Hello,
Another late post this week, but perhaps that’s forgiveable given that it was my birthday?
I’m onto “The BFG” with my children now, and found another list of wordfoolery words at the back of “Esio Trot” by Mr. Dahl. As someone who missed reading his books during my childhood, I am delighted to find his invented words. If you’re a fan, try the site – you can listen to him read an extract from “The BFG”.
- bogglebox – a school for young boys
- frothbungling – stupid
- crabcruncher – creature living high on cliffs by the sea. Extremely rare.
- gloriumptious – gloriously wonderful
- jumpsquiffling – something absolutely huge
- muggled – to be a bit confused (did Ms. Rawling find inspiration for her muggles here?)
- quogwinkle – an alien from outerspace
- lixivate – being squashed and turned into liquid at the same time.
- snozzcumber – the BFG eats these – they are the only vegetable growing in giant country – knobbly, with black and white stripes, and tastes horrible.
- trogglehumper – a nightmare
I hope you don’t encounter a crabcruncher and get lixivated this week,
Happy reading, writing, and wordfooling,
Grace
Wordfoolery 
Good stuff, I have a blog with the name Wordfoolery as well, but it’s a bit different from yours, cheers.
is crabcrunchers real?????
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