Elsie glossary

	A	B	C
1	Button word	What it means, probably	Date added

2	all done	I'm finished now or Stop it.
3	back	her back
4	ball	Actual ball or sometimes "bowl"
5	bathroom	Place word
6	bed	Place word
7	bedroom	Place word
8	before	Past tense
9	belly	her stomach
10	big	Large things or an intensifier (big sound)
11	bird	Actual bird or a nickname for a former foster cat or a duck flavored treat
12	bite	biting	7/30/2025
13	bored	Bored
14	box	A container OR an actual box
15	bug	Actual bug, Kitten, chase thrown kibble
16	bye	Leave the apartment
17	carrier	Her carrier
18	cat	cat
19	catnip	vegetal matter or a jar
20	Chairman	companion cat
21	choose	Pick from options or as a softer WANT or a request for two-hand choice or the cups game
22	coat	Her harness or a sweater. I usually hold up both. She'll sniff the one she wants.
23	concerned	concerned, worried
24	delicious	I like this
25	device	mechanical things like phones, automatic feeder. She also has an automatic toy
26	different	different or other or new (new word)
27	dog	Insult or actual dog
28	downstairs	Place word MIGHT be morphing into a word for underneath things
29	Eli	My nephew.
30	Elsie	Herself
31	fabric	anything fabric - clothes, blanket, laundry, curtains
32	Fancy seaweed	Teriyaki seaweed
33	feather	Play with the feather
34	Flounder	name of cat friend	10/5/2025
35	foods	wet food or someone eating
36	friend	She likes you!
37	frustrated	frustrated
38	gone	Place word for people who are not present
39	good	positive
40	Guppy	Guppy the dog
41	hair tie	throw or an actual hairtie
42	hallway	place word
43	happy	She's happy!
44	head	her head
45	Helix	Late friend
46	help	Use your human fingers to do a thing
47	here	The apartment
48	hi	Greeting or attention
49	hmm	This is a question, can go at end or beginning of sentence
50	home	the apartment
51	human	You and she's a little annoyed.
52	hunt	chase, hunt, look for
53	hurry	hurry!
54	I don't understand	She's confused or frustrated or wants you to clarify
55	is	Present tense or definition word or an emphasis word
56	Katherine	My niece OR her cats
57	kibble	her dry food
58	laser	Laser pointer
59	later	Later or I'm waiting
60	leg	legs
61	Let's go	Come
62	lie down	nap or lie down -- WARNING if she says this and you have a sandwich, she's planning to steal your sandwich.
63	litterbox	Curse word or sometimes actual litterbox
64	look	Pay attention
65	loud	Something is loud, Intensifier, or insult
66	love you	She likes you!
67	mad	She's frustrated and annoyed
68	Mary Robinette	Mary Robinette
69	more	More or do that again
70	morning	Morning or daylight
71	mouse	Actual mouse or nickname
72	new	new
73	night	Night or dark
74	no	No
75	now	Do it now
76	oops	a mistake has been made
77	open	Open something, usually the hallway
78	ouch	Pain or hurt feelings
79	outside	She wants her harness to go outside OR she wants us to open the catio
80	paper	Wrapping paper, sometimes a descriptor for papery things
81	paw	paws
82	pets	pets or "use your hands"
83	place	A generic word for rooms/cars/other locations
84	plant	Umbrella word for plants, but specifically for grass	10/3/2025
85	play	Play with her
86	please	polite request
87	Puzzle	The large white puzzle occasionally a synonym for hunt or used with a modifier for different puzzle types
88	quiet	Things are quiet now OR Please stop making noise
89	Rob	Rob
90	rude	Rude, I don't like it, This is very wrong
91	sad	Sad
92	same	same or "more like this"
93	scared	Scared
94	seaweed	Seaweed
95	sick	sick -- herself or someone else
96	sleepy	sleepy
97	small	Small in size, Just a little bit, OR kitten
98	smell	smell as verb or noun
99	snuggle	to nap or snuggle with a human
100	soon	A short time span, and she'll use it to mean either soon or recently.