Walkway Glossary

**Welcome to Walkway's glossary! You can find terms felines may use to describe things in case you do not understand them. Feel free to use these terms during roleplay!**

## **Place Terms**

**Two-leg camp/nest**- A human house

**Two-leg hut**- A human shed or small human-built structure

**Halfbridge**- A boat dock

**Chicken Field**- A farm. Usually called this for their delicious, plump chickens

**Dark trail**- A road. Called this for its dark color and horrid acidic scent

**Twolegplace**- Town or village

## **Twoleg Terms**

**Cutter**- Veterinarian

**Monster**- A human car

**Silverthorn**- Barbed wired

**Soft boulder**- A pillow or cushion

**Tree devourer**- A bulldozer

**Two-leg kit**- A human child

## **General Terms**

**Crowfood**- Dead prey that has begun to rot.

**Fresh kill**- A piece of prey that has recently been killed and is ready for consumption.

**Kittypet**- A domesticated pet cat. Also used as an insult to one who is soft.

**She-cat**- A female cat

**She-kit**- A female kit

**Tom**- A male cat

**Tom-kit**- a male kit

**Snowmelt**- Describing dirty, slushie, melted snow

## **Time Terms**

**New-leaf**- The season of spring

**Green-leaf** - The season of summer

**Leaf-fall**- The season of fall

**Leaf-bare**- The season of winter

**Moon**- About a month

**Half-moon**- About two weeks

**Quarter-moon**- About a week

**Sunrise**- One day

**Heartbeat**- A split second

**Moonhigh**- Midnight

**Moonrise**- When the moon rises

**Sunhigh**- Noon

**Sundown**- Dusk

**Sunup**- Dawn

## **Distance Terms**

**Fox-length**- About a yard

**Kittenstep**- About an inch/half an inch

**Tail -length**- About a foot

**Rabbit hop/Rabbit length**- About a foot and a half

**Mouse-length**- About two or three inches

**Pawstep**- Roughly six inches

**Tree-length**- About 40-50 feet

## **Phrases and Insults**

**As easy as swallowing a minnow**- Indicating the easiness of a task

**As much use as a dead fox**- A harsh insult meaning the recipient is useless

**Bees in your brain**- An exclamation meaning a cat is crazy or not making sense

**Crowfood**- A harsh insult comparing a cat to rotting prey

**(You're) crazier/madder than a fox in a fit!**- An insult used to describe how crazy a cat is acting

**Doesn't matter a whisker/Doesn't catch so much as a whisker**- An exclamation meaning a cat does not care.

**Dormouse**- A cat who sleeps a lot

**Drypaw**- A cat that dislikes getting wet

**Dungface**- A harsh insult

**Featherbrain**- Equivalent to mouse-brain

**Fishfur**- A harsh insult

**Fishface**- A harsh insult

**Fishbrain**- A harsh insult

**Flea-brain**- An insult that can be taken as friendly or as harsh, depending on the tone of voice

**Foxbreath**- A harsh insult

**Fox-dung**- A harsh insult/exclamation, similar to "*Darn-it!*"

**Fox-hearted**- A harsh insult

**Frog-dung**- A harsh insult/exclamation, similar to "*Darn-it!*"

**Furball**- An insult that can be taken as friendly or as harsh, depending on the tone of voice

**Fuzz-brain**- An insult that can be taken as friendly or as harsh, depending on the tone of voice

**Good gods!**- An exclamation to express surprise or anger. Similar to "*Oh my god!*"

**Hare-dung**- A harsh insult/exclaimation, similar to "*Darn-it!*"

**When hedgehogs fly**- An exclamation that shows disbelief that a certain event will occur, somewhat like the phrase "*When pigs fly!*"

**I don't give a mousetail/They wouldn't give a mousetail**- An exclamation meaning a cat does not care.

**I'd have shredded you into mousedust!**- Meaning a cat was frightened by a cat/to gravely injure

**Minnow-brain**- An insult that can be taken as friendly or as harsh, depending on the tone of voice

**Mouse-brain**- An insult that can be taken as friendly or as harsh, depending on the tone of voice

**Mouse-dung**- A (somewhat harsh) insult that can be taken as friendly or as harsh, depending on the tone of voice/exclamation, similar to "*Darn it!*"

**Mouse-hearted**- An insult that describes a cat as cowardly

**Mousefodder**- An insult that describes a cat as worthless or a kittypet

**Once a kittypet, always a kittypet!**- A harsh insult that describes a feline's kittypet roots

**(Only) the Gods know (what)**- Sometimes used to answer a question that is impossible to answer.

**Pain in the tail**- An insult meaning a cat is irritating or lazy

**Scaredy-mouse!**- A similar expression to scaredy-cat, referring to a cat easily frightened

**Scaredy-sparrow!**- Similar to the term "scaredy-mouse"

**Snake-hearted/heart**- Similar to the term "fox-hearted/heart"

**Snake-tounge**- An insult meaning a cat is cold or unfair

**Sorry catches no prey**- Means cats can be sorry, but that will not change the past.

**Sorry fills no bellies**- Same as "Sorry catches no prey"

**For the love of the God's kits!**- An exclamation expressing irritation or surprise

**Toad-brain**- similar to mouse-brain

**What in the God's names?!**- An expression similar to "*What on earth?*"

**That's a load of badger droppings/dung!**- A harsh exclamation meaning something is nonsense

**Thistles and thorns!**- Used to describe bad luck (ex. *Thistle and thorns! I blew it!*) similar to "*Darn it!*"

**You fight/hunt like a kittypet!**- An expression used to insult or tease a cat who fights/hunts badly

**Who ruffled their fur?**- A similar way of saying "*Who got under their skin?*"

**Rabbit-brain**- Similar to mouse-brain

**Bat-blind**- An insult to a cat's eyesight

## **God Terms**

**Brax**- God of death

**Serenity**- Goddess of life

**Ezra**- God of love

**Kona**- Goddess of Earth

**Tyke**- Goddess of weather

**Alta**- Goddess of prey

**Samal**- God of medicine

**Zyon**- God of war

**Abran**- God of peace

**WIP**