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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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"Katte-" as a prefix means relating to a cat. Eg. "Kattepoter" = "cats paws"

Gat means the cloaca on a fish or a bird (cloaca is the all-in-one hole on fish, birds, etc.)

I realize this is probably a very wrong interpretation, but in that case, i don't want to be right.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

You're not wrong, the name does derive from kat and gat, dutch words for cat and hole respectively. It's not a cloaca as on a fish, rather it just means "hole".

Supposedly so named because of how narrow the routes were you could safely take through it.

[–] kubok@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Dutch, it just means cat's asshole.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Any hole, really.

[–] Akareth@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, i did not know. Thanks!