what is a jellicle cat!?!? (1 Viewer)

PeterK · Jul 14, 2007

alright this just isn't funny anymore. what on earth does jellicle mean? or supposed to mean or refer to??? all these damn Cats websites keep giving me the run around about it!

what a cruel and unusual word!

Garrett Lundy · Jul 14, 2007

The 'Jellicle Cats' were the cat tribe in CATS! the musical. It doesn't have any other meaning (kinda like Schpidoinkle day or frumious bandersnatch).

CRyan · Jul 14, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellicle

Scott L · Jul 15, 2007

can't help myself

Mike Frezon · Jul 15, 2007

Great. Now I'm going to have that song in my head ALL day!

The sky is blue and all the leaves are green.
The sun's as warm as a baked potato...

Kevin M · Jul 15, 2007

....resist........r..r..resiiiist................. ..I THINK I KNOW PRECISELY WHAT I MEAN, WHEN I SAY IT'S A SCHPIDOINKLE DAAAAAAAY!!!!!

hostile17 · Jun 20, 2009

I always figured "jellicle" was supposed to bring to mind the word angelical.

Joseph DeMartino · Jun 20, 2009

Peter:
You would have done better to simply do a Google search or visit Wikipedia than bother searching on cat sites. If you had, you would have found your answer (including the actual origin and meaning of "jellicle") in a couple of mouse clicks:

Regards,
Joe

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Marianne · Jun 20, 2009

But then we wouldn't have seen the anaconda cat!

Jay Taylor · Jun 20, 2009

Marianne said:
But then we wouldn't have seen the anaconda cat!

Or the lost Mapquest cat. That one is too funny Scott! :laugh:

Jesse Skeen · Jun 21, 2009

The word is used in Logan's Run too- the old guy quotes parts of the poem.

Greg_S_H · Jun 21, 2009

Ahh, damn. I was going to mention that. I was just watching Logan's Run a couple of weeks ago.

Sam Posten · Jun 21, 2009

'Cause Jellicle's can and Jellicle's do!

Sam Posten · Jun 21, 2009

Scott L said:

I missed that and had to scroll back to see it. CLASSIC!

Timothy Baker · Mar 17, 2014

This may or may not be true, but this is a quote from one of Eliot's publishing partner, saying where the word "jellicle" and "pollicle" came from. According to Dr Faber, a retired physicist who is now 74 and lives in Cambridge, Eliot was "a very generous godfather and the subject of great envy by my siblings".
"He was quite a chameleon in many ways; he would be grave or funny as he so desired and could write anything - adopt any mood." Pollicle Dogs was a corruption of "poor little dogs", just as Jellicle Cats are "dear little cats".
An unpublished poem of Eliot's "Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats" was part of the inspiration for Lloyd Webber's Prologue in the musical Cats. For my source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1382102/Now-Lloyd-Webber-puts-Eliots-dogs-to-music.html

Sam Posten · Mar 17, 2014

Internet, thy name is long tail!

questrider · Mar 17, 2014

Jay H · Mar 18, 2014

there is never enough cat threads on the internet!

Jay

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