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ˈpumpkin-head U.S. colloq.
a. A head having the hair cut short all round: see quot. 1781.
b. A big head like a pumpkin.
c. A person having a pumpkin-head (cf. round-head).
d. A man with a head compared to a pumpkin, a stupid fellow, a dolt.
1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 195 Newhaven is celebrated for having given the name of pumkin-head to all the New-Englanders. It originated from the Blue Laws, which enjoin every male to have his hair cut round by a cap. When caps were not to be had, they substituted the hard shell of a pumkin, which being put on the head..the hair is cut by the shell all round the head. 1876H. E. Scudder Dwellers in Five-Sisters Court v. 87 ‘Pumpkin head!’ said the Doctor, more vigorously than politely. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. iii. 70 Children..with great pumpkin heads. 1898H. Frederic Deserter & Other Stories 143 You can't raise a plug of [tobacco] in a whole regiment of 'em. Regular pumpkin-heads!
Hence ˈpumpkin-ˌheaded a., having a head compared to a pumpkin, stupid.
[1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 126 Like pumpion headed Solonists they looke.] 1835–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 244 They ain't got two ideas to bless themselves with, the stupid, punkin-headed, consaited blockheads! 1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred xvi. 234 You know that pumpkin-headed old man's views on class distinctions. |