Sherlolly

To exemplify, 16magnolias' Lessons in Love is described as containing 'sweet, slow Sherlolly' […]

2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions”, in Gabriele Griffin, editor, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, page 62:

Where there are undoubtedly some within the Sherlolly fandom who are attracted to the pairing because of the sexuality and charisma of Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal, there is a large and vocal section of fans who are inspired and encouraged by the characterization of Molly herself.

2018, Jennifer Phillips, “A Woman in a Man's (Fictional) World: Considering the Importance of Dr. Molly Hooper in the BBC's Modern Adaptation of Sherlock”, in Ashley Lynn Carlson, editor, Women in STEM on Television: Critical Essays, page 180:

The Sherlolly writing challenge specifies that authors must bring Sherlock and Molly together in a relationship by the happy ending.

2018, Jennifer Wojton, Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 151:

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


polyphobic

en-adj

polyphobic (comparative more polyphobic, superlative most polyphobic)

more polyphobic (comparative)
most polyphobic (superlative)

Relating to or characteristic of polyphobia.


dykeling

We encourage each GCN reader to sit in a comfortable place, close his/her eyes and dream of a NOLAG as nationally recognized recognized as the ACLU, NAACP, or NOW. Dream of little faglets and dykelings coming to you and asking what it was like to live in a time when people could hate you or kill you because of who loved.

1981 December 12, Kathy MacDonald, Jay Darnell, Anne Simon, Maryanne Kirkbride, “NOLAG Eats Wheaties”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:

They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.

2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:

(LGBTQ slang, rare) A young or immature lesbian.


emotional reasoning

(psychology) A cognitive process that occurs when a person believes that what they are feeling is true regardless of the evidence.


eurotophobia

In the judgement of Guido Almansi, sexuality in the sonnets in Roman dialect is haunted by blennorrhea and eurotophobia, and is thus a wholly negative thing.

2015, Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall, Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914:


homoflexibility

Essig divides society into the categories of heteroflexibility and heterorigidity and homoflexibility and homorigidity.

2002, Robert Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, Pilgrim Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 232:

Or what about hetero- and homoflexibility (the primarily heterosexual or homosexual orientation with occasional forays into things not typical of those sexualities)?

2011, "Ribbons", "Queeriosities: 'Adding to the ABCs of LGBs'", The Catalyst (Colorado College), Volume 42, Number 8, 11 November 2011, page 7

In other words, there is no place for homoflexibility in this cultural analysis of sexuality.

2015, B. C. Roberts, “Not Gay”: Another Way of (Not) Being Bi?, in the Journal of Bisexuality, volume 15, issue 4

(rare) The quality or state of being homoflexible.


crease up

en-verb

crease up (third-person singular simple present creases up, present participle creasing up, simple past and past participle creased up)

creases up (present singular third-person)
creasing up (participle present)
creased up (participle past)
creased up (past)

He fell flat on his face and everyone just creased up!

The last scene creased me up.

(informal, slang, UK, intransitive) To laugh (or make someone laugh) uncontrollably.


genderphobia

Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.

2005 January, Vincent Stephens, “Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia”, in Popular Music, volume 24, number 1, page 23:

She characterized women's reactions to a masculine person in a public rest room as “an example of genderphobia” (1996, 117), viewing such women as policing gender boundaries rather than believing that there really is a man in the women's rest room.

2008, Joan Z. Spade, Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.

2015, Virginia Nicholson, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities. Genderphobia is also very much used to enforce xenophobic and nationalist policies […]

2023 March 29, Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek, Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity: Beyond Adultcentrism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.


Spillow

Well, I'm beginning a campaign for Spike and Willow in 02. Wanna join for Spillow?

2002 October 10, Stephen Weick, “Re: The Bright side of Deep Down.”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):

Spillow is best. Spillow the drinkin' & gal-chasin' pair. They won't put Willow with a man romantically, I promise you that.

2002 October 10, Rose, “Re: Spike and Willow (spoilers for Same Time)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

You're all forgetting Spillow

2005 July 16, Yelps [username], “Re: What Happens When Buffy Is Done Baking?”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):

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


Spander

And lord knows, if you want there's plenty of Spuffy and Spander to last a lifetime.

2004 April 29, Kathryn Burlingham, “Re: You want fries with that?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Yeah, the Spander shippers really got off on that one.

2006 September 10, Don Sample, “Re: AOQ Review 7-2: "Beneath You"”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Spander 'shippers prefer long NC-17 rated stories, regardless of genre.

2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 46:

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


necrozoophilia

A paraphilia characterised by sexual attraction toward dead animals.


storm off

storm off (third-person singular simple present storms off, present participle storming off, simple past and past participle stormed off)

storms off (present singular third-person)
storming off (participle present)
stormed off (participle past)
stormed off (past)


hulk out

hulk out (third-person singular simple present hulks out, present participle hulking out, simple past and past participle hulked out)

hulks out (present singular third-person)
hulking out (participle present)
hulked out (participle past)
hulked out (past)

Jack Kirby
Marvel Comics Universe
Stan Lee

From Hulk, a fictional character, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comics Universe, who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

One of my best friends has hulked out his chest, triceps and shoulders exclusively with weighted push ups at my recommendation.

2012 January 10, Joshua Naterman, “Need Advice on Building Rounder Chest without Weights?”, in GymnasticBodies Forums:

You want to be in a permanent state of Hulking out, but chances are, if you’re reading this article, building bulk doesn’t come naturally.

2016 December 9, Rachael Schultz, “How to eat to bulk up”, in Men's Fitness:

A review of studies done on runners and strength training showed generally positive impacts and no negative consequences. You won’t hulk out or bulk up just fine-tune some lean muscle in ways that running alone can’t do.

2017 January 9, Molly Hurford, “Cross-Training Workouts Every Runner Should Try”, in MapMyRun, archived from the original on 2017-06-18:

To gain significant muscle mass from exercise.


femmephobia

Indeed, the existence of what has been labelled homophobia, I argue, may be more correctly analysed as a kind of "femmephobia", where same-sex relationships, particularly those between two men, are viewed as having the power to feminize men.

2007, Annie Paul, Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, page 368:

Probably the most visible and overt site of global(izing) patterns of femmephobia are male-male dating and sexual networking websites, ranging from Grindr, an Iphone application for sexual networking used primarily in the U.S., and Planetromeo, a dating site with a large following in India. […] A range of sample user profiles documented on the site include injunctions like the following: "Only into 101% masculine: Fems dnt fkin mssg me [sic]. College athlete (not some pansy sport"; "Looking for studs: no fats, fems [sic] or anyone above 30"; "If your only personality is gay, move on"; "Be masculine please! I'm gay don't want a girl!"; […]

2013, Aniruddha Dutta, “Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Hijra-Trans Heterosexualities”, in Rohit K. Dasgupta, K. Moti Gokulsing, editors, Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions, page 146:

In the sexual minority men's community femmephobia typically appears as an abhorrence to stereotypical "gay" things such as liking musicals, lim wrists, sounding effeminate (i.e. a higher pitched voice or a feminine cadence), dressing in clothing considered to be for women and much more.

2020, Emerson L. R. Barrett, “Sexing the Margins: Homonationalism in Gay Dating Apps”, in D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, Andrea P. Herrera, editors, Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age, page 126:

Dislike of, or hostility towards, stereotypically effeminate gay men, especially within the gay community.


paraphobia

From para- + phobia, by analogy with paraphilia.

The state of apprehension already mentioned as the only conscious feeling of intensity may exceptionally lead to impulsive acts or to a paraphobia.

1918, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 94, page 284:

A mild form of phobia, causing only unwillingness or hesitancy.


atrabiliously

en-adv

atrabiliously (comparative more atrabiliously, superlative most atrabiliously)

more atrabiliously (comparative)
most atrabiliously (superlative)

Come, then, thou man of nice discernment and of most fastidious taste, and let us see what it is thou hatest; – where, and what is that mob which moveth thee so atrabiliously? All below a certain class may be regarded as the mob.

1831 September, "S.", “Where is the Mob?”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume XXXII, number CXXIX, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, →OCLC, page 233:

I atrabiliously drew on my trousers, and grumbled furiously at the stupidity of my Highland valet.

1854, Heberden Milford, A Physician's Tale. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, →OCLC, page 237:

With both his eyes in his two hands' default, / At brother Luther he made fierce assault; / Then atrabiliously his gaze he turned, / Upon a Roman pontiff he discerned.

1899, Voltaire with W[illiam] H[enry] Ireland, Catherine Maria Dawson Bury, Lady Charleville, Ernest Dowson, transls., La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans: An Heroic-comical Poem in Twenty-one Cantos by Arouret de Voltaire: A New and Complete Translation into English Verse, Revised, Corrected, and Augmented from the Earlier English Translation of W. H. Ireland, and the One Attributed to Lady Charleville, with the Variants, now for the First Time Translated by Ernest Dowson, London: Printed for the Lutetian Society, →OCLC, page 95:

Nothing at all is recallable of the journey into Tokyo, and to the Tokyo Hilton Hotel – no sounds feudally romantic (the noodle-seller's flute, for example, which tootles atrabiliously in every book about Japan), no exotic sights or odours, no flashes of insight, no pricking of the thumbs.

1968, Hal Porter, The Actors, an Image of the New Japan, [Sydney]: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 12:

Buchanan was about to reply atrabiliously that he was not a wayside pox-doctor for every rake who passed along the King's Highway, but, remembering that in part he owed the establishment of his practice in Brockville to Gowan, he held his tongue.

1986, Donald Akenson, The Orangeman: The Life & Ties of Ogle Gowan, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 227:

In an atrabilious (melancholy or ill-natured) manner; grumpily, irritably, morosely.


pedo-stache

Exception to the rule: the pedo-stache, or more recently known as the Crosby-stache. It covers nothing, and qualifies you instantaniously to be on a child offenders list.

2010, "Single Guy", "Dating Advice From the Single Guy", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), Volume 114, Issue 1, 24 September 2010, page 9

However, if you are a young male with a pedo-stache like M, sitting in a café while small children run around your legs is enough to make you feel like Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones.”

2013 July 29, M & G, “Otago Museum Café”, in Critic, number 17, University of Otago, page 37:

With his pedo-stache firmly penciled on, Kline nails the accent, the affectations and the alcoholism.

2014 September 10, Meg Elison, “Dakota Fanning’s latest flaccidly flops”, in The Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley:

(slang) A moustache that resembles one from a stereotypical depiction of a male pedophile in the media.


shota

en-noun

shota (usually uncountable, plural shotas)

From Japanese ショタ (shota) or a clipping of shotacon.

(uncountable, anime) Hentai anime or manga, or other Japanese-inspired erotic art featuring young, usually prepubescent boys.


juvenoia

/ˈd͡ʒuːvənɔɪə/

Coined by David Finkelhor in 2010, from a blend of juvenile + paranoia.

(neologism) The fear or hostility directed by an older generation toward a younger one, or toward youth culture in general.


worry-free

en-adj

worry-free (comparative more worry-free, superlative most worry-free)

more worry-free (comparative)
most worry-free (superlative)

It's overanxiety that prevents us from functioning properly. So it is not a matter of never having anxiety as much as it is finding a way to not let the anxiety grow to the point that it takes control of our lives. This is what we mean by worry-free living.

2015, Jeff Bell, DID I JUST SAY THAT?: The Powerful Influence of Words:

Continue this for as long as you feel you need to. Finish off by shaking or rubbing the energy from your hands and disconnecting as normal. Create a safe, worry-free space for yourself.

2015, Keziah Gibbons, Living the Reiki Precepts:

Free from worries; (by extension) safe; secure.


snake-fright

The only means he could think of to counteract his snake fright was to expose himself to the possibilities of any such danger: […]

The psychology of snake-fright might well be likened to the "Jaws effect," though thank goodness no one has made a film about a killer snake terrorizing Long Island parking lots.

1987, Arthur Rosenfeld, Exotic Pets, page 26:

A slithering back porch visitor and a kindly sign painter helped a young mother overcome snake fright.

1992, Wisconsin Natural Resources, volumes 16-17:

Trapped on the bridge, men hollered like women with snake-fright, brave men screaming

2015, Ralph Peters, Valley of the Shadow: A Novel:


put the fear of God into

en-verb

put the fear of God into (third-person singular simple present puts the fear of God into, present participle putting the fear of God into, simple past and past participle put the fear of God into)

puts the fear of God into (present singular third-person)
putting the fear of God into (participle present)
put the fear of God into (participle past)
put the fear of God into (past)

To cause someone to repent through fear of the wrath of God.


storm out

storm out (third-person singular simple present storms out, present participle storming out, simple past and past participle stormed out)

storms out (present singular third-person)
storming out (participle present)
stormed out (participle past)
stormed out (past)


ladyporn

Half the women in the country are getting all hot and bothered over this ladyporn book, Fifty Shades of Grey, and the British establishment offers little more than a Frankie Howerdstyle “ooh err missus!”

Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century.

2015, Elana Levine (ed.), University of Illinois, title

The "Dr. Phil rape tweet" saga having finally petered out, some desperate web writer, likely digging for click bait on a slow news day, unearthed a once-obscure sub-genre of self-published ladyporn over at Amazon.com.

2015, Kathy Shaidle, Confessions of a Failed Slut, Thought Catalog, published 2014, →ISBN:

(informal) Erotic literature written by and/or intended to appeal to women.


arc up

arc up (third-person singular simple present arcs up, present participle arcing up, simple past and past participle arced up)

arcs up (present singular third-person)
arcing up (participle present)
arced up (participle past)
arced up (past)

Thought to be from electrical arcs created when starting/booting/arcing up an electrical device.

Tiger went, ‘Ooo! He's arcing up here, Annabelle.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 316:

(Australia, slang, intransitive) To become upset or angry.


Hannigram

"I know there's a lot of Hannigram shipping out there," Gamier said, referring to the Lecter-Graham pairing. "That's not my bag, but I get it and respect them. I am more of a Hannigail or Hannibloom shipper."

2014 February 21, Dana Hayes, “Hannibal's Hungry Tumblr Fandom”, in Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:

Aja Romano, writing for The Daily Dot during the series' first season in 2013, observed that “slashers,” fans who “ship” (imagine or write relationships) between same-sex characters, “are already coming out in droves for Hannibal/Graham, or 'Hannigram,' as fans have dubbed the obligatory ship portmanteau.”

2015, Jeff Casey, “Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives: Subversion and Homosocial Desire in NBC's Hannibal”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 32, number 6:

Perhaps this is part of the reason why Hannibal, though it has an extremely devoted, practically religious fanbase (including a sizeable contingent of “Hannigram” shippers), has failed to achieve quite the level of widespread success attained by similarly lurid series like American Horror Story or The Walking Dead.

2015 June 3, Eric Thurm, “Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s'”, in The Guardian:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.


fagling

You're behaving like a young fagling who has discovered gay sex, and therefore thinks he has nothing more to discover about his gayness.

1996 December 24, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Christmas Bell”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Compelled? I like this idea. Like those re-education camps in Vietnam. We line all the young faglings up and force them to watch The Harvey Girls over and over and over again. And The Pirate! And Meet Me in St. Louis! And Judy singing "Liza, Liza Minelli" on national television to her seemingly less than thrilled but always professional daughter.

1997 July 5, You Rang? [username], “Re: Judy”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

I was a tender young fagling of sixteen when I saw it on a double-bill with _The Gay Deceivers_ in 1970.

2005 February 25, Mike McKinley, “Re: The Boys in the Band (the movie)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

(vulgar, offensive, sometimes derogatory) A young male homosexual.


buddyslash

Slash about Harry and Draco, who are enemies in canon, complicates academic theories of slash that are predicated upon the Kirk/Spock “buddyslash” model.

2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 124

Although the pairing of Harry and Ron may seem as a typical example of buddyslash, one has to consider the presence of Hermione Granger as Harry's second sidekick.

2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 67

It is most commonly noted that the first famous pairing of Kirk/Spock, or Spirk, falls under the category of buddyslash.

2013, Janidean Bruner, "I 'like' slash: the demographics of Facebook slash communities", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 10

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between friends.


enemyslash

As an intimatopic 'enemyslash' fic, Harry Potter and the Bound Prince centers on the development of intimacy as expressed through sex and eroticized comfort between two characters that are enemies in the series canon […]

2010, Darlene Rose Hampton, "Beyond Resistance: Gender, Performance, and Fannish Practice in Digital Culture", dissertation submitted to the University of Oregon, page 102

As a result, Harry Potter fandom again denies well-known theories of slash, as its most popular pairing – Harry/Draco – belongs to the enemyslash category.

2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 65

Catherine Tosenberger suggests that the joy of an enemyslash pairing lies in watching the antagonists overcome their differences.

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between adversaries.


powerslash

The second most popular Potter slash pairing is Harry/Snape, which belongs to the powerslash category, and again defies findings of early fan fiction studies focusing on buddyslash.

Order of the Phoenix featured Harry and Snape (a powerslash pairing par excellence) forced to become uncomfortably intimate with each other: Snape is teaching Harry how to prevent Voldemort from reading his thoughts by...reading Harry's thoughts; […]

2011, Catherine Tosenberger, “Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction”, in Michelle Ann Abate, Kenneth B. Kidd, editors, Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, →ISBN, page 343:

Although the second most popular pairing in Potter slash fandom, Snape/Harry (or Snarry), could be categorized as enemyslash, it is also a prime example of powerslash.

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters of unequal social status or rank.


entomophobe

We're not like the entomophiles who harbor spiders as housemates or derive sexual satisfaction from the tickling of ants. And we're certainly not crazy entomophobes who run panic-stricken into the streets upon encountering a cockroach […]

2013, Jeffrey Lockwood, The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects:

Violet, 14, was concerned about causing pain to notorious entomophobe villager Blathers: “I never have him talk about the bugs because I know he hates bugs.”

2022 July 5, Katy E. Pearce, Jason C. Yip, Jin Ha Lee, Jesse J. Martinez, Travis W. Windleharth, Arpita Bhattacharya, Qisheng Li, “Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Games and culture., →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 773–794:

Salvador Dali is one of the best examples of an entomophobe. He used ants, grasshoppers and flies in his paintings based on his personal experiences.

2022 August 27, John G. Stoffolano, Jr., “Synanthropic Flies—A Review Including How They Obtain Nutrients, along with Pathogens, Store Them in the Crop and Mechanisms of Transmission”, in Insects., →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 776:


raptophilia

From Latin rapere (“to seize”) + -philia.

A paraphilia involving sexual arousal from committing rape.


uxorophobia

(very rare) An inordinate fear of one's own wife, or of wives.


turntail

One who turns tail, or flees in cowardice.


pyrophilia

A paraphilia in which gratification is derived from fire and fire-starting activity.


adread

adread (third-person singular simple present adreads, present participle adreading, simple past and past participle adreaded)

adreads (present singular third-person)
adreading (participle present)
adreaded (participle past)
adreaded (past)

From Middle English adreden, from late Old English ādrǣdan, from earlier Old English ondrǣdan, from Proto-West Germanic *andrādan.

(transitive, obsolete) To dread, fear greatly.

(intransitive or reflexive, obsolete) To fear, be afraid.


adread

From Middle English adred, adrad, past participle of Middle English adreden, from Old English ondrǣdan, equivalent to a- + dread. Compare also Middle English ofdradd (“afraid”), Old English ofdrǣdd (“terrified, afraid”).

cog

(archaic) Affected by or full of dread; fearful.


intersexphobia

Although there is overlap in ways that binary gender norms are imposed on trans* and intersex students, athletes, and staff, we feel it is important to understand how transphobia and intersexphobia work as different forms of discrimination.

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, page 275:

However, Turner said the bear community still has a way to go when it comes to greater diversity and acceptance, as he's faced both intersexphobia and biphobia from within its ranks.

2016 September, Matthew Wade, “Something To Growl About”, in Star Observer Magazine, page 13:

In fact, I believe that it is this fear of bodily difference, akin to homophobia, intersexphobia if you will, that drives some doctors to recommend, and parents to agree to, medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children and infants.

2020, Kimberly M. Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist), page 205:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


nepiophilia

From Ancient Greek νήπιος (nḗpios, “infant”) and φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”).


hate music

Music that expresses destructive desires against a demographic.


breath-catchingly

en-adv

breath-catchingly (comparative more breath-catchingly, superlative most breath-catchingly)

more breath-catchingly (comparative)
most breath-catchingly (superlative)

Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.

2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath


horripilated

en-adj

horripilated (comparative more horripilated, superlative most horripilated)

more horripilated (comparative)
most horripilated (superlative)

/hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪd/

Fortitude of heart is the confidence and boldness of faith that is reverent but not horripilated, hopeful but not presumptuous, heroic but not ambitious.

2011, Domenic Marbaniang, “Rediscovery of Prayer”, in Beyond the Shadows and Other Essays, [USA]: Domenic Marbaniang, →ISBN, page 139:

Looking back on it, I do have fond memories of that journey—Iris in a swimsuit and horripilated flesh perched over a lake barely clear of ice, the smell of the pine woods and the intoxicating smoke of our cookfires, […]

2004, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, chapter 9, in The Inner Circle, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

It took Cindy ten minutes to coax the horripilated feline from beneath a car, his trust in her utterly shattered. But his attention span being only marginally longer than the life span of certain theoretical subatomic particles, he soon could not remember what he was doing underneath a Volvo in the first place, and was eager to be back in the warmth of his human's arms.

2005, Andrew Thomas Breslin, Mother’s Milk, Hoboken, N.J.: ENC Press, →ISBN, page 82:

Bristling with fear or horror; with fur or hair standing on end.


horripilating

horripilating (comparative more horripilating, superlative most horripilating)

more horripilating (comparative)
most horripilating (superlative)

/hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪŋ/

I was sadly shocked, however, when he said he could prove that God hates the truth; the effect was horripilating.

1845, Edmund Hepple, Truth and Falsehood Defined and Exemplified: A Scene at Quintern Abbey, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by T. & J. Hodgson, Union Street, →OCLC, page 105:

Fear, the product of guilt, is a true night-plant. Like some of those gigantic fungi the botanists tell of, it springs up in the dark, and in an hour of restless tossing, sudorific, horripilating wretchedness, canopies our bed with a phantom toad-stool of gigantic size. The load that the conscience can jauntily stagger under in the broad light of day, […] will, in the gloom and silence of the night, wear its bearer to his knees.

[1873], W[illiam] S[tarbuck] Mayo, chapter XVII, in Never Again (The Library of Favourite Authors, British and Foreign; I), London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 192:

Always something of a timpani concerto among symphonies—besides the famous solos in the Scherzo there is the horripilating tattoo that all but drowns out the first movement recapitulation, […]

1995, Richard Taruskin, “Resisting the Ninth”, in Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235:

In Rachilde's fiction, however, scientists or doctors are associated with sexual knowledge that is both unwelcome and yet empowering, the sort of knowledge that makes a young girl's hair stand on end[…]. This horripilating experience is unwelcome, because it comes in the form of unwanted sexual advances at a time when the heroine is still innocent, but ultimately empowering, because it frees the heroine from any further vulnerability to seduction and gives her power over men.

2001, Melanie C. Hawthorne, “1900, December 10: Women and Education: In which Rachilde’s Mother is Admitted to the Asylum of Charenton and Some Deficiencies in Rachilde’s Education become Apparent”, in Rachilde and French Women’s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism, Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 190:

But what could you do about bombs dropped on you from the air? Especially in the dead of night. The idea of being killed in your sleep by an enemy you'd never even seen was horripilating.

2015, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Keep the Home Fires Burning, London: Sphere Books, →ISBN:

(figuratively) Horrendous, horrifying, terrifying.


horripilate

en-verb

horripilate (third-person singular simple present horripilates, present participle horripilating, simple past and past participle horripilated)

horripilates (present singular third-person)
horripilating (participle present)
horripilated (participle past)
horripilated (past)

/hɒˈɹɪpɪˌleɪt/

/hɔˈɹɪpəˌleɪt/

From Late Latin horripilātus, past participle of horripilāre (“of hairs: to bristle”), from horrēre, present infinitive of horreō (“to stand on end; to shiver, tremble; to be afraid of, dread”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”)) + pilus (“hair”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pil- (“strand of hair”)).

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Another volume of ghost stories by Mrs. [Catherine] Crowe!—as grim and horrifying as the "Night Side of Nature," which sends one to bed with a shudder, and lends an awful deliberation to the act of putting out the candle. These pages would literally be frightful if they were not at the same time fascinating. You never know at what turn in the narrative to look for the sudden bit of description, which is to thrill the nerves and horripilate the forehead.

1859 February 12, “Ghosts and Family Legends. By Mrs. Crowe, Authoress of the ‘Night Side of Nature.’ (Newby.)”, in The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information, volume II, number 33 (New Series), London: Published at the office, 4, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 206, column 3:

When Hel shrugged and changed the subject diplomatically, the nape of Diamond's neck horripilated with embarrassment.

1979, Trevanian [pseudonym; Rodney William Whitaker], Shibumi, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers; republished as Shibumi: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, 2005, page 330

A cold wind had blown through his seven-year-old skin, bringing with it the age of reason, thrilling his bones, horripilating its way up his spine.

1998, Richard Dooling, chapter 26, in Brain Storm, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN:

Miraculously, when he returned, […] no one had stolen, broken into, or vandalized the Saab: there it sat in all its silver magnificence on a lousy street in a rotten neighborhood, rainwater horripilating its voluptuous skin.

1998, James Kaplan, chapter 17, in Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, pages 155–156:

Phadampa Sangye gives us a brief characterization of the cremation grounds and the lands surrounding them in the introductory passage to Diamond-Songs of the Adepts, calling it "a region difficult for humans to travel, a village where ghouls and zombies wander, a place where the inhuman of the earth wander, the place of the action ḍākinīs, [where] Death's hair horripilates and the demons are dread-filled upon sight of it."

2005, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, “Creating the Treasury of Dohā Verses”, in Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

(transitive, intransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.


feed the flames

en-verb

feed the flames (third-person singular simple present feeds the flames, present participle feeding the flames, simple past and past participle fed the flames)

feeds the flames (present singular third-person)
feeding the flames (participle present)
fed the flames (participle past)
fed the flames (past)

To provoke further a debate or controversy, a person's anger, etc.


ho, ho, ho

A deep, hearty laugh or chuckle, most associated with Santa Claus.

ሆ ፣ ሆ ፣ ሆ

a laugh or chuckle, most associated with Santa Claus


V triad

From the V shape of a diagram of the relationship: a triangle with one side missing.

A triad in which one person is in a polyamorous relationship with two other people who are not in a relationship with each other.


Hibernophobia

Dislike of Ireland or the Irish people, or people of Irish descent.


amatonormativity

A compound of Latin amātō or amātus and normativity, modeled on heteronormativity and coined by philosophy professor Elizabeth Brake in 2011.

coinage

Amatonormativity is oppressive when it privileges members of one form of caring relationship at the expense of noncomformists, whose opportunities are thereby significantly worsened.

2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 98:

Casual amatonormativity is routine even in scholarly research.

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

"I dislike [Valentine's Day] because I'm aromantic and it's very symbolic of the culture of amatonormativity," thesis student Aiden Juge commented.

2020 February 12, Sophia Brown, “Redefining Valentine's Day culture on campus”, in The Catalyst, New College of Florida, page 9:

(neologism) The assumption that all human beings pursue love or romance, especially by means of a monogamous long-term relationship.


pour out one's soul

en-verb

pour out one's soul (third-person singular simple present pours out one's soul, present participle pouring out one's soul, simple past and past participle poured out one's soul)

pours out one's soul (present singular third-person)
pouring out one's soul (participle present)
poured out one's soul (participle past)
poured out one's soul (past)

pour one's heart out
pour one's heart out#English


butt-hurt

en-adj

butt-hurt (comparative more butt-hurt, superlative most butt-hurt)

more butt-hurt (comparative)
most butt-hurt (superlative)


throuple

The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.

2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post, retrieved 2021-07-22:

Nearly a year ago, I began dating two friends — I’ll call them Rachel and Dave — who were already themselves in a relationship. We all had no experience with polyamory. The throuple ended fairly quickly, with no one being at fault; the other two continued to date but broke up not too long afterward.

2023 April 21, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Our Throuple Fell Apart. What Are the Rules of the Breakup?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

“Honeybee, if you stare at that dividend check any harder, we're gonna officially be a throuple.” [chuckles] “I'm in.”

2024 May 17, Thomas Reyes, “The Mighty Pucks Adventure” (0:35 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

(neologism) Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.


graysexuality

From gray + asexuality, equivalent to graysexual + -ity.

As with graysexuality and grayromanticism, demisexual is not the same thing as demiromantic.

2015, Julie Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, →ISBN:

So far there isn’t a lot of data about how many people identify as graysexual, but creating language that describes being grasexual is necessary if we ever hope to grasp what graysexuality really looks like.

2015 October 20, Kirstin Kelley, “What Is 'Graysexuality'?”, in AlterNet:

Graysexuality falls somewhere between asexuality and sexuality; these people may or may not have a sex drive.

2016 March 31, Pallavi Bansal, “Find out if you're an asexual”, in Times of India:


broyges

Borrowed from Yiddish ברוגז (broyges), from Hebrew ברוגז \ בְּרֹגֶז (literally “in anger, with anger”).

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ברוגז \ בְּרֹגֶז

Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges” — a cherished term for a falling out — after another

2010, Joseph Berger, “How to Say Theater in Yiddish? Two Ways”, in The New York Times:

[…] is unaware that Eli is in broyges with Peggy.

2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 287:

Many stories were told about the Levinson-Mikhoels broyges (rivalry).

2016, Paul Goldberg, The Yid: A Novel, →ISBN, page 138:


road rager

When I told Jon I thought that he was a road rager, he replied, 'I'm not a road rager. Road ragers take an interest in their victims on the road. I don't!'

2002, Krystal Love, Blind to the Molesting Hands:


Indophilia

A love or admiration for India or its people and culture.

indophilie

love of India, the Indians or Indian culture


good old days

In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke.

Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn

1991, “Learning to Fly”, in Into the Great Wide Open, performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:

"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."

2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.

goeie ou dae

the past, seen as a time when things were better


en-proverb

when you mess with the bull, you get the horns

(informal) If you provoke someone dangerous, you can expect an aggressive reaction.

if you mess with the bull, you get the horns


get someone's Irish up

en-verb

get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> someone's Irish up

get someone's Irish up (third-person singular simple present gets someone's Irish up, present participle getting someone's Irish up, simple past got someone's Irish up, past participle (UK) got someone's Irish up or (US) gotten someone's Irish up)

gets someone's Irish up (present singular third-person)
getting someone's Irish up (participle present)
got someone's Irish up (past)
got someone's Irish up (UK participle past)
gotten someone's Irish up (US participle past)

From a supposed propensity of Irish people to be easily and severely angered.

"It's so crazy I've got to believe they're either paranoid or trying to get his Irish up so he will run [and split the anti-Carter vote in the primaries]. My guess is it's paranoia."

1979, David Garth, New York Magazine, page 14:

(potentially offensive) To anger or annoy someone.


infantophobia

The irrational fear of infants, pregnancy, or maternalism.


go ham

go ham (third-person singular simple present goes ham, present participle going ham, simple past went ham, past participle gone ham)

goes ham (present singular third-person)
going ham (participle present)
went ham (past)
gone ham (participle past)

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H.A.M.
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Soulja Boy
Urban Dictionary

Uncertain; the earliest use of the term in the idiomatic sense appears to be in the 2007 song "Go Ham on 'Em" by Soulja Boy (see quotation below). "Ham" is often thought to be an acronym of "hard as a motherfucker" (with go ham then parsing as go hard as a motherfucker), although this may be a backronym. Alternatively, it could be a phonetic clipping of mayhem. The term was popularized by the 2011 song "H.A.M." by Jay-Z and Kanye West.

If you use her fabric scissors, she's going to go ham on you.

Go ham on em Soulja, go ham on 'em

2007, “Go Ham on 'Em” (0:12 from the start)performed by Soulja Boy:

I'm about to go HAM / Hard as a muthafucker, let these niggas know who I am

2011 August, Jay-Z and Kanye West, “H•A•M”, Watch the Throne, deluxe edition, Roc-A-Fella Records

“Clover went in. And she's so calm and gentle normally! I didn't expect her to go ham like that. Will Patricia's arm mend?”
“Not for a while.”
“Serves her right. She went ham on me for no reason.”
Angelo shrugged a shoulder. “She blames you for Marissa's state.”

2014, Makala Thomas, Count Angelo, page 157:

In between the guys in the crowd having to be told what was really good and now Ty acting like he owned her and her hustle, she went ham. “Main girl?” Kenya finally had enough of his ass. “Nigga, what? Please don't coach mines. You got me all fucked up in the game. Fall back and don't play yourself!”

2014, Ms. Michel Moore, Coldhearted & Crazy: Say U Promise I:

(intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular, often followed by on) To enter an enraged and uncontrollable state; to go berserk.


gynophile

One who loves women; a person who loves or is sexually attracted to women or to femininity.


hang loose

hang loose (third-person singular simple present hangs loose, present participle hanging loose, simple past and past participle hung loose)

hangs loose (present singular third-person)
hanging loose (participle present)
hung loose (participle past)
hung loose (past)

(intransitive, slang) To remain relaxed; be chill out or easy-going.


anger balloon

(comics) A balloon with a jagged outline, containing words angrily screamed by a character.


scarefest

(informal) An event, dramatic work, etc. that is very frightening.


Skate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Q clearance

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


Hellenophobia

Since in Asia Minor, as well as at Constantinople, Turkophilism carries with it as corollaries Hellenophobia and Armenophobia, I will leave you to imagine in what paradoxes the souls of victors become entangled […]

1920, Georges Bourdon, Hellas and Unredeemed Hellenism: The Policy of Victory in the East and Its Results:

Their inveterate Hellenophobia was the only relic of the past that survived this great cultural revolution; and it now found for itself a new expression in Christian terms.

1961, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume 12, page 441:

Believers in a traditional Hellenophobia-Turkophobia would have stared at the sight of the Mytilene Greeks spreading farewell meals for their departing neighbours, and later accompanying them to the quay, where Christians and Mohammedans, who for a lifetime had been plowing adjacently and even sharing occasional backgammon games at village cafes, embraced and parted with tears.

2006, Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey:


pseudophobia

A purported phobia whose existence is uncorroborated.


roose

roose (third-person singular simple present rooses, present participle roosing, simple past and past participle roosed)

rooses (present singular third-person)
roosing (participle present)
roosed (participle past)
roosed (past)

From Middle English rosen (“to boast”), from Old Norse hrósa (“to boast; praise”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþsōną, from *hrōþaz, *hrōþiz (“fame; glory; praise”). Cognate with Icelandic hrósa, Danish rose, Swedish rosa.

I'll cock my nose aboon them a' — I'm roosed by Craigengillan !

1865, The British Poets - Volume 2, page 43:

A'm roosed — a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid, ye ken, when ye tell me a canna gaff a fusshe ! Tak aff yere coat, mon, for a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid.

1874, Francis Francis, By Lake and River: an Angler's Rambles in the North of England and Scotland:

Mrs. Tam, like all decent people in the village, was "real roosed."

1957, Robert Blackwood Robertson, Of sheep and men, page 164:


beat as one

beat as one (third-person singular simple present beats as one, present participle beating as one, simple past beat as one, past participle beaten as one or beat as one)

beats as one (present singular third-person)
beating as one (participle present)
beat as one (past)
beaten as one (participle past)
beat as one (participle past)

Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our hearts beat as one to the music and gladness of nature.

1851 August, “N. P. W.”, “A Love Letter, Supposed to have been Written for the ‘Home Journal’”, in Henry Bacon, editor, The Ladies’ Repository, volume XX, Boston, Mass.: Published by A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill, published 1852, →OCLC, page 63, column 2:

It is all very fine to talk about love in a cottage, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one, and all that sort of thing; but in any cottage that love wouldn't turn up his nose at there is very substantial rent to pay, and, even waiving the usual contingences, at least two mouths to be filled, that the most perfect singleness of thought, the most thorough union of hearts, can never make one.

1867 December 14, “Match-making”, in The Round Table: A Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Society, and Art, volume VI, number 151, New York, N.Y.: The Round Table Association, 132 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 393:

The Deus vult of the crusaders was no longer uttered with one voice from hearts beating as one. The Allah Khbur of the Saracens was the utterance of faith that was firm unto death.

[1890?], W[illiam] C[owper] Prime, “The Cross is Lost”, in Holy Cross: A History of the Invention, Preservation, and Disappearance of the Wood Known as the True Cross, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 111:

Their hearts had once beaten as one. How was it possible that she could still be here if her sister was not?

2002, Elissa Kyle, My Soul to Keep: A Collection of Short Stories from the Heart, page 33:

Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone and let them beat as one. And in that single heart beat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome.

2009, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles:

It was one of those rare and seldom-experienced times when the disciples of the Lord are perfectly united, when every heart beats as one, and when the same Spirit burns in every bosom. . . .

2012, Randal S. Chase, New Testament Study Guide, Pt. 2:

Their souls will yearn to beat as one, once again and this can only be done by the sealing of the bond.

Asriel: Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts beating as one. They're all burning with the same desire.

2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

(idiomatic, especially of hearts) To share the same feelings.


grievesome

en-adj

grievesome (comparative more grievesome, superlative most grievesome)

more grievesome (comparative)
most grievesome (superlative)

One instrument is plaintive, grievesome, high pitched: a little boy's whine.

What hypocrites will be confronted with, in return for their hypocrisy, is a grievesome torment, both in this world and beyond.

2004, Harun Yahya, The Hypocrite According To The Qur’an:

'I can't thank you enough for the lovely time I've had with you. Yes, it has been a lovely time. I thought it would be a sad and grieve-some period but it's been really enjoyable.

2013, Elizabeth Lister, Nothing Stays the Same:

But for my part, I find it impossible to imagine a grief with no awareness of a grievesome event, exhausted entirely by bodily sensations.

2015, Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness:


Korrasami

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


korophilia

From Ancient Greek κόρος (kóros, “boy, youth”) and φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).

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In the age-differentiated type, as seen in ancient Greek and in Islamic pederasty, Spartan korophilia, pedophilia, [...] the older partner has something, namely adulthood and the knowledge that goes with it, that the younger is seeking to acquire.

1990, Wayne Dynes, Warren Johansson, William A Percy, Stephen Donaldson, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, New York: Garland, →ISBN, Appendix:

Gerontophilia is the sexual attraction to the elderly, whereas Korophilia is the love of young men or boys.

2011, Jan Resnick, “Far-out Philias and Phobias”, in Psychotherapy in Australia, volume 17, page 65:


aporophobia

From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -phobia, by analogy with xenophobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.

It's easy calling somebody a racist (and I'm not talking about skinheads or assholes shouting racist things at matches), but the problem I think it's more aporophobia (sp?) than xenophobia.

2002 October 14, molecule, “I'm dissapointed ^([sic])”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):

In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor.

2008, “Prejudice, discrimination and intergroup conflict”, in Actualidades en psicología, volume 22, number 109:

We would like to introduce a term coined by Adela Cortina which arose recently and that is affiliated to that of exclusion: It is aporophobia (Cortina, 1997). Feeling of refusal is towards poor people, towards those who do not have a way out of their situation. It breeds on the prejudice that poor people are to blame for their own misery. This feeling subdues many behaviours that are essentially racist, xenophobic and it makes difficult not only integration, but also some politics involving realistic aid to immigrants (Martínez, 2002, pp. 17-23). As pointed out by Cortina (1997), “we don’t marginalize the immigrant because he is rich, nor the black if he is a basketball player, nor the retired with patrimony, we marginalize poor people” (p. 70).

2011, Xavier Mínguez López, “Local literature in a global world? Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Catalan literature for children and young people”, in Sino-US English Teaching, volume 8, number 5:

Introducing aporophobia in the catalog of hate crimes is a debate that is still open.

2017, V Ávila Vázquez, E Garrido Gaitán, La aporofobia como delito de odio y discriminación:

It is necessary to confront together the populist discourses of intolerance, xenophobia, and aporophobia, which is hatred of the poor.

2021, Pope Francis, Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements:

(rare) A strong antipathy, aversion or hatred toward poverty or poor people.


autumn romance

Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.

2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77:

Ms. Stuart and Mr. Ritchie also began an autumn romance that lasted until Mr. Ritchie's death in 1996 at the age of 91.

2010 September 27, Aljean Harmetz, Robert Berkvist, “Gloria Stuart, an Actress Rediscovered Late, Dies at 100”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-11-15:

It was an autumn romance in the September of my years
When the hourglass of my life was exactly three-quarters run through

2015, Pete Winslow, "O god of spring forgive me" in City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.), p. 146 (Google preview)

(idiomatic) A romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.


autogynephile

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

Evidently, the woman did not get those signals from the men. (If instead of being the wife of an autogynephile, she were the sister of a homosexual transsexual, I doubt she would have asked an analogous question.)

2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen:

Transsexual and Nontranssexual Autogynephiles Resemble Each Other. […] I knew, however, that attempting to draw a definitive line between autogynephilic transsexuals and nontranssexual autogynephiles was a difficult if not an impossible exercise, even though I believed there were legitimate reasons for trying to do so.

2012, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, page 179:

First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.

2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation:


pseudo-empathy

(psychology) The understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person, but without identification, care or urge to improve their condition.


indread

en-verb

indread (third-person singular simple present indreads, present participle indreading, simple past and past participle indreaded)

indreads (present singular third-person)
indreading (participle present)
indreaded (participle past)
indreaded (past)

(transitive, archaic) To inwardly dread; fear or be afraid


spit fire

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

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

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Her pretty gray-blue eyes no longer spit fire.

2010, Christina Crooks, L.A. Caveman (battle of the sexes, office romance):

Her eyes spit fire, but she nodded, if a quick jerk of her head could be called a nod.

2012, Karen Kay, War Cloud's Passion, →ISBN, page 141:

It described her to a tee; from her fiery mane of red hair to her beautiful emerald eyes that spit fire when she was angry or frustrated.

2013, Julia Mills, Her Dragon To Slay, →ISBN:

(of eyes) To flash and reveal strong emotion.

It would do no good to spit fire at him. He'd only laugh, and then he'd get his own way anyway.

2000, B. J. Lawry, Desert Heat, →ISBN, page 87:

Many look as if butter would not melt in their mouths, and yet can spit fire when it suits their purpose.

2006, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk: Or, Plain Advice for Plain People, →ISBN, page 123:

The beneficed ministers, however, stimulated by missives from the Scotch kirk, now in arms for Charles II., continued, says the gentle Mrs. Hutchinson, to 'spit fire out of their pulpits,' and even the rout of their allies at Dunbar, though it made their tongues less dangerous, did not make them more smooth.

2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page 332:


spit fire

His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.

2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:

Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.

2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:

Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.

2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:


yuanyang

en-noun

yuanyang (countable and uncountable, plural yuanyangs)

Borrowed from Mandarin 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng, literally “male (鴛) and female (鴦) mandarin duck”).

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The yuanyang are the male and female respectively of Anas galericulata, commonly called by Europeans "Mandarin duck." These beautiful water-fowl manifest when mated a singular degree of attachment for each other, and they have hence been elevated into the emblems of connubial affection and fidelity.

1889, Congressional Serial Set, page 460:

Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity.

2006, Pi-Ching Hsu, Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly:

May the pair of yuanyang 鸳鸯 augur well for our proposed union with Dominant Duck," said Susie gaily.

2016, Matt Huang, Grace Hsu, Young China Hand, →ISBN:

(China) A pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, as a symbol of faithful union.


secondhand embarrassment

en-noun

secondhand embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural secondhand embarrassments)

vicarious embarrassment
vicarious embarrassment#English


rarepair

/ˈɹɛə(ɹ).pɛə(ɹ)/

Rare pairs might also slash together people or creatures that are considered unnatural, such as a human character with a magical creature such as a centaur or a house elf, or Dumbledore with any young student from Hogwarts.

2011, Nina Kaipia, "Drarry, Snarry and Snape: The Queerest of the Queer - Heteronormativity and Queer Theory in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Helsinki, page 61

If a Yuletide reader requested a rare pair (Silver Surfer/Aunt May?) in The Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers, that story will now assemble with its more popular Hulk/Iron Man and Captain America/Bucky Barnes fanfic colleagues in the Avengers tag.

2018, Anne Jamison, “Kant/Squid (The Fanfiction Assemblage)”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 534:

With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.

2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49

(fandom slang) A ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks.


vegansexual

en-adj

vegansexual (comparative more vegansexual, superlative most vegansexual)

more vegansexual (comparative)
most vegansexual (superlative)

He pointed out that had his current partner been strictly vegansexual, their relationship might never have started in the first place, as when they met, he was only vegetarian.

2017, Nathan Stephens Griffin, Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity, Springer, →ISBN, page 72:

Only having sexual relationships with other vegans.


empathic embarrassment

en-noun

empathic embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural empathic embarrassments)


vicarious embarrassment

vicarious embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious embarrassments)

It is noted that vicarious embarrassment does not necessarily indicate the presence of an embarrassed other.

1996, Rom Harré, W. Gerrod Parrott, editors, The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions, SAGE, →ISBN, page 124:

The same brain regions, the study found, are implicated in vicarious embarrassment – watching President Obama give an awkward hug of his own to departing press secretary Jay Carney, say – as they are when empathizing with the physical pain of others.

2014 July 17, Oliver Burkeman, “No, I won't watch that cringe-inducing viral video. I'm a better person than you”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.


podophilic

en-adj

podophilic (comparative more podophilic, superlative most podophilic)

more podophilic (comparative)
most podophilic (superlative)


podophile

A foot fetishist; one who has a foot fetish.


upsettedness

Suky's voice was suddenly full of shock and upsettedness.

2007, Ann Bryant, Billie and the Parent Plan:

(nonstandard) The state or condition of being upset; upsetness.


hurtcore

(slang) Pornographic material depicting actual rape and abuse.

(usually specifically) Child pornography depicting such.


unjokingly

en-adv

unjokingly (comparative more unjokingly, superlative most unjokingly)

more unjokingly (comparative)
most unjokingly (superlative)


oldie but goodie

en-noun

oldie but goodie (plural oldies but goodies)


monoamory

Attested since at least 1992, from mono- + Latin amor + -y, possibly modelled on polyamory.

Practice of involving romantic or sexual relationship with a single partner at a time. (especially as contrasted with polyamory).


huzun

It floats on a cushion of huzun, the way an air-hockey puck hovers above the game table.

2015 October 20, Dwight Garner, “Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’”, in New York Times:


die and go to heaven

en-verb

die and go to heaven (third-person singular simple present dies and goes to heaven, present participle dying and going to heaven, simple past died and went to heaven, past participle died and gone to heaven)

dies and goes to heaven (present singular third-person)
dying and going to heaven (participle present)
died and went to heaven (past)
died and gone to heaven (participle past)

It's like I died and went to heaven!

He thought he'd died and gone to heaven!

(in metaphor and simile, not used alone) To have an extremely pleasant experience.


zowerswopped

en-adj

zowerswopped (comparative more zowerswopped, superlative most zowerswopped)

more zowerswopped (comparative)
most zowerswopped (superlative)

A dialectal form of sour-sapped (literally “being sour or foul-tempered to the core or marrow”).

"Did he understand you?" said Campbell. "O yes, for he called out to his men in Dutchified French, and looked at me zowerswopped enough.[…]"

1834, John Brent, chapter XIX, in Leitch Ritchie, editor, The Sea-Wolf. A Romance of “The Free Traders.” (The Library of Romance; XI), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 185:

I'm even more zowerswopped because I don't know for sure yet if I'm heavy-footed.

1993, Susan Kelz Sperling, Lost Words of Love, New York, N.Y.: C. Potter, →ISBN, page 50:

Who hasn't felt zowerswopped to find one's mailbox pragged with junk mail?

1993 April 27, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.: Gannett Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1:

(West Country, Exmoor) Synonym of bad-tempered.


phobe

If you are not a phobe, it is almost impossible not to stroke a cat that comes within range.

1972, Paul Gallico, Honorable Cat, page 10:

What would she have felt about such philes of themselves and phobes of the rest, all those lovers of Jesus and haters of the Jews?

1995, John B. Sanford, A Book of American Women, page 140:

"You're telling me you're gay?" I put my hand on his leg. When he glances at it, I jerk it away. "Oh. Sorry," I blurt out. "That was totally innocent. I'm not, you know, like that." Kollin rolls his eyes. "Don't be such a phobe, Michaels."

2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens, →ISBN:

A person who experiences a phobia (“fear or dislike”).


hylophobia

Related to dendrophobia but less well known are hylophobia (fear of forests), nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night) and xylophobia (fear of wooden objects).

2013, Peter Young, Oak, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 118:


plurisexual

From pluri- + sexual, by analogy with monosexual.

Plurisexuals are often interpreted as half gay/half straight due to the prevailing belief that multigendered attractions are temporary, or illusory.

2020, Rosie Nelson, “'What do bisexuals look like? I don't know!' Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals”, in Journal of Sociology, volume 56, number 4, →DOI, page 591:


aviatophobia

While Hanif uses the known historical fact of Zia's mid-air death to chart out a dark comedy about Pakistani politics and paranoia and the madness of its leaders, anyone remotely suffering from aviatophobia should feel far more comfortable knowing that Zia, or anyone of his reputation, is highly unlikely to be on board their plane.

2014, Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin, The Novel Cure:


pteromerhanophobia

Soon, Bowie's pteromerhanophobia was as much a part of the star's persona as any other aspect of his career.

2009, Dave Thompson, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell:

Say goodbye to pteromerhanophobia, your overwhelming fear of flying.

2012, Katie Das, 250 Useful Spanish Phrases while Backpacking:

As it turns out, those are fairly easy fears to apply to a monster or demon, but what about pteromerhanophobia, the fear of flying?

Official conclusion: panic attack due to pteromerhanophobia. Layla would have held her trembling sister on the cab ride back to the Luxor as she devised an alternate plan for getting the petulant one back to Memphis.

2016, John Dufresne, I Don't Like Where This Is Going:


high on life

high on life (comparative more high on life, superlative most high on life)

more high on life (comparative)
most high on life (superlative)

I used to get high on drugs — now I get high on life!

Asker: What? Are you high? / Answerer: High on life!

(humorous) Extremely happy with life, especially as the result of terminating an addiction.


Stucky

A lot of people ship Stucky, and they ship it hard.

2016, Brittani Howell, “#LeaveCapAlone”, in Connect Statesboro, 1 June - 14 June 2016, page 4:

In her 'Domestic Stucky (feat. IKEA)' art project, Kurozawa Shiro decided to draw the characters Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes into a spare IKEA catalogue she had lying around (Stucky is the portmanteau name for the Steve/Bucky pairing).

2017, Francesca Coppa, “Hollywood of Our Own: Media Fandom as Female Artworld”, in Mary Harrod, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, editors, Women Do Genre in Film and Television, unnumbered page:

The Stucky fandom encompasses all kinds of fans, and acts as a vast space for fans to find their preferred content.

2018 December, Alen Ríos, Diego Rivera, “Vulnerability and Trash: Divisions within the Stucky fandom”, in Otherness: Essays and Studies, volume 6, number 1, page 35:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Bucky Barnes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Malec

I think the fans of the book are really going to be excited about the "Malec" relationship.

2016, Isaiah Mustafa, quoted in Aleksander Tomovic, "Isaiah Mustafa", Bello, January 2016, page 34

Shadowhunters season 3 has been such a blessing for Malec fans.

2018 May, “Hollywood Tea News”, in Cinespirit Magazine, page 80:

"Malec" shippers will clamor for installments to come.

2019, The Red Scrolls of Magic review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2019, page 143

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from The Shadowhunter Chronicles franchise.


adult baby

(sexuality, ABDL) A person who has a paraphilia involving role-playing a regression to an infant-like state, wearing diapers, etc.


autonepiophilia

/ˌɔːtəʊˌniːpiəʊˈfɪliə/

With one kind of chronophilia called autonepiophilia, sexual arousal and pleasure are dependent on, and responsive to, pretending to be a baby in diapers and having one's sexual partner play along.

2004, Nancy Butcher, The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse:

Infantilism, also known as autonepiophilia (Money, 1986) is a paraphilia characteristic of a masquerade in which an individual is symbolically transformed back to infancy.

2006, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, page 355:

Autonepiophilia is when the paraphilic individual behaves like a child, usually in wearing diapers as a necessary part of sexual activity.

2007, Fouad R. Kandeel, Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment, page 89:

Paraphilic infantilism with oneself in the role of the infant.


storm in

en-verb

storm in (third-person singular simple present storms in, present participle storming in, simple past and past participle stormed in)

storms in (present singular third-person)
storming in (participle present)
stormed in (participle past)
stormed in (past)


plurisexuality

en-noun

plurisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural plurisexualities)

Bisexuality is thought to be the most prevalent plurisexuality but other identities, like pansexuality, are also common.

In participants' experience, youth sexuality was associated with risk for women and girls, with plurisexualities, particularly bisexuality, being equated with promiscuity and health risk

2020, Ruby Grant with Meredith Nash and Emily Hansen, “What does inclusive sexual and reproductive healthcare look like for bisexual, pansexual and queer women? Findings from an exploratory study from Tasmania, Australia”, in Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 257:

Any romantic or sexual orientation which includes attraction to more than one gender.


carcinomatophobia

(medicine, loosely) A morbid fear of cancer: Synonym of carcinophobia.


deaggressivization

(psychoanalysis) Neutralising the urges of aggression.


amatonormative

en-adj

amatonormative (comparative more amatonormative, superlative most amatonormative)

more amatonormative (comparative)
most amatonormative (superlative)

Amatonormative discrimination is widely practiced. Its existence is not controversial. What is controversial is the claim that it is wrongful discrimination and not simply justified differential treatment—that it is arbitrary and hence, at least in law, unjust.

2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 94:

Both friends explicitly reject the amatonormative assumption that they are potential romantic partners.

2017, Matthew A. Hoffman, Sara Kolmes, “When Clark Met Diana: Friendship and Romance in Comics”, in Jacob M. Held, editor, Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique, page 87:

This is in direct opposition to amatonormative ideas about the "right" way to start a family.

2020, Constance Wilde, “What does it mean to be asexual in an increasingly sexualised world?”, in Lot's Wife, Edition 1 (2020), page 28:

(neologism) Privileging or valuing romantic relationships as fundamental or natural.


befright

en-verb

befright (third-person singular simple present befrights, present participle befrighting, simple past and past participle befrighted)

befrights (present singular third-person)
befrighting (participle present)
befrighted (participle past)
befrighted (past)

From be- + fright. Compare German befürchten (“to be afraid of; fear”).

cog

[…] I would so near this knot to certainty,
That its appearance shall befright the bride,
Until, despairing, she shall say the wish
To be a nymph again; then should she know me?

1881, James Alexander Wickersham, Aliso and Acne, page 84:

For ourselves till befright, an' till show his oul' spite,
Whin he'd miss'd all the prachis he'd cum for, so far
Himself, the untutor'd oul' haythen, beschuterd
Us, ears over head all with boilin'-hot tar.

1884, Cruck-a-Leaghan (pseud.), Lays and legends of the north of Ireland:

[…]With confidence, and so inscribe the chart
Where white and still the void befrights the heart.

1983, Gerald St. Maur, Occasional Publication, numbers 18-32, page 7:

Mr Newbery shrugged. 'Goods will be safer there, stacked tight, than in our flimsy shops,' he said, and then went on his way to warn and befright our other neighbours. And indeed perhaps this was a good thing.

2006, Mary Hooper, Petals in the Ashes, page 137:

All round terrors befright him, and they scatter at his feet.

2011, The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes:

(transitive) To fill with fright; make afraid; scare; frighten


somniphobia

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Due to somniphobia, Jason has a compulsive habit of getting out of bed and changing his clothes at night.

People may worry throughout the day about not being able to sleep. This worry can cause difficulties with focus or concentration. Often, somniphobia arises from a fear of having nightmares or experiencing sleep paralysis.

2022, Cleveland Clinic, Somniphobia (Fear of Sleep):

(uncommon, psychology) Fear of falling asleep; fear of a disaster while sleeping.


skoliosexual

From Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós, “curved, bent”) + -sexual, coined by DeviantArt user Nelde in 2010.


throupling

The act of joining together to form a throuple.


boo hiss

Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).

2019, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:

An expression of disagreement, outrage, or frustration.


consanguinamory

From Latin consanguinitas (“blood-relationship”) + amor (“love”) + -y, coined by activist Cristina Shy.

Most US states still have laws against consensual incest (consanguinamory), and in most of them, people do continue to be prosecuted for simply loving each other. Laws against gay sex have been struck down by the Supreme Court. So, gay sex is legal nationwide, consanguinamory isn't.

2012 September 11, “Hollywood director places incest alongside gay marriage”, in San Diego LGBT Weekly:

Consanguinamory (consensual adult incest) is not a crime in the US states of New Jersey and Rhode Island and there has been no problem as a result.

2015 August 17, Endrik Wilhelm, “Lawyer: 'Legalize incest!'”, in Deutsche Welle:

"Consanguinamory," is Shy's term for incestuous relationships, which she says should be legalized and recognized as "marriage."

2016 August 18, James B., “Mother Willing to go to Jail in Fight For Sexual Relationship With Son”, in The Christian Post:

Their founders call themselves advocates and use the word "consanguinamory" to name what they argue is a sexual orientation. They're very up-front about their goal. They want to normalize what they call "consensual" incest and even speak as if their plight were the same as that of other groups who have historically been marginalized for their sexual identity. One day they'll have a float at Pride, or at least they deserve one. They write as if they were sexual minorities who need law and culture changes to protect their marginalized desire, and in forums members adapt language from LGBTQ activism: think "consang-positive," "love is love," and "equal rights".

2022, Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Still in the dark fringy margins are the other two groups who, like polyamorists, have their own spanking new euphemistic names. Those who are in sexual relationships with close relatives have renamed incest "consanguinamory."

2022 February 4, “Incest and Pedophilia Comin’ to Town”, in Family Institute lIlinois:

(neologism, euphemistic) Romantic and/or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest.


scare-line

But it presently appears that a black cat was the only creature killed outright, and that the scare-line was merely a playful allusion to the extraordinary vitality that fable says all pussies have.

1895, The Locomotive - Volumes 16-17, page 188:

Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide himself with ice-economizers.

1896, The National Druggist - Volume 26, page 189:

I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell with a scare-line on a police scandal.

1928, Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism, →ISBN, page 419:

Fry are collected from sandy regions with gear that consist of a piece of cloth 3 m x 1.2 m and 3 m of rope as a scare-line, with palmyra leaves tied to it at short intervals.

1962, Sunder Lal Hora, T. V. R. Pillay, Handbook on fish culture in the Indo-Pacific region:

At Ant Atoll near Ponape in the eastern Caroline Islands the palm frond scare-line is used to catch schools of kawa kawa (Euthynnus affinis) which occasionally enter the lagoon and swim along the edge in shallow water.

1981, Robert Earle Johannes, Words of the Lagoon, →ISBN:

The net is kept open by two men, while the fry are driven into it using a 30-60 m long scare-line made up of rope and palm leaves.

1981, O. H. Oren, Aquaculture of Grey Mullets, →ISBN, page 330:

Did it make any sense, he asked, concluding with administration's favorite scare-line (first used by Rice), “for the world to wait. . . for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud?”

2008, George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776, →ISBN:


Fenders

"Im going to sleep!" Reads fenders fics on phone until 4am

2015 July 23, Tentacle (@10takler), Twitter:

EVERYBODY SHIPS FENDERS WRONG!!!! less angry makeouts more talking about feelings

2015 August 2, silver stars (@naiakiir), Twitter:

In my Fenders headcanon, Anders accompanies Fenris in Blue Wraith.

2023 June 26, BinkyProd (@BinkyProd), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fenris and Anders from Dragon Age II.


wear one's heart on one's sleeve

en-verb

wear<,,wore,worn> one's heart on one's sleeve

wear one's heart on one's sleeve (third-person singular simple present wears one's heart on one's sleeve, present participle wearing one's heart on one's sleeve, simple past wore one's heart on one's sleeve, past participle worn one's heart on one's sleeve)

wears one's heart on one's sleeve (present singular third-person)
wearing one's heart on one's sleeve (participle present)
wore one's heart on one's sleeve (past)
worn one's heart on one's sleeve (participle past)

en-au-wear one's heart on one's sleeve.ogg

Iago: For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 64:

Such a man must have reticences in him. If he walk wearing his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, his journey will not extend far!

1840 May 22, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture VI. The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 202:

There was something very direct and childlike in Virginie Poucette. She could not pretend; she wore her heart on her sleeve.

1915, Gilbert Parker, chapter 18, in The Money Master:

I'm not being smart or trying to be cold on my part / And I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve / But you know people get all emotional

1978, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Street Hassle”, in Street Hassle:

I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field / I wear my heart on my sleeve, like a big deal

2011, “Feel So Close”, performed by Calvin Harris:

(idiomatic) To be very transparent, open, or forthright about one's emotions.

parlar amb el cor a la mà

to be transparent or forthright about one's emotions


reduce someone to tears

reduce someone to tears (third-person singular simple present reduces someone to tears, present participle reducing someone to tears, simple past and past participle reduced someone to tears)

reduces someone to tears (present singular third-person)
reducing someone to tears (participle present)
reduced someone to tears (participle past)
reduced someone to tears (past)

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


nymphophile

(rare) A hebephile who is attracted to girls.


scare the living daylights out of

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

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

En-au-scare the living daylights out of.ogg

(idiomatic) To scare something or someone to a large degree.


guilty conscience

A feeling of guiltiness, as if one has done something wrong.


Trumphobia

On 9/6/2015 9:14 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On 2015-09-06, Mike B wrote: > I wonder if the strip will be affected by his move. (He now lives in Canada.)< Has he said why he moved - new job, new relationship? Trumphobia?

2015 September 6, Mark Jackson, “Deja Vu: Questionable Content”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):

2016 March 9, Suffering From Trumphobia? Get Over It. The Wall Street Journal.
Edwark N. Luttwak writes that if you're suffering from Trumphobia, an irrational fear of Donald Trump becoming president, get over it.

Calls to crisis and suicide prevention hotlines surge post-election By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Updated 6:03 PM ET, Fri November 11, 2016

2016 November 12, “TRUMPHOBIA driving many Americans to suicidal despair”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

Apparently, some federal employees plan to quit employment due to a sudden onset of Trumphobia, including at least one VA psychologist.

2016 November 29, “Sudden Onset Of Trumphobia Causes VA Psychologist To Quit”, in Disabled Veterans:

He was also into hyperbole topped up with a dose of Trumphobia.

2017 May 11, “Gerard Henderson: Virginia Trioli says ABC needs more comedians”, in The Australian:

Trumphobia and how it can be cured by taking a closer look at South Africa. News24. "The next time you feel you are exhibiting Trumphobia combat it by educating yourself about the politics of countries like South Africa."


unjoyfully

en-adv

unjoyfully (comparative more unjoyfully, superlative most unjoyfully)

more unjoyfully (comparative)
most unjoyfully (superlative)


mashed on

en-adj

mashed on (comparative more mashed on, superlative most mashed on)

more mashed on (comparative)
most mashed on (superlative)

(slang, dated) Struck with love for (a person).


glimflashy

glimflashy (comparative more glimflashy, superlative most glimflashy)

more glimflashy (comparative)
most glimflashy (superlative)

17th century. First attested in Elisha Coles' An English Dictionary (1676). From glim (“eye”) + flashy (“flashing”). Figurative of someone's eyes flashing with anger.

"What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."

1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 82, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 385:

"Glimflashy, he was, saying we was all dicked in the nob or else we should be bummed, laced up in darbies, and tossed in the bilboes. Oh, gloomy hour—what a brangle."

1985, Kasey Michaels, The Savage Miss Saxon (Alphabet Regency Romance; 5):

"Dewhurst gone all glimflashy on me."¶ Pete took a long glug of his beer. "What's he mad about?"

2014, Elizabeth Boyce, Honor Among Thieves (The Honorables; 1):


pulse-pounding

pulse-pounding (comparative more pulse-pounding, superlative most pulse-pounding)

more pulse-pounding (comparative)
most pulse-pounding (superlative)

All the thrills, chills and spills of pulse-pounding sport adventure! […] 150,000 words of thrill-packed sports text gives you the pulse-pounding story … how the Big Ten grew from a small-time bunch of upstart Westerners into the nation's mightiest collegiate conference …

1967 September, “Announcing … The Big Ten [advertisement]”, in Robert G. Forman, editor, The Michigan Alumnus, volume LXXIV, number 1, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

The superbly crafted suspense thriller that director Jonathan Demme has made from Thomas Harris's taut best-selling novel The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.

1991 February 14, Peter Travers, “The Silence of the Lambs [film review]”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 2017-12-05:

Suddenly a great, dark shadow passed between the pulse-pounding blasts and my miry form. I saw in astonishment that Nekbael flew along the dim hallway on monstrous bat wings. The demon vampire ripped the pulse-pounding beamer from the hands of the evil pimp.

2003, W. C. Leadbeater, “Return of the Dread Mutant Killer Glaucoma”, in The Mind-warp Era: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 114:

Kevin Williamson’s script justly deserves praise for its cleverness and tactic of treating the audience like it was in on the joke, but ultimately, it was [Wes] Craven’s ability to still deliver a pulse-pounding horror flick and ideal date movie that drove the film so far into the black.

2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

That increases the heartbeat rate, especially as a result of excitement or fear.


parental alienation

The coercion of a child into behaving in a hostile or fearful manner toward one of the parents.


nice guy syndrome

So before you fall into the trap of the ‘nice guy syndrome’ and start complaining about women’s choice in men, you should look to yourself.

2003, Laura Chesnik, "Our responsibility: Education is a right", The Lance (University of Windsor), 18 November 2003, page 18

Just because a guy treats a woman with respect does not mean she owes him anything. The “nice guy syndrome” needs to cease.

2014, Shira Stein, "Are nice guys actually as nice as they seem?", The Highlander (Carlmont High School, Belmont, CA), April 2014, page 3

If you really are a male feminist, whatever social awkwardness you might be suffering should never be confused with something so gross as Nice Guy Syndrome.

2016, “Coquette”, in [The Best of] Dear Coquette: Shady Advice from a Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any of These Questions, page 74:

(colloquial) A phenomenon in which a man thinks that he deserves romantic or sexual attention from women by virtue of being nice.


Pizzagate

Battle of the Buffet
Pizzagate conspiracy theory

(slang) A 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was involved in human trafficking, and alleging the existence of a secret child sex ring associated with the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C.


romantopia

en-noun

romantopia (usually uncountable, plural romantopias)

Blend of romance + utopia; originally coined by evolutionary psychologists Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons in their book Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female Sexuality (2001; →ISBN) to describe the setting in romance novels.

But why, one might wonder, is there no commercial erotic genre that combines the ingredients of pornotopia and romantopia, thereby doubling the potential audience and the potential profit?

2001, Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons (2001), Warrior lovers: erotic fiction, evolution, and female sexuality (New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press), page 68

The crucial difference between romantopia and intimatopia is that in intimatopia, intimacy is normally established before sexual interaction and is always maintained after it, whereas in romantopia, it is only established by sexual interaction and is frequently transitory.

2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays, (Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland), page 106

In opposition to romantopia and intimatopia and their respective romance and intimacy foci, paratopia’s interest in the fantastic is more radical.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 66

A fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by women.


romantopic

Like war novels, medieval literature is also sexually ambiguous (see Appendix one for more on medieval queerness). An example is slash inspired by the medieval-set Merlin, for which romantopic and intimatopic frameworks are useful.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 15


proditomania

The greedy public policy of colonizing whole continents abroad, the egotistic private practice of limiting families at home to two or three children, the prevalent politico-ritual theology, the apotheosis of the army and the infallibility of its chiefs, the defilement of literature, the prostitution of the drama and of pictorial art to the passions of the human beast, the total negation of science, the universal conviction that the nation is invincible by land and by sea, and the concomitant proditomania, combined with the cheerful certitude that France is still the light and life of the world, are inevitable consequences of the four conditions enumerated above and unerring symptoms of the dire disease which has eaten into the vitals of the citizens of the third republic.

1897, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, The Zola Trial, page 470:

(rare) A phobia that others are conspiring against one.


phobanthropy

Surely I need not point out to you the egregious egoism, the utter selfishness of the anarchists. Why, their pretended philanthropy is really phobanthropy, that would be monstrous were it not so insane.

1899, Josephine Bontecou Steffens, Letitia Berkeley, A.M., page 200:

After that I was afraid of Aino and Karl, I was more and more afraid as the days passed and as I fought up out of the mistiness and fever into strength and clarity of mind, convalescing. There was a return of my old phobanthropy. I had fled people, I had come to the wilderness in preference to any further effort to establish an amicable destiny in a society that abhorred me.

Very soon the cause of his phobanthropy becomes clear. He not only feels inferior to and ashamed before his fellow-country-men because of the failure in his studies and evades them as much as possible on account of this but he also lives in a world of perverted phantasies, which he himself feels to be filthy and painful.

1948, Folia psychiatrica, neurologica et neurochirurgica neerlandica:


love quadrangle

love quadrangle (plural love quadrangles)

(rare) A situation in which three people vie for the love of a fourth person.


gloomingly

en-adv

gloomingly (comparative more gloomingly, superlative most gloomingly)

more gloomingly (comparative)
most gloomingly (superlative)


poor-spirited

en-adj

poor-spirited (comparative more poor-spirited, superlative most poor-spirited)

more poor-spirited (comparative)
most poor-spirited (superlative)


face like thunder

en-noun

face like thunder (plural faces like thunder)

Half an hour later when dad and I ventured into the lounge, mum glaring at us with a face like thunder, Kim was lying contentedly next to Armalade in front of the fire, a real con merchant if ever there was one, basking in all the attention.

2011, Maggie Graham, Me and My Animals, →ISBN, page 80:

A face showing great anger or sullenness.


love rectangle

But the breakup and awkward love rectangle were a recurring topic in Google's gossip mill, adding even more tension.

2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:


monoamorous

Attested since 1992, from monoamor(y) (which see) + -ous, possibly modelled on polyamorous.

That is, if we were monogamous/monoamorous, she would not have had a chance to explore these feelings without threatening the relationship. Our first few threesomes were very much oriented towards Janice, with less attention given to me (which turns out to be okay; as the saying goes, "I like to watch")[.]

1992 June 10, Jamais A. Cascio=, Bi/Polyamory Blend, alt.polyamory, Usenet

Being exclusively faithful to one partner; monogamous (especially as contrasted with polyamorous).


someone's jaw dropped

Morris's jaw dropped — his countenance became the colour of tallow — his teeth chattered, and he gave visible signs of the utmost consternation.

(idiomatic) somebody was very surprised.


saltyback

en-adj

saltyback (comparative more saltyback, superlative most saltyback)

more saltyback (comparative)
most saltyback (superlative)

[Sparrow Saltskin:] All the good I done was to get Frankie saltyback at me.

1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:

(US slang, dated) Irritated, annoyed, soured.


roving eye

This dame she was new-fangled
And of a roving eye. . . .
"Beshrew me," quoth King Arthur,
"I think thou be'st not true!"

1858, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 4, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry:

But because she her wanton, roving eye
Turned upon me, her angry paramour
Did scourge her from her head unto her feet.

1909, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Purgatorio, Canto 32:

Miss Israel . . . plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. . . . The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump.

2001 April 21, Ellin Martens, “People: Beauty and the Bombshells”, in Time, retrieved 2018-03-21:

(idiomatic) The personal characteristic of taking amorous interest in people other than one's own spouse or regular romantic partner.


bag up

en-verb

bag up (third-person singular simple present bags up, present participle bagging up, simple past and past participle bagged up)

bags up (present singular third-person)
bagging up (participle present)
bagged up (participle past)
bagged up (past)

(slang, US) To be arrested or picked up by the police.


mad on

Walking mail men are fair game for animals, kids and any one with a mad on for the Post Oflice.

2009, W. A. Franklin "Dub", Dining with Dub, →ISBN, page 36:

And Ben was always hard to talk with when he had himself a mad on.

2014, Penelope Williamson, The Outsider, →ISBN, page 109:

You've had a mad on at me since we met.

2015, Zachary Klein, Two Way Toll, →ISBN:

A state of anger and resentment toward someone or something.