The Question and Answer section for Slaughterhouse Five is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Slaughterhouse-Five actually has a few different meanings in terms of the novel. It is the name of the prison in which Billy and the other POWs are kept (the prison is a slaughterhouse). It is also a metaphor for the way in which Vonnegut sees...
Poo-tee-weet doesn't mean anything specifically, it's a phrase (or birdsong) that is used for something words cannot describe or a question that cannot be answered.
To put it simply..... "stuff happens.... we'll get over it."
