Terms & Glossary

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
• Reepurrter - A Cat Blogsphere Reporter, like KC!
• 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