| 单词 | some pumpkins |
| 释义 | > as lemmassome pumpkins b. U.S. slang. In predicative use: a person or matter of importance or consequence; an impressive thing. Esp. in some pumpkins. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 1845 Spirit of Times 18 Oct. 400/2 Woulddent you like to have him to take back to Lundon; you'd jest better believe he'd be some punkins in a crowd! a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) viii. 266 Afore I left the settlements I know'd a white gal, and she was some punkins. 1852 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand 216 We being punkins were of course among the invited. [Note] A slang expression of young New York for people of value and consequence. 1887 Daily News 10 Mar. 3/1 Driving..from Piccadilly to Hammersmith, he [sc. H. W. Beecher] quaintly said: ‘London is some pumkins, I tell you’—a profound Americanism, which is supposed to convey a wholly unutterable approbation and surprise. 1903 McClure's Mag. 21 330/1 He was some pumpkin both in politics and color, and the friend of me and Jones. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon (1916) iii. vii. 380 Say, friend, you're some punkins at a hundred yards dash, ain't you? 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xii. 54 Go to hell Apovitch, Chicago aint the whole punkin. 1975 Publishers Weekly 21 July 67/3 New England, where the Boston radio team of Eddie Andelman, Jim McCarthy and Mark Witkin is evidently considered some punkins. 1997 S. Dallas Diary Mattie Spenser 214 He's some pumpkins, Tom is. < as lemmas |
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