[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tlhut

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: tlhut
Part of speech: verb
Definition: be stuffed
Source: qepHom 2019
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AFAIK not used in a sentence.

(qepHom 2019 booklet):  {ghoD} is used in reference to food (specifically, in Power Klingon, {to'baj 'uS lughoDlu'bogh} "stuffed to'baj legs", but it could be used for other things as well).  {ghoD} is also the word to use for stuffing your backpack or any other sort of pack or sack or suitcase or the like.  In other words, {ghoD} is used when the thing you're stuffing (the container) is used to hold or store what you're putting into it.  The idea with {tlhut} is not that you're holding or storing or retaining or saving or housing whatever's inside (even if only temporarily, as with the food), but that you're filling something up to attain a specific shape or look (stuffing/filling the skin of a dead animal, stuffing/filling some material to look like a teddy bear).  With {ghoD}, the ultimate shape of the stuffed thing doesn't matter; with {tlhut}, it's supposed to matter (though you may be unsuccessful).  You wouldn't use {tlhut} for a piñata.

(qepHom 2019):  use {tlhut} when filling something to achieve a shape or look (e.g. a teddy bear or a dead animal skin);  use {ghoD} when putting something into a container (e.g. a suitcase or something to eat)

TREK TRIVIA:
  Molly O'Brien had a favorite toy which she carried: a stuffed plush targ with grey fur and purple hooves called "Piggy".  (DS9 "Fascination")

  Young Alexandra had a white stuffed toy tribble which she carried with her everywhere on the Enterprise-D. (TNG "When the Bough Breaks")

SEE ALSO:
tlhutmoH  		stuff (taxidermy and stuffed animals) (v) 

mIl'oD ngeb 		teddy bear (n)
ngeb  			be counterfeit, false, fake (v)

targh nu' 		toy targ (n)
nu' 			be particularly small, tiny (v)
  - (Lieven, 4/01/2019):  To show the difference: a {targhHom} is just a small targ, 
     but a {targh nu'} can only refer to a toy targ.

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons