Diva Kitty & The Fluffies
oh and DKM – her food, crochet, knitting and stuff

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
  • 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 ShelterWalgreens
  • 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

15 Responses to “Terms & Glossary”

  1. How about some cat terms? Like a gizzy, and a hoohaectomy and stuff?
    Purrrrrs,
    Gree

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  3. hahaahahah!! Love the ladygardenectomy!! So funny!!!

  4. Snorgles! We need snorgles!
    Squillions (number)
    Squillions (kitties)
    DP Blogger
    There’s more, but I need a nap now.
    Purrs!

  5. stinky goodness!!!!
    nipped out!!
    fev-vers!!! (meaning fev-ver toys and birds!)

  6. Dingleberries! Poo stuck in fur on cat’s butt

  7. You forgot “making biscuits”

  8. Mommakitty emailed DKM a big long list of cat terms!

  9. this is brilliant!

  10. 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).

  11. 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.

  12. You need “The Superman” – Bunny stretched out with back legs straight behind, front paws either tucked or, even cuter, also stretched out. It’s Superman! No, better, it’s a relaxed bunny! We will save the world! After we awake….

  13. Whut about da werd “Squee” – whut does that mean?

  14. Great resource! *lol*


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