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some pumpkins

some pumpkins noun: a person or thing of consequence.

Noun

some pumpkins pl (plural only)

  1. (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
    Antonyms:
    small potatoes

Antonyms of some pumpkins

Forms of some pumpkins

alternative formsome punkins

Questions about some pumpkins

What does some pumpkins mean?
Some pumpkins means a person or thing of consequence.
What part of speech is some pumpkins?
Some pumpkins is a noun.

Words near some pumpkins in the dictionary

  1. Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid
  2. some ole
  3. some one
  4. some people
  5. some people have all the luck
  6. some pumpkins
  7. some rights reserved
  8. some small matter
  9. some something or another
  10. some something or other
  11. some something or the other

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