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Floof-timing (catfinition) – to betray a cat by friendship or attention with another cat; to deceive a cat.
In use: “When she came into the house, her cat stopped short of greeting her to lean forward and sniff her pants legs. “Yes, I petted another cat,” she said. Giving her a hurt look, he turned his back on his floof-timing person and walked away, refusing to answer her when she called his name.”
Kafloof (catfinition) – to be utterly defeated by a cat.
In use: “Every time he sat down to type, his small black and white cat stretched out on his keyboard with a green-eyed look that asked, “What are you going to do now?” His answer was to sigh. He knew his goal to do some writing was kafloof.”
Flooftrap (catfinition) – means by which a feline captures humans, stops them from walking, or keeps them from moving.
In use: “Bo’s favorite flooftrap is to lay down on someone’s foot.”
Floof de suite (catfinition) – a feline demand for something right now, right away, or immediately.
In use: “Rising up on her back legs, she patted the woman’s leg and urgently meowed, demonstrating that she smelled the cat food and wanted it floof de suite.”
Floofbris (catfinition) – a feline’s exaggerated sense of what it can do because it’s a cat.
In use: “The big dog approached the tiny cat and gave a loud bark. Full of floofbris, the little gray cat put up its tail, hissed, and hopped forward and sideways toward the dog. Startled by the little feline’s advance, the dog jumped back, its eyes wide.”
Floofligence (catfinition) – the ability to learn or understand cats, often listed as floofligence quotient, which is also sometimes shortened to floof-q, or F.Q.
In use: “Thanks to being raised in a household where cats of all ages were fostered and socialized, his floof-q was among the highest that other people had ever witnessed, giving him a unique ability to empathize with cats and earning him the nickname, the Floof Whisperer.”
Floofacity (catfinition) – the quality or state of being feline.
In use: “Flash and Ashley ruled with such implacable floofacity, people’s worship of cats as deities was easily understood.”
Someone asks for the time. You look at a timepiece. It’s 10:28. Do you say, “It’s almost ten thirty,” “It’s ten twenty-eight,” “It’s about half-past ten,” or “It’s about ten thirty?”
Or do you say, “Zulu or local?”
