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Happiness vs Pumpkin - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between happiness and pumpkin

is that happiness is the emotion of being happy; joy while pumpkin is a domesticated plant, in species cucurbita pepo , similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.

happiness

English

Noun

(wikipedia happiness)
  • The emotion of being happy; joy.
  • * 1877 , ,
  • Yes, Aline, true happiness comes of true love, and true love should be independent of external influences.
  • (archaic) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
  • * 1643 , — , I-i
  • All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
  • Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
  • Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness , as well as care. — .

    Synonyms

    * felicity (somewhat dated or formal) * blessedness (dated or religious) * bliss * joy

    Usage notes

    Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment.

    Antonyms

    * unhappiness * haplessness

    References

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    pumpkin

    Alternative forms

    * (sense) punkin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo , similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
  • The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
  • * 1904 , , The Marvelous Land of Oz , [http://www.literature.org/authors/baum-l-frank/the-marvelous-land-of-oz/chapter-01.html]:
  • There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.
  • The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.
  • (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita''; ''known in the US as winter squash .
  • (US)
  • * 1991', (John Prine), Pat McLaughlin, ''Daddy’s Little '''Pumpkin'' (song), '' :
  • You must be daddy’s little pumpkin .

    Derived terms

    * pumpkineer * pumpkinification * pumpkinless * pumpkin pie * pumpkinseed

    See also

    * calabash * calabaza * gourd * marrow * squash English affectionate terms