Alternian-English Dictionary

An online logbook of canon Alternian words and their meanings.

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Obligatory Introduction Post

Oddly enough, the strange substitutes for random English words in common trollspeak cannot yet be found in one place on this gog-forsaken website.

Until now!

This is your resource for all canon direct word substitutions. Two rules:

1. All Homestuck canon counts. This includes pesterlogs, images, and flash games within the comic. This does not include any content produced after Act 7, as the mod does not consider this supplementary material canon in the same way.

2. Karkat’s made-up insults are not real words.

Here is a link to the Master List of Definitions for ease of navigation.

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Mighty Samson - art by George Wilson (1967, 1968)

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thermal hull

noun

English translation:

refrigerator

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004350

Trivia:

Eridan’s “thermal hull” is just full of shitty wands

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two wheel device

noun

English translation:

bicycle

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004243

Trivia:

Kanaya’s inclination to block him is well founded, as the slang term “village bicycle” is extremely rude

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rainbow drinker

noun

English translation:

vampire

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004223

Trivia:

in case you would like the page in which a rainbow drinker first appears, very awake and ready to kick some ass

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frond nub

noun

English translation:

tree

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004196

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sniffnode

noun

English translation:

nose

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004196

Alternate word:

cartilage nub

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ablution trap

noun

English translation:

bathtub

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004180

Trivia:

yet another example of the difference between “lowblood speech” and “highblood speech” (which is just plain English)

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thresher

noun

English translations:

fan

hatchet

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004078

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cluckbeast

noun

English translation:

chicken

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004072

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Fiduspawn

noun

English translation:

Pokemon

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004002

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Alternian slam poetry

noun

English translation:

rap

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004001

Trivia:

Tavros attempted to engage Dave in a slam poetry battle

the reader was spared the experience of Gamzee and Tavros’s rap battle, as it was one of the worst in the history of paradox space

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four wheel device

noun

English translation:

wheelchair

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004000

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communal hive stem

noun

English translation:

apartment building

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003994

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grubtube

noun

English translation:

plug (for a computer)

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003985

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hoofbeast

noun

English translation:

horse or pony

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003982

Trivia:

the mod finds it immensely funny that the first troll to type this word is not, in fact, Equius

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load gaper

noun

English translation:

toilet

First used: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003961

Trivia:

this provided the first instance of a difference between “highblood” and “lowblood” speech, in that the higher blood castes usually do not use these odd direct translations