"Discworldian" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Discworld + -ian, from disc + world.",
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          "ref": "1992 January 31, Edward Wladyslaw Jajko, “Small, Round, Green Buzzing things and DISCWORLD opinions (on the fly! alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)",
          "text": "Maybe we could work up a DISCWORLDian test or something to show how much of our reality perception has leaked out...",
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          "ref": "2003 May/June, Interzone, number 189, page 65, columns 1–2",
          "text": "Pratchett, Terry, and Stephen Briggs. The New Discworld Companion. “The Fully Revised and Updated Reference Book to all things Discworldian.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2004 February, Michelle West, “Musing on Books”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, page 38, column 2",
          "text": "I am one of the few readers for whom Small Gods did not work, because I felt the lack of things Discworldian—in particular Death—to be almost too heavy-handed.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 July 8, Henry Dowling, “Terry Pratchett's Discworld: 9 Steps To Create The Perfect Game”, in WhatCulture, archived from the original on 2016-04-20",
          "text": "WhatCulture put the idea to revered gaming industry personality Rhianna Pratchett - Tomb Raider reboot writer, unofficial custodian of all things Discworldian, and of course Terry's daughter.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, Scarlet Imprint | Bibliothèque Rouge",
          "text": "The Hawass regime was a time of ‘multiple Egyptologies,’ with tightly controlled paid access made available to various private organisations combined with a simultaneous doubling-down on an ‘official narrative’ that, as we shall see, is positively Discworldian in its absurdity.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Daniel Miori, “Cocking a Snook at Death and Getting Away with It: Does the Personification of Death Make It Less Scary?”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company",
          "text": "Not in the usual Discworldian sense, where those souls are liable to pop out just about anywhere.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium, Gollancz",
          "text": "The Discworldian Oxbridge is architecturally based on the dreaming spires of our great university cities, with the exception of the Tower of Art which is described by Terry as having a “gnarled appearance, like a tree that has seen too many thunderstorms.”",
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          "ref": "2018, Alice Nuttall, “Be a Witch, Be a Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches”, in Marion Rana, editor, Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods (Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature), Palgrave Macmillan, part I (Populating Discworld and Beyond: Characters, Criticism and Social Commentary), page 27",
          "text": "In the Discworldian tradition of playing with stereotypes, Tiffany’s girlhood and womanhood is centred and presented as powerful; […]",
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        "Pertaining to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels or their setting."
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          "ref": "1992 January 31, Edward Wladyslaw Jajko, “Small, Round, Green Buzzing things and DISCWORLD opinions (on the fly! alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)",
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          "text": "Not in the usual Discworldian sense, where those souls are liable to pop out just about anywhere.",
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          "text": "In the Discworldian tradition of playing with stereotypes, Tiffany’s girlhood and womanhood is centred and presented as powerful; […]",
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