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I've got a copy of "オ・ヤサシ巨人BFG", Taeko Nakamura's translation of the famous
children's book by Roald Dahl, [The
BFG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG).

The story concerns a friendship between a little girl named Sophie and a
friendly giant (the titular BFG). In one chapter, the BFG introduces Sophie to
a delicious fizzy beverage, called "frobscottle". This drink has bubbles which
flow down instead of up, and make the drinker fart in a way that propels them
around the room (yep, it's a pretty silly story).

In the original, this action is called a **whizzpopper** (a made-up word), and
in Nakamura's translation, it is **ゴナラ**.

My question: **Where does this "ゴナラ" come from?** There are no results for it
in <http://jisho.org/>, and various google search terms fail to turn up
anything relevant for me.

I would suspect that it is simply a made-up word, except that Nakamura's
translations of Dahl's other made-up words all have some structure / come from
existing words, e.g.:

  * "Frobscottle" (the fizzy beverage) is 泡立ちエキス, "bubbles extract".
  * "Snozzcumbers" (unpleasant tasting vegetables eaten by giants) are お化けキュウリ, "ghost cucumber".

So, is ゴナラ pure onomatopoeia / a fabrication just for this story, or does it
have some external meaning that I am missing?
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Why did the translator use ゴナラ here?
I'd guess it's just a play on おなら (fart).
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