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Any change from the original source material to its adaptation, be it a new character, a new scene, a new location, a character performing a different action than they did in the source material, a new/different/changed plot or subplot, etc. Usually from books to film or television but may apply to any adaptation that is not a reboot and instead simply alters some of the source material.
Ros on Game of Thrones is shownly as she is not in the A Song of Ice And Fire book series.

Will is shownly a working songwriter on the TV show and not the book or movie versions of About A Boy.

The sponsor gifts coming with notes from Haymitch is shownly in The Hunger Games.

The romance between Grey Worm and Missandei is shownly.
shownly by iamthedriving June 2, 2014
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(pl. shownlies) someone who is a fan of an adaptation, but has not interacted with the source material
Oh, no spoilers! Jim's a shownly; they haven't gotten there yet.

Shownlies tend to think Littlefinger is clever; in the books that idea isn't present.
shownly by anonymous June 12, 2023
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Showlyn is a beautiful intelligent young lady. She's very musical and artistic. She is not one to be of the norm, she prefers to be unique and a loner. Although she does enjoy the company of her family and listening to 5 sounds of shit (5 seconds of summer). She hopes to someday be the invented of spurtle soup.
I sure would like to meet the Showlyn that invented this Spurtle Soup!!

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026