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Webster 1913 Edition


Punkin

Pun′kin

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Noun.
A pumpkin.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Definition 2024


punkin

punkin

English

Noun

punkin (plural punkins)

  1. Eye dialect spelling 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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Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

punkin

  1. Genitive singular form of punkki.

Etymology 2

Noun

punkin

  1. Instructive plural form of punkka.