punkin
Americannoun
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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
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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
You scoot home an' git that last year's punkin skin, an' I'll sneak some white duds out o' maw's bureau.
From Treasure Valley by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
You ducked out across country the night of the punkin freshet, when I was mud bound and the elephant was afraid of the bridges.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
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