Put a plate of milk in front of a cat, and you know that cat will catillate. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Catillate”
Here’s another limerick from the Omnificent English Dictionary in limerick form.
This is for the word catilate.
C-A-T-I-L-L-A-T-E.
My cat Hattie went out on a date.
With a tomcat she wanted to mate.
But she dumped him in truth because she found him uncouth.
He would catilate, lick off his plate.
She’s got a second verse here.
This bad habit on Hattie would grate.
As a purebred of highest estate,
She would never be seen licking dinner plates clean.
That’s the way she would say cattle ate.
Cattle ate.
That means to lick your plate?
Yeah.
Who knew there’s a word for that?
People who know really old Latin.
People who do that.
Yeah.
The uncouth.
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