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Definition: Punch Bowl |
Punch BowlNoun1. A large bowl for serving beverages; usually with a ladle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell; (receptacle); socket. |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Receptacle | Compote, gravy boat, creamer, sugar bowl, butter dish, mug, pitcher, punch bowl, chafing dish. |
Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Punch Bowl |
| English words defined with "punch bowl": cup ♦ punch. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now I gotta go get my own punch bowl from my own house (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Group watching Tilghman mount horse, British (?) singing around punch bowl, Tilghman on horseback yelling news to crowd by harbor with ships. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Kentucky's punch bowl. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
punch bowl | 556 |
punch bowl cake | 81 |
punch bowl ladle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "punch bowl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kupë e madhe ponçi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | купа за пунш, дълбока кръгла котловина. (various references) | |
Greek | μπωλ για ποντσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | puncsostál. (various references) | |
Manx | meilley phuinsh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unchpay owlbay.(various references) | |
Russian | чаша для пунша (punchbowl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | posuda za punč. (various references) | |
Spanish | ponchera. (various references) | |
Swedish | bålskål. (various references) | |
Turkish | punch kâsesi, meyveli kokteyl kâsesi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-h-l-n-o-p-u-w" | |
-3 letters: blowup. | |
-4 letters: blown, bunch, bunco, clown, lunch, pouch, punch, upbow. | |
-5 letters: bloc, blow, bowl, buhl, chon, chop, chow, chub, clon, clop, club, coup, cowl, holp, howl, loch, loup, lown, ouch, ouph, phon, plow, unco, upon, whop. | |
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