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New Day Cafe: Wednesday Whimsy [1]
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Date: 2025-07-16
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In my weird family, we have a name for that floppy flap of skin that cats get after they’ve been spayed/neutered and get a few years on them. My beloved Siamese got his early. Shadow only got his last year.
We call that hangy down flap of furriness their “flapdoodle.”
Turns out “flapdoodle” is a real word!
Flapdoodle , “nonsense; bosh,” is a colloquialism that first appeared in print in 1834 along with a definition: “It's the stuff they feed fools on.” Flapdoodle has no reliable etymology; the meaning of flap is pure conjecture, but some scholars suggest that doodle has its archaic sense “a fool, silly person.”
Another word we use fairly often is “cockywampus,” our version of cattywampus. I have no idea why we say one and they say the other. We are a peculiar bunch!
Cattywampus . Originating in the Colonial United states and still used in the deep South, cattywampus means something that is in disarray, that is askew, or something that isn't directly across from something
We also say “ cocksided ” for something that isn’t entirely on the level. I am being a good girl and not making those jokes. I’m thinking them, but I’m not making them!
And in my travels, I found: psithurism a noun meaning a rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration. Standing in the glade I heard a quiet psithurism, just straddling the line between music and noise. x x YouTube Video ,
What’s on your mind this morning?
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