punkin
English
Noun
punkin (plural punkins)
- 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
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