Idletry glossary
verb, modifier, idiom, noun
species-related lingo
outie -- an arthropod, referring to their "skeletons" being on the "outside" of their bodies. neutral connotation; usually, in reference to phenotype.
exo -- an arthropod, referring to their exoskeletons. neutral connotation.
chitter -- an arthropod, referring to their chitin. pronounced phonetically, rather than like "chitin." positive, affectionate connotation.
leg -- an arthropod, referring to the fact that most have more than 4 legs. neutral to mildly positive connotation.
arthro -- an arthropod. can be used as an adjective, eg. "She's arthro," meaning, "she's an arthropod." neutral connotation.
invert -- an invertebrate. neutral connotation.
chitinoid -- a more formal term for arthropods used by arthropods. “invertebrate” inherently centers vertebrae as the default, which is not intuitive to arthropods. vertebrates still refer to chitinoids as invertebrates.
cryptochitinoid -- a more formal term for vertebrates used by arthropods. much like how "invertebrate" and "exoskeleton" assume interior vertebrae are the default, "cryptochitinoid" assumes chitinous exoskeletons are the default, and refer to vertebrates by their "hidden" chitin skeletons.
ptychopod -- the scientific term for vertebrates; a neutral counterpart to "arthropod" as a pair of terms that center neither vertebrates nor chitinoids as the default. as with how arthropods are named after their visibly jointed limbs, ptychopods are named after the folding shape their limbs make with their interior joints. ptychopod is pronounced "TIE-ko-pod."
tocho -- a vertebrate, shortened from "cryptochitinoid." pronounced "toe-koe." some people believe that tocho originated by combining the "to" in "cryptochitinoid" and the "cho" in "ptychopod," but it is an incorrect assumption. tocho was formed using the typical -o suffix used in nicknames and more informal language. neutral connotation.
backie -- a vertebrate, referring to their spines. neutral connotation to positive.
spino -- a vertebrate, referring to their spines. neutral connotation.
softie -- a vertebrate, referring to their lack of a hard exoskeleton. positive, affectionate connotation.
skella -- a vertebrate, referring to their skeletons. arthropods do not view their exoskeletons as skeletons or analogous to skeletons. neutral to mildly positive connotation; often used like "fella."
innie -- a vertebrate, referring to their "chitin" being on the "inside." neutral connotation; usually, in reference to phenotype.
vertas -- vertebrates. never used as a singular. neutral connotation.
hemo - arthropod "blood." arthropods use a fluid called hemolymph in open circulatory systems to transfer nutrients. they will also refer to hemolymph as blood sometimes. pronounced "hee-moe."
clinging to [their] chorion -- chorion is the outermost layer of an insect egg. essentially, clinging to the eggshell, refusing to be an adult independent of your parents.
touch tens -- an idiom stemming from "touch antennae." over time, through the process of deletion, it has been reduced to “touch tens,” which was then interpreted as, literally, touch the number tens. ants (and some other social insects, but especially ants) communicate through touching antennae. idiomatically means initiating communication with someone. equivalent to get in touch, touch base, drop a line. any animal can use this idiom, but it is infinitely more common for insects to use it. when animals without antennae use it, it’s sort of like someone who says “it’s a doggy dog world.” sometimes it will also be said as “touch tennies,” as the “ae” in “antennae” mutated into “ie.” however, because ten is a widely recognized word, and it kinda-sorta makes sense to the general population as The Number Ten, “touch tens” is the common form of this idiom.
tiff -- literally, touch-sniff. the way arthropods refer to smelling someone. used as a verb.
tiff [someone] out -- idiomatically, to figure someone out; to comprehend someone's true character, intentions, et al, usually without being told. used mostly by hexapods and crustaceans.
cracked -- shed one's exoskeleton, referring to cracking the chitin. usually negative connotation, referring to an unexpected or undesirable moult. also used by invertebrates idiomatically to mean "did something embarrassing"; fumbled.
pup -- a child insect or crustacean. shortened from "pupa." Idletry insects do not pupate, but slowly grow into their imago forms through instars. a pupa, therefore, does not refer to a chrysalis, but a preadolescent child. "larva" refers to a baby or very young toddler. pronounced like "pup" usually is. mammals may also refer to their children as pups or puppies in the more traditional sense. the insect usage of "pup" was partially adapted from the mammalian usage of "pup."
eggnant -- pregnant with, usually, one egg. used by all animals besides eutherians and metaeutherians (mammals that don't lay eggs). eggnancy refers to the portion of pregnancy after the eggshell has formed completely. the part of pregnancy prior to the formation of the shell is simply referred to as "pregnant" -- pre-eggnant.
shelling -- the period of time after birth where a fetus in an egg has exited their parent's uterus, but hasn't broken out of the egg's shell yet. it is important to not crack the egg prematurely unless it is deemed medically necessary, as the degradation process of the remaining fluid in the egg alters it into a usable, "oxygenated" surfactant that allows a newborn to breathe air by coating the lungs. waiting for the egg to hatch as a parent and developing within the egg as a fetus are both called "shelling," used as a verb. the time period where parents generally don't attend work as they wait is also referred to as shelling, used as a noun.
sunk teeth fallacy -- equivalent to sunk-cost fallacy. refusing to abandon an investment after "biting" into it. often alludes to an unwillingness to acknowledge or speak about the failure of the investment because their "mouth is full."
peg your palps -- a way to say shut up, zip your lips. said to spiders. telling someone to keep their mouth shut by driving tent pegs through their teeth palps.
pads -- another word for paws. can refer to feet or hands, but more often refers to hands, because they are visible more often.
quad -- to stand on all fours. used by ambipods and hexapods.
sowcub -- "sow," an adult female pig or badger, combined with "cub," a baby animal of one of many different kinds of mammals. an adult baby; functionally similar to "manchild." used by badgers and bears.
typification -- the biological classification of animals into more and more granular categories, roughly equivalent to taxonomy. animals do not have common ancestors through evolution in idletry, and cannot be categorized by genetic lineage. they are instead categorized by phenotypical qualities, in the order of ideotype, archetype, digitype, phenotype, mereotype, and specitype. for example, a tasmanian devil would be typified like this: vertebrate > quadrupod > ambipod > mammal > marsupial > devil. typification's primary purposes are medical specificity and making sense of reproductive compatibility.
ideotype -- the broadest and first tier of typification: chitinoids and vertebrates. they may alternatively be referred to as arthropods and ptychopods. ideotype is the most medically relevant typification.
archetype -- typification based on posture and locomotion; the second broadest category in typification. archetype is a common influence on the typical attraction found in animals — for example, spiders are more likely to find birds attractive than to find insects attractive, because spiders and birds both stand and move on two legs. however, it's only a general trend, and far from a rule when it comes to attraction.
digitype -- typification based on average number of limbs. digitypes are the widest category where the possibility of interbreeding becomes regularly possible. general number and structure of limbs is widely considered the biggest indicator of reproductive compatibility, barring amputation.
phenotype -- typification of animals based on more diverse anatomical qualities, such as the presence of pedipalps, scales, wings, etc. intra-phenotype breeding is all but guaranteed to produce offspring. phenotype is an important term to animals, and it's used colloquially more than the other terms in typification. it may be used as a synonym for body type, species, genus, clade, or phylum. when animals refer to someone's reproductive group, they usually use the word phenotype.
mereotype -- a more specific category within typification based on more nuanced physical qualities. this would be the level where a marsupial is distinguished from all mammals, for example.
specitype -- the most specific category in typification. equivalent to species. can also be called species.
zedpod -- a formal term for jumping species like frogs and kangaroos. zedpod is a category 3 classification — a digitype. zedpods are named after the z shape their legs make.
zed, zeddy -- a zedpod. neutral to positive connotation.
jumper -- a zedpod. neutral connotation.
marsuprial -- a macropod such as a kangaroo or a wallaby. macropods are categorically not mammals in idletry due to their exclusion from the ambipod category. they are named for their similarity to marsupials with pouch-based pseudopregnancy with extremely altricial young. they are named mar-supra-ials due to their upward-facing pouches, unlike most marsupials. marsuprial is a category 5 classification -- a mereotype.
soupy -- related to marsupials or marsuprials. most often used to clarify that someone is a marsupial, or that a specific practice is for marsupials and marsuprials specifically. neutral connotation; largely only used in the context of giving birth and pouching.
depouching -- the weaning process for an infant marsupial, wherein they either naturally lose the desire to be in the pouch, or are no longer allowed to enter the pouch by their parent, depending on the personalities of the infant and parent. pouching generally ends around 9 months.
ambipod -- a formal term encompassing a wide variety of animals, characterized by their tendency to be able to ambulate on two or four legs. ambipod is a category 3 classification — a digitype.
sacrapod -- a formal term encompassing theropods and pterosaurs (often called pteropods). sacrapod is a category 3 classification — a digitype. sacrapods are named after the integration of a synsacrum into their posture and gait.
avian -- a formal term for a theropod with feathers.
dinosaur -- an informal term for a theropod without feathers.
worldbuilding-related lingo
crent -- currency unit, phonetically shortened from "currency." equivalent to "dollars." represented by a capital C with 2 lines through it. crents are a global, standardized currency used by all people in Idletry. crents come in 1 C, 5 C, 10 C, 50 C, 100 C, and 1,000 C increments in the form of polymer bills of different colors. bills show a large colored oval with the value of the bill on one side, known as the "blank" face of the bill due to its mostly white appearance, and the province and date of origin on the other side in a white silhouette of the province of origin on the other side known as the "brat" face of the bill, corrupted from "bureaucratic." while the value is stated to the side of the brat face of a bill, the blank face has been emphasized as important. colors for money can vary in the world and are usually differentiated through value (pastel-to-dark), but what values represent which increment can vary by province. some people may try to trick others by presenting the brat face of a bill and obscuring the side, where the value is declared, to pretend it's a higher value bill from another province, which can't be done with the blank face. it's common practice to only accept crent on its blank side in the modern day
crent, when listed as a sum or value, is pluralized as "crent," eg. "that'll be 20 crent."
the physical bill representing currency is pluralized as "crents." ie. "that'll be 20 crents" would imply a demand for 20 individual crent bills.
crent can also be used as an uncountable singular like "money" or "cash," eg. "I needed some quick crent."
cent -- 1/100th of a crent. equivalent to real-world cent. cents come in 1/100th, 1/10th, 1/4th, and 1/2 incrimental metal coins. they were originally represented by different types of seeds, but they rolled away too easily, and became flattened discs over time. coins have their value embossed clearly on one side, sometimes with an outline of their province of origin, known as the "tails" side of the coin, and a blank side showing an embossed area representing their province of origin, with the name of the province depressed into the middle. it is very important for diplomatic relations to be able to track how much crent is circulating from which nations. cents are represented by a small c with 1 line through it.
show blanks -- an idiom meaning to be honest, often with the connotation that the person has already been dishonest and is now being forced to reveal the truth unwillingly. originates from the old phenomenon where people would attempt to deceive others during transactions by using the brat face of a bill and obscuring its printed value. showing the blank faces of the bills would force the dishonest party to reveal the true value of their crent.
province -- a sovereign nation-state. while the term "province" refers to subnational territories in our world, this concept doesn't really exist in Idletry's world. there are larger administrative territories, decided over time by warring or trade boundaries -- provinces -- and local territories -- cities, towns, or villages. the shape of provinces are decided by the locations of various resources. the shape of cities are decided by the locations of its citizens and infrastructure.
ogg, oggie -- a Jessie resistance militant. shortened from Boglia, which has had its name changed repeatedly to slight variations, such as Poglia, Doglia, Coglia, etc. "ogg" has a more negative connotation and usually refers to a peace officer, equivalent to "cop." "oggie" has a more neutral connotation and may be used to refer to peace officers, or someone's political positions about Jessie, ie. "Aren't you an oggie?" means "Aren't you anti-Jessie?"
Devil, the -- a name used by oggies to refer to Jessie Gaylord, due to a superstition that she can hear all and will appear if she hears her name taken in vain.
Devil's hell -- an interjection equivalent to "bloody hell." used by oggies.
orderly -- oggies whose duty in the resistance is to enforce social order. after the dissolution of governments, legal systems largely collapsed, and there are no longer specific laws to enforce. every orderly enforces "order" based on their own opinion of what order is. any member of the resistance can enforce order in more militarized cells, but orderlies are entitled and obligated to become involved in social conflicts as their responsibility. they're regarded as particularly prone to extreme violence, because they function as judge, jury, and executioner without regulating bodies or justice systems to execute more long-term solutions to social conflict.
123 -- the emergency telephone number of Idletry, standardized across all of Centrus. every province has their own call centers, but they can reroute a call for help to a more appropriate province if needed.
X -- a gender on governmental identification for individuals who are not female or male. the X can stand for auxiliary, extrality, accessory, extra, exempt, or exception, depending on province. the X designation was initially popularized in select large provinces as a legislative move to make it less apparent whether someone with an X marker is transgender or not. it became much more common over time as smaller provinces had to assimilate to the category systems of the larger, wealthier ones. the designation is typically either rationed through a lottery system or by the discretion of licensed birth physicians being given mandatory quotas. physicians may designate newborns based on vibes, all at once at a certain time of the month just to get it out of the way, based on perceived physical qualities, etc. X markers are not a designation for intersex babies nor are all intersex babies categorized as X at birth; in many provinces there is not even a way to intentionally designate an intersex baby this gender due to its distribution through a llottery system. people with X markers on their identification documents may or may not have been assigned the gender at birth, but, like the other genders, the majority of X individuals are cisgender. X-marker individuals comprise around 10% to 30% of the population in modern day idletry, depending on province, but on the whole make up about 25% of the entire planet's population. individuals with an X designation do not have a specific non-binary gender assigned to them; they're merely designated to be not female and not male. due to the ambiguity of the designation, and the lack of a consistent reproductive role, the way lottery parents approach raising their children varies from family unit to family unit, and a cohesive collection of X gender roles have failed to congeal in most places. they are, however, generally referred to with they pronouns by default, to indicate their gender designation, as with the other 2 legal categories. some individuals designated X at birth may feel pressured to present in an androgynous way to indicate their gender, just like how a woman may feel pressured to perform femininity and a man may feel pressured to perform masculinity.
teenager -- for the most part, the same meaning as the real world, but more synonymous with "child." the age of consent in idletry's world is universally 20 years old, and all teenagers are regarded as large children.
preenager -- pre-teenager. a child younger than 13. usually, a child in between 6 and 12 years of age.
infotage -- the criminal act of producing and distributing information that is harmful to the public. a portmanteau of information and sabotage. what qualifies as infotage and the severity of the criminal charges vary by province. most often, infotage refers to the intentional act of disseminating disinformation, but provinces which more closely control what information is circulated at all may also refer to disseminating true but criminalized information as infotage.
disvolitia -- a medical condition in idletry which results in miscarriage or stillbirth. life generated spontaneously in Idletry's world, rather than coming into the definition of "alive" from once non-living mechanisms. living groups of matter are alive because they contain a spontaneous will to continue existing. wills are not passed on by the parent like genetics, but also spontaneously generate. this means that, sometimes, during pregnancy, an embryo will form without any will spontaneously generated. comparable to brain death, but not identical; embryos with disvolitia do not have a heartbeat or any other sign of metabolic activity. they typically dissolve early into pregnancy, but shell formation in utero can cause longer pregnancies that still self-abort due to disvolitia.
Twiddler -- a popular social media site where users write short posts called "twiddle dees," or "twiddles." reposts of these posts are called "twiddle doos."
Yubtub -- the most popular long-form video hosting website on Centrus.
Bible, the -- two extremely popular comic series later adapted into a very famous cartoon series (and several less popular adaptations). the first series is referred to as the Old Testament, and the second more popular series is known as the New Testament. most people recognize the protagonist of the New Testament, Jesus Christ, and it's a common expletive. the protagonist's popularity is comparable to Pikachu or Spiderman. the comic series ran through Jessie's childhood, with the New Testament series running through her teens and early 20s.
TTZ -- Theological Tracking & Zoning. a news entity that tracks and publicly reports Jessie's whereabouts. started as a Twiddler account that would post Jessie's recent location while flying by monitoring CTAF communications. founded and owned by Samwich Antrewson.
dicker -- many "interspecies" couples are genetically incompatible and cannot have children. a bird and a bee may not be able to have children together, but may find another couple with a bird and a bee, and "swap genes" with them. the act of swapping genes is called dickering, and both the exchange itself and the participants in the exchange can also be referred to as dickers. usually, genes are swapped through having sex, rather than going through the efforts of extracting sperm and seeking a practitioner to inseminate participants. most dickers are brief, and they do not stay in touch afterwards, nor do they share any custody over the children birthed by the other couple. dickers are named after the verb "to dicker," meaning to argue during a trade in a petty way, or to fuss and quarrel. many dickers are known for causing drama between and within couples, usually due to one dicker becoming pregnant before the other and both dickers of the couple withdrawing because they've gotten what they wanted, cross-couple dickers developing feelings for one another after having sex repeatedly to achieve a pregnancy, or dickers fighting over custody of children they were expected to not interact with after they are born. some dickers voluntarily share custody, co-parent, or just remain friends who keep in touch -- these people are generally referred to as "dickies" across couples to avoid the negative connotations of the word dicker; ie. "my dicky stopped by to take the kid to school."
emmy emms -- a recreational drug taken in the form of candy-like pills, with effects similar to MDMA. often exchanged in tubes made for candies that look like said pills.
midmad -- same as emmy emms. uncountable, singular noun.
furpes -- a generally harmless STI that affects mammals. equivalent to herpes. also rhymes with herpes.
benzomins -- a group of narcotic drugs traditionally prescribed for anxiety. equivalent to benzodiazepines.
benji -- slang for a benzomin pill. never used as an uncountable singular, eg. "Do you have any benji?"
aldoxamine -- a second-generation antipsychotic medication.
craze crackers -- a culinary dish largely composed of cooked blue whale phalanges. usually, craze crackers are served as just a single phalange, but they are referred to in the plural most of the time anyway. named after the dish's ability to crack teeth, first as superficial craze lines, then as clean fractures. craze crackers are a "challenge food," sought less for the flavor and more for the novelty of trying to crack open a very large bone (although, the marrow is a plus), similar to novelty dishes with extremely spicy peppers.
pollinator dog -- specially bred, tiny dogs with 6 legs and wings used to pollinate flowers as a replacement for the anthropomorphization of pollinator animals.
lepidog -- a butterfly dog. portmanteau of "lepidopteran" and "dog."
butterdog -- another term for butterfly dogs.
vespidog -- a bee or wasp dog. a portmanteu of of "vespidae" and "dog," despite the fact that most vespidogs are bees. vespidogs cannot sting, but they are prone to biting.
sponty -- adjective with a vague meaning that characters in idletry find intuitive; related to spontaneity. the opposite of ordered. has political connotations across an ordered-spontaneous axis. associated with irrationality, anti-sociality, impulsiveness, freedom, tolerance, and creativity.
sponting -- acting sponty. negative connotation. usually, doing something for no reason but to cause chaos; trolling, taking the piss.
taint -- to ruin something for no reason but to cause chaos or be contrarian. like sponting, but with a more negative connotation of destruction and malice. like "sponty," "taint" comes from "spontaneous."
tainted -- something ruined for reasons unrelated to itself. fresh ingredients that have become contaminated by an unsanitary object are tainted, for example. often used to deny fault after failing at something.
chaosis -- a psychiatric diagnosis involving a hyperactive spontaneity drive. chaosis is defined by unpredictable behavior that is a detriment to oneself and/or others. while easy to conflate with diagnostic categories like antisocial personality disorder, psychosis, oppositional defiant disorder, or a tic disorder, chaosis is defined by its lack of definition. a chaotic individual is never predictably antisocial, predictably oppositional, consistently delusional, etc. chaosis is a very broad category due to its nature, and is usually only refined into subcategories based on whether the chaotic behavior is ego syntonic or ego dystonic.
🫰 -- after Jessie settles in as God of the Universe, an emoji used widely to say "fuck you" or "die." means that the poster wishes they could snap the recipient like Jessie, or that they hope Jessie snaps them. the most hostile form of this response tags Jessie's twiddler account, godwastaken, in tandem with the emoji.
Centrus -- the planet Idletry's characters live on.
Subradus -- a planet in Centrus's solar system. it is closer to their sun than Centrus.
Biggun, the -- the larger of Centrus's two oceans, to the west.
Smallun, the -- the smaller of Centrus's two oceans, to the east.
Nuthpen -- the curled upper peninsula forming the northmost edge of Centrus's supercontinent; shortened from "north peninsula."
Suthpen -- the large lower peninsula forming the southmost edge of Centrus's supercontinent; shortened from "south peninsula."
Sea, the -- the only sea on Centrus, fed from the Smallun's saltwater.
Canal, the -- the only naturally formed canal, connecting the Sea to the Smallun. highly valued territory that was frequently fought over.
Uppen -- the peninsula forming the north side of the Canal; shortened from "upper peninsula."
Lopen -- the peninsula forming the south side of the Canal; shortened from "lower peninsula."
Infinitest, Mount -- the tallest mountain on Centrus, forming Nuthpen.
Pentacost -- a coastal conurbation which was previously 5 separate territories fighting over resources. this is the city Shiloh lives in.
tinctures -- fundamental particles of Idletry's universe, often referred to as "inks" colloquially. commonly known fundamental particles include C-charged particles, M-charged particles, Y-charged particles, and K-charged particles. lesser known, more complex particles, which may only be observed in theory, are R-particles, G-particles, B-particles, O-particles, V-particles, and F-particles.
inkling -- an atom, formed from tinctures, also referred to as "inks" colloquially.
chroma -- a molecule, formed of inklings.
chromatic table, the -- equivalent to the periodic table, organizing the elements of Idletry's universe.
submedial -- equivalent to subatomic.
interstices -- very small fissures between the literal fibers of the universe's paper medium. interstices play a vital mechanical role in Idletry's universe by moving fresh, wet inks through parts of the universe that have reached maximum saturation thanks to the capillary action inherent to their thin tube-like shape.
Big Rip, the -- an accepted theory of how Idletry's universe will end, when the fabric of their universe reaches maximum saturation and collapses.
Printer Running Out [of ink], the -- an alternate accepted theory of how Idletry's universe will end, where the source of tinctures will run out and all forces in the universe will simply cease to exist. based erroneously on observations of ink fading over time.
drying out, drying up -- another way to refer to the Printer Running Out.
Standing Up -- a prehistorical event where most animals capable of doing so became anthropomorphic in a Covenant.
Covenant, the -- a set of biological imperatives and standardizations animals underwent in exchange for sapience, such as the ability to stand upright and speak, a shared measurement system and language, boneless external penises and 9-month internal pregnancies (barring animals with pouch pregnancies that also last around 9 months), omnivorous metabolisms, and the capacity to understand and commit evil.
Sitting Down -- a contemporary event where certain animals rejected the Covenant to Stand Up by complying with a separate Covenant wherein they are subordinate to Stood Up animals, but are incapable of committing evil or feeling any of the social moral compulsions that Stood Up animals do. Sat Down animals are domesticated animals, such as livestock and pets. they are sapient like Stood Up animals, but have an entirely different set of instincts and priorities to anthropomorphized animals. wild, non-domesticated animals do not exist in the same robust ecosystem as ours, but marine animals and animals that could not stand up, such as snakes or worms, are not sapient. Stood Up animals are compelled to care and provide for Sat Down animals.
Oneday -- the first day of Idletry's 5-day week.
Twosday -- the second day of Idletry's 5-day week.
Threesday -- the third day of Idletry's 5-day week.
Foursday -- the fourth day of Idletry's 5-day week.
Fivesday -- the last day of Idletry's 5-day week, treated by most as a day off.
Oneruary -- the first month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year. the first 6 months of the year end in -[br]uary. pronounced "wun-you-air-ee."
Twobruary -- the second month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
Threebruary -- the third month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
Tetruary -- the fourth month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year. pronounced "tet-you-air-ee."
Pentembruary -- the fifth month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
Sixuary -- the sixth month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
September -- the seventh month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year. the last 6 months of the year end in -ember.
Octember -- the eighth month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
November -- the ninth month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
December -- the tenth month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
Elevember -- the eleventh month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
Dozember -- the twelfth and last month of Idletry's 12-month calendar year.
on zeros -- at midnight. the characters in Idletry only use 24-hour time. other times besides 00:00 may be referred to as "on zeros," such as "2 on zeros," to emphasize that it's very late at night, and most people are asleep. because there is no ambiguity with the 24-hour clock, phrases like "in the morning" or "at night" are only used for emphasis, often to imply another character's behavior is abnormal for the current time.
weekends, the -- Fivesday and Onesday. the two ends of the week, much like bookends. Fivesday is the only day which is seen as a day most people have off of work, though; many people have Foursday and Fivesday off, with Onesday acting as a Monday analogue, or Fivesday and Onesday off, with Onesday acting as a Sunday analogue. "the weekends" or "weekends" always refers to Fivesday and Onesday, though.
vayday -- vacation day. a holiday.
brayday -- break day. a minor holiday.
other lingo
kit -- stuff, or things. can be used like how one might use "shit," eg. "what is all this kit," but never used as a PG way to say "shit." commonly but not always in reference to physical objects.
shmee -- a farce.
parky -- a place to park a personal vehicle. equivalent to "parking lot," "parking space," or "car park."
roundo -- a fruit commonly referred to in the real world as an orange.
Fivo -- Fivesday.
Fiver -- Fivesday.
Fiffy -- Fivesday.
Halvers -- a 10-day-long major holiday comprised of the last week of Sixuary and the first week of September. celebrates the year being halfway done. children have a break from school for 2 weeks, and adults frequently take vacations during this period.
halfway break -- specifically, the break children have from school during Halvers. it can also just be referred to as halvers.
next break -- the break children have from school during the 10-day celebration of the new year during the last week of Dozember and the first week of Oneruary. referred to as "next" break because it is relevant to the next year coming up.
winter break -- same as next break.
spring break -- same as next break.
curos -- slang for money, phonetically shortened from "currency." equivalent of "bucks."
barred card -- a penalty card used by referrees in sports to indicate that a player has committed a serious infraction and is being suspended from the game. the card has black and white stripes like the typical referree uniform to be highly visible and indicate that the referree is invoking their highest level of authority over the game. it is also called the barred card because it means the player is barred from playing. equivalent of a red card.
bully sticks -- a PG way of saying "bullshit." used mostly by carnivore-type mammals known for chewing bone, such as canids, hyenas, wolverines, and devils. animals like pandas and rodents may also use the term.
journey -- in labor trades, to educate an apprentice to journeyman status.
ink [2] -- gender neutral term for a child, equivalent to "boy" or "girl." specifically, a child who is non-binary, rather than a generic term that can be used for any child. originally, a contracted form of "infant X," further corrupted into "ink." "inx" remains the plural of "ink." ink became the dominant way to refer to an X-designated child due to the word's pre-existing association with small things from its use in casual reference to particles.
slappy -- a burger.
ham slappy -- a burger with pork.
beef slappy -- a burger with beef.
slappy b -- a beef slappy.
scratchslappy -- nothingburger.
stock -- meat of land animals. idletry does not have a definition of "meat" that excludes fish (and, sometimes, poultry). "meat" always means any kind of flesh; "stock" refers to poultry, pork, beef, lamb, etc. comes from "livestock."
repop -- short for "repopulate." used most often when we would say "reproduce." because idletry animals did not come about through self-replicating molecular evolution, their idea of having children does not revolve so heavily around reproducing genetic material. having children is seen as a philanthropic action most obviously beneficial to their society's continued existence at the cost of individual autonomy through loss of resources such as time, money, energy, etc. "repop" can be used as a verb equivalent to "reproduce," or as a noun equivalent to "reproduction."
REDIS -- Repopulation Easement & Distribution Intendant System. an international organization designed to redistribute the custody of unwanted children to adoptive guardians. many people in idletry want to help repopulate, but don't want to commit the rest of their life to a child, or want to raise the next generation, but don't want to (or can't) reproduce physically; REDIS makes surrendering and adopting a child more streamlined, accessible, and normalized. REDIS does not deal with the financial support of parents struggling to care for children they want to keep, nor does it deal with the welfare of the children it redistributes — those intricacies are left up to the discretion of the provinces involved in the cases. the only purpose of REDIS is to connect provinces in a wider pool of custodial resources and smooth over legal quirks between provinces.
breather -- air used by divers, mountaineers, and for medical purposes. the term "breather" specifically refers to a singular canister of air.
creativities -- humanities. used in reference to education and fields of study.
