Today, the 26 September would have been famed author Roald Dahl’s 100th Birthday.<\/p>\n
To celebrate the occasion, the Oxford English Dictionary is adding six new words popualrised or influenced by Dahl.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check them out below:<\/p>\n Golden ticket<\/strong>: \u201cTicket; one that grants the holder a valuable or exclusive prize, experience, opportunity etc.”<\/p>\n Dahlesque<\/strong>: “Implying something resembles or has the characteristics of Dahl\u2019s work, \u201ctypically characterized by eccentric plots, villainous or loathsome adult characters, and gruesome or black humour.\u201d<\/p>\n Witching Hour:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cA 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Oompa Loompa<\/strong>: An Oompa Loompa Is a character in movie they are orange, white eyebrows and green hair and really short and fat\/chubby.<\/p>\n Scrumdiddlyumptious<\/strong>:\u00a0 Originally found in The American Thesaurus of Slang in 1942, \u2018scrumdiddlyumptious\u2019 became a household word following the release of The BFG.<\/p>\n Human bean: <\/strong>This is a mispronunciation of \u201chuman being,\u201d uttered by the giant in The BFG (1982) The best graphics cards you can buy for under R2,500<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMore gaming news<\/h3>\n