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Pumpkin-head is an American English colloquialism meaning "person with hair cut short all around" and is attested/recorded from 1781. Now THAT'S a name!
Pumpkin can also be a nickname for your sweetheart, as in "You are so SWEET, Pumpkin".
However it is also used in reference to someone who is NOT a night-owl, as in "Would you like to share a cab home, or are you going to turn into a pumpkin at midnight, again?".
The word itself, pumpkin, is an English word coined in the 1640s as an alteration of pumpion, which was, itself derived in the 1540s from the Middle French word pompon, which derived from the Latin word peponem, which derived from the Greek word pepon, meaning "melon" which evolved from peptein, meaning "to cook".
The term Pumpkin-pie is attested from the 1650s.
Antarctica is the only continent where pumpkins cannot be grown!
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agofrom french pompon which came from latin & greek pepon meaning a kind of melon it could refer to any of several species of large edible orange yellow fruit of the cucurbita genus of gourds
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∙ 13y agoThe origin of "pumpkin" comes from the Middle French word "pumpion," meaning melon, and the earlier Greek and Latin word "pepon," which also means melon. The addition of -kin is attributed to Middle English; it is a suffix that means "small."
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∙ 14y agoThe origin is latin.
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∙ 15y agoLarge Melon
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