Susan Rennie is the chief editor of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary 2016, and all definitions in this article are taken from the book. The BFG whisks zozimus with an egg-beater until it forms bubbles just like soapy water. (Words that Dahl invented that start with trog- always mean unpleasant things!) The Fleshlumpeating Giant is very keen to eat the Queen, as he thinks she will have ‘an especially scrumdiddlyumptious flavour.’Ī trogglehumper is one of the very worst nightmares you can have. Scrumdiddlyumptious food is utterly delicious. Giants find whizzpopping more socially acceptable than burping. Whizzpopping, on the other hand, is what happens when air comes out of your bottom with a popping sound (as when you drink a lot of frobscottle). Phizz-whizzing and whizzpopping may sound similar, but they mean very different things! Something that is phizz-whizzing is excellent or splendid. Snozzcumbers taste disgusting but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses to hunt human beans like other giants. And if you are a budding Matilda, it will also help you to find the perfect word to describe Dahl’s characters, whether they be hirsute (Mr Twit), asinine (Mr Wormwood) or oviform (Knids) – and to learn some very rude words used by giants (let’s just say bopmuggered).Ī snozzcumber is a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes. But a Dahl dictionary needs to help readers young and old to navigate through the whole of Dahl’s world, so it also explains unusual words you may encounter there, such as steeplejack and rapscallion, as well as more humdrum words which have special significance in the stories, such as the humble alarm-clock and egg-beater (used in unlikely ways by witches and giants respectively). He often built new words from old, swopping prefixes and blending syllables to create words like mispise, poppyrot and sogmire and he particularly loved the word play of alliteration (good for insults such as grizzly old grunion) and spoonerisms, such as mideous harshland or the inspired Dahl’s Chickens (aka Charles Dickens).Īll these words, and many like them, feature in the new dictionary. Illustration: Quentin Blake, with permission from A P Watt at United Agents on behalf of Quentin Blakeĭahl knew how much children ( and their grown-ups) love words like these, with letter combinations that are fun to pronounce, such as – ozz or – izz, or – iggle or -obble: hence creations like the fizzwiggler, the whiffswiddle and the grobblesquirt (who wouldn’t like saying grobblesquirt?), as well as gobblefunk itself, the name we now give to the lexicon of words he invented. This word refers to the division symbol.Quentin Blake’s illustration of the BFG holding a slimy snozzcumber, grown in Giant Country (This illustrations is used in the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary). This word means a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise. This refers to a countless or extremely great number. This is a verb that describes something a person deliberately avoids using.įutile. It means to instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually.Įschew. Cattywampus, Taradiddle, and More Funny-Sounding Words Merriam-Webster Words at Play 'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles' Cattywampus Definition - askew, awry, kitty-corner Cattywampus is a variant of catawampus, another example of grand 19th century American slang. Even if you speak the language, this is one of the English words you might not know.
This word refers to behavior that is like an animal or animals.Ĭavil. This is one of the most uncommon words that mean quibble.Įdify. It means the ability to make good judgments.īestial. This word refers to the color between cyan and blue on the spectrum of visible light.Īcumen.
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