English

Noun

pumpkinification ‎(uncountable)

1. The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
   • 1989, Robert Atwan, Our Times

     Christianity, for example, admits females only as third-ranking immortals ("saints"), and many of its third-ranking gods, prior to their pumpkinification, were themselves vicious misogynists.

   • 1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg,

     Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical example of officialdom's "laureate" criteria.