some pumpkins

A term in use at the South and West in opposition to "small potatos." The former is applied to anything large or noble; the latter to anything small or mean.

Although the Mexican women are not distinguished for beauty, I never remember once to have seen an ugly woman. Their brilliant eyes make up for any deficiency of feature, and their figures are full and voluptuous. Now and then, moreover, one does meet with a perfectly beautiful creature; and when a Mexican woman does combine such perfection, she is "some pumpkins," as the Missourians say when they wish to express something superlative in the female line.--Ruxton's Adventures in Mexico, p. 57.

Cass is some punpkins, and will do the needful in the office line if he is elected, which I hope and trust will be his fate. I am no Democrat, as embraced on their whole platform, but I am, what I conceive to be, a least evil man.--Letter from New Orleans, N. Y. Herald, June 21, 1848.