#dracula dictionary

[dracula-dictionary]

Dracula Dictionary, July 24th - Addendum

"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out. Mind, I don't say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn't in my time. They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's an' drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them—even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk.":

I wouldn't worry about them, miss. Those are tired stories. I'm not saying they were never true, but I am saying they haven't been true as long as I have been alive. They're good for tourists, but not for a nice young lady like you. The tourists from York and Leeds that are always eating cured herring and drinking tea and looking to buy cheap gemstones would believe anything. I wonder who would bother with telling lies to them - even the newspapers, which are full of nonsense.

"I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em; an', miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock.":

I must be going home now, miss. My granddaughter doesn't like to be kept waiting when dinner is ready. It takes me a long time to get up the stairs because there is so many of them; and, miss, by this time I am already very hungry.

#the phonetically written sections are so incomprehensible to me that i've decided to just fully write them out once i piece them together #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula dictionary #24 july #dracula daily 24 july #dracula dictionary 24 july

[ratsetflummi]

dracula dictionary june 17th

"as I was sitting on the edge of my bed cudgelling my brains" cudgel one's brains: To try very hard to comprehend, solve, think of, or remember something

"I heard without a cracking of whips" without: here: outside

"and saw drive into the yard two great leiter-wagons" leiter-wagon: from german Leiterwagen (ladder wagon): a wooden wagon with side walls that resemble ladders

"but just then the "hetman" of the Sz[**]ny came out" hetman: ukranian version of ataman, related to german Hauptmann (leader): the elected chief of a Cossack village or military force sz**ny: a slur for romani people

#if you want to know what the actual slur is that you shouldn't use you're gonna have to look in your email i guess #i have been told that i must never ever write it out even for educational purposes #and if you want to filter that word out... sorry but the person in the replies says that you should get fucked #dracula daily #dracula dictionary #nobody technically asked for this #but i did see some people in the tag wondering what some of these words mean #and there was some confusion about words and phrases in previous entries too #so i might make dracula dictionary a recurring series

[dathen]

Jonathan flipping through his little pocket dictionary as people point at him while chattering about satan and werewolves: Duolingo didn’t cover this vocabulary :(

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #love his little polyglot dictionary #imagining his face each time he arrives at a word he’s looked up and it’s yet another satanic spooky thing

[immediatebreakfast]

Oh.

#Does someone has a dictionary? #dracula daily #dracula

[bellasbookclub]

Reccer Spotlight: Eden!

The Essex Serpent

The Lord of the Rings (series)

Dracula

Frankenstein

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Eden's recs include classic horror, historical fiction, and high fantasy. Full text available in their tab of the Bella's Book Club Summer Reading '23 Reclist!

more info on BBC Summer Reading 2023

more Reccer Spotlights

#summer reading challenge #summer reading #booklr #book club #bella's book club #book recs #reccer spotlight #the essex serpent #lotr #the fellowship of the ring #dracula #frankenstein #the dictionary of lost words

[ghcstofutopia]

bram stoker can you use the word voluptuous one more time in these entries today i don't think i quite caught it the fourth time

#dracula daily #dracula #stoker fucking sweating flipping through a dictionary for words that mean Sexy:

[the-defiant-fluffball]

Jonathan stealthily checking his polyglot dictionary of eastern European languages and regional dialects, colourised:

#like idk how many of you have used paper dictionaries #but a pocket edition for a single language in 2003 was like 10 phones thick and printed in the smallest font on the thinnest paper ever #I really want to know what a polyglot dictionary from the 1800s looked like #was it just a list of English words followed by words of the same meaning in other languages #dracula daily

[peraltuki]

*anything slightly inconvenient happens around Van Helsing*

Readers of Dracula Daily from the 2000, having a simple, less complicated understanding of english, when Van Helsing starts monologuing:

#dracula daily #CORN #IT'S CORN #🌽🌽🌽 #Get the old as time dictionary honey #Van Helsing is rambling

[aspiringhorrorauthor]

Just saw someone describe Mister Swales’s accent as Scots. Lord help me

#*deep breath in* he lives in Yorkshire I’ll give you three guesses as to what accent he has #There’s overlap sure but if you use a Scot’s dictionary on a Yorkshire/northern accent you’ll get mistranslations #Dracula daily

[murderless-crows]

as someone who is not from the US, seeing Quincey was a mix between “yeah, that sound about right” and “i need a Rosetta stone for this part pls”

#tbh all the Victorian slang needs its own dictionary as well #the rest of the world: Quincey is the peak American rep #Americans: his yee-haws have yee-haws underneath wtf #dracula daily #lucy westenra #quincey morris

[sassymccoy]

i mean i needed to look this one up so if anyone out there also needed this i got you

#dracula #dracula daily #dictionary

[dracula-dictionary]

Dracula Dictionary, May 3rd

Bistritz: a city in northern Transylvania, Romania (called Bistrița in Romanian)

Buda-Pesth: a city in Hungary (which borders Romania) (modern spelling: Budapest)

Danube: the second-longest river in Europe

Klausenburg: German name of the Romanian city Cluj-Napoca, unofficial capital of the Transylvania region

"was not able to light on": couldn't find

Ordnance Survey: the national mapping agency for Great Britain

"queer dreams": (in this context) strange dreams¹

missal: book containing the prayers, important chants, responses, and necessary instructions for the celebration of the mass in the Roman Catholic Church throughout the year

"clumsy about the waist": having a wide waist, not wearing a corset

prepossessing: attractive or appealing in appearance, creating a favorable impression

Bukovina: a region that in modern times is split between the north of Romania and the south of the Ukraine

diligence: a public stagecoach, like a bus that's pulled by horses

¹the question of whether or not they were also homoerotic in nature remains unanswered

#¹the question of whether or not they were also homoerotic in nature remains unanswered #the footnote used to only be in the tags because i assumed that most people would see it in the dracula daily tag and not in reblogs #dracula daily #dracula dictionary #re: dracula #3 may #dracula daily 3 may #dracula dictionary 3 may

[ratsetflummi]

Dracula Dictionary May 31st

"and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit"      Memoranda: Written reminders Letter of credit: A letter from a bank allowing the owner to draw a stated amount of money from that bank, its branches, or other associated banks or agencies. (essentially an old-timey credit card)

"and I made search of my portmanteau and in the wardrobe" Portmanteau: A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments. Making search of something: Looking for something inside of it.

"The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and rug" Rug: Here: a piece of thick, warm fabric or fur used as a coverlet or lap robe.

#dracula daily #dracula dictionary #since there is no new email today #and since there was nothing to explain in saturday's email #here is the first retroactive dictionary entry

[fang11803]

Did anyone else want Johnathan to ask Dracula what the Fuck he was talking about in that last part of the May 8 journal entry?

#dr eggman voice #what the Fuck are you two talking about? #Dracula #it was a brick of text and i didn't want to drag out a dictionary AND Wikipedia

[senandikawiyata]

why is he such a mood

#Dracula Daily #Jonathan Harker #i also would like to perused my polyglot dictionary in order to know what the crowd talking about #this is just me and my dutch dictionary #trying to decipher tons of archives from colonial era

[skeletaldarling]

#bring this back #howd we literally get a plague do over and not use this everyday #im enraged #dracula sneeze #dracula #vampire #vampires #dictionary #good words #good terms #post