Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal or colloquial form of
pumpkin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. U. S. A pumpkin.
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- noun
Eye dialect spelling ofpumpkin .
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Examples
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Today is also Hallowe'en so Stu and the kids had great fun decorating the "punkin" (as Jaya calls it!) ....
tequilamonky Diary Entry tequilamonky 2009
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A fat, orange-and-white cat -- a color Dennis would have called "punkin '" during his Kentucky youth -- dozed on the window ledge like a melting tub of butter.
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If he had said pumpkin I would have given him up - (laughter) - but when he said "punkin" with the Greek Aspirate on the "unk" - the way it is pronounced by all
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I was stuffed with mealy Irish spuds and home-grown "punkin" pie.
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(I don't really have any pumpkins and we don't really say "punkin" in Indiana … okay sometimes we do when we are reciting this poem by Hoosier poet James Whticomb Riley).
May Dreams Gardens Carol 2008
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We would converse about random things, all the way there and back, and I felt so very important and special to have this time with my father, (as I was at that time, the eldest of 5 children and having one on one time was very rare.) and that feeling of specialness would last all week long, like a warm blanket being wrapped around me, keeping me safe. the knowledge that I was loved. and important. to my daddy. he always called me "punkin". he still does.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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a "punkin" bottom of rocks and gravel, near the mud, haddock are found from December to March.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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About the ricochet issue, the sabots are far less likely to cause problems than the punkin balls!
Bucking Slug Recoil 2009
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About the ricochet issue, the sabots are far less likely to cause problems than the punkin balls!
Bucking Slug Recoil 2009
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When I shot smooth bore I just had to try different punkin balls {I call em} in everytime I switched Shotguns.
which slugs are best to use with a mossberg 500 smoothbore. 2009
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