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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread country pumpkin #25612 04/01/2001 11:56 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia paulb addict paulb addict Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Just back from screening two Chinese feature films for a group of students at our local university. Only one of the films was subtitled and in it I spotted a reference to a "country pumpkin". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: country pumpkin #25613 04/01/2001 2:16 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Sounds like a typo for "country bumpkin". I was surprised when I looked in dictionary and found that the first meaning given for "bumpkin" is a nautical term I never heard before. 1 a short boom projecting from a sailing ship, used as in securing a stay or brace 2 5prob. < MDu bommekijn, small cask < bomme, a cask + 3kijn, dim. suffix6 an awkward or simple person from the country Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: country pumpkin #25614 04/01/2001 4:16 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I'll have you know that I grew city pumpkins just fine, thank you! The vines tended to climb the chain-link fence, and it did look odd to see pumpkins growing above the ground like that. (Oh golly--I first typed 'growning' above the ground! Possibly more appropriate, homonymically?) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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