Synonyms for pumpkin
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : puhmp-kin or, commonly, puhng-kin |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpʌmp kɪn or, commonly, ˈpʌŋ kɪn |
Définition of pumpkin
Origin :- 1640s, alteration of pompone, pumpion "melon, pumpkin" (1540s), from Middle French pompon, from Latin peponem (nominative pepo) "melon," from Greek pepon "melon," probably originally "cooked (by the sun)," hence "ripe;" from peptein "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Pumpkin-pie is recorded from 1650s. Pumpkin-head, American English colloquial for "person with hair cut short all around" is recorded from 1781. Vulgar American English alternative spelling punkin attested by 1806.
- America's a dandy place:The people are all brothers:And when one's got a punkin pye,He shares it with the others.[from "A Song for the Fourth of July, 1806," in "The Port Folio," Philadelphia, Aug. 30, 1806]
- noun vegetable
- Prepare the pumpkin as directed in Art. 65 and add the milk to it.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Warm water that has had pumpkin boiled in it is very good for bread.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- When they had gone he went into the den and came back with the pumpkin.
- Extract from : « Weak on Square Roots » by Russell Burton
- And his head ain't all mush and seeds like a pumpkin, if I'm any judge.
- Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Then she took her into her chamber, and said to her, “Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin.”
- Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
- The question was, How can a pumpkin vine climb a fence, anyway?
- Extract from : « Christmas Every Day and Other Stories » by W. D. Howells
- The ruddy countenance of the pumpkin was the very picture of geniality.
- Extract from : « By the Christmas Fire » by Samuel McChord Crothers
- Pumpkin had seen Rasco on the march just before Dick was taken.
- Extract from : « The Boy Land Boomer » by Ralph Bonehill
- And many a fine gentleman has a pumpkin head, as well as my scarecrow.
- Extract from : « Short Stories of Various Types » by Various
- Because he was a large melon, every other Florentine is not a pumpkin, I suppose.
- Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
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