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Floofgesse (catfinition) – abundance of spirit in a cat; a cat’s generosity and liberal giving.
In use: “The cat’s floofgesse led her to bring presents to his person every day. Gifts included leaves, flowers, towels from the neighbor’s clothes line, and found treasure such as rubber bands and pieces of string”
Floof-eyes (catfinition) – Internet slang for a cat’s loving, enticing look, often accompanied with purring, and sometimes with kneading, or “making biscuits”.
In use: “She was on the edge of running late when her big Norwegian jumped onto the table in front of her and fixed his green floof-eyes on her. With a sigh, she began scratching his chin, accepting, she was going to be late. At least she had a good excuse, damn his floof-eyes.”
Catvuum (catfinition) – feline who eats fast and leaves the food bowl(s) empty.
In use: “She wasn’t a large tortoise shell, despite her reputation as a catvuum who would eat anything and everything.”
Ménage à floof (catfinition) – a domestic arrangement of two or more cats living in a loving and supportive relationship.
In use: “She’d always been a unifloofian because of Flash’s attitude, but Flash took to the two new fosters and a ménage à floof resulted.”
Floofalrous (catfinition) – characteristic, of, or relating to floof behavior; marked by subtle grace, watchfulness, and a pleasing nature.
In use: “With floofalrous movement, the small ginger tabby walked in through the open front door, looked around the room, and found a chair where he made himself comfortable.”
Do you ever listen to the start of Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion” and think that it sounds like a cat saying meow with a prolonged techno accent? Listen to the video and see if it doesn’t sound like, “Mee-oowww,” at about the seventeen second mark.
No? Is it just me?
If you have a cat, does it ever come up to you and give you a casual sniff, and then suddenly becomes alert, avidly and intently sniffing you for a minute before drawing back and giving you a look that asks, “What have you been doing?”
Yeah, disconcerting, innit?
Incataneous (catfinition) – a feline’s amazing ability to suddenly appear.
In use: “He’d been calling and looking for the cat for over four hours, when, incataneously, the cat rubbed against his calf.”
Today’s music is feline inspired. I swear I could hear my cat singing this when I went through my morning rituals. As I went from room to room and activity to activity, he tagged along. Sometimes he would lean against my leg when I stopped, but he also sat on my foot, or stopped and peeked around the corner. When I moved, he moved, following me around.
Here it is, courtesy of Tucker’s inspiration, Little Peggy March (which I had to look up) with “I Will Follow Him” from 1963.
Mewsing (catfinition) – a meowing noise a cat makes to make others wonder what the cat is thinking; people’s pondering about why a cat is meowing.
Michael Seidel, writer 