"plumpkin" meaning in All languages combined

See plumpkin on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: plumpkins [plural]
Etymology: From plump + -kin; the suffix is not normally productive, so likely formed under the influence of pumpkin. Etymology templates: {{af|en|plump|-kin}} plump + -kin Head templates: {{en-noun}} plumpkin (plural plumpkins)
  1. (colloquial, humorous) A fat person. Tags: colloquial, humorous
    Sense id: en-plumpkin-en-noun-DF9hY5is Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -kin

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for plumpkin meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "plump",
        "3": "-kin"
      },
      "expansion": "plump + -kin",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From plump + -kin; the suffix is not normally productive, so likely formed under the influence of pumpkin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plumpkins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "plumpkin (plural plumpkins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -kin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior",
          "text": "On one FA's answering machine, he says, “Have you complimented a plumpkin today?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fat person."
      ],
      "id": "en-plumpkin-en-noun-DF9hY5is",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "fat",
          "fat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, humorous) A fat person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plumpkin"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "plump",
        "3": "-kin"
      },
      "expansion": "plump + -kin",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From plump + -kin; the suffix is not normally productive, so likely formed under the influence of pumpkin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plumpkins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "plumpkin (plural plumpkins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -kin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior",
          "text": "On one FA's answering machine, he says, “Have you complimented a plumpkin today?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fat person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "fat",
          "fat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, humorous) A fat person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plumpkin"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.