Roald Dahl - GOBBLEFUNK

Roald Dahl
WORLDS No. 1 STORYTELLER

Roald Dahl loved playing around with words and inventing new ones.  In The BFG he gave this strange language and even stranger name - Gobblefunk!

Here are some of the fabulous words that he invented with their definitions.

• BLABBERSNITCH:  a creature that lives at the bottom of the sea
• CRODSCOLLOP:  A mouth-watering flavour; for example, the taste of chocolate ice cream
• BUGGLES:  means completely crazy
• GOGGLER:  an eye
• OOMPA-LOOMPA:  A very small person.  A tribe of them work in Willy Wonka´s fantastic chocolate factory.
• HORNSWOGGLER:  A very dangerous creature.
• PHIZZ-WHIZZING:  Means brilliant or really good!
• SPLATCH-WINKLE: Splatch-winkling means rushing around; in a hurry
• RINGBELLER:  The BFG´s word for an amazingly excellent dream; the complete opposite of a nightmare
• SVOLLOP:  To svollop something means to destroy it.
• TIME-TWIDDLER:  A time-twiddler is very special.  Time-twiddlers are immortal; they live forever and ever.
• VERMICIOUS KNID:  Watch out!  These beasts are vicious killers who can fool you by changing shape.
• WHOOPSY-SPLUNKERS:  Used to describe something absolutely marvellous.

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