" ingenues "

 [ "ingenue" ]

1: A stock character in opera, theater, and literature. She is a girl or young woman who is endearingly wholesome and innocent. Very similar to the girl next door. She is generally portrayed as sweet, gentle, virtuous, beautiful, demure, with the wide-eyed innocence of a child and she is very often naive. She is often the victim of the libertine, whom she may have mistaken for the hero. Often she still lives with her parents, owing to her youth and naivete.

  * e.g.,  ... The ingenue includes the following characters: Joanna in Sweeney Todd 

 [ "ingenue" ]

2: She is usually the foil for the dangerously seductive femme fatale.

  * e.g.,  ... Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz 

 [ "ingenue" ]

3: She is often involved in a romantic subplot, usually with the boy next door and the romance is typically innocent and chaste.

  * e.g.,  ... Giselle in Enchanted 

 [ "ingenue" ]

4: The ingenue is typically played by a lyric soprano in opera and musicals.

  * e.g.,  ... Pollyanna 

 [ "ingenue" ]

1: A female character in drama or literature. She is a sweet, pretty, if somewhat naive, young woman. To our modern eyes, she's often seen as this meek little mouse.

  * e.g.,  ... Judy Garland's protrayal of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz is the epitome of an ingenue. 

 [ "ingenue" ]

2: The ingenue is played by a light soprano in opera or musicals.

 [ "Ingenuic" ]

1: A particularly creative thing or person

  * e.g.,  ...  Wow that person is really Ingenuic! 

 [ "ingenuous" ]

1:  Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; artless. Openly straightforward or frank; candid. See Synonyms at naive. Obsolete Ingenious.

  * e.g.,  ... Being very dull and stupid, Bob was a very ingenuous man. 

 [ "ingenuous" ]

2: Etymology

 [ "African ingenuity" ]

1: Black excellence, original, creativity, imagination, innovation, and inventive.

  * e.g.,  ... African ingenuity built the pyramids by being able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects. 

 [ "Stoner Ingenuity" ]

1: The creative effort stoners put into the development and construction of various smoking devices. Without Stoner Ingenuity we would not have apple pipes or gravity bongs.

  * e.g.,  ... "Dude, I just made a pipe out of a tampon and some tin foil!" 

 [ "redneck ingenuity" ]

1: When a self proclaimed redneck builds or does something ridiculous

  * e.g.,  ... That truck right there has some redneck ingenuity in it! 

 [ "Ingenuity Helicopter" ]

1: Ingenuity is a helicopter that is in Mars collecting data and information about the planet from above. Part of the space agency's larger Perseverance mission, Ingenuity has been tasked with going on short flights to collect additional data to help the Perseverance rover chart its path across the planet. Ingenuity has officially flown for 104 minutes through its 57 flights, translating to roughly 13,130 meters traveled or just over eight miles. The helicopter has, by all measures, surpassed the expectations of researchers working on the mission. While Ingenuity has been collecting data from the air, Perseverance has been collecting soil samples on the ground.

  * e.g.,  ... NASA: We sent the ingenuity helicopter to Mars and took information and pictures from above. 

 [ "Afro Ingenuity" ]

1: The act of repairing something in any way possible, demonstrating the thinking of a black man. See: nigger-rig

  * e.g.,  ... A little Afro Ingenuity and a bent coat hangar kept Toby's tailpipe from dragging on the ground. 

 [ "gastro-ingenuity" ]

1: Unique and unusual combinations of ordinary foods that delight and tantalize the olfactory and taste receptors. The term was coined in San Francisco, California.

  * e.g.,  ... Ezra's gastro-ingenuity was demonstrated when he combined bacon and calamari to the delight of his tastebuds and olfactory receptors.