Quash vs Pumpkin - What's the difference?
quash | pumpkin |
To defeat forcibly.
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To crush or dash to pieces.
* Waller
(legal) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
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]:
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), '' :
As a verb quash
is to defeat forcibly.As a noun pumpkin is
a domesticated plant, in species cucurbita pepo , similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.quash
English
Verb
(es)- The army quashed the rebellion.
- Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
- The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed , / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
Anagrams
*pumpkin
English
(wikipedia pumpkin)Alternative forms
* (sense) punkinNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- You must be daddy’s little pumpkin .