 | adopshun - adoption; the act of adopting any animal and giving a loving home, kibble and occasional gushifud. | | akshully - actually | | awl - all | Awwww! - the cuteness is overwhelming and you must go "Awwww!"
| awn - on
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 | baf - bath; a much dreaded occurrence for da kittehs! Often used with, "DO NOT WANT!!!" | | bai - bye, most commonly used in, "kthxbai" | | basketcat - a cat who is on, in or around one or more baskets | | battreez - batteries | | Bearcat - a cat assumes the "bear" position; standing on back paws in an upright position with front paws extended or reaching. Mouth is usually open and da pointee enz (claws) are visible. Can be used to attack da hoomins leg, but most likely, something dangled by da hoomin, e.g., feather stick, string, etc. | | bedcat - a cat who can make a bed out of anything | | BFF - best friends forever, can also be "bffe" | | birf - birth, often used with: day or mark | | bizkits - Biscuits, the end product of da kitteh kneading a soft surface, e.g., hoomin belly (or udder fat area), cushionez, bed, etc. | | blargh - more severe form of "argh" which was adapted from pirate speak for, "Oh no!" or "Ow!" | | blind dates - not a good idea. | | blz - balls, most commonly used with har, as in harblz. Alternate spelling - bls. Can also mean play balls, as in, toys. | BOOM HEADSHOT! - The reaction to pwning newbs in a first person shooter game.
| | borked - broken | | boxcat - a cat in a box, which would akshully be most cats | | brb - be right back. | | buffay - buffet | bukkit - a container with a handle, usually blue. | | bunday - sunday | | bunneh - bunny | bunway airlines - Bunnies with extended ears prepped for lift off in order to transport critters to udder locations.
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| caek - cake; a large round (or other shape), sweet and yummy concoction that da hoomins make and/or eat...it iz covered with icing or frosting (kinda like da gravy in gushifud, but sweet!); used to celebrate Caturday | | camoflag - camouflage | | care-troll - see 'aerobics instructor/legal professional' above | | catloaf - first introduced by B. Kliban (RIP) in the 1970's in the book "Cat"; it is the state of a cat or kitten in which all the kitteh limbs are not seen and they look like a large, or small, meat loaf | | cat owner - a mythical term used to denote ownership of a cat by a hoomin; an archaic expression | | caturday - saturday; also known as a day when the cat is honored, adored, celebrated; a day observed by cats as their holiday | | CCC - Cyoot Crash Cart - a specialized vehicle with the required implements for treating the victims of a head splort, including, but not limited to, chocolate, hot beverages, duct tape, and blankets. | | cheez - Cheese, usually a mass or orange chemicular stuff made into a flat square to put on da burgers. | | cheezburger - the object of desire for all cats. the reason for the interweb's existance is to acquire a cheezburger. | | cheezburger not done yet - an animal known as a cow/bull | | cheezburglr - a cheez thief | | cheezmail - email received by the ICHC staff | ceiling cat - God of the lolcat bible and discrete observer of your personal habits. | | CHRG - Chicken Head Rubber Glove (with drawings awn it) - protection against the effects of head splorting. See doctors with exam gloves on head | cookie - a cookie; mostly a round, flat, sweet and yummy concoction that da hoomins eat too many of or dunk in da milk where it falls apart and kittehs use paws to halp da hoomins get teh tasty morsels. Kittehs have been known to make cookies for their hoomins on occasion, but seem unable to resist eating the cookie before presenting it.
| | cyoot - cute; alternate spelling, kyoot and qte | Cwistmus- the year when you get what u wantz |
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| da - sometimes used for "the" | | dawg - dog; canine; an animal often feared by kittehs, but sometimes friendly to and with kittehs | | dey - they | | dey see me rollin. dey haytin - a lyric from a song by Chamillionaire. | diabeetus - diabetes | | dignity - poise and self respect for da kitteh or, but I doubt this, da hoomin | | dis - this | | dogma - the established beliefs, principles and opinions of D-O-G-S | | do not want - kitteh does not want that which is being offered, most likely by hoomin; kitteh may feel strongly about the do not want, as in, DO NOT WANT!!1! | | do want - kitteh does want that which is being offered. Generally accompanied by an ecstatic facial expression and grabby paws. | | Dr. Tinycat - Teh cyootest kitteh in tiny green scrub suit! Very adept in use of CCC (see CCC) and head splorts. | | | |

| emocat - a cat laden with angst; a cat with a swoop hairstyle; a cat who shuts out the world to wallow in EMOtions | | endcat - will end you and all you love. | | | |

| fail - inability to accomplish set task | firefox impression cat - cat who is able to curl in the exact pose of the Mozilla Firefox logo; same coloring iz gud | | flavr - flavor | | floofy - descriptive term for the 'bigger boned' feline. eg "he doesn't eat too much gushyfud, he's just floofy" | | FTW - for the win | | fud - food | | F.U.R.S.T. - A word that is never said aloud or typed due to the jinx possibilities! F.U.R.S.T. is the "nawt sekkund" person (see "nawt sekkund"). They are the winner of the nawt sekkund post in the comments section under a new pic on ICHC. They are offered drinks (non-alcoholic), a dance and congratulations, especially by the sekkund person. A.K.A. furvest from last. | | furvest - furthest, as in "furvest from last", see F.U.R.S.T. | | fuxing ur perception - messing with your POV | | fwend - friend | | | |

| ginger - a derogatory term for an orange-furred lolcat | | goggie - see under 'dawg' | | goway - leave me alone | | Grabbity, The Law of - you see it, you grab it | | gravity - a fickle law which can be turned on and off. | | groshury day - day that teh hoomins go to teh groshury(grocery) store and buy da gushifud, da kibble and da treatz! Sometimes u can find da shrimpz and da tuna too. | | gud - good | gushifud - canned or yummy wet food, might be in plastic container or bag - must have gravy. Alternate spellings: gushyfud or gooshyfud.
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| hab - have | | hai - hi | | halp - help | happycat - a blue-gray cat known for his penchant for cheeseburgers | | har - hair, as in, harblz or harbls(see below) | | headcat - is just a head. | | harbls - hairballs. Neutered kittehs lack these. | | hooman - human; also may be spelled hoomin or hoomun | | Hooman owner - a cat; takes the place of teh archaic term - cat owner(see above); cats own hoomans and hab them do da bidding of da kitteh, especially in da opening of da gushifud cans | | | |
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| Jellik'l - hoomans hoo dress az kats to onor da kat an' Katurday, by purrformin' a play by da' titlez uv "Cats". kan also meen a hooman hoo iz a kat at hart, liek T.S. Elliot, hoo greatly onored da kat an' Katurday by tellin' uv summ famous historikall kats, az well az tellin' uvver hoomans how to proprly AdDress a kat. iz also spelled "Jellicle", and usuallee haz da wurd "Cat" after it, ex: Jellicle Cats come out tonight. | |
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| kitteh - kitty | | kittehloaf - see Catloaf | | kittyloaf - see Catloaf | | kthxbai - OK, thanks, bye! | | kyoot - cute; alternate spelling cyoot | | | |

lazr - laser. Kittehs have lazr eyes. | | liek - like | | lllbc: Last Lonely Little Brain Cell, condition that is a result of too many splorts (see below) | | lollerskates - laughing out loud... A LOT | | lolbunny - like lolcat(see below), but a bunny! | | lolcat - a domesticated feline fluent in lolspeak | | lolproposal - A means by which da hoomins are aided by kittehs in da proposal of marriage(to anudder hoomin!) on da interwebs, namely ICHC http://www.icanhascheezburger.com | lolrus - walrus or walrus-like mrine mammal, usually in search of a bukkit
| | longcat - a cat that is, or is perceived to be, long | | lurves - loves | | luv(s) - love(s) | | | |

| mah - sometimes used as my | | mai - my | | maispace cat - myspace cat | | meh - Most commonly used for "me", but also can be used as "pleh"(see below) when it comes to a situation that u nawt liek. | | moar - more | | monorail cat - a cat that is a position resembling that of a monorail car | | | |

| nao - now | | narnia - a mythical kingdom from a book-then-movie which you reach by going through a wardrobe(closet) | | nawt - not | | nawt sekkund - the honor of being F.U.R.S.T. in the comments section of a newly posted pic on ICHC. The sekkund person, the loser, must buy a round of drinks, non-alcoholic usually, and offer a dance. Congratulations are also sent to the winner, the "nawt sekkund" person for being "nawt sekkund" ! | | nekkid - naked, as in nude | nip - catnip
| | nom nom nom - the sound a cat (or any other creature) makes while eating | not so grate akshully - not so great, actually | | nudder - another | | | |

| O - oh | | omg - Oh my god! | | oh noes - oh no | | orange - poison, as in, da orange ones r poisonous! | | | |

pew pew pew - The sound the catguns make when fighting the enemies. It is a delicat sound that is needed for the cute kitties.
| | pikshers - pictures | | Pleh - sound of disgust or displeasure uttered when something falls short of required standard, usually foodstuffs | | Plz - please | | plz 2 - a polite lolcat's way of making a demand. ie, "plz 2 feed me" | | pointee enz - claws, especially when embedded in delicate areas of hoomin anatomy | | pooter - computer or laptop | | prolly - probably | | pron - porn, as in pornography | | purrito - kitteh is in or placed in a cylindrical type of clothingz or object, e.g., rug, sleeve, tube and looks like a burrito, but is a kitteh and therefore, a purrito! A purrito is NAWT for da eating! Eat da Burrito insteadz! | | Purrsday - Thursday or 2 days before Caturday | | pwn - own, e.g., to own, as in a first person shooter game, the newb is owned or pwnd by da nawt newb. Could have suffered a BOOM HEADSHOT! (see above, BOOM HEADSHOT!) | | | |

Qte - cute, see also kyoot or cyoot.
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| r - are | | rly - really | | roflcopter - rolling on the floor laughing... A LOT | | | |

| sekrit - secret | | sexshun - section | | sez - says | | sinkcat - A cat who loves to lie, sleep, sit, play or just be cyoot in da sinkz. | | skillz - skills, the ability of teh kitteh to accomplish things that a cat is not normally able to do | | snoffee - (verb) unfortunate incident which can occur when laughing at a lolcat whilst drinking coffee. frequently results in the distribution of second-hand coffee onto computer monitor and keyboard. | | snorgle - (verb) act of physical affection. involves the rubbing of face into the softest, warmest, fluffiest parts of a kitteh or other cute animal. can also be applied to the necks of hoomins to good effect. | | snorgle snorkel - equipment needed in order to avoid suffocation when the recipient of the snorgle is particularly fluffy, or when attempting to carry out a multiple snorgle, for example on a whole litter of kittens. | | spelling - something that has no clearly defined rules in lolspeak. As long as a world is phonetically understandable, you're doing fine. Common misspellings include but are not limited to th - f (fanks), th - d (dere), v - b (grabbity), s - z (cheezburger), y - ai (mai), o - u (buk), ... | | spiderpug - the peter parker of dogs. | | sploded - exploded | | splort - head explodes due to too much cuteness | | sqwrl - squirrel | | srsly - seriously | | staff - hoomins who choose to share their homes and lives with one or more kittehs | | sum - some | | sux - sucks, as in, "Dis job sux!" Teh kitteh no liek da job. | | | |

| teh - the | | tehm - them | | thumbcat - cats with thumbs; polydactyl cats | | thx - thanks | | trubble - trouble. Alternate spellings: trubl, trubbl, trublez (troubles). | | | |
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| Vet tek - accompanies "kittehs are porous" remarks in wet cat posts. Reference to this classic post. | | | |
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