melanophobia

From Ancient Greek μέλᾱς (mélās) + -o- + -phobia.

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The sympathy of Maga with white oppressors of black men, has been shown in several recent articles, in which it classes negroes with monkeys and gorillas; as inferior to the whites as white men are to angels.—Vol. xci, p 4; and xcvii, 34, 152. This, and its unjust and bitter invectives against the anti-slavery party, as hypocrites and ultra-radicals,—xcix, 589, 590—are among the most melancholy instances of Melanophobia with which we are acquainted.

1867, John Wesley Thomas, “Blackwood and the Blacks”, in Poems on Sacred, Classical, Mediæval, and Modern Subjects, London: Elliot Stock, […], page 190:

Modern commentators and preachers explain the first four verses of the first chapter as referring to the “Church’s love unto Christ” and the fifth verse as “the Church’s confession of her deformity.” Surely this illegitimate idea was hatched in a brain diseased with what Dr. Edward W[ilmot] Blyden calls “melanophobia.”[…]Edward W. Blyden, LL.D., writing from Liberia, says: “[…]The cure for American colorphobia, or more accurately, melanophobia is in the heart of Africa.”

1893, Rufus L. Perry, “Color of the Egyptians”, in The Cushite or the Descendants of Ham as Found in the Sacred Scriptures and in the Writings of Ancient Historians and Poets from Noah to the Christian Era, Springfield, Mass.: Willey & Co., pages 52 and 54:

[…]papers of the last two months, arising from every section of the country, that a glance into the medical aspects of melanophobia cannot be devoid of interest and should not pass unobserved. In the leading journals from the North and South there have appeared editorials of great acumen and power, but none seem as yet to have dealt, except in a superficial manner, with the race problem as seen from a biological, ethnological or medical standpoint.

1903, The Medical News, page 414, column 1:

Melanophobia, or fear of the black, may be pragmatically as valuable a racial defence for the white as the counter-instinct of philoleucosis, or love of the white, is a force of racial uplifting for the black.

1921, Israel Zangwill, “Afterword”, in Works of Israel Zangwill: The Melting Pot; Chosen Peoples, American Jewish Book Company, section III, page 206:

Robert has hair a shade lighter than your lady’s, Nannee’s a shade or two darker. Both have black eyes. I am blacker than either. But I ought not to tell you so, for having become Yankee now, of course you are being steeped in their melanophobia.

Our press tells us daily of outrages and stupidities committed under pressure of melanophobia.

1968, Fernando Henriques, Family and Colour in Jamaica, 2nd edition, Macgibbon & Kee:

Restaurants and bars could put up signs saying “Only Leucoderms Will Be Served,” which would look appropriately ridiculous. And it might be possible to work out a quarantine for real-estate agents infected with melanophobia.[…]It is odd that a beautiful skin should be a handicap; and I, at least, find the darker human skins more attractive than the pale ones. This must be generally true if one can judge by the amount of time paleface people spend in trying to darken their skins. This leucoderm preoccupation with getting dark must look ridiculous to a melanoderm; it certainly makes melanophobia seem odd.

1970, Marston Bates, A Jungle in the House: Essays in Natural and Unnatural History, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, pages 191 and 193:

Acculturation and assimilation (“Creolization”), and their solvent action on traditional cultures and values, are under-emphasized; a broody melanophobia prevails.

Although Anglophilia is still powerful and melanophobia still exists, nowadays people also recognize achieved status independent of color and within color groupings.

1976, Proceedings of the Central States Anthropological Society, page 33:

Other studies (Ellis 1957; Henriques 1968; Miller 1969; Rogler 1943) emphasize the continuing existence of the black and white West Indian's feelings of melanophobia [hatred of blackness].

1980, The Journal of Anthropology, page 125:

Union bashing and Union beatification, Hyper-taxation, Melanophobia (a new word coined for this occasion), and the creaking, groaning and crumbling[…]

1984, Lord Rothschild, Random Variables, William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 78:

[Evan] Mecham’s melanophobia is such that anyone with a dark skin is automatically disqualified from even being near him.

1988 January 24, Jean-Pierre A. Maldonado, “No Surprise”, in The Arizona Republic, 98th year, number 251, Phoenix, Ariz., page C6, column 5:

The “black but beautiful” passage from the Song of Solomon provides the base for examining traditions in the synagogue and the church dealing with melanophobia.

1992, Dissertation Abstracts International: The Humanities and Social Sciences, University Microfilms International, page 1960, column 1:

Acts of racism are White supremacist acts in the general race war; acts of Negrophobia/Melanophobia are White supremacist acts against Blacks in that race war.

Raphael Confiant has just responded angrily to the comments of Alain Finkelkraut whom he accuses of melanophobia – a form of Negrophobia.

2004, ALA Bulletin: A Publication of the African Literature Association, page 29:

Given the overvaluation of whiteness and the accompanying melanophobia of colonial Latin American society, it is not surprising to find in the nineteenth century a perhaps paradoxical valorization of of mulattoness even in the creative writing that purported to promote the abolition of slavery.

2006, Jerome C. Branche, Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 114:


bitchcakes

en-adj

bitchcakes (comparative more bitchcakes, superlative most bitchcakes)

more bitchcakes (comparative)
most bitchcakes (superlative)

Dad was totally flipping and pissed and bitchcakes, he didn't want no grandkid, especially no half spook […]

2009, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, page 207:

"Artists are bitchcakes anyway."
"My brother's girlfriend? She used to cut herself."

2010, Melanie Sumner, The Ghost of Milagro Creek, page 71:

I almost screamed something nasty at them because inside I was totally bitchcakes that everyone was leaving and no one was going to help.

2014, Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, unnumbered page:

(US, slang, vulgar) Aggressive, unhinged, crazy.


Finnrey

People have started to look at fandom through a social justice lens, so there are now progressive/good ships (Finnrey = interracial, good) and regressive/bad ships (Reylo = white, racist, abusive and sexist = bad).

2020, Shuang, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, page 280

FinnRey fan art

2020, Abigail Reed, "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars Films", dissertation submitted to Florida State University, page vi

I've been following "Finnrey" a lot, which is a dark horse in the realm of shipping. Even people who don't love Finnrey recognize that the first movie did set up that Finn (played by black actor John Boyega) and Rey (white actor Daisy Ridley) had a deep emotional connection that producers later dropped.

2021, Greg Carter, quoted in "UWM historian takes on race, relationships, and representation", In Focus (University of Wisconsin-Millwaukee), January 2021, page 11

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Rey from Star Wars.


Catradora

I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?

2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:

From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.

2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:

While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]

2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Catra and Adora (She-Ra) from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


playersexuality

Multiple posters from the collected content acknowledged that many of the explicitly queer opportunities in the games are actually cases of “playersexuality” (Cole, 2016).

2019, Sam Stockton, "Dating Ga(y)mes: Queer Performance in Farming Simulation Roleplay Games", thesis submitted to the University of Calgary, page 47

It can be argued that explicit representations of bisexuality, pansexuality, and other multiple-gender-attracted people are erased from games that use 'playersexuality' as a mechanic.

2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page:

In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]

2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183:

(video games) The state of an NPC being attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


nature lover

But though you may be certain that your religion or political party or sport is the best, you will usually admit that there are many people who do not agree with you and that they are entitled to their opinion. This is not true in the case of the nature lover. To the militant nature lover (and every nature lover I ever met was militant in his love of nature) one is either a nature lover or one is unenlightened; there is no other alternative.

1944, Leonard Dubkin, “Enter Pauline”, in The Murmur of Wings, Whittlesey House, →OCLC, page 139:

In spite of the eminently successful fiction that she wrote, if Gene Stratton Porter is to occupy any permanent place in the history of American letters, that place will no doubt be established by her work as a nature lover and a nature writer and photographer.

1980, Bertrand F. Richards, “Preface”, in Gene Stratton Porter, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:

"In nature, lightning strikes occasionally cause small, localized fires that burn away the underbrush. The policy has been to put out those fires. So now there's plenty of underbrush, which is the perfect fuel for massive destruction. Hundreds and thousands of acres have been destroyed, lives lost, because we didn’t trust nature to do its job."
Actually, the policy began with nature lover Teddy Roosevelt.

2015, Lisa Lutz, “2000 Old Forge, New York”, in How to Start a Fire (Fiction), Mariner Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:

This house in McLean, Va., has just about everything a nature lover desires: soothing sounds of the Potomac River, a sylvan setting with countless species of birds and other wildlife, access to hiking, fishing and canoeing — and all within a half-hour of downtown Washington and minutes from the Beltway and George Washington Parkway.

2021 November 12, Kathy Orton, “Nature lovers house in McLean, Va., for sale for $7 million”, in Washington Post:

A person who has an intense interest in the natural world, especially one who frequents natural places for enjoyment and recreation.


talk to

en-verb

talk to (third-person singular simple present talks to, present participle talking to, simple past and past participle talked to)

talks to (present singular third-person)
talking to (participle present)
talked to (participle past)
talked to (past)

“Do you have a boyfriend?” — “No, but there’s a guy I’m talking to.”

(idiomatic) To show the beginnings of a romantic interest in; to flirt with over a period of time in hopes of developing a romantic relationship.


aflap

1894, George Lansing Raymond, The Aztec God, Act 3, in The Aztec God and Other Dramas, New York: Putnam, 1908, p. 66,
and she / A vulture feasting with foul wings aflap

nodding her head firmly, headscarf aflap

1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Auckland: Spiral, published 1985, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 292:

[…] a woman in a gaberdine comes staggering out from the roadside, hands aflap, shoeless but on the run.

2013, Richard House, “The Hit”, in The Kills, London: Picador, page 806:

They walked up Main Street, which was all aflap with American flags […]

1908, Eugene Wood, Folks Back Home, New York: The McClure Company, page 46:

Clothes-drying lofts, open frameworks on the flat roofs of houses, all aflap with clothes, sheets, kimono, reminded me of Canaletto’s pictures of Venetian life […]

1962, James Kirkup, chapter 10, in These Horned Islands, New York: Macmillan, page 152:

[…] the buses bursting with cackling passengers three times over capacity and aflap with chickens.

2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 118:

1977, Niel Hancock, Calix Stay, New York: Fawcett Popular Library, p. 93,
“First he says we isn’t welcome, then he’s all aflap cause some of us is gone.”

1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, St. John’s, NL: Breakwater, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53,
[…] people are barely over our givin’ that extra quota of cod to the French, now they’re all aflap about selling spawny caplin to the Japanese […]

(colloquial) Showing excessive excitement or anger.


hanahaki

From Japanese 花吐き病 (hanahaki), from 花 (hana, “flower”) + 吐く (haku, “to vomit”). An invention of Matsuda Naoko (松田奈緒子) for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).

The cascading emotions are
giving me hanahaki tonight, they're
beautiful but it's suffocating.

2019, Unzila Iftikhar, Before Your Eyes - Despite It All, You Still Rise, page 9:

It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics.

2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 27

However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.

2020, Ivy Wong, "The Cure for Hanahaki", English Literary Magazine (St. Paul's Co-Educational College, Hong Kong), page 22

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.


tabophobia

A morbid fear of tabes (wasting disease).


polyam

en-adj

polyam (comparative more polyam, superlative most polyam)

more polyam (comparative)
most polyam (superlative)

If someone discloses a polyam identity or relationship, the Three and Four are strong indicators that it's a good time to welcome in new partners or take the next steps forward.

2019, Cassandra Snow, Queering the Tarot, page 77:

But even with that being the case, I've never had a polyam bud presume a sexual interest on my part.

2021, Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life, unnumbered page:

Many people have mixed feelings or reluctance about being in a polyam relationship, but if they were clear that they did not want to be in this relationship, they would have broken up rather than come to couples therapy.

2021, Martha Kauppi, Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients), page 250:


Used since the 1990s. From the number of letters in each word of the phrase; I is 1 letter, love is 4 letters, and you is 3 letters respectively.


in one's feelings

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“Nigga please, yes you were. You love me. Been following me around, cashing out for months. Don't get in your feelings and start lying now.”
“I ain't in my feelings, and that money I spent wasn't shit. Best believe it ain't have nothing to do with loving your ass.”

2018, A'zayler, She Took My Heart and Went Crazy (volume 1)

I know now you're thinking Joseph was entirely too old to be marrying her anyway. Do you see how you just got into your feelings finding out that Joseph was potentially in his 90's?

2021, Dr. Lawrence V. Bolar, I’m Not Mad I’m Just in My Feelings: Study Guide:

(US, African-American Vernacular, jargon) Overreacting or having a strong emotional reaction; worked up.


toonophilia

Yes, that particular four-parter has a special place in my heart... it was the main root from which my toonophilia, and later my furriness, grew. (Well, more likely the root was already there, and it was the fertilizer.)

1996 March 21, Lenester the Badger, “Re: POLL: Best Cartoon w/ furries?”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

Toonophilia isn't furry fandom, but it can bring people to it, because it's similar to begin with.

1999 October 30, Muke Tever, “Re: galen's plushie site becomes today's "Cruel Site of the Day"”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

I'm not an Otakusexual — although I respect toonophilia as a sexually responsible choice.

2015, Blythe Woolston, MARTians, unnumbered page:

Sexual and/or romantic attraction to cartoon or anime characters.


a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved

As a result, the optimist always has the lower hand, given that everyone around him is the opposite. You’d be considered a leper if you did not participate in the average, mediocre people’s wailing and complaining. If I’m not happy, I’ll not let you stay happy. After all, sorrow shared is sorrow halved. So let’s whine together!

2019, Leander Moss, Death at a Discount: A Funny, Magical & Inspiring Tale of the After-life, Babelcube Incorporated, page 25:

Grief can be alleviated by discussing it with someone.


MerDer

With Izzie Stevens' treatment going on and MerDer's wedding looming, there's going to be lots of drama at Seattle Grace in the last few episodes of the fifth season.

2009 April 16, CeCe Brooks, “Summer TV GUide”, in Old Black & Gold, Wake Forest University, page B5:

With the MerDer drama heating up and Meredith's job on the line, the two-hour season premiere is looking at keeping viewers glued to the screen from beginning to end.

2011 August 31, Ashley Hite, “Fall returning television series provide relief, relaxation from studies”, in The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University, page 9:

But then they had to go and create a montage of MerDer's relationship and it suddenly got very real.

2015 May 7, Danielle S. Tepper, “Derek Deserved Better”, in Town & Country Gazette, page 40:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


Kadena

Even so, the show succeeds in establishing the Kadena connection with heartfelt love and deep respect.

2017, Melissa Lee, “The Bold Type Big Buzz”, in F-Yeah, volume 1, page 5:

During the first two seasons while the Kadena relationship develops onscreen, the pair dominated fanfiction writing.

2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted to the University of Lousiana at Lafayette, page 231

While the show has had issues when it comes to diversity […], Kadena never fails to make our gay hearts happy.

2021 July, Roxy Bourdillon, “Get The Look: The Bold Type”, in Diva, page 22:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kat Edison and Adena El-Amin from the television series The Bold Type.


Vauseman

Note: If you don't ship 'Vauseman' by the end of the season, then I'm judging you.

2014, Jenna Benson, in "Reviews", Blitz Mag (University of New South Wales), Session 2, Week 3 + 4 (2014), page 34

However, Clexa (Clarke Griffin and Lexa) from The 100 (2014-), Vauseman (Alex Vause and Piper Chapman) from Orange is the New Black (2013-) and Karmy (Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld) in Faking It (2014-2016) are further examples.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 6

I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.

2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black", thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Alex Vause and Piper Chapman from the television series Orange Is the New Black.


Paily

Commenters are generally supportive of the possibility of a Paige and Emily coupling, either expressing surprise or that they had been expecting this, with one commenter even expressing her love for “Paily” (Emily and Paige’s relationship name) (ABC Family, 2011).

2013, Caitlin Campisi, "Homonationalism on TV?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Queer and Trans* Youth Representations on Mainstream Teen Television Shows", thesis submitted the University of Ottawa, page 98

They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.

2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 74

Strategies which fanfiction authors use to create fanfiction, such as closely analysing homoerotic moments in the source text, are investigated through analysing similar trends investigated in section one and by employing the same method outlined above but are applied to Paily fics instead of the slash texts explored in section one.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 100

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Paige McCullers and Emily Fields from the television series Pretty Little Liars.


Karmy

Fans rooting for "Karmy" – the official couple name for the two of them – may still have hope.

2014, Sophia Kaufman, "'Faking It' midseason finale forgoes subtlety", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 3 December 2014, page 5A

But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV Social Media Fans”, in Television & New Media, volume 19, number 5:

Fans were especially disappointed when Covington revealed to the Hollywood Reporter, “It was always my intention to make ‘Karmy’ happen during our final season. Karma would finally realize that her possessiveness of Amy might be a sign of deeper feelings for her best friend.”

2019, Carter Covington, quoted in Francesca Petronio, "Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities", thesis to The City University of New York, page 42

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld from the American television series Faking It.


Naomily

In the case of Naomily however, the relationship is endorsed within the official text by the end of Series 3, and by Series 4 they are unambiguously presented and recognized as a couple.

2012 February, Deborah F. Hunn, “'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 26, number 1, page 93:

There was no difference between the handling of Naomily and that of other couples on the show because it was a story about falling in love—the fact that the lovers happened to be a pair of schoolgirls was incidental.

2020, Ann-Marie Cook, “Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon”, in Stefano Ramello, editor, Fascination of Queer, page 173:

The details of their romance are lovingly expanded upon, developing the Naomily narrative in multiple ways.

2020, Kate McNicholas Smith, Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Naomi Campbell and Emily Fitch from the British television series Skins.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


Kataang

Are you a supporter of Katara and Aang’s relationship? Then you’re a member of the Kataang club.

2006, "United Nations: The Fans of Avatar", Nick Mag Presents, Winter 2006, page 40

I still prefer Kataang, because I can't imagine Aang and Katara ever drifting apart when Katara is the one person he could not let go and Katara's life truly began because she met him and he is basically the light and joy in her life.

2014, "paulina101", quoted in Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, pages 98-99

Konietzko, for his part, suggests a great awareness: “There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead?....Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara.”

2017, Jake Pitre, "Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading", Reader Feather Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2017, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katara and Aang from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)


lose control

en-verb

lose control (third-person singular simple present loses control, present participle losing control, simple past and past participle lost control)

loses control (present singular third-person)
losing control (participle present)
lost control (participle past)
lost control (past)

When he said that she lost control, and punched him in the nose.

(set phrase) To become unable to control one's emotions or actions; to abandon rationality or reason.


nightmare fuel

(informal, psychology) Something capable of inducing nightmares, often by being highly disturbing.


coulrophilia

If you're charmed by incompetence, that's just another kind of coulrophilia.

2010, Monica Drake, Clown Girl: A Novel, page 239:

This volume of stories covers auto flagellation (self spanking), serviphilia (sexual servitude), agalmatophilia (mannequin sex), microphilia (attraction to small people), knismolagnia (sexual tickling), coulrophilia (clowns), gerontophilia, […]

2013, Nika Bella Dea, Bizarre Femdom Fetishes:

The blog recognizes its controversiality by informing about teratophilia, the ability to see beauty in the unusual and a sexual preference for individuals having unusual appearance, and its subgenre coulrophilia, sexual attraction to clowns

2018, Menina Wik, Romance Gone Mortal–Taboo of Shipping Fictional Movie Monsters:

The ascending of Jocund Jupiter may give you a case of coulrophilia, but this variety will draw clowns to YOU.

2020, Evan Nichols, The Ask Dr. Eldritch ETERNAL HOROSCOPE OF MYSTERY!, page 77:

A paraphilia consisting of sexual attraction to clowns, jesters and mimes.


shipperdom

If there has never been a psychological examination of shipperdom, then there should be one.

2008, Jon Lachonis, Amy J. Johnston, Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a Fandom Like No Other:


win someone's heart

win someone's heart (third-person singular simple present wins someone's heart, present participle winning someone's heart, simple past and past participle won someone's heart)

wins someone's heart (present singular third-person)
winning someone's heart (participle present)
won someone's heart (participle past)
won someone's heart (past)

Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

Nay, he hath won my heart, and with it goes my hand, and throne, and all I have—[…]

1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVIII, in Allan Quatermain:

She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.

1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:

To gain the love or affection of someone.


Qult

(derogatory) The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.


Qultist

Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.

(derogatory) A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.


foul-tempered

en-adj

foul-tempered (comparative more foul-tempered, superlative most foul-tempered)

more foul-tempered (comparative)
most foul-tempered (superlative)


retro-nostalgia

(rare) Nostalgia for past trends or media.


monsterfucker

(slang, vulgar) A person who is sexually attracted to monsters, cryptids, etc; someone with teratophilia


love is love

(21st century) Love in LGBTQ relationships is equivalent (e.g. in genuineness, validity, personal experience, etc.) to love in heterosexual relationships.


transsensual

transsensual (comparative more transsensual, superlative most transsensual)

more transsensual (comparative)
most transsensual (superlative)

Probably a blend of transsexual + sensual, transgender + sensual, or similar.

TV/TS/SO - Carolina Transsensual Alliance: […] Open to all regardless of sexual orientation. No gay men unless CD. […] SOs welcome.

[1993 Winter, “Directory of Organizations & Services”, in Vivian D. Allen, editor, TV-TS Tapestry Journal, volume 66, →ISSN, page 89:

Jack was able to come to a sense of peace within himself as he and Dawn worked out an intimate and domestic life together. For others, the awareness of transsensual attraction comes long after the partnership is formed.

2004, Arlene Istar Lev, Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, published 2007, →ISBN, page 310:

The dealer Rasmussen, who has previously rejected Gerda [Wegener]’s work, says of the paintings inspired by Lili [Elbe]: ‘These are different, I don’t know, there may be a market’.²⁷
²⁷ From his tone it may be a transsensual niche market that Rasmussen has in mind.

2016, Nicholas Chare, “Landscape into Portrait: Reflections on Lili Elbe and Trans* Aesthetics”, in Parallax, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 351, 362:

(rare) Related to (sexual) attraction to trans people.


From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."

But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic:

Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.

“Where we go one, we go all,” erupted the crowd in a QAnon chant that’s frequently abbreviated to WWG1WGA in online messaging boards like 4chan, where the cult began.

2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic:

(US politics) Initialism of where we go one, we go all: a popular slogan of QAnon believers.


lilapsophobia

From Ancient Greek λαῖλαψ (laîlaps, “hurricane”) + -o- + -phobia.

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Sophie lost everything she owned in a tornado and now suffers from lilapsophobia—fear of tornadoes—so she re-located from Oklahoma to Florida.

2014, Christopher Cortman, Harold Shinitzky, Laurie-Ann O'Connor, Take Control of Your Anxiety: A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy, Healthy Life:

This sometimes results in lilapsophobia (the fear of tornadoes and hurricanes) which is expressed as an ongoing fear that any storms will become severe.

2016, John Tyrrell, “Site Investigations of Tornado Events”, in Robert K. Doe, editor, Extreme Weather: Forty Years of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), page 98:

Jake listened as the newscaster reported a tornado approaching their general area from the southwestern corner of the county. She jumped and paled. “The storm!”
He'd seen people with severe fears of storms before. But at the terror in her eyes, he knew it went deeper than that.[…]Lilapsophobia was a very real condition.

2019, Calle J. Brookes, chapter 102, in Holding the Truth:


mycophobia

From myco- (“fungus, mushroom”) + -phobia.


Romancelandia

From romance + -land + -ia. Popularized within the romance literature community beginning in the late 2000s to early 2010s. First attested in print in 2009.

Paranormals had been on the fringes of Romancelandia almost since its inception but became huge business in the early 2000s.

2009, Sarah Wendell, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels, page 125:

I became a native of Romancelandia, writing “from the heart” (as the disgruntled woman at my talk said), from my dual but not dueling hearts, simultaneously crafting academic and fiction writing about falling in love.

2016, Catherine M. Roach, Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture, page 43:

RT was created and run by RT Book Reviews magazine, formerly known as Romantic Times, which was for many years the paper of record in Romancelandia.

2020, Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist, unnumbered page:

The sphere or community of romance writers, readers, and novels.

In other words, fictionalized Arabiastan in desert romancelandia bears some resemblance both to contemporary Saudi Arabia and to a historical notion of the Arabian Peninsula.

2015, Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, unnumbered page:

In real life, I hope these kind of IVF mistakes don't happen, but in Romancelandia, when it happens, there's always a sexy, single billionaire involved!

2016, Andrea Laurence, The CEO's Unexpected Child, page 2:

In Romancelandia, it was easy to miraculously find a couple of stray dogs for Adam and crew to train as service dogs, but in real life, it takes a lot of hard work, money, and time to find the right dog to do the amazing things a service animal can do.

2019, Teri Anne Stanley, Big Chance Cowboy, unnumbered page:

The idealized fictional setting of romance novels.


bodice-rippery

She says that her first novel was born out of a profound love of medieval history, but I fear that what she really loves is historical romance, fantasy, and bodice-rippery.

1990 May, Peter T. Garratt, “Ys OK”, in Interzone, page 66:

A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.

2016, The Chemist review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 November 2016, page 188

While the genre has generally distanced itself from bodice-rippery, romance authors do continue to play with the look or feel or meaning of non-consensual sex and what’s sometimes called “dubious consent” or “dub-con” sex.

2020, Hannah McCann, Catherine M. Roach, “Sex and sexuality”, in Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo, editors, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction, page 422:

(informal) The archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction.


cisgay

en-adj

cisgay (comparative more cisgay, superlative most cisgay)

more cisgay (comparative)
most cisgay (superlative)

Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which [trans man] Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues.

2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, page 127:

A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337).

2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112

Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal.

2017, Jian Neo Chen, “Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee”, in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, volume 4, number 3, page 305:


paranormal romance

A subgenre of romance literature and speculative fiction involving paranormal elements, such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, or time travel.


cishetero

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

more cishetero (comparative)
most cishetero (superlative)

There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum, page 119:

This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma, page 112:

[…] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body, page 64:


cisheterosexual

cisheterosexual (comparative more cisheterosexual, superlative most cisheterosexual)

more cisheterosexual (comparative)
most cisheterosexual (superlative)

A jock might be queer, but his performance of masculinity fits so comfortably within the cisheterosexual norms that he is assumed to be straight.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 162:

This is sadly common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth experience trauma at higher rates than their cisheterosexual peers.

2020, Charlie McNabb, Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth, page 43:

In such an India, two things are of utmost priority: land and an heir (preferably a cisheterosexual, masculine male) to inherit it.

2020, Arunima Ray, “Thinking The Body, Figuring (The) Woman: Religion, caste, gender, and identity in literary representations”, in Goutam Karmakar, Nasima Islam, Sk Sagir Ali, editors, Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism, unnumbered page:


epistolophobia

en-noun

epistolophobia (usually uncountable, plural epistolophobias)

From Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ, “message, letter”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) + -ia.

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One of the signs of Saussure's progressing reticence was what he himself called his epistolophobia or graphophobia. His letters to colleagues almost invariably began with apologies for a delay (sometimes of years) in responding.

2012, Boris Gasparov, Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 31:

Elsewhere, from Ancient Greek, we have "epistolophobia" (the fear of receiving correspondence)

2018, Paul Anthony Jones, “The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement, number 6002, NI Syndication Limited:

I am in fact carrying on no correspondence at all except with booksellers, and even that has now transitioned into the malady all too familiar under the name epistolophobia. [Footnote 4: “Fear of, aversion to letters.”]

1800, Wilhelm Schlegel, Letter to Johann Diederich Gries in Göttingen:

2019, Laura Hale Brockway, Phobias that stymie writers, Impertinent Remarks - from Ragan Communications PR Daily, url=https://impertinentremarks.com/phobias-that-stymie-writers/
Epistolophobia — fear of correspondence

Ans. Epistolophobia, fear of letter writing. Lynd describes it as a common disease found in a large number of people who are afraid of letter writing. There are people who suffer from Epistolophobia and do not answer letters timely as they want to answer it when they really have something to say. However, such people, victims of Epsitolophobia are accused of rudeness whereas they are not. They just don’t want to write something unnecessary. They wait till something worth writing comes up.
E. Explain the lines: ‘As for Australia, one sits down to a letter to Australia in the mood of a man preparing to write a history of the civilised[sic] world. We do not know if everybody has this materialistic sense of space. We confess we have it strongly. We sincerely sympathise[sic] with the man whose second cousin in Australia congratulated him on his engagement. A letter from Australia throws a responsibility on a man from which the boldest may well shrink.’
Ans. There are some people who suffer from Epistolophobia and bad things happens with them is that sometimes they get letter from far continental distance which is not really worth replying. In such moment that person starts making excuse[sic] for not answering the letter. What if the letter arrives to that person in Australia when he has sat for writing something very important? shall the letter distract the person anyway? Does that person is in a leisure to read such unnecessary congratulating letter or even reply of a letter that was sent some 11 years ago. Author sympathises[sic] with such person who is in such circumstances.

2021, Robert Lynd, Writing Letters, Aligarh Muslim University Press D. How does the author describe the disease of epistobhobia?[sic]

An abnormal or irrational fear of correspondence, especially the receiving or writing of letters or messages.


Scorbus

Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.

2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian:

For Harry Potter fandom, the idea of a romantic relationship (or ship) between Albus/Scorpius or "Scorbus," the ship's portmanteau, is nothing new.

2018, Emily E. Roach, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child”, in Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse, page 133:

For years, Scorbus fans had almost no canonical information with which to base their fan works, therefore fics varied wildly in characterisation.

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 98

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.


SOGI

In addition, persecution from within the refugee community can make it imperative that LGBTQI Syrians hide their SOGI, which may limit their access to protection.

2018, Alex Odlum, “To Stay or to Go?: Decision-Making of LGBTQI Syrians in Mixed Migration Flows”, in Arzu Güler, Denise Venturi, Maryna Shevtsova, editors, LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, page 84:

There are diverse terminologies in use because individuals think about and experience their SOGI in various and diverse ways.

2019, Patrick Tomczyk, “Queer bodies and queer practices: The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy”, in Susan Hogan, editor, Arts Therapies and Gender Issues: International Perspectives on Research, page 111:

Asking patients their SOGI will enable you to provide relevant, specific, and compassionate care that is patient centered and grounded in appropriate language.

2020, Lynn S. Bickley, Bates' Guide To Physical Examination and History Taking, unnumbered page:

sexual orientation
sexual orientation#English

Initialism of sexual orientation and gender identity.


turn a number of shades of red

en-verb

turn a number of shades of red (third-person singular simple present turns a number of shades of red, present participle turning a number of shades of red, simple past and past participle turned a number of shades of red)

turns a number of shades of red (present singular third-person)
turning a number of shades of red (participle present)
turned a number of shades of red (participle past)
turned a number of shades of red (past)

I must have turned 2 shades of red. Talk about embarrassed.

2017 September 5, "Ms.Caramel" (username), Sandra Rose (blog):

Tristan craned his neck, but not before Fred suddenly looked over at us, turned 17 shades of red and ducked behind a palm tree, busily arranging tortilla chips in little anally retentive rows.

1997 August 5, Courtney Weaver, “When straights can't take "yes" for an answer”, in Salon Magazine (article):

To say that Midorima turned a billion shades of red would be an understatement.

2015 August 5, "nonochuu" (username), Tumblr (blog):

(intransitive, idiomatic) To blush, especially with embarrassment or shame


Hitlerphobia

Something, however, that looked good in print evolved, the Intergovernmental Coference on Refugees. With the announcement of its creation, the doomed victims of Hitlerphobia caught a glimmer of hope. The glimmer turned to despair as the horrors deepened.

1944, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

The title of Mr. Taylor's book is not, then, its only fraud: under the guise of “revision" it substitutes for blatant Germanophobia and Hitlerphobia an infinitely more subtle condemnation of the Fuehrer and his country.

1964, David A. Dunn, Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:

But the Hitlerphobia horrified him to such a degree that he lost contact with reality. He was paralyzed. He waited eleven days , till 7/3/1941, till he was in a condition to talk a to the people.

1978, Izaak Goldberg, The Miracles Versus Tyranny, Philosophical Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

However, in an article written by Fromm entitled ‘The Jewish Defence League - Kosher Conservatives?’ (Straight Talk, vol. 3, no. 5, January-February 1971), it is stated that the JDL suffers from Hitlerphobia and that its only concern is with anti-Semitism.

1987, Stanley R. Barrett, Is God a Racist?: The Right Wing in Canada, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

It is as facile for Mr. Kupchan to dismiss such fears as Russophobia as it was for Mr. Chamberlain to dismiss the prewar fears of Germany's neighbors as Hitlerphobia.

2006, Jan Nowak, Polska droga do NATO: listy, dokumenty, publikacje (Archiwum Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego w Zakładzie Narodowym im. Ossolińskich), Tow. Przyjaciół Ossolineum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269:

You're missing the point. This is about the fact that this content is not
appropriate for the page its listed on, not about any kind of hitlerphobia.

2007 November 26, eBoundHost: Artur, “Re: who wrote this”, in muc.lists.freebsd.chat (Usenet):

Hitlerphobia is so pronounced in the West that Austria may
demolish Hitler’s birthplace for no good reason.

2016 June 15, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Hitlerphobia!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):


unfearable

I merely wish to say, that I looked upon Willis as a contemptible, unfearable rival, and upon Fane as rather dangerous.


ultranice

en-adj

ultranice (comparative more ultranice, superlative most ultranice)

more ultranice (comparative)
most ultranice (superlative)

It's in an ultranice neighborhood. Pretty close to your school and to the boutique where — knock wood — I think I'm going to be working.

2013, Lesley Ann McDaniel, Big Sky Bachelor, page 55:


KSR

Since, I've written more, mostly MSR and KSR.

1998 July 13, Athena1600, “Re: ARCHIVISTS AND AUTHORS!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

It's the identification thing... maybe some of the people writing KSR *do* hate Mulder.

1998 December 3, Daddy793, “Re: Question for SKipper fic authors”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm a MSR and a KSR type myself, these are the stories I WANT to read.

1999 January 2, Char Priolo, “Re: "A KeyChain in the snow"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) Krycek/Scully romance; fan fiction involving a romantic relationship between the characters Alex Krycek and Dana Scully of the The X-Files.


love polygon

/ˈlʌv ˈpɒlɪɡən/

This entangled love polygon (for it is far larger than a triangle) would seem to be at the heart of the conflict among the characters.6 Clearly, unrequited love, love triangles, intense fascinations, the absurdities of love,[…]

2020 November 17, Dianne Rothleder, Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 43:

A situation in which at least two people vie for the love of another individual.


minor-attracted person

en-noun

minor-attracted person (plural minor-attracted persons or minor-attracted people)

minor-attracted persons (plural)
minor-attracted people (plural)

Coined to serve as an umbrella term for nepiophiles, pedophiles, hebephiles, and ephebophiles.

(nonstandard) A pedophile (including nepiophiles), hebephile, or ephebophile.


talking phase

The pressure men feel to fulfill the initiator function is directly linked to the ways in which they conceive of and utilize the group and talking phases of the relationship progression. It is not socially acceptable for a man to just ...

2018 January 31, Dana M. Malone, From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses (The American Campus), Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

Using ghosting is also much more likely if the relationship was not that serious. Indeed, ghosting occurs the most often in situations where there are low levels of commitment, such as being in the talking phase or just hooking up, and the least in “official” relationships (Truscelli & Guerrero, 2019).

2020 January 8, Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen, Walid A. Afifi, Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

The phase in the contact between people where romantic interest starts to develop.


Irishphobia

Continuing Irishphobia, in fact, caused some concern when the Civil War erupted upon the nation.

1971, John B. Duff, The Irish in the United States, page 20:

It is in this context of Irishphobia that the racist caricature of the drunken, violent, ignorant Paddy was established.

1996, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, Ernest Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, page 182:


blinded by nostalgia

For example, in everyday discussions about popular culture, it is common to find the claim that one's aesthetic appreciation is “blinded by nostalgia” (or that one is wearing “nostalgia goggles”): maybe you think movies were better[…]

2018 November 15, Florian Cova, Sébastien Réhault, Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

88 Finally, Zuckerman suggested, critics of Big Media may merely be "blinded by nostalgia" for some "golden age 30 or 40 years ago" when broadcast and newspaper companies were independently owned and operated. In fact, he claims,[…]

2012 May 4, Ronald V. Bettig, Jeanne Lynn Hall, Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 36:

To believe experiences and objects in popular culture (often TV shows, video games etc) from one's past outweigh modern counterparts in terms of quality.


Elsanna

Ultimately, Elsanna femslash considers the repressive power of sexual taboo insofar as it can reject that power, electing instead, as Elsa's character sings in the film's coming-out scene par excellence, to "let it go."

2019, Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, “Introduction: Entering the Fringe”, in Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, editors, Representing Kink: Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture, page 11:

Fans of the show Supernatural have created digitally manipulated images of its two male leads, the Wincester brothers, in bed together (aka “Wincest”), and fan-fiction stemming from the popular children’s film Frozen (2013) casts the two sisters, Elsa and Anna, as lovers (aka “Elsanna”).

2019, Lara Karaian, “Relative Lust: Accidental Incest’s Affective and Legal Resonances”, in Law, Culture and the Humanities, volume 15, number 3, pages 8–9:

While other male/male fan pairings were referred to more often than elsanna, it was the first and only female/female pairing that I came across during my search.

2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 43

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of the fictional sisters Elsa and Anna from the Frozen franchise.


pro-shipper

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

From pro- + shipper (“one who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between characters”). Some posit that the second sense originated as a blend of problematic + shipper.

prefix

I think this whole thing is a semantic misunderstanding.. the anti-shippers and the pro-shippers are putting entirely different meanings into the phrase 'in love'.

1996 July 9, Chris Byler, “Re: 'PUSHER was a 'Shipper!! *gak*!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

For all you pro-shippers and anti-shippers keep posting and debating. Someone is watching you.

1997 April 25, Terry Luck, “Re: 'SHIPPERS SUCK!!!!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

As a pro-shipper, I think it's gonna be a long season. Will spring ever get here?

1997 November 24, Susan J. Daniell, “Re: Shippy parts lead into MOVIE!!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) One who supports a specific ship or shipping in general.


anti-relationshipper

I realize the subject of the nature of M&S's relationship is a sore point around here, but I've never written about it before, and was invited to share my two cents. I'd like to propose that in addition to relationshippers and anti-relationshippers, there is a third faction of viewers, such as myself, who for lack of a better word I'll call "fence-sitters."

1996 June 24, Deb Mikels, “Never say never”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I would probably be classed as an anti-relationshipper myself, because my advice would be to close out the Tease and have them settle down to a deep, abiding, nonsexual love.

1996 November 6, Lee Burwasser, “Re: Are shippers dumb?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I am a fervent and proud anti-relationshipper. No non-platonic relationship whatsoever, and I'm happy.

1998 April 2, Sean Carroll, “Re: RELATIONSHIPPER OR FRIENDSHIPPER?????”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) A person who opposes the idea of a romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.


relationshipper

From relationship + -er. Emerged in early online fandom of the television series The X-Files as a term for fans who supported the possibility of a Mulder/Scully romance. First attested on alt.tv.x-files in January 1996, but it was seemingly already in use by then.

I don’t care what the relationshippers say, it’s just so OBVIOUS to try to get the two of them together and the X-Files has never been obvious.

1996, Paul Mitchell, The Duchovny Files: The Truth Is In Here, page 190:

There were the relationshippers whose focus was on Mulder and Scully’s relationship, or the MSR as it was called (with a possible emphasis on romance).

2002, Tom Kessenich, EXaminations: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6-9 of The X-files, page 4:

In media fan lingo, the idea of an OTP—the One True Pairing, a fan's absolute favorite fictional couple—can be tossed around rather casually. In terms of my history as a relationshipper, Willow and Oz will always be mine, but the real OTP in my fan identity is Buffy and me.

2012, Lily Rothman, “'I'd Very Still': Anthropology of a Lapsed Fan”, in Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion, page 134:

(fandom slang) A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.


it's going

A: How's it going? B: It's going.

(informal) An apathetic or negative response to the informal greeting "how's it going?".


pup play

Coordinate term: ponyplay

He needed to give up control and serve. He came to the dungeon for pup play, a common fetish. Once our scene started, he kneeled for me to collar him and pranced around the floor on a leash, eagerly sat up, barked, and rolled over on command. Sit! Stay! Good boy!

2015, Lux Alani, “On Authenticity”, in The Little Vanilla Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

It’s important to note, firstly, that pup play isn’t a sexual activity so much as it is a head space,” said Amp, a puppy, a gamer, a porn performer, and the cohost of Watts the Safeword, a kink-friendly sex-education YouTube channel. “For DOGGONE’s coworker, pup play may be a comfort thing, or a social thing, or even a way for him to redefine who he is as a person so that he can take control.”[...]
A pup name is essentially a nickname, and people use nicknames socially and professionally. So long as the kinkier aspects of pup play—tail wagging, barking, ball chasing—are kept out of the workplace, DOGGONE’s coworker using his puppy name at work doesn’t involve the office in his sex life.”

2016 June 23, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Eugene Weekly, →OCLC, page 31:

But if a pup doesn’t like romping and rolling around but rather just wants to play games with his Handler, that’s their prerogative and right as pup. Just like pups need to be accepting that there are male, female, and transgendered pups. That there are pups that sex is an integral part of their pup play, while others, there are no sexual aspects in their play.

2018 July, Papa Woof Roth, “Puppy: Musings on Then and Now”, in Barking News, page 6:

The kink practice of role-playing as a young dog.


the heart wants what the heart wants

the heart wants what it wants
the heart wants what it wants#English

Alternative form of the heart wants what it wants


child sex abuse

A 2020 study that examined three decades of research on sex education found that comprehensive sex ed that begins in elementary school can help prevent child sex abuse, among other benefits.

2022 April 14, Olga Khazan, “Republicans Have Sex Ed All Wrong”, in The Atlantic:

Online child sex abuse has increased by 27 per cent in just two years, as the NSPCC called for tougher laws to combat “digital breadcrumbing” that signposts paedophiles to illegal content.

2022 April 15, Charles Hymas, “Online child sex abuse up by 27 per cent in two years”, in The Telegraph:

child sexual abuse
child sexual abuse#English

(crime) Alternative form of child sexual abuse.


child sexual abuse

Alternative form: child sex abuse

More than $100 million has been paid out to victims of institutional child sexual abuse in Queensland, amid more than 13,000 national applications for redress.

2022 April 14, Cloe Read, “$100m paid out to child sexual abuse victims in schools, churches”, in Brisbane Times:

One meta-analysis found that European countries, many of which offer comprehensive, mandatory sex ed, including for young children, tend to have the lowest rates of child sexual abuse in the world.

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.


scopophilism

In order to explore the possible audience responses as they watch the female performers' bodies, psychological theories on scopophilism and narcissism can be used to analyze Wei's performances.

2007, Iris Hsin-chun Tuan, Alternative Theater in Taiwan: Feminist and Intercultural Approaches:

Voyeurism is a subset of scopophilism in which the observer preferentially watches scandalous or sexual activities.

2007, J.K. Petersen, Cawood James S., Corcoran James S., Michael H. Ph.D., Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History & Applications, Second Edition:

"Visual pleasure" is a straightforward characterization, for example, when compared to terms with a more academic ring, such as "ocularcentrism" or the Freudian "scopophilism."

2010, Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff, Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition:

I remember how alien this seemed to me, having being brought up in a biological school that thought of instincts in the plural. But the same fondness for pairs is to be found again and again: love-hate; exhibitionism-scopophilism; etc. It is as if Freud had a difficulty in contemplating any topic unless he could divide it into two opposites, and never more than two.

2013, José Bleger, Symbiosis and Ambiguity: A Psychoanalytic Study:


ShinDeku

Blend of Shinsou (心操) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hitoshi Shinsou and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#Class 1-A students


KamiDeku

Blend of Kaminari (上鳴) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Denki Kaminari and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


Mordetwi

(fandom slang) The crackship of characters Mordecai from Regular Show and Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.


DekuMeli

Blend of Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶) and Melissa.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Melissa Shield from the My Hero Academia series.


BakuDeku

Blend of Bakugou (爆豪) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katsuki Bakugou and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


IzuOcha

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka from the My Hero Academia series.


DekuJirou

Blend of Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶) and Jirou (耳郎).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Kyouka Jirou from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#Class 1-a students


MidoTsu

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Tsuyu Asui from the My Hero Academia series.


KiriDeku

Blend of Kirishima (切島) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Eijirou Kirishima and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


TogaDeku

Blend of Toga (渡我) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Himiko Toga and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#League of Villains


IzuMina

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Mina Ashido from the My Hero Academia series.


DekuMomo

Blend of Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶) and Momo (百).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Momo Yaoyorozu from the My Hero Academia series.


Green Tea

Calques of Japanese 緑 (みどり midori) and 茶 (お茶 ocha), homonymous to green tea.


IidaDeku

Blend of Iida (飯田) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Tenya Iida and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


TodoDeku

Blend of [Shouto] Todoroki (轟) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Shouto Todoroki and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


move someone to tears

en-verb

move someone to tears (third-person singular simple present moves someone to tears, present participle moving someone to tears, simple past and past participle moved someone to tears)

moves someone to tears (present singular third-person)
moving someone to tears (participle present)
moved someone to tears (participle past)
moved someone to tears (past)

(idiomatic, transitive, especially passive voice) to cause to cry


Serbophilia

The love or admiration of Serbia, the Serbian people, culture, or language


Malayophobia

Fear, hatred of, or prejudice against Malays, a large ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.


afraidly

en-adv

afraidly (comparative more afraidly, superlative most afraidly)

more afraidly (comparative)
most afraidly (superlative)

From Middle English affrayedly, affrayitly; equivalent to afraid + -ly.

Birdes with many a piteous pew, / Afraidly in the Aire they flew. So long as they had ſtrength to flée / Then ſwattered down into the ſea:[…]

1648, David Lindsay, “A Dialogue, of the Miserable Estate of the World, Between Experience and the Courteour”, in The VVorkes of the Famous and Worthie Knight, Sʳ. David Lindsay. of the Mount, Alias, Lyon, King at Armes. […], Edinburgh: […] Gedeon Lithgovv:

He came back gain very affrayedly, and out at the door, and show[ed] so mony as bidden in the hall what he had heard, wha assayit to pass to the chalmer, to know what was there;

1572–1578, Domestic Annals of Scotland, published 1859, page 106:

When Scottishmen hes séene them sa / Affrayedly flee all their way[…]

1620, [John Barbour], The Actes and Life of the Most Victorious Conquerour, Robert Bruce, King of Scotland VVherein Also Are Contained the Martiall Deeds of the Valiant Princes, Edward Bruce, Syr Iames Dowglas, Erle Thomas Randel, Walter Stewart, and Sundrie Others, Edinburgh: […] Andro Hart, page 342:

[…]; many honeſt men then followed, and made ſuch diligence, that they cauſed the French once to retire ſomewhat affrayedly.

1644, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland; Containing Five Books: Together with Some Treatises Conducing to the History, London: […] John Raworth, for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, page 204:

Could these be men just returned from battle?—those gentle, half-timid individuals who already had forgotten their morning’s lust and now were afraidly polite?

1919, Harold M[elvin] Hays, chapter II, in Cheerio!, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 31:

“Eyes—”[…]Charlie scribed directions. “Teeth —[…].” Charlie wrote. “Entire face—This show signs of dilapidation, elliptickle contortion & curviture of the smile. This need to be removed, stretched over portait of Apollo Belvedere and baked 4 hrs. at even temperature.” He pause slowly. I listen to his silence. “Are that all?” I pronounce distinctually. “All except your complexion,” he denote. “That of course should be bleached to match your new hair & eyes. I should snuggest the Wawaw Treatment.” “How you do that?” I jar afraidly. “Merely by placing your head in a tub of hot pineapple jam and keeping him there until satisfied,” he pulmote.

1924 March 23, Wallace Irwin, “Letters Of A Japanese Schoolboy: Togo Prefers His Own Style Of Beauty”, in The Sun, volume 24, number 12D, Baltimore, Md.:

Little rabbit hopping afraidly, if that’s fit to use outside the Poets Corner of the magazine, in the road ahead shys off fortunately, into the grass, and I breathe better.

1926 June 7, “The Daily Grist: Ground Out by the “Dusty” Miller: Rabbit”, in Wilmington News-Journal, eighty-ninth year, number 202, Wilmington, Ohio, page two:

Still Bill held the deposit slip in his hands half-afraidly, really wanting to hold the money, but the banker allayed those fears too.

1934 November 29, “Writer Recalls Good Old Days When Storekeeper Was Banker for Farmer”, in The Oklahoma News, volume 29, number 47, Oklahoma City, Okla., page 3:

“Open yo’ mout’, boy,” she said, “whe’ yo’ get dis pin?” “Miss Diggs giv’ it to me, mum,” murmured Alfie slowly, afraidly.

1926, Eric [D.] Walrond, Tropic Death, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, page 162:

Following directions of IPPC, hundreds of country governments try afraidly to tackle pending environmental disaster, pledging lukewarmly to lower down planet global warming by country emission mitigation during the decades following.

2021, Giovanni Spampinato, Alessandro Malerba, Francesco Calabrò, Carlo Bernardo, Carmelo Musarella, “Cork Oak Forest Spatial Valuation Toward Post Carbon City by CO₂ Sequestration”, in Carmelina Bevilacqua, Francesco Calabrò, Lucia Della Spina, editors, New Metropolitan Perspectives: Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 178), volume 2, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, section 1 (“Introduction”), page 1321:

He could see the fear crawling in his eyes too. Allen raised his arm and pointed at the chandelier. James looked up afraidly.

2021, Ayush Choudhary, The Blackwood Manor: Where the Legend Comes Alive, Notion Press, →ISBN:


Lumity

Lumity isn't the only queer couple confirmed in the lastest episode!

2021 August 3, Mey Rude, “Disney's The Owl House Just Made Lumity's Relationship Official”, in Out:

The most popular and well-known aspect of this in The Owl House is Lumity, or the bond between Luz and Amity.

2021 September 10, Emma Tong, “Review of the second season of The Owl House”, in The Stute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, page 10:

Fans wait eagerly for the next episode excited to see more Lumity and to see how the story will progress despite the shortened season.

2022, Tiffany Wells, "The Gay Agenda: Being Accepted in Children's Media", thesis submitted to Georgia Southern University, page 36

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luz Noceda and Amity Blight from the animated television series The Owl House.


Italygate

(US politics) A QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theory alleging that the 2020 United States presidential election was rigged, with satellites and military technology used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy.


recipromantic

en-adj

recipromantic (comparative more recipromantic, superlative most recipromantic)

more recipromantic (comparative)
most recipromantic (superlative)

(Example: If you are recipromantic, you might form crushes on people whom you discover have a crush on you.)

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, unnumbered page:

In terms of attraction, Hyourin is asexual, idemromantic, and recipromantic.

2016, Christine Feraday, "For Lack of a Better Word: Neo-Identities in Non-Cisgender, Non-Straight Communities on Tumblr", thesis submitted to Ryerson University, page 54

Lily who is white, gray-ace, recipromantic, and nonbinary said “[in the] classes I have [it] doesn’t normally come up, ‘cause it’s all science. I just try to stay on topic to get the work done.”

2018, Elijah G. Stucki, "Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 114

(neologism) Experiencing romantic attraction only to people known to reciprocate one's feelings.


quoiromantic

quoiromantic (comparative more quoiromantic, superlative most quoiromantic)

more quoiromantic (comparative)
most quoiromantic (superlative)

Learned borrowing from French quoi (“what”) + romantic. Coined as a non-vulgar synonym of WTFromantic.

lbor

They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)

2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, →DOI, →ISBN, page 31:

For a while, I thought I might be quoiromantic because of the frustration and confusion I felt about how subjective romantic attraction is.

2018, Christina Lang, Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color, Bates College, page 69:

These participants identified on the asexual spectrum, including identities such as asexual (Miranda), demisexual (Desi), and quoiromantic (Jackie).

2018 May 5 – June 30, Ryan A. Miller, “Toward Intersectional Identity Perspectives on Disability and LGBTQ Identities in Higher Education”, in Journal of College Student Development, volume 59, number 3:

(rare, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


WTFromantic

en-adj

WTFromantic (comparative more WTFromantic, superlative most WTFromantic)

more WTFromantic (comparative)
most WTFromantic (superlative)

Lee, who is white, asexual, wtfromantic, agender, and has disabilities said that “resilience [is]...showing love for yourself.”

2018, Elijah G. Stucki, "Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 128

Others yet find it core to their identities to provide thick description around what it means to experience platonic attraction (or, in some cases, queerplatonic or wtf'''romantic attractions).

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:

For example, Ayelet (18, gray-a, biromantic and WTFromantic) says she sees no difference between the two, aside from the expectation for exclusivity in romance.

2020, Gaia Steinberg, "The Relational Matrix: Sexuality, Romance and Coupledom in the Lives of Asexual Individuals", thesis submitted to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, page 47

(vulgar, humorous, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


scare the daylights out of

en-verb

scare the daylights out of (third-person singular simple present scares the daylights out of, present participle scaring the daylights out of, simple past and past participle scared the daylights out of)

scares the daylights out of (present singular third-person)
scaring the daylights out of (participle present)
scared the daylights out of (participle past)
scared the daylights out of (past)

scare the living daylights out of#English

Alternative form of scare the living daylights out of


Shakarian

There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.

2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter:

UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]

2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter:

Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂

2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.


blennophobe

From Ancient Greek βλέννος (blénnos, “mucus, slime”) + -phobe, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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If the thought of crab-walking with an oozing, mucous-like mud sucking at your boots and gloves makes you think that caving might not be the sport for you, you might be a blennophobe, someone who is afraid of slime.

2005, Terry Owens, Extreme Marriage Mastering the Ever-Changing, Life-Long Adventure, page 220:

'Welcome,' he oozes, and it's perhaps as well I'm no blennophobe because he's one slimy fuckbucket.

2010, Bill Thunder, The Bastardizer, page 31:

This strange organism is created when millions of single-celled animals come together to form a slimy puddle—not good for a blennophobe.

2011, Joel Levy, Phobiapedia: All the Things We Fear the Most!, page 61:


Poképhile

3)Which Pokemon would you have sexual intercourse with if you were a Pokephile.

1999 April 5, C. Hanson, “Giving in to the Survey virus.”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

Even if Silly Putty *is* a girl Ditto, what he did is *still* disgusting. I'm not some sort of Poképhile!

2000 February 10, RobfromVoid, “[PW!] A Silly Birthday Party”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

Besides doing it with pokemon is much more fun than doing it with that pokephile. . . wait, I'm doing the same thing. . .

2000 June 20, ChocoZell, “Jenny vs. Team Rocket MSTd”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

he's a pokephile

2000 July 1, pst0kely, “Professor Oak molests pokemon”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

(fandom slang) A person who is sexually attracted to Pokémon.


buttsore

en-adj

buttsore (comparative more buttsore, superlative most buttsore)

more buttsore (comparative)
most buttsore (superlative)

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

My dad was pretty buttsore that I took the money out of my college fund, but when I explained that it would fold into the purchase price, he recognized that business smarts runs in our family.

2010, Elizabeth Davis, “Almost Famous” (33:43 from the start), in Castle, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Bella Lombardo (Adriana DeMeo):

Chimpy wants Yet Another Colossal SPNAK! ?
Just how many do I need to give the buttsore little loser before he admits the tears streaming down his face are spank-related?

2014 January 17, [Tor] Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler Emeritus, “Re: So it's true.”, in alt.cesium (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-25:

Don't get "buttsore" that I don't wait for an intelligent reply from you.

2017 June 22, jillery, “The Creationist minority”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-22:

(slang, derogatory) Overly annoyed or upset.


febfem

Contraction of female-exclusive bisexual female.

possibly The spiciest take of today from me: generalising bi women is weird as hell and demanding that the only type of ""good"" bi women are febfems is 😐

2021 April 11, thea (@wingfem), Twitter:

i'm a febfem and i've never had a boyfriend in my life, now what

2021 September 22, sarah (@sarahofzion), Twitter:

i feel very lucky to be a goldstar febfem.

2022 July 4, wait shes selling vegan edibles?! (@commieharley), Twitter:

(LGBT, gender-critical) A cisgender bisexual woman who exclusively dates other cisgender women.


love-hatred

en-noun

love-hatred (countable and uncountable, plural love-hatreds)

(psychology) A state of mind involving feelings of love-hate.


age is just a number

Age is not an important attribute in a person.


girlslash

For quotations using this term, see Citations:girlslash.

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


cisbi

As a cishet married to a cisbi this doesn’t make her less bi for being in our relationship.

2020 January 1, RPGHour Studios (@RPGHour), Twitter:

The way cisgays gatekeep cisbis from the LGBT lunch table, telling them that they cannot sit with us and are too cishet for team rainbow

if a cisbi comes into queer spaces where we’re taking about our tangible oppression & they start yelling about not feeling *included* bc they’re in a straight passing relationship, sorry, but we aren’t even having the same convos, so there’s no point in trying to talk with them.

2022 June 7, sunglasses cryptid (@railroadlesbian), Twitter:

(LGBT, informal, neologism) A cisgender and bisexual person.


Shenko

Finished my Shenko doodle but tumblr is barfing all over me. *kicks tumblr*

2011 July 8, Kia Purity (@kiapurity), Twitter:

I don't get some Shenko fans. It's like, yeah Kaidan is my space husbando but I ain't gonna flip shit if you don't like him lmao

2012 December 9, hannah (@floraofmoon), Twitter:

I have just read a 500k word Shenko fic that was far better than the game.

2020 February 5, Siân (@alphra_), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko from the video game series Mass Effect.


Shiara

i'm having so many shiara feelings lately and i don't know why oh my god i love liara so much what a cutie

liara and f!shepard are the best. I love them. I love my Shep and Liara, i love seeing other people's f'sheps and Liara. Shiara is too pure

2016 November 17, Yeehaw Todd (@AfroPrincex), Twitter:

Daily reminder that I stan Shiara and that I live and die for them

2021 February 25, Atrast nal Tunsha, salroka (@Illusive_s0ul), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Liara T'Soni from the video game series Mass Effect.


small dick energy

(slang, vulgar) Lack of self-confidence; timidity, diffidence.


Larsadie

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lars Barriga and Sadie Miller from the Steven Universe series.


Amedot

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Amethyst and Peridot from the Steven Universe series.


Periven

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Peridot and Steven Universe from the Steven Universe series.


Perinel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Peridot and Spinel from the Steven Universe series.


Pearlmethyst

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pearl and Amethyst from the Steven Universe series.


Pearlrose

Blend of pearl and rose (from rose quartz).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pearl and Rose Quartz from the Steven Universe series.


Pearlnet

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pearl and Garnet from the Steven Universe series.


Stevinel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steven Universe and Spinel from the Steven Universe series.


Harlivy

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dr. Harleen Quinzel ("Harley Quinn") and Dr. Pamela Isley ("Poison Ivy") from DC Comics.


Rupphire

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ruby and Sapphire from the Steven Universe series.


Connverse

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Connie Maheswaran and Steven Universe from the Steven Universe series.


Kitivy

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Charles Brown ("Kite Man") and Dr. Pamela Isley ("Poison Ivy") from the Harley Quinn TV series.


Lapidot

See also: Lapidoth
Romanization of Hebrew לַפִּידוֹת (Lapīḏōṯ, literally “torches”), a pluralization of לפיד (lapíd, “torch”).

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Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council
w:Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council

A moshav in Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council council area, Northern District, Israel.


Stevonnie

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steven Universe and Connie Maheswaran from the Steven Universe series, who combine to create the character Stevonnie.


pronounphobia

en-noun

pronounphobia (countable and uncountable, plural pronounphobias)

Pronounphobia omg. Do they realise that they’ve used pronouns in that tweet 🤦

2020 April 10, Charlie (@ThenonbinaryC), Twitter:

Fr [for real]. All this internalised pronounphobia, like duh, everyone has pronouns

2020 November 11, 'Ala ad-Din (@IbnAbiQ), Twitter:

I agree, there needs to be more research into pronounphobia. Why do so many people get so upset about a part of speech?

2021 May 19, Max Harvey (@max_harvey), Twitter:

(chiefly sarcastic) Fear, hatred, or aversion to pronouns, especially as relates to gender.


Johnkat

Totally shipping johnkat. Just for the record.

2011 December 9, gimnim (@lordbisleepykimalingual), Twitter:

having mysterious inexplicable resurgence of johnkat feelings oops

2012 March 28, Undead Anime Trash Princess (@caporushes), Twitter:

just saw Johnkat referred to as a 'crack pairing' ...... i genuinely think people don't know what that term originally refers to at this point

2019 November 16, zen (@archeradicator), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Egbert and Karkat Vantas from the Homestuck series.


Johndave

I SHIP EVERYTHING because I am an equal opportunity sort of gal. I secretly ship JohnDave a lot too.

2011 January 8, M. Elizabeth Em. (@weareallpuppets), Twitter:

johndave shippers are the most devoted/gung ho shippers i have ever seen..........

2012 February 26, emily hu (@emilyyyhu), Twitter:

i’ll forever hold johndave close to my heart fhdhdhdd

2019 September 7, fuglying (@fnyacking), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Egbert and Dave Strider from the Homestuck series.


Stridercest

I'm writing Stridercest fic holla if you wanna read it when i am done

2012 June 24, que snacky, snacky (@badsnacks), Twitter:

I think one of the grossest Homestuck ships is Stridercest because of the fucked-up power dynamic.

2013 June 7, godless neutrois (@the_stars_abide), Twitter:

Are we going to ignore the fact that almost everyone in Homestuck shipped Stridercest?

2015 March 26, HealthcareBoywife (@das_uberchicken), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of brothers Dave Strider and Dirk Strider from the Homestuck series.


moirail

From the multimedia fiction work Homestuck, reportedly coined from the Ancient Greek μοῖρᾰ (moîra, “lot, destiny”), with potential influence from the term guardrail. In the series, moirallegience is one of four "quadrants" within the complex romance system of the alien troll species, described as being similar to the "concept of a soul mate, but in a more platonic sense," for the purpose of pacifying a partner who is dangerous.

uder

Look what my moirail got me for Christmas!

2012 December 24, Adelaide Robinson (@dordwaltz), Twitter:

my moirail is coming over to watch lotr tomorrow she has no idea what shes getting into omg

2012 December 24, m. d. geronimo (@jakestrider), Twitter:

moving into the house with my moirail and friends tomorrow ❤ sleepytime

2013 September 22, Lucien (@tunefulCandour), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) A platonic soulmate or life partner, especially one who exerts a calming influence.

bromance

an intense platonic relationship between men


Davekat

ship dynamics EXCEPT ITS LITERALLY JUST DAVEKAT (or what i know from fanfics ive read because im not done homestuck yet <3)
also includes:
- constant lighthearted teasing and banter
- cuddling
- helping each other overcome emotional boundaries
- i love them so much

2019 April 17, mspa_reading, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

Davekat is canon, and that's really all there is to say on the matter. <3
#homestuck #davekat

2019 May 9, Blimpcatt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

in honor of #homestuck day, i'm here to confess something: i used to be a davekat shipper except i mostly liked it as them hate dating instead of normal dating and i guess most of the fandom disagreed with me on that point. anyway, here's some fanart from 2013-2014

2020 April 13, prettypinkpansy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

davekat and romcom movie posters ? wat an outlandish idea.... o_o

2020 September 12, vomitcore, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas from the Homestuck series.


Hayffie

Effie/Haymitch or 'Hayffie' has been comically acknowledged by the actress Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie, […]

2014, Nicola Balkind, Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games, page 142:

Near the end of the movie, it finally happens. As they're saying goodbye, Effie and Haymitch plant a big wet one on each other. Then, all of Panem probably rejoices. Hayffie (Haymitch + Effie) appears to be a thing.

2015 December 21, Bill Bradley, “Elizabeth Banks Drops A 'Hunger Games' Bombshell About Effie And Haymitch”, in HuffPost:

With a romantic relationship between these two characters not explored within the stories, there are many fan fiction writers who choose to create one, thus creating Hayffie fan fiction.

2016, Misty Nichole Horning, "Responding to the Storyworld of The Hunger Games through a Fan Fiction Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of New Mexico, page 105

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Haymitch Abernathy and Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games series.


alloromantic

In Simon's case, the feeling is resolved by owning up to his gay identity, and he is almost immediately rewarded with a hunky new boyfriend – a rather optimistic ending that may appeal more to alloromantic than to aromantic aces.

2018, "Blue Ice-Tea", "Ace Mini-Review: 'Love, Simon'", AVENues Newsletters, October-December 2018, page 22

An alloromantic individual will enjoy activities associated with intimate relationships such as holding hands, kissing, cuddling, emotional intimacy, and commitment.

2019, Katherine Rachlin, “The Intersection of Gender Diversity and Asexuality: Psychotherapy with TGNC Individuals Who Identify as Ace”, in Gary J. Jacobson, Jan C. Niemira, Karalyn J. Violeta, editors, Sex, Sexuality, and Trans Identities: Clinical Guidance for Psychotherapists and Counselors, page 133:

"Do you think it's possible... Do you think two people could fall in love with no physical intimacy?"
I shrugged. “I mean, alloromantic asexual people must do it, right?”

2021, L. C. Mawson, Ethics in Magic, unnumbered page:


alloromantic

“The language and the physicality that are associated with romance and sexuality are not limited to people who are allosexuals or alloromantics,” they said.

2018 February 8, Talia Soglin, “Super Ace”, in Yale Daily News:

Seth: I don’t understand you alloromantics. Love letters, long walks in the park, listening to each other’s heartbeats? No thank you. I am only allosexual.

2021, Chloe O. Davis, “Allosexual”, in The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 21:

It is unfortunately not uncommon for allosexuals and alloromantics to see those on the asexuality or aromanticism spectrums as not having valid identities, as needing to be fixed.

2022 May 17, Alex Brown, “Alex Brown Reviews Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor”, in Locus:

Someone who experiences romantic attraction.


allocishet

en-adj

allocishet (comparative more allocishet, superlative most allocishet)

more allocishet (comparative)
most allocishet (superlative)

It's frustrating that allocishet folks are often unable to grasp the nuances of queer sex.

2018, K. M. Szpara, quoted in Caroline M. Yoachim, "Interview: K. M. Szpara", Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2018, unnumbered page

I can't think of a single allocishet person taking the time to explain their identity to anyone.

2022, Saundra Mitchell, Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder, unnumbered page:

Black consumers who are beyond the allocishet “norm” must search harder, look deeper, to find their community .

2022, Jessica P. Pryde, “Introduction”, in Jessica P. Pryde, editor, Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters, page xvii-xviii:

(LGBT, neologism) Allosexual, cisgender, and heterosexual.


grayromantic

I might be kind of vaguely aromantic, honestly. Or whatever. Grayromantic?

Grayromantic asexual people are between romantic and aromantic and less likely to experience romantic attraction compared to most people.

2019, Julie Xuemei Hu, Shondrah Tarrezz Nash, “Sexuality and Sexual Relationships throughout Life”, in Marriage and the Family: Mirror of a Diverse Global Society, Routledge, →ISBN:

Asexual people (who do not generally desire romantic connection with others), and people who identify as graysexual, grayromantic, or grayscale (comparatively low sexual or romantic desire for other) are also part of the TGD community.

2022, Reese Minshew, “Introduction”, in Treating Trauma in Trans People: An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:

Intermediate between romantic and aromantic; sometimes, but not usually, experiencing romantic attraction and desire.


split attraction model

We'll be looking more at the 'split attraction model' of sexuality in the next chapter, and how romantic attraction and sexual attraction can be different for different people.

2021, Erin Ekins, Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens On The Spectrum, page 34:

The Split Attraction Model distinguishes between romantic and sexual attraction, meaning that someone could be romantically attracted to anybody but only sexually attracted to other genders.

2022, Cate Campbell, Sex Therapy: The Basics, unnumbered page:

Within asexual contexts, people commonly reference this distinction as the “split attraction model” (Przyblo, 2019), and many use this model in describing their personal identities.

2022, Amanda L. Mollet, “Asexuality & Asexuality Studies”, in Kamden K. Strunk, Stephanie Anne Shelton, editors, Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education, page 45:

(psychology) A model of human desire which distinguishes sexual and romantic attraction.


arospec

arospec (comparative more arospec, superlative most arospec)

more arospec (comparative)
most arospec (superlative)

From aro (“aromantic”) + spec (“spectrum”).

After some research into various arospec (aromantic spectrum) identities, I found the term “wtfromantic” and a whole bunch of people who identified with that.

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, unnumbered page:

In fact, I've, uh... well, there's this forum for demisexual and other ace/arospec people, and I've been a member for a while.

2017, Talia Hibbert, That Kind of Guy, unnumbered page:

While there can still be a tendency for allosexual characters in YA science fiction to perform conscious and unconscious microaggressions against ace, acespec, aro and arospec characters, some recent novels manage to challenge the aphobic presumption of compulsory sexuality, and to ultimately create and sustain asexual-inclusive speculative worlds.

2021, Patricia Kennon, "Asexuality and the Potential of Young Adult Literature for Disrupting Allonormativity", International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Volume 2, Issue 1 (link)

(neologism) Belonging or related to the aromantic spectrum.


acespec

acespec (comparative more acespec, superlative most acespec)

more acespec (comparative)
most acespec (superlative)

From ace (“asexual”) + spec (“spectrum”).

For the show to completely and utterly ignore this is huge since there are very few representations of aro and ace-spec people in media of any kind.

2017 October 26, Melissa Reph, “You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'”, in The Muhlenberg Weekly, Muhlenberg College, page 3:

Be open to ALL acespec folx! No matter what other identities intersect with their acespec identity and no matter how they behave in whatever types of relationships they may have.

2020, Will, quoted in "Questions Of The Month", AVENues Newsletter, July-September 2020, page 23

(neologism) Belonging or related to the asexual spectrum.


aroness

people who believe gintoki's aroness can be 'fixed' really need to reevaluate themselves

2015 September 19, church (@gntmconfessions), Twitter:

While much more work is obviously needed on exploring Martin’s aceness and aroness, I want to suggest that Martin’s assertions suggest that while lesbian, Martin was also aromantic and asexual.

2021, Ela Przybyło, “Ace and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 26, number 1:

Not every aro-spec person is going to experience aroness the exact same way as another.

2021 June 15, Glitter's Garden (@GlittersGarden), Twitter:

(slang, neologism) The state of not experiencing romantic attraction to others.


Patrochilles

Mainly because I want to cry and see Patrochilles in all their glory!

2018, Nkiya Machona, quoted in Curiositales, September 2018, page 82

Perhaps even more problematically for the Patrochilles naysayers, is that this ambiguity throughout Homer's original epic is really not that ambiguous.

2021, Amelia Koen, "An Olive Pit, A Lyre, A Fig", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 8, Semester 2 (2021), page 19

The Twitter account Incorrect Patrochilles Quotes has over 20,000 followers and is entirely devoted to The Song of Achilles.

2021, Sarah Leidich, "From Muse To Material: The Defiance Of Homeric Identity Through Creative Adaptation", Meliora, Volume 1, Issue 1 (link)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.


aro-allo

aro-allo (comparative more aro-allo, superlative most aro-allo)

more aro-allo (comparative)
most aro-allo (superlative)

It was always clear that my beliefs — that an aro-allo woman was independent while an aro-allo man was a fuckboy — were gendered stereotypes I should disavow.

2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 130:

It seems like aro-allo people often have distinct experiences and face distinct challenges.

2020 August 12, Transcendragon (@a_the_orange), Twitter:

Aroallo people are not automatically hypersexual, nor are we predators.

2021 October 12, Ian Stobaugh, “Experiences of an aromantic, not asexual”, in The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, page 3:

(informal, neologism) Aromantic and allosexual.