blood

en-noun

blood (countable and uncountable, plural bloods)

Belizean Creole: blod

Torres Strait Creole: blad

→ Greek: μπλάντι (blánti)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃tóm?
Proto-Germanic *blōþą
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old English blōd
Middle English blood
English blood
From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out". Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bloud, West Frisian bloed, Dutch bloed, German Blut, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian blod, Icelandic and Faroese blóð.

etymon

They came looking for blood.

Under Henry III. Amboise ceased to be a slaughter-house, as in the preceding reign, but it remained a sort of state prison. It is related that Anne d'Este of Ferrara, wife of Duc de Guise, while assisting once at a series of executions out of the windows of the castle with Catherine de Medicis, suddenly overcome by the horror of the spectacle, turned away, exclaiming passionately, "Ah Madame! how all this blood calls out for blood! what vengeance is being prepared! May God have pity on your sons and on mine!"

1873, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, page 31:

He watched out for the men in his unit, for the one woman who had saved them so many years ago when they were still raw teens out for blood and revenge on the world, and he watched out for anyone else they stumbled across in their lives that needed protection.

2007, Christine Feehan, Deadly Game, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:

The standard assessment suggests that as the munera became purely a spectacle, they became more murderous because the public wanted to see blood. That the people of Rome were able to indulge this degenerate desire was merely due to the degraded status of the professional gladiator.

2010, Alison Futrell, Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 169:


bleed

en-verb

bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)

bleeds (present singular third-person)
bleeding (participle present)
bled (participle past)
bled (past)

From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).

кровоточи́ть

seldom used, име́ть кровотече́ние (imétʹ krovotečénije), идёт кровь (idjót krovʹ)

If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.

(intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.

"What did they die of?" I asked.
"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
"He bled and purged babies?"
"They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."

1979, Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Beacon Press (2024), page 239:

(transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.


bleed

en-noun

bleed (countable and uncountable, plural bleeds)

The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.


bloody

en-adj

bloody (comparative bloodier, superlative bloodiest)

bloodier (comparative)
bloodiest (superlative)

From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdag, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.

There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.

Some bloody paſſion ſhakes your very Frame:

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 V, scene ii], page 336:

I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.

1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, chapter I, in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, page 8:

The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.

2007, Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 169:


vampire bat

I noticed a peculiarity which distinguished these bats from any others with which I had come in contact (and on the Rio Negro my experiences in this respect had been ghastly and terrible: men wither and die there from nightly visitations of vampire bats).

1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xix. 172:

Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.


vampire

desc

ভ্যাম্পায়ার

→ Bengali: ভ্যাম্পায়ার (bhêmpaẏar)

→ Irish: vaimpír

→ Japanese: ヴァンパイア (vanpaia), バンパイア (banpaia)

→ Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (vhĕmpāyar)

→ Thai: แวมไพร์ (wɛm-paai)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bhampair

→ Swahili: vampiri

→ Turkish: vampir

→ Welsh: fampir

From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian вампир (vàmpīr), proposed to be a variant of unattested *upir, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь, q.v. Compare Russian упы́рь (upýrʹ), Polish upiór, Polish wąpierz, etc. Doublet of oupire.

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition Porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.


undead

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-undead.wav

From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. Usage as a noun is attested from the early 20th century onwards.

Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.

When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.

2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-04:

(horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.


undead

In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.

"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiv. 319:

Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom

2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:

It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.

2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate.

nemrtvý

those creatures which are dead but still animate


undead

en-noun

undead (plural undead or (rare) undeads)

"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.

Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997:

(horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.


Count Dracula

The fictional vampire in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

काउंट ड्रॅक्यूला

kāuṇṭa ḍrĕkyūlā


Dracula

Dracula
Order of the Dragon
Vlad II Dracul
Vlad the Impaler

From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).

(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.


stasis

stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)

From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Or will Americans remain hunkered forever—as confused and anxious and paralyzed as we were before 2020—descend into digital feudalism, and retreat back into our cocoons of nostalgia and cultural stasis, providing the illusion that nothing much is changing or ever can change?

2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:

(figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.


vamp

en-verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

vamps (present singular third-person)
vamping (participle present)
vamped (participle past)
vamped (past)

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

cog

Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!

She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.

(intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.


sanguine

en-adj

sanguine (comparative more sanguine, superlative most sanguine)

more sanguine (comparative)
most sanguine (superlative)

From Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”), of uncertain origin, perhaps Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, from *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Doublet of sanguineous.

What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this
bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

(obsolete, physiology) Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.

сангвиничен

having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours


sanguine

en-noun

sanguine (countable and uncountable, plural sanguines)


sanguine

en-verb

sanguine (third-person singular simple present sanguines, present participle sanguining, simple past and past participle sanguined)

sanguines (present singular third-person)
sanguining (participle present)
sanguined (participle past)
sanguined (past)

To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.


white blood cell

en-noun

white blood cell (plural white blood cells)

(hematology, cytology, immunology) A type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response, or part of the immune system.

witbloedselle

cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response


blood vessel

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

(anatomy) A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.

ケモリッ

component of the circulatory system that carries blood

หลอดเลือด

lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat


haemo-

From Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-), akin to αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).


-aemia

From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

(British spelling, medicine) Blood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.

-uria

urine; presence in urine; state or condition of urine


sanguinary

en-adj

sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)

more sanguinary (comparative)
most sanguinary (superlative)

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.

We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview)

"[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."

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

It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year A.D. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.

1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years A.D. 645-50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty, Cambridge University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:


red blood cell

(hematology, cytology) A type of cell in the blood of vertebrates that contains hemoglobin and transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; an erythrocyte.

كُرَيَّةُ دَمٍ حَمْرَاء

haemoglobin-carrying blood cell in vertebrates


exsanguination

en-noun

exsanguination (countable and uncountable, plural exsanguinations)

Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.


transfusion

transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural transfusions)

(medicine) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.

نَقْل اَلدَّم

medicine: the transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another

перелива́ние кро́ви n (perelivánije króvi, literally “blood transfusion”)

гемотрансфу́зия f (gemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)

перелива́ння кро́ві n (perelyvánnja króvi, literally “blood transfusion”)

гемотрансфу́зія f (hemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)


blood transfusion

blood transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural blood transfusions)

(medicine) The process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously.

bloedoortapping

taking blood from one and giving it to another individual


bloodshot

en-adj

bloodshot (comparative more bloodshot, superlative most bloodshot)

more bloodshot (comparative)
most bloodshot (superlative)

She said she was perfectly fine but I could tell she was tired; her eyes were all bloodshot.

(of the eyes) Reddened and inflamed because of congested blood vessels.


hematoma

en-noun

hematoma (plural hematomas or hematomata)

From hemato- + -oma. Among the many words derived from -oma that are in current common use, this word is one of only a few that do not denote a neoplasm; another is granuloma.

(pathology) A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.


silver bullet

(literally, folklore) A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.


Buffyverse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse.

2009, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Annette Holba, Media and the Apocalypse, page 77:

2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46,
In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome.

We can hardly be surprised when Buffy and Satsu find what warmth they can, as Willow does with her demon lover, in an intercut sex scene of the kind which typically precedes an apocalypse in the Buffyverse (#15, p. 26). Scenes like this confirm Em McAvan's point that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).

2010, Lewis Call, “Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics”, in Erin B. Waggoner, editor, Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays, page 115:

(fandom slang) The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


blood bank

(medicine) the range of such blood products stored


bloodshed

bloodshed (usually uncountable, plural bloodsheds)

From attested early forms of such phrases as "there was much blood shed"; equivalent to blood + shed, past participle of shed.

(literally) The shedding or spilling of blood.

A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.

(obsolete) The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.

bloedoffer

(obsolete) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.


bloodmobile

A vehicle outfitted to collect blood from donors.


ecchymosis

ecchymosis (countable and uncountable, plural ecchymoses)

From New Latin ecchymōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “I pour out”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + χέω (khéō, “I pour”).

A diseased condition of the skin has often been mistaken for stigmatic marks. Such, for instance, is ecchymosis, a discoloration of the skin due to the extravasation of subcutaneous blood.

1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 273:

A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin, especially one that is remote from a site of trauma or caused by a nontraumatic process (such as neoplasia).

синина

leaking of blood into the tissues of the body as a result of a bruise


vampirism

vampirism (usually uncountable, plural vampirisms)

(mythology) The state of being a vampire.


oupire

Borrowed from Polish upiór. Doublet of vampire.


bloodletting

From blood + letting, equal to bloodlet + -ing.

The pungent pain, dyspnœa, cephalalgia, redness of the face, pulsations of the heart, strong and rapid, the pulse full and vibrating, induced M. Peyrade, then attached to that hospital, to practise blood-letting in the arm. It was followed with marked relief.

1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 207:

(historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.

Yet another round of corporate bloodletting.

Only when the bankers and industrialists abroad realized that a ferocious class struggle in Germany was raging did they begin to relent somewhat on their economic bloodletting.

2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World:

(by extension) The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect.

In 1856 Tu Wen-hsiu rose up in rebellion and occupied Ta-li.[...]"The conflict between the Han Chinese and the Moslems began over trifles. It has developed into a tragedy of mutual bloodletting because of poor management by the civil and military officials at Yung-ch'ang county and of Yunnan province. As a result, the mutual killing spread throughout Yunnan. The fault lies not with the people but with the officials."

1981, “Mid-Century Rebels”, in Jeh-hang Lai, transl., edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook, New York: The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:

A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence.

blodsudgydelse

large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed


vampiress

Here, the vampiress personifies righteous indignation, a one-woman lynch mob.

1975, Angela Carter, “The Art of Horrorzines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 551:


exsanguinate

en-verb

exsanguinate (third-person singular simple present exsanguinates, present participle exsanguinating, simple past and past participle exsanguinated)

exsanguinates (present singular third-person)
exsanguinating (participle present)
exsanguinated (participle past)
exsanguinated (past)

/ɪkˈsæŋɡwəˌneɪt/

PIE word
 *h₁ésh₂r̥
From Latin exsanguinātus (“depleted of blood, exsanguinated; lacking blood, bloodless”) + -ate.

af

la:exsanguinātus<t:depleted of blood, exsanguinated; lacking blood, bloodless>

абяскро́ўліваць

to drain (a living or dead body, or a body part) of blood

And I do have to admit that once the episode revealed that the girls killed their dads because of a chromosomal predisposition, I made a note to have my daughter tested for that "exsanguinate your father" gene!

1997, Phil Farrand, “First Season [Eve]”, in The Nitpicker’s Guide for X-philes, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing, →ISBN:

To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.

vuodattaa kuiviin

to kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss


mulo

Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).


living dead

(fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.


blood plasma

en-noun

blood plasma (usually uncountable, plural blood plasmas)

(hematology) The clear fluid portion of blood in which the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are suspended; forms serum upon clotting.


Nosferatu

/ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/

Possibly from a Romanian word for vampire. The term achieved popular currency through Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and F. W. Murnau's 1922 German film Nosferatu. See also: Wikipedia's article on the etymology of the word (and the references there).

"Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 192:

Those of us who have dabbled much in the lore of the nosferatu tend to think of them as imaginative creations of the German and English Romantics, and not without reason.

2018 November, Kevin Jackson, “Something to Sink Your Teeth Into”, in Literary Review:

While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 26:


haemato-

Representing the combining form of Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

Back in the late ’90s, when vampirism became fashionable owing to the international popularity of the novel Dracula … A subcircuit of the Buda-Pesth telephone exchange had apparently been reserved for the use of hæmatophages, as they were then known

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 801: [compare -phage]


cycler

We took samples from the tubes in the cycler at regular intervals

(biochemistry) Ellipsis of thermal cycler.; a machine for creating multiple copies of DNA sequences.


hypovolemia

hypovolemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypovolemias)

(pathology) A state of decreased blood plasma volume.


dhampir

(mythology, fiction) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.


bloodletter

One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness).


blood donor

A person who donates blood for use in transfusion.


hyperfusion

Increased perfusion of blood through an organ


bloody nose

(US) A nose that is bleeding internally.


vampiresque

en-adj

vampiresque (comparative more vampiresque, superlative most vampiresque)

more vampiresque (comparative)
most vampiresque (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of a vampire.


vampirelike

vampirelike (comparative more vampirelike, superlative most vampirelike)

more vampirelike (comparative)
most vampirelike (superlative)


Twihard

Getting "Twihards" who love virtuous vampires to buy the soundtrack is easy — but getting Radiohead fans to plunk down cash for a little bit of the "New Moon" universe will be a coup.

2009 October 3, Ann Donahue, “'New Moon' Rising”, in Billboard, page 19:

Beginning at popular Rialto Beach, share this classic coastline with beachcombers, dog walkers (allowed on-leash to Ellen Creek), and scores of Twihards from across the country.

2011, Craig Romano, Backpacking Washington: Overnight and Multiday Routes, The Mountaineers Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 38:

'Not me, I'm an out and out Twihard, loved the vampires in Twilight – still do, always will – so I know what it's like when people take the mickey. My brothers drew huge fangs and devil tails on all my posters of Robert Pattinson.'

2014, Samantha Tonge, From Paris, With Love, Carina, published 2014, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) An avid fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the related films.


vampiredom

Frozen at the age he was when vampiredom was thrust upon him (in the great influenza epidemic of 1918), Edward is now eternally a younger man, while Jake’s 16 and holding.

2007 August 12, Liesl Schillinger, “Children’s Books / Young Adult”, in New York Times:

The state of being a vampire; vampirehood.


Buffy

A pet form of Elizabeth (cf. Bethy), based on a child's unsuccessful attempts to pronounce the name. Popularized by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


vampirette

The bond with the dead, at once sister and young bride, may give us another perspective on the same-sex eroticism that, all agree, this male writer imagines and creates between the vampirette and her victim.

1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 161:

There will be no stores open at midnight for the latest Pinkwater, no nerd swarms, girl gaggles or nerd-girl swaggles, cloaked as wizards or vampirettes, whining at the doors, demanding completion.

2009 April 12, Larry Doyle, “Iggy in Underland”, in New York Times:


antivampire

antivampire (comparative more antivampire, superlative most antivampire)

more antivampire (comparative)
most antivampire (superlative)

This is a revealing passage, for van Helsing is the stern realist, the guiding hand directing the antivampire confederacy.

1996, Howard L. Malchow, Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain, page 146:

The Oscar, Time, and Murrow formed a magical antivampire crucifix that would do more than protect Mr. S from the bloodsuckers of Hollywood; this figurative talisman would also convert the naysayers into idolators.

2003, George Jacobs, William Stadiem, Mr. S: my life with Frank Sinatra, page 137:

(folklore, fantasy) Opposing or countering vampires.


bleed out

There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.

2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, in Texas Public Radio, archived from the original on 2024-02-21:

(medicine, informal) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.

(figurative) An instance of any system or item that loses its necessary components, such as a machine and its fuel or a company and its money.


bleed out

en-verb

bleed out (third-person singular simple present bleeds out, present participle bleeding out, simple past and past participle bled out)

bleeds out (present singular third-person)
bleeding out (participle present)
bled out (participle past)
bled out (past)

But we never got to take the shot I'd been trained to take, that beautiful single shot that takes out a man's head, or the gutshot—Chris Kyle's favorite—that allows him to bleed out and die a little slower, maybe think about all the ways he might have lived a different and better life.

2013, Anthony Swofford, Death of an American Sniper, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To die due to excess bloodloss; to bleed to death.

(transitive) To kill by causing such bloodloss.

Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.

(intransitive, figurative) To leak out; to spread.


bloodloss

Red blood cells with or without cryosupernatant plasma depending on volume need were given to compensate for bloodloss.

2012, P. Fondu, O. Thijs, Haemostatic Failure in Liver Disease, →ISBN, page 122:

Thus, bloodloss also revealed in rabbits subjected to prolonged Fe administration certain changes in leucopoiesis, especially in lymphopoiesis.

2013, A. A. Letavet, E. B. Kurlyandskaya, The Toxicology of Radioactive Substances: Volume 3.59, →ISBN, page 82:

An important problem is the coagulation abnormalities, intrinsic to the deterioration of liver function, with subsequent massive peroperative bloodloss.

2013, C.H. Gips, R.A. Krom, Progress in Liver Transplantation, →ISBN, page 5:

(pathology) alternative form of blood loss.


sanguiferous

/saŋˈɡwɪfəɹəs/

From sangui- + -ferous, from Latin sanguis (“blood”).

‘Today we will begin with an examination of the principal sanguiferous conduits of the leg…’

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 206:


vampirize

vampirize (third-person singular simple present vampirizes, present participle vampirizing, simple past and past participle vampirized)

vampirizes (present singular third-person)
vampirizing (participle present)
vampirized (participle past)
vampirized (past)


vampirey

en-adj

vampirey (comparative more vampirey, superlative most vampirey)

more vampirey (comparative)
most vampirey (superlative)

Even though virtually every character in the novel, besides Cody, is a vampire, Vampire High is not at all a vampirey novel. Rees's vampires are born as vampires who marry and produce little vampires. Justin explains that they no longer kill for ...

2006, Deborah Wilson Overstreet, Not Your Mother's Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 44:

I'd gotten fed up before, tired of the vampirey stuff I had to learn to accommodate, frightened of getting in deeper. Sometimes, I just wanted to see humans for a while. So for over three weeks, that was what I did. I didn't call Bill; he didn't call me.

2009, Charlaine Harris, Living Dead In Dallas: A True Blood Novel, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(Too vampirey.) Yield to the forbidden music of my soul. (Way too vampirey.) Dear Chloe, please can I sink my teeth into your neck and drink your blood? (One step at a time, Nigel.)

2010, Tim Collins, Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire: Because the Undead Have Feelings Too!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“Last week,” he says, “I sent 'The Winning Shot' to Temple Bar—a very ghastly Animal Magnetism vampirey sort of tale. It came back again but with a very complimentary letter, & Hogg says he should like to see it.”

2013, Arthur Conan Doyle, Vampire Stories, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

(informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of vampires.


sanguification

en-noun

sanguification (usually uncountable, plural sanguifications)

From New Latin sanguificātiō. Equivalent to sanguify + -ication or sangui- + -fication. Compare French sanguification.

(physiology) The formation of blood cells.


Twitard

From twilight + -tard, after the pattern of Twihard.

If I go missing, please reference this, as Twitards have more than likely kidnapped me, all because I seem to be the one person on the planet not to understand the vampire hype.

2010, Felicia Mancini, “2009: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”, in View Magazine, 7 January - 13 January 2010 issue:

(slang, derogatory) An avid fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


draculin

From Dracula + -in, named after Count Dracula.

(organic chemistry, zoology) A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva of vampire bats.


bloodlet

en-verb

bloodlet (third-person singular simple present bloodlets, present participle bloodletting, simple past and past participle bloodlet)

bloodlets (present singular third-person)
bloodletting (participle present)
bloodlet (participle past)
bloodlet (past)

From Middle English blodleten, from Old English blōdlǣtan (“to let blood, bleed”), equivalent to blood + let. Cognate with German Blutlassen (“bloodletting”), Icelandic blóðlátinn (“bled”, past participle).

cog

(transitive) To bleed; let blood; phlebotomise.


hyperchloremic

en-adj

hyperchloremic (comparative more hyperchloremic, superlative most hyperchloremic)

more hyperchloremic (comparative)
most hyperchloremic (superlative)

Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperchloremia.


hyperchloremia

en-noun

hyperchloremia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperchloremias)

An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally elevated level of the chloride ion in the blood.

ipercloremia

an abnormally elevated level of the chloride in the blood


Team Jacob

Of course, there are those two camps I mentioned earlier in this chapter: Team Edward and Team Jacob. Over time, Team Jacob has grown to the point where a lot of fans prefer Jacob to Edward.

2009, Lois H. Gresh, The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 89:

However, Team Jacob members on the Anglophone boards were even more emphatic in their dismissal of Edward, and several posters argued that his behavior was abusive.

2010, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Rebecca Williams, “Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight Fan Community in Norway”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 200:

Team Jacob argues that Jacob's warmth, support, and wolfy exuberance should have won Bella away from her vampire swain.

2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 192:

(fandom slang) The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Jacob Black.


Team Edward

However, the continued conflict between Team Jacob and Team Edward shows that the series is sufficiently open to allow for the shipping of both Bella/Edward and Bella/Jacob.

2010, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Rebecca Williams, “Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight Fan Community in Norway”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 202:

To Team Edward, the canon pairing with the stoic, troubled, immortal 17-year-old is unquestionable.

Although the tension between Team Edward and Team Jacob fans is usually expressed in playful banter, there is the possibility that this group conflict will erupt into hostility.

2011, Melissa Burkley, “Prejudice in Twilight”, in E. David Klonsky, Alexis Black, editors, The Psychology of Twilight, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 72:

(fandom slang) The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Edward Cullen.


nightwalker

* night + walker
* (vampire): since they are traditionally said to avoid sunlight and go out at night.


sparklepire

From the bloated, purple-faced, shroud-wrapped corpse feared throughout Europe in the 18th century to the ‘sparklepire’ brought into vogue by Stephenie Meyer, the vampire as a concept has come a long way since its folkloric origins, and horror and paranormal romance authors have brought the entire concept to an interesting evolutionary point.

2009 August 16, Janet Neilson, “The Evolution of Vampire in Fiction”, in Hub Magazine, number 95, page 5:

This probably includes: talking donkeys, gods, flying dragons, garden fairies, vampires, sparklepires, ghosts, and Harry Potter.

2012 April 2, Kermit [username], “Re: I am now a Creationist”, in talk.origins (Usenet):

KEVIN: Well, that's your classic vamp. Now factor in your Nosferatu, your Twilight sparklepires, your Thirty Days of Night nocturnal shark people and the hundred of variations on the classic...

2012 October 11, Freezer [username], “[MSTing] Unbreak My Spark - Part 4”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang, humorous) A vampire who sparkles, such as those featured in the Twilight series.


glampire

Well, it's basically a supernatural Dawson's Creek—a humiliatingly addictive soap opera in the meadows, with glampire Edward (Pattinson) as Dawson and Native American beefcake Jacob (Taylor Lautner) as Pacey.

2009 November 19, Aaron Mesh, “Women Who Run With the Werewolves: New Moon Reviewed”, in Willamette Week:

“Because they couldn't even tell a real vampire from a glampire. Lucy didn't know anything.”

2011, Hannah Jayne, Under Wraps, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 171:

[…] Anyway, you have to go to Annandale today. It's your cure day surprise. You get to kill a glampire."
"Christ. One of those vampire poseurs?"
"Oh yes. With the white face paint and dopey satanic rituals and everything. […]

2011, Drew Magary, The Postmortal, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

(slang, sometimes used attributively) A glamorous or beautiful vampire; a person who pretends to be a vampire.


daywalker

(fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.


Buffyite

46 and proud to be a Buffyite. One of the best shows on the tube.

1998 May 25, Georg McLaughlin, “Re: Newbie (ages ?)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Buffyites [felt] the show had slipped this year, falling into a very administration-like (and un-Buffy-like) us vs. them moral schema.

2005, Rhonda Wilcox (quoting Eric Alterman), Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd (2006), unnumbered page

Although Internet communities are virtual, it is the hypothesis of this paper that the virtcom can become a real community, by means of which Buffyites and Angelites can regularly interact.

2009, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Buffy, Angel, and the Creation of Virtual Communities”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 18:

(slang) A fan of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


vampireyness

If I remember correctly, the episode $teve's talking about also featured Nick getting caught on camera by a TV news crew, and he was unable to hypnotise her to make her forget because she had physical evidence of his vampireyness.

2001 July 28, Adam James Fitzpatrick, “Re: A few questions about Angel 2.21 - SPOILERS”, in aus.tv.buffy (Usenet):

For reasons that defy explanation, they're PUNS. Monstrous puns. Puns so eye-rollingly BAD, they're an abomination to the vampire's refined senses. This affront to their immortal good taste leaves them writhing in agony—exposing all manner of vampireyness.

2013, Rita Harris, Heather Harwood, Your Guide to Spotting and Outing Bloodsuckers at Work, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4:

Age Suitability: Teens and above due to vampireyness and possible bad language.

2013, Nine Worlds Geekfest 2013 Programme and Schedule, page 53:

(informal) The state or quality of being vampirey.


Buffian

Sorry to have missed meeting the Canberra Buffians.

2000 January 17, Rachel, “Re: Inaugural ACT Buffy Meet”, in aus.tv.buffy (Usenet):

In all this time it still hasn't occurred to you that Buffians couldn't possibly give less of a shit about ratings?

2001 May 31, Forge [username], “Re: Wonky wins in Finale Ratings! Outraged DA fans demand recount!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Yay - 'nother Buffian :D

2002 June 2, Trin, “Re: ROLL CALL!”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):


Buffista

> Well, to *you* I yield precedence, but the rest of these whippersnappers
> ought to bow to my half-century. And I've been a Buffista from Day One.

2002 February 19, Bill Reid (quoting Charles Stanley), “Re: Am I the only old man here?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Of course if they entice the 'Buffy crowd', there'll be a lot of Buffistas reading Jinx High for the first time and complaining about it ripping off the Buffy episode "The Witch" (my first usenet post about Buffy was to abml about a certain rather obvious plot resemplance^([sic]) there).

2005 August 31, William George Ferguson, “Re: New release of Tregarde series?”, in alt.books.m-lackey (Usenet):

We didn't discuss it further, and continued sitting on our asses watching the TV. But a couple weeks later, late at night, another Buffista pondered the idea online.

2007, Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?: True Adventures in Cult Fandom, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 189:


Buffyholic

Anyway, I was thinking that some of us Buffyholics could meet there and perhaps organize a Denver "goober" for Buffy's season premiere.

1998 August 13, barklage [username], “Starcon 98 (Denver)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Cordesman was introduced to Buffy by Buffyholics in his family, watched an episode or two, perceived analogies between the show and America's approach to threats of biological warfare, and developed Buffy into compounds that expressed his views on security.

2003, Michael Adams, Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

Before “Prophecy Girl,” I thought Buffy was a pretty cool show with some great moments, way better than anything else on the box. In its wake, I was an obsessive Buffy'''holic.

2009, Justine Larbalestier, “A Buffy Confession”, in Glenn Yeffeth, editor, Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 78:


Buffaholic

For all you UK Buffaholics out there, there's an SMG interview in this week's (month's?) TV Hits magazine.

1999 January 14, Jonathan Nickson, “SMG interview”, in alt.fan.sarah-m-gellar (Usenet):

I'm am^([sic]) always online late Tuesday....gotta see what the Buffaholics thought about the new ep. I love Feb sweeps <G>.

2001 February 10, Karen Marie, “Re: Smackdown & Thunder”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet):

I am a 36-yr-old mother of two pre-shcoolers and I am a proud Buffaholic (not too mention Angelholic).

2001 December 18, Sharon V, “True Age Demographic”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):


Twimom

For "Twilight" fans, the Runaways' iconic power may be difficult to grasp. (And for many of those girls' Twimoms, it may be difficult to remember.)

2010 April 9, Ann Hornaday, “Kristen Stewart has style and substance in hard-rocking 'The Runaways'”, in The Washington Post:

The next six hours consisted of 40-something-year-old TwiMoms who couldn't wait to get a glance of Carlisle, rude people trying to cut in line, and an insane lady bringing her fussy baby who wouldn't stop crying.

2012, Julith Perry, "'Breaking Dawn' renews series", The Mentor (Manhattan High School, Manhattan, Kansas), Volume 100, Issue 11, 27 November 2012, page 6

Even though we're writing legal teens doing legal things, we did get our fair share of shit for being “TwiMoms” writing “TwiPorn.”

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

(fandom slang) A mother who likes Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


Twilighter

If you look at the town, and around the ever-increasing number of tourists who have come to take pictures with anything that says “Forks,” you will find signs heralding businesses' support of the Twilight books—irresistible to the voracious Twilighter (as Meyer's fans call themselves).

2010, Tracey Baptise, Stephenie Meyer, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 47:

A prequel on Carlisle would answer all of these questions and give Twilighters a better understanding of the leader of the Cullen family.

2010, Michelle Pan, Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views & Debates on the Twilight Series, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 83:

For one “Twilighter” in particular, the friendships she formed formed helped her through a particularly rough patch, when her husband's kidney failed and he was in need of a transplant.

2014, Michelle Groover, “Twilight and Twitter: An Ethnographic Study”, in Claudia Bucciferro, editor, The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

(fandom slang) A fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the related films.


Twifan

Naff ending and slow pacing notwithstanding, you can't really call this swoonfest a terrible movie (unless you want to be tweeted to death by Twifans).

2010 April 8, “To tide over the Twi-hards”, in Daily News, South Africa:

There are even goodies, too, for Twifans whose love of cooking is just as strong as their love for vampires and werewolves.

2010, Amanda McGuire Rzicznek, "'Twilight' cookbook adds spice", The BG News (Bowling Green State University), Volume 104, Issue 159, 7 July 2010, page 8

As any Twifan could tell you, long before Snowqueens Icedragon changed some names in her popular fic “Master of the Universe” and published it as Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, the wank surrounding her, her attitudes, and her relationship to the fandom had already reached epic proportions.

(fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


fanpire

The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.

2008 November 18, Derrik J. Lang, “Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles”, in USA Today:

Have you devoured the "Twilight" books? Are you obsessed with Edward? Can you recite the entire "Twilight" movie? Do you have Bella on the brain? Then you just might be a "Twilight" fanpire.

2009 July 16, “An event to sink your teeth into”, in The Charleston Gazette:

That their emotional relationship is foregrounded over sex may also explain why the mothers of Meyer's “fanpires” are great enthusiasts of the books, too.

2012, Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, Harvard University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 136:


Dracula sneeze

From a likening of the positioning of the arm during such a sneeze to stereotypical depictions of the fictional vampire Dracula holding one side of his cape over his face, specifically from Bela Lugosi in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) and Tom Mason (double for Lugosi) in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).

Wang also encouraged the use of the "Dracula sneeze," or sneezing into the crease of your elbow as you bring your arm to your face.

2009 September 9, Patrick Cowles, “H1N1 plagues campuses”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 4, California State University, Fullerton, page 3:

Regarding prevention, the school has begun encouraging sick community members to use the “Dracula sneeze,” sneezing into their elbows to avoid getting germs on their hands and then onto doorknobs and plumbing fixtures.

2009, Jeremy B. Merrill & Russell M. Page, "Swine Flu Hogs Campus Spotlight", The Claremont Port Side (Claremont Colleges), Volume 7, Issue 1, October 2009, page 7

Use a closed fist or assume the Dracula sneeze pose to temper germ transmission.

2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 177:

(informal) The act of sneezing into the crook of one's elbow so as to help prevent the spread of germs.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi
Dracula
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Tom Mason (actor, born 1920)


hypocupremia

An abnormally low level of copper in the blood (below the reference range).


hypercupremia

An abnormally high level of copper in the blood (above the reference range), which if it is high enough and/or persistent enough can produce copper toxicity (in any of various diseases, including Wilson's disease).


Steroline

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


Bangel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Spuffy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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.


neckbiter

From neck + biter, likely after the pattern of ankle-biter.

With Welcome to the Rileys in the can awaiting release, Stewart is already back into the world of neckbiters and werewolves.

2009 April 4, Amy Longsdorf, “Kristen Stewart: Still indie at heart”, in Toronto Star:


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.


Twific

Finally, in the third section, we discuss Bella's enhanced agency in Twifics in which authors give her a desiring gaze that is not limited to Edward.

2011, Malin Isaksson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Gazing, initiating, desiring: Alternative constructions of agency and sex in Twifics”, in Mariah Larsson, Ann Steiner, editors, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience, Nordic Academic Press, →ISBN, page 128:

Regarding to a huge number of Twifics, it is impossible to make some general claims about them because the genre and the level of originality depend on the skills and age of an individual writer.

2012, Eva Strýčková, "How the Vampire in a Volvo Ran Over the Prince on a White Horse: The 'Twilight Saga' and its Influence on the Phenomenon of Vampires", thesis submitted to Tomas Bata University, page 40

Shades obviously riffs on that story as well as on other popular Twifics.

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

(fandom slang) A fanfic based on the Twilight novel series and the associated films.


Buffyfic

Buffyfic (countable and uncountable, plural Buffyfics)

Also, this is, amazingly enough, my first ever Buffyfic, so be kind.

2001 January 17, vicpusateri [username], “Fic: Xander Steps Up [1/1]”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

I'll probably be switching back and forth between this and a Buffyfic I'm writing, but there shouldn't be any more huge gaps *crossing fingers*

2002 August 12, Katie M, “See No Evil, See No Good (Part 24/?)”, in alt.tv.er.creative (Usenet):

The first Buffyfic I ever read was set in the Bronze: Changing Hands (I think that was the title).

2004 March 1, MSey [username], “Re: FIC Stepping Out 1/1 Buffy/Angel PG”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

(countable, fandom slang) A fanfic based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Angelista

Most of the rabid Angelistas have defended his hiding as nothing more than an issue of self-protection against Buffy's fantasy of Angel being staked by Giles, and yet in "Amends," Angel himself finally decided it would be better to die than to ever pose a threat again.

1999 April 6, Micky DuPree, “Re: Is Marti Noxon a man-hating sadist?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

I'm an Angelista who likes Xander too, but Xander irritates me occasionally so I can still go dualistic from time to time. ;-)

1999 May 14, DesertRoaz [username], “Re: EW article about Angel's show”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

The split was between the Angelistas and the Xanderistas.

2002 December 2, William George Ferguson, “Re: Buffy fan subgroups”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan of the character Angel from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.


Xanderista

I used to be a major Xanderista. But this season, he's bugged me a lot.

1999 April 11, QueenChase [username], “Re: Who does Xander Love?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Victoria P. is a staunch Xanderista, and will take Xander's part in almost any discussion, even when she knows he is wrong.

2000 June 7, vicpusateri [username], “Re: OT: Challenge to Regulars”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

I recall that Xanderistas did react in the way you describe, even coining the term "Xander Slander".

2003 February 11, Rose, “Re: So Xander has (Spoilers for "First Date")”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan of the character Xander Harris from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Draculaesque

en-adj

Draculaesque (comparative more Draculaesque, superlative most Draculaesque)

more Draculaesque (comparative)
most Draculaesque (superlative)

Reminiscent of the fictional vampire Count Dracula.


Buffyology

The academic study of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


vampirina

Star, Old Mother Hubbard, Vampirina. She herself had bestowed the titles.

1922, William Rose Benét, The First Person Singular, page 13:

If the blonde vampirina was truly beautiful, then this vampirina was even more so.

2013, Rick Hall, The Chosen One, page 274:


blood volume

en-noun

blood volume (countable and uncountable, plural blood volumes)

The volume of blood circulating in an individual.


give blood

en-verb

give blood (third-person singular simple present gives blood, present participle giving blood, simple past gave blood, past participle given blood)

gives blood (present singular third-person)
giving blood (participle present)
gave blood (past)
given blood (participle past)

To willingly have one's own blood drawn, for a blood bank or the like.


protidemia

(pathology) The presence of excess protein in the blood


vampirehood

Not that he feels nostalgic for his mortal origins; after all, he was desperately unhappy, at least immediately prior to his vampirehood. Neither is Louis's unhappiness principally because of his lack of vampire colleagues.

2008, Charles Pinches, Jay B. McDaniel, Good News for Animals?: Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being, →ISBN, page 130:

I realized I'd been so caught up in my new vampirehood that I hadn't noticed Christmas had come and gone.

2006, Jennifer Armintrout, Blood Ties Book One: The Turning, MIRA, →ISBN, page 224:

The state of being a vampire; vampiredom.


Buffyspeak

As one would say in Buffyspeak, soak in the irony for a moment.

2006, Jennifer Ouellette, The Physics of the Buffyverse, unnumbered page:

During "The Writing for Teens and Television" symposium, in an exchange about adolescent language, Whedon readily admits, as he has done in other interviews, that Buffyspeak was his creation and not intended to be mimetic.

2007, Dear Angela: Remember My So-Called Life, page 216:

The linguistic distinctiveness of Buffyspeak is not reproduced in the Italian version, where teenagers' speech style is, at most, characterized by an informality which does not have any particular connotation as 'youth language.'

2008, Diana Bianchi, “Taming teen-language: The adaptation of Buffyspeak into Italian”, in Delia Chiaro, Christine Heiss, Chiara Bucaria, editors, Between Text and Image: Updating Research in Screen Translation, page 187:

(fandom slang) The invented slang used by characters on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


blood loss

en-noun

blood loss (usually uncountable, plural blood losses)

(pathology) the loss of blood caused by heavy bleeding


wiggins

Alteration of wiggings, from wig (“to be nervous or fearful”). First recorded use in 1997, in the first episode of the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Compare also wigging out.

We could meet someplace quieter. Louder. Uh, that place just kind of gives me the wiggins.

1997 March 10, “Welcome to the Hellmouth”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar):

Living in Rush's world never failed to give me the wiggins, but this time I barely noticed.

2014, Ian Thomas Healy, Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, The Good Fight:

(slang) The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.


euchloremic

(pathology) Having a normal level of chloride in the blood


volaemia

From volume + -emia (-emia is from New Latin).


Twihater

Why can't "Twihaters" like Kim and me just look away from the catastrophe already and find something else to mock?

2009 December 23, JoSelle Vanderhooft, “Sparkly Vampires Are Funny”, in QSaltLake Magazine, page 20:

Bella has also been labeled a bad role model for young girls; she relies on male saviors, her love is obsessive, and she puts her life at risk for a guy, point out the Twihaters.

2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, page 17:

Despite the intense rivalry between Twihards and Twihaters, the new parody pleases neither group.

2010, Cari MacPherson & Steve Rau, "'Vampires Suck' fails to bite", Technician (North Carolina State University), 20 August 2010, page 10

(fandom slang) A person who strongly dislikes Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or its film adaptations.


Buffydom

On the many chatrooms dedicated to Buffydom, fans refer to it as "the incredible shrinking Buffy," most evident during the fighting sequences, when Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt double (who actually has curves) switches off not-so-seamlessly with Gellar.

2002, Rachel Thompson, "Staking It To The Man", Herizons, Summer 2002, page 25

There are, however, strong roots in Valley Girl expressions and some slayer jargon has been established by both the show itself and the early years of Buffy'''dom online.

2013, Liz Medendorp, “Buffyspeak: The Internal and External Impact of Slayer Slang”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 67:

The current volume, however, is not only a major contribution to academic Buffydom.

2017, Anahid Kassabian, “Afterword”, in Paul Gregory Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, Vanessa Knights, editors, Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 249:

(fandom slang) The fandom of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Is Tara the only human character in Buffydom who isn't an only child (not counting the special case of Dawn)?

2000 December 16, Jerry McLaughlin, “Family”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

If there is one thing that has been consistant^([sic]) in Buffydom, it is that revenge is not a good thing.

2003 March 26, Dan Armato, “Re: 7th Season Buffy - Lies My Parents Told Me - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Dawn and the others, much like ants, are oblivious to reality and live in the miniscule^([sic]) world of Buffy'''dom (the kingdom of the Slayer), just as we might find ourselves marching like ants through our own lives in mindless routine.

2014, Lori M. Butler, “'The Ants Go Marching': Effective Lyrics in Buffy Episodes”, in Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford, editors, The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality, page 121:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Bedward

My problems with the series go further than Bedward's "relationship."

2010, Gabrielle Abutom, "'Twilight' is a sick, twisted series", Daily Titan (California State University, Fullerton), 11 October 2010, page 4

When Bedward's desire to touch each other becomes unbearable, the overwhelming sexual tension is handily dispersed into a far less exciting bodily necessity: hunger.

2013 February 12, Poppy Bullard, “In Defence of Twilight, sort of”, in Nouse, University of York, page M5:

Take, for example, Bedward: Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight; […]

2016, Taylor Scheibe, "Plot Twist", Echo (Columbia College Chicago), May 2016, page 35

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the Twilight series.


Domward

Genres were often designated by a version of Edward's name: Tattward (more than one tattoo artist fic); Artward (lots of artists); Domward (Fifty Shades was hardly the first); Subward (there were a few); […]

2013, “The Twilight Fandom”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 181:

The guidelines for this challenge centre on the gendered allocations of roles in sexual contexts: 'we want to see women wield power between the sheets: we've seen enough Domward and Domsper […]

2016, Mariah Larsson, Ann Steiner, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience, unnumbered page:

While Leonard has been frequently (and fairly) criticized for her representation of BDSM in Fifty Shades, her inspiration was not merely the Twilight books and films but also the oeuvre of Twilight fanfiction itself, by then a site of cultural production in its own right within which “'Domward” (or a dominating Edward) was in style (Anne Jamison 2013, 184).

2016, Leslie Paris, “Fifty shades of fandom: the intergenerational permeability of Twilight fan culture”, in Feminist Media Studies, volume 16, number 4, page 687:

(Twilight fandom slang) Edward Cullen written as the dom in a BDSM relationship in Twilight fan fiction.


Fuffy

note(s): For FC, Piper, Elaine, B_A and everyone who asked for more Fuffy. :)

2002 November 27, cheebs!, “FIC: Returning - F/B, PG, 1/1”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

I personally wish Joss will give us a Fuffy ending to the series...Buffy realizing it's Faith she needs to be with.

2003 January 5, Alberich, “Re: Faith may rat out Buffy”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

You guys need to read more (fem)slash. In most of the Wuffy and Fuffy fics I've read recently, Spike is either absent, or plain old pre-chip Evil!Spike.

2005 July 16, Aaron Davies, “Re: SEASON 4 FIC CHALLENGE: Looking for a good character development fic!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

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


Spikeophile

(The rabid Spikeophiles are expecially fond of it, as they use it to demonstrate that he's not a soulless demon like the rest of vampirekind.)

1999 July 24, Lord Usher, “Re: Pure Demon theory”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

If you mean that Spikeophiles are wrong to love this fictional character, well, that's just silly.

2002 July 25, Clairel, “Re: New Fury interview: Spike & soul”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

This all or nothing thinking is probably what causes the Spikeophiles and the anti-Spikists to go at each other so hard.

2002 September 9, Ray Stark, “Re: Faith (S3) vs Buffy (S6)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan of the character Spike from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


redemptionista

In the first place, it is not true that redemptionistas want redemption for Spike to be easy or quick.

2001 July 2, Clairel, “The actual redemptionist position (was Re: Starved for S/B fic on the creative newsgroup?)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

If I see next season true sorrow and compassion from him in regards to his past actions, the redemptionistas will have a convert that they probably don't want.

2001 July 26, Shawn Carter, “Re: I'm starting to get upset about the whole Spike thing”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Cheers to Spike. Cheers to the Redemptionistas who never stopped believing.

2005 November 14, Alane, “Happy Spike Redemption Day!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan who wanted Spike to be redeemed.


evilista

OTOH, James differs from most evilistas in that he seems to think that despite all of this, Spike can consistently do good and can be with Buffy.

2001 June 25, Mrs. Poet, “Re: The standard of goodness for Spike”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Redemptionists hope this will be the crisis that forces him to change, evilistas are shrugging it off as typical Spike behavior, and even perhaps showing him in a better light than they thought as he is remorseful.

2002 May 7, Rose, “Re: James Marsters in Baltimore, MD July 12-14 2002”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

There are the Evilistas that believe the only good vampire is a dusty vampire.

2002 December 3, Juleen, “Re: Buffy fan subgroups”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan who wanted Spike to remain evil and unredeemed.


Spangel

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


blood donation

blood donation (countable and uncountable, plural blood donations)

The act of donating one's blood for use in transfusion.


Wishverse

Even though the later episode 'Doppelgangland' (Buffy 3.16) suggests that the 'Wishverse' exists parallel to the Buffyverse and that characters can move from one parallel universe to another by magic, none of the characters except vengeance demon Anyaka can remember anything about the other world.

2005, Gaby Allrath, “Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel”, in Gaby Allrath, Marion Gymnich, editors, Narrative Strategies in Television Series, pages 144–145:

In the Wishverse, many of the good characters have been turned bad or are dead.

2015, Pamela Achenbach, “A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick: A Look at the Use of Time Travel in Unconventional Series”, in Gillian I. Leitch, Sherry Ginn, editors, Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past, page 64:

Whedon couldn't resist the pull of the Wishverse either.

2015, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 132:

(fandom slang) The dark alternate universe featured in the episode "The Wish" of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


wampyr

'[A]nd in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as "wampyr", which we all understood too well.'

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xviii. 241:

"This is difficult to prove as there are no remains — ergo, no brain — to dissect following a wampyr's death."

2015, William Mark Simmons, One Foot in the Grave:


Buffyhead

Though bitca was only used once onscreen, it's a staple in the vocabulary of Buffyheads online.

2007, Mark Peters, Yada, Yada, Do'h!, Oak Park: Marion Street Press, →ISBN, page 53:

It's all very Fox — disappointingly so, most likely, for die-hard fans of Whedon's brainy, self-conscious writing, who probably wouldn't mind more talk about relationships and episodes that don't stand alone. But try to be patient, sweet fanatical Buffyheads, for the same spirited banter and thoughtful philosophical discussions are there for the savoring.

2009 February 12, Heather Havrilesky, “Trapped in the Dollhouse”, in Salon, archived from the original on 2012-09-26:

A fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.


bitca

From an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which a character mishears an oral spelling of the word "bitch".
*
1997 September 15, “When She Was Bad”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon):
Willow: That's what it was! I mean, why else would she be acting like such a B-I-T-C-H?
Giles: Willow, I think we're all a little too old to be spelling things out.
Xander: A bitca?

quote-av

w:Buffy the Vampire Slayer

(humorous, fandom slang) Alternative form of bitch


normocupremia

From normo- + cupremia or normo- + cupr- + -emia.

The state of having a normal concentration of copper in one's blood (within the the reference range).


Buffyatric

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


time vampire

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

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

TV is the biggest time vampire in our culture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


vampire time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2020, Isadora Brown, The Vampire's Executioner:

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

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


Fåhræus effect

Named after Swedish scientist Robin Fåhræus.

(physiology) The decrease in average concentration of red blood cells in human blood as the diameter of the glass tube in which it is flowing decreases.


Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect

en-noun

Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect (plural Fåhræus-Lindqvist effects)

Named after Swedish scientists Robin Fåhræus and Johan Torsten Lindqvist} who first reported the effect.

(physiology) The phenomenon in which the viscosity of blood changes with the diameter of the tube it travels through, when the diameter is between 10 and 300 micrometers.


Astarionmancer

As a professional Astarionmancer, you can get “Very High Approval” without the need to be evil.

I’m an Astarionmancer with a lot of thoughts and not enough creative outlets.

As a fellow Astarionmancer I don't mind a little peck before finishing his personal quest, but after that he should be more passionate.

(Baldur's Gate fandom slang) A player who romances Astarion during a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3.


Astarionmance

As someone who's romancing both Astarion and Gale in simultaneous separate playthroughs, I am loving the difference so much: Galemance caters to my soft Harlequin Romance side while Astarionmance is so totally my Bodice-Ripper bag, baby!

2020 November 7, TheAbominableMomo, Reddit:

i will wait patiently for bg3 console release and NOT watch any more Astarionmance videos

2023 August 16, TheFallowMyre (@DemiPixellated), Twitter:

I just started a new Astarionmance as a reward for abstaining from him for a whole game 😅

2024 February 6, Becky (@Beckyhelene), Twitter:

(Baldur's Gate fandom slang) The Astarion romance subplot in the video game Baldur's Gate 3.


vampling

It was usually right after these conversations that my brand-new vamplings got their first glimpse of how fast their fellow vampires can heal.

2004, David Sosnowski, Vamped, page 186:

“No, cara mia. You are a vampling. The chance that you would drink too much and harm the comar is too great. I stay.”

2011, Kristen L. Painter, Out for Blood, page 337:

Vampling bloodlust was worse than puberty. I was green enough to recall my own cringe-worthy growing pains —my recent cow blood confession, case in point.

2020, Angela Roquet, Out for Blood, unnumbered page:

(informal) A newly-turned or fledgling vampire.


menophilia

A paraphilia involving menses or the menstrual cycle.


bl00d (countable and uncountable, plural bl00ds)

Small sesh ^_^ how tf do i go deeper. Also i widh^([sic – meaning wish]) i took a foto^([sic – meaning photo]) of where the bl00d was literally dripping everywhere <//3

The fruit of commun!sm is d3ath, BL00d, cha0s, famine, scarcity of resources, bad labor, & pure sh💩t- OPT OUT