sploot

/spluːt//splut/

sploot interjection: used to represent a plop or splash.

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Interjection

Used to represent a plop or splash.

Noun

sploot (plural sploots)

(slang) An animal's posture of lying flat on its stomach with its hind legs extended.
- Rupert wandered restlessly around for a few minutes and finally settled at Charlotte's feet, his feathery back legs stretched out behind him in what corgi owners call a sploot.2016 December 13, Elizabeth J. Duncan, “Ill Met by Murder”, in A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery, Crooked Lane Books, page 207
- “That's called a corgi ‘sploot,’” informs Jason.2018 September, J. Warner Wallace, Forensic Faith for Kids, Learn to Share the Truth from a Real Detective, David C Cook, unpaged

Verb

sploot (third-person singular simple present sploots, present participle splooting, simple past and past participle splooted)

(intransitive, slang) Of an animal: to lie flat on its stomach with its hind legs extended.
- Four of the dragons sploot flat instead of sitting — a gesture they must have picked up from their time being Frank’s corgi.2019, March 5, Amber Royer, Pure Chocolate, Watkins Media, unpaged
- Squirrels in the U.S. are 'splooting' in an attempt to stay cool and close to the ground as the heat blazes across the country2020 August 20, Matthew Wright, DailyMail.comhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8648567/Squirrels-U-S-splooting-attempt-stay-cool-close-ground.html
Synonyms:

frog, pancake

Examples of sploot in a sentence

Inside, Calliope turned to see her rottweiler, Coco, engaging in her wake up stretches: butt up, paws out, followed by back legs out behind her in a sploot.2021, Debbie Baldwin, Illicit Intent, Gatekeeper Press, unpaged
With his front paws tucked underneath his chest and his hind legs splayed behind him in a splooting pose, he didn’t appear to have a care in the world.2020 September 21, Paige Sleuth, Arrested in Cherry Hills, Amazon KDP, chapter 6, unpaged
Not many big dogs do the sploot, but Pooh Bear will sploot just about anytime and anywhere.2020 November 3, Tama Fortner, “Homecoming Tales”, in 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, Thomas Nelson, page 82:

Synonyms of sploot

frog
pancake

Forms of sploot

Noun
plural	sploots
Verb
third-person singular present	sploots
present participle	splooting
past participle	splooted
past	splooted

Origin of sploot

Imitative of the sound.

Origin uncertain, possibly a variant of splat, splay, or split. The ending -oot could either be due to one of the preceding words being blended with scoot, or simply a modification to make the term sound cute (compare bork from bark, floof from fluff, hooman from human, etc.).

Words formed from sploot

splooting

Words that rhyme with sploot

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Questions about sploot

What does sploot mean?: Sploot means used to represent a plop or splash.
How do you use sploot in a sentence?: Inside, Calliope turned to see her rottweiler, Coco, engaging in her wake up stretches: butt up, paws out, followed by back legs out behind her in a sploot.
What part of speech is sploot?: Sploot can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sploot?: Sploot is pronounced /spluːt/ (UK).

Words near sploot in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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