Today, the 26 September would have been famed author Roald Dahl’s 100th Birthday.
To celebrate the occasion, the Oxford English Dictionary is adding six new words popualrised or influenced by Dahl.
Check them out below:
Golden ticket: “Ticket; one that grants the holder a valuable or exclusive prize, experience, opportunity etc.”
Dahlesque: “Implying something resembles or has the characteristics of Dahl’s work, “typically characterized by eccentric plots, villainous or loathsome adult characters, and gruesome or black humour.”
Witching Hour: “A special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves.”
Oompa Loompa: An Oompa Loompa Is a character in movie they are orange, white eyebrows and green hair and really short and fat/chubby.
Scrumdiddlyumptious: Originally found in The American Thesaurus of Slang in 1942, ‘scrumdiddlyumptious’ became a household word following the release of The BFG.
Human bean: This is a mispronunciation of “human being,” uttered by the giant in The BFG (1982)
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