punkin

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋkɪn/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌŋkɪn

Noun[edit]

punkin (plural punkins)

  1. Nonstandard form of pumpkin.
    • 1911, James Whitcomb Riley, When the Frost is on the Punkin:
      When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock []
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
      There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

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Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

punkin

  1. genitive singular of punkki

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

punkin

  1. instructive plural of punkka