What does the BFG call cucumbers?

Most giants eat human beans, but the BFG is a vegetarian giant, so he only eats snozzcumbers. A snozzcumber is a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes.
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What is the vegetable in the BFG called?

Snozzcumber Salad, Inspired by Roald Dahl's The BFG. Deep in the English countryside grows a curious vegetable known as a snozzcumber.
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What food did the 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 did the BFG call humans?

That's the start of the book The BFG by Roald Dahl. What Sophie doesn't realize is that the giant who kidnaps her is a friendly giant. However, his friends in Giant Country are anything but friendly! Each of them has a way of catching and eating ''human beans,'' which is what they call human beings.
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What does Frobscottle mean?

Frobscottle. Definition: A nice drink with soft drink bubbles. Sometimes a drink is so refreshing, tasty and fulfilling that "drink" just doesn't do it justice. Roald Dahl again has the perfect word: "frobscottle". So when a drink tastes extra good, you could say: "This frobscottle is absolutely gloriumptious!"
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What did The 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 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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What does the BFG call a giraffe?

Hioppodumplings – Hippopotamus. Human Beans – Human Beings. Humplehammers – Something that is very big. Jabbeling – Babbling. Jiggyraffes – Giraffes.
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How does the BFG say delicious?

Next time you're having your favourite dinner, you can say it's delumptious. This word means delicious.
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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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Is 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 was 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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Why is BFG smaller than the 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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What did the BFG drink?

Make the BFG's favourite drink at home with this recipe for fizzing, whizzing, fantastic Frobscottle.
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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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What does the BFG stand for?

The BFG ("Big Fucking Gun") is a fictional weapon found in many video games, mostly in id Software-developed series' such as Doom and Quake. BFG.
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Who created over 8000 words?

In May, the Oxford University Press also published a Roald Dahl Dictionary complete with 8,000 words coined or popularized by the author. There was linguistic method to Dahl's mad use of language.
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What does Uckyslush mean?

Whizz-popping: Gas released from the bottom, particularly after drinking frobscottle — although human beans consider whizzpopping rude, giants do not. Uckyslush: Food that is definitely not scrumdiddlyumptious — Greeks "is full of uckyslush", the BFG says, which is why giants avoid eating them.
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What does Lixivated mean?

transitive verb. : to extract a soluble constituent from (a solid mixture) by washing or percolation.
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What was the name of the chicken on The Friendly Giant?

The CBC produced more than 3,000 15-minute episodes of The Friendly Giant, which Homme (pronounced Hummy) had created himself. Each episode followed the big guy as he and his hand-puppet pals, Jerome the Giraffe and Rusty the Rooster (both played by Canadian actor and writer Rod Coneybeare), explored a single topic.
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What is a Phizzwizard in the BFG?

But it's easy to get caught up in the fun-sounding words and forget the meaning behind them, so you might be wondering what a phizzwizard dream is when your kid requests one after watching The BFG. According to Dahl, a phizzwizard dream is the cream of the crop — it's the best kind of dream a person can have.
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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 did the giants drink instead of water?

But if you're a giant in Roald Dahl's The BFG, you only know of one kind of drink, and it's called frobscottle. In the book, a girl named Sophie goes to Giant Country with the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG). When she asks for some water to drink, the BFG has never heard of it. He explains that giants drink frobscottle.
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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 words did Roald Dahl make up?

Some of Dahl's other words include:
  • Lickswishy: "A lickswishy taste or flavour is gloriously delicious"
  • Phizz-whizzing: "If you like something or someone"
  • Wondercrump: "Wonderful or splendiferous"
  • Snozzberry: "A type of berry you can eat"
  • Snozzwanger: "A deadly three-footed creature that preys on Oompa-Loompas"
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