Rabbit Trail: BFG Vocabulary

Estimated Time: 5 minutes

The BFG has some very interesting words in his vocabulary. Let's talk about some of them. What do you think each word means?

Cannybull

"You think I is a man-gobbling cannybull."

Human Beans & Whoppsy-whiffling

"Bonecrushing giant crunches up two whoppsy-whiffling human beans for supper every night!"

Scrumdiddlyumptious & Uckyslush

"Some is scrumdiddlyumptious and some is uckyslush."

Bundongle

"your head is emptier than a bundongle."

Babblement

"We is having an interesting babblement..."

Gobblefunk

"Don't gobblefunk around with words."


Can you decide what these words mean from our story? What is your favorite word so far?

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