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Roald Dahl fans guess the meaning of his weird words

   28 May 2016 Last updated at 11:03 BST

   Roald Dahl was the master wordsmith who wrote some of the nation's most
   memorable children's books.

   To mark 100 years since his birth, almost 8,000 of the phrases he used
   in his novels are going to be published in a special dictionary.

   The BBC asked some of his biggest fans in Manchester what they thought
   of his language.

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   Roald Dahl's swashboggling words get their own dictionary

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