adj
Alternative form of arty-farty [(informal, derogatory) Pretentiously artistic; self-important or self-indulgent, especially when describing an artistic project.]
n
A genre of horror fiction based around the graphic destruction or alteration of the body.
adj
(of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
adj
Synonym of campy (“characterized by camp or kitsch”)
n
(figuratively) A character in a movie, book, or other work who is depicted as inauthentic, generic or one-dimensional.
adj
Having the style of a cartoon
adj
Having the characteristics of a clique.
n
(Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
n
Any of various other species of the same genus.
n
Alternative spelling of doubledome [(slang, mildly derogatory) An intellectual; an egghead.]
n
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
adj
(entertainment, advertising) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
n
An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, and/or avant-garde.
adv
(rare) In a fanboyish manner.
n
(figuratively) Caution, warning.
n
Alternative form of gormandizer [A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand]
n
Obsolete form of grail. [The Holy Grail.]
adj
(US, dialect) Alternative form of haunted [Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.]
v
(transitive) To stalk; to follow.
n
A frightening person, especially a misbehaving child.
n
A stock character in popular fiction; a bumbling scientist working on unlikely ways to save the world, or a villainous one bent on destroying it.
n
A person who has no magical abilities.
v
(dialectal) Alternative spelling of must [(modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.]
n
A source of inspiration.
n
(slang, derogatory) One who has no social life; a friendless introvert.
adj
Characteristic of noil
n
A person, fictional character, or other foil who literally or symbolically fulfills one or more of the roles Queequeg played in Moby-Dick such as the noble savage, Entwicklungsroman guru or exemplar, or racially-inflected spear carrier role.
n
A painter of sordid or distasteful subjects.
adj
of, pertaining to, or connected with satire
n
Alternative form of scare-line [A phrase or message used as a headline or quote that distorts the facts in order to alarm the reader or listener.]
n
A kind of folklore comprising stories intended to frighten the reader or listener.
n
(film) A genre of comedy film with sexual content or themes.
adj
Like, or appropriate to, a siren; deceptive; fascinating.
n
(informal) A scare or fright.
n
(slang) The realm or sphere of spies.
n
One who spooks, or practices spookery
n
(countable) Something characteristic of a spook.
n
(rare, derogatory) An organisation or situation that involves spies.
adj
(informal, uncommon) Spooky; scary.
adj
(slang) Spooky and spectacular; wonderfully frightening.
adj
(slang) fantastically spooky; spine-tingling
adj
(Internet slang) Calling upon horror tropes and concepts in cute, nonthreatening or comical ways.
n
(neologism) Backlash against technology.
n
(Now chiefly dialectal) A giant; a gigantic spectre; an apparition.
n
(usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
n
(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
n
(chiefly historical) Engagement in a witch-hunt; searching for witches or for evidence against them.
n
A strange, powerful, terrifying or dangerous concoction of ingredients.
n
(chiefly historical) The practice of conducting witch-hunts and identifying witches.
adj
(rare) Somewhat witchy.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.
n
Obsolete form of witch. [A person who practices witchcraft.]
n
The lifestyle or attitudes of yuppies.
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