Terms & Glossary 25-October-2006
General Terms
- DK - Diva Kitty AKA Sophia
- DKM -Diva Kitty’s Mom
- Snorgle - From Cute Overload - Snort + Snuggle. Summarizes the situation when you moosh your face into a fuzzy wuzzy smoochie wiggle and make googoo noises.
- ‘Tocks - Also from Cute Overload - Simply put, it’s short for Buttocks
Bun Terms
- Binkie/Binky - Big leaps and twists are made by really happy and silly bunnies.
- Snausaging - Lounging in a stretched out position, feet underneath, but not tucked.
- Spintop - A specialized binky, using the front paws as the axial and whirling the body around in mid-air.
- Swabe - Bunny-speak for “slave” [what you are].
- Embunned - Surrounded by buns
- Lagomorph - Another name for a rabbit. Hares and pikas are also lagomorphs.
- Kittens/Kits - Newborn rabbits
- Bucks - Grown male rabbits
- Does - Grown female rabbits
- Crepuscular - Rabbits and other animals that sleep during the day and night and play at dawn and dusk
- Warrens - Rabbit underground tunnels
- Chinning - Buns rubbing with their chin marks their territory and says ‘All mine!’
- The Flop - Buns stretched out and relaxed means ‘Leave me alone, I’m relaxing here!’
- Nose Bumps - Little kisses and nose rubs means ‘I like you a lot!’ and ‘You’re my best friend’.
- Bunny Purr - When buns lightly grind their teeth because they are so happy
- Foot-flicking — Where a bun is unhappy and hops away while flicking their hind feet at you. Basically the Bunny Dis
- Doots - Bunny poops
Cat Terms
- A Gizzy - A unit of measurment, around 18 inches named after Gizzy
- Hoohaectomy - Nueter
- Ladygardenectomy - Spay
- A Full Monty - Lying on your back, sample
- A Monty Q - Lying like the Sphinx, sample
- Catifornia - California
- Snuggle - A cat (or bunny) sized blanket, sample
- Squiggle Worm - A crocheted worm, sample
- Meezer - A Siamese kitty
- Half Meezer - A Himalayan AKA a colorpoint Persian
- Tuxitude - When a Tuxedo kitty is snarky
- Tortitude - When a Tortie kitty shows sassy and irreverent attitude
- Squillions
- A squillion very large amount of something.
- A Squillion is also one of the litter from the Green Wall Shelter - click here for more information.
- DP Blogger - Dread Pirate Blogger. Used when Blogger.com goes down or won’t allow you to post pictures. A spin on the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride.
- Stinky Goodness - Wet cat food
- Crunchy Goodness - Dry cat food
- Nipped Out - Groggy kitties after a session with catnip, for help - click here
- Fev-vers - Feathers
- Dingleberries - Poo stuck in fur on cat’s butt
- Green Wall Shelter - Walgreens
- Attack of the Tabbies - a club or gang of tabby cats
- Beans - human beings
- Biggify - to make bigger
- Catango - feline tango, a very sexy feline dance
- Cationary - cat dictionary
- Catitude - cat attitude, the Proper Attitude
- Catizen - cat citizen
- Catolympics - Cat Olympics, founded by Beau
- Catonese - cat language
- Chattering - noise cats make when watching prey
- Chittering - noise cats make when watching prey
- Coats of Many Colors - a social club for all colors of cats
- Delectible niblet - treat
- Dingleberry - “butt poo” stuck in fur
- Floofy - fluffy, as in a very floofy tail
- Fluffy - rabbit or a furry animal
- Foofy - fluffy, as in a very foofy tail
- Furrginia - Virginia
- Gorgeous Gingers - a club or gang of ginger cats
- Gotchaday - adoption day, celebrated annually
- Grass eating monster - lawn mower
- Happy toes - knead with paws
- Having a mad - half hour going berserk chasing anything and nothing (may last any length of time
- Headbutts - a cat greeting or sign of affection
- Hide-i-ness - a state of hiding
- Hoo-ha-ectomy - neutering
- Hoo-has - testicles
- House Panthers - a club or gang of black cats
- Kitty crack - catnip
- Lassie Technique - running to the location of something in hopes the humans will get it
- Little blurpy thing - baby human
- Little sticky person - human child
- Little wafers - tiny children
- Loafing - sitting with feet curled under the body
- Make biscuits - knead with paws
- Meow - cat language
- Mericky - America, USA
- Monsters - huge large noisy machines run by beans
- Motor running - purring
- Neck thingy - collar
- Niptini - cat beverage, a favorite at cat parties
- Nooter - neuter
- Pancakeing - curling up in a ball
- Party-in-my-mouth - treat
- Poodin - cat
- Purr machine - going purring
- Purr thingy - cat thingy that purrs
- Purrthday - birthday
- Sandpaper kisses - kitty kisses with sandpapery kitty tongue
- Scritches - ear, neck, chin or other nice rubs and scratches
- Secret Paws - secret gift exchange started by DKM
- Singapurr - Singapore
- Skinny cutting monster - weed trimmer
- Squillions - a really really huge number
- Stinky goodness - moist cat food
- Sunspots - patches of sun to nap in
- Tasty delight - treat
- Telerport - teleport, mode of transportation to cat parties n such
- Thundercats - running up and down stairs loudly
- TLO - two legged one, human
- Treatsies - cat treats
- Tub hockey - hockey played in the tub
- Tub soccer - soccer played in the tub
- Tuxedo Gang - a club or gang of tuxedo cats
- Whiskonsin - Wisconsin
- Wildlife watch - bird watching, may also extend to watching other critters
- Woofies - dogs
- Zwei-noodle - two cat lap sit



















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hahaahahah!! Love the ladygardenectomy!! So funny!!!
Snorgles! We need snorgles!
Squillions (number)
Squillions (kitties)
DP Blogger
There’s more, but I need a nap now.
Purrs!
stinky goodness!!!!
nipped out!!
fev-vers!!! (meaning fev-ver toys and birds!)
Dingleberries! Poo stuck in fur on cat’s butt
You forgot “making biscuits”
Mommakitty emailed DKM a big long list of cat terms!
this is brilliant!
This is the best glossary I’ve ever read! I’m so glad you included “making biscuits,” though a friend of mine calls it “bubble gumming” (like her Mr.Murry’s paws are stuck in bubble gum).
Our tortie Clawsie also does biscuits in the air while lying on her back; we call that her “shadow puppets.” She usually does those only under the influence of “the ‘nip” (catnip).
The PM here, I loved your list of terms. Very funny and oh so true. Do you have a term for the large puff of furr under a bun’s chin? We always called it their gossle. I think it is more common with a little rotund bun.