Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
some pumpkins en · NOUN
Meanings
-
(US, idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A person or thing of consequence.
June 21, 1848, N.Y. Herald
General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.
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.
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
Forms
Antonyms
small potatoes