Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Cat Talk Time

GEORGE

It's Cat Talk Time, everyone! (Thanks Zoolatry for the great idea)





All of us Crew members have been around The Cat Blogosphere for about 5 1/2 years now and we've learned lots of cat talk!! Here is just a small sample, in no particular order, along with the "human" translation. We can't wait to see everyone's lists!!

Squillion - An amount too large to count
Squillions & Virtual Squillions - An adopted ceramic cat from the "litter of squillions"
Green Wall Shelter - Walgreens, where the squillions lived before being adopted
Mancat - A male cat over a year old
Mancat in training - A male kitten under a year old
Mancatly - Anything very masculine
Hoo-has - Testicles
Hoo-ha-ectomy - Neutering
Girlcat or Ladycat - A female cat
Ladygarden-ectomy - Spaying
Whisker humps - Where your whiskers attach to your face
Frootbats - Large, pointy ears
Floof, floofy - Fluffy furs
Scritch, scritches - Scratches from a human, anywhere on your body
Art - What we create when we do something humans find undesirable, such as shredding paper, scratching furniture, spilling water or digging in plants
Fur Tan - Warming yourself in the sun
PTU - Prisoner transport unit (a cat carrier)
Blurpy - A baby human
Sticky person - A young human
Stinky goodness - Moist cat food
Biggify - Make bigger
Making biscuits - Kneading on your human
TH or THOE- Thundering Herd or Thundering Herd of Elephants, meaning running through the house making noise
Niptinis, Meowgaritas, Bloody Mousies - Drinks we have at parties


We hope everyone had fun remembering all our great words!

4 Comments:

At August 23, 2011 9:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's funny how some of those words have found their way into our vocabulary and we haven't even noticed!

 
At August 23, 2011 5:00 PM, Blogger Just Ducky said...

You have a great list. We only did the one word for Squillions and posted lots of our old squillion pictures.

 
At August 23, 2011 6:30 PM, Blogger Tommy and Teaghan said...

Oh we love dis list! It is really a guide to cat blogosphere speak. What is really weird tho is dat we are in da middle of writing a song parody and squillion was da werd and here it is rite at da top of da list! Whooaaaaaah. Fanks for thinking bout me to make mine beans feel better when I went on my little adventure. I'm not tellin where I went! Well, at least not today...
~Beau Beau

 
At August 24, 2011 3:35 AM, Blogger Teddy Westlife said...

They are great words! My mum even uses some of them now.

 

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