pumpkinification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1870, George Long, s.n. "Seneca, L. Annaeus", page 781 in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume III. Apocolocyntosis, is a satire against the emperor Claudius. The word is a play on the term Apotheosis or deification, and is equivalent in meaning to Pumpkinification, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins."
- "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."
- "1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical example of officialdom's "laureate" criteria."
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.