Post by greenie on Apr 30, 2011 18:43:06 GMT 10
Here's a compilation of the three PD glossaries
afore: before
aught: anything
bailey: courtyard in a castle
bait: food and water for horses at a rest stop
barbican: fortified gateway
bardash: male homosexual
barrel trapper: kidnapper
Barzun: country to the south of Tortall, on the north shore of the Great Inland Sea
beard: oppose boldly or impudently
Birdie: informant
Black God: the hooded and robed God of Death, recognised as such throughout the Eastern and Southern Lands
Black God’s Option: suicide
blessing: birth control device or charm
bogle: ghost
bolster: long, narrow, stiff pillow or cushion
Book of Gold, The: oldest census of the noble houses of Tortall, dating back to the founding of the realm
boot: metal boot placed on a victim’s foot. Wedges are hammered into the inside of the boot, pressing on the lower leg until they break bones. Metal boots can also be heated to burn the victim’s leg.
bordel: house of prostitution
buckler: round, plate-like shield
budget: pouch or wallet
buffer: thief of cattle, sheep, goats, or horses
bugnob: person of little brain
by-blow: illegitimate child
cages: holding cells for kennel prisoners
canoodling: sexual activity
Carthak: ancient and powerful slaveholding empire that includes all of the Southern Lands, as storehouse of learning, sophistication, and culture
caudles: soothing drinks given to excited or crazy people
Chaos, Realms of: one of the four Realms (Mortal, Divine, Peaceful, Chaos); the one where everything is unending change, destruction, and remaking
cipher: shorthand method used by Dogs, with symbols for entire common words
cityman: any respectable person who is not noble; knight’s usage means peaceable, sheeplike person
Coffin: narrow cell with no windows or doors, only a long, well-like opening overhead. Prisoners are often left in one and forgotten.
cog: cheat
cole: false coin
colemonger: someone who makes or passes false coins
colesmith: counterfeiter
Common Eastern: language spoken in Tortall, Barzun, Tusaine, Maren, Tyra, Saraine, and Scanra
coney: victim of a theft or any crime; sucker
Copper Isles: slaveholding nation south and west of Tortall, originally named the Kyprish Isles. The lowlands are hot, wet jungles; the highlands are cold and rocky. Traditionally their tie is to Carthak rather than Tortall.
copper noble: coin equivalent to ten coppers
corbie: raven
Corus: capital city of Tortall, on the banks of the River Olorun
cot: small house or cottage
countinghouse: room or building where a business does its accounting: chiefly used here for buildings where shipping firms do business and keep track of what is bought, sold, and traded
cove: man
coyne: girl thingy
cozening: cajoling, wheedling
cracknob: madman
craven: coward; cowardly
cresset: metal wall fixture containing wood or oil to be burned for light
cuddy: slob
cutter: braggart
cuirass: piece of armor protecting chest and back
dance a set: fight
destrier: warhorse
detail: assignment
Dog: member of Provost’s Guard
douse: murder
doxie: female prostitute
dozy: sleepy/stupid
Drink: form of torture in which water is poured down the victim’s throat and nose to simulate drowning
ducknob: person of low intelligence
dust spinner: a being of air and spirit, a continuous whirlwind that gathers breezes, conversations, emotions, and other bits from its surroundings
elsewise: otherwise; or else
fambles: hands
fen-sucked: sucked out of a fen (swamp or marsh)
Ferrets: street nickname for Crown spies
filcher: small-time criminal
flower sellers: women of that trade who are also prostitutes and thieves
foist: master pickpocket
folderol: nonsense, foolishness
fribbety: silly, frivolous
fussock: donkey; old mean woman
gab: speech
Galla: country to the north and east of Tortall, famous for its mountains and forests, with an ancient royal line
Galla pasties: turnovers with beef, cheese, pine nuts, currants, and spices
gauds: bright, costly things
get bit: be cheated
get in the way of: become; learn
Gift: human, academic magic, the use of which must be taught
gillyflower: carnation
gixie: girl
glims: eyes
gob: mouth
gods’ fool: crazy person
gold bit: coin equivalent to one-quarter gold noble or two and a half silver nobles
gold noble: coin equivalent to ten silver nobles or four gold bits
gorget: mail plate cover for the neck, like a collar
gormless: gutless
Great Gods: most powerful gods in the pantheon: Mithros; the Great Goddess (three aspects: Maiden, Mother, Crone); the Black God of Death; Oinomi Wavewalker; the Smith God; the Trickster or the Crooked God; Gainel (Master of Dreams); Wind (god of all winds); Pelmry (bird-clawed god of scribes); Apetekus (god of slaves); Wilnedur (goddess of slaves)
ground cover: anything on the ground: grass, trees, bushes, gravel, stones, and crops
Growl: sound made by a roomful of Dogs about to be released upon criminal prey
Happy Bag: the collection of weekly bribes for Provost’s office – jewels, coins, art, magical objects – anything of value that can be sold for cash
hedgecreeper: cheap prostitute
hedgewitch: worker of small magics, not powerful enough to be called a mage, with little formal education. Serves lower-class clients, usually deals in healing humans and animals, fertility charms/potions, small battle/annoyance spells.
Heskaly’s drum: instrument used by the trickster god of the hills to make people crazy
hobble: tie up or arrest
hobbles: rawhide restraints used on prisoners
hoddy-dod: slang for snail; someone who is slow
honeylove: lesbian
hotblood wine: wine spiked with an amphetamine-like substance
Human Era (H.E.): time period that began 246 years prior to Terrier, marking the exile of the immortals from the Mortal Realms
hunkerbones: haunches
Hunt: criminal investigation; pursuit of criminals
hunter: a hound specially trained to hunt escaped prisoners and slaves
Hurdik: language of Tunstall’s native hill tribes
immortals: creatures that, unless killed, live forever, including Stormwings, giants, spidrens, winged horses
jabbernob: chatterbox
jack: tankard, often leather
Jane Street kennel: Clary/Tunstall/Beka’s home base
jerkin: hip-length sleeveless jacket
jinglenob: empty-headed person
jumped-up: raised above one’s station
kennel: Provost’s guardhouse, police station
ladyhorse: destrier (warhorse) bred smaller and lighter for lady knights
Ladymoon: symbol of the Goddess
liar’s fanfare: overstuffed codpiece
lift: theft of a purse
loaner: mocking term for nobles’ sale of heirlooms they buy back when they get more money; also a scornful term for a noble
looby: fool
loose Dog: a crooked Dog: one who exceeds the normal allowance of bribery
Lord Provost: nobleman in command of the Provost’s Guard throughout the realm; most take a personal interest in the Guard in the capital, Corus, as well as in the running of the Guard throughout the realm
lure: scent sample used to give Achoo the right scent to follow
mains: main dishes for meals
mammering: wavering, hesitating
Maren: one of the Eastern Lands, east of Tusaine and Tyra, rich and powerful land
Master: Mr; mister; old title of honor for a mage
maul: heavy hammer with one wedge-shaped head
mayhap: perhaps
midden hen: chicken that lives in dung; someone completely crazy
minnow: very small-time criminal, not worth the trouble to arrest
Mistress: Mrs; ma’am
Mithros: the chief god of the Tortallan pantheon, God of War and the Law; his symbol is the sun.
money stream: flow of money as it passes through the hands of buyers, sellers, and bankers
moonsong: idiocy
mot: woman, common-born
mumper: beggar
murrain: pestilence or plague, mostly affecting domestic animals
nab: arrest
new Tom: overeager stranger; one who thinks he knows the game
nimmer: swindle
nob, noll: head
noble: large coin in copper or silver
nuncle: pimp
Oinomi Wavewalker: goddess of the ocean; she is believed by some to come when named, like the Trickster and the Smith God
Olorun River: river that flows east to west through the heart of Tortall
orange girls: walking fruit sellers who are also prostitutes and thieves
Outwalls: Outwalls Prison, jail for serving long-term sentences
pallet: narrow, straw-filled mattress
patten: hard wooden shoe, keeps feet out of the mud
peck and cass: meat and cheese
Peaceful Realms: home of the spirits of the dead; where the souls of the living go to heal from the pain of life
piece: lowlife woman; dirty woman
pig’s knuckle: barely competent worker; major insult
pigsticker: big knife
Players’ jollity: professional performance, play, or musical entertainment
plucked a Rat: did something really stupid, such as tried to pull feathers off a rat
Puppy: trainee, Provost’s Guard
puttock: low-level female prostitute
rack: torture device on which the victim is placed with arms and legs spread. Turns of the handle and grips stretch the victim until his or her joints dislocate, then separate. Muscles are also stretched to a point at which they no longer contract. Some racks also have a spiked roller that can do bloody damage when the victim is placed facedown
raka: native of the Copper Isles
randy: having sex always on one’s mind
raston: bread loaf stuffed with buttery bread crumbs and light filling
Rat: criminal; prey; captive (to Dogs)
raw one: corpse; body
river dodgers: hard men and women who work on and around the river, on boats, in shipping and trade (and smuggling)
robber’s ball: feeding frenzy
rook: cheat
rushers: thugs
sap: handheld lead-filled cylinder, six inches long, with a loop for the wrist; a knockout or bone-breaking weapon
sarden: blasted; damned; detestable
scale: fence, or receiver of stolen goods
Scanra: country to the north of Tortall, wild, rocky, and cold, with very little land that can be farmed. Scanrans are masters of the sea and are feared anywhere there is a coastline. They also frequently raid over land
scry: watch something magically in water, a crystal, or a mirror
scummer: animal dung
scut: idiot
seekings: investigations; hunts for criminals or missing persons
Shakith: one of the Carthaki gods of the underworld, she is the blind seer and the goddess who weighs things for their true value; thus, she is the goddess of justice, bankers, jewelers, and traders in gemstones.
sheeplings: Player slang: those who are born to be shorn of their money
Sign: the Sign against evil; an X intersected by a vertical line forming a star on the chest
sign: in a Hunt, an indication of the prey, such as a footprint; marks of urine, feces, or vomit; or pieces of clothing
silver/gold kiss: bribe
silver noble: coin equivalent to ten copper nobles
sing on: inform on
slubbering: slobbering, licking, or lapping
slumstew: liquid garbage
sommat: something
spintry: male prostitute
Stormwings: immortal creatures, banished before the Human Era. They had steel birds’ wings and claws and half-human heads and chests. They lived on fear and battle-killed dead; very nasty personalities
stripes: marks of the whip
sutler: their who takes good from shops or vendors’ stalls
swap __ for __: move up a grade as a Dog: For example, “wap leather (1-to-5-year insignia) for bronze (5-to-10-year insignia)”
swilled: drunk
swive: have sex
take someone over Breakbone Falls: administer a very severe beating
tarse: piece of meat
thumbscrew: vise that crushes the victim’s fingers or toes
ticklers: fingers
tightfisted: cheap
tosspot: drunkard
tread a measure: leave; take off
treats: bribes
trencher: “plate” cut from a stale loaf of bread, used to hold food
trollop: woman who is morally lax, usually sexually
trull: very low-class kind of woman; the dregs
turncoat: traitor
Tusaine: small country tucked between Tortall and Maren
twilsey: refreshing drink made of raspberry or cider vinegar and water
Tyra: merchant republic on the Great Inland Sea between Tortall and Maren. Tyra is mostly swamp, and its people rely on trade and banking for income
wander mage: mage who travels, picking up work here and there
wench: woman who is not the most respectable sort
went floppy: lost the will to fight
afore: before
aught: anything
bailey: courtyard in a castle
bait: food and water for horses at a rest stop
barbican: fortified gateway
bardash: male homosexual
barrel trapper: kidnapper
Barzun: country to the south of Tortall, on the north shore of the Great Inland Sea
beard: oppose boldly or impudently
Birdie: informant
Black God: the hooded and robed God of Death, recognised as such throughout the Eastern and Southern Lands
Black God’s Option: suicide
blessing: birth control device or charm
bogle: ghost
bolster: long, narrow, stiff pillow or cushion
Book of Gold, The: oldest census of the noble houses of Tortall, dating back to the founding of the realm
boot: metal boot placed on a victim’s foot. Wedges are hammered into the inside of the boot, pressing on the lower leg until they break bones. Metal boots can also be heated to burn the victim’s leg.
bordel: house of prostitution
buckler: round, plate-like shield
budget: pouch or wallet
buffer: thief of cattle, sheep, goats, or horses
bugnob: person of little brain
by-blow: illegitimate child
cages: holding cells for kennel prisoners
canoodling: sexual activity
Carthak: ancient and powerful slaveholding empire that includes all of the Southern Lands, as storehouse of learning, sophistication, and culture
caudles: soothing drinks given to excited or crazy people
Chaos, Realms of: one of the four Realms (Mortal, Divine, Peaceful, Chaos); the one where everything is unending change, destruction, and remaking
cipher: shorthand method used by Dogs, with symbols for entire common words
cityman: any respectable person who is not noble; knight’s usage means peaceable, sheeplike person
Coffin: narrow cell with no windows or doors, only a long, well-like opening overhead. Prisoners are often left in one and forgotten.
cog: cheat
cole: false coin
colemonger: someone who makes or passes false coins
colesmith: counterfeiter
Common Eastern: language spoken in Tortall, Barzun, Tusaine, Maren, Tyra, Saraine, and Scanra
coney: victim of a theft or any crime; sucker
Copper Isles: slaveholding nation south and west of Tortall, originally named the Kyprish Isles. The lowlands are hot, wet jungles; the highlands are cold and rocky. Traditionally their tie is to Carthak rather than Tortall.
copper noble: coin equivalent to ten coppers
corbie: raven
Corus: capital city of Tortall, on the banks of the River Olorun
cot: small house or cottage
countinghouse: room or building where a business does its accounting: chiefly used here for buildings where shipping firms do business and keep track of what is bought, sold, and traded
cove: man
coyne: girl thingy
cozening: cajoling, wheedling
cracknob: madman
craven: coward; cowardly
cresset: metal wall fixture containing wood or oil to be burned for light
cuddy: slob
cutter: braggart
cuirass: piece of armor protecting chest and back
dance a set: fight
destrier: warhorse
detail: assignment
Dog: member of Provost’s Guard
douse: murder
doxie: female prostitute
dozy: sleepy/stupid
Drink: form of torture in which water is poured down the victim’s throat and nose to simulate drowning
ducknob: person of low intelligence
dust spinner: a being of air and spirit, a continuous whirlwind that gathers breezes, conversations, emotions, and other bits from its surroundings
elsewise: otherwise; or else
fambles: hands
fen-sucked: sucked out of a fen (swamp or marsh)
Ferrets: street nickname for Crown spies
filcher: small-time criminal
flower sellers: women of that trade who are also prostitutes and thieves
foist: master pickpocket
folderol: nonsense, foolishness
fribbety: silly, frivolous
fussock: donkey; old mean woman
gab: speech
Galla: country to the north and east of Tortall, famous for its mountains and forests, with an ancient royal line
Galla pasties: turnovers with beef, cheese, pine nuts, currants, and spices
gauds: bright, costly things
get bit: be cheated
get in the way of: become; learn
Gift: human, academic magic, the use of which must be taught
gillyflower: carnation
gixie: girl
glims: eyes
gob: mouth
gods’ fool: crazy person
gold bit: coin equivalent to one-quarter gold noble or two and a half silver nobles
gold noble: coin equivalent to ten silver nobles or four gold bits
gorget: mail plate cover for the neck, like a collar
gormless: gutless
Great Gods: most powerful gods in the pantheon: Mithros; the Great Goddess (three aspects: Maiden, Mother, Crone); the Black God of Death; Oinomi Wavewalker; the Smith God; the Trickster or the Crooked God; Gainel (Master of Dreams); Wind (god of all winds); Pelmry (bird-clawed god of scribes); Apetekus (god of slaves); Wilnedur (goddess of slaves)
ground cover: anything on the ground: grass, trees, bushes, gravel, stones, and crops
Growl: sound made by a roomful of Dogs about to be released upon criminal prey
Happy Bag: the collection of weekly bribes for Provost’s office – jewels, coins, art, magical objects – anything of value that can be sold for cash
hedgecreeper: cheap prostitute
hedgewitch: worker of small magics, not powerful enough to be called a mage, with little formal education. Serves lower-class clients, usually deals in healing humans and animals, fertility charms/potions, small battle/annoyance spells.
Heskaly’s drum: instrument used by the trickster god of the hills to make people crazy
hobble: tie up or arrest
hobbles: rawhide restraints used on prisoners
hoddy-dod: slang for snail; someone who is slow
honeylove: lesbian
hotblood wine: wine spiked with an amphetamine-like substance
Human Era (H.E.): time period that began 246 years prior to Terrier, marking the exile of the immortals from the Mortal Realms
hunkerbones: haunches
Hunt: criminal investigation; pursuit of criminals
hunter: a hound specially trained to hunt escaped prisoners and slaves
Hurdik: language of Tunstall’s native hill tribes
immortals: creatures that, unless killed, live forever, including Stormwings, giants, spidrens, winged horses
jabbernob: chatterbox
jack: tankard, often leather
Jane Street kennel: Clary/Tunstall/Beka’s home base
jerkin: hip-length sleeveless jacket
jinglenob: empty-headed person
jumped-up: raised above one’s station
kennel: Provost’s guardhouse, police station
ladyhorse: destrier (warhorse) bred smaller and lighter for lady knights
Ladymoon: symbol of the Goddess
liar’s fanfare: overstuffed codpiece
lift: theft of a purse
loaner: mocking term for nobles’ sale of heirlooms they buy back when they get more money; also a scornful term for a noble
looby: fool
loose Dog: a crooked Dog: one who exceeds the normal allowance of bribery
Lord Provost: nobleman in command of the Provost’s Guard throughout the realm; most take a personal interest in the Guard in the capital, Corus, as well as in the running of the Guard throughout the realm
lure: scent sample used to give Achoo the right scent to follow
mains: main dishes for meals
mammering: wavering, hesitating
Maren: one of the Eastern Lands, east of Tusaine and Tyra, rich and powerful land
Master: Mr; mister; old title of honor for a mage
maul: heavy hammer with one wedge-shaped head
mayhap: perhaps
midden hen: chicken that lives in dung; someone completely crazy
minnow: very small-time criminal, not worth the trouble to arrest
Mistress: Mrs; ma’am
Mithros: the chief god of the Tortallan pantheon, God of War and the Law; his symbol is the sun.
money stream: flow of money as it passes through the hands of buyers, sellers, and bankers
moonsong: idiocy
mot: woman, common-born
mumper: beggar
murrain: pestilence or plague, mostly affecting domestic animals
nab: arrest
new Tom: overeager stranger; one who thinks he knows the game
nimmer: swindle
nob, noll: head
noble: large coin in copper or silver
nuncle: pimp
Oinomi Wavewalker: goddess of the ocean; she is believed by some to come when named, like the Trickster and the Smith God
Olorun River: river that flows east to west through the heart of Tortall
orange girls: walking fruit sellers who are also prostitutes and thieves
Outwalls: Outwalls Prison, jail for serving long-term sentences
pallet: narrow, straw-filled mattress
patten: hard wooden shoe, keeps feet out of the mud
peck and cass: meat and cheese
Peaceful Realms: home of the spirits of the dead; where the souls of the living go to heal from the pain of life
piece: lowlife woman; dirty woman
pig’s knuckle: barely competent worker; major insult
pigsticker: big knife
Players’ jollity: professional performance, play, or musical entertainment
plucked a Rat: did something really stupid, such as tried to pull feathers off a rat
Puppy: trainee, Provost’s Guard
puttock: low-level female prostitute
rack: torture device on which the victim is placed with arms and legs spread. Turns of the handle and grips stretch the victim until his or her joints dislocate, then separate. Muscles are also stretched to a point at which they no longer contract. Some racks also have a spiked roller that can do bloody damage when the victim is placed facedown
raka: native of the Copper Isles
randy: having sex always on one’s mind
raston: bread loaf stuffed with buttery bread crumbs and light filling
Rat: criminal; prey; captive (to Dogs)
raw one: corpse; body
river dodgers: hard men and women who work on and around the river, on boats, in shipping and trade (and smuggling)
robber’s ball: feeding frenzy
rook: cheat
rushers: thugs
sap: handheld lead-filled cylinder, six inches long, with a loop for the wrist; a knockout or bone-breaking weapon
sarden: blasted; damned; detestable
scale: fence, or receiver of stolen goods
Scanra: country to the north of Tortall, wild, rocky, and cold, with very little land that can be farmed. Scanrans are masters of the sea and are feared anywhere there is a coastline. They also frequently raid over land
scry: watch something magically in water, a crystal, or a mirror
scummer: animal dung
scut: idiot
seekings: investigations; hunts for criminals or missing persons
Shakith: one of the Carthaki gods of the underworld, she is the blind seer and the goddess who weighs things for their true value; thus, she is the goddess of justice, bankers, jewelers, and traders in gemstones.
sheeplings: Player slang: those who are born to be shorn of their money
Sign: the Sign against evil; an X intersected by a vertical line forming a star on the chest
sign: in a Hunt, an indication of the prey, such as a footprint; marks of urine, feces, or vomit; or pieces of clothing
silver/gold kiss: bribe
silver noble: coin equivalent to ten copper nobles
sing on: inform on
slubbering: slobbering, licking, or lapping
slumstew: liquid garbage
sommat: something
spintry: male prostitute
Stormwings: immortal creatures, banished before the Human Era. They had steel birds’ wings and claws and half-human heads and chests. They lived on fear and battle-killed dead; very nasty personalities
stripes: marks of the whip
sutler: their who takes good from shops or vendors’ stalls
swap __ for __: move up a grade as a Dog: For example, “wap leather (1-to-5-year insignia) for bronze (5-to-10-year insignia)”
swilled: drunk
swive: have sex
take someone over Breakbone Falls: administer a very severe beating
tarse: piece of meat
thumbscrew: vise that crushes the victim’s fingers or toes
ticklers: fingers
tightfisted: cheap
tosspot: drunkard
tread a measure: leave; take off
treats: bribes
trencher: “plate” cut from a stale loaf of bread, used to hold food
trollop: woman who is morally lax, usually sexually
trull: very low-class kind of woman; the dregs
turncoat: traitor
Tusaine: small country tucked between Tortall and Maren
twilsey: refreshing drink made of raspberry or cider vinegar and water
Tyra: merchant republic on the Great Inland Sea between Tortall and Maren. Tyra is mostly swamp, and its people rely on trade and banking for income
wander mage: mage who travels, picking up work here and there
wench: woman who is not the most respectable sort
went floppy: lost the will to fight