Caturday

English

Etymology

Blend of cat +‎ Saturday

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkætədeɪ/, /ˈkætədi/
• (US) enPR: kăʹtər-dā, IPA^(key): /ˈkætɚdeɪ/, enPR: kăʹtər-dē, IPA^(key): /ˈkætɚdi/

Noun

Caturday (plural Caturdays)

1. (Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.
   • 2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in Time‎^[1]:

     I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

   • 2010 August 31, Jon Kelly, Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News‎^[2]:

     Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.

   • 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:

     When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Caturday.

Translations

Saturday for cats

• Dutch: katerdag
• Russian: Субко́та f (Subkóta, literally “cat Saturday”)

See also

• котопонеді́лок (kotoponedílok), equivalent in Ukraine