Definitions by Snapper2001

Teleserye 

Teleserye is a filipino word for a typical tv series intended to be for serious minds, but which comes off as being filled with narm to many people who aren’t grannies.

Even though Teleseryes are Filipino tv shows from any genre, The typical Teleserye is like a Mexican telenovela but with more cheesecake animesque fanservice.

Teleserye by Snapper2001 November 23, 2023

Sasa 

This is a common Kenyan greeting that means "What's up?" In Kenya’s English and Swahili based Sheng Pidgin.

Sasa, Daddy? Wait until Lupita’s dude honey comes home!

Sasa by Snapper2001 November 23, 2023

Seijin 

Seijin, which refers to humanoid aliens from space, means a ‘Person from the Stars’ in Japanese.

Ultraman is the most popular Seijin in both Japanese popular culture and the pop cultures of many nations in general.

Seijin by Snapper2001 May 15, 2023

Schlockbuster 

A Schlockbuster is something that is otherwise not a Mockbuster, but rather a schlocky Blockbuster; a film that is still low budget but charming and still very successful.

Asylum films, makers of Schlockbuster films such as Sharknado, has its writers produce full three act screenplays and then only film the third act.

Schlockbuster by Snapper2001 December 8, 2022

Notsnitsa 

In Slavic mythology, notsnitsa (Belarusian: начніца, romanized: načnica,1 Polish: nocnica, płaczka,234 Bulgarian: горска майка, ношно, romanized: gorska majka, nošno, Serbian: шумска маjка, бабице, ноћнице, romanized: šumska majka, babice, noćnice,5 Croatian: mrake, vidine, Slovene: nočnine, mračnine, Ukrainian: нічниця, romanized: nichnytsia,6 Russian: ночница, romanized: nochnitsa7), often referred in plural, is a nightmare spirit or demon that torments people and especially children at night.

Other names for notsnitsa in East Slavic languages include kriksy, plaksy, plachky, plaksivicy, kriksy-varaksy, kriksy-plaksy, night hag, night maiden.7

Notsnitsa by Snapper2001 October 1, 2022

Jungli 

Jungli is a Hindi word for North American English terms like Slacker, Get Wild and Something Fishy, which also refers to a person who lives in and dwells through a tropical forest (but particularly a seasonal Indian tropical forest).

A Jungli is a person belonging to the Indian jungle or being characteristic of an inhabitant of such a jungle. Mowgli seems to be the best known example of a fictional character being one.

Jungli by Snapper2001 May 11, 2022

Roroa 

Roroa is a colloquial Kenyan word for ‘talking’, which comes from a mixed Swahili-English pidgin called Sheng.

Johnny Weissmuller’s portrayal of Tarzan, itself a distinctive character in his own right, did not do as much Roroa as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s original character of the same name.

Roroa by Snapper2001 April 10, 2022