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pumpkinification

noun

Etymology

From pumpkin + -ification: a calque of the Ancient Greek ἀποκολοκύντωσις (apokolokúntōsis) via the Latin apocolocyntosis. From the title of the work Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, a satire on the deification of Claudius.

  1. derived from πέπων
  2. derived from pepō
  3. derived from pompon
  4. formed as pumpkinification — “pumpkin + -ification”

Definitions

  1. The act of turning into a pumpkin

    The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.

    • Christianity, for example, admits females only as third-ranking immortals ("saints"), and many of its third-ranking gods, prior to their pumpkinification, were themselves vicious misogynists.

The neighborhood

  • antonymapotheosisantonym(s) of “turning into a pumpkin”
  • antonymdeificationantonym(s) of “turning into a pumpkin”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA