Post by Gale on Jul 2, 2009 13:02:34 GMT -5
Taken from Erin Hunter's The Warrior's Field Guide: Secrets of the Clans, but slightly changed to better suit this dream's setting. This is a list of common expressions and phrases used by Clan cats; their terminology.
Crow-food: rotten or rotting food
Weasel dung: the normal case woudl be "fox dung," but since there are no foxes, it was replaced with "weasel"; an insult, stronger offense than mouse-brain
Fresh-kill: recently killed prey
Gatherings: a meeting that the Clans hold in peace at every full moon (in our case, every other week)
Greencough: severe chest infection, which can be fatal in elders and young kits
Greenleaf: summer
Halfbridge: a dock
Leaf-bare: winter
Leaf-fall: fall/autumn
Loner: cat that lives peacefully on its own in one place but doesn't defend its territory
Moonhigh: the time of night when the moon is at its highest--often midnight
Mouse-brained: not very smart
Mouse dung: an insult; stronger than mouse-brain, but less offensive than weasel dung
Newleaf: spring
One moon: one month (see the thread Aging in Moons for more information)
Rogue: a potentially hostile cat who lives outside the Clans and never spends too long in one place
Sharing tongues: term used to describe grooming each other
Silverpelt: the sky; the Milky Way
Sunhigh: noon
Whitecough: mild chest infection
I understand that there is absolutely no reference to humans other than "halfbridge"; this is because the dream is set pre-civilization, and because the other people who settled in Hawaii haven't quite settled yet. Visiting. :3
Crow-food: rotten or rotting food
Weasel dung: the normal case woudl be "fox dung," but since there are no foxes, it was replaced with "weasel"; an insult, stronger offense than mouse-brain
Fresh-kill: recently killed prey
Gatherings: a meeting that the Clans hold in peace at every full moon (in our case, every other week)
Greencough: severe chest infection, which can be fatal in elders and young kits
Greenleaf: summer
Halfbridge: a dock
Leaf-bare: winter
Leaf-fall: fall/autumn
Loner: cat that lives peacefully on its own in one place but doesn't defend its territory
Moonhigh: the time of night when the moon is at its highest--often midnight
Mouse-brained: not very smart
Mouse dung: an insult; stronger than mouse-brain, but less offensive than weasel dung
Newleaf: spring
One moon: one month (see the thread Aging in Moons for more information)
Rogue: a potentially hostile cat who lives outside the Clans and never spends too long in one place
Sharing tongues: term used to describe grooming each other
Silverpelt: the sky; the Milky Way
Sunhigh: noon
Whitecough: mild chest infection
I understand that there is absolutely no reference to humans other than "halfbridge"; this is because the dream is set pre-civilization, and because the other people who settled in Hawaii haven't quite settled yet. Visiting. :3