α. 1600s pumpkie (probably transmission error), 1600s–1700s pomkin, 1600s–1800s pompkin, 1600s–1800s pumkin, 1600s– pumpkin.
β. 1700s– punking (U.S.), 1800s punkun (U.S. regional), 1800s– punkin (U.S.), 1900s– punkin' (U.S.).
pumpkinn.
/ˈpʌm(p)kɪn/, U.S. /ˈpəm(p)k(ə)n/ 1.
a. Originally: any of various kinds of edible gourd. Now: the fruit of any of several plants of the genus Cucurbita (family Cucurbitaceae), which typically have a thick orange rind and are cooked as vegetables or (esp. in the United States) used in sweet dishes, esp. as a pie filling; (U.S.) any of the larger, long-lasting varieties of gourd, produced by trailing plants (contrasted with a squash).In quot. 1647 apparently with reference to the poor (pumpkin-rich) diet of early settlers.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > pumpkins or squashes
turquin1600
squanter-squash1634
pumpkin1647
cushaw1698
simlin1775
summer squash1801
zucca1818
summer crookneck1832
pattypan1855
trombone1946
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > pumpkin
peponOE
pompion1526
pompillion1598
turquin1600
pumpkin1647
calabash1658
potiron1658
winter squash1771
zucca1818
kabocha1884
sugared pumpkin1884
sugar-pumpkin1905
Ceylon pumpkin1913
trombone1946
Queensland blue1956
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 67 He would come over to us, to helpe recruite our pumpkin blasted braines [1647 (another ed.) bewildred braines].
1648 Proc. Provincial Court 2 Oct. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 412 His pumkin Vines, wch..the hogs of the sd Edward Hall had spoyled.
1653 J. Quarles Tyranny of Dutch against Eng. ii. 51 We put into a small Port, called the Boohoole, which we afterwards named the Pumpkin-Bay, because of its fertility in bearing of Pumpkins.
1664 J. S. Παιδων Νοσηματα iii. 112 Outwardly use..the Juice of Lettice, Pomkins, and Melons, the flesh whereof may be pounded, and the Juyce prest out.
1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 3 Tobacco, Hemp, Flax, Pumpkies, Melons, &c.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 4) II. 174 Squashes are a small sort of Pumpkin lately brought into request.
1790 J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 64 The gardens furnish..melons, excellent pumpkins.
1818 E. P. Fordham Narr. Trav. 204 I like corn or hoe cakes..and stewed pumpkins very well.
1825 J. Pickering Inq. Emigrant (1831) 63 Pumpkins (Americans call them punkins) are very large.
1932 R. Macaulay They were Defeated i. ix. 64 Your corn-sheaves and your punkins and your pigs.
1983 M. Gee Sole Survivor xix. 203 Lamb and roasted pumpkin with peas and new potatoes.
2003 Valley Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 28 Oct. 8/4 Gently scratch your name in your pumpkin when it is just beginning to grow on the vine. Your name will get bigger and bigger.
b. Any of the annual plants producing such fruit. Now: spec. the vegetable marrow ( Cucurbita pepo), the crookneck squash ( C. moschata), and the winter squash ( C. maxima), which are native to warm regions of America and are typically a long trailing vine, with lobed leaves and deep yellow, star-shaped flowers; = pumpkin vine n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > pumpkin > pumpkin plant
peponOE
citrula1398
pompion1526
pumpkin vine1648
pumpkin1698
summer squash1801
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 105 Planted with..Pompkins, Cucumbers, Gourds.
1704 Nat. Hist. ix, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 256 Great Pumpkin. Its Fruit striated, round, but somewhat flattish, mixt with white and red, but within yellow.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xvii. 463 A wall of enclosure overgrown with wild pumpkins.
1896 Science 7 Feb. 204/2 The strictly agricultural plants, such as corn, beans, potatoes and pumpkins, ought to be sown in one bed.
1915 Biol. Bull. 28 434 This lady beetle feeds upon the leaves of pumpkin and of allied plants.
1991 P. Levine What Work Is ii. 24 The silver trails stretch from leaf to chewed off leaf of the runners of pumpkin to disappear in the cover of sheaves and bowed grass.
2. figurative. In colloquial use (chiefly North American).
a. Applied contemptuously to a person who is stupid, conceited, or self-important, or (occasionally) to a stout or portly body. Cf. pompion n. 2.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique
pumpkin1680
roundabout1809
middle-aged spread1883
spread1883
1680 J. Phillips Dr. Oates's Narr. Vindicated iv. 23 Let me tell this Pumpkin of a Vindicator, that the seed and the fruit are very different in shape, and yet the seed sends forth the fruit.
1768 in J. T. Buckingham Specim. Newspaper Lit. (1852) I. 148 Come shake your dull noddles, ye Pumpkins, and bawl.
1788 Mass. Convent. (1856) 303 If a southern man heard it, he would call us pumpkins.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. i. 90 But I ain't a pumpkin, the Squire he knows that.
1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) II. ix. 332 I wish to rid myself of this pumpkin of a body.
1885 R. Bridges Nero ii. i I'll let Rome know how pumpkin Claudius died.
1927 S. V. Benét John Brown's Body 61 Seward and Chase'll do for my pair of pumpkins.
1987 M. Maartens Ring around Moon 19 He had trouble finding the Afrikaans word for squash and she teased him a little..until he said, ‘You think I'm a pumpkin, young lady!’
b. U.S. slang. In predicative use: a person or matter of importance or consequence; an impressive thing. Esp. in some pumpkins.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing
carbunclea1350
swanc1386
phoenixc1400
diamondc1440
broocha1464
surmounterc1500
sovereign?a1513
primrose peerless1523
superlative1577
transcendent1593
Arabian birda1616
crack1637
first rate1681
peach1710
phoenicle1711
admiration1717
spanker1751
first-raterc1760
no slouch of1767
nailer1806
tip-topper1822
ripper1825
ripstaver1828
apotheosis1832
clinker1836
clipper1836
bird1839
keener1839
ripsnorter1840
beater1845
firecracker1845
pumpkin1845
screamer1846
stunner1847
bottler1855
beaut1866
bobby-dazzler1866
one out of the box1867
stem-winder1875
corker1877
trimmer1878
hot stuff1884
daisy1886
jim-dandy1887
cracker1891
jim-hickey1895
peacherino1896
pippin1897
alpha plus1898
peacherine1900
pip1900
humdinger1905
bosker1906
hummer1907
good egg1914
superstar1914
the berries1918
bee's knee1923
the cat's whiskers1923
smash1923
smash hit1923
brahma1925
dilly1935
piss-cutter1935
killer1937
killer-diller1938
a hard act to follow1942
peacheroo1942
bitch1946
brammerc1950
hot shit1960
Tiffany1973
bollocks1981
1845 Spirit of Times 18 Oct. 400/2 Woulddent you like to have him to take back to Lundon; you'd jest better believe he'd be some punkins in a crowd!
a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) viii. 266 Afore I left the settlements I know'd a white gal, and she was some punkins.
1852 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand 216 We being punkins were of course among the invited. [Note] A slang expression of young New York for people of value and consequence.
1887 Daily News 10 Mar. 3/1 Driving..from Piccadilly to Hammersmith, he [sc. H. W. Beecher] quaintly said: ‘London is some pumkins, I tell you’—a profound Americanism, which is supposed to convey a wholly unutterable approbation and surprise.
1903 McClure's Mag. 21 330/1 He was some pumpkin both in politics and color, and the friend of me and Jones.
1913 J. London Valley of Moon (1916) iii. vii. 380 Say, friend, you're some punkins at a hundred yards dash, ain't you?
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xii. 54 Go to hell Apovitch, Chicago aint the whole punkin.
1975 Publishers Weekly 21 July 67/3 New England, where the Boston radio team of Eddie Andelman, Jim McCarthy and Mark Witkin is evidently considered some punkins.
1997 S. Dallas Diary Mattie Spenser 214 He's some pumpkins, Tom is.
c. (originally U.S.). As a term of endearment: sweetheart, darling. Also occasionally in plural.
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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun]
darlingc888
belamy?c1225
culver?c1225
dearc1230
sweetheartc1290
heartc1300
sweetc1330
honeya1375
dovec1386
jewelc1400
birdc1405
cinnamonc1405
honeycombc1405
lovec1405
wantonc1450
mulling?a1475
daisyc1485
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
honeysop?a1513
powsowdie?a1513
suckler?a1513
foolc1525
buttinga1529
whitinga1529
beautiful1534
turtle-dove1535
soula1538
heartikin1540
bully?1548
turtle1548
lamba1556
nyletc1557
sweet-lovea1560
coz1563
ding-ding1564
pugs1566
golpol1568
sparling1570
lover1573
pug1580
bulkin1582
mopsy1582
chuck1589
bonny1594
chick1594
sweetikin1596
ladybird1597
angel1598
muss1598
pinkany1599
sweetkin1599
duck1600
joy1600
sparrowc1600
sucket1605
nutting1606
chuckaby1607
tickling1607
bagpudding1608
heartling1608
chucking1609
dainty1611
flittermouse1612
honeysuckle1613
fubs1614
bawcocka1616
pretty1616
old thinga1625
bun1627
duckling1630
bulchin1633
bulch?c1640
sweetling1648
friscoa1652
ding-dongs1662
buntinga1668
cocky1680
dearie1681
chucky1683
lovey1684
machree1689
nykin1693
pinkaninny1696
nug1699
hinny1724
puss1753
pet1767
dovey1769
sweetie1778
lovey-dovey1781
lovely1791
ducky1819
toy1822
acushla1825
alanna1825
treat1825
amigo1830
honey child1832
macushla1834
cabbage1840
honey-bunch1874
angel pie1878
m'dear1887
bach1889
honey baby1895
prawn1895
hon1896
so-and-so1897
cariad1899
pumpkin1900
honey-bun1902
pussums1912
snookums1919
treasure1920
wogger1922
amico1929
sugar1930
baby cake1949
angel cake1951
lamb-chop1962
petal1974
bae2006
the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a child
chickc1330
dillydowna1500
dilling1584
dotey1663
cherub1680
dilli-darling1693
dilli-minion1693
chickabiddy?1775
chicken1809
dote1809
chick-a-diddle1826
sock-lamb1838
sock1840
childie1848
chickadee1860
doy1862
diddums1893
pumpkin1900
poopsie1937
bubele1959
1900 Dial. Notes 2 53 Pumpkin, a student's best girl.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §185/2 Terms of endearment,..pumpkins.
1977 J. Wylie Homestead Grays 182 That's fine, pumpkin.
1987 J. Wilcox Miss Undine's Living Room ii. 23 Listen, pumpkin, I thought you ought to know.
2004 B. Meltzer Zero Game ix. 82 Don't even try with the charm, pumpkin. He's pitching a big client.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)
quab1617
sea-pudding1750
sea-orange1753
Priapus1765
holothuria1792
sea cucumber1841
sea-gherkin1841
holothurian1842
sea-melon1854
nigger1855
slug1855
holothurioid1859
sea-quince1861
holothurid1877
red fish1880
pumpkin1897
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous iv, in McClure's Mag. Jan. 228/2 Stripping the sea-cucumbers that they called pumpkins.
Compounds
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a. General attributive and objective. (chiefly U.S.).
pumpkin bread n.
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1704 S. Knight in A. M. Earle Colonial Dames & Good Wives (1895) v. 153 We would have eat a morsell ourselves But the Pumpkin and Indian-mixt Bread had such an aspect..that we left [it].]
1819 Western Rev. 1 185 Pumpkin bread and cakes are as much used in the interior of Kentucky, as pumpkin pies in New-England.
1902 Washington Post 12 Nov. 6/7 Pumpkin bread was a notable pioneer delicacy.
2004 S. Pickering Lett. to Teacher 7 I pat her on the shoulder and simply ask what's for dessert–maybe homemade pumpkin bread or better yet a chocolate cake.
pumpkin-chip n.
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1837 E. Leslie Directions for Cookery 238 Pumpkin Chips. It is best to defer making this sweetmeat (which will be found very fine) till late in the season.
1862 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 21 Preserves made of pumpkin-chips.
1999 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 17 Nov. Bring the oil to 360 degrees... Carefully transfer the pumpkin chips, frying in batches if necessary, to the hot oil.
pumpkin-eater n.
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1833 Mother Goose's Melodies 67 Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxv. 234 Many English families reside in our vicinity,..close, penurious, grasping..and somewhat apt in bargaining to overreach even the wary pumpkin-eaters, their neighbors.
1962 Punch 31 Oct. 648/1 Jake is the pumpkin eater of the title [sc. of Penelope Mortimer's novel The Pumpkin Eater]; he tries to put his wife in a pumpkin shell to keep her very well, as the old rhyme says, and it is this that precipitates the crisis.
2004 S. Selvadurai in Story-Wallah 363 You're a cheater, cheater pumpkin-eater!
pumpkin ground n.
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1799 G. Washington Writings (1893) XIV. 223 The large lot..is to have oats sown on the potato and pumpkin ground.
2004 E. Brende Better Off ii. 27 Two older Miller sons, Ellis and Jed, worked over the pumpkin ground using the disk.
pumpkin kind n.
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1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. 181 A dish of the pumkin kind, dressed after their way.
2003 M. Austin Land of Journeys' Ending 64 Corn,..the great white bean, and the calabaza, mother of all the squash and pumpkin kind.
pumpkin patch n.
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1839 Christian Reg. & Boston Observer 10 Aug. 134/4 His barn and cow house [were] blown down–and a boy who was in the loft of the barn at the time, was hurled several rods across the street, into the Yankee's ‘native element’, a pumpkin patch.
1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. iv. 99 Out dat door John come like a streak of lightning. All across de punkin patch, thru de cotton over de pasture.
2001 K. Baker Graveyard Game 45 The living children in their costumes..thronged at the edge of the cemetery, where a produce stand had a pumpkin patch and hayride.
pumpkin pudding n.
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1795 M. Russell Diary 16 Nov. in S. H. Jeyes Russells of Birmingham (1911) xiii. 192 I..also relish their fare, such as wheat and Indian and rye bread, Indian pudding, mush, pumpkin pudding.
1841 A. M. Maxwell Run through U.S. I. 81 Real, genuine, Yankee, new England, pumpkin pudding.
1989 I. Jones Woman's World Cookbk. 95 Pampoenmoes... A traditional Cape Dutch pumpkin pudding.
2003 D. Lamberti My Amazing Journey xiv. 79 I couldn't find the cucumbers with the cream..Maybe you finished them! Do you want some pumpkin pudding instead?
pumpkin shell n.
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1743 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 190/1 A Method of catching Ducks, by Men walking up to the Neck in the Water, with their Heads in a Pompkin Shell.
1828 Emerald & Baltimore Lit. Gaz. 7 June 59/3 A Diogenes (for so I must call all who do not laugh) should carry his head in a pumpkin shell,–for he sours the milk of every house he enters.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. v. 81 Crop it [sc. hair] forthwith, and that in the true pumpkin-shell fashion.
1844 J. G. Whittier Pumpkin 32 Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!
1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) ix. 142 He had patches upon his cranium as bald as a pumpkin shell.
2005 J. Staub 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden lii.166 The law that required men's haircuts to conform to a cap placed over the head, the ubiquitous pumpkin shell often, apparently, being substituted for the far scarcer caps.
pumpkin soup n.
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1830 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Boston) Apr. 64 It is, perhaps, well for Bull in the mass, still to think that Crapaud feeds upon pumpkin soup and frogs' legs.
1955 Caribbean Q. 4 ii. 102 After the First Communion, there is a fete for each child, with toasts in vermouth, sheepshead and pumpkin soup.
2004 J. Small Freedomtown x. 27 The first course consisted of a pumpkin soup served in pumpkin shaped soup bowls.
b. Forming adjectives and nouns designating or denoting (things of) a colour or shade reminiscent of a pumpkin, esp. a bright orange or orange-yellow.
pumpkin-coloured adj.
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1839 Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 291 Two young marmaids or marmisses..flapped their yaller-skinned paws over their punking-colored chops.
1853 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 3 Oct. Pointing to a white-headed, pumpkin-colored lad, whose age ranged somewhere between twelve and twenty.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 59/4 An ermine-trimmed pelisse over a pumpkin-colored caftan.
2005 R. Dessaix Twilight of Love 76 I studied the neat little pumpkin-coloured house in front of me for a moment or two.
pumpkin orange adj. and n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > orange > [adjective]
orange1532
oranged1538
orange-coloured1551
orange-tawnya1637
orangey1779
orangish1888
pumpkin orange1929
1929 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Rev. 17 Jan. 13/3 This bag and shoe of pumpkin orange kid embellished with piping, lacing and flat leather bows comprises a very smart ensemble for southern wear.
1974 L. Koenig Little Girl who lives down Lane xix. 224 A waitress..wearing a pumpkin-orange uniform.
2005 C. Hart Death of Party 58 Pansies..in shades of pink and yellow and purple and even pumpkin orange.
pumpkin-purple adj.
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1898 C. K. Paul tr. Huysman En Route ii. 27 Clad in robes of gamboge,..gooseberry-red, pumpkin-purple and wine lees.
pumpkin yellow n.
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1889 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 8 Mar. Pumpkin yellow is the title of a gorgeous hue, just now very popular.
1912 J. Webster Daddy-Long-Legs 173 Mr. Weaver has painted his barn..a bright pumpkin yellow.
2005 N. Weatherspoon Road to Awakening 55 His car had streaks of tobacco spit from the door handles to the bumper, and his teeth were stained a pumpkin yellow!
C2.
pumpkin butter n. a preserve or paste of spiced stewed pumpkin, used as a spread or condiment.
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1840 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. 7 407 A glorious supper was spread before him–turkey, venison, bear's meat, fresh butter, hot corn bread, sweet potatoes, apple sauce, and pumpkin butter.
1893 M. A. Owen Voodoo Tales 6 The place of the vegetables was taken by..little jars of a villainous sweet compound of pumpkin stewed with watermelon-juice and known to all as ‘punkin-butter’.
1975 E. Wigginton Foxfire 3 423 You make pumpkin butter like you do apple butter.
2005 H. Snyder Youngest Brother xiv. 26 We cooked them to a pulp, spiced them up, and made them into pumpkin butter.
pumpkin gourd n. †(a) = sense 1b (obsolete); (b) = sense 1a.
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1799 Lady C. Murray Brit. Garden I. 63 C[ucurbita] Pepo. Pompion, or Pumpkin Gourd.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 515 Cucurbita Pepo, Pompion, or Pumpkin Gourd.
1934 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 8 July f1/4 A priest kneeled before him in the temple, a flute like a pumpkin gourd in his hand.
1998 Asian Music 30 159 Her ‘head’ consists of a dried pumpkin gourd with a face painted on it.
pumpkin lantern n. a lantern made of the rind of a pumpkin hollowed out so as to be translucent.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > made from a turnip, pumpkin, or beet
turnip1766
pumpkin lantern1834
Jack-o'-lantern1837
turnip-lantern1844
punkie1931
1834 Portland Mag. 1 Nov. 59 Away would I trundle my comets on railways, almost into infinite space, to wheel back their pumpkin lanterns, and mingle with the Sun.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. v. 64 Something more than a pumpkin-lantern is required to scare manifest and irretrievable Destiny out of her path.
2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 27 Oct. Welcome [Halloween] party guests with an array of orange-glowing pumpkin lanterns. Creating them is now easy with the three-piece pumpkin carving set.
pumpkin latte n. North American a sweet, milky coffee drink flavoured with pumpkin spice; = pumpkin spice latte at Compounds 2.The more usual term is pumpkin spice latte.
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the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream
milk coffeec1695
café au lait1763
mélange1838
caffè latte1847
sergeant-major1923
café crème1936
cappuccino1948
mochaccino1963
flat white1971
latte macchiato1976
cortado1985
caffè macchiato1988
latte1989
skinny1992
1993 P. Janssen Espresso Seattle Style 104/2 Pumpkin Latté. Place 1 tablespoon of Pumpkin-based mix in a Cup. Add Espresso. Stir. Fill with Foamed/Steamed Milk. Splash with Praline Syrup.
2011 C. Snow What came First 329 I don't know about this pumpkin latte. It tastes like pumpkin pie, and I guess that's the point, but I'm not sure pumpkin and coffee really go together.
2016 K. Jansma Why we came to City i. 229 On that last, chilly Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving, William brought her a pumpkin latte.
pumpkin pine n. U.S. a variety of the white pine, Pinus strobus; (also) the wood of this tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American
arrowwood1578
white pine1682
wicopy1704
American olive1772
pumpkin pine1809
mountain mahogany1810
redwood1819
western yellow pine1857
western hemlock1867
western red cedar1874
Sitka cedar1875
ponderosa1878
walking stick1910
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of
bog fir1770
ocote1787
Georgia pine1796
Labrador pine1803
pumpkin pine1809
Banksian pine1831
bog-pine1842
tamarack pine1843
tamarack1864
Baltic pine1866
Norway pine1866
slash-pine1882
Queensland kauri1889
krummholz1908
fat-wood1909
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. 145 Of the white pine the lumberers distinguish two varieties, one of which they call punkin pine... The name punkin (pompion) they employ on account of the softness and fine grain of the wood.
1907 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 29 Aug. 15 The virgin white pine has practically disappeared from New England and huge ‘pumpkin pines’ four and five feet in diameter are now a matter of tradition.
1947 E. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 187 The solid old flooring of pumpkin pine.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 24 Dec. e1/3 It took him nine months to get through layers and layers of paint hiding the pumpkin pine underneath.
pumpkin vine n. = sense 1b.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > pumpkin > pumpkin plant
peponOE
citrula1398
pompion1526
pumpkin vine1648
pumpkin1698
summer squash1801
1648 Proc. Provincial Court 2 Oct. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 412 His pumkin Vines, wch..the hogs of the sd Edward Hall had spoyled.
1765 J. Bartram Diary (Remarks) It [sc. frost] killed ye pumkin vines & many of ye leaues of ye carolina peas but did not hurt ye tomatis.
1810 M. Cutler Jrnl. 9 July (1888) II. 343 Saw the cactus grandiflora, or night-flowering cereus... The plant has a long stem, resembling a pumpkin-vine, but no leaves.
1994 E. Danticat Breath, Eyes, Memory i. iii. 23 A barbed wire fence bordered my grandmother's pumpkin vines and tuberose stems.
Derivatives
ˈpumpkinish adj. resembling or akin to a pumpkin.
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1849 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 674/2 All this fruit..so far beyond the merely pumpkinish and grossly terrene, lies in the West India lands.
1995 New Yorker 26 June 124/1 A robust, bulky, big-breasted girl with a pumpkinish face.
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a1835 Mrs. Hemans in H. F. Chorley Mem. (1837) II. 18 There will be an outpouring of spirit of Pumpkinism upon me the moment I get back.
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