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English
Etymology
Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in the fictional language of High Valyrian featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).[1]
Interjection
dracarys
- (fandom slang) Used to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.
2020, Sarah Rees Brennan, Sabrina: Path of Knight, unnumbered page:Tiny lines of blue lightning wrapped around the silver rings on my fingers. Hellfire came to me so easily.
"Dracarys," murmured Harvey, and shot me a smile. "That's from a TV show. Just trying to be supportive."
- 2022, E. M. Snow, Malice, unnumbered pages:
- They're watching me like they expected me to start yelling “Dracarys” and torching random buildings, even though they've no proof that I did anything wrong and the source of the fire is still under investigation.
2022 April, Jonny Lieberman, “Attempt To Tame The Most Ferocious Pagani Yet”, in Motor Trend, page 37:The starter whirls for what seems like 15 seconds and then, Dracarys, the fire spitter behind your head starts howling.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dracarys.
Verb
dracarys (third-person singular simple present dracaryses, present participle dracarysing, simple past and past participle dracarysed)
- (fandom slang) To burn or destroy.
2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35:It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.
2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 90:What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch
2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page:On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.
References
- ^ David J. Peterson (2013 April 22) “Sesīr Urnēbion Zȳhon Keliton Issa”, in Dothraki: A Language of Fire and Blood, archived from the original on 25 April 2013:
[Scott E:] Even the historical latin word “draco” is what influenced the creation of the word “dracarys”.
Yes, which is one of the reasons why the word is so unfortunate. In the universe of the books, there is no such thing as the Latin language—or any of the other languages on Earth.