furbish

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Though they’re programmed to start speaking in Furbish — a language that was inspired by the Japanese, Thai, Chinese and Hebrew that Furby co-creator David Hampton learned during his time in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

The Furbish doesn’t quite track, I will say.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2021

That seems to have happened to mine; thanks to the companion iPhone app that translates Furbish to English, I gathered that a lot of her responses include the phrase “OMG!”

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2012

Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Stowe, there is a man come with a lot of pails and tinware from Furbish; will you settle the bill now?

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher