Slang dictionary
sploot
[ sploot]
What does听蝉辫濒辞辞迟听mean?
Sploot is slang for the pose an animal, especially dogs, cats, and other four-legged pets, makes when it lies on its stomach with its hind legs stretched out back and flat. The term is especially associated with Welsh corgis and is used affectionately in the internet slang of DoggoLingo.
Pupper, smol, woofer, birb: make your DoggoLingo nice and chonky here.听
Where does sploot come from?
Sploot is part of a growing lexicon of DoggoLingo, which uses cute, deliberate misspellings and onomatopoeias like mlem, blep, smol, borf, and heckin to fawn over man鈥檚 best friend online鈥攁nd the many, many pictures and videos we post of them.
While the exact origins of sploot are unclear, lexicographer Grant Barrett of the A Way with 亚洲网紅露点s radio show has suggested that the term sploot may riff on the word splat to characterize the splat-like (flat, spread-out) appearance of a sploot pose. This wordplay mirrors other changes made to existing words in DoggoLingo, like the substitution of chonky for chunky.
Sploot is especially associated with corgis, a squat breed of dogs with very short legs. The use of sploot, as associated with pets, is evidenced by at least 2012. Similar terms for the same pose is frog-legging and frogging.
Prior to the popularity of DoggoLingo, 蝉辫濒辞辞迟听had occasionally been used as a slang term for … messy, wet bodily functions or excretions.
Examples of sploot
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听time to sploot for the night and chill.
Who uses sploot?
While听sploot is closely connected to corgis, other animals, from pet turtles to polar bears at zoos, can be described as splooting. As the previous sentence illustrates, sploot can be a noun for the pose itself as well as a verb for the act of听splooting.
Variations on sploot include side sploot (legs stretched to the side), half sploot (one leg stretched back), and reverse sploot (when the furry friend is lying on its back, not belly).
Due to the popularity of DoggoLingo terms,听sploot is even sometimes used for, say, when humans “veg out” or “crash” on the couch after a long day!
My Mom and Dad make a big deal when I lay like this, I have no idea why. They call it a 'sploot' or some such thing.
— Luna the Corgi (@luna_corgi)
I do the corgi sploot because I'm round and squishy. Come pet me!! 馃槝
— Toasty and Chunchun 馃悥馃悥 (@ToastyThePiggy)
I hav gone,, full sploot
— Maui Christmas馃巹 – Thank you Richard鉂わ笍 (@mistermauii)
While some animals听sploot to stretch or keep cool, veterinarians caution that in some instances, especially for large dogs, splooting听may be a sign of听hip dysplasia and need examination.
Sploot is still occasionally to represent various wet, gross, sticky things (think seagull droppings).
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of sploot like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of sploot that will help our users expand their word mastery.