hard light

This included a good six orvs a day in the HLHG (Hard Light Hologram) Simulation Room. This room could create an unlimited number of battle scenarios by way of quality hard light holograms; it was a key staple in Brigade training.

2005, C. C. Ekeke, Star Brigade: First Renaissance, page 155:

The Falcon formerly wore a pair of jet-powered glider wings that allowed him to fly at speeds up to 250 miles per hour. He now wears a pair of "hard light" wings that have increased his speed […]

2008, Scholastic Avengers Encyclopedia, Marvel Comics Group, →ISBN:

Abstract: Yeng is a Zontoan from planet Zing who volunteers to go on an intergalactic mission to a distant planet called Earth. Using a hard light drive, Yeng is able to project a solid hologram of himself, so that he appears as a stunningly handsome human […]

2009, Victor Kelleher, Spaceman Bill, in Fiction Gateway: Enriching the curriculum

I leaned against the wall and slid down into the ninety-degree corner between two hard light walls. I wrapped my arms around my knees as Sid's voice echoed.

2018, John Oddfellow / Caleb Rhodes, The Engine of a Million Plots, →ISBN, page 179:

"I think we should steal the orb and replace it with a hard light hologram so they won't even notice."

2018, Kay Hawkins, The Stars Are Calling, page 222:

(comics, science fiction) A solid, tangible hologram (projection of light), which can be used to construct structures such as walls or armor.


cap up

en-verb

cap up (third-person singular simple present caps up, present participle capping up, simple past and past participle capped up)

caps up (present singular third-person)
capping up (participle present)
capped up (participle past)
capped up (past)

Do not cap up "oblast" or "province" in place names.

Secretaries of State: Cap up titles, as in Home Secretary David Blunkett and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

2004, Tony Harcup, Journalism: Principles and Practice, SAGE Publications, Style Guide for Journalists, page 137:

Capping up: the general presumption is against using caps. Their use should be to denote something that is unique. The Pill immediately spells the contraceptive pill and the Forces indicates that we are talking about Britain's military and not the forces of light.

2010, Simon Heffer, “The Daily Telegraph Style Guide”, in The Telegraph:

Cap up the first letter of the first word. Then, use lower case e.g.: "View and comment on planning applications" not "View And Comment On Planning Applications"

2018 August 28, “Presenting Content”, in Central Bedfordshire Council:

(typography, British) To modify (the initial letter of a word) to be a capital letter.


American comic book

en-noun

American comic book (plural American comic books)

(comics) A thin serialized comic book format published in the United States, containing on average 32 pages.


final order cutoff

final order cutoff (plural final order cutoffs)

(publishing, retailing) The latest date that retailers can submit their finalized orders before publishers set up their print runs. Orders submitted before this will be fulfilled as the publisher wills, orders submitted after this will be subject to availability.


Campbellian

en-adj

Campbellian (comparative more Campbellian, superlative most Campbellian)

more Campbellian (comparative)
most Campbellian (superlative)

In fact, among some readers the term "Campbellian science fiction" is virtually synonymous with "Golden Age", so manifestly more rigorous were the authors Campbell developed than the majority of pulp writers before them.

2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, page 99:

It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being. This concept was pure Campbellian, yet Campbell was critical of the story - possibly out of petulance for not having published it.

2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:

(science fiction) In the fictive style promoted by American writer and editor John W. Campbell, wherein humanity triumphs over alien intelligences through innate superiority, often with superhuman abilities such as telekinesis, ESP, etc.


good-bad

en-adjective

good-bad (comparative more good-bad, superlative most good-bad)

more good-bad (comparative)
most good-bad (superlative)

1945, November 2. George Orwell, "Good Bad Books", Tribune, 2 November.
The existence of good bad literature--the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously--is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate.

2014, Sarah Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958, McFarland:

2015, July 6, David Fear et al, 25 Best Modern Exploitation Movies. Rolling Stone.
Is Showgirls good-bad or just bad-bad?

The Shoes of the Fisherman is a good-bad film that owes no duty to history or to what were then current affairs.

2019 November 29, Donald Clarke, “The Two Popes: one giant leap of faith”, in The Irish Times:

(film, literature) Enjoyably schlocky, poor in quality but nonetheless compelling.


terran

en-adj

terran (comparative more terran, superlative most terran)

more terran (comparative)
most terran (superlative)

[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).

2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128:

As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.

2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, →ISBN, page 71:

Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.

2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan, →ISBN:

Annual Pack Includes:
Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).
Personalised certificate.
Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.

2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider, →ISBN:

Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]

2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]

2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.

2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

(chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”).


warwagon

"You mean you won't come with us in the warwagon?" "You don't have a warwagon. You don't even have a pocket knife. You have light meters around your neck that would feed one of those guys and all his relatives for a year. I wouldn't go back in that barrio in a tank."

1980, Danny Lyon, The paper negative, Bleak Beauty Books, page 28:

When he went back inside the warwagon, the audio monitors were quivering with the ghostly echoes of automobile engines firing up and voices raised in excited exchanges. The video recorders clicked on a moment later.

2014, Don Pendleton, Savage Fire, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

Stiffly the old general climbed the steps to the upper deck of the warwagon, his knees having grown stiff in the chill air flowing over the deck. His suit of armour still felt too heavy on him, even though it was mostly decorative, splendidly so, […]

2015, Col Buchanan, The Black Dream, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

armored personnel carrier
armored personnel carrier

(fiction, uncommon) A combat vehicle similar to an armored personnel carrier.


capline

The letter t often falls short of both the capline and the line of ascent. The line of ascent is drawn above or on the capline and equals approximately one third the distance between the capline and baseline.

1998, Sandra M. Bryan, Illustrator Draftsman: Executionable practices, page 14:

(typography) The line through the tops of capital letters of a particular typeface.


beardline

The beardline is the line reached by descenders in letters like p and q.

1992, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, Hartley & Marks Publishers, →ISBN:

(typography) The line below the baseline where the descending letters, such as ⟨p⟩ or ⟨q⟩, sit.


psych-fi

We are interested in young adult, new adult, and middle grade sci-fi, psych-fi, paranormal, or urban fantasy […]

2015, Chuck Sambuchino, Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2016:

Ballard is often mentioned in the context of Barney's work, especially his classic surrealist psych-fi novel Crash that was adapted by Cronenberg.

2018, Ashley Crawford, Religious Imaging in Millennialist America: Dark Gnosis, page 256:


short cross

(printing, historical) The short crossbar of a printer's chase.


telepad

(science fiction) A platform on which a person or object is placed in order to be teleported elsewhere.


moon-man

(science fiction) A native alien of the Moon.


hyaa

(chiefly manga) Ah! Argh! A shriek or scream.


wallscreen

(science fiction) A wall-mounted screen display.


teletransporter

(science fiction) A teleportation device.


Bokononism

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle in 1963. Named after the religion's alleged founder, Bokonon + -ism.

[>We show singles exactly how to find their True Soulmate! And we show Couples how to determine if they have found their True Soulmate!]
How tough can it be to know once you've found the right one? As long as you're not somewhere that has made Bokononism illegal, couldn't you just put your feet together?

1997 March 13, the tree by the river, “Re: Still looking for your Soulmate? We can help!”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

Because there isn't any, and I can't think of any possible reason that there need be any. Thus I have assumed that there is no god. The difference is that since there *can be* no evidence of it, I must admit that I can not really know the answer. In my case, that is grounds for agnosticism (or Bokononism really). In the case of many others, faith takes over.

2000 May 8, m. brazeau, “Re: help me refute a theist”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):

Whatever wackadoodle philosophy you might be embracing today – frutarianism or Bokononism – is cool as long as it doesn’t hurt those around you, right? ¶ Refusing to immunize puts the rest of us at risk. And unless there is sound science and the guidance of a good doctor, it’s a pretty bogus way to hedge a bet in that game of parenting roulette.

2015 January 26, Petula Dvorak, “Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are putting others at risk”, in The Washington Post:

(fiction, religion) In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, the supreme religious act of which consists of any two worshippers rubbing the bare soles of their feet together to inspire spiritual connection.


chosen one

Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.

Qui-Gon: He... is the Chosen One. He... will bring balance... Train him.

1999, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace:

(informal, authorship) A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined to become the one.


antimeme

antimemes (plural)
anti-meme (alternative)

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

From anti- + meme. In the sense of "an image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations", first recorded in 2009 and now chiefly associated with the r/antimeme subreddit, created February 8, 2012.

I know it's every citizen's civic duty to keep his antimeme vaccinations up to date. But some perverse streak inside me (possibly, now that I think about it, an anti-antimeme meme) made me keep postponing my appointment until it was just too late.

1998, Christine Beckert, David Bischoff, Carroll Brown, et al., The Best of Pirate Writings: Tales of Fantasy, Mystery & Science Fiction, Padwolf Pub Incorporated, →ISBN:

As an antimeme to both Christianity and these secular dominant ideologies, humanism in the West was, by the middle of the century able to gain dominance in what had become, effectively, a vacant niche.

2003, David Hurst, On Westernism: An Ideology's Bid for World Dominion:

Notable as well are periodic claims that memetics will make the world a better place, by creating an antimeme meme which will teach us to defend ourselves against the ravages of the selfish memes, ...

2004, William F. Harms, Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 65:

We have to start spreading antimemes.” “Fight fire with fire?” she said.

2010, Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, Macmillan, →ISBN:

(memetics, science fiction) A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.

SCP-055 is a "self-keeping secret" or "anti-meme". Information about SCP-055's physical appearance as well as its nature, behavior, and origins is self-classifying.

2008, Sam "qntm" Hughes, “SCP-055 - [unknown]”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division:

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

2018, Sam "qntm" Hughes, There Is No Antimemetics Division:

(memetics, science fiction) A unit of information that prevents itself from being spread, often by erasing itself from any mind that it enters.


Lunan

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

2012, A. Lee Martinez, Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain:

Despite the war games, the Jovans considered themselves invincible, and the Lunans were their only worthy opponent in the solar system. Having their own ships blown up in orbit by unknown forces, the Lunans were no longer transgressors.

2014, William Tedford, Battlefields of Silence:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


leporello

en-noun

leporello (countable and uncountable, plural leporellos)

Don Giovanni
Leporello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Named after Leporello, the servant of the eponymous character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, who unfolds a long list of Don Giovanni's love conquests.

Because of the accordion fold and leporello binding the book can be stretched out to its full length, showing a rich color field in transition.

2011, J. Susan Isaacs, “Artist Biographies and Works in Exhibition”, in J. Susan Isaacs, editor, The Book: A Contemporary View, Wilmington, DE: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, →ISBN, page 18:

(uncountable, printing) A style of parallel folding with the folds alternating between front and back; concertina fold.

These charming leporellos are once more available from Australian lBBY. The first batch sold out very quickly. ¶ The leporellos, consisting of ten frames each, with each frame having been designed by some of the world's most famous children's illustrators, may be used as […]

Paper artworks belong in an analagous category, not unrelated to the works of book art. Designer Michael Marschall presents colorfully printed, folded and punched cards and leporellos – prototypes from the field of graphic design.

Mostly these—anonymously manufactured—portfolios were conceived as leporellos with a panoramic view of 360° in twelve images on the front and twelve singular images showing individual edifices on the back. Today, these leporellos often mark the earliest records of the existence of these cities.

2013, Rolf Sachsse, “Architecture”, in John Hannavy, editor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, volumes 1: A–I, Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:

(countable, printing) Any printed material (book, leaflet etc.) having such folds; a concertina.


kabedon

From Japanese 壁ドン (kabedon), from 壁 (kabe, “wall”) + ドン (don, onomatopoeia for a pounding noise).

Pulling a kabedon will freak her out, so don't get pushy...

2016, Kina Kobayashi, translated by Jenny McKeon, Nameless Asterism, volume 3:

Kabedon only works if you're both into each other.

2017, Kei Sasuga, translated by Adam Hirsch, Domestic Girlfriend, volume 13, unnumbered page:

We were presently in an empty classroom during lunch break, and she had me trapped in a truly magnificent kabedon.

2021, Teren Mikami, translated by TNFWIBYLU Translation Team, There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless..., volume 5, unnumbered page:

Do girls really get excited over kabedons?

2021, Kana Nakatsuki, translated by Andria McKnight, Don't Tempt Me, VP!, volume 3, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) The act of placing one hand on a wall or other vertical surface while leaning close to another (usually shorter) person whose back is against the wall/surface.


popcrete

Blend of pop art + concrete, coined by Augusto de Campos; see concrete poem.

(poetry) A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.


superhero landing

superhero landing (plural superhero landings)

Superhero landing. She's gonna do a superhero landing. Wait for it. [...] Whoo! Superhero landing! You know, that's really hard on your knees.

2016, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Deadpool, spoken by Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds):

Then — boom! — Spidey sticks the classic superhero landing.

2016 March 11, David Betancourt, “‘Captain America: Civil War’: How Marvel Studios just saved Spider-Man”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2023-01-01:

After the revelatory seventh episode aired, showcasing Monica’s newfound powers, fans flocked to Twitter to praise her first official superhero landing — a single mighty fist planted firmly on the ground, eyes forward and fierce.

2021 March 3, Leigh-Ann Jackson, “Teyonah Parris Didn’t Get ‘WandaVision’ at First, Either”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2023-01-01:

(comics) An action pose where someone is supported by three limbs — specifically: kneeling with one leg, while only the other foot and one hand are also touching the ground — typically seen when a superhero lands after flying or falling.


tech noir

tech noir (countable and uncountable, plural tech noirs)

tech noirs (plural)
tech-noir (alternative)

Blend of tech (“technology”) + film noir. From the close association of high tech with sci-fi. Folk etymology suggests this was coined by director James Cameron, when he named the dance club in the 1984 film The Terminator "Tech-Noir", and the fandom and critics labelled similar IP properties as "tech noir".

blend

(uncountable, fiction, by extension) A genre of fiction, thematically like that of the film genre.


exozoology

(science fiction) Synonym of xenozoology (“study of extraterrestrial animals”).


em rule

(typography) Alternative form of em dash.


en rule

(typography) Alternative form of en dash.


nut dash

From nut + dash to avoid ambiguity when speaking between en dash and em dash.

(typography slang) Alternative form of en dash.


mutton dash

From mutton + dash to avoid ambiguity when speaking between en dash and em dash.


time loop

Edge Of Tomorrow, Doug Liman’s click-clacky sci-fi take on Groundhog Day, stars Tom Cruise as a smarmy press flack who gets stuck in a time loop during an alien invasion.

2014 June 5, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Edge Of Tomorrow puts Tom Cruise through an action-packed Groundhog Day”, in AV Club:

(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.


heat-ray

Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1896 in The War of the Worlds

coinage

In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the Heat-Rays. Heavy losses of soldiers were mentioned[.]

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 125:

(science fiction) A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature.


ghost character

en-noun

ghost character (plural ghost characters)

Beside this detailed information which Hall provides about Matthew Gough, Shakespeare's Gough is a ghost character. There is, indeed, no way in which an audience could pick up who he is when he appears only to be killed immediately.

2003, Catherine M. S. Alexander, The Cambridge Shakespeare Library, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 231:

A ‘ghost’ character is one who is marked as present on stage, but given no lines to speak: many editors consider the inclusion of these characters to be an oversight on the part of the writer or printer, and so remove them from modern stage directions; […]

2010, David Coleman, John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Joseph A. Porter's discussion of the ‘ghost character’ of Valentine in Romeo and Juliet is also illuminating: Porter describes Valentine as a ‘symptom or by-product of Mercutio's transformation’ from rival lover (in Shakespeare's source) to friend […]

2014, Lena Cowen Orlin, Othello, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 277:

(drama, literature) A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but who does not do anything, and who seems to have no purpose.


mimeticist

(art, literature) One who takes a mimetic approach; a proponent of mimesis.


anti-Tom

(literature, historical) Belonging to a class of 19th-century pro-slavery novels and writings in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.


werelioness

A fact her mortal-purist father discouraged having disclosed was that the great monster-hunting Van Helsings had werelionesses for both a great- grandmother and a great-aunt. This ancestry Jane took great pride in.

2005, Minda Webber, The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing, →ISBN:

Rue was pretty certain Miss Sekhmet would rather keep her identity as a werelioness secret. It was all very well to reveal weremonkeys to the British government but werecats was taking things too far.

2015, Gail Carriger, Prudence, Orbit, →ISBN:

A lanky werelioness with black, spiky hair—and two semiautomatic pistols in holsters that formed an X on her chest— sprawled in a chair outside the door. Ari raised an eyebrow, but the sight wasn't entirely unexpected.

2015, Ally Shields, Eternal Fires, Etopia Press, →ISBN:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between lioness and human form.


weremonkey

For quotations using this term, see Citations:weremonkey.

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a monkey.


haikuist

(poetry) A person who writes haiku; a haiku poet.


haikuish

en-adj

haikuish (comparative more haikuish, superlative most haikuish)

more haikuish (comparative)
most haikuish (superlative)

(poetry) Resembling or characteristic of haiku; haikulike.


robodroid

The police authorities and the press portray them as modern-day robodroids, programmed to kill their own people—"black-on-black crime ...

Mona: They've sent to the robodroids to soften us up! Run!

1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a)

All the robodroids had followed his command and shut themselves down.

2018, Rhoda Belleza, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Penguin, →ISBN, page 141:

(science fiction, rare) A droid; a robot.


macroverse

(science fiction) A macroscale universe.


microverse

(science fiction) A microscale universe.


Langford's basilisk

en-noun

Langford's basilisk (plural Langford's basilisks)

Langford's basilisks (plural)
Langford basilisk (alternative)

After an object in David Langford's short story "BLIT".

Dead easy: the ones who watched it all died. (Invoke Langford's Basilisk if you need a real reason.)

2002 February 27, Charles Stross, “What to throw in?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <slrna7qjct.sdj.charlie@raq981.uk2net.com.antipope.org>:

The technical term is "Langford basilisk". I expect the real deal would induce nothing more permanent than an inconveniently-timed reboot, if it can even exist.

2013 December 29, RecArtsSfPolicyWonk, “What Did You Watch? 2013-12-29 (Saturday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), message-ID <w3nrp8vuk7cz.m05n26piatio$.dlg@40tude.net>:

(science fiction) An image which causes insanity or death on viewing.


memetic hazard

Warning. Unidentified object. Warning. Unknown hazard. Possible radiation hazard. Possible biohazard. Possible memetic hazard.

2008 July 18, Sam Hughes, “halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones”, in Fine Structure, retrieved 2020-08-31:

(caution: TV Tropes is a recognized memetic hazard. Don't click the link unless you have a high resistance to interesting things and/or a day or two of spare time to kill)

2009 December 22, Bryan Derksen, “The old "Galactic Federation" meme”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet), message-ID <8HhYm.116799$gg6.81292@newsfe25.iad>:


infohazard

Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.

A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.

[2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:

If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.

2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, retrieved 2020-08-31:

(chiefly science fiction) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.


dormantory

(science fiction) A cryogenic warehouse for storing people in suspended animation.


asteronym

From Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + -onym.

In this work Mr. Quérard treats of all persons who have written in French, in all parts of Europe, and have disguised themselves under anagrams, asteronyms, cryptonyms, initials, literary names, pseudonyms, facetious or strange, etc.

1871 June, “Anonymous and Pseudonymous Authors and Works”, in The National Quarterly Review, volume 23, number 45, New York: Edward I. Sears, page 48:

(typography, rare) An asterism (⁂) or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work.

astéronyme

asterism or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work


simworld

(science fiction) A simulated world, as in virtual reality or cyberspace.


helionaut

IIRC from the director's commentary the name was chosen to add a bit of humility to the mission, lest the helionauts get too cocky about their cutting edge technology.

2008 January 10, Jared, “Re: SUNSHINE (no spoilers)”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films (Usenet):

(science fiction, rare) Someone who travels to the Sun; an explorer of the Sun.


reverse out

en-verb

reverse out (third-person singular simple present reverses out, present participle reversing out, simple past and past participle reversed out)

reverses out (present singular third-person)
reversing out (participle present)
reversed out (participle past)
reversed out (past)

(printing, transitive) To print with reversed colours, i.e. black for white and vice versa.


on stun

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

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(science fiction) An intensity setting of the fictional phaser energy weapon, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69), which non-lethally stuns its target.


type color

(typography) A measure of how dense, bold or heavy the text appears on the page.


doha

(poetry) A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.


variable font

(typography) A digital font whose design features can be freely adjusted in a cline via the manipulation of various axes, such as the "weight axis" or "height axis".


astonisher

1874, The American Observer, New Series, Volume 1, “Rejoinder,” p. 525,
“ […] Nothing whatever” ! (the italics are “S. S. C.’s,” the “astonisher” is mine.)

1947, Stewart Holbrook, The Story of American Railroads, American Legacy Press, 1981, Chapter 39, p. 443,
More often than not these prophets […] belong to the oh-the-wonder-of-it-all school, who point to the sky as the new and sole artery of travel and transportation and marvel, in complete awe—which they indicate by running over with astonishers!—at the thought of monstrous planes hauling the freight and passengers of the nation, even of the world.

1984, Richard Hauer Costa, “The Grisly Graphics of Malcolm Lowry” in Gordon Bowker and Paul Tiessen (eds.), Proceedings of the London Conference on Malcolm Lowry, Goldsmith’s College, University of London and The Malcolm Lowry Review, Wilfrid Laurier University, p. 100,
An ad for a boxing match can symbolize the uncommunicable, with its curious shape-of-the-type configurations—¡BOX!, with the ‘astonisher’ written upside down before the word and right side up after.

(typography, printing, computing, chiefly US) An exclamation mark, the punctuation mark “!”.

(typography, journalism, chiefly US) A short line of smaller type above (or sometimes below) the main headline of an article, usually placed flush-left.


redemption arc

(literature) A story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings (or wherein readers perceive them as having done so).


abhuman

You're a morbid abhuman bastard, Holmes…where were you when they built Treblinka and Dachau?

1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 279:

(chiefly science fiction) Having some human characteristics, but others which are alien or monstrous; partially human.


abhuman

(science fiction) A partially human creature.


murder mystery

en-noun

murder mystery (plural murder mysteries)

(fiction) A subgenre of crime fiction in which characters must investigate and solve a murder.


plastiglass

(science fiction) A clear material combining the characteristics of plastic and glass.


slaughterbot

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(science fiction) Synonym of killbot (“robot designed for killing”).


overmatter

Casting off is estimating the number of words in a manuscript. Copy fitting is assessing how much space text will take up in a printed document. Both are important in ensuring that you do not end up with pages of overmatter.

2005, Alan Pipe, Production for Graphic Designers, page 48:

(printing) Typeset material that proves to be surplus to requirements.


biosuit

(science fiction) A protective suit that enhances or monitors the wearer's biological functions.


vidiscreen

(science fiction) Alternative form of vidscreen.


holodisplay

(science fiction) A holographic display.


hephthemimeral

(poetry) Of or relating to a hephthemimer.


straight r

[…] completely informed about the decisions made and the reasons to make them, e.g. r rotunda does not figure in the transcription as the use of straight r and r rotunda is governed by the preceding character and thus completely predictable.

1989, Arend Quak, Florus (Floor) Rhee, Palaeogermanica et onomastica., Rodopi, page 3

And certain geminated consonants are represented by capitals : ɢ, ɴ, ʀ, ꜱ. Does a form like haʀ mean a long r, or is it a scribal habit on the level of the usage of r rotunda, not straight r, after round letters? The occurrence of forms with -rr […]

2000, Anna A. Grotans, Heinrich Beck, Anton Schwob, De consolatione philogiae: studies in honor of Evelyn S. Firchow, volume 2, page 624:

The distinction between r rotunda and straight r has not been kept in the transcription, as the usage of r rotunda is predictable from the preceding character: r rotunda is used after round letters.

2017, Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, A Grammar of Möðruvallabók, BRILL, →ISBN, page 11:

(typography) The usual form of the letter r (which is r), as contrasted with r rotunda (ꝛ).


double coding

double coding (countable and uncountable, plural double codings)

(literature, linguistics) An ambiguity in the interpretation of language depending on the frame of reference employed.


new adult

(literature, often attributive) A genre of fiction intended to be marketed to people ages 18 to 30, focusing on issues such as leaving home, developing sexuality, and negotiating education and career choices.


avant-texte

(literature) The study of a written work by analyzing the process of composition, including prior manuscripts, rough drafts, etc.


plastoid

(science fiction) A plastic-like material.


timegate

(science fiction) A portal enabling time travel.


Antiqua

Antiqua (countable and uncountable, plural Antiquas)

From Latin antīqua, feminine of antīquus.

The Tiemann antiqua of 1909 was a real success, however, and has found favour in England. The companion italic, the Tiemann kursiv is an even more handsome letter. Klingspor’s recent antiquas also include a highly successful character designed by Peter Behrens in 1914. The latest creation is an antiqua cut by Rudolph Koch.

1923, Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson, A Brief Survey of Printing: History and Practice, page 36:

The early letters of this kind have been classified as Transitional, implying that in their development they lay between the Antiquas and the Moderns; but when one looks at the free individualism of the street names of Bath, 25 and 26, it is obviously inappropriate nomenclature and only English will do.

1980, Jock Kinneir, Words and Buildings: The Art and Practice of Public Lettering, →ISBN, page 36:

Class VI Sanserifs is just as disorganized. Here, pure Antiquas are grouped with sanserif and classical typefaces. Moreover, there are Humanist styles and other partly-constructed sanserif styles that are meant chiefly for display purposes. / Class VII Display Antiquas can easily be regarded as a catch-all class simply from its name.

1994, Karl H. Warkentin, “16. Classifying Typefaces according to DIN”, in Peter Karow, editor, Font Technology: Methods and Tools, →ISBN, “Summary”, page 356:

A style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Any typeface with serifs and modulation (often as opposed to Gothic).


techno-orientalism

The origins of the cyberpunk genre involve Western anxieties about the East. Techno-orientalism is the use of Asian aesthetics in cyberpunk, futuristic, and dystopian settings.

2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(science fiction) Use of Asian aesthetics and cultural elements in Western works of science fiction.


socioengineer

There will be massive campsite development for X number of campers that some socioengineer has computed will be screaming for tent pads with hot water and electricity in 1980.

At this point, enter the socioengineer — the new breed of technologist with social concerns and a liberal education to match his technical competence, the specially equipped engineer who tackles the massive problems of society […]

1970, Professional Engineer, volume 40, page 37:

'You were a socioengineer, before you dropped dead,' he said bluntly. 'You'll confirm what I say. It seems to me that the Xeelee war or wars were no more than still another ghastly, epochal error of mankind. […]

(rare, sometimes science fiction) A social engineer, one who uses scientific data to influence social attitudes and behaviors.


antitragic

en-adj

antitragic (comparative more antitragic, superlative most antitragic)

more antitragic (comparative)
most antitragic (superlative)

(literature) Challenging the conventions of tragedy.


ticking clock

(writing) A literary device in which the protagonist has a strict time limit, used to heighten tension.


Brat Pack

Introduced as the bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz and other chroniclers of young Reagan-era angst, Mr. Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.

2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, literature, historical) A group of young authors who emerged on the East Coast in the 1980s.


cpp

(typography) Initialism of character(s) per pica.


Common

Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other.

2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 395:

universal language
universal language#Noun

(science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.


Puckian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Puck.


manga mark

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Compound of manga + mark. Compare Japanese 漫符(まんぷ) (manpu, “manga icon”).

Cultural learning experiences are required to understanding manga''' marks. For example, adults of Botswana interpreted a sweat mark used in Western comics as blood, rain, and tears (Byram and Garforth, 1980).

2006, David Shwalb, Jun Nakazawa, Barbara J. Shwalb, Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan, page 29:

In a previous preliminary experiment, we determined facial expressions for the robot KOBIAN-R with manga marks. Those expressions included four manga marks as “Cross popping veins” for “Anger”, “Tear mark” for “Sadness”, “Vertical lines” for “Fear” and “Wrinkle” for “Disgust”.

2014, Tatsuhiro Kishi, Hajime Futaki, Gabriele Trovato, Nobutsuna Endo, A Robotic Head that Displays Japanese “Manga” Marks:

Nakazawa (2005b) asked the meaning of the twelve manga''' marks to a sample of kindergartners, first-, fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-graders. Understanding of manga''' marks progressed along with grade level (Figure 7.2)

2016, Jun Nakazawa, “Manga literacy and manga comprehension in Japanese children”, in Neil Cohn, editor, The Visual Narrative Reader, page 248:

The comprehensive techniques that composes manga is immature. But there is a very high expressiveness in some aspects, such as the creation of a face viewed from the front and the expression of expressions using manga marks.

2020, Kurobokuya, Kurobokuya manga lesson 4:

(cartooning, manga, anime) A cartoon icon; a symbol used to indicate emotion, movement, etc. in a drawing; especially one used in or associated with Japanese-style manga.


Chaucerianism

/tʃɔːˈsɪəɹɪ.ənɪzəm/

/t͡ʃɔˈsɪɹi.ənɪzəm/


uruisg

(European folklore, mythology) A brownie in Scottish folklore.


Caslon

Caslon or Garamond or Baskerville is shouted as the compositors search for as many cases of these types as can be found.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 381:

(typography) Any of the serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work.


Houyhnhnm

Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as a humorous, onomatopoeic play on the sound made by horses.

I retain in my Mind the Lectures and Example of my noble Maſter and the other illuſtrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had ſo long the Honour to be an humble Hearer.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Veracity. His Design in Publishing this Work. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 340–341:

"The Squire says you know a good deal about horses, so I suppose you understand the Houyhnhnm language? I'm learning it, and it is very nice," laughed Miss Celia, as Chevalita gave a little whinny and snuffled her nose into Ben's pocket.

1878, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 7, in Under the Lilacs:

”The moment he called me his ‘gentle and reasonable Houyhnhnm,’” an archivist notes, “I should have known that the man was deranged.”

1995 February 19, Marilyn Stasio, “What to Read: Crime”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-03-03:

Certainly the philosopher was not a pessimistic luncheon companion. He […] loped off in the direction of the London Library, leaving me with an impression of twinkling eyes, laughter lines (he whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm), and a sensibility genuinely focused on what will happen in the next five minutes - or five years - albeit one steeped in knowledge of the past.

2014 January 28, Will Self, “John Gray: Forget everything you know”, in Independent, retrieved 2021-03-03:

(fiction) One of a fictional race of exceptionally civilized creatures, who look exactly like horses, inhabiting the same land as the brutish Yahoos.


incubatorium

The place is an incubatorium where hybrid fetuses are nourished. In the climactic episode, an extractor is inserted in her vagina to withdraw an unusually well-developed fetus that has gestated three or four months.

2012, Allan Mazur, Implausible Beliefs: In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs, page 136:

(science fiction) A place where fetuses are stored in a state of incubation.


diiambic

(poetry) In or relating to the diiambus meter.


reverse contrast

(typography) Having stroke thickness that is on an axis contrary to convention.

ファンテール体 (fantēru-tai, literally “fantail script”)


wishing cap

(fiction) A hat or cap that magically lets the wearer's wishes come true


rhyming couplet

en-noun

rhyming couplet (plural rhyming couplets)

On one level, the joy of the film is its rhyming couplet commentary, written by the late Paul le Saux and read alternately by Howard Marion Crawford and Alan Wheatley, which adds rhythmic pace to the already fast-paced editing.

2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 43:

(literature) Two successive rhyming lines of verse, usually of the same length.


soft-dotted

(computing, typography) Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.


Vazimba

(folklore) The first inhabitants of Madagascar, generally described as small in stature.


SIP

(publishing) Acronym of single-issue publication.


master copy

master copies (plural)
mastercopy (alternative)

(publishing, printing) The copy that serves as the controlling (master) version among a set of copies (as, for example, the master proof to which edits from the authors' proofs are transferred, or an analogous master manuscript with transferred edits).


mastercopy

en-verb

mastercopy (third-person singular simple present mastercopies, present participle mastercopying, simple past and past participle mastercopied)

mastercopies (present singular third-person)
mastercopying (participle present)
mastercopied (participle past)
mastercopied (past)
master copy (alternative)

(transitive, intransitive, publishing, printing) To transfer edits to a master copy from various stakeholders' copies (as for example with multiple authors and editors).


Intertype

(printing, historical) A typecasting machine closely resembling the linotype, and using the same matrices.


fulldive

From a fictional technology in the Japanese light novel and anime Sword Art Online.

full dive (alternative)
Fulldive (alternative)

Experts say it will take at least another ten years before we create real fulldive technology.

(science fiction) Virtual reality technology that inputs sensory data directly into a user's brain (especially when the brain may also act upon the technology), which is usually a brain–computer interface, brain implant, or any other similar technology.


Trimalchio

(fiction) A wealthy freedman in the 1st century CE Roman work of fiction Satyricon.


Jupiterian

(chiefly science fiction, rare) An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.


carisack

carisacks (plural)
carrisack (alternative)

Pulling a little carrisack from his pack, he began to fill it with small but essential pieces of his Wyvern's survival kit.

2014, Scott Ashby, Assignment to Earth, page 82:

Beside her the men left a soft tube of nutrient gel and a carisack of water.

2016, Elizabeth Moon, Rules of Engagement:

She fished in her carisack for drops, then tilted her head back to administer them.

2017, Maggie Lynch, Eternity: Virus Wars:

(science fiction) A bag for carrying things.


typeform

Once these important ingredients were ready, ink was spread over the raised letters of the typeform. The flat surface, called a platen, was then slowly lowered, pressing well-moistened paper against the relief surface.

1987, Robert Woods, Printing and Production for Promotional Materials, page 36:

(printing, historical) The part of a printing press which holds the type, and against which the platen is pressed.


Helvetica

Borrowed from Latin helvētica (“Swiss”).

The famous double arrow emerged at this time, as did the new Rail Alphabet typeface (basically slightly altered Helvetica) that it still used today for station names and signposts, [...].

2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46:

(typography) A popular and influential sans-serif typeface.


troll cat

(folklore) In Scandinavian folklore, a witch's familiar made from hair, wood shavings, etc. that would suck milk from cows and steal cream from people's homes.


CGJ

combining grapheme joiner
w:combining grapheme joiner

(computing, typography) Initialism of combining grapheme joiner.


punctus interrogativus

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɒɡəˈtiːvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɒɡəˈtaɪvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəˈɹɒɡətɪvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɑɡəˈtivəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəɹɑɡəˈtaɪvəs/

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɪntəˈɹɑɡətɪvəs/

From Medieval Latin pūnctus interrogātīvus (“question mark”).

bor

punctus percontativus A reversed, but not inverted punctus interrogativus […] used in the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate the end of a percontatio.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Glossary, pages 306–307:

[…]manuscript punctuation has a punctus elevatus after the interjections and a punctus interrogativus at the end of the sentence.

2000, Jane Roberts, Janet Laughland Nelson, editors, Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, King's College (University of London), →ISBN, page 537:

[…]although none of these happend to have occasion to use the punctus interrogativus.

2015 December 23, Mary P. Richards, editor, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 387:

(palaeography) A medieval question mark, ⟨⹔⟩, possibly the ancestor of the modern mark ⟨?⟩.


punctus elevatus

/ˌpʌŋktəs ɛləˈvɑːtəs/

From Medieval Latin pūnctus ēlevātus (literally “raised mark”).

The punctus elevatus after consecuto ('followed') not only distinguishes more sharply between the present state of revelation and the historical process by which it was achieved but emphasizes the relationship between them as one of cause and-effect.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Influences on The Application of Punctuation, page 71:

The point and punctus elevatus are used within the sentence.

(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a medium-length pause (approximately ⸵).


punctus versus

From Medieval Latin pūnctus versus (literally “facing mark”).

[…]moreover by turning the punctus after fiant into a punctus versus, he has repointed the two verses as a single sententia.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Influences on The Application of Punctuation, page 74:

Thus the basic punctuation marks used in English manuscripts of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries are: the simple point, the punctus elevatus, the punctus versus, and the punctus interrogativus.

2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, edited by Akio Oizumi and Jacek Fisiak, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:

[…]the punctus versus is used at the close of the sentence and after words introducing direct speech[…]

(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark marking the end of a sentence (approximately ;)


punctus circumflexus

From Medieval Latin pūnctus circumflexus (literally “bent-around mark”).

[…]MS. Bodley 340, going back to an early form of the text, has confused indications that such was intended: after 'þa' it has a punctus circumflexus[…]

1953, Occasional Papers, volume 3, University of Cambridge, page 10:

There was an entirely separate set of marks to coach the raising and lowering of the voice in oral delivery -- including the punctus elevatus, the punctus interrogotivus^([sic]), and the punctus circumflexus.

2004, George D. Gopen, The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's Perspective, Pearson Longman, →ISBN, page 170:

The punctus circumflexus does not seem to have been used commonly in manuscripts of other than liturgical texts.

(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a short pause (approximately '̣).


punctus flexus

From Medieval Latin pūnctus flexus (literally “bent mark”).

In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and punctus.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries, page 197:

Very few cases show the use of the punctus flexus for minor medium pauses.

2007, Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research, volume 51, St. Louis University Library, page 230:

After all, it was the revision of the Cistercian liturgy that helped facilitate the widespread use of positurae, particularly the punctus flexus and punctus elevatus.

2015, Benjamin Pohl, Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory, York Medieval Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 19:

punctus circumflexus
punctus circumflexus#English

(palaeography) Synonym of punctus circumflexus.


multinegative

(photography, printing) An array of several negatives to be printed together by photolithography


multipositive

(photography, printing) An array of several positive images to be printed together by photolithography


corner bracket

(typography) Either of a pair of symbols, 「 」, used as quotation marks in some languages.


gillygaloo

(US folklore) A fictional bird said to nest on hillsides and to lay square eggs that will not roll downhill.


metri causa

From Latin metrī causā (literally “for the sake of poetic metre”).


type area

bleed

printed area outside of final trim marks

trim#Noun

the actual size of the finished page when cut

(printing) The useful area of a page of printed material without the margins.

版面

the useful area of a page of printed material without the margins


subetheric

The Central AI instantly noted unusual fluctuations in the Subetheric Domain.

True reality is subetheric and not perceptible through our etheric senses, though we get hints of synchronicities (apparent coincidences mediated by nonlocal communication). Subetheric reality is, of course, nonmaterial.

2016, Dennis J. Parizek, Everyverse RPG Paranormality:

Gerda looked down on the wrecked radio—wrecked by her own fair hands—awaiting its reassembly into a subetheric radio set.

2018, Kenneth Bulmer, The Earth Gods Are Coming:

(science fiction) Relating to or involving the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel").


podcar

(science fiction) A small pod-like passenger vehicle.


plot armor

(colloquial, fiction, sometimes derogatory) A plot device wherein a fictional character or other entity repeatedly and inexplicably avoids harm or misfortune, due to their importance to the work's continued plot; the property of being prone to deus ex machina.


genship

There had been doubts that a genship crew would be able to handle a starship after five generations or so post departure, ...

2018, Wes Boyd, Destiny, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Second, genship endurance is still a het dependent plan. Maybe we can hack cryophase, just sleep for thousands of years on your ship, become space vampires. The breeders can keep breeding."

2016, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Contraction of generation ship.


Nanabozho

Nanaboozhoo (alternative)
Manabozho (alternative)
Wanabozho (alternative)
Nanabush (alternative)

(folklore) An Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero.


monocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙩ (capital) or ꙩ (lowercase).


double monocular O

en-noun

double monocular O (plural double monocular Os)

From being the doubled form of the monocular O (Ꙩ/ꙩ) letter.

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙭ (capital) or ꙭ (lowercase).


binocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙫ (capital) or ꙫ (lowercase).


bind rune

We have also 2 uncommon Bind-runes here, the OL in SOL and the ER in HUILER.

1867, George Stephens, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, page 356:

(writing) A type of ligature formed by two or more runes; most commonly with two or three runes sharing one or more common vertical strokes, or with several runes arranged vertically with their vertical strokes joined end-to-end.


princess carry

princess carry (plural princess carries)

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Calque of Japanese お姫様だっこ (“o-hime-sama dakko”).

calque

Elize was being held in a princess carry, and while she found that embarrassing, now wasn't really the time to complain.

2020, Yukiya Murasaki, Altina the Sword Princess: Volume 4, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

“A princess carry?” “Yeah, well, how do I describe it? I put my arm under your knees and behind your back and carry you.

2021, Tsunehiko Watanabe, The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 4, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

“Oh! W-With a princess carry, then? Also known as a bridal carry?”

2019, Supana Onikage, Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 7, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

year unknown, Justin Miller, World Keeper: Advent, Justin Miller
So, I scooped her up in my arms in a... yes... in a princess carry, and jumped out the window ...

She noticed that Flora's complexion was off, but she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable at the novel sight of Rio holding Flora in a princess carry.

2020, Yuri Kitayama, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Volume 8, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:


princess carry

en-verb

princess carry (third-person singular simple present princess carries, present participle princess carrying, simple past and past participle princess carried)

princess carries (present singular third-person)
princess carrying (participle present)
princess carried (participle past)
princess carried (past)

Naturally, he was going to princess carry her back.

2017, Ryo Shirakome, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Volume 2, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction) To carry another person in a bridal carry.


nonserif

a nonserif typeface


warsuit

(science fiction) A suit equipped with technology for use in combat.


line crash

(typography) A situation where a diacritic above or below a base character extends into the area used by the preceding or following line of text.


mindfile

(sometimes science fiction) A digital database of a person's life, seen as a mechanism for preserving human knowledge or consciousness.


cyberconsciousness

en-noun

cyberconsciousness (usually uncountable, plural cyberconsciousnesses)

The emergence of mindfiles and cyberconsciousness suggests that technology is advancing the notion of mind beyond the human.

2015, Ilia Delio, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness:

Once a biological consciousness is copied into a cyberconsciousness, the possibilities for longevity skyrocket.

2019, Jacob Shatzer, Transhumanism and the Image of God, page 102:

(science fiction) The use of computer technology to replicate consciousness as in living individuals.


biorg

Blend of biological + organism(?), modelled on cyborg, which is from cybernetic + organism.

In this case, the story concerns three pets who have gone missing—a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate. These pets have been transformed by the US Air Force into computer-enhanced "biorgs," as part of an army of "efficient animal slaves" designed to take the place of humans […]

2018, David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life:

Biorgs are both cyborgs and companion animals, […] Vint's reading of the biorgs' speech underscores how the comic blurs the division between nature and culture as well as between human and non-human animals. The biorgs may not speak exactly like humans, but their speech communicates […] While canine biorgs' speech […]

2020, Sidney I. Dobrin, EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels, McFarland, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

Metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in her hair, I am presently a doctoral student […]

2021, Florence Ashley, "'X' why? Gender Marks and Non-binary Transgender People", in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson (editors), Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, Springer Nature, pages 33-34

(neologism, science fiction, rare) A non-human animal cyborg.


Encyclopedia Galactica

Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic

blend

Encyclopaedia Galactica (alternative)
Encyclopædia Galactica (alternative)

(science fiction) A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.


flatplan

"Each country has a fixed amount of space on the flatplan and a limited amount of room on the page, so the skill of the compiler is to select the most relevant services and stations from the data.

2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65:

(publishing) A page plan of a publication that shows how the articles and advertisements are laid out.


cover price

Potter acknowledges that the £20.99 cover price for the print edition may seem quite high to some people.

(publishing) The price of a publication, such as a book, newspaper or magazine, traditionally shown on the cover.


hanahaki

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


preantepenultima

[…] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.

1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:

(poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.


ditto machine

ditto machines (plural)
Ditto machine (alternative)

From the name of the manufacturer, Ditto Corporation.

As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two. It was genuinely purple at first, as it was run off on a ditto machine.

2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

spirit duplicator
spirit duplicator#English

(US, historical, printing) Synonym of spirit duplicator.


ypogegrammeni

Borrowed from Greek υπογεγραμμένη (ypogegramméni), from Ancient Greek ὑπογεγραμμένη (hupogegramménē).

bor+

υπογεγραμμένη

der

ὑπογεγραμμένη

(orthography) The Greek iota subscript, ͺ or ͅ.


jincan

(folklore) A poisonous gold-coloured silkworm or caterpillar in Chinese legend.


one-and-a-half-spaced

(typography) Formatted so that there is one half of a blank line between each line of text.


double-space

en-verb

double-space (third-person singular simple present double-spaces, present participle double-spacing, simple past and past participle double-spaced)

double-spaces (present singular third-person)
double-spacing (participle present)
double-spaced (participle past)
double-spaced (past)

(transitive, typography) To type (or format) text by leaving a blank line between each line of text.

(intransitive, typography) To type (or format) text with two spaces between consecutive sentences.


hyperbeam

hyperbeams (plural)
hyper beam (alternative)
hyper-beam (alternative)

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"I'm not saying that, Vil. I only say what you hear me say and you haven't heard me say that. But, Vil, to get out we're depending on you. I can't call for help because I can't aim a hyperbeam without knowing where we are: I can't find out where we are because I can't pinpoint any stars—"

1972, Robert Silverberg, New Dimensions II: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 122:

"Unless that fellow was lying, they do have some combat-worthy units. And hyperbeams must be flying from end to end of their fleet."

1990, Isaac Asimov, The Diplomacy Guild, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Wasting no time, Crossfire aims her hyperbeam cannon and fires her spatial blast which engulfs Charlemagne and punches a hole in the ground.

2018, Xavier J. Fulwood, Knighthood: The Dangerous Adventures, Page Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

(science fiction, video games, rare) An extraordinarily intense beam of any size (of energy or matter); a superbeam.


hyperbomb

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The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 33:

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


dry transfer

(typography, attributive) Transfer of premade letters from a sheet or letterset.


info-dumping

The info-dump is always a problem. Just at a basic practical level it is important that everyone addresses everyone else by name until at least the first death — in fact detective stories have as much trouble as alien planets, and there’s a very good example of (deliberate) bad info-dumping right at the start of The Real Inspector Hound where Mrs. Drudge answers the phone: ‘Hello? The drawing room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence one morning in early spring?’ […]

1997, “Sad/Not Sad”, in Paul Cornell, editor, Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground, Virgin Books, page 30:

Forget the obvious villainy of metal-haired space lady Madeleine Issigri and the incessant info-dumping of the ridiculously plummy General Hermack.

2003 June 4, Philip MacDonald, “The Space Pirates: Space Oddity”, in Doctor Who Magazine, number Special edition #4, page 68:

They came to unwind, to debrief their minds of the endless info-dumping that bombarded them at work, at home, in the media, in the street.

2004, David Murphy, “Overload”, in Lost Notes, Dublin: Aeon Press, page 43:

(literature) The act of presenting an info-dump.


sowlth

All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.

(folklore) A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.


slab serif

slab serifs (plural)
slabserif (alternative)
slab-serif (alternative)

(typography) A kind of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.


lost in time

Possibly a shortening of the phrase lost in the mists of time.

(science fiction) Lost during time travel.


null-grav

(science fiction, attributive) Relating to, producing, or designed for a condition of zero gravity.


null-grav

en-noun

null-grav (countable and uncountable, plural null-gravs)


OLD

Oxford Latin Dictionary
w:Oxford Latin Dictionary

(publishing, linguistics) Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.


i'jam

i'jam (plural)
ijam (alternative)
i'jām (alternative)

(orthography) Dots used in modern Arabic script to distinguish between consonants with identical backbone (rasm) shapes.


mating bite

“When the mating bites are exchanged, the two souls link. Then the werewolf can live as long as his vampire mate.”

2017, Cynthia Eden, Forbidden Bite, unnumbered page:

Once mated with another character, characters have the option of performing the “mating bite,” which irreversibly bonds the lovers to one another.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 10

He sucked a hickey along the side of Ash's throat, right where his mating bite would soon go.

2021, Marcy Jacks, Mating for Convenience, page 36:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.


mating mark

Especially not after seeing a mating mark on Wilder's shoulder.

2017, Rosa Swan, My Mate's Mark, unnumbered page:

As romance novels often end with a marriage, ABO fics will often end with the mating mark.

He wore no mating mark on his neck, but he often referred to us as his “pack.”

2019, Kallie Traylor, Divided We Fall, unnumbered page:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.


claiming mark

But all I could do, all I wanted to do, was hold her tight against my chest and breathe in the scent of our union and the blood trickling from her new claiming mark.

2019, Nora Ash, Ragnarök Rising, unnumbered page:

He knew that I enjoyed discipline as much as I enjoyed feeling the nip of his teeth over the claiming mark.

2020, L. V. Lane, Omega Awakening, unnumbered page:

Once I give her my claiming mark, Roderick can't do anything to me.

2021, Vivian Murdoch, Dark Revolution, unnumbered page:


claiming bite

“The neck, the chest, I've heard of men with claiming bites on their ass or thighs.”

2015, Ellis Leigh, Claiming Their Forever, unnumbered page:

In the full glow of the moon, I could just make out the dark bruise of my claiming bite on her neck.

2017, Steffanie Holmes, Wedding the Wolf, unnumbered page:

They wore matching wedding bands instead of claiming bites.

2021, Tanya Chris, Omega Revealed, unnumbered page:


hardsuit

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Armored hard-suits are sealable to protect the wearer from extremes of temperature and atmosphere. Standard equipment includes an onboard mini-frame and a communications, navigation, and sensing suite.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Body Armor Codex entry:

(science fiction) A powered exoskeleton.


I before E, except after C

Formed because of the rhyme between the names of the letters E and C, /iː/ and /siː/. The "rule" was invented in the 19th century.

i before e, except after c (alternative)

(orthography, mnemonic) In English words that contain the letters I and E together, the I tends to come before the E (ie), except in cases when the two are preceded by the letter C, in which case the E comes before the I (cei).


Brobot

-butter pats for Dad , and lug nuts for Brobot- Thanks Kumquat! Thanks. Mom! Oh look. Brobot, it's your brother! Hey, Jimmy. You're naked. In the tub!

2003, John A. Davis, Jimmy Neutron, Tokyopop, →ISBN:

The gravitational laws of space allow Brobot's potential to be fully realized!

Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger. Brobot did not sputter , cough , wheeze , or SPLORK ! He beep - bloop - bweedle - eedle - eeped ! BROBOT WAS ALIVE ! " I have a brother ! A ROBOT BROTHER !

2020, Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger, Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

This will give you a good insight into personality too, as Brobot's code is written to hassle its users and act just like a 'bro'.

2020, Nicola O’Brien, Heather Catchpole, Ready, Set, Code!: Coding Activities for Kids, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 23:

(science fiction) A name given to a robot that emulates a brother.


microdetonator

The microdetonators, manufactured commercially, utilize a material that includes lead styphnate. This detonator is readily ignited by laser energy but is relatively insensitive to other stimuli.

1981, NASA Tech Briefs, volume 6, page 24:

As soon as they were down, Landor hit the microdetonators he had installed in the few seconds he'd had. There was a tiny crack, and the wall of the water storage area crumbled into a side corridor.

2014, Allan Kaster, Stephen Baxter, Michael Blumlein, The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4:

(chiefly science fiction) A very small detonator.


Gill Sans

All lettering will be of the gill sans type on a background of the regional colour, and all signs will consist of enamelled metal plates of certain standard sizes which will allow ample areas of background and give a high degree of clarity to the lettering.

1949 July and August, “Notes and News: Standard Station Signs”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:

(typography) An easy-to-read style of sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill.


Five Poisons

(folklore) Five animals regarded as poisonous or otherwise hazardous in Chinese folklore: typically snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, and spiders.


back of the book

"Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.

1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97:

The change in the hard/soft news ratio has taken on several forms. In the print media, the change can be seen clearly by the expansion of "back of the book" sections, for example, about subjects as varied as science and gardening. Television has no formal back of the book, but there are now fewer sections devoted to domestic and international political news.

2004, Herbert J. Gans, Democracy and the News, page 29:

Some magazines use the back-of-the-book merely for story “jumps” (continuations of articles from the feature well). Others fill the back-of-the-book with additional departments and columns.

2014, Christopher D. Benson, Charles F. Whitaker, Magazine Writing:

(publishing, broadcasting) Less important or less hard-hitting material relegated to the later pages of a print publication or the later stages of a television broadcast.


keystrip

He froze a moment there, keystrip already against the contact plate, hesitant to go on.

1975, Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, page 117:

You'll need your keystrip to reenter.

2014, Pat Cadigan, Pat Cadigan SF Gateway Omnibus:

(science fiction) A long thin piece of material that serves to operate a lock.


hoverpack

(science fiction) A piece of equipment that is strapped to a person's back and allows them to hover in the air.


spokesbeing

By analogy from spokesman, spokesperson, etc., with being.

(science fiction) A spokesperson, whether human or extraterrestrial.


satfeed

(informal, chiefly science fiction) satellite feed


Santa Paws

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No no not Santa Paws! Bean O'brien. Everyone deserves a second chance maybe he was just being a poophead cuz he need a hug Bessa Phaneuf. You a bad troll...!! Mattie Bissmeyer. He's a very norty Troll. But i don't like to see anyone cry ...

year unknown, Josephine Tuckfield, Saving Santa Paws, Lulu.com

It turned out that Snowy was upset because at Christmas all the animals are left out and he wants to be SANTA PAWS. Well, Ithought what a great idea this was and went back into the room and said to Snowy, “What a kind dog you are ...

2009, Buckham Derek, Santa's Christmas Story Book, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 24:

Duke happily trotted to the main stand Where Santa Paws sat, all dressed in red and looking very grand. The mall was filled with Christmas delight; Mistletoe, holly and Santa were a welcoming sight. Duke happily trotted to the main ...

2011, Blossom Albuquerque, Dashing Duke and His Dodgy Adventures, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 28:

"Santa Paws is always willing to hear Christmas wishes." He winkedat Eva as Savannah buried her head under Eva's arm. "Aww, don't be afraid, sweetie. He won't bite." "Unless you're a cookie." Adam struggled to get the Santa cookie he'd ...

2014, Meda White, Christmas Give: A Holiday Novella, Meda White, →ISBN:

Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too! Brittni Vega. plate of cookies and a glass of milk. I don't mean to ruin the . . . I am almost twelve in dog years. I stopped believing in Santa Paws a few months ago.

2015, Brittni Vega, Harlow & Indiana (and Reese): Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too!, Penguin, →ISBN:

Santa Paws knows Santa Claus, because he was his first and favourite pet. Santa Claus loved Santa Paws so much, that every Christmas, Santa Claus would take Santa Paws with him in his sleigh. Santa Paws would look at the beautiful night ...

2017, Hanna L. Farha, Santa Paws, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

When Belle opened her eyes , she saw Santa Paws. " I got your letter , Belle , " chuckled Santa Paws. " I have to say, when I was a young pup, I also made some mistakes. Look at me now! I grew up just fine!

2020, Sara J J Gunkel, Dear Santa Paws, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 13:

(humorous, fiction) An equivalent to Santa Claus as an anthropomorphic dog or cat.


vim vitae

From Latin vim (“energy, force, power, strength”) + vita (“life”).

der

(fiction, fantasy, supernatural, paranormal) life force

supernatural; paranormal; supernatural; paranormal


comprachico

Coined from Spanish roots by the French writer Victor Hugo in his 1869 novel L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs). The word is not generally known in Spanish.

But here in England a comprachico is equal to a murderer, a candidate for the hangman's noose.

1969, Günther Weisenborn, The Man Without a Face, page 10:

He is angry and equips himself accordingly—with a penknife to give the offender a comprachico countenance, a mirror to show him the effect, and a pair of nailed boots to give him his dismissal.

2016, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus:

(folklore) A person who deliberately mutilates a growing child in order to induce freakish physical traits.


Rip Van Winkle

From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1819).

That is, it makes a lot of sense to see Biden’s problems getting his plans across the finish line as being caused by the Rip Van Winkle caucus, Democrats who checked out intellectually a couple of decades ago and haven’t caught up with America as it now is.

2021 September 27, Paul Krugman, “Biden Versus the Rip Van Winkle Caucus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The characters do seem Rip Van Winkle-like, as they stumble upon and blink in amazement at very unsurprising things. “Wow! Instagram? Podcasts?” marvels Miranda at some of Carrie’s latest endeavors, as if these were edgy new enterprises.

2022 January 5, Rhonda Garelick, “Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Tory Rip Van Winkle waking from decades of sleep to look round that cabinet table now would be aghast.

2022 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Finally the Tory papers have caught on that Johnson is a liar – what kept them?”, in The Guardian:

(fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.


spacepad

(science fiction) A launch pad for spacecraft.


substub

The first column on the left is the stub column. Its heading is referred to as the stub head. A stub is a title for a row of (horizontal) data. Should a stub column contain substubs, then the substubs are indented two or three spaces to show that they are subordinate to the stub item.

1992, Joel P. Bowman, Bernadine P. Branchaw, “Special techniques: headings, lists, and tables”, in How to Write Proposals that Produce, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 97:

(typography, in tabular matter) A subheading below a stub (stub head) in a table; a stub subordinate to another stub.


siscon

en-noun

siscon (countable and uncountable, plural siscons)

Borrowed from Japanese シスコン (shisukon), from シスターコンプレックス (shisutā konpurekkusu, “sister complex”), itself borrowed from English sister complex. By surface analysis, sis (“sister”) + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

ja-r

シスター コンプレックス

surf

What's up with Da Capo? Siscon and lolicon in episode 1, a catgirl later -- is the target market fetishists?

2003 July 17, Galen Musbach, “The Summer of Our Discontent”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Heck, it's not too hard to find incest themes in non-H these days. Bro/Siscon relationships date back even before the seminal "Revolutionar [sic] Girl Utena", and still crop up in today's harem styled shows like "Sister Princess", and the still hilarious "Majikano".

2006 March 26, Abraham Evangelista, “Re:Protecting the Children at anime cons”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Perhaps you're wondering about what '80s anime would have thought of the siscon aspect. It likely wouldn't have been permitted as such a central concept on an anime TV show […] but the siscon theme was the focus of a relatively popular 1980s OAV series named for its main character, Ami.

2015 July 7, Tsukasa Fushimi, edited by Jemiah Jefferson, Oreimo: Kuroneko Volume 2, →ISBN, page 163:

“Imouto sae Ireba Ii” - Adaptation of a light novel with a strong siscon slant.

2017 September 19, Dave Baranyi, “Fall 2017 New Anime Try--Out List”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(Japanese fiction, uncountable) Strong attachment or attraction to one's own sister.

(Japanese fiction, countable) A person with such an attachment or attraction.


Buyan

From Russian Буя́н (Buján). See there for further information.

(Slavic mythology, folklore) In Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.

Bouïane

a mysterious island in the Russian folklore


Inner

Capitalization of inner, from Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the inner planets of the Solar System


carbrain

en-noun

carbrain (countable and uncountable, plural carbrains)

carbrains (plural)
car brain (alternative)

The carbrain honked and started the engine when the clock reached 00:30.

1992, James Patrick Kelly, “Pogrom”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, page 429:

If the carbrain goes off track (or even off-line), the result is a freeway pile-up.

2006, Science-fiction Studies - Volume 33, Issues 1-3, page 281:

What would your carbrain say if it could talk? Would it say Jump In? Would it say Get out and walk?

2009, Sheldon G Brown, Scalable City, page 41:

(countable, science fiction) The thinking part of a sentient car.


ojousama

(Japanese, usually fiction) A rich girl.


monoeye

monoeyes (plural)
mono-eye (alternative)

→ Japanese: モノアイ (monoai)

From mono- + eye. The monster girl type sense is possibly a reborrowing from Japanese モノアイ (monoai) or a calque of Japanese 単眼 (tangan).

Tysm Hitomi!! They are both so cute! 😳💖 Why does everyone have a cute monoeye OC~

2022 December 10, Akiko✨ (@Akiko_oc), Twitter:

It's also the first day of the month, that means it's monoeye day! Cyclops art RT bomb incoming!

2022 February 1, Hitomi 👁🎧 (@HitomiOnpa), Twitter:

(chiefly anime and manga) A humanlike monster girl species with a single large eye.


H&J

(typography) Abbreviation of hyphenation and justification.


beat panel

See beat (“short pause in a play, etc. for dramatic or comedic effect”).

(comics) A panel without dialog (speech bubbles or the like) and no significant visual changes to the previous panel, symbolizing passing of time.


geta mark

Partial calque from Japanese 下(げ)駄(た)記(き)号(ごう) (geta kigō), alluding to the similarity between the shape of this symbol and that of a footprint from a geta shoe.

(typography) The symbol 〓, used as a placeholder in electronic or printed text to indicate the presence of an ideographic character for which no glyph is available.


autobiographicalize

en-verb

autobiographicalize (third-person singular simple present autobiographicalizes, present participle autobiographicalizing, simple past and past participle autobiographicalized)

autobiographicalizes (present singular third-person)
autobiographicalizing (participle present)
autobiographicalized (participle past)
autobiographicalized (past)

... on the other hand, they were encouraged to autobiographicalize traditional fictive forms, as Dickinson did when she turned hymns into monodramas. These crossings between autobiography and the fictive were regulated by the strong[…]

1991, Paul John Eakin, American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 50:

It is to speak of a little boy lost but searching, for a father, for direction, for justice, for peace. To tell his story in connection with brothers of the past is to autobiographicalize our current generation.

1997, Michael Datcher, Kwame Alexander, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations, Kwame Alexander:

Instead, Savory's sharp eye for details, his method of choosing material, of considering what is cinematic and what is not; all hint at some self - indulgent autobiographicalizing on Greene's part. " It is all a question of choice[…]

2008, William Thomas Hill, Lonely Without God: Graham Greene's Quixotic Journey of Faith, Academica PressLlc:

(transitive, literature) To convert into an autobiography.


autoparody

This was exactly why, for him, the autoparody became her inescapable prison. Above all, this EuroBrazilian artist had, and continued to have, a defining impact within Brazil's mainstream sense of selfhood, so much so that by the late[…]

2015 August 26, Cristina F. Rosa, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation, Springer, →ISBN:

1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody. Consciously or not, Bruckner reuses an imitative sequence from the Kyrie of Palestrina's Mass in his wellknown setting (ca. 1886) of the Gradual Christus[…]

2015 June 24, Chester L. Alwes, A History of Western Choral Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

As Osolsobě observes, parody was both a sign of reputation and a tool with which to achieve it, with eighteenth- century French authors of operas often creating parodies of their own works (autoparodies): parodies not only promote the[…]

2022, Christopher R. Wilson, Mervyn Cooke, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 776:

(literature, art, music) A parody of one's own work.


fudge box

(journalism, printing, historical) A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.


taproot text

(literature) Any relatively early text with fantastical elements, a precursor to fantasy as a genre.


imposing table

(printing, historical) A work table, topped by an imposing stone, used by impositors in type-setting.


hyperplasma

en-noun

hyperplasma (usually uncountable, plural hyperplasmas)

hyperplasmas (plural)
hyper plasma (alternative)
hyper-plasma (alternative)

Somewhere in the midst of searing, blinding pain a tiny mode of coherence bobbed, buffeted on shrieking data currents. O’Neill felt cosmic fingers trying to rip her self apart, to abolish her mind orders and meld her with the formless hyperplasma of the universe’s beginning.

1986, Victor Milán, The Cybernetic Samurai, Berkley, →ISBN, page 139:

A concentrated hyperplasma of Energon, drawn via a transdimensional gateway from the endless supply of Energon that enlivened the planet Cybertron itself.

2010, Alexander Christian Irvine, Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron, Titan, →ISBN, page 198:

The big thing about the hyperplasma torp is that all of it's ^([sic]) torps are destructible, so against any enemy with AOE, they're completely worthless.

2015 February 10, alexea56, Mastajdog, “Tricobalt torpedo's ^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(science fiction, rare) Very advanced and powerful plasma; superplasma.


hypermissile

hypermissiles (plural)
hyper missile (alternative)
hyper-missile (alternative)

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The sight of another hypermissile impacting the Shield mollified him only a little; the backup fire-control comp had taken over without a hiccup, but precious little good did that do him, isolated on the bridge with no way of knowing what was going on. The only comfort, and bare comfort at that, was that there was only one lance. And it was damaged, too.

1993, Sherwood Smith, Dave Trowbridge, The Phoenix in Flight, TOR, →ISBN, page 181:

Pavanaz tripped into hyperspace, burned the cruiser with his exhaust, threw all power to his screens and deflected the carrier's hypermissiles.

2006, Brian Lumley, Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 124:

He did not need what it represented: a ship-size heat signature, something out in space beyond the asteroid, just a few kelvins. In the tactical display, blue diamonds shot toward the spot, hypermissiles tracking the tiny difference in temeprature. The ship did not fight back.

2017, Craig DeLancey, Evolution Commandos, 496\Perfect Number Press:

(science fiction, rare, video games) An extremely advanced and powerful missile or projectile; a supermissile.


greatbow

greatbows (plural)
great bow (alternative)
great-bow (alternative)

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He hooked the tip of his own greatbow under the door’s hasp, muttered som thing under his breath and pulled, hard. Nothing happened. Again, and again nothing.

1981, Peter Morwood, The Warlord's Domain, DAW, →ISBN, page 84:

You can turtle with a crossbow but you're wide open after every shot. Greatbows have knockdown but you're superslow.

2021 April 12, the_3rdist, “What is your all time favourite themed runs?”, in reddit.com:

Maybe samurai would give you a head start for a greatbow build.

2022 February 14, ytinifniozob, Zamoku, “Greatbows”, in reddit.com:

(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.


archcommander

archcommanders (plural)
arch-commander (alternative)

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.kəˈmændɚ/

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And they said,"We beseech thee, Michael , our Archcommander, transfer (μεταθες) us from them, for we cannot abide with evil and foolish men, because there is no good in them but all wickedness and greediness. We beg then that we may depart from them."

1903, Christian Faith and Life, Volume 7, page 5:

Jagiello acted chivalrously; he had the body washed, covered with a purple shroud and sent to Malbork on a carriage drawn by four horses, together with the bodies of other dignitaries, such as the archcommander and the grand marshal.

1978, Paweł Jasienica, Jagiellonian Poland, American Institute of Polish Culture, page 103:

The archcommander caught his arm and tried to draw him away, counseling caution, but the enraged Patrician shook him off, saying, "He gave you this place that should have been your prison and turned it into a palace, let you work your damned unnatural magics wherever you pleased, let you recruit more of your own kind...”

1995, Martha Wells, City of Bones, TOR, →ISBN, page 316:

There's some major design flaws as well. Scaling for one is a pitta. Never liked it myself on any MMORPG, it's cheap, tacky, destroys tension and for me inserts a huge wad of loss of realism, oh, yes, those wasps I destroyed at level one in two seconds can now fight my uber level 200 with the 'Archcommanders Sword of Cheese Shoes' for ten minutes now! Go figure.

2019 April 23, Goromhir, yucklawyers, “Discussion / MOD 16 The End of Neverwinter. Lead Desinger failed.. ^([sic])”, in forums.mmorpg.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) The supreme commander; a commander-in-chief.


omnielemental

Like for a turn or three he deals piercing damage or Omnielemental damage with attacks and unlock something like Apotheosis and all it's^([sic]) source skills for one turn. Something.

2018 August 17, divinedpk, terrovek3, “Is summoning getting any changes in the definitive edition?”, in reddit.com:

I don’t like the omnielemental builds for the Cra, that is why I didn’t go omnielemental/critics^([sic]), but this is my opinion, and I want to know yours. What do you think?

2019 October 8, “Do you believe a water/air lvl. 199 Cra is viable?”, in reddit.com:

I am skeptical of becoming of Harbinger, simply because the Traveler will be omnielemental at that point, removing the need for a delusion.

2022 February 13, azadeth24, Patient_Insect_4463, “pure speculation here - a lil theory about the upcoming plot that I came up with recently. feel free to add your thoughts or debunk this entire thing in the comments 🛐 btw i have no idea why wouldn’t celestia just stop the tsaritsa^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(rare, fantasy, science fiction, video games) Encompassing all elemental attributes possible.


hysterical realism

Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

coin

This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked.

2000 July 24, James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

(literature) A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.


multiglobal

en-adj

multiglobal (comparative more multiglobal, superlative most multiglobal)

more multiglobal (comparative)
most multiglobal (superlative)

your CHERISHED MULTIGLOBAL EMPIRE

2011 November 11, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck:

“Be careful what you say, Ms. Modane. VectorCorp does not respond well to baseless accusations. We are a multiglobal company.

2014 December 18, Joseph R. Lallo, Artificial Evolution: Big Sigma #3, Joseph R. Lallo, →ISBN:

“[…] A multiglobal harmony of thought and reason.”

2017 December 5, Gareth L. Powell, Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy, Solaris, →ISBN:

[…] let us consider the story of “Bonk Business,” the imaginary corporation made up by Finnish artist Alvar Gullichsen: Bonk Business Inc. is a multiglobal industrial conglomerate employing 13,000 in 52 countries.

2020 August 12, Pekka Aula, Saku Mantere, Strategic Reputation Management: Towards A Company of Good, Routledge, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Spanning multiple globes.


antistrophize

en-verb

antistrophize (third-person singular simple present antistrophizes, present participle antistrophizing, simple past and past participle antistrophized)

antistrophizes (present singular third-person)
antistrophizing (participle present)
antistrophized (participle past)
antistrophized (past)

(transitive, poetry) To turn into antistrophe.


charactonymous

en-adj

charactonymous (comparative more charactonymous, superlative most charactonymous)

more charactonymous (comparative)
most charactonymous (superlative)

(literature) Of, or relating to, a charactonym (a fitting name of a character).


unity of place

(theater, literature) The classical unity that states that a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.


unity of action

(theater, literature) The classical unity that states that a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.


cybermind

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A computer system capable of conscious thought; a computerized mind, or artificial intelligence.


testbank

From test + bank, analogous to databank.

Meronyms: MCQs, multiple-choice questions, word problems, essay questions

The chemistry department hired me to write batches of questions for a testbank.

(education, publishing) A collection of test questions and/or tests; a databank full of such items.


electrogravity

(physics, science fiction) A hypothetical unification of electromagnetism and gravity.


Charontian

Charontians (plural)
Charontean (alternative)

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).


Ormulum

From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (“mirror”), so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

(historical, literature) A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.


coltpixie

coltpixies (plural)
coltpixy (alternative)

(UK, Hampshire, archaic, folklore) A kind of hobgoblin.


vyaz

(calligraphy) A traditional lettering style for Cyrillic and Slavosphere Latin, slender, ornate and interweaving.


main character syndrome

Main Character Syndrome (alternative)
main-character syndrome (alternative)

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NPC

dismissing other people as alleged NPCs has near-synonymic force here

Furthermore,
Goku is still the main character of the series, and thus by the rules
of the main character syndrome, no one on the same side of the main
character shall surpass the main character, and the main character will
always (eventually) save the day.

1996 June 5, Dr. Briefs, “[DBGT] Pans potental.”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

en:type of weakness of character development in fiction-writing

(fiction) The phenomenon of the protagonist of a show or movie receiving unrealistic special treatment from the worldbuilders.


pouchling

Instead, she secretes a narcotic fluid which is designed to keep her pouchlings dormant. They will remain effectively comatose until the flow of her milk has stopped, and will only awaken and begin to grow and develop when she has died, […]

2011, Arinn Dembo, The Deacon's Tale, page 301:

The Elaki Mother-One stopped abruptly and David expected the pouchlings, following so closely, to run into her. They didn't.

(science fiction, fantasy) A young creature that is raised in a pouch.


fleshbag

I've died numerous times before (in this life time alone) and trembled at nothing. In fact, I was overjoyed to be able to leave this fleshbag I call home.

1999 October 4, Aazari Cantharess, “Across The Menai”, in alt.pagan (Usenet):

"We're interested in getting this robot out into this world," says Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert in the video, as part of MIT's FAB 11 conference. He seems calm and blithely unafraid, ignoring the fact that his creation is moving through the trees with an ease of motion that would make Gort weep. "We're working on a version that doesn't have that [power tether]," Raibert says of Atlas, which is code for "Run, you helpless fleshbag fools. RUN!"

2015 August 17, BTR1701, “The Terminators Are Almost Here...”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Human civilization is not immortal, you know. Even if we manage to avoid the death trap that is this Earth, and even *IF* we manage to free ourselves from these weak fleshbag bodies so that we may exist in enviroments^([sic]) that are uninhabitable to biological lifeforms, we would still be limited by the lifetime of our universe.

2017 July 2, rantingri...@gmail.com, “Re: The Collapse Of Complex Societies”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

(derogatory, usually science fiction) A human or human body, as opposed to a robot or incorporeal being.


rekern

en-verb

rekern (third-person singular simple present rekerns, present participle rekerning, simple past and past participle rekerned)

rekerns (present singular third-person)
rekerning (participle present)
rekerned (participle past)
rekerned (past)

Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line.

1996, Bruce Page, Diana Holm, Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF, page 227:

Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black. The lettering can be further refined and, unlike ink-based artwork, can be rekerned without being redrawn.

2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques:


xuanhuan

(literature) A genre of fiction that mixes Chinese folklore with modern elements.


cybernet

(science fiction) Clipping of cybernetwork.


[ˈfɔɹɾi kʰeɪ]

From 40 + k. From 40,000, part of "Warhammer 40,000", referring to the future year where the game was set in.

(informal, slang, science fiction) Warhammer 40,000, a British tabletop military game set in a dystopian future Galaxy torn by war.