Punchbowl

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See also: punch bowl, punchbowl, and Punch Bowl

English

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Etymology

From punch bowl. From being a bowl-shaped valley.

  • (New South Wales): From being a circular valley in Belfield. The suburb of Punchbowl is named after the valley of Punch Bowl in neighbouring Belfield.
  • (Korea): Coined by United Nations forces during the Korean War, when they fought a battle there.

Proper noun

Punchbowl

  1. A valley in Belfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Synonyms: Punch Bowl, Punch Bowl Valley, Punchbowl Valley
  2. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney
  3. A neighbourhood of Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  4. Ellipsis of Punchbowl Crater.; A volcano in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
  5. A valley in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, South Korea
    Synonym: Haean Basin
    • 1985 October 27, Clyde H. Farnsworth, “KOREA WAR VETERANS RETURN FOR ANOTHER LOOK”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 1, page 16‎:
      Hill 930 here, about 100 miles northeast of Seoul, just above the village of Wontong, towers over a region still called the Punchbowl because that is what it looked like to G.I.'s during the Korean War. […]
      "The Korean War is to all accounts and purposes ignored," said Rudy Basurto of Lompoc, Calif., who was a medic with the 45th Division 33 years ago in the Punchbowl.
    • 2017 July 16, Lee Williams, “Korean War veteran’s Navy Cross is 66 years overdue”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on February 12, 2024‎:
      Naimo ran to their aid, exposing himself to withering enemy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire sweeping his company’s position: Hill 1052, near what would be called “The Punchbowl,” north of the 38th Parallel.

Descendants

  • → Korean: 펀치볼 (Peonchibol)

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