell you why ignoring our young people on the final Brexit deal will be a disaster”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 2018-08-15:

(UK politics) Usually in plural: a holder of any of the posts in the British Cabinet tasked with negotiating the country's exit from the European Union.


Roman road

(historical) Any of many roads built in Europe, including Britain, by the Ancient Romans, many of which survive in various forms.


Theron

Borrowed from Latin Thērōn, in turn from Ancient Greek Θήρων (Thḗrōn).

Theron of Akragas (died 473 BC), a tyrant of Akragas in Sicily.


Rhene

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥήνη (Rhḗnē).

bor+

the paramour of King Oïleus of Locris and the mother of either or neither of his sons Medon and Ajax.

Rene

nymph, paramour of Locrian king Oïleus, disputed mother by him of Medon or Ajax

an oread of Mount Cyllene, lover of Hermes and the mother by him of Saon of Samothrace.

Rene

oread of Mouth Cyllene, lover of Hermes, mother by him of Samothracian Saon


Bloody Code

(historical) A schedule of crimes and punishments in 19th-century England that introduced the death penalty for numerous offences.


Warring States

The era in ancient Chinese history following the Spring and Autumn period and concluding with the first imperial unification of China under the Qin dynasty (c. 475 BC to 221 BC).


garbhagriha

Transliteration of Sanskrit गर्भगृह (garbhagṛha).

transliteration

(Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) The innermost sanctum of a temple, where the murti of the primary deity is found.


fall of the wall

(history) The deconstruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and 1990.


duplicand

(Scots law) A doubling of the duty to be paid on a feu.


Rodman gun

Designed by Union artilleryman Thomas Jackson Rodman (1815–1871).

Any of a series of heavy columbiads with a curved bottle shape, designed to fire both shot and shell, and used in the era of the American Civil War.


red box

gray-box testing
red box
white box (software engineering)

Coordinate term: dispatch box

Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.

2013 September 9, Ben Quinn, “No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents.


Igraine

(Arthurian legend) The mother of King Arthur.


Niniane

(Arthurian legend) A priestess in Arthurian legend who succeeded Viviane as Lady of the Lake.


congi

From Congress, short for Indian National Congress, a major political party in India.

(India, slang, politics, derogatory) A liberal or a leftist, accused of opposing India, Hinduism, or Hindu nationalism.


red pill

red pills (plural)
redpill (alternative)

From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.

To take the red pill is to choose to take responsibility for our lives, both on the personal and larger social levels.

2003, Glenn Yeffeth, Taking the Red Pill, page 148:

Do you want to continue to live in the false world of dieting, where emotional pain is numbed, health risks are ignored, and false promises are made? Or do you want to take the red pill, as it were, and see the reality of a world in which food and eating don't dominate or take over your life?

2011, Stephen Arterburn, Linda Mintle, Lose It for Life: The Total Solution, →ISBN, page 49:

We can offer ourselves the option of taking the red pill and, when the circumstances are right, we shall not be able to resist the lure of the naked truth; however hard it may be to stare it in the face.

2012, Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, →ISBN:

Until the media and economy are democratically structured and regulated, the best people can do is take the red pill -- that is, utilize the alternative media for information and thereby purge their neurological systems of large misleading segments of their past education and the mainstream popular media.

2013, John C Alessio, Social Problems and Inequality, →ISBN:

As you choke down the red pill, we will begin to expound on that eternally important question that few people have bothered to ask, save once, likely around the tender age of four [...] the eternally important question, "What is money?"

2013, David Mint, What is Money? A Quest to Answer the Question of the Ages:

(informal) Something that enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

One of the unfortunate outcomes of a red pill awakening (i.e. to learn the true nature of men, women, our culture's abject gynocentrism) is red pill rage: anger at the raw deal dealt to men by unconstrained gynocentrism and a sexual market place that is far too risky for an awakened man to tolerate.

2019, 8. 8 Finger, Roger L'Estrange, Seneca, On Anger: Wisdom for Men: An Antidote for Red Pill Rage:

The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.

2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:

Reading this book and taking the red pill will give you the red pill mindframe and liberate you from simping and you'll receive wisdom in dealing with women and avoiding manipulation.

2021, DMPaul Smith, Taking The Red Pill - The Bitter Truth: The Red Pill Mindframe And Alpha Male Strategies to Avoid Female Manipulation And Deception In Relationship And Dating:

(slang) Something that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

Most red pill thinkers will have already debunked this one and replaced it with a better story.

2017, Peter Wright, Red Pill Psychology: Psychology for men in a gynocentric world:

With the growth of 'the red pill' and similar such groups among men there is a growing realisation that life is very different in dating for 'alpha males' compared to everyone else.

2017, Player Mastermind, Gold Diggers and Sugar Daddies: The Red Pill Guide to Hypergamy:

The problems faced by men in America—the problems the Red Pill community points to as proof that we live in a gynocentric society—have deep historical roots; however, the Red Pill represents a new, dangerous phase of American masculinity in the internet age.

2018, Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age:

Indeed, this is the surprising core of the whole Red Pill theory of seduction: never stop begging for it.

If you are attracted to the truths presented in Red Pill culture, but are put off by any morality or atheism present, this book is for you.

2019, James a Deprisco, The Catholic Red Pill: A Guide for Men:

(slang, by extension) The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.


red pill

en-verb

red pill (third-person singular simple present red pills, present participle red pilling, simple past and past participle red pilled)

red pills (present singular third-person)
red pilling (participle present)
red pilled (participle past)
red pilled (past)
redpill (alternative)

black pill

to adopt a nihilistic far-right worldview

Fuck's sake. All this brainful red-pilling and you just trying to throw me off the trail again.

Being “red pilled” would surely soon become the rage.

2019, Jack Suss, Soul Enticed II: More Essays in Unlearning, page 146:

Now, I believe Q is President Trump, working possibly with Stephen Miller, to drop this information behind the scenes to get a campaign going, to red-pill people as to what is going on with the Storm, and their takedown of the Deep State, which includes the Deep State pedophile scene.

2020, David Neiwert, Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That are Killing Us, page 87:

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To enable a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

rougepiluler

YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.

2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate:

(transitive, intransitive, slang) To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.


Bushtard

Notice Bushtards have given up on even trying to defend Bush's intelligence and just resort to mud-slinging? That debate pretty much sealed the deal on his intellectual capabilities.

2004 October 4, Tim Farrow, “Undecided voter?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

And our life isn't exactly revered by the Bushtards.

2006 September 10, zakintosh, “They're back, with a vengenace!”, in Windmills of My Mind:

The Bushtards have gone to great lengths to change the balance of wealth in this country for a result like this to not be intentional.

2007 March 12, Robert Peard, “The Bushtard War On The Poor: Thousands Lose Medicaide.”, in The Conservatard:

Iran is nothing more than an excuse for the Bushtards to yell for another conquest.

2007 April 3, Chad Bryant, “Iran kidnaps British soldiers... and it's all the US's fault!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Of course, the corruption and incompetence of Bush does not justify the corruption and incompetence of Obama, but please try to acknowledge the former's failures before ripping into his successor. (This is unnecessary for me, since I freely criticized Bush and called for his impeachment, but you are a Bushtard.)

2013 April 6, Dänk 42Ø, “Re: ANOTHER Green Company Goes Down - Thanks Obama for Wasting Our Money”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

Tomorrow, Donald Trump should win Florida eliminating the last of these Bushtards (Marc-go Rubio) that irritate me so much from consideration for the Republican Party.

2016 March 16, “The Enemy of My Enemy”, in Voltaire Politics:

Liberals knew powell was full of crap WAAAAAY back in 2001, when trumptards like bigdog were bushtards and wetting their diapers over every word that came out of the texas tard's warmongering ass.

2021 October 19, Molly Bolt, “RINO Colin Powell kicks the bucket”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of George W. Bush.


Tealiban

2013 October 20, Abraham Todd, “Re: The same business interests who created the Tealiban to fight against Obama the Socialist are now lining up to destroy the Tealiban”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):

2013 October 24, Kickin' Ass, Takin' Names, “No doubt about it -- the Tealiban and GOTP are a resurrected Confederacy, complete with return to slavery”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

2013 November 7, Claudette Latosha Duffy, “Re:Tealiban loser in Alabama shows how not to give a concession speech . . . at the same time, shows how and why the Tealiban loses”, in alt.politics.democrat (Usenet):

The American Tealiban will make sure that Sharia, erm, Biblical law governs us again, and we will keep our military as strong as possible so we can go on Crusades against the infidels in Muslim lands, and we will, naturally, liberate the Holy Land from the nasty Muslims (and maybe the dirty Jews, as long as we're there anyway).

2014 July 2, Tom McDonald, “Re: IRS caught LYING”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(derogatory) The Tea Party party movement in twenty-first-century American politics, when considered to be a conservative religious movement similar to the Taliban.


Koreagate

A United States political scandal in 1976 involving South Korean political figures seeking the influence of ten Democratic members of Congress.


Cranborne money

Named after Lord Cranborne, who was leader of the House of Lords when it was introduced on 27 November 1996.

(UK politics) An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Lords, to help them with their costs.


Short money

Named after Edward Short (later Lord Glenamara), the leader of the House of Commons who first proposed the payments.

(UK politics) An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.


Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Melas (plural)
Kumbha Mela (alternative)

Borrowed from Hindustani کُن٘بھ میلَہ (kuṉbh mela) / कुंभ मेला (kumbh melā). Related to kumbha and mela.

Kumbh Mela (The Pot Fair) is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage and a religious festival where millions of sadhus, pilgrims, and devotees come for historical ritual bathing at four sites on the banks of Rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Godavari and Shipra, considered sacrad.

2005, Kartar Sing hBhalla, Let's Know Festivals of India, →ISBN, page 7:

Kumbh Mela is the single largest religious congregation or, in fact, human gathering of any kind on Earth.

2010, Badri Narain, Kedar Narain, Christopher N. Burchett, Kumbh Mela and the Sadhus: The Quest for Immortality, →ISBN:

Once every twelve years a great Kumbh Mela takes place, when the propitious timing is amplified many thousands of times over. And, in keeping with the lunar cycles, every twelfth great Kumbh Mela is the 'Maha' -- held ever 144 years.

2013, Tahir Shah, Three Essays: Cannibalism, The Kumbh Mela, The Legacy of Arab Science, →ISBN:

Kumbh Melas are held every 12 years. The last Haridwar Kumbh Mela was held in 2010.

2021 April 20, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, “Kumbh 2021: Astrology, Mortality and the Indifference to Life of Leaders and Stars”, in The Wire, archived from the original on 2021-01-09:

A Hindu festival, held every twelve years at four locations in India, at which pilgrims bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers for purification from sin.


lampadarius

From Latin lampada, from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “candle”).

(historical) A slave who carried torches before consuls, emperors and other high officials both during the later Roman Republic and under the Empire.

(Christianity) The leader of the second (left) choir of singers in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.


antode

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντῳδή (antōidḗ), from ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

For instance, in the agon of the Knights beginning at 757 we first (761 ff.) find a katakeleusmos and a debate in anapaestic tetrameters catalectic, while the symmetrical section, after the antode, is in iambic tetrameters catalectic.

1975, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Festival, Comedy and Tragedy: The Greek Origins of Theatre:

(historical, Ancient Greece, theater) A particular ode sung in response to another.


Orthrus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄρθρος (Órthros).

(Greek mythology) A two-headed dog who guarded Geryon's cattle and was killed by Heracles.


fudanshi

Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)男(だん)子(し) (fudanshi, literally “rotten boy/man”).


Boxer Rebellion

From Boxer + rebellion. Boxer refers to 義和拳 /义和拳 (Yìhéquán, literally “Righteous and Harmonious Fists”), the martial arts practiced by the rebels.

Young Major Leonard, with only one arm (the other lost during the Boxer rebellion in China), Mr. John Lodge and a charming young Italian named Gherardesca, and many others, made these visits stand out in my memory.

1937, Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, pages 113–114:

According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.

1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:

A violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1899 and 1901.

義和團運動 /义和团运动

violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901


Sui

The Sui dynasty of China which ruled from 581 to 618.


Remainiac

Though no Remainiac, I will vote in.

2016 June 11, Rachel Johnson, “RACHEL JOHNSON: Just stop picking on my big brother! (But, sorry Boris, I'm still voting In)”, in The Daily Mail:

Nevertheless, given that my proxy vote is safely secured back in Blighty, an international festival for creativity provides perfect context to ask the question, 'If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which camp would win?’ Who gets your branding vote, Brexiteer or Remainiac?

2016 June 23, Greg Taylor, “If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which side would win?”, in The Drum:

2017 August 2, Chris Campbell, “What was the point? Ferrari slates Remainiac in Brexit row for trying to ruin the Proms”, in Daily Express:

Together, they’ve conquered Middle England and seen of the Remainiacs.

2017 August 14, Julia Rampen, “5 unmissable Nigel Farage scenes from Bad Boys of Brexit: The Movie”, in New Statesman:

(UK politics, slang, neologism) One who opposes the idea of Brexit and wishes the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.


(US politics, slang) Joe Biden, as the forty-sixth president of the United States.


Matrix defense

From the plot of the film The Matrix (1999), whose protagonist is woken from an illusionary simulated world into the dystopian reality.

There is now a legal strategy called the "Matrix defense," which has been an effective form of insanity defense. The film evidently had a part in inspiring Lee Malvo, the Washington D.C. sniper, and it has been mentioned in connection with the Columbine High School killings, which happened less than a month after the release of The Matrix.

2012, C. Stephen Jaeger, Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 41:

(US, law) A legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that he/she was not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.


Hypsipyle

From Latin Hypsipylē and its etymon, the Ancient Greek Ῠ̔ψῐπῠ́λη (Hŭpsĭpŭ́lē).

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Thoas and Myrina, queen of Lemnos at the time of the curse by Aphrodite, the island’s subsequent androcide, and the Argonauts’ two-year sojourn on the island, during which time she bore Jason twin sons.


duplicarius

Borrowed from Latin duplicārius, from duplicō (“multiply by two”).

(historical) A member of the Ancient Roman army who received double the basic pay.


nerfherder

/ˈnɜːfˌhɜːdə/

/ˈnɝfˌhɝːdɚ/

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back.

coin

How can you think that loser has anything od^([sic]) value to say? He's a misinformed, slimey looking nerfherder, which doesn't belong anywhere on that side of a camera.

2000 March 9, Dion Turner, “Re: the panel”, in aus.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2017-04-28, message-ID <38C7686B.8B5B3177@uq.net.au>:

First of all, Ducttape^([sic]) is not an acceptable substitute for electrical tape you DB! I'd rather you didn't use electrical tape either. QUIT CUTTING WIRES!! And seriously, is this a LAMP CORD running the length of my pretty black and blue nighthawk??? Wtf man? You couldn't do any better than a frapping lamp cord? What a real nerfherder! And if you're going to splice into a wire, why do it after the connector? You just disabled the purpose of the quick disconnect you inbred monkey hugger! Now I gotta unducttape^([sic]) and unwrap the mess you made to get the blinker off!

2010 August 18, Kyle Munz, “[Nighthawk Lovers] Group rules regarding profanity.”, in nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com (Usenet), retrieved 2017-04-28, message-ID <AANLkTinf9kz8X299POXzbKkXTB5jJfVwZ623zCXF2zPX@mail.gmail.com>:

Like when Aragorn starts on the paths of the dead bookwise he and his Dunedain are regarded, despite their small size, among the most powerful companies in the area. And then with the dead, he defeats armies in southern Gondor _and_ rallies those people to fight at his command, showing his ability as a king. When he gets to Minas Tirith he is leading an army as great as Rohan instead of a handful and a ship of vapours that would have been laughed at by orcs and ringwraiths. Moviewise he's never more than a nerfherder with ideas above his station stealing Arwen and betraying Elrond.

2016 October 30, Siri Cruise, “Re: Ye olde burbs & rural mythology”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2017-04-28, message-ID <chine.bleu-371DA6.12162630102016@news.eternal-september.org>:

Hey nerfherder, yeah you! I'm gonna need those for the B-wings!

2017, Rowan's sis, “Trouble on Tibalt”, in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, season 2, episode 2:

(derogatory, fandom slang) A term of abuse.

20th Century Fox
Carrie Fisher
Lawrence Kasdan
Leigh Brackett
Lucasfilm
Princess Leia
The Empire Strikes Back


Dr. Strangelove

en-noun

Dr. Strangelove (plural Dr. Strangeloves)

Dr. Strangeloves (plural)
Dr Strangelove (alternative)

[ˈdɑk̚tɚ ˈʃt͡ʃɹeɪ̯nd͡ʒɫʌv]

From the character Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

When it was important in 1969 for Henry Kissinger to gain a reputation as a “secret swinger” to create a Dr. Strangelove reputation and provide cover for secret trips, he would appeal to White House wags and their friends (Richard Moore, television producer Paul Keyes, and this writer) for lines making that point.

2008, William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, →ISBN, page 654:

Just as the central question of the nuclear age was how to keep a Dr. Strangelove from pushing the button, the central question of the geoengineering age will be how to prevent a Dr. Strangelove from hacking the climate.

2010, Jeff Goodell, How to Cool the Planet, →ISBN:

His game theory became the foundation for modern finance. Dr Strangelove went to work on Wall Street.

2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62:

In both the world of new science and that of quick-fix military technology we need, more than ever, to be on perpetual guard against the Dr Strangeloves of the future.

2012, Dr J Richardson, War, Science and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict, →ISBN:

The Darth Vaders, Dr. Strangeloves and many people in positions of power have advocated the use of nuclear weapons to resolve conflicts.

2014, Jerry Kroth, Implosion: Delusion, denial, and the prospect of collapse, →ISBN, page 240:

But CIA observers everywhere choked when CNN announced that a psychological trauma team, mustered by the American Psychological Association, would converge in Oklahoma City to treat survivors of the explosion and the victims' families—led by none other than Dr. Louis Jolyon West of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, the breeding ground of some of the most necrotizing Dr. Strangeloves in the mind control business.

2014, Alex Constantine, Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America, →ISBN, page 255:

Someone who is likely to launch a nuclear attack or otherwise destroy the world.


Kakure Kirishitan

Kakure Kirishitan (plural Kakure Kirishitans)

Borrowed from Japanese 隠れキリシタン (Kakure Kirishitan, literally “hidden Christian”).

bor+

(historical) A member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period who went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.


Fox Newsian

en-adj

Fox Newsian (comparative more Fox Newsian, superlative most Fox Newsian)

more Fox Newsian (comparative)
most Fox Newsian (superlative)

Despite being a raging liberal, he was always mindful of my pretention-fueled, Fox Newsian conservatism.

2014, Amy D. Brooks, My Name is Amelia, and I'm a Sociopath, page 15:


Romanoff

Romanoffs (plural)
Romanov (alternative)

Transliteration of Russian Рома́нов (Románov). From Рома́н (Román), from Romance Roman, from Latin Roma (“Rome”), possibly from a name for river (referring to the Tiber).

transliteration

An aristocratic house that formed a ruling dynasty of Russia


Dog

The figurative sense "Newcastle Brown Ale" comes from the euphemism "I'm going to walk the dog" or "I'm going to see a man about a dog", meaning "I'm going to the pub for a drink". This was further popularised by a 1980s advertising campaign.

Shakespeare could understand Human, the language used by people, as well as Dog, the telepathic speech with which canines communicated with each other.

2005, Jean Little, Forward, Shakespeare!, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 2:

Lara's biggest frustration was that she could only speak one language – her native tongue of Dog. She would have loved to learn to speak Human but this was beyond the spy-training programme.

2006, Andrew Cope, Spy Dog: Captured!, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 12:

I blinked. “I thought you were talking to Blake about a dog.”
“Cath,” Jake said, “I'm trying to be more open about this. Didn't you just say that you could talk to animals?”
The realization dawned on me. “I don't speak Dog very well, but it's worth a try.”

2015, Harper Lin, Pawsitively Dead: A Wonder Cats Mystery:

(humorous) The language supposedly spoken by dogs

The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

(astronomy, with definite article) The Dog Star; Sirius.


Agravain

(Arthurian legend) One of the knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.


Thatcher effect

Named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), whose image was used as an example.

named-after

The phenomenon whereby it is more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.


Thatcher illusion

Named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

optical illusion
optical illusion#English

The optical illusion resulting from the Thatcher effect.


Corbynmania

As Corbynmania took off, a paper cup he had drunk from at a rally was sold on eBay for £51.

2016, Rosa Prince, Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup:

Neither he, nor anyone else, had counted on 'Corbynmania' sweeping the Labour ranks as a growing base of young activists got fired up by an antiausterity message and the unassuming, authentic character promoting it.

(UK politics, neologism) Enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949), British socialist politician elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015.


annaprashana

From Sanskrit अन्नप्राशन (annaprāśana). See also annaprasan.

(Hinduism) A Hindu rite of passage marking an infant's first intake of food other than milk.


Oriental Orthodox Church

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

One of the three major divisions of Eastern Christianity, distinguished by its miaphysite Christology, not to be confused with Eastern Orthodox Church and the Church of the East.

Արեւելյան ուղղափառ եկեղեցի

one of the three major divisions of Eastern Christianity


quartary

From Latin quārtārius (“quarter-sextarius, quarter-pint”), from quārtus (“fourth”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adj.”). Equivalent to quart + -ary. Doublet of quartarius.

der

(historical, rare, obsolete) Synonym of quartarius, quarter-sextarius, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.14 L


Obamabot

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A supporter of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A person paid to post pro-Obama articles on the Internet.


half eagle

(US, numismatics, historical) A gold coin with a face value of five dollars, formerly used in the United States, one-half the value of the US eagle coin.


Olynthus

[ɔˈlʲʏn̪t̪ʰʊs̠]

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυνθος (Ólunthos).

An ancient city in Chalcidice, modern Chalkidiki, Greece.


my spider sense is tingling

From Marvel Comics' "Spider-Man" comic books, in which the main character (Spider-Man) has a superpower called "spider sense" (sometimes called spidey sense) that would forewarn him about dangerous events. He would often say his spider sense was "tingling" when it was warning him of something.

(colloquial) My intuition (spider sense) tells me that something wrong or dangerous is happening or about to happen.


Tea Partier

(US politics) A supporter of the Tea Party political movement.


American Revolution

American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

(US, historical) The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) of the contiguous southern Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire on the east coast of the North American mainland.


Brexiter

/ˈbɹɛɡzɪtə(ɹ)/

2016 February 20, Timothy Garton Ash, “Here’s how to argue with a Brexiter – and win”, in The Guardian, title:

Trump and the Tory Brexiters are cut from the same cloth.

2016 March 2, Deborah Orr, “What do Trump and Brexiters have in common? A disregard for all but themselves”, in The Guardian:

The proposal, made ahead of Thursday's crucial vote on Britain's continued EU membership, is designed to deflect accusations that Brexiters - as supporters of Britain's exit from the EU are popularly known - have used crude anti-immigrant and racist slogans to pollute the political debate during the EU referendum campaign and may have even indirectly inspired last week's murder of Mrs Jo Cox, a local opposition MP and fervent migration defender.

2016 June 21, Jonathan Eyal, “Brexiter's call for amnesty for illegals seen as a gimmick”, in The Straits Times:


11 Downing Street

(UK politics) The address of the residence in London of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

(UK politics, by extension, idiomatic) The title or office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(UK politics, by extension, idiomatic) HM Treasury of the United Kingdom.


Number Eleven

No 11 (alternative)
Number 11 (alternative)

11 Downing Street
11 Downing Street#English

(UK politics, colloquial) Synonym of 11 Downing Street


Number 11

No 11 (alternative)
Number Eleven (alternative)


Cyzicus

From Latin Cȳzicus, from Ancient Greek Κύζικος (Kúzikos).

(historical) A former city in Balikesir Province, Turkey, formerly part of the ancient region of Mysia.


Johnsonism

en-noun

Johnsonism (countable and uncountable, plural Johnsonisms)

Truss won the race to replace Johnson by presenting herself as both the continuity candidate[…]and the new guard who would do away with all the boring bits of Johnsonism, such as raising taxes to pay for things.

2022 October 14, Tom McTague, “The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-10-15:

(UK politics) The ideology, doctrine and practice of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

(US politics) The ideology, doctrine and practice of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.


remainer

The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.

2017 September 4, “End ‘macho’ Brexit posturing, Anna Soubry urges May”, in The Guardian:

The reason this once-devout remainer doggedly sticks to these lines is obvious: even if opinion polling suggests that residual popular belief in Brexit is now ebbing away, the Labour party has to secure the support of people who voted leave in 2016, switched from Labour to the Tories in 2019, and would supposedly greet any talk of revisiting the basics of Brexit with anger and dismay.

2023 January 1, John Harris, “The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Remainer


Regrexit

Blend of regret + Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.

Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.

2016 June 24, Carl Gardner (@carlgardner), Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-02:

There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. […] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. […] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.

2016 June 24, Jonathan Freedland, “For the 48%, this was a day of despair: Soon we will become little Britain. The signs of Regrexit are cold comfort for those of us who voted to remain.”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-09-13, subtitle:

From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.

2016 June 26, Abhidevananda <abhide...@sarkarverse.org>, “Re: Brexit”, in uk.philosophy.humanism (Usenet), message-ID <t9ybz.34812$LR2.4319@fx26.fr7>:

In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.

2016 June 27, Adam Taylor, “Bregret? Regrexit? Don't bet on it.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2016-10-06:

There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.

2016 June 29, Anna Wallis, “Brexit lessons here”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'

2017, Markus M.L. Crepaz, European Democracies, Routledge, →ISBN:

There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.

2018, Victor O. Okocha, Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:

(UK politics) A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.


UKIPer

A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party)


Russian White House

From being a building in Russia having a white exterior. From Russian Белый дом (Belyj dom, “White House”)

uder

The primary government building of the Russian Federation, located in Moscow, also housing the Office of the Prime Minister of Russia.


circuit intendant

en-noun

circuit intendant (plural circuit intendants)

zh-l

道臺／道台 (dàotái)

(historical) The chief magistrate of an imperial Chinese circuit, overseeing both its civil operation and local defense.


daotai

en-noun

daotai (countable and uncountable, plural daotai or daotais)

daotai (plural)
daotais (plural)
taotai (alternative)
tao tai (alternative)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 道臺／道台 (dàotái).

zh-l

道臺／道台 (dàotái)

TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct.

[1864, Robert Swinhoe, “Notes on the Island of Formosa.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: John Murray, published 1865, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

circuit intendant
circuit intendant#English

(historical) Synonym of circuit intendant: a local governor of late imperial China.


Laborite

(Australian politics) a member or supporter of the Australian Labor Party, a centre-left political party of Australia.


War of 1812

United States of America
United States of America

(historical) A military conflict that lasted from 1812 to 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its North American Indian allies.


Wakanda

Most likely borrowed from Omaha-Ponca Wakanda, Chiwere Wakanda, Kansa Wakanda, Osage Wakanda.

Waconda (alternative)
Wakonda (alternative)
Wakan Tanka (alternative)

The supreme being or Great Spirit of the Osage, but also Omaha, Caddo and Ponca peoples of North America.


Stabiae

Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia#English

(historical) An ancient city in Italy near Pompeii, in Campania; now Castellammare di Stabia


Bat-

Originally of the nature of a noun adjunct forming compound nouns, first bat + man = the batman or the Bat-Man = Batman, then later bat-phone = Bat-phone, bat-signal = Bat-signal, and so on.

Holy unsafe sex, Batman! Did you forget to use your Bat-condom?

2002 October 27, Richard B. Becker, “Re: The most implausible thing about BoP (no spoilers)”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <3DBCA45A.F8B8C1AF@mindspring.com>:

Belonging to or associated with Batman; sometimes said of bat-themed objects used by him.


MLP

abbreviation of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic


Defra

For Defra, funding for flood defences and disease prevention are likely to be protected.

2015 November 11, Emma Howard, “Defra hit by largest budget cuts of any UK government department, analysis shows”, in The Guardian:

w:Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(UK politics) Initialism of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


DfE

Department for Education
w:Department for Education

(UK, education, UK politics) Initialism of Department for Education.


gurukula

gurukulas (plural)
gurukul (alternative)

(Hinduism) A residential school in India with pupils living near the guru, often in the same house.


RNC

As RNC chair, Priebus said, he speaks “every day” with Trump.

2016 August 28, Tom McCarthy, quoting Reince Priebus, “Reince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: ‘I go with the flow’”, in The Guardian:

Republican National Committee
w:Republican National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Republican National Committee.


RNC

Coordinate term: DNC

Republican National Convention
w:Republican National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Republican National Convention.


LNC

Libertarian National Committee
w:Libertarian National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Committee.


LNC

Libertarian National Convention
w:Libertarian National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Convention.


Pokémon Goer

Pokémon Goers were invited to enter the museum at a discounted rate and search for Pokémon characters.

2016 July 19, Kora Chrzan, “Pokémon Go takes off in the Ozarks”, in Branson Tri-Lakes News:

A Pokémon Goer is on the app for an average of 26 minutes,

2016 August 29, Ricardo Casas, “Catching Customers: Pokémon Go and the Future of Local Advertising”, in Business:

Getting into the theme of love, perhaps the most exciting thing for Pokémon Goers is a huge increase in the duration of lures: the Pokémon-attracting devices will now last a whole six hours, 12 times longer than their standard 30-minute duration.

2017 February 8, Alex Hern, “Pokémon Go launches Valentine's event hoping to lure loving players”, in The Guardian:

Pokémon Goers explore White Sands National Monument

2017 April 7, Tara Melton, “White Sands celebrates historic visitation numbers”, in Alamogordo Daily News:

Brace yourselves, Pokémon Goers - Legendary Pokémon Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are coming your way!

2017 September 4, Vikki Blake, “Here's How To Catch Pokemon Go's Three New Legendary Pokemon”, in MTV UK:


Nefertiti

From Egyptian nfrt-jj.tj (literally “The Beautiful One has Come”).

bor

(rare) A female given name from Egyptian.


gandharva

Borrowed from Sanskrit गन्धर्व (gandharva).

(Indian mythology) A spirit, usually depicted as a singer or musician.

(Buddhism) A being in the intermediate state between death and rebirth.


munchkinism

Munchkinism is similar to "Monty Haul" gaming; however it involves playing at incredible power levels purely for the sake of watching the terrain get blown away by player characters who are unstoppable. Munchkinism also involves "rules rape," wherein players milk every advantage out of the rules. Often a munchkin will carry a favorite character from game to game, usually with the maximum allowable ability scores, skill ratings, etc - and enough hardware/magic to destroy the planet four times over.

1993 February 22, Magnus, “What is Munchkinism? What does the Wizard of Oz have to do with roleplaying games?”, in (Usenet):

(roleplaying games) A playing style that concentrates on increasing one's character's power and capabilities.


double-jobbing

(UK politics) The act of holding two or more political offices simultaneously.


sadhaka

(Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism) A person who follows a particular sadhana, or goal-directed spiritual practice.


superman punch

en-noun

superman punch (plural superman punches)

Probably from Superman, a comic-book superhero with superhuman strength and speed.

mixed martial arts
mixed martial arts#English

A technique used in Muay Thai, Sanshou, kickboxing, ITF-style taekwondo and mixed martial arts, which involves bringing the rear leg forward to feign a kick, then snapping the leg back while throwing a cross, resulting in greater power behind the punch.


Porkulus

Blend of pork + stimulus, coined by Rush Limbaugh in January 2009. See pork barrel (“local or regional state funds”).

(US politics, informal, derogatory) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


akh

Their abode is heaven; and the Akh, by contrast with the Ba, does not retain any relation to the body.… It is a deceased, a transcendent being, without earthly or material ties; and, as such, it is the most spiritualized of the various concepts of the dead.

1948, Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature, page 64:

After spending the night asleep in their tombs, the akhs would wake each morning at sunrise and “come forth from the necropolis” to enjoy an ideal life, free from the cares of physical existence.

2000, James P. Allen, Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, page 33:

The akh would later become the state achieved when the ba and ka are rejoined.

2005, Gary A. Stillwell, Afterlife: Post-Mortem Judgments in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, page 118:

If a person’s ka and ba were not reunited and akh failed to develop, then everlasting life would not occur.

2009, Janet Balk, “Egyptian Perceptions of Death in Antiquity”, in Clifton D. Bryant, Dennis L. Peck, editors, Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience, page 399:

Different postmortem aspects of the individual are mentioned in ritual texts, so that it is unclear how they relate to one another: the ka (what leaves the body when death occurs), the ba (the personality of the individual), and the akh (a glorified bodily form).

2015, “Afterlife”, in Eric Orlin, editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, page 17:

In Egyptian mythology, (roughly) a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife.


akh

Borrowed from Arabic أَخ (ʔaḵ, “brother”). Doublet of ock.

(Islam, MLE, MTE, slang) Brother; a close male friend or associate.


Trumponomics

The managerial precepts popularized by Donald Trump in the mid-2000s (decade) in his books and reality TV shows

Sure, the guy is by far the biggest employer and financial force in Atlantic City and southern New Jersey and Trumponomics is a major concern to the city and the region.

1990 April 9, Martin DeAngelis, “Don't Worry About Donald Trump's Money; Worry About Your Own”, in The Press of Atlantic City:

2005, November 14, Mary Umberger, "Trumponomics 101", Houston Chronicle

While Trump has not provided specifics much beyond the 'Make America Great Again' slogan featured on his often-present baseball cap, strands of Trumponomics have trickled out amid the stream of braggadocio and ad-hominem attacks on his critics.

2015 August 17, “Donald Trump's Economic Muddle”, in Qatar Tribune:

The trouble is, the choice is a dismal one. If you think Corbynomics is wacky, take a look at Trumponomics.

2015, December 15, Matthew Lynn, "Whoever wins the US presidency, the economy is going to be the loser", The Daily Telegraph

ONE of The Donald's trump cards, if you will forgive the pun, is the economy - what he calls Trumponomics. In the finest traditions of the Republican Party he would take an axe to tax.

2016, March 4, Chris Roycroft-Davis, "His economic plan could be a trump card for Donald", The Express (London)

Yes, I know there`s a Moody`s study claiming that Trumponomics would be a yuuge job destroyer, but I really don`t know where they got that result; the best guess seems to be that they`re assuming that former spending on imports just goes away, which is not a good assumption.

2016 April 9, awouk [username], “Paul Krugman Blog: Why Cruz Is Worse Than Trump”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

Trumponomics consists of three main elements: big tax cuts that are skewed toward the rich; drastic immigration reform, including the deportation of millions of undocumented workers; and protectionist measures, like hefty tariffs on goods from China and Mexico.

2016 June 21, John Cassidy, “Getting Serious About Trumponomics”, in The New Yorker:

Of course, that’s what they all say. But Trumponomics goes beyond the usual Republican assertions that cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, ending environmental regulation and so on will conjure up the magic of the marketplace and make everyone prosper.

2016 July 4, Paul Krugman, “Trump, Trade and Workers”, in The New York Times:

Just like Teddy Roosevelt before them, Donald J. Trump, Lou Dobbs and other proponents of Trumponomics seem to admire the fierce economic efficiency of Wilhelmine Germany – notably the notion that only the coordinated efforts of a strong, centralized government working hand-in-hand with ‘big business’ can generate trade surpluses over a sustained period.

2017 January 26, M. Nicolas J. Firzli, “'Understanding Trumponomics'”, in Revue Analyse Financière:

The economic ideas and policies of U.S. businessman and president Donald Trump.


Corbynista

[…]although it was just as often dismissed: what use were a group of cultish, Trotskyist-infused Corbynista clicktivists, hopelessly out of touch with normal people, when it came to the crunch?

2017 June 1, Rachel Shabi, “What use is a group of cultish, Corbynista clicktivists? Quite a lot, actually”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

“In 2020 you told me to my face that you would ‘inspire people to come together … disciplining people to be united is going nowhere’. You’ve broken that promise,” said Driscoll, often described as “the last Corbynista in power” since becoming the first mayor for North of Tyne in 2019.

2023 July 17, Ben Quinn, “Jamie Driscoll quits Labour after snub in north-east mayor race”, in The Guardian:

“That is irritating the left of the Labour Party, so the more Corbynista/Momentum members want the Labour party to go much further in helping renters in a pushing back against Conservatives.”

2023 September 13, Anna Sagar, “Housing will not be priority for Labour or Conservatives going into next election, expert says”, in MortgageSolutions.co.uk:

(UK politics, informal) A supporter of British politician Jeremy Corbyn.


Ruism

Partial calque from Mandarin 儒教 (rújiào, “Confucianism”): Mandarin 儒 (rú) + -ism.


GEQ

Maybe after we released the Rune of Death from Maliketh, the GEQ got her full powers back.

Does this mean that the Godskins and the GEQ once had the Elden Ring?

We know that the GEQ was beat by Maliketh and Destined Death was reclaimed by him.

(Elden Ring fandom slang) Initialism of Gloam-Eyed Queen (a minor character in the game's backstory).


Kartikeya

Borrowed from Sanskrit कार्त्तिकेय (kārttikeya).

bor+

(Hinduism) A son of Shiva and Hindu god of war.


Eevolution

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eevolution.


COC

(Philippine politics, elections) Initialism of certificate of candidacy.


Empusa

From Ancient Greek Ἔμπουσα (Émpousa, “species of monster of Greek mythology”).

der

Hobbes compares this hybrid school divinity to Empusa, a female specter in ancient Greek mythology who was supposed to have been sent by the goddess Hecate[…].

1999, Douglas M. Jesseph, Squaring the Circle, University of Chicago Press, page 311:

The Empusa was a female vampire from Greek mythology that feasted on the blood of men.

2014, Barbara Cox, Scott Forbes, Haunted Homes, Gareth Stevens Publishing, page 20:

(Greek mythology) A monster sent by (and sometimes the progeny of) the goddess Hecate; when imagined as the first or only empusa, or as a species of monster.


empusa

empusas (plural)
empusae (plural)
empousa (alternative)
empuse (alternative)

1858, "Empūsa", entry in William Smith, A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography, John Murray, page 240,
The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who assumed the form of handsome women for the purpose of attracting young men, and then sucked their blood like vampyrs and ate their flesh, were reckoned among the Empusae.

The empusae of Greek mythology demonstrate physical animal traits of the donkey and the female dog in order to emphasize certain negative characteristics associated with these animals in mythology that can also be applied to human beings.

2016, Heide Crawford, The Origins of the Literary Vampire, Rowman & Littlefield, page 41:

(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a kind of spectre sent by Hecate to guard roads and devour travellers.


empousa

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of empusa


Texit

* (Texas): Blend of Texas + exit, modelled after Brexit, Grexit, etc.
* (Tasmania): Blend of Tasmania + exit, modelled after Brexit, Grexit, etc.

(US politics) The proposed secession of Texas from the United States.


Ashwatthama

From Sanskrit अश्वत्थामन् (aśvatthāman).

(Hinduism) A hero in Mahabharata; son of Drona.


Yadava

(Hinduism) An ancient Indian people who believed themselves to be descended from Yadu.


Shalya

From Sanskrit शल्य (śalya, “dart, javelin, lance, spear, iron-headed weapon, arrow”).

uder

(Hinduism) The brother of Madri (mother of Nakula and Sahadeva), as well as the ruler of the Madra kingdom in the Mahabharata.


Vibhishana

Borrowed from Sanskrit विभीषण (vibhīṣaṇa).

(Hinduism) A king of Lanka in the legendary epic Ramayana. He was the younger brother of the Rakshasa (demon) king Ravana of Lanka.


Skate

But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.

2010, Robert Dougherty, Lost: It Only Ends Once: An Unofficial Last Look, page 294:

(I've never subscribed to either of the Kate ships on the show, but even I was almost a Skate convert in that moment.)

2010, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost, Season Six, unnumbered page:

And while, as a Skate fan, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed that my side of the love square ultimately didn't win out (Sawyer ended up with Juliet, Jack ended up with Kate), I have to say I adored this small scene between my couple!

2015, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, editors, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.


compearance

en-noun

compearance (countable and uncountable, plural compearances)

(Scots law) Appearance before a judge in court.


Rabbit

The fourth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.


Horse

The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.


Goat

The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.


Monkey

The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.


Rooster

The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.


Pig

The twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.


Shurpanakha

From Sanskrit शूर्पणखा (śūrpaṇakhā); ultimately from शूर्प (śūrpa, “winnowing fan”) + नख (nakha, “nail”).

(Hinduism) The sister of Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana.


Heramba

From Sanskrit हेरम्ब (heramba, “buffalo”).

(Hinduism) A form of the Hindu god Ganesha.


Vinayaka

Borrowed from Sanskrit विनायक (vināyaka).


Ekadanta

From Sanskrit एकदन्त (ekadanta, “one-toothed”); ultimately from एक (eka, “one”) + दन्त (danta, “tooth, tusk”).


Congress Poland

(historical) The Kingdom of Poland created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland until 1832.

Կոնգրեսային Լեհաստան

Polish state established 1815 and ruled by the Russian tsar


saffron terror

From the symbolic use of the saffron colour by Hindu nationalist organisations.

Acts of terrorism motivated by Hindu nationalism.


Q clearance

(US) A security clearance issued by the United States Department of Energy, allowing access to top-secret material.


over nine thousand

From episode 28 of the anime TV series Dragon Ball Z ("Goku's Arrival", 1997), referring to Goku's increase in power level.

(humorous, Internet slang, idiomatic) Off the charts; through the roof (beyond expectations).

List of Dragon Ball Z episodes (season 1)


reverse harem

So called because a traditional harem involves one man and multiple women.

A situation in anime and manga in which a woman is the love interest of three or more men.


yakshini

From Sanskrit यक्षिणी (yakṣiṇī, feminine of यक्ष (yakṣa)).

There is also the Yakshini; who lies in wait for men and arouses their passions, with the ultimate object of delivering them over to demons or of feeding upon them as a vampire.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 202:


literary inquisition

en-noun

literary inquisition (plural literary inquisitions)

(historical) The persecution of intellectuals on the basis of their writings as practiced in imperial China.


twintail

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

From twin + tail. Sense 2 is a calque of Japanese ツインテール (tsuintēru).

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.

(in the plural) A hairstyle with a pair of twintails; unbraided pigtails.


Leonidas

From Ancient Greek Λεωνίδᾱς (Leōnídās, “son of Leon / lion”).

der

(chiefly history) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


congy

congys (plural)
congies (plural)
conge (alternative)

From French conge, from Latin congius, q.v. Only attested in English in the obsolete plural form congys.

(historical, obsolete) Synonym of congius, Roman units of liquid measure and mass.


be a hundred years too early

head

be a hundred years too early (irregular; see conjugation of "be")

Calque of Japanese 百年早い (hyaku-nen hayai).

cal

Don't make me waste my time! You are a hundred years too early to be an opponent worthy of fighting me!

(idiomatic, anime and manga fandom slang) To be so immature and unprepared as to have no hope of achieving an accomplishment.


mundan

en-noun

mundan (countable and uncountable, plural mundans)

There are no birth records of when my grandmother was born because most children in the refugee camps died before their mundans, when babies have their heads ritually shaved.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 70:

(Hinduism) The ceremonial first tonsure of a child's hair.


Antisthenean

en-adj

Antisthenean (comparative more Antisthenean, superlative most Antisthenean)

more Antisthenean (comparative)
most Antisthenean (superlative)
Antisthenian (alternative)

Of or relating to the ancient philosopher Antisthenes.


Telamon

From Ancient Greek Τελαμών (Telamṓn, literally “the bearer”).

der

(Greek mythology) Father of Ajax, brother of Peleus.


R+L=J

This is particularly true of the “R+L=J” phenomenon, the theory that Jon Snow is actually the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, which is commonplace on “Westeros.org,” “Tower of the Hand,” and other sites of online fandom.

2015, Andrew Howe, "The Hand of the Artist: Fan Art in the Martinverse", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 250

R+L=J: This is a heavily supported theory that has been referenced in the books.

2015 March, Ford Maddox Brown, “The Hand of the King”, in Starburst Magazine, page 21:

Still, this evidence was strong enough that R+L=J was the default theory for most readers, to the point where some believed that the strongest evidence against it was that it was too obvious.

2017, Rowan Kaiser, 100 Things Game of Thrones Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, page 102

(fandom slang) The theory that the character Jon Snow, initially presented in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones as the bastard son of Ned Stark by an unknown woman, is actually a secret child born of the union of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.


GOTV

get out the vote
get out the vote#English

(chiefly US politics) Initialism of get out the vote.


Black Panthers

(US politics) A Black Power political party in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s.


Aegisthus

/ɪˈd͡ʒɪsθəs/

From Latin Aegisthus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγισθος (Aígisthos).

(Greek mythology) The murderer of Agamemnon and lover of his wife Clytemnestra.


Phaëthontean

Borrowed from Latin Phaëthontēus + English -an.

Of, belonging to, or connected with Phaëthon.


Phaëthontiad

Borrowed from Latin Phaëthontias (stem: Phaëthontiad-).

bor

stem: <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">Phaëthontiad-</i>

(Greek mythology) Each of the sisters of Phaëthon.


Accalon

(Arthurian legend) The lover of Morgan le Fay.


Remoaner

I am an unapologetic Remoaner, who regards Brexit as an unparalleled disaster.

2018 January 4, David Millward, “Even I, a snowflake Remoaner, feel it's about time we honoured Nigel Farage”, in Daily Telegraph:

Today, the Sun launches Remoaner Watch – starting with leading figures from the world of politics and the media (plus the entire BBC) for whom a love of all things EU still burns bright.

2022 June 18, Grant Rollings, “The Sun’s Remoaner Watch is on the lookout for evidence of Remoanery”, in The Sun:

For others, it’s the Blob or the “remoaner elite”, made up of the civil service, the BBC, the universities, the unions: anyone who, along with desperate refugees in small boats, can be blamed for standing between Britain and the promised Brexit nirvana.

2023 May 19, Jonathan Freedland, “They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed”, in The Guardian:

2023 September 11, David Maddox, “Remoaner group who handed out EU flags at BBC Proms named and shamed after funding plea”, in Daily Express:

(UK politics, derogatory) A Remainer; one who complains about or rejects the outcome of the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.


Juturna

(Roman mythology) A goddess of fountains, wells and springs, and the mother of Fontus by Janus.


ULP

Settlement of an ULP charge which required the parties to reopen the existing collective bargaining agreement did not remove the collective bargaining agreement as a bar.

1996 May 5, The Judge Advocate General's School, “The Representation Process”, in The Law of Federal Labor-Management Relations, Charlottesville: US Army, JA 211, page 21:

unfair labor practice
unfair labor practice#English

(US politics) Initialism of unfair labor practice.


erotes

Regretfully, the shaft of the stele is lost, and only the central part of its gable is preserved, featuring a bust of the goddess, flanked by two Erotes.

1999, Yulia Ustinova, The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom, BRILL, page 49:

There is also a parallel if less common iconography of the standing Narcissus (both alone with erotes—for example, from IX.3.5/24[…]—and with Echo and erotes—for example, Naples Museum[…].

2007, Jaś Elsner, Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, Princeton University Press, unnumbered page:

The relative scarcity of children's sarcophagi (i.e. of child-sized sarcophagi) and specifically child-related iconographies. The Attic sarcophagi with Erotes are an exception to this.

2018, B. C. Ewald, “Attic Sarcophagi”, in Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller, Beate Dignas, editors, Wandering Myths, De Gruyter, page 239:

(Greek mythology, often capitalised) Collectively, a group of winged gods attendant to Aphrodite, of whom Eros is the best known.


Remainer

Remainers (plural)
remainer (alternative)

During the years following the EU referendum, Brexiters and Remainers both claimed him as their own.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 39:

(UK politics) Someone who supports the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union.


Korrasami

Not only did the creators openly confirm that the ending was intended — and Korrasami shippers aren't just reading too much between the lines — a ton of artwork has been created and sold to benefit LGBTQ suicide prevention.

2015, Nick Havey, "Bisexual stereotypes need to go bi bi bi", The Daily Wildcat (Arizona University), Volume 108, Issue 119, 25 March 2015, page 4

The redeeming feature of Korrasami (as the pairing has become known among fans) is that the show's producers very clearly stated that both characters are bisexual and definitely in a relationship.

2018, Kate Harrad, editor, Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative, unnumbered page:

While the “Korrasami” pairing was confirmed at the ending, fans desired to see more and engaged in slash activities to portray the relationship.

2018, Nicolle Lamerichs, “When Production Is Over: Creating Narrative Closure in Fan Edits”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, page 147:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Korra and Asami from the animated series Avatar: Legend of Korra.


Gaang

Avatar: The Last Airbender
w:Avatar: The Last Airbender

(fandom slang) A fan nickname for Aang and his friends in Avatar: The Last Airbender.


Mane Six

(fandom slang) A fan nickname for the six main characters in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Mane Five

My Little Pony: A New Generation or G5 main characters


clown-car primary

en-noun

clown-car primary (plural clown-car primaries)

2016, Joshua Holland, The Nation, "Big GOP Donors Are to Blame for Their Party's Clown-Car Primary"
They can shake their heads over the seething anger in the Republican electorate, but this nasty and never-ending "clown car primary" is a problem of their own creation.

The Republicans held a clown-car primary in 2012 with a dozen debates where their credo of hewing to the party line (more conservative than thou) prevented any candidate from emerging looking presidential.

2015, Michael Page, This Is Your Government On Drugs, Xlibris Corporation, page 282:

2012, Jon Ponder, Pensito Review, Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP - Again:

(US politics, chiefly derogatory) A primary election with a large number of serious candidates, usually more than four, making it possible that the winner will have been chosen by only a small portion of the electorate.


OITNB

Orange Is the New Black
w:Orange Is the New Black

Initialism of Orange Is the New Black. (television series)


DCAU

DC Animated Universe
w:en:DC Animated Universe

(fandom slang) Initialism of DC Animated Universe (“a shared universe centered on DC Comics-based TV animation beginning in the 1990s”).


TBBT

The Big Bang Theory
w:The Big Bang Theory

(television) Initialism of The Big Bang Theory, an American television sitcom.


HIMYM

How I Met Your Mother
w:How I Met Your Mother

(television) Initialism of How I Met Your Mother, a US sitcom first aired in 2005.


hard Brexit

Without question now, Britain is not ready for the negotiations, having spent the past year largely avoiding a real debate on the topic, other than a vague argument over the merits of a “hard Brexit” (as a clean break from the European Union is known), versus a “soft Brexit,” which would require more compromise.

2017 June 9, Steven Erlanger, Katrin Benhold, Stephen Castle, “The British Election That Somehow Made Brexit Even Harder”, in The New York Times:

Büsingen was mentioned amid talk of Britain following the example of Switzerland: outside the EU but with access to its single market through bilateral agreements that accept, among other things, freedom of movement for EU citizens. That all ended abruptly when British prime minister Theresa May steered the UK towards a hard Brexit, promising to prune back EU ties to a minimum to ensure maximum domestic control over borders.

2017 June 23, Derek Scally, “What can the North learn from a small German-Swiss town?”, in The Irish Times:

The hard Brexit case that leaving the customs union need not harm British industry, agriculture, distribution and commerce has been overwhelmingly dismissed by all these areas of the economy.

2019 March 11, Simon Jenkins, “If May loses Tuesday’s Brexit vote, she must back a customs union or go”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The withdrawal of the United Kingdom both from the European Union and from European institutions (e.g. the European single market or the European Union Customs Union).


soft Brexit

The debate over the right terms and conditions for Britain’s departure from the European Union is often simplified into two clashing concepts: a soft Brexit and a hard one. The first tends to be favoured by those who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, the second by those who voted Leave. Yet what is the real, practical difference between the two? And can bits of both be combined to some degree?

2018 June 25, J. P., “How a soft Brexit differs from a hard one”, in The Economist:

Labour's vision for a soft Brexit would have seen Britain remain closely aligned with the EU customs, tariff and regulatory regimes and the continent's single market. Such a relationship would have meant that Britain would continue to allow EU migrants to live and work in the United Kingdom, while withdrawing from the EU legislature.

2019 February 28, William Booth, Karla Adam, “UK Parliament votes down Labour's bid for a soft Brexit”, in New Zealand Herald:

(UK politics) The (hypothetical) withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union while generally remaining in European institutions (e.g. the European single market or customs union).


Ambraciot

An adaptation of the Latin Ambraciōtēs and the Ancient Greek Ἀμβρᾰκῐώτης (Ambrăkĭṓtēs).

(Ancient Greece) Of or pertaining to the city of Ambracia; Ambracian.


Trumpette

From Trump + -ette. Named after American celebrity, businessman, politician and President Donald Trump

named-after

Toward the end of dinner, my three Trumpettes and I did a "live" iPad interview with Good Morning Great Britain. We enthusiastically told all the Queen's men and women how excited we were and how we knew our man would win.

2019 January 9, Toni Holt Kramer, Unstoppable Me, Dog Ear Publishing, page 360:

Perhaps the Trumpers and Trumpettes should make new hats with MASA — Make America Sick Again.

2020 April 30, Marilyn Sisk, “Sensible steps”, in Traverse City Record Eagle, page 4:

In light of the above, it should be no surprise that white women are the backbone of today’s white nationalist movement. Tradwives, Mommy Vloggers, Trumpettes, and other white women's groups are the hidden movers of today’s white supremacist politics.

2022 May 31, Christina Cavener, “United by White Supremacy: Women's Contributions to a "Whites Only" Citizenship Across the Generations”, in JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, page 98:

(US politics) A female supporter or fan of Donald Trump, especially during his Presidential campaign to become President of the United States of America


Bushie

(US, politics) A political supporter or fan of U.S. President Bush (either Bush 43, or Bush 41, or both Presidents George Bush)


Bhadrakali

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit भद्रकाली (bhadrakālī, “Bhadrakali”).

ubor

(Hinduism) Name of a Hindu goddess in South India.


Bhadra

From the feminine of Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá).

(Hinduism) A goddess of the hunt and one of Shiva's Gana.

(Hinduism) Name of one of the eight principal wives of Krishna.


Bremainer

2016 August 2, Hayley Kirton, “Bremainer and Brexiteer team up to bolster British businesses”, in City A.M.:

The only question I am hearing wherever I go at the moment – apart from, ‘Have you been sacked from Top Gear yet for only getting nine million viewers a week?’ – is, are you a Brexiteer or a Bremainer? Are you in or out?

2016 June 11, Chris Evans, “BMW’s new mini monster is here. Get set for some... M-azing pace!”, in The Daily Mail:

(UK politics) Someone in favour of Britain remaining within the European Union.


Vaikuntha

Borrowed from Sanskrit वैकुण्ठ (vaikuṇṭhá).

(Hinduism) The Supreme abode or the celestial home of Vishnu.


jungle primary

en-noun

jungle primary (plural jungle primaries)

(US politics) A primary election in which all candidates run against each other, regardless of political affiliation, with a possible runoff if no candidate wins an absolute majority.


USMJP

(US politics) Abbreviation of United States Marijuana Party.


USMJ

(US politics) Abbreviation of U.S. Marijuana Party.


Vedanga

From Sanskrit वेदाङ्ग (vedāṅga); ultimately from वेद (veda) + अङ्ग (aṅga).

(Hinduism) Name of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism, that has been connected with the study of the Vedas.


Trumpista

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A Trumpist.


Trumpy

en-adj

Trumpy (comparative Trumpier, superlative Trumpiest)

Trumpier (comparative)
Trumpiest (superlative)

Trouble was, that made him [Ron DeSantis] too Trumpy for those Republicans eager to move on, and not Trumpy enough for the Maga hardcore.

2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(informal) Characteristic of Donald Trump.

Trump is in trouble. Trumpy Republicans want the real thing, not an imitation. Non-Trumpy Republicans just aren’t impressed.

2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic:

The Senate GOP has gotten much Trumpier in the eight years since Mr. Trump first won office.

2024 November 13, Cameron Joseph, “John Thune’s leadership win shows limits of MAGA’s reach in Senate”, in The Christian Science Monitor:


Trumpy

(informal) A political supporter of Donald Trump.


Trumper

Political observers who say that Youngkin was a Never Trumper — proving the viability of that movement — are deluding themselves. He was a Stealth Trumper and Sorta Trumper who took pains not to offend or alienate Forever Trumpers.

2021 November 3, Frank Bruni, “There’s a New Wizard of Oz. It’s Donald Trump.”, in The New York Times:

But it wasn’t just Mr. Thune’s victory but the poor showing by the MAGA favorite in the race that signaled most Senate Republicans are still a breed apart from hardcore Trumpers.

A political supporter of Donald Trump or his MAGA movement.


Trumpiness

But if you put all these theories aside, and look instead at his personality, then something different emerges--not Trump, but Trumpiness.

2016, Martin Boroson, “The Rise of Trumpiness”, in Huffington Post:

2016, “The increased Trump-iness of the second debate, in 2 charts”, in Washington Post:

The overwhelming, suffocating, insurmountable Trumpiness may work at some place like Disney World, where the brand stands for decades of family-friendly, unadulterated joy.

2016, Emily Jane Fox, “Trump’S D.C. Hotel is a Frightful Dump — And A Scary Metaphor For The Trump Presidency”, in Vanity Fair:

If there were a cure for Trumpiness, the Koch brothers would be sneaking it into Trump’s soft drinks the way Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agents allegedly sneak polonium-210 into journalists’ cocktails.

2016, Jason Sattler, “Trump finds a foe he can beat in November: Trump”, in Visalia Times-Delta:

(informal) The property of being Trumpy, being like Donald Trump.


Danava

(Hinduism) Name of a race descending from Daksha. They were the sons of Danu, who in turn was a daughter of Daksha. Danu is connected with the waters of heavens and she is probably associated with the formless, primordial waters that existed prior to the creation.


Dharmic

Dharmic (comparative more Dharmic, superlative most Dharmic)

more Dharmic (comparative)
most Dharmic (superlative)

From Dharma + -ic, influenced by Sanskrit धार्मिक (dhārmika).


Big Red One

The shoulder insignia of this unit is emblazoned with a red numeral one.

(US, informal) The United States 1st Infantry Division.


Drumpf

From German Drumpf, an old form of the surname of the Trump family. Coined by British comedian John Oliver in his February 2016 segment "Donald Trump" of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The form has been confirmed by German officials.

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)


Trumpean

Trumpean (comparative more Trumpean, superlative most Trumpean)

more Trumpean (comparative)
most Trumpean (superlative)


Dharmism

(rare, theology) A belief system, historically originating in South Asia, based on the core concept of dharma.