Her post inspired me to share some vocabulary words the dog people in my family use.
Vulturing: (Pamela also listed this word, so we'll start here; only she had a slightly different definition.) Verb; the stooped shoulders and glaring stance the dog assumes when you are in the kitchen and NOT filling her dinner bowl.
Ack-ack dog: Noun; a dog making hacking sounds indicative of the need to heave. Can also be used as an interjection, as in "Ack-ack dog! Quick, put him outside!"
Gazanablatz: Interjection; something that is said when a dog emits a huge, lip-fluttering, snuffling sneeze. (Can also be used for humans.)
Glack: Noun; the dog's ability to breath under blankets. "Sugar has amazing glack; she can sleep all night under the covers."
Devil-dog, aka FRAP, aka zoomy: Verb; when the dog races around (usually the house or yard) like a maniac
Groat: Verb; when the dog chews on his/herself noisily. "Please, no groating in front of company!"
Pupkus: Noun; dog drool and/or nose marks on the window. May also be found on sunglasses.
Furnado: Noun; a tornado of dog hair; usually occurs in the car when the windows are rolled down at high speed
Fluffectomy: Noun; medical procedure performed by the dog to remove all stuffing from a new toy
Got any words to add to the Dog Lovers' Lexicon?
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You have some good words there. I always enjoy some good groating when it is a real inopportune moment for Mom.
ReplyDeleteWe are familiar with many of these actions. Now we have the right vocabulary to use.
ReplyDeleteFurnado is definitely a word we need to use in this house
ReplyDeleteretro rover
LOL...Those are perfect. And some we can use around here.
ReplyDeleteBwwaa aaahaa we like furnado and fluffectomy!
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Mr Bailey, Hazel & Greta
My favorite from your list is definitely furnado! I rarely vacuum out my car, so the likelihood for a furnado is 100%! And it's always an F5!
ReplyDeletebahah this is great!
ReplyDeleteOur dogs go through zoomies for a half hour every evening ;)
ReplyDeleteSo fantastic! I had a pupkus on my glasses when I got to work this morning. Coco is always with me :)
ReplyDeleteI love them. We have pupkus on all our house and car windows and on the TV set. I guess i could wash them but they would only get pupkus on them again. I do perform my own Squeakerotomies though since that time one turned up missing.
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite is zoomies.
ReplyDeleteWe have a groater! Those are fun! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteGreat ones, I especially like the last three. Our dogs are experts at both fluffectomy and squeakerotomy.
ReplyDeleteI just switched from wearing contacts to glasses, and trust me, it's not just sunglasses that get pupkus on them! :)
I love your dog vocabulary! We might have to implement some of them into our own lexicon. We really don't have much in the way of dog vocab. Except that a dog sneeze is a snuff.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! That is a great list! We always face an "insnifftigation" when we come home from somewhere and smell like other dogs.
ReplyDeleteI got the box in the mail today! Thank you! We are very happy campers here! :D
Love these - I just expanded my vocabulary greatly!
ReplyDeleteLove your new words, I use ack all the time when training, to let the dogs know did did something wrong.
ReplyDeletePupkus and fluffectomy are my favorites!
ReplyDeleteGreat words Jackie
ReplyDeleteThough I sure don't do any Glacking, not with this big fluffy coat, I sure don't need a blanket! :)
I hope you're having a fun day,
Your pal Snoopy :)
Lol OK I have never heard some of those but love the "furnado"!
ReplyDeleteOMD! Gazanblatz! That should be in the OED fer shure.
ReplyDeleteI (play) bow down to the master. :)
Furnado - definitely have some use for that one around our house! Also, we call them squeaker-ectomies. lol
ReplyDeleteLove your words- too funny LOL
ReplyDeleteHaha hadn't heard of any of those! We use "snorfel" a lot...verb means sniffing. :)
ReplyDeletehello pooch smooches its dennis the vizsla dog hay it is important to ekspand wuns vokyabyoolary or so i am told!!! i wood add roaching wot meens wen us dogs roll arownd on owr baks with owr legs in the air and also brain cramp witch aparently is only a term vizsla peepul yooze to deskribe wen us vizslas run arownd in sirkles in the bakyard like loonatiks!!! i am not a hyoodj praktishuner of the brain cramp but i am told my departed brother tucker wuz a master of it wen he wuz yung!!! ok bye
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