He also appears in another novel, Danny, the Champion of the World, in which he is introduced as a folkloric character. When the Queen's brave soldiers are dropped down to tie up the giant's wrists and ankles, Fleshlumpeater was lying on his right arm and they could not tie the arms together. Between 1986 and 1998, the novel was adapted into a newspaper comic by journalist Brian Lee and artist Bill Asprey.

Along with all the other Giants, he is captured and bound somewhere in England, where he is fed only Snozzcumbers. Looking out of her window, she sees a mysterious Giant Man in the street, carrying a suitcase and a trumpet. Others like the Norway people and the Yankee-Doodles is ever so much bigger and usually two or three of those makes a good tuck-in. Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today. Nine Man-Eating Giants: Each man-eating giant is about 50-feet-tall and proportionately broad and powerful.

Voiced by Michael Knowles and Ballard Berkeley in the 1989 film and portrayed by Chris Shields and Matt Frewer in the 2016 film. Tourists come in huge numbers to watch the giants in the pit, who are only fed snozzcumbers; they receive an unexpected welcome snack when three drunks manage to climb the safety fence one night and fall in. Being the leader of the giants, Fleshlumpeater is also the one giant who poses a problem in the plan that the BFG and Sophie devise to capture them. Before letting the BFG leave peacefully, Fleshlumpeater suddenly grabs him with his two gigantic hands and tosses him high into the air.

On his bare feet he was wearing a pair of ridiculous sandals that for some reason had holes cut along each side, with a large hole at the end where his toes stuck out. Inside his mouth lived a "jet black" tongue textured like a slab of meat, salivating for the next meal of two or three children at a time.They vary their choice of destination both to avoid detection and because the humans' origins affect their taste. Then suddenly the heavens opened and he let fly with a series of the loudest and rudest noises Sophie had ever heard in her life. The BFG is a story about a girl, Sophie, who the BFG — Big Friendly Giant — steals out of her bed at the orphanage. The only other such longstanding partnership I can think of in English children’s literature is with author Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt.

The Fleshlumpeater, appearing to be the leader of the giants is the most terrifying having tribal tattoos and markings, ear rings and battle scars, gold wrist cuffs, razor sharp, talon-like fingernails, one red eye and one blinded eye with a scar. She took that pin and "rammed" the entire three inches into the great hairy leg of the Fleshlumpeater's right ankle causing instant pain. In his sleep, while Fleshlumpeater dreams of escaping the terrible Jack, he smacks a giant and kicks another. Sophie: The imaginative, creative, nearsighted and kind-hearted protagonist of the story who becomes a brave international heroine. Roald Dahl had a long partnership with artist Quentin Blake who illustrated almost all of his children’s books.In this tied-up way, Fleshlumpeater and the other eight unfriendly and grotesque giants travel by helicopter to a deep pit, where the Queen of England would feed them snozzcumbers for the rest of their lives.

When the Bloodbottler, one of the other giants, enters the cave uninvited, Sophie hides in the snozzcumber; not knowing this, the BFG, in the hope that its revolting taste will drive the Bloodbottler away and thus prevent his discovering Sophie, tricks the Bloodbottler into eating the vegetable. Sophie takes off a brooch, or fancy pin that the Queen gave her, and sticks the pin into the giant's ankle as hard as she can. Sophie, squinting through the glare of the sun, saw several tremendous tall figures moving among the rocks about five hundred yards away.Fleshlumpeater, the coward that he is, felt the pin in his ankle, saying "The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me. Clonkers: The unseen director of the orphanage in which Sophie lives at the start of the novel; described as cruel to her charges. He becomes friends with a girl named Sophie, and together they make sure the giants can't eat anyone else.