Words invented by children's author Roald Dahl.
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bibbling |
"All around them lay the vast black ocean, deep and hungry. Little waves were bibbling against the side of the peach."
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bish |
"'This is it!' he whispered to himself under his breath. 'The greatest moment of my life is coming up now! I mustn’t bish it. I mustn’t bosh it! I must keep very calm.'"
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churgle |
"The fact that it was none other than Boggis’s chickens they were going to eat made them churgle with laughter every time they thought of it."
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daddle |
"So start to run! Oh, skid and daddle / Through the slubber slush and sossel! / Skip jump hop and try to skaddle! / All the grobes are on the roam!"
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exunckly |
"'It’s a funny thought,' Sophie said. 'Exunckly,’ the BFG said."
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fizzwiggler |
"'The filthy old fizzwiggler!' shouted the BFG. 'That is the horridest thing I is hearing for years!'"
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flavory-savory |
"A walnut fresh from the tree is scrumptious-galumptious, so flavory-savory, so sweet to eat that it makes me all wobbly just thinking about it."
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frumpet |
"Mrs. Twit suddenly called out at the top of her voice, 'Here I come, you grizzly old grunion! You rotten old turnip! You filthy old frumpet!'"
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giganticus |
"'So now!' barked the Grand High Witch. 'So now I am having a plan! I am having a giganticus plan for getting rrrid of every single child in the whole of Inkland!'"
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gloomness |
"At the witchy hour of gloomness, / All the grobes come oozing home."
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gollup |
"I’ll bet if you saw a fat juicy little child paddling in the water over there at this very moment, you’d gulp him up in one gollup!"
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gruncher |
"The one waiting for you down there is the fearsome Gruncher, the Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher. He grunches up everything in the forest."
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grunion |
"George was especially tired of having to live in the same house as that grizzly old grunion of a Grandma."
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horrigust |
"'You is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans, right or left?'"
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mideous |
"In the quelchy quaggy sogmire, / In the mashy mideous harshland..."
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plussy |
"She’s a Minus no longer! She’s a lovely Plus! She’s as plussy as plussy can be!"
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razztwizzler |
"'I must say it’s quite an experience,' Sophie said. 'It’s a razztwizzler,' the BFG said. 'It’s gloriumptious.'"
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squishous |
"'Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious,' cried Mr Wonka. 'You are slimy and soggy and squishous!'"
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vermicious |
"'It’s worse than that!' cried the Chief of Police. 'It’s a vermicious Knid! Oh, just look at its vermicious gruesome face!'"
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zozimus |
"Dreams is not like human beans or animals. They has no brains. They is made of zozimus."
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