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pumpkiny

pumpkiny adjective: resembling or characteristic of pumpkin.

Adjective

pumpkiny (comparative more pumpkiny, superlative most pumpkiny)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of pumpkin.
    • a pumpkiny taste
    • Tight-ass paced the floor like a caged tiger. A pumpkiny, scrotty sort of tiger, but still scary.2009, Mary Hughes, Bite My Fire, page 124

Forms of pumpkiny

comparativemore pumpkiny
superlativemost pumpkiny

Origin of pumpkiny

From pumpkin + -y.

Questions about pumpkiny

What does pumpkiny mean?
Pumpkiny means resembling or characteristic of pumpkin.
What part of speech is pumpkiny?
Pumpkiny is an adjective.

Words near pumpkiny in the dictionary

  1. pumpkinseed
  2. pumpkinseeds
  3. pumpkintini
  4. pumpkintinis
  5. Pumpkintown
  6. pumpkiny
  7. pumpless
  8. pumplex
  9. pumplexes
  10. pumplike
  11. pumpman

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