fictionary

adj
/ˈfɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/US/ˈfɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Classical Latin dīcō ▲ Classical Latin -tiō Classical Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Classical Latin -ārius Classical Latin -ārium Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English fictionary Blend of fiction + dictionary.

  1. derived from ficcionbor

Definitions

  1. Fictional.

    • Lastly, there were not a few scholars who, discarding the idea that myths were purely fictionary, and admitting a basis of reality, yet found that basis not in historical occurrence but in natural phenomena.
  2. A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a…

    A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition.

    • I generally hate playing games, but recently I was introduced to one that I think is actually fun: fictionary.
    • One of our favorites is Fictionary, which we play on holidays or during storms.
    • Turns out, it's reminiscent of the game of Fictionary that was the hit of a recent Thanksgiving at my home (see below).
  3. A dictionary with contrived entries.

    • Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe.
    • From anemoia to zagreb: how ‘fictionaries’ are liberating the word [title]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fictionary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA