schmoop

Mulder/Krycek and a bowl of kittens, what more could you want from schmoop?

1999 April 3, Drovar [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Would someone please give me some M/K or Sk/K or M/K/Sk or K/Sp or M/Sp or Sk/Sp (you get the picture) recs on some super super, sugar sugar, sweet sweet, honey-dipped, cavity-causing schmoop or hurt/comfort slash?

1999 May 3, geoffrey2 [username], “Re: Sugar sweet syrupy schmoopy slash”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature (Usenet):

Oh, and schmoop - this chapter's got a great heap of schmoop, but there'll be plenty of angst as well, not to fear.

2003 July 2, nik_cleo [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Life's Little Quirks, Part Three -R- (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweetly romantic or cute, usually to a degree considered maudlin.


shipperhood

This ep pushed me off the fence and right into full-fledged shipperhood ( I WANT TO BELIEVE !!!)

1997 February 3, Colleen Sullivan-Baier, “Re: "Never Again"”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Ah... I find that the best way to maintain joyous shipperhood is to not read much schmoopy shipper fic.

1999 July 22, Kipler [username], “Re: Mulder/Scully "relationship"”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):

Look, it's all happy and hopeful and absolutely wonderful--but I need more to sustain my Odo/Kira shipperhood!

2002 September 21, Tori Sky, “Re: FB: DS9: Edge of the World 1/2 (O/K; NC-17)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The state or quality of being a shipper.


schmoopy

en-adj

schmoopy (comparative schmoopier, superlative schmoopiest)

schmoopier (comparative)
schmoopiest (superlative)

Nothing wrong with schmoopy fic Ingrid...

2002 September 7, Carolin, “Re: A What if.....?”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet):

That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv".

2005 June 25, campylobacter [username], “Re: Never Again question”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Characteristic of schmoop; maudlin.


-mance

I very much look forward to this on my Dorianmance playthrough.

My Andersmance was taken at a more leisurely pace, so I really got into the depth and grief over his character and his romance.

My own Galemance run will go full swing once my Astarionmance one wraps up, so more to come soon ☺

2023 September 19, Irma 'Aimo (@aimostudio), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) A suffix attached to a noun or character's name to create a word for an in-game romance subplot or mechanic.


monosexuality

en-noun

monosexuality (usually uncountable, plural monosexualities)


atelophobia

/əˌtɛləˈfəʊbɪə/

/əˌtɛləˈfoʊbɪə/

The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.


monosexual

From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.

Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.

1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106:

There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for men and women.

1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:

While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.

2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 87:


unprudish

en-adj

unprudish (comparative more unprudish, superlative most unprudish)

more unprudish (comparative)
most unprudish (superlative)


love match

He had . . . two daughters, one of whom still flourished in single blessedness, and the other, who was greatly more juvenile, made a love-match with a captain in the Forty-twa, who had no other fortune but his commission and a Highland pedigree.

1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in The Antiquary—Volume I:

"And this I can tell you, 'tis not the five villages she marries, nor the Duke, but the man. And 'tis not the fine lady he takes to his heart, but our Clo, and none other, and would have taken her in her smock had she been a beggar wench. 'Tis an honest love-match, that I swear!"

1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 27, in His Grace of Osmonde:

It was, beyond doubt, the year's strangest love match. This week in Moscow, Christina Onassis, 27, heir to her late father Aristotle's $500 million shipping, financial and industrial empire, is set to marry a Soviet citizen and Communist Party member.

1978 August 7, “The Heiress and Her Comrade”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-14:

My second marriage, unlike my first, in which I became pregnant at 19 and married the man, was a love match from the start.

2006 April 16, Sheila Kohler, “Modern Love: This Is Where the Dog Comes In”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-14:

A marriage, betrothal, or other romantic relationship which is based on a spontaneous mutual feeling of love by the two individuals in the relationship, as opposed to a relationship based on other reasons or an arranged marriage brokered by parents or by third parties.


bozophobia

Bozo (a famous American clown character) + -phobia

Do not go to the Ringling Museum of the Circus if you suffer from bozophobia.

1978, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Amazing America: A Guide to Over 600 Sights, Random House, →ISBN, page 156:

I hate clowns, clowns suck, clowns are big, mean scary people, who deserve to get the crap beat out of them like no one else deserves to. (Except maybe mimes) Bozophobia aside, I really like this: it's fast, it's well played, […]

1995, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 148, unknown page

No explanation has yet been given for Anya's lapinaphobia, anymore than for Willow's ranidophobia, or Xander's bozophobia.

2002 May 14, William George Ferguson, “Re: Question from a newbie”, in aus.tv.buffy (Usenet):

(informal, humorous) The fear of clowns.


clownophobia

A facile, pop-psych explanation would unearth the roots of clownophobia in childhood traumas.

1997, Ashley Crawford, Ray Edgar, editors, Transit Lounge: An Interface Book from 21.C, North Ryde, →ISBN, page 174:

While most of us see Ronald McDonald as a nice corporate symbol, the 8% of the population that suffers from clownophobia (more properly called coulrophobia) view him as evil incarnate.

2003, Richard Crouse, The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 130:

Seriously, my girlfriend said the exact same thing when I told her she was far from alone in her clownophobia.

2003 December 20, Brian Christgau, “Re: OT -- Clowns... creepy?”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet):


Ukrainophobia

The fear, hostility or prejudice towards Ukrainians or Ukraine.


cishet

Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4

While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality.

2013, Ariel Estrella, "Hegemony, heteronormativity and amoeba", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College), 18 October 2013

[…] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]

2014, Bec Eames, "In defence of unattractive feminism", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 12, page 17

(informal) Cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual.


cishet

People who identify as cisgender and heterosexual, or cishets, are certainly more privileged in today’s society than the LGBTQIA+ community — which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identified, intersex, and asexual people, as well as others who do not identify as cishet people.

2014 July 5, Anthony Speciyogic, “Burger King Pride Campaign Claims ‘We’re All The Same Inside’”, in Inquisitr:

(informal) A cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual person.


demophobia

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “common people”) + -phobia.

uder

Those who suffer enochlophobia, demophobia or ochlophobia–the fear of crowds–are not being entirely irrational.

2003 January 31, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney:

(rare) A phobia, or fear, of crowds, masses, or people.


other man

I know you've got a man in the picture, but it hasn't stopped me yet / We've all been in one situation or another we regret / Now I'm the other man / No one's rooting for me / If I'm the other man / Nature will abhor me

2001, Sloan, “The Other Man”, in Pretty Together:

(informal) A man who is romantically involved with someone (usually a woman) already in a committed relationship with another man, especially a man having an affair with a married woman.


loteby

From Middle English loteby, equivalent to lote + by.

Prouendreth persones · and prestes she meynteneth / To haue lemmannes and lotebies · alle here lif-dayes.

c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:

(obsolete) A lover, paramour; a concubine.


graysexual

/ˌɡɹeɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

Blend of gray + asexual, coined by user asexualityrocks in 2008 on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network about two years after the advent of gray-A and gray asexual.

But then I remember: the whole ethos of sex-positivity is predicated on a belief that everyone—sexual, asexual, or gray-sexual; monogamous, polyamorous, or something in-between; LGBTQ or as hetero as the Romneys—is entitled to pleasurable and safe sex.

2013, M. M, "sex-pos", Post- (Brown University), Volume 14, Issue 13, 21 February 2013, page 7

Some aces are gray-sexual (or gray-A), meaning that they fall somewhere on a spectrum between asexual and sexual.

2014 February 19, Tess Banta, “The 'A' Stands for Asexual”, in The Amherst Student, volume 143, number 16, Amherst College, page 7:

Do you feel sexual attraction sometimes, but only rarely? You may be graysexual,* and you’ll have a lot in common with asexual people if you are.

2014 June 18, Julie Sondra Decker, “How to Tell If You Are Asexual”, in Time:

(neologism) Intermediate between sexual and asexual; sometimes, but not usually, experiencing sexual attraction and desire.


gray-A

Coined in 2006 by the user KSpaz on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network for those in the "fuzzy" area that is the distinction between asexuality and sexuality.

The gray-A type of attraction discussed in asexuality communities addresses this issue of a variable like sex drive.

2012, Evelyn Deshane, "Asexuality: Media Depictions and Lived Realities", Absynthe (Trent University), February 2012, page 34

People who find themselves “somewhere in the middle,” or people who don’t feel that they’re the cut-and-dry definition of aromantic asexual, tend to identify themselves as gray-A. And demisexuality is but one shade of gray-A.

2013, Adrienne Smith, “Cultural Fascination”, in Elesia Askenazy, Melanie Yergeau, editors, Relationships & Sexuality, page 96:

"Sexuality is so fluid, and Gray-A presents more of a possibility to be unsure. I don't understand all the intricacies of myself yet, so this is the closest approximation I've come up with," said Chris Maleney, an 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student who identifies as Gray-A.

2013, Dominque Mosbergen, "Asexual in a Sexual World", Huffington, Issue #63, 25 August 2013, page 47 (approx.)


korephile

/ˈkɔːɹɪfaɪl/

/ˈkɔːɹɪfʌɪl/

From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + -φῐ́λης (-phílēs, “-lover”), coined after korephilia and by analogy with paedophile.

compound

For quotations using this term, see Citations:korephile.

(rare) A woman or older female who is erotically attracted toward young (chiefly pre- and/or peripubescent) girls; a lesbian pederast.

parthenophile

a person attracted to young women, virgins


flexisexuality

Dr D’Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.

2010 November 27, Louise Eccles, “Dawn of the flexisexual: The new word for the women who refuse to play it straight”, in Daily Mail:

Often, it begins in the enlightened college cocoon, where women can explore their sexuality, though a recent ABC report from San Antonio, Texas, said flexisexuality is also part of the high school culture.

2011 February 23, Susan Donaldson James, “Flexisexual: Girls Who Kiss Girls, But Like Boys”, in ABC News:

In fact, a growing proportion of Londoners are overturning the yoke of old-school monogamy and instead investigating the worlds of flexisexuality, of open or group relationships, of Living Apart Together (LAT), mono/non-mono and mono-gamish.

2014 March 14, Rebecca Newman, “Sex? Love? Commitment? The changing face of modern relationships”, in London Evening Standard:

(neologism) The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


flexisexual

He resembles a Maine logger, full beard and all, but inside he feels like he's a lesbian. His love IS a lesbian. What is he? What is she? Bisexual? Ambisexual? Flexisexual?

1998, Linda Handel, Now That You're Out of the Closet, What About the Rest of the House?, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 147:

Personally, I identify as “flexisexual,” a word I invented because I'm attracted to more than just men and women, and because my patterns of attraction have changed over time.

2011, Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety, Seal Press, →ISBN:

Sixty percent of our user base identifies as lesbian and the other 40 percent identifies as other, which includes bisexual, curious, pansexual, flexisexual … anyone who doesn’t identify as fully gay.

2014 April 8, Andrea Park, “Hit lesbian dating app Dattch launches in the U.S.”, in Metro:

(of a person) Having a fluid sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


otome game

The otome games are marketed heavily toward female gamers, something generally uncommon with video game marketing. As of this writing, several game developers have invested in localizing otome games originally released only in Japan into English.

2017, Amy M. Green, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative:

A story-based video game in which the player attempts to establish a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male characters.

乙女遊戲

romance simulation game (usually the protagonist is a woman)


Romione

Ask her about her favorite ships. Does she like Dramione, or Romione? Ask her why, and if she's written fanfics about them.

2012, Krixia Subingsubing, "Date A Girl Who Writes", The Sword (St. Paul College of Makati), Volume 18, Number 1, June 2012-January 2013, page 14

The fans who believed in the canonical pairing were outraged that Rowling would say such things about their beloved Romione.

2014 February 10, Rebecca Godwin, “Romione vs. Harmony: Why do we even care?”, in The Michigan Daily, page 8A:

2014, J. Cibelli, "J. K. Rowling reflects on Romione romance", The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 18, 12 February 2014, page 11 (used in title only)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


Harmony

Blend of Harry + Hermione, based on the common noun harmony.

Oh that is bloody priceless, unfortunately I've seen some of the Harmony shippers' rants and that little piece of creative fiction could really be considered understating some of the reactions that were areound^([sic]) on some forums after the HBP release.

2006 June 16, Deevo [username], “Re: OT - but not by far: Shippers and fan-ficcers and psychos, oh, brother...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Did you see where that retarded fucker Emerson Spaz ^([sic]) "that the Harmony shippers were (and still are) delusional. It's Romione all the way!" […]

2014 February 8, Darryl Homo Forests, “Re: Rowling Admits H/Hr was Better”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Others, who shipped, which is the internet's way of saying supported, Harmony (Harry and Hermione), claimed superiority over the Romione shippers, claiming they always knew whom the true pairing should have been.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


cisphobia

One could then speak of 'cisphobia' or 'heterophobia', claiming adequate protection for cisgender and straight persons.

2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer, published 2012, →ISBN, page 101:

Piers Morgan has claimed to be the “victim of cisphobia” after several members of the transgender community blasted his ignorance on Twitter.

2014 February 6, Jenn Selby, “Piers Morgan claims he’s a ‘victim of cisphobia’ after transgender community blast his ignorance on Twitter”, in The Independent:

Most of the time this leads to white boys screaming about cisphobia and reverse racism, but that's the post when everyone just ignores them and lets them wallow in their ignorance.

2014, Sydney Valenzuela, "The addictive and intricate qualities of the underdog networking site, Tumblr", Eye of the Tiger (Roseville High School, Roseville, California), Volume 12, Issue 9, 24 February 2014, page 10

Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals.

cisfòbia

fear or hatred of cissexuality or cissgenderism


as happy as a pig in mud

en-adj

as happy as a pig in mud (not comparable)

happy as a pig in shit
happy as a pig in shit#English


ballyrag

en-verb

ballyrag (third-person singular simple present ballyrags, present participle ballyragging, simple past and past participle ballyragged)

ballyrags (present singular third-person)
ballyragging (participle present)
ballyragged (participle past)
ballyragged (past)

. . . the Duchess of Belmont, that ballyrags every one round her, like a tipsy old soldier.

1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 29, in The House by the Church Yard:

"I remember you as a boy, Samuel," said Mrs. Hignett, "lamentably lacking in consideration for others and concentrated only on your selfish pleasures. . . ."
"Don't ballyrag the poor man," said Jane Hubbard.

1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in Three Men and a Maid:

(transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.


gynandromorphophilia

(rare) Sexual attraction to transsexual or transgender women.


autoandrophilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autogynephilia

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of a female person to be sexually aroused by the thought of becoming a male.


biastophilia

From Ancient Greek βιαστής (biastḗs, “rape”) + -philia.

A paraphilia involving sexual arousal from committing rape.


aromanticism

From aromantic + -ism or a- + romanticism.

But do orientations like aromanticism deserve to be discussed to the same extent as other, more common non-heteronormative ones?

2012 November, anonymous author, “Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism”, in The Scripps Voice, volume 16, number 4,1, Scripps College, page 5:

In other words, the percentage Bogaert identified is not likely very reliable, accurate, or representative and it certainly does not account for the diversity of lived styles of asexuality, ranging from a preference for hugging and kissing to aromanticism […]

2013 May, Ela Przybylo, “Producing facts: Empirical asexuality and the scientific study of sex”, in Feminism & Psychology, volume 23, number 2:

Finally, asexuality is not the same as aromanticism; aromantics have little or no romantic attachment or attraction toward others while asexuals may experience romantic attraction and seek out romantic relationships.

2014, Joan McDonough, "Asexuality", Reporter (Rochester Institute of Technology), May 2014, page 14

The state of experiencing little or no romantic attraction to others and/or desire.


OBHWF

Initialism of One Big Happy Weasley Family, since the ship results in two of the main characters in the series, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, ending up with two of the seven Weasley children.

Sadly for you & other OBHWF fans, Ginny is now over Harry, and is on her second boyfriend, while Luna Lovegood has the hots for Ron.

2003 June 30, Tennant Stuart, “Re: A couple of questions about book 5.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Because JKR ships OBHWF that's why. The way Hermione has been written shows us she's much more and^([sic]) equal and compatible with Harry though.

2005 July 24, Egla Bob, “Re: What Does Hermione See in Ron?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Those of us who didn't want OBHWF felt that Rowling was making a mistake, not that she was being misleading.

2008 September 9, Louis Epstein, “Re: Cho Chang not Ginny”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The double ship of Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley and Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter series.


vegephobia

We may even carry some "vegephobia" with us from childhood, remembering Mom and those lima beans.

1997 March, Mary Carroll, “The High Five”, in Vegetarian Times, page 52:

Whether you have your own “vegephobia” to overcome or want to prepare family meals that everyone will eat, it's time to meet your vegetables all over again — and fall in love this time.

2010, Beth Bader, Ali Benjamin, The Cleaner Plate Club: Raising Healthy Eaters One Meal at a Time, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:

2013, Mark Allerton, "Apart from shortness, vegephobia and addiction to technology, how are children different?", in Children's Court of NSW Resource Handbook, →ISBN, page 23 (used in title only)

(informal) The fear or dislike of vegetables.


monosexism

Oppression of bisexual people is based in part on heterosexism and in part on monosexism, the belief that people can or should be attracted to only one sex/gender and that there is something wrong with those who cannot or will not choose.

1995, Liz A. Highleyman, “Identity and Ideas: Strategies for Bisexuals”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page 87:

Considering the fact that the overwhelming majority of biphobia and monosexism originates not from gay and lesbian communities but from heterosexual structures, […]

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 61:

[…] The L Word seemed to harbor its own reservations about Alice's bisexuality from the start. But that the show ultimately chose to project its own monosexism through the voice of the one character who initially defied such limitations set a new record for implausible character noncontinuity, at the same time as it closed down one of American television's most prominent discourses on bisexuality.

2013, Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 206:

The assumption that everyone is monosexual (i.e. attracted to only one sex); the belief or assertion that bisexuality and pansexuality do not exist.


have an affair

have an affair (third-person singular simple present has an affair, present participle having an affair, simple past and past participle had an affair)

has an affair (present singular third-person)
having an affair (participle present)
had an affair (participle past)
had an affair (past)

To engage in a romantic or sexual relationship while being married. (This entry is a translation hub.)

olla suhde (subject in the adessive case)


spit chips

spit chips (third-person singular simple present spits chips, present participle spitting chips, simple past and past participle spat chips or spit chips)

spits chips (present singular third-person)
spitting chips (participle present)
spat chips (participle past)
spat chips (past)
spit chips (participle past)
spit chips (past)


grief-stricken

en-adj

grief-stricken (comparative more grief-stricken, superlative most grief-stricken)

more grief-stricken (comparative)
most grief-stricken (superlative)


soulbond

6 fans (11%) did not like to specify a genre but offered an alternative view of “common tropes” in fan fiction, such as: “The tropier, the better! Werewolves or A/B/O or soulbonds or time travel or coffeeshop AUs. […]

2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 59

This is amplified by the common use in a/b/o of the soulmate and soulbond tropes, where two characters are written as destined for each other on a biological level, resulting in near-irresistible mutual attraction and a special connection.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 97

And that's not even getting into some of slash's more science-fictional tropes: soulbonds and telepathy, interspecies relationships; male pregnancy.

2018, Francesca Coppa, “Slash/Drag: Appropriation and Visibility in the Age of Hamilton”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 191:

(fandom slang) A deep, lasting emotional or spiritual connection between two characters, typically of a psychic or magical nature.


gnomophobia

Pop superstar Elton John says "gnomophobia" is partly to blame for the delay in getting his animated film, "Gnomeo and Juliet," brought to life.

2009 May 26, “Elton John, Ont. premier announce animation funding”, in CTV News:

“It’s good to confront the received wisdom that all gnomes are nasty,” Mr. Llewelyn-Bowen said. Referring to his wife, he added: “Also, Jackie has had to overcome her poshness and confront her gnomophobia.”

2013 May 20, Sarah Lyall, “Common Gnomes Pop Up at Rarefied Flower Show, to Horror of Many”, in The New York Times:

As for me, I’m a fence sitter. The little red-shirted men sitting with fishing poles beside ponds are — ouch — insufferably cute. Yet I also think there is way too much snobbery in gardening.
So if our gnomophobia is waning, that’s surely a good thing.

2014 March 29, Sonia Day, “Gnomes back in gardeners’ good graces: The Real Dirt”, in Toronto Star:

(informal, humorous) A fear or dislike of garden gnomes.


horned up

horned up (comparative more horned up, superlative most horned up)

more horned up (comparative)
most horned up (superlative)


liven up

en-verb

liven up (third-person singular simple present livens up, present participle livening up, simple past and past participle livened up)

livens up (present singular third-person)
livening up (participle present)
livened up (participle past)
livened up (past)

Darren looks down at the moment; let's try to liven him up.

(transitive) To improve a person's mood by making them more energetic


deer in the headlight syndrome

en-noun

deer in the headlight syndrome (uncountable)

A state of mental paralysis caused by anxiety, fear, panic, etc.


unfear

It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said.

2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, page 163:


allosexual

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Gray-asexual [denotes] a person who is somewhere between 100% asexual and allosexual; they might only experience sexual attraction on very rare occasions, […]

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, “What it means to be asexual”, in The Mirror, number Fall, page 19:

Sexual assault is alarmingly common, yet most victims still identify as heterosexual, cisgender and allosexual (the opposite of asexual) after the trauma. Being sexual assaulted did not make me asexual, […]

2014 March 20, a letter to the editor of The Record, volume 116, number 20, page 6

(LGBT, of a person) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

Yet we later learn that Diana Baring already knew the secret — whether being “half—caste" references being lower-caste with “black blood” (more than a racial marker) or being transsexual, homosexual, or allosexual.

2005, Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's Cryptonymies, volume 2, →ISBN, page 58:

Diane Bourgeois (Terrebonne—Blainville, BQ): Mr. Speaker, last month in my riding, Gaétan Lord won the jury prize at the Allostars Gala for his contribution as founding president of Canada's first centre for “allosexual” or queer youth, which offers support to gays, lesbians and young people who are unsure about their sexual orientation.

2006, House of Commons Debates, numbers 27-40, page 1595:

Throughout this time, I have been struck by the absence of racialized, ethnicized, and colonized (REC) voices in historical accounts of the local gay and lesbian community at large, and likewise the lack of allosexual representation in the narratives of the city's various ethnocultural communities.

2013, Alan Wong, “Listen and Learn”, in Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice, →ISBN:

(LGBT, uncommon, chiefly Canada) LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.

Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […]"

1980, Federal supplement, series 1, volume 476, page 1330:

[…] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.

1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in captivity”, in Behaviour, volume 120, number 1/2, pages 40-50:

(chiefly biology, sociology, psychology) Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.


allosexual

[…] that is par for the course of being any form of queer-identified. But it also allows allies and allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) to push out asexual and aromantic-identified individuals.

2014 October 15, Z Colburn, “"A" is for annoyed”, in The Easterner, volume 66, number 4, page 8:

A chart of the Ace Spectrum: the different possibilities for asexuals, demisexuals, and allosexuals.

2014 November, Krista Rhoades, “Asexual Awareness Week”, in Collide, number 22, page 5:

(LGBT) One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.


en-adj

str8 (comparative str8er, superlative str8est)

Whatever was guiding him took him to the Men-Seeking-Men personal ads: “Any str8 men bi-curious?”

2014, Joe Kort, Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bi?:

I analyzed all of the 125 ads placed by str8 men “seeking same” from May through July of 2006.

(text messaging) Informal form of straight.

Informal form of straight.
Heterosexual, straight.


androsexual

androsexual (comparative more androsexual, superlative most androsexual)

more androsexual (comparative)
most androsexual (superlative)

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

Sexually attracted to men, males, or masculinity.


gynesexual

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

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -sexual.


Latinophobe

The local intellectual elite, which derived its tradition from the Nicaean reaction to Latin domination, the so-called "Hellenic renaissance," was becoming progressively more Greek in spirit and correspondingly more Latinophobe.

Exhibiting Latinophobia, fear, dislike or prejudice against Latinos or those who are Hispanic or Latin American.


Latinophobe

This also shows the reason for using Latin names, to avoid confusion with the varying popular ones. A few examples such as "syringa-philadelphus-lilac" make even the most confirmed Latinophobe see glimmerings of light!

One who fears or hates the Latin language.

One who exhibits Latinophobia, fear, dislike or prejudice against Latinos or those who are Hispanic or Latin American.


amasius

Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but Phyllius denying that requeſt, the Boy preſently caſt himſelf down from a Rock, and was afterward turned into a Swan.

1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369

(rare, literary) One’s beloved; a lover.


Mondler

Although we had yet another Chandler & Monica story, it nicely explored the hurdles faced by the couple, rather than being a Mondler story where Chandler's personality changes to match Monica's.

2000 November 24, Tennant Stuart, “Friends S6-21 - will Rachel be Chandler's mother?”, in uk.media.tv.friends (Usenet):

I'll grant you the "Mondler" stuff since their marriage has been mostly a disappointment, but the closet storyline shows promise in reversing the trend.

2002 February 20, Mibbitmaker [username], “Re: Happy Birthday Jennifer Aniston”, in alt.tv.snl (Usenet):

As far as teases go, the Go On creator was coy about what sort of shenanigans Perry and Cox will get into in a few weeks time, but for the loyal "Mondler" fans out there, there could be a major romantic moment.

2013 March 12, Philiana Ng, “'Go On' Creator Reveals Secrets Behind the 'Friends' Reunion Episode”, in The Hollywood Reporter:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of Monica Geller and Chandler Bing from the American sitcom Friends.


Janto

At end of the 3 min 50 sec clip, as his rage cools, Hitler says: "Maybe if Jack and Ianto have lots of man-on-man action next season I might still watch it… at least I’ll have my 'Janto' fix."

2008 May 23, Matthew Moore, “Torchwood attacked by Hitler in YouTube spoof”, in The Telegraph:

‘Janto’ fans will be delighted to finally see them on a date, complete with hand-holding and one good kiss.

2009 March, Naomi Westerman, book review, Whotopia, number 16, page 42:

Whether these stories revisit Janto or provide Jack with other (sexual) adventures, sexuality will remain a key element in the further development of (at least British-based) Captain Jack.

2010, Lynnette Porter, Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray on 21st Century, McFarland, →ISBN, page 70:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones from the television series Torchwood.


acephobia

It’s important to talk about asexuality because it’s often an overlooked sexual identity, and acephobia – discrimination against asexual people – is experienced by many asexual people.

2013, Lee Thomas, "LGBTQrazy: A is for…", The Brunswickan (University of New Brunswick), Volume 147, Issue 7, 17 October 2013, page 10

I now give asexual workshops, screen the film (A)sexual with a postfilm discussion, and try to have conversations with my friends and colleagues about asexual identity and acephobia.

2014, Joelle Ruby Ryan, “On Being Asexual and Transgender: Notes on Identity, Visibility, and Empowerment”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

Closely linked to homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and acephobia.

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, "Glossary of Asexual Terms", The Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2014, page 19

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual people and/or human asexuality.


Italophobia

From Italo- + -phobia. Existent since the 19th century.

Fear of or aversion towards the Italian people or culture.


altfic

Another rumor I heard: Seven kisses Janeway, Janeway tells Seven it's inappropriate. Why? Cuz it's on the bridge? Seven's nekkid? Why would it be inappropriate? What a spate of altfic coming out of that....Interaction seems to be what's missing from a lot of the season lately, not just J/7.

2000 February 11, kaboom [username], “Re: [OT] Re: Sisters are doing it for themselves indeed! (SPOILERS for "Lyre, Lyre")”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

One of my favorite Xena altfic bards in Katelin B., who's fine Xena/Gabrielle stories, ranging from short stories to longer novella-length works, can be found at [URL redacted]

2000 May 26, fluffsterbrian [username], “Re: Best fanfic”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

Snarky, who gave in to hir lust for fanfic late last year (I resisted for so long because I knew it would take time away from reading the newsgroup devoted to my first love, Doctor Who (radw), which it has), starting small, with the alt.callahans epic tale of "Action, Adventure, Excitement!", before moving on to XWP altfic in March

2001 October 4, Demon Lord of Confusion Snarky [username], “Re: FIN II & VS7-1 (was: Lucy was asked]”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.


Sunniphobia

I address the ideological underpinnings of this 'Sunniphobia' in Chapter 5, as part of the discussion of the structural problems of the US counter-insurgency campaign.

2005, Ahmed Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq, Cornell University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 82:

For all the talk of "Shi'philia" and "Sunniphobia," sectarian manipulation was a secondary, tactical factor for the occupiers, who were most interested in the creation of a new "national" bourgeoisie at massive cost to most Iraqis, including the middle and professional classes.

2008 April 6, Richard Seymour, “The Sadrist Revolt”, in Monthly Review:

[…] as well as modern mechanisms and instruments for conflict resolution and the fear of the unknown similar to the rising fever of Islamophobia (fear of Islam), Shiaphobia and Sunniphobia in the Western industrialized countries because it did neither sufficiently nor adequately addressed^([sic]) their vital national economic and strategic security interests in the country.

2012 November 7, David de Chand, “The Obstacles, Hurdles, Mechanisms and Instruments for the Implementation of the Cooperation Peace Agreement: A Critical Analysis”, in Sudan Vision:

(rare) Fear or hatred of Sunnism and Sunnites.


selaphobia

Perhaps this explains so much of the monotony. Henri LePont sits in his "barber's chair / of worry and denial" and writes of "Selaphobia," a fear of light flashes.

1985, Robert Peters, The Peters Second Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, →ISBN, page 102:

Ever want to approach that hot guy or gal from cross the bar but you were too afraid? You might have Kakorrhaphiophobia, the fear of failure and rejection. If you find a disco ball at the dance club frightening, you might have Selaphobia, the fear of flashing light.

2013 October, Michael Buzzelli, “Oh, don't be such a phobe”, in Equal Magazine:

[…] many patients complain about the syndrome and side-effects associated with the surgery, such as dizzying, selaphobia, lowered contrast sensitivity, blurred vision in dark environment etc.

2013, Yun Feng, Yang Li, and Wei Wang, Reduced wavefront aberration influence the visual function after the senile cataract surgery with an aspherical intraocular lenshttp://www.grin.com/de/e-book/213709/reduced-wavefront-aberration-influence-the-visual-function-after-the-senile, abstract

(rare, medicine) Fear or intolerance of flashes of light.


agyrophobia

The man suffers from two paralyzing fears: anablephobia, the fear of looking up, and agyrophobia, the fear of crossing the street. Imagine suffering from the inability to see what is in front of you coupled with the inability to step off the curb.

2006, Andrew Razeghi, Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future, →ISBN, page 175:

As an example of this phobia class, James at 42 years old felt simultaneously confused and embarrassed by his agyrophobia, a fear of crossing streets.

2008, James Garner, Arthur H. Bell, Phobias and How to Overcome Them: Understanding and Beating Your Fears, Castle Books, →ISBN, page 98:

In contrast to some other human phobias that people acquire with experience—like triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and agyrophobia (fear of crossing the street)—claustrophobia appears to be innate.

2013, Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink, →ISBN:

Bryan, Webz and Chip sneak over an optical crosswalk spelling 'AGYROPHOBIA' wearing PIXILATED MASKS OF THEIR OWN FACES.

2015, Drew Wordloner, Welcome The Newbies, →ISBN, page 102:


chiroptophobia

From Chiroptera (taxonomic order of bats) + -phobia.

Bruce Wayne suffers from chiroptophobia. He rarely admits it.

2011, Stephen McDonald, William Salomone, The Writer's Response, page 111:

Chiroptophobia, or the fear of bats, is a fairly common psychological trait. Even though most bats are small, timid creatures, something about those leathery wings and tiny fangs seems to trip our self-preservation alarms.

2011, Linda S. Godfrey, Monsters of Wisconsin, page 37:


chaetophobia

From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “flowing hair”). By surface analysis, chaeto- + -phobia.

der

Andrew pulled it out of her reach. "You idiot, I suffer from Chaetophobia. You have no idea of what you've done."

(rare) fear of hair and/or hairy people or animals


antlophobia

Presumably from Ancient Greek ἄντλος (ántlos, “hold of a ship; bilgewater”), also defined in LSJ as "a flood of water" + -phobia.

As climate change brews, Woody is likely to suffer from a severe case of the newly diagnosed floodophobia (or antlophobia). He will not be alone.

2010, Matthew E. Kahn, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future, Basic Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 114:

Two roads greet thee before thy devastation and failures...
one road stemming from Mama's womb
the other dislodged from Daddy's deformed testicles
Learning to read was thy great antlophobia
of which they twirled towards a dusty tomb.

2012, "Dapharoah69", "Response to Robert Frost's 'The Road Less Taken'", in THE KINGD[O]M: A Testimony, Lulu.com (2012), page 371

Like other phobias, it’s believed that Antlophobia is caused by outside traumatic events that happened when the affected individual was younger.

c. 2012, Ryan Vazquez, "True Fear", Positive/Negative Magazine (College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Sciences), Volume 6, page 52

(rare) The fear of floods or inundation.


cherophobia

From Ancient Greek χαρά (khará) + -o- + -phobia.

af

She clasped her hands tightly around my back and said, 'Sorry I spoke to you like that. I'm frightened, that's all. In psychology it's called cherophobia — fear of happiness. I'm afraid of getting hurt. Promise me you'll never leave me.'


cleithrophobia

From Ancient Greek κλεῖθρον (kleîthron, “bar for clausing a door”) + -phobia.


decidophobia

Rothery (1993b) has called this 'decidophobia'. One of the main elements of 'decidophobia' is wanting to do too much at once. You cannot possibly solve all the problems, or even answer all the questions you have, in one research project!

2003, Margaret Alston, Wendy Bowles, Research for Social Workers: An Introduction to Methods, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) Reluctance to make decisions.


frigophobia

Frigophobia, or "morbid fear of catching cold", is a clinical condition described by Chinesse psychiatrists as a culture-related syndrome of the Chinese (Rin, 1966).

2003, Wen-Shing Tseng, Clinician's Guide to Cultural Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 98:

An abnormal and persistent fear of becoming cold or freezing.


cyanophobia

Von Hasner cites a case of aversion to blue, or cyanophobia, in a woman, fifty years old, in whom it had existed since childhood. Looking at blue objects always brought on he ache, vertigo, nausea, and even vomiting.

1881, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:

While one person may have arachnophobia (fear of spiders), someone else may have arachibutyrophobia (fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouth), or cyanophobia (fear of the color blue).

2012, Heather Quintana, Momentum: Moving in the Right Direction, →ISBN, page 128:


bathmophobia

From Ancient Greek βαθμός (bathmós, “step”) + -phobia.

It is closely related to bathmophobia, which is a fear of stairs or steep slopes, and climacophobia, which is a fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling down stairs.

2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, Lulu.com, published 2011, →ISBN, page 16:

Bathmophobia, as with other clinical fears, is generally not diagnosed in children unless it persists for more than six months.

2011 November 10, Claire Bates, “Mother once forced to go down shopping centre steps on her BOTTOM finally overcomes fear of stairs after 38 years”, in Daily Mail:

For visitors falling ill or who are prone to acrophobia (fear of heights) or bathmophobia (fear of stairs), restoration workers installed a tiny emergency elevator to enable Park Service rangers to ascend quickly all the way to Liberty's neck and then spirit people out.

2012, Edward Berenson, The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story, Yale University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 180:


gerascophobia

Thus, from gerascophobia to ageism, Euro-American society today has an overall negative view of aging.

2012, Brittany Goltry, "Prevent, Reverse, & Defy: Ageism in Magazine Advertisements", thesis submitted to Carroll College, page 1

[…] and Aprella, a freckled girl with straight strawberry blonde hair who had been diagnosed with gerascophobia.

2013, Claire Fitzpatrick, The Ostracism of Ophelia, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 327:

Few cases of gerascophobia have been reported.

2014, Laurencia Perales-Blum, Myrthala Juárez-Treviño, Daniela Escobedo-Belloc, “Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy”, in Case Reports in Psychiatry:

The abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.


dentophobia

Also realize that dentophobia can be a self-fulfilling prohepcy...

2006, Bill Dorfman, Billion Dollar Smile: A Complete Guide to Your Extreme Smile Makeover, →ISBN, page 170:

I've had many problems lately and I desperately need your help. First of all, I have been diagnosed with dentophobia. Because of that, I just can't bring myself to make an appointment even though I'm in terrible pain. I'm not sure if I'll need a root canal or just a filling. Please give me some ideas for how to overcome this phobia.

2009, Wendy Conklin, Differentiation Strategies for Language Arts, →ISBN, page 144:

That's because a visit to the dentist—if someone with dentophobia even makes it to the dentist—is likely to result in the classic fight-or-flight symptoms:...

2014, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know about 50 Famous Phobias, →ISBN, page 67:

There are nearly as many reasons people fear going to the dentist as there are teeth in the mouth. Indeed, dentophobia—the term is from the Latin word dens, meaning "tooth", and sometimes known as odontophobia...

Fear of dentists or their medical procedures.


cibophobia

The pain pattern is so intimately related to the ingestion of food that the patient will reduce the size of meals, become reluctant to eat, and even develop frank cibophobia.

1981, M. J. Renaer, Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, Spring-Verlag, →ISBN, page 134:

Cibophobia differs from anorexia since appetite may persist but the pearson fears eating because of some associated or subsequent discomfort.

1993, Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 423:

This condition arises from cheese-related trauma (I'll leave it up to you to imagine what this might entail) and it's often considered a subcategory of cibophobia.

2013 October 28, Max Hill, “Fear Factor”, in The Peak, volume 145, number 9, Simon Fraser University, page 15:

The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.


disposophobia

At the extreme end of the clutter spectrum are folks who suffer from what some call disposophobia—fear of disposing. In other words, they hoard. According to one report, nearly a million junkaholics suffer from this psychological, and the proof is in the piles. To help those who suffer from disposophobia, a national support group called Clutterers Anonymous models itself after the twelve-step format of Alcoholics Anonymous.

2011, Iyna Bort Caruso, Simply Organized: "The all-in-one guide to organizing your home, office, children, and more!", →ISBN:

Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding or disposophobia) is the selfish acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them)...

2012, Miriam Neff, Where Do I Go From Here?: Bold Living After Unwanted Change, →ISBN:

The fear of throwing things away. Disposophobia, I remembered. A disease immortalized by the legendary Collyer brothers, who'd been found dead in their mess in a Harlem brownstone.

2013, Julia Heaberlin, Lie Still: A Novel, →ISBN, page 305:

Compulsive hoarding has also been labeled "disposophoia" because the person with this disorder feels a real and palpable fear of throwing or giving away, even if the items are essentially worthless.

2013, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction - Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) Fear or dislike of disposing of items; a tendency to hoard things.


demonophobia

LAMAISM may be defined as a mixture of late Indian Buddhism (which is itself a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism) with various Tibetan practices and beliefs. The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities. Demonophobia is a compendious expression for an obsession which victimizes Chinese and Huindus to some extent as well as Tibetans...

1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382:

it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)

2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals, page 74:

The first of these patients especially dreads the flames of hell. This is the demonomania of Sauvages. I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.

2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 434:

Demonophobia may take the epidemic form.
A distinction bust be drawn between what I call demonophobia and demonolatry. In demonophobia the patient is under the dominion of continual fear; his future feat incessantly haunts him, he exaggerates beyonds all bounds his real or imaginary faults.


attrist

en-verb

attrist (third-person singular simple present attrists, present participle attristing, simple past and past participle attristed)

attrists (present singular third-person)
attristing (participle present)
attristed (participle past)
attristed (past)

From French attrister (“to sadden”). Compare triste (“sad”).

(archaic, transitive) To sadden; to make sad.


Clana

The same thing occurred among Smallvilles shippers who were divided among supporting Clana' (Clark/Lana), Clois (Clark/Lois), Chlark (Chloe/Clark), with some slash fans rooting for the same sex pairing Clex (Clark/Lex).

2008, Jennifer Gillan, Television and New Media: Must-Click TV, Routledge, published 2011, →ISBN, page 46:

For example it led to the incessant Clana in seasons 6 and 7 when it was long passed its expiry date.

2008 May 17, KalElFan [username], “Re: SV+ Smallville/"Sequels", The CW & WB”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet):

Clana vids, for example, may pay homage to favorite moments in Clark and Lana's romantic relationship.

2011, Juli Stone Pitzer, “Vids, Vlogs, and Blogs: The Participatory Culture of Smallvilles Digital Fan”, in Lincoln Geraghty, editor, The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 123:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clark Kent and Lana Lang from the television series Smallville.


Clex

Thus Smallville fans use the Clex pairing in fanfiction to explore, therefore, not just what it means to become “queer” in the sense of lived sexual orientation, but also what it means to become a fan.

2005, Brigid Kelly, "The Transformative Power Of 'Hot Gay Sex': Queering Superman, Queering The Fan On The TelevisionWithoutPity 'Smallville' Boards", Spectator, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2005, page 75

Considering how often Smallville has already diverged from Superman canon in the course of the past five seasons, including the transformation of Clark and Lex from instant enemies to friends, this line of reasoning points to an attitude of wanting to defend and reaffirm the validity of "Clex."

2008, Melanie E. S. Kohnen, “The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom”, in Sharon Marie Ross, Louisa Ellen Stein, editors, Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 216:

The same thing occurred among Smallvilles shippers who were divided among supporting Clana (Clark/Lana), Clois (Clark/Lois), Chlark (Chloe/Clark), with some slash fans rooting for the same sex pairing Clex' (Clark/Lex).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clark Kent and Lex Luthor from the television series Smallville.


Chlark

So this development may move the relationships more to a Lexana vs. Chlark end of the season, not what the Clanites would want but consistent with what the series has apparently been setting up for more of.

2006 December 25, KalElFan [username], “Re: Call For Noms: The Worst of Smallville”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

The same thing occurred among Smallvilles shippers who were divided among supporting Clana (Clark/Lana), Clois (Clark/Lois), Chlark' (Chloe/Clark), with some slash fans rooting for the same sex pairing Clex (Clark/Lex).

Although "Escape" tackles these kinds of issues more heavily than the typical Smallville episode and thus could have prompted a more spirited output, other episode sub-forums are also filled with Chlark and Clois fans discussing the validity of their favorite relationship.

2014, Cory Barker, “'Chlark' vs 'Clois': Shippers, Anti-Fans, and Anti-Fan Fans in Smallville”, in Cory Barker, Chris Ryan, Myc Wiatrowski, editors, Mapping Smallville: Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 182:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Chloe Sullivan and Clark Kent from the television series Smallville.


Clois

The same thing occurred among Smallvilles shippers who were divided among supporting Clana (Clark/Lana), Clois' (Clark/Lois), Chlark (Chloe/Clark), with some slash fans rooting for the same sex pairing Clex (Clark/Lex).

I think even Clois fans would go along with that, since she dumped Clark.

2010 May 9, Christopher M., “Re: Smallville Season 10”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clark Kent and Lois Lane from the television series Smallville.


Chlollie

I guess when you direct the episode, as Allison Mack did, you get to put yourself in the final scene: The heck with Clark and Lois — Chlollie was in full effect, as Oliver guided Chloe in shooting an arrow, his arms enfolding her.

2010 February 13, Ken Tucker, “'Smallville' goes supernatural: A recap and a suggestion”, in Entertainment Weekly:

Other than the extreme crappiness of 'Escape', Chloe's nude excursion into Clark's shower probably irritated just about everybody--Clois fans, Chlollie fans, people who just don't like Chloe, etc.

2010 June 7, Christopher M., “Re: Kryptonsite poll: Favorite season 10 director?”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet):

While the fans do love Chlollie, the question remains: Will their marriage survive the series finale of Smallville?

2011, Natalie Abrams, "Smallville: Will Oliver and Chloe's Marriage Last?", TV Guide, 28 April 2011 (archived on Usenet)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Chloe Sullivan and Oliver "Ollie" Queen from the television series Smallville.


Lexana

I can only read Lexana fic if it's fucked up.

2002 October 24, Carolin, “Re: A few quick Nocturne thoughts (spoilers ahead)”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet):

Whereas on TWOP, the violation of community rules that declare Clark and Lex as the "one true pairing" leads to a rejection of Lexana, on LiveJournal, this transgression/queering/reworking/expansion of community standards is embraced with much delight.

2008, Melanie E. S. Kohnen, “The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom”, in Sharon Marie Ross, Louisa Ellen Stein, editors, Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 219:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lex Luthor and Lana Lang from the television series Smallville.


Weasleycest

Unlike Weasleycest, which has spread across the fandom like kudzu, Malfoycest has always been more difficult to find, and its writers a bit more secretive.

2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 151

Although, in Weasleycest, incestuous stories with all members and possible pairings engaging in sexual acts can be found, the most popular pairing by far is George and his twin Fred.

2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 93

And if you just want to come reminisce about the glory days of Weasleycest and your early exposure to Flowers in the Attic, that’s fine too!

2012, "Family Relationships in Fanfic [Keeping It in the Family]", Wincon 2012 programme, page 21

(fandom slang) Any ship involving members of the Weasley family from the Harry Potter series in an incestuous relationship.


erythrophobia

Erythophobia is no laughing matter if you are a sufferer of this phobia. It could tend to make the sufferer anti-social as it is a very real and serious concern that excessive blushing could occur at any moment.

2013, Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk - Erythrophobia, The Blushing Phobia - Erythrophobia:

abnormal and persistent fear of blushing


sweet savage romance

en-noun

sweet savage romance (plural sweet savage romances)

After Sweet Savage Love (1974) by Rosemary Rogers, an early novel of this type.

A style of romance novel featuring explicit sex and sexual aggression.


eat, drink and be merry

A reference to Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry".

And if you do not put the motto "Eat, drink, and be merry," above your dining-room door, fix it in your mind, and put it into practice. Laugh, talk, and crack jokes at the table, and thereby heal an injured body.

1879, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”, in University Chronicle, volume 10, page 101:

He says his motto is ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.' Just so, young man : my motto is exactly the same as yours, ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.'

1880, William Young Fullerton, Waymarks for wanderers: 5 addresses, page 122:

Life is not all bread and butter. It is not eat, drink and be merry. It is much more.

1995, V. R. Taneja, Educational Thought And Practice, →ISBN, page 28:

Our days here were spent visiting beaches and resting under huge parasols to hide from the sun and eat, drink and be merry while occasionally joining the children to bathe in the warm, grey sea.

2015, Adrian Breeden, Time Grooves and Travel Records, →ISBN, page 556:

Enjoy yourself; forget your cares; do not worry.

eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die


slashdom

Apart from that, it's usually for the sex itself, or to explore some interesting question that's come up either in the programme/book or in society in general or in slashdom.

1998, Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity, eds. Cheryl Harris & Alison Alexander, Hampton Press, →ISBN, page 30:

The slash community has extensively discussed this issue of slashdom as a homoerotic space.

2006, Kristina Busse, “My Life is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 219:

What thrills me, as a slash reader of almost any slashdom (and currently I write in two and read in a total of four, and happily so) is the actual crafting of the storylines and the variety of experiences and activities described in each.

2009 August 9, Jean Roseman, “Re: Questions on slash Thanks for the responses everybody!!!!!”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The culture or community of slash fiction writers.


humourful

en-adj

humourful (comparative more humourful, superlative most humourful)

more humourful (comparative)
most humourful (superlative)


the heart wants what it wants

Who one falls in love with is not a rational or deliberate decision.


substratophobia

(linguistics) Vehement opposition to substratism.


make beautiful music together

en-verb

make beautiful music together (third-person singular simple present makes beautiful music together, present participle making beautiful music together, simple past and past participle made beautiful music together)

makes beautiful music together (present singular third-person)
making beautiful music together (participle present)
made beautiful music together (participle past)
made beautiful music together (past)

(idiomatic) To have a great romantic relationship with each other.


keep one's chin up

keep one's chin up (third-person singular simple present keeps one's chin up, present participle keeping one's chin up, simple past and past participle kept one's chin up)

keeps one's chin up (present singular third-person)
keeping one's chin up (participle present)
kept one's chin up (participle past)
kept one's chin up (past)

(idiomatic) To remain positive and cheerful.


rage boner

His nasal whine and reflective tenderness killed every righteous rage boner I’d worked up during Chris Hannah’s more aggressive tunes, and if there’s anything a sixteen year-old vegan with really bad acne hates, it’s a deflating rage boner.

2012 March 29, Chris Stamm, “Upper Extremities #32: Emotional Rescue”, in Willamette Week:

Since these are bitter, polarized, flame-baiting times (in The Year of Our Perpetual Rage Boner), I’ll let you fill in the empty spaces about which entrenched ideology was to blame for the extended strike.

2012 December 7, Sean Conboy, “There Will Be Blood”, in Pittsburgh Magazine:

Learning that the Portsiders were badass gangsters was all very well and good, but nowhere did Garth see anything that could explain their sudden rage boner for one measly Offworlder.

2015, Lee Bond, Foreign Devil, unnumbered page:

(slang, vulgar) An intense state of anger or hatred, especially toward someone or something.


cryfest

The Sin of Madelon Claudet was another hugely successful exemplar of the crime-and-punishment cryfests that shopgirls and housewives took to heart.

1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 130:

But if heartfelt, sensitive, talky, emotional cryfests have become scarce at the multiplex, we also have seen the rise of the He-Woman, the battling babe who can tote that gun and sling that punch and close that business deal.

2002 May 26, Dave Gathman, “Movie Review”, in The Beacon News, Aurora, Illinois:

Main songwriter and pianist Dan Messe makes each song a regret-soaked cryfest, […]

2002, Tom Mallon, Rabbit Songs review, CMJ New Music Monthly, July 2002, page 42

(informal) Something sad or moving, especially a film.


hate-boner

Nothing makes liberals sport a hate-boner more than the word oil.

2011 September 30, Kevin Moser, “Don't fear the pipeline, trust expert's opinion”, in Daily Nebraskan, volume 111, number 30, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, page 6:

Roxy is a pretty liberal gal, and so while rape porn is kinda tacky and gross, she doesn't have a raging feminist hate-boner for it.

2012 April 23, “Roxy Heart”, in Salient, volume 75, number 6, Victoria University of Wellington, page 23:

I voted for Obama in 2008, for much the same reason I would vote for a candidate that didn't sell his soul to a core group of slobbering maniacs with hate-boners for welfare.

2012 November 8, Josh Ruffin, “The Wasteland”, in Metro Spirit, volume 23, number 44, page 6:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) An intense and enthralling feeling of hatred for someone or something.


heteroamorous

en-adj

heteroamorous (comparative more heteroamorous, superlative most heteroamorous)

more heteroamorous (comparative)
most heteroamorous (superlative)

(rare) Characterized by love with another of the opposite sex; heteroromantic.


homoamorous

homoamorous (comparative more homoamorous, superlative most homoamorous)

more homoamorous (comparative)
most homoamorous (superlative)

He is bisexual but homoamorous, so while he slept with her, he won't be in a relationship with her.

(rare) Characterized by love with another person of the same sex; homoromantic.


polyphobia

en-noun

polyphobia (usually uncountable, plural polyphobias)

Just how bad a problem is polyphobia? I'm not willing to live anyplace where I have to be closeted […]

1997 September 13, John R. Snead, “Worrying about polyphobia”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

Ren noted the following internalization of polyphobia: My date had dated other people, but it's a lot different if it's a family unit living together […]

2015, Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 112:

Monopride usually comes together with polyphobia, which has been defined as (conscious or unconscious) fear of or disgust toward nonmonogamy […]

2021, Jorge N. Ferrer, Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 41:

(uncountable) Fear, hatred, or dislike of, or prejudice against, polyamory or polyamorous people.


bazonkers

en-adj

bazonkers (comparative more bazonkers, superlative most bazonkers)

more bazonkers (comparative)
most bazonkers (superlative)

Narrator: The crowd goes absolutely bazonkers!

2004, Brad Neely, Wizard People, Dear Reader:

(slang) Delirious with excitement or anger; nuts.


three-fisted

[']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.

1961 (republished 2010), Joseph Heller, Catch-22, London: Vintage Books, ISBN 978-0-09-955218-5, page 22

Circus World, John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth. The Duke is a three-fisted boss of a two-ring travelling Wild West show. '64.

1968 November 4, “TV and FM Week”, in Ruth Gilbert, editor, New York, volume 1, number 31, →ISSN, page 65:

Advertising promotes your product and the names of your outlets. And while this is going on, you've got to remind folks of the benefits offered in your ads by means of powerful in-store signs. This golden rule packs a three-fisted punch that commands success for you and your retailers.

1993, Jay Conrad Levinson, Guerrilla Marketing Excellence: The 50 Golden Rules for Small-business Success, Houghton Mifflin Co., →ISBN, page 102:

He has devised another one of his famous fourth-down game breakers — the same kind of three-fisted brainstorm that climaxed with his decision to defuse the whole impeachment process by releasing his own version of "the tapes," or the time he figured out how to put a quick lid on the Watergate burglary investigation by blaming the whole thing on John Dean.

2003, Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 329:

Badger clenched my hand in his and pulled me forward, hissing under his breath, “Don't stare. Not sure I could take on a three-fisted ... whatever it is.”

2014, Gwen Gardner, “Gertrude's Garden”, in Second Death [Indigo Eady: Afterlife Novella Series; book 1], Los Gatos, Calif.: G. Gardner (through Smashwords):

Aggressive, energetic, enthusiastic, exuberant; two-fisted.

A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers. God help me, thought O'Brien. I'm a lover, not a fighter! Husband, father, engineer, amateur magician, raconteur, and three-fisted drinker ... never a warrior!

1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:

Once a three-fisted drinker and smoker, Mr. [Clive] James, 75, was found to have leukemia in 2010, with the added complications on emphysema and kidney failure.

2014 October 31, Steven Erlanger, “A writer whose pen never rests, even facing death [print version: His pen never rests, even in face of death, International New York Times, 3 November 2014, p. 1]”, in The New York Times:

In three-fisted drinker: able to consume large quantities of liquor without ill effects; heavy (drinker); compare two-fisted drinker.


homoromanticism

For example, analysis of Thoreau's poem “Sympathy” (“Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy") is enriched by considering its homoromanticism.

1993, Arthur Lipkin, "The Case for a Gay and Lesbian Curriculum", The High School Journal, Volume 77, Number 1/2, October/November 1993 - December 1993/January 1994, page 103

In Smallville’s teen fantasy, the themes of alienation and the search for identity easily transmute into homoromanticism and sympathetic queerness.

2005, Louisa Ellen Stein, "'They Cavort, You Decide': Transgenericism, Queerness, and Fan Interpretation in Teen TV", Spectator, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2005, page 21

2006, "The homoromanticism of Sufjan Stevens' little ditties", The Georgia Straight, 2 December 2006 (used in title only)

The state of being being romantically attracted to the same gender.


biromanticism

(neologism) The state of being biromantic.


demiromantic

demiromantic (comparative more demiromantic, superlative most demiromantic)

more demiromantic (comparative)
most demiromantic (superlative)

From demi- + romantic. Compare demisexuality.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:demiromantic.

Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.


heteroromanticism

Heteronormativity describes the tendencies to assume a gender binary, the alignment of gender with sex, and the expectation of heterosexuality and heteroromanticism.

2015 October, Nathan Chan, “Coming out at University”, in Salterrae, page 4:

Could we gradually replace all of love's traditional characterizing features—monogamy, permanence, heteroromanticism, romantic gender roles, and so on—over time? Would there still be romantic love at the end of that process?

2017, Carrie Jenkins, What Love Is: And What It Could Be:

Heteroromantics feel this way [attracted] to someone of the opposite [gender]. [...] Eve Peyser, who identifies as a heteroromantic bisexual woman — she dates only men but is sexually attracted to men and women — wrote a piece on heteroromanticism for Mic in 2015.

2017 May, Christiana Lilly, “A Rainbow of Sexuality: Beyond the LGBT”, in The Mirror, page 24:

The state of being heteroromantic, i.e. romantically attracted to the opposite gender.


polyromantic

polyromantic (comparative more polyromantic, superlative most polyromantic)

more polyromantic (comparative)
most polyromantic (superlative)

From poly- + romantic. Compare polysexuality.

Being polyamorous isn't inherently wrong. Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex. […] The other misconceptions, the ones that sexualize us, need to stop too, but in stopping those, we mustn't shame the bisexual folks who do prefer a polyromantic or sexually-explorative lifestyle.

2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-06-07:

The American series You Me Her is being promoted as ‘TV’s first polyromantic comedy”, starring Amy Poehler’s brother Greg.

2017, Rosie Wilby, Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking Relationships in the 21st Century, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN:

This is because the internalization of the model of monogamy forecloses a lot of self-discovery and self-knowledge. […] Quinn said, for example, “If you want to get really, really specific, I am a demi-polyromantic, polysexual, gender-queer individual.” Quinn defines themselves as “polyamorous and polysexual and polyromantic”: “but I usually just describe myself as queer because that’s so much easier, in addition to being a demi-romantic, which is on the aromantic spectrum.”

2018, Ann Travers, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 24:

(neologism) Romantically polyamorous; that is, having multiple romantic relationships.


allodoxaphobia

From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) + -φοβία (-phobía).


panromanticism

(neologism) The state of being panromantic, i.e. romantically attracted to people regardless of genders.


cupiosexual

From Latin cupiō (“to desire, long for”) + -sexual.

af

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cupiosexual.

Desiring a sexual relationship despite not feeling sexual attraction to others.


transromantic

en-adj

transromantic (comparative more transromantic, superlative most transromantic)

more transromantic (comparative)
most transromantic (superlative)

My argument is post- or transromantic, but that very move through romanticism leaves romantic traces everywhere. The most vital impulse in current translation theory that is excluded by these dualisms is a social one — a concern with ...

1991, Douglas Robinson, The Translator's Turn, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 267:

Modernism is literally transromantic: early Modernism emerges from Baudelaire's transformation of French Romanticism, and this transformation continues to influence writers, artists and critics.

2006, Rosemary Lloyd, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

On the tormented Desire, as if naming the plight of self-blinded love in the album title itself, "Oh Sister" overcomes the broken covenant as the voice calls out for a confederation of male and female in transromantic quest: "We grew up together ..."

2009, Rob Wilson, Be Always Converting, be Always Converted: An American Poetics, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 180:

Moving through or across romanticism (as a movement, etc) or that which is romantic (Romantic).

Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic.

2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009

(neologism) Romantically attracted to persons of variant or ambiguous gender, or to transgender persons.


I'm embarrassed

Indicates that the speaker is embarrassed.

zavarban vagyok

~ uncomfortable, like faced with an overly attractive person or an unfamiliar situation


joyhood

Green grove of Clifton! though vanished our boyhood, We'll visit your glade in some fair eve of June; Yet lingers the spirit which brightened life's joyhood, […]

1853, Edward HIND, Spencer Timothy Hall, Poems:

Previous to his beginning to speak, the whole of that great crowd of spirits was moving about, talking, laughing, etc., but while he spoke there was a holy calm, a perfect silence resting on the scene. Joyhood ceased its laugh, the brook staid its murmur, […]

1898, John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter, Spiritualism:

Symptom five — just like the others: Oh, it's fishing time, my brothers, When the fever, all a-sudden, Makes us think of lilacs buddin', And the heart turns back to boyhood With its honeyed days of joyhood!

1911, Folger McKinsey, Songs of the Daily Life:

Fret not, old pal, when you are sore
At things which rob you of your joyhood.

(rare, nonstandard) The quality, condition, or state of joy.


Klaroline

The flirtatious energy was fun, and we made a very conscious effort to evoke some of the "Klaroline" energy from previous seasons.

2014, Crissy Calhoun, Heather Vee, Love You to Death - Season 5: The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries, ECW Press, →ISBN:

We caught up with Candice Accola to get some information about just how bad Markos is, and what she thinks about Steroline, Klaroline, and more: […]

2014, Samantha Highfill, "'The Vampire Diaries': Candice Accola on Steroline's 'raw' moment, Markos' arrival, and her road trip with Enzo", Entertainment Weekly, 17 January 2015

Morgan also addresses the passionate fans of one massively shipped couple (hint: Klaroline) whose supporters may be the most vocal and opinionated in the Vampire Diaries universe.

2015 April 2, Amanda Michelle Steiner, “The Originals' Joseph Morgan on Klaus's 'Crazy and Irrational' Return and Why He's 'Proud' of the Show's Passionate Fandom”, in People:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Niklaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.


Steroline

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Stefan Salvatore and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.


Bangel

My only hope at this point is that SMG refuses to appear on Angel in the future, thus saving us from the inevitable Bangel ending for that series.

2003 May 14, Chris Zabel, “Re: How Does Joss Whedon Feel...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

She never seemed to have any trouble writing Bangel or Spuffy scenes.

2004 November 1, EBailey140 [username], “Re: What is it about Riley...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

And we get Andrew's definitive judgement on the Bangel versus Spuffy controversy, […]

2009 March 13, Stephen Tempest, “Review of BtVS 8.23 'Predators and Prey”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

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


Spuffy

In contrast, the Spuffy 'shipper may be an older, more highly-educated career professional, but she must use the Internet to access the fanfiction she desires to read, because it is not available anywhere else.

2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 44:

Spuffy—as Spike/Buffy are often called—changed all that.

2013, Michelle Sagara West, “For The Love Of Riley”, in Glenn Yeffeth, editor, Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 71:

Relations between these viewers – who had come to self-identify as 'Spike-Buffy relationship fans' or 'Spuffy shippers' for short – and the writers of the show reached their nadir at the end of season six, when the writers decided to show the Spuffy shippers just how wrong they were by writing a scene in which Spike attempts to rape Buffy: […]

2014, Joseph Crawford, The Twilight of the Gothic?: Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 129–130:

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


spider-fear

Moreover, the latter two studies found evidence of enhanced avoidance in spider-fear. Tolin et al. (1999) reported that individuals with spider phobia spent relatively less time viewing spider pictures than control pictures.

2004, Jenny Yiend, Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology:

Using a visual probe task, Mogg and Bradley (in press) found that, in comparison with nonfearful participants, individuals with high levels of spider-fear showed a greater attentional bias for briefly (200 ms) presented spider pictures, and that this bias in the high-fear group significantly reduced as the exposure duration increased, [...]

2006, Reinout W. Wiers, Alan W. Stacy, Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction:

A great deal of this work has occurred in the area of specific animal fears and phobias, particularly spider fear, likely because these samples are readily accessible and the fear target is clearly specified.

2010, Bertram Gawronski, B. Keith Payne, Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition:

This shows that the “spider-fear” echo is till present and can still automatically trigger fear, but the slower PFC cortical inhibition of fear has now been able to successfully inhibit the fear reaction.

2010, Federico Sanchez, The Master Illusionist: Principles of Neuropsychology:


Yugo-nostalgia

Fondness for the old system is often referred to as “Yugonostalgia”.

[2022 August 25, Jessica Bateman, “‘Everyone loved each other’: the rise of Yugonostalgia”, in The Guardian:

Nostalgia for the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.


leprophobia

I therefore entreat you to beware of the lepro-phobia that appears to be coming upon us.

1889, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, number 12, page 123:

(psychology) An irrationally excessive fear of Hansen's disease (leprosy) and lepers.


Communistphobia

Another morbid factor is also prevailing in the non-Communist countries. That is Communistphobia. Since they are afraid of Communist aggression, they are inclined to forfeit their anti-Communist stand, in the hope that they may get temporary peace by currying the favor of the aggressors.

1957, Communist Menace to Asia, page 32:

Tunku's attempt to create Communistphobia has in fact boomeranged. The local Communist Party is said to have gained in strength rather than being isolated from the indigenous population.

1965, Link: Indian Newsmagazine, Volume 8, Part 1, page 32:

Got to dine with the Home Secretary tonight—fussy old hen, he's suddenly developed Communistphobia; thinks they're going to put a bomb under his bed.

2012, Nicholas Blake, Thou Shell of Death, Random House, →ISBN, page 18:

(rare) The fear, dislike, or hatred of communism and/or communists.


drury

From Old French druerie, droerie (“love, friendship”) et al., from dru (“friend”).

(obsolete) Love, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.


-sexual

Forms a noun or adjective describing a state or style of sexuality


vaporwave

Largely ignored by the mainstream press, vaporwave has instead flourished on websites such as Bandcamp and SoundCloud and on Reddit […] Because vaporwave exists almost entirely outside the sphere of PR and the music industry at large, it has tremendous “underground” appeal. […] Vaporwave is critical of Western culture's preoccupation with the past, but it is not the only art form to call our collective regression into question.

2016, Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:

Vaporwave arose in reaction to huge economic and social forces that are still very much a part of our lives: globalization, runaway consumerism, and manufactured nostalgia chief among them.

2016 August 18, “How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet”, in Esquire:

Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.

2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in New York Times:

The haunting affect of Vaporwave's ghostly music is clearly seductive to a political moment which revels in dystopia, the golden years of the 90s and the sounds of the 90s: financial boom, pedestalled American Dreams and […]

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

(music, art) A genre of electronic music and visual arts style that emerged in the early 2010s. As a musical genre, it evolved from chillwave and seapunk with influences from lounge music, elevator music, smooth jazz, and 1980s dance-pop. As an aesthetic, it is influenced by 1990s web design and digital art, anime, and cyberpunk.


loveday

Inherited from Middle English loveday; equivalent to love + day.

She ledeth þe lawe as hire list · and louedayes maketh / And doth men lese þorw hire loue · þat lawe myȝte wynne.

c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:

legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference […].

1983, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, page 60:

In our period, all the people of England made lovedays, from the richest to the poorest.

1994, John Clarence Bedell, Dispute Settlement and the Control of Violence in England, 1272-1330:

(now historical) A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day.

(chiefly poetical) A day devoted to love.


technoangst

Communications with the dealer diminish as resignation sets in, but periods of relative quietude are punctuated with recurrent, painful spasms of technoangst. Intense desire to acquire what merchandisers so callously refer to as "product" alternates with hot flashes of guilt and shame over squandering $3,000 on a digital toy, really little more than an electronic game.

1984 December 31, Gary B. Palmer, “Whiplash”, in InfoWorld, page 8:

While it probably means nothing concrete, it's also intriguing that in the 1984 annual report—in his wonderfully overblown, often perilously meaningless prose—Ripley presaged the technoangst that many at the institution seem to experience contemplating the IBM on Adams's credenza: […]

1987 August, Howard Means, “The Quiet Revolutionary”, in The Washingtonian, page 147:

Newer and better models must replace the present ones. That is the logic of technology; that is its political economy. Between technofuturism and technoangst is just one short, fatal step.

1997, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 199:

Emotional distress caused by modern technology, especially computers.


shounen ai

(slang, anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more males.


shotacon

en-noun

shotacon (usually uncountable, plural shotacons)

From Japanese ショタコン (shotakon). By surface analysis, shota + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

surf

(uncountable, anime) Erotic or suggestive art, manga, anime, or other media featuring underage boy characters.


shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (少年愛; shōnen ai) using Japanese vocabulary.

(neologism, anime, manga) Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.

(slang) A genre of manga, anime, or hentai featuring lesbian sex and romance; yuri.


frighten the life out of someone

en-verb

frighten the life out of someone (third-person singular simple present frightens the life out of someone, present participle frightening the life out of someone, simple past and past participle frightened the life out of someone)

frightens the life out of someone (present singular third-person)
frightening the life out of someone (participle present)
frightened the life out of someone (participle past)
frightened the life out of someone (past)


nostalgia goggles

blinded by nostalgia
blinded by nostalgia

(slang) A nostalgic perspective (which obscures the reality of something); to be blinded by nostalgia.


Finchel

Mercedes is dating someone new, and Finchel is going strong.

2011, Abby Bien, Grace Palmeri, & Neha Ramani, "How I met your gossipy new girl and her modern family at glee club", The Scarlette (West Lafayette High School), Volume 69, Number 2, 5 October 2011, page 4

Five bucks says it's going to be a totally adorable "Finchel" moment at the prom!

2012 April 10, “Selena Gomez getting the Glee treatment!”, in Post Noon, page 25:

After a long break from Glee this summer, waiting to see if Finchel got back together or if Puck decides to go to Los Angeles, I am more than ready to get back into my favorite show on Thursday nights.

2012, Natasha Walker, "Excitement for Glee's upcoming season", The Stampede (C. M. Russell High School, Great Falls, Montana), Volume 48, Issue 1, 13 September 2012, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn Hudson and Rachel Berry from the television series Glee.


Klaine

With the recent death of Glee's Cory Monteith, there wasn't much creators could do to make viewers feel better. Yet they found it: a reunion of gay couple "Klaine."

2013, "Tragedy Brings People Together After All, Doesn't It?", Watermark, 29 August 2013 - 11 September 2013, page 29

However Ryan Murphy gives fans a few rewards in Series 5 for sticking with the show (happy news for Klaine supporters), […]

2013, Heather Boyles, "The final curtain draws near", Seren (Bangor University), Issue 235, October 2013, page 25

Klaine fans and writers have lived in a culture where homosexuality has been mainstreamed, if not always accepted.

2014, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, “Glee Literally Means Glee: The Queer Art of Community's Parody”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 267:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson from the television series Glee.


Brittana

Never mind Finn and Rachel – I'm on Team Brittana now.

2009, Dorothy Snarker of AfterEllen.com, quoted in Amy Rickman, Gleeful!: A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Series GLEE, Villard (2010), page 136

[…] there'd been such a fuss over the original Brittana kiss, & with Kurt kissing Blaine, […]

2012, Bruce Wagner, Dead Stars, Penguin, →ISBN:

However, the taste of happiness many viewers felt at Brittana's queer relationship quickly turned bitter when the label of homosexual continued to be thrust upon Santana by many of the show's straight characters as well as her own girlfriend.

2014, Taylor Cole Miller, “Forced out of the 'flannel closet': The Coming-Out-Gay Imperative”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 34:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez from the television series Glee.


Shamy

And if Shamy ever does go their separate ways, Sheldon fans can be sure to see plenty of Zazzles lurking about.

2011 February 10, Angela Song, “TV for Two”, in The Harvard Independent, volume 42, number 14, Harvard University, page 9:

In “The Herb Garden Germination” (4-20) “Shamy” (Sheldon and Amy's given nickname) pretend to have had sex to test their theory on meme propagation.

2012, George Beahm, Unraveling the Mysteries of The Big Bang Theory: An Unabashedly Unauthorized TV Show Companion, Smart Pop (2014), page 86

Shamy has become one of TV's most loved couples, and this season is crucial to the development of this relationship.

2012 September 6, Sayantan Deb, “A Look at Fall T.V.”, in The Harvard Independent, volume 44, number 1, Harvard University, page 9:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler from the television series The Big Bang Theory.


frightmare

Yes, that must have been the way it had happened, Gibby decided — just one long frightmare, part of it filmed in this bedroom.

1974, Fritz Leiber, The book of Fritz Leiber, page 17:

Wednesday morning, Jamie was pacing back and forth in the small kitchen when she decided that she didn't want to be alone after last night's frightmare.

2011, Fern Michaels, Late Edition, →ISBN, page 223:

I sure hope so, I think nervously—because between my too tight costume, this too tight dressing room, and High Priestess Abala's too spooky Vampire Spell, this whole thing is turning into a New York frightmare!

2014, Deborah Gregory, Hey, Ho, Hollywood!, →ISBN:

An extremely unpleasant and frightening experience.


Caskett

But while it's great that Caskett finally happened, things didn't turn out so happily for one of "Castle's" other fan-favorite pairings.

2012, Jean Bentley, "'Castle' showrunner reveals what's in store for 'Caskett'", Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2012, Section 4, page 8

Is there a future for, er, Caskett? Or is this just a November sweeps romance?

2012 November 19, David Hiltbrand, “Same old 'Castle,' with a flirty twist”, in The Bulletin, page C2:

[…] and despite his claim to only watch the show for the police procedural, I know he's a secret Caskett 'shipper.

2013, Rene Webb, A White Hot Christmas, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Richard Castle and Kate Beckett from the television series Castle.


ABDL

(colloquial) A person who engages in ABDL practices; an adult baby (age regressor) or diaper lover.


pop one's cork

pop one's cork (third-person singular simple present pops one's cork, present participle popping one's cork, simple past and past participle popped one's cork)

pops one's cork (present singular third-person)
popping one's cork (participle present)
popped one's cork (participle past)
popped one's cork (past)

[S]he had given him a perfunctory jerkoff, not even taking his dick out of his pants, laughing as he popped his cork within moments.

2009, Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 2:

(idiomatic, vulgar, of a man) To ejaculate.


andromimetophilia

(paraphilia) An attraction to trans men or to females who look and act like men (andromimetics).


mad as a meat axe

(Australia, simile, colloquial) Very irate; crazy with rage.


traumatophobia

An abnormal fear of battle or war, or being physically injured during activities like sports.


misophobia

[…] that from her eleventh to her thirteenth year she was troubled with misophobia.

1904, Hermann Oppenheim, Diseases of the nervous system, page 775:


metamour

From meta- + amour (probably influenced by paramour).

I get it less with women who are bi and poly than with women who are monosexual and monogamous/monoamorous, but I can't put my finger on why, and there are exceptions in both directions. I get it less with metamours than with women who are unrelated, but maybe that's just because if my metamours were alien to me, there's a fair chance they'd be alien to my partners too, or conversely that I'd have been alien to the partners when they were still just potential partners, and hence we'd never become metamours in the first place.

2000 August 11, Liz W, “When your wife loves to be at the center...!”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

[…] — and in considering how jealous I would feel if Anna (or honestly any of this polycule, because yes, reader, they are all hot) were my metamour, I imagine what it would be like, how destabilizing to watch your partner grow closer and more intimate and happier with another person;[…]

2024 January 16, Allison P. Davis, “What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?”, in New York Magazine:

(uncommon) In a polyamorous relationship, one's partner's partner, with whom one is not directly involved.

metamuru

partner's partner in a polyamorous relationship


smush name

When my friend Danielle (there's THAT name again) was pregnant with her oldest daughter we came across a book (of which I forget the title) which actually advocated smush names. One of the more...ahem...interesting names I remember is Shetom. It was a smush of Sheila and Thomas.

2010, Danielle Reed, Emily, Jacob and Boniqua: What NOT to Name Your Child, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:

She looked up at them, half-expecting paparazzi to leap from the very walls to take photos, to give the couple a smush name that would undoubtedly be the key in making the new media darlings.

2014, Grace McDermott, Mirrorfall, Wibbly Press (2014), unnumbered page

They yell, “Sup, Shage,” when we walk past; we're a smush name now.

2015, Ann Aguirre, The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things, Feiwei and Friends, →ISBN, page 243:

Brangelina and Snamione are smush names.

(informal) A portmanteau name created by blending two different names, especially one used to collectively describe a celebrity couple or fandom ship.


Sheriarty

The Empty Hearse club member goth girl who came up with the romantic Sheriarty solution to Sherlock’s fake suicide is played by Scottish actress Sharon Rooney, star of the British dramedy “My Mad Fat Diary.”

2014 January 19, Lori Rackl, “Answers to your ‘Sherlock’ questions — because you know you’ve got ‘em”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

The Sheriarty and Jimlock fans believe the two men are struggling in a love-hate relationship, while WH is a gay “couple” beloved by most fans.

2014 January 25, Qu Zhi, “Sherlock China’s new sex god”, in Shanghai Daily:

Having exhausted what meager supply of Sheriarty fic there was, I ended up reading a Mormor (Moriarty/Moran) story – and ended up loving it.

2015, Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 77

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty from the television series Sherlock.