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pumpkin head

American  

noun

  1. a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.


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Etymology

Origin of pumpkin head

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85


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Some gifts apply filters to the influencer’s face like the cowboy hat and moustache, a red beret or seasonal pumpkin head.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024

“Meg donning the pumpkin head is becoming my favorite holiday tradition,” one person wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

It has featured several multi-gourd centipedes, made up of dozens of tiny pumpkins snaking across the yard, culminating in a terrible pumpkin head rising off the lawn to snarl at passersby.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019

“I had a vision of the stone wall, I could see it in my little pumpkin head and I knew what I wanted it to look like,” Greene said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2018

The light seemed almost to have features as Rick drew closer, like a pale-blue jack-o'-lantern, but it was soon clear that this was no hollowed pumpkin head.

From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

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