"Kittehs" and other cat-generated neologisms?

[dressagetraks]

I must be an anomaly. (Well, I already knew that, but . . .) I don’t have any special neologism cat terms that come to mind, nor special cat term spellings. I don’t even call them “Kittehs.” I occasionally use the standard and age-old “kitty, kitty” call outside for the barn cats, but I’m equally likely to simply use their names even when calling outdoors, such as “Emily!” They know and respond to those.

My general habit is to address cats by name. There have been a few basic nicknames in life, but those have been rare and have been derivatives of the actual name, as you would a person. For instance, Rubato is “Ruby.” I can only remember one non-name-based cat nickname in my life; Sabra, my first Siamese, was occasionally referred to as Smidgen, a description Mom gave her. But we called her Sabra as much and in fact more, saving Smidgen for times when the topic was her petiteness. I can picture Rosalind’s offended glare now if I ever tried to call her “Rosy” or something, let alone “Stinky.” Kind of like addressing Queen Victoria as “Vicky.” It simply wouldn’t be done.

However, I do love the term antimacatsar.

[spotted_draft_x_fill]

My younger cat’s nickname is little shit. It suits him well. Destroyer of blinds, kitchen remodeler, terrorizer of the dog, handyman (3rd time he disconnected the dryer hose), and this morning while zooming in the bathroom, he knocked the toilet paper into the sink and turned the hot water on.

[oliverreed]

What gets stuck on the longhaireds’ “pants” after an unsuccessful or semi-successful trip to the litterbox is referred to as a dingleberry.

[skyy]

Covered in kitteh

The way to avoid getting off the sofa and to get someone else to do something for you is to simply say “But I’m covered in kitteh!” Generally at my house, there’s never just one cat on your lap.

My daughter’s long haired cat leaves hair everywhere - big sticky clumps. She is responsible for “picking her cat off the floor” otherwise known as vacuuming the carpet.

[JoZ]

Oh it’s nice to know I’m in such good company!

At the farm, all cats are pittens. This is often said without pronouncing the T’s in the word. Best approximation I can do in writing is pi’ens.

There’s a dinner song called “it’s kitty dinnertime” to the tune of “it’s howdy doody time” which not only embarrasses me but dates me.

I am the practitioner of the best kitty bonding maneuver ever, which is officially known as the Big Kitty Stretch. It involves flipping the cat onto its back, on your lap, head toward your knees, hind feet toward your belly. Hands meeting under the cat between its shoulder blades – that’s key. I use my thumbs to massage the kitty’s armpit area and fingers between the shoulder blades till it relaxes and stretches its front legs as far as it can over its head. With experienced kitties, I can end the big kitty stretch by flipping them off of my lap in a big somersault. Newbies have to be eased out of it LOL. Now granted a truly feral cat can’t be placed in this position to start with, but I have taken some pretty wild cats and gently insisted, and it is like sedative and massage and hypnosis rolled into one.

I’m sure there’s more. The difficulty is in thinking of weird cats behaviors when they are so ingrained they’re no longer weird!

[mvp]

[QUOTE=skyy;7266739]
The way to avoid getting off the sofa and to get someone else to do something for you is to simply say “But I’m covered in kitteh!” Generally at my house, there’s never just one cat on your lap.

My daughter’s long haired cat leaves hair everywhere - big sticky clumps. She is responsible for “picking her cat off the floor” otherwise known as vacuuming the carpet.[/QUOTE]

“But I have a heavy cat on me!” was the phrase used in my childhood home. It was used for the same purpose and, as in your house, it always worked.

No vacuuming was done. That meant we had no words for cleaning up cat hair. And also, i was raised to be bigoted against long-hair cats. Perhaps I would have been more open-minded had my mother not been bigoted, too, against vacuums.

[_Teddy]

Lets see: nicknames
Miloe- bubby, bubs, mi mi(like my), miyo, miyo de bain(bathing suit), bubbles, kitten(though hes 12) and this one he will also come if you call him stupid (seriously) full name miloe jakob

Meeko- meeki, meeki moo, moo moo, boo, boo bam, now is bipolar old bat!(15 in dec) full name meeko simon

Moksha- mokie,stinky, mokie pokey, chi chi, chino, shoe shoe, shoe bear depends on the day which he wants me to call him by, if hes bad his full name moksha mango! But will always come if you say either want some? Or cheese! He and meeko have a 7th sense they are there if i take the grater out(god forbid they get non grated)

Now the non meezer-

Jingles- aka jingle bells, kitten minoue, nu nu, and when he pees where hes not supposed to pi$$ kitteh, also rage kitteh

We call all treats minoushe(from the french pounce treats) or noushies

[JJARAB]

Ours have lots of nicknames…
Luna - looners, loonie-noonie, noonies
Tonks - tonklets, badonkatonks, furry-cannonball, short-round
Bailey - peeps, peepers, the beastly baby (a la Gorey)
Lucky - luckimus, her meowjesty

OP - we also “pick up the extra cats and dogs” by vacuuming, lol

[lovey1121]

All new-to-me kitties are Leeda Keedees. Especially young leeda keedees are Eel Leed KeeDees, repeated with variations in timber and in a sickeningly smarmy voice I try not to think about.

[oliverreed]

[QUOTE=lovey1121;7269250]
All new-to-me kitties are Leeda Keedees. Especially young leeda keedees are Eel Leed KeeDees, repeated with variations in timber and in a sickeningly smarmy voice I try not to think about.[/QUOTE]

Aha - it’s YOUR fault! I picked up on this in another thread and cannot let go of it now. Leeda KeeDees.

[lovey1121]

[QUOTE=oliverreed;7269260]
Aha - it’s YOUR fault! I picked up on this in another thread and cannot let go of it now. Leeda KeeDees.[/QUOTE]

Excellent! But I warn you to make no eye contact with humans while you’re Leeda KeeDee-ing:winkgrin:

[oliverreed]

[QUOTE=lovey1121;7269513]
Excellent! But I warn you to make no eye contact with humans while you’re Leeda KeeDee-ing:winkgrin:[/QUOTE]

My husband does not get this phrase AT ALL. But he already thought I was nuts.

[_Teddy]

Oh remembered more for moksha- chewbacca, bacca, bacca bear

My sister started my family calling them nuffins

[mvp]

[QUOTE=Teddy;7269987]

My sister started my family calling them nuffins[/QUOTE]

Weird.

And weirder still:

The one batch of illicit kittens born to our family were called “the hatchets.”

Here’s the etymology.

1. From a Bugs Bunny Cartoon, “Batten down the hatches!” Daffy Duck says “They are battened down!” Bugs: “Well, batten 'em down again, we’ll teach those hatches.”

2. My sister and I said that all the time, but I don’t know why.

2a. We screwed up “hatches” and “hatchets.”

3. Pretty soon, anything you wanted to emphasize was called a “hatchet.”

4. Clearly the new kittens were going to be called hatchets.

[_Teddy]

[QUOTE=mvp;7270323]
Weird.

And weirder still:

The one batch of illicit kittens born to our family were called “the hatchets.”

Here’s the etymology.

1. From a Bugs Bunny Cartoon, “Batten down the hatches!” Daffy Duck says “They are battened down!” Bugs: “Well, batten 'em down again, we’ll teach those hatches.”

2. My sister and I said that all the time, but I don’t know why.

2a. We screwed up “hatches” and “hatchets.”

3. Pretty soon, anything you wanted to emphasize was called a “hatchet.”

4. Clearly the new kittens were going to be called hatchets.[/QUOTE]

Lol! Believe it derived from “nothings” haha she tries hard to be anti kitteh but fails, the kittehs see through it(though they like to crap and barf in her room specifically if they dont feel well)

She has bad cat allergies so they like to sleep in her bed on her pillows when shes not home or lick her till hives appear! But ive seen her let mokie and meeko cuddle her, dont blame her about not letting jingles( he is add to max will attack your hair ect) im working on him but hes under a year and solid 10+lbs of not fat and cuddling my chest with my asthma after 5 mins breathing gets fun but he doesnt get it!

Miloe is my baby fully so wont generally cuddle anyone but me

Mvp what does one do about meezer dementia? My god its hard

[chestnutmarebeware]

[QUOTE=JoZ;7268700]
Oh it’s nice to know I’m in such good company!

At the farm, all cats are pittens. This is often said without pronouncing the T’s in the word. Best approximation I can do in writing is pi’ens.

There’s a dinner song called “it’s kitty dinnertime” to the tune of “it’s howdy doody time” which not only embarrasses me but dates me.

I am the practitioner of the best kitty bonding maneuver ever, which is officially known as the Big Kitty Stretch. It involves flipping the cat onto its back, on your lap, head toward your knees, hind feet toward your belly. Hands meeting under the cat between its shoulder blades – that’s key. I use my thumbs to massage the kitty’s armpit area and fingers between the shoulder blades till it relaxes and stretches its front legs as far as it can over its head. With experienced kitties, I can end the big kitty stretch by flipping them off of my lap in a big somersault. Newbies have to be eased out of it LOL. Now granted a truly feral cat can’t be placed in this position to start with, but I have taken some pretty wild cats and gently insisted, and it is like sedative and massage and hypnosis rolled into one.

I’m sure there’s more. The difficulty is in thinking of weird cats behaviors when they are so ingrained they’re no longer weird![/QUOTE]

Wow! I think we’re the same person…although I was a few years behind the “Howdy Doody” era!

My cats have been Pittens for year and years, although I do pronounce the “t”.

And I thought I was the only one who does “Stretchers” on the pittens. Did it to annoy one cat who was lying on my lap, and found that not only do they seem to enjoy it, but almost any cat will happily perform Stretchers on the first attempt!