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pumpkinhead

pumpkinhead is the alternative form of pumpkin head.

Meaning of pumpkin head

Noun

pumpkin head (plural pumpkin heads)

  1. (US, idiomatic, slang) A severe head injury resulting from a beating.
  2. (ethnic, slang, slur) An Asian, from being reputed to have large round heads.
  3. (US, archaic, slang) A New Englander.

Noun capitalized: Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead (plural Pumpkinheads)

  1. (slang) A fan of the rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.

Forms of pumpkinhead

pluralpumpkinheads
pluralPumpkinheads

Origin of pumpkinhead

From The Smashing Pumpkins + -head.

Questions about pumpkinhead

What does pumpkinhead mean?
Pumpkinhead means a fan of the rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
What is pumpkinhead the alternative form of?
Pumpkinhead is the alternative form of pumpkin head.
What part of speech is pumpkinhead?
Pumpkinhead is a noun.
What is the plural of pumpkinhead?
The plural of pumpkinhead is pumpkinheads.

Words near pumpkinhead in the dictionary

  1. pumpkineers
  2. pumpking
  3. pumpkingill
  4. pumpkingills
  5. pumpkings
  6. pumpkinhead
  7. pumpkinheads
  8. pumpkinification
  9. pumpkinish
  10. pumpkinity
  11. pumpkinless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pumpkinhead (page history and authors); Pumpkinhead (page history and authors); pumpkin head (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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