plumpkin

Meanings

nounplumpkin (plural plumpkins)

colloquialhumorousA fat person.
On one FA's answering machine, he says, “Have you complimented a plumpkin today?”
2019, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior

From plump + -kin; the suffix is not normally productive, so likely formed under the influence of pumpkin.

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