Is a Snozzcumber real?

The Snozzcumber is a fictional foodstuff featured prominently in this The BFG. The Snozzcumber resembles a cucumber, but differs in various respects. It varies from nine to twelve feet long. It is striped lengthwise black and white, with wart-like growths all over its surface.
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What is a Snozzcumber?

A snozzcumber is a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes. Snozzcumbers taste disgusting but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses to hunt human beans like other giants.
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How big is a Snozzcumber?

It's important to note that one snozzcumber, which ranges between 9 and 12 feet long, makes enough salad to feed about forty people; the alternative vegetable option feeds six to eight.
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Is Frobscottle made of Snozzcumbers?

The props people of the 2016 film made this drink for the BFG. In The Movie BFG Frobscottle is pointed toward being made from snozzcumbers. The Fleshlumpeater steals a bottle for himself after telling the BFG off for waking him up by jabbering.
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What does BFG stand for Giant?

The BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant, but writer Roald Dahl probably hoped your mind would think of something worse. His usually did.
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Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary: What’s a Snozzcumber?



What does BFG call a fart?

In Giant Land, a fart is a whizzpopper. Now that The BFG is on the big screen, it's likely the word "whizzpopper" will be creeping into the vocabularies of kids everywhere. The Giant's word for a fart is only one element of author Roald Dahl's made-up language, Gobblefunk.
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What is the Bfgs real name?

The giant reveals that his only name – besides "Runt", the other giants' nickname for him – is "the Big Friendly Giant", which leads Sophie to call him "BFG".
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Can The BFG fly?

But, as well-made and well-meaning as it is, The BFG stubbornly refuses to take flight. The big-screen debut of The Big Friendly Giant is a small disappointment.
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What did The BFG call burps?

He thinks that would make a person burp, and he considers burping a very rude noise. Sophie, as you might expect, points out that a noise coming out the other end is more rude. The BFG has a different opinion: he calls that sound a whizzpopper and considers it a sign of happiness.
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Who is the Bloodbottler in BFG?

He, along with the other eight man-eating giants, live in Giant Country. As his name implies, he has a fondness for the taste of human blood. The Bloodbottler is second-in-command to the giants' leader, the Fleshlumpeater, and also the smartest of the tribe. He was portrayed by Bill Hader.
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What does the BFG say about Snozzcumber?

The BFG tells us right away that snozzcumber isn't tasty. He calls it a ''repulsant snozzcumber,'' and says it's ''extremely icky-poo. '' He clearly doesn't enjoy it.
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How does the BFG talk?

The BFG speaks his own language, and it has a name

As The BFG says to Sophie, "Words... is oh such a twitch-ticking problem to me all my life." His idiosyncratic way of talking - with its tangled-up sentences and newly-crafted phrases - led Roald to draft long lists of words for him to speak.
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What did BFG eat?

The BFG then explains that he eats the only edible plant that will grow in the giants' homeland: snozzcumbers, which are disgusting striped cucumber-like vegetables with wart-like growths that taste like frog skins and rotten fish to Sophie and cockroaches and slime wanglers to the BFG.
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What is a Fizzwiggler mean?

Fizzwiggler (noun): A fizzwiggler is someone who is mean and cruel. The BFG thinks that Mrs. Clonkers is a real fizzwiggler because she is cruel to the children in the norphanage.
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What does Frobscottle taste like?

It tastes of vanilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of raspberries on the edge of the flavour.” And once you have a sweet taste of Frobscottle, then comes the whizzpoppers.
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What does Phizz whizzing mean?

Phizz-whizzing: "If you like something or someone" Wondercrump: "Wonderful or splendiferous"
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What words did Roald Dahl create?

Dahl famously invented words to stop his readers getting so bored they closed their books and watched TV. Gumplewink, grobbled and sleep squiggler were unused but found in his archive during research for the book.
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What does Sophie say in BFG?

For example Sophie tells the BFG, “If you were up in the middle of the night and she found out,you would get punished…. She would lock you in the dark cellar.”(p. 31). The BFG was all alone and he got beaten up by the giants, with no one there to say that it doesn't matter what the other giants say about you.
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What does Sophie from BFG wear?

Sophie from The BFG wears a nightgown for the majority of the book.
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Why are giants afraid of water?

The BFG gets his own back on the Giants by telling them rain will strike, and as the Giants are deeply afraid of water, because its something even they cannot control, the Giants are all scared off into hiding.
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Is The BFG real?

Turns out it isn't your granddad, it's a 6ft 5in builder who was best pals with the infamous author. The real-life BFG is Walter Saunders, also known as Wal, who often played snooker with Dahl and even built the author a writing hut at the tail-end of his garden, according to The Sun.
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Why is the BFG smaller than other giants?

Without a lot of help, runts typically die. Sometimes people tease small children by calling them "runt". The explanation, then, is that for some unknown reason this giant is much smaller than all the others.
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Will there be a BFG 2?

A sequel is in no way guaranteed. Despite all of the talent and prestige behind the film, the decision to make a follow-up film depends largely on how it does financially, and the movie has some fierce competition.
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What does the Big Friendly Giant look like?

The BFG is the Big Friendly Giant, who is so honorable that he'd rather eat awful-tasting snozzcumbers than eat ''human beans'' or steal. He's got huge ears, a sharp nose, and a pale, wrinkly face. Although he hasn't had a chance to go to school, he's taught himself to read and write and he does ''the best he can.
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