Talk Like a Goblin!

Banana

Most fruit, espectially the kinds that need to be peeled. Or anything yellow.

• big dang banana - melon
• orange banana - orange
• red banana - apple
• banana - banana
• Banana - a yellow spotty kobold or lizard
• banana dinner - goldfish

Borpo

Thought to be a highly bastardized version of "scorpion". Can also refer to most large and/or dangerous insects, arachnids, or creepy-crawlies.

Chicken

Anything with feathers. Chicken, duck, goose, small bird, feather duster, uniform plume.

• Noun
• Plural: chickens
• "Ooo, chicken dinner!" (looking at a duck)
• "Nice chicken!" (making conversation with a soldier with a fancy plume, on guard)
• "THE CHICKENS ARE SWARMING!" (running in terror from a flock of cassowaries)

Chunks

A thing which has been altered to now be smaller bits of itself. This can be from cutting a vegetable, post-violence or decomposition of just about anything, or an object breaking or ripping.

• Noun (Chunks)
• "Hand me those chunks" (of squash, diced for soup)
• "Don't touch that chunk, it's probably haunted" (inspecting a severed hand from a safe distance)


• Verb (chunk, to chunk)
• "Take this squash and chunk it!"
• "Oh, that guy so got chunked" (while looking at a scattered skeleton)


• Adjective (Chunked)
• "Hand me that chunked squash!" (for soup)
• "Yeah, chunked Bob. Not a pretty sight." (referring to a friend who was exploded)

Crunchy

A thing which occurs in nature, typically small enough to lift and of a crunchy texture. This includes acorns, pine cones, sticks, fallen leaves, rocks, etc. Not necessarily edible, but can be.

• Noun
• Plural: Crunchies
• "Look at all these crunchies!" (while walking through the forest admiring the leaves)
• "Are you gonna eat that last crunchy?" (referring to a forgotten acorn among snacks)

Dinner

Things that swim. Anything that swims. Fish, crabs, gators, krakens, ducks. Some seaweed that makes wiggly motions when underwater.

• Noun
• Plural: a lot of Dinner
• "Ooo, chicken dinner!" (looking at a duck)
• "THIS DINNER WANTS TO EAT ME!" (while running from a crab)
• "That's a lot of dinner" (looking at a well-stocked aquarium tank)

Explode

To explode is to cease to be, typically in a dramatic fashion, but not always. Sometimes the thing that ceases to be is a state of being, more so than a living being.

• Verb
• "Yeah, that soup just exploded!" (a lot of soup was eaten in a short time)
• "Oh, Cactus exploded their gender last week. I think they're a them now."
• "It just exploded!" (goblin caught in the wreckage of a Thing, which has clearly exploded)

Juice

Liquid of any variety, usually thin liquid. This includes milk, rain, pond water, kool aid, blood...

• Noun (juice)
• "And then we add the juice..." (making soup)
• "Drink your moo juice!" (to a child with a glass of milk)


• Adjective (Juicy)
• "sky's juicy tonight" (it's raining hard)
• "why are you juicy?" (someone is very wet)


• Verb (Juiced, to juice)
• "and then she totally juiced him" (threw water on a problematic guest)

Kidget

Life stage after Squishy and Toddle-About and before fully grown; someone or something that is not quite mature emotionally or physically.

Nosh

Short for Rhi(nosh)erous.

Ook Gook Kook Bazook

"fancy cookie", but can also refer to most overdone desserts, including cupcakes, pancakes, and any of those ridiculous social media concoctions that include cookies among the decor. This includes just about anything of the "cookies and cream" flavor presenting actual bits of Oreos. Often used as an exclamation or response more so than a noun.

• Then there was this BIG cookie cake at the party... /Ook Gook Kook Bazook! Love those

Slime

Much like juice, but thicker, and often stickier. Includes honey, certain bodily fluids, chowder base, snails, snail trails, tomato paste, and mud.

• "WHY ARE YOU SLIMY?!"
• "and then they got totally slimed up ;)"

Soup

Juice or Slime and Chunks together, usually with additional flavors with intent to be either eaten or used as a method to create additional goblins.

Squishy

(a) Squishy: noun, often a proper noun or title; something that is and squishy and often small

• Baby, small and new and not yet walking, still in the potato stage
• Creature actively being treated like a baby
• Fat, usually fat enough to cause mobility issues (this is not a hinderance in goblin kind)

Steal

Goblins only have one word for borrow, take, buy, sell, gift, recieve, steal, or otherwise transfer possession of an item. It's "steal". This is most likely due to a shaky understanding of human property law.

• "Look at all this stuff I stole for my birthday!"
• (That's a nice jacket) "Thanks, I stole it!"
• "Yeah, I stole this from Mango for the day."
• "Hi, I'd like to steal ummmmmmmm four bags of red thanks"

Toddle-About

A stage of life between Squishy and Kidget, with mobility but not reliable mobility. A tripping hazard to others and a fall risk to themselves.

• baby learning to walk
• newborn goats, horses, or cows; the really wobbly kind