pumpkin

pumpkin
pumpkin 1640s, alteration of pumpion "melon, pumpkin" (1540s), from M.Fr. pompon, from L. peponem (nom. pepo) "melon," from Gk. pepon "melon," probably originally "cooked by the sun, ripe," from peptein "to cook" (see COOK (Cf. cook) (n.)). Pumpkin-pie is recorded from 1650s. Pumpkin-head, Amer.Eng. colloquial for "person with hair cut short all around" is recorded from 1781.

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