Emily Burns from Coventry, Rhode Island said her family is always coming up with new terms that they use among themselves. And now that she sent a few to us, I’m going to borrow some of them myself.
For example, the term bomple, B-O-M-P-L-E. What does that sound like to you, Grant? Bomple, B-O-M-P-L-E. It sounds like a contusion from when you bump your head.
Well, sort of. I mean, it’s said of fruit. Like you have a bag of apples and there’s a hole in the bottom and they fall and roll and bounce all over the place. They went bompling all over the place. So the apples have contusions as well. Onomatopoeic. That works very well. Bompling fruit falling out the bottom of a bag.
Yes. And then the other one that I’m going to borrow, and you probably will want to as well, is fribble. Any guesses?
Fribble.
That sounds like a breakfast cereal with the chocolate marshmallows.
It does, doesn’t it, Mommy?
For Emily’s family, fribble is when a cat vibrates the base of its tail. It’s fribbling its tail.
You know this notion, right?
Oh, yeah.
And what does that mean, a cat language?
That means something in cat language, right? Their body language?
I think it’s satisfaction or pleasure?
I think they like it.
The only actual term I could find for it was quivering.
But fribble works.
Yeah, that’s what I call my cat when she does it, my quiver tail kitty.
She’s just shivering with delight that something’s happening.
Fribbling.
Or be fribbling if you call us.
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