Analysis / Dr. Seuss

List of things unique to the Dr. Seuss universe

Animals

• Bar-ba-loot: A furry creature that looks sort of like a bipedal bear and is about the size of a very small cat. They play in shady areas and eat sweet food. If they go too long without eating, they get gassy.
• Swomee Swan: An orange and yellow swan with a melodious call.
• Humming fish: A fish similar to a large goldfish which can hum. They can walk on their fins and breathe air but still need water, preferably non-polluted.
• Who: A small humanoid big enough to fit on speck of dust. They cannot be seen with the naked eye, but can occasionally be heard.
• Birthday bird: A large, talking bird whose job it is to host birthday parties.
• Glunk: A large creature that can speak and eats a certain type of stew. They are very hard to "un-thunk".
• Gox: A large, apelike creature who likes to box.
• Doubt Trout: A kind of fish.
• Beft: Large, birdlike creatures who always travel left.
• Zizzerzazzerzuzz: A large, pink and white creature.
• Fifferfefferfeff: A furry, bipedal creature with feathers on its head.
• Zed: A small, yellow, domesticated animal that walks upright and has a long, fast-growing hair upon its head.
• Zans: A deer-like creature.
• Klotz and Glotz: Both deer-like creatures, but they have black spots.
• Bifferbaum bird: A kind of bird that uses its nest only for sleeping and rebuilds it each night.
• Spotted atrocious: A very large creature that eats many things, including people.
• Sneetch: A large, yellow, birdlike creature that lives on the beach. Some, called the star-bellied sneetches, have green stars on their bellies, while the others, called plain-bellied sneetches, don't.
• Jibboo: A shadowy, birdlike humanoid.
• Tweetle-beetle: A kind of aggressive beetle.
• Snoo: A humanoid, moose-like creature.
• Pillow Snake: A snake that sits on a pillow.
• Wasket: A little pink creature.
• Vug: A large, possibly dangerous creature.
• Which-what-who: A creature with a human's head, legs, arms and body, a duck's feet, a spout on its head, antlers, a leopard's tail, and an elephant's trunk.
• Ikka, Gritch, Grickle, Wild Wheef and Nupper: All sapient creatures who like steak and dislike stew. You can tell them apart because Ikkas are short and green and yellow with wings but not birds, Gritches are a bit taller and orange and yellow and a bit like birds, Grickles are quite tall and purple, Nuppers are orange, spotty and walk on all fours and wild Wheef are green with long noses and blue hair.

Plants

• Truffula tree: A rare tree with brightly-coloured, silky tuft on top instead of leaves. The fruit is edible and looks like grapes.
• Pillberry vine: A vine that grows bad-tasting berries that add feathers to birds' tails.
• Grickle grass: A very hardy type of grass.
• Snide: A kind of grass-like plant that grows in "snide fields".
• Moose-moss: Moss that moose like to eat.
• Bippolo tree: A very rare tree. If somebody makes a wish before planting the seed, the tree will grow what was wished for.
• Zinniga-Zanniga Tree: A tree that produces pink flowers. The juice of the flowers allegedly has amazing healing properties, but it is unknown if that is true because it was said as part of a trick.

Places

• Whoville: A town where Whos live. They celebrate human traditions like Christmas (they even have their own Santa Claus) and put the word "Who" onto words.
• Katroo: A city that hosts very elaborate birthday parties.
• Na-nupp: A place that is supposedly on another planet as there are three moons. All the birds there are diurnal.
• Da-dake: Another place with only diurnal birds. There is a lot of water there.
• Thneedville: A town where everything is artificial. Not in the books, but it's in the movie of The Lorax
• The River Woo-Wall: A river that is considered aesthetically pleasing.
  • Another one is the River Wah-Hoo.
• Roover River: Another river.
• The Waiting Place: A place where everybody waits.
• The Ocens of Olf: Part of the sea.
• Solla Sollew: An almost-perfectly utopian city.
• Boola Boo Ball: A perfectly utopian city.

Food and Drink

• Green Eggs and Ham: Just what it sounds like. To clarify, the ham is green too.
• Scrambled Eggs Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper: a kind of scrambled eggs made from the eggs of many different strange birds.

Vehicles

• Zike Bike: A wacky kind of bicycle.
• Crunk Car: A weird sort of car.
• Wubble: A type of animal-pulled vehicle.

Clothes

• Thneed: A thing knitted from the tufts of truffula trees that can be an article of clothing and many other things besides.
• Gruvulous Glove: A kind of glove that has a secret compartment.

Games

• Up, Up, Up with a Fish: Lifting up a fish tank in a weird way.
• Fun in a Box: Introducing two Things in a box.

Other

• Puzzler: A word for the brain.
• Pal-alace: A word for palace.
• Mustard-off pool: A swimming pool designed specifically for removing mustard.
• Sweeping-up-afterwards broom: A broom designed just for sweeping up a mess caused by a big event.
• Un-thinker: The part of the mind that can "un-thunk" things.
• Un-thunk: To imagine that something doesn't exist to the point of it no longer existing.
• Thinker-upper: The part of the mind that thinks things up.
• Mind-maker-upper: One who is good at making up their mind.
• Footsy: If someone is footsy, they use their feet a lot.
• Whisper-ma-phone: A horn tied to a hose meant for whispering through.
• Lurkem: An office to lurk in.
• Snuvv: The secret compartment in a gruvolous glove.
• Un-slump: To un-slump oneself is to get oneself out of a slump.
• Star-off Machine: A machine to remove stars from Sneetches' tummies.
• Blibber-blubber: Stuff that's hard to pronounce.
• Tweetle-beetle battle: A battle between tweetle-beetles.