The Enormous Crocodile vocabulary
swish
a brushing or rustling sound (noun)
brute
a cruel person; bully (noun)
fiend
a cruel wicked and inhuman person (noun)
jungle
a forest (noun)
jerk
a sudden pull (noun)
swoosh
a whistling or hissing sound (noun)
beast
a wild animal (noun)
creepy
annoying and unpleasant (adjective)
wicked
bad (adjective)
choke
breathe with great difficulty (verb)
sniffed
breathed noisily through the nose (verb)
feast
celebrate with a big meal (verb)
chewy
describes food that needs to be chewed (= crushed with the teeth) a lot before it is swallowed (adjective)
foul
dirty (adjective)
awful
exceptionally bad (adjective)
marvelous
extraordinarily good (adjective)
luscious
extremely pleasing to the sense of taste (adjective)
tumbling
falling and rolling (verb)
tommy-rot
foolishness; nonsense (noun)
dares
have the courage to do something hard (verb)
squashed
having been crushed or flattened (Verb)
peered
looked at with concentration (verb)
snorted
made a noise by forcing air out of your nose to express annoyance or anger (verb)
stew
meat that cook slowly and for a long time in liquid (noun)
slimy
moist and sticky (adjective)
whooshing
move or cause to move quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound (adjective)
waddled
moved in a funny way, like a duck (verb)
crept
moved slowly (verb- past tense of creep)
whizzed
moved very quickly (verb)
headfirst
moving with the head leading (adjective)
helpings
portions of food taken at a meal (noun)
paddling
pushing with the hands and feet to move through the water (verb)
charged
ran towards (verb)
knobbly
rough and bumpy (adjective)
dribble
saliva spilling from the mouth (verb)
cursed
saying mean things (verb)
hoggish
selfish (adjective)
sparkled
shined brightly (verb)
skidding
slipping or sliding sideways (verb)
grinned
smiled (verb)
gulp
swallow food quickly (verb)
yummy
tasty; good in taste (adjective)
horrid
terrible (adjective)
gollop
the action of eating greedily (noun)
bitter
the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste (adjective)
snap
to act or move with quick or abrupt motions of the body (verb)
grumptious
to describe a person who always complains (adjective)
oozy
to describe a place with soft mud (adjective)
nibbling
to eat with quick, small bites (verb)
sizzled
to make a hissing sound as fat sounds when it is frying (verb)
swing
to move back and forth (verb)
swizzle
to move down (verb)
squished
to press on something soft and wet (Verb)
squizzled
to press on something soft and wet (Verb)
filthy
unpleasant (adjective)
gigantic
very big (adjective)
tremendous
very big (adjective)
tough
very difficult (adjective)
nasty
very unpleasant (adjective)
beastly
Awful; very unpleasant (adjective0
