The word “hornswoggle” is believed to be of 19th-century American English origin, possibly descriptive of the way a bull’s head shakes to try to slip a lasso. However, the deliciously fun-to-say word didn’t escape 20th-century British author Roald Dahl. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Wonka turned the verb into a noun to describe the Oompa-Loompas and their home country of Loompaland: “What a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world — hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles.”