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Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary

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Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary by Susan Rennie (, Edinburgh, Scotland), Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl, and Oxford Dictionaries

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By Susan Rennie (, Edinburgh, Scotland), Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl, and and, Oxford Dictionaries

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A new unique Roald Dahl Dictionary from Oxford. This is not an ordinary dictionary. After all, you wouldn’t expect an ‘Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary’ to be ordinary, would you? Lots of dictionaries tell you what an ‘alligator’ is, or how to spell ‘balloon’ but they won’t explain the difference between a ‘ringbeller’ and a ‘trogglehumper’, or say why witches need ‘gruntles’ eggs’ or suggest a word for the shape of a ‘Knid’. This dictionary does all those things. All the words that Roald Dahl invented are here, like ‘biffsquiggled’ and ‘whizzpopping’ to remind you what means what, but that is not all. You’ll also find out where words came from, rhyming words, synonyms and lots of alternative words for words that are overused. Oxford Children’s Dictionaries are perfect for supporting literacy and learning and this is the world’s first Roald Dahl Dictionary from the word experts at Oxford University Press. With real citations from Roald Dahl’s children’s books and illustrations by Quentin Blake, this is authoritative, engaging and accessible and will inspire and encourage young writers and readers.

Reviews

05 Feb 2024

To be honest, I think it is one of the most friendly and amazing dictionaries i’ve ever read. From aadvark to zozimius, it is completely Roald Dahl.

14 Aug 2023

It was very good and I especially liked finding the word Snozcumber

04 Aug 2022

This was a good dictionary and it included funny words that Roald Dahl made up, I thought it was good.
I would recommend it.

28 Nov 2021

Beautiful book. Children can learn words and their real meaning. I was having to explain meaning of some words. But this book helped me to understand meaning and i am able to shere it with my friends

28 Nov 2021

This book is perfect for the kids. Loads of words and their meaning. I have lean many new words which i do understand meaning just because this book.

02 Sep 2021

love it

22 Aug 2021

Cool

04 Aug 2021

Kind of funny

07 Aug 2019

Very funny. Very cheeky. My mum never new what I was saying. I could tell my teacher what I had written in my diary. I even poured my heart out to my friends.

09 Aug 2017

This book is great for people who like Roald Dahl and want to know the meanings of some of his words.

06 Aug 2017

If you like Roald Dahl books you'll like this!

27 Jul 2017

I like this book cause if your needing to write a funny book with some strange words this is the right thing to read.

29 Sep 2016

it tells you all the roald dahl's words that he made up

07 Sep 2016

It was very funny & can also be used as a normal dictionary. I loved all of the funny Ronald Dahl book words.

30 Aug 2016

Extremely funny if you're prepared to read the whole of it.

28 Aug 2016

Whoppsy-whiffling and gloriumptious!

24 Aug 2016

I highly recommend this book

23 Aug 2016

This book was really cool I now use some of the words in there and my family have no clue what I am saying I highly recommend this book

12 Aug 2016

it is good to find facts

25 Jul 2016

All of the wird and wonderful words that Roald Dahl used

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