grockle

They are hunted down and all but one killed by Grockle.

Grockle turned out to be onomatopoeic, being all the little dragon ever said.

His assistant, not surprisingly, replied, What the hell's a grockle?

David arrives at the island and calms down the scared yet vicious Grockle.

The grockle was a small dragonlike creature with magic powers.

Lucy calls David for help, and he sends Grockle.

He is later controlled by the Ix to kill grockle but kills David instead.

He picked up Freddie Fly's use of grockle to add authenticity to his script.

Also David becomes dragon when he extends his fain into Grockle.

There have been various attempts to illuminate the uncertain origin of grockle , from the fanciful to the plausible.

The writer was Peter Draper who in this film popularised the word 'grockle' to mean a holiday visitor.

He was so struck by her appearance that he observed to his assistant that the old lady was like a little grockle.

In Bergstrom's office, Zanna finds the baby and decides to name him Grockle.

Emmet and Grockle are mildly abusive yet affectionate West Country terms for tourists.

At first he doesn't believe in dragons, but brother Vincent (Arthur) convinces him, with the help of Grockle.

David arrives in Africa to find Sophie's wildlife sanctuary in flames, which Grockle extinguishes.

He is illuminated with Grockle, and is called G'lant when fused with him.

David talks to Bergstrom revealing the full story of Gawain, and Grockle turns to stone like Gawain.

Mr Rivers explained that he had been reminded of a figure from a picture serial he had once read, called Jimmy and his Grockle .

Let me guess - you live in Little Snoring on the Wye in Dumbshire where houses go for a grockle?

Grockle is a similar West Country dialect word used in Devon but emmet is distinctly Cornish.

This version claims that grockle was the spontaneous coinage of a worker in the southwest holiday trade, prompted by an early memory of a picture story in a children's comic.

Perhaps it was The System that helped grockle to beome so far-flung and win out over the allegedly more vivid but today still Cornwall-confined emmet .

The Cartwrights leave, and David contacts G'Oreal, informing him that Grockle is destroying the semi-Darklings.

But I personally would speculate that the unknown creator of Jimmy and his Grockle in the early 1930s keew the sort of word that resonates in children's memories.