some pumpkins

English

Alternative forms

• some punkins

Noun

some pumpkins pl (plural only)

1. (US, idiomatic) A person or thing of consequence.

   Antonym: small potatoes

   • June 21, 1848, N.Y. Herald

     General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.

   • 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business‎^[1]:

     I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins^[sic]; but this here town is five times as big.

References

• Thornton, Richard H. An American Glossary. Francis & Co., 1912.
• “some pumpkins n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present