pumpkin-head

Irving had already put imaginary flesh on those bones, in the person of Ichabod Crane, the awkward scholarly schoolteacher scared out of town by his romantic rival, the pretend pumpkin-head Brom Bones, "a new American type: the anti-intellectual hero."

Nerds Book KaneCitizen 2008

Update: And perhaps this pumpkin-head carving BHOax.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

Irving had already put imaginary flesh on those bones, in the person of Ichabod Crane, the awkward scholarly schoolteacher scared out of town by his romantic rival, the pretend pumpkin-head Brom Bones, "a new American type: the anti-intellectual hero."

Archive 2008-01-01 KaneCitizen 2008

Update: And perhaps this pumpkin-head carving BHOax.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

Why a pumpkin-head Dracula with bat wings would lounge on a stack of library reference books written by Melton is not an easy question to answer.

It’s in His Blood 1998

"There are worse things than a taffy-pull – or – or we might pop corn and roast chestnuts, and make a pumpkin-head with a candle inside."

The Golden Apple Tree 1920

Ah, pumpkin-head, why did you not think to make all that profit?

The Purple Land 1881

Somebody has been told that somebody else heard some other pumpkin-head say so.

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

Giovanni Argiropulo, who ran full tilt against Cicero, and pronounced him all but a pumpkin-head.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Thou art not such a pumpkin-head as I took thee for.

Romola George Eliot 1849