punkin
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Some tips on picking the perfect punkin for chunkin’.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2013
Gone be three years old in a few months, and pudgy as a punkin.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
De Punkin-bug's got a punkin smell, De Squash-bug smells de wust; But de puffume of dat ole Bedbug, It's enough to make you bust.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington
I believe, indeed, that Miss Blunt herself made one little punkin, as I called it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
“How d'ya like the punkin pie?” the older, Miss Belle, would ask.
From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton
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