some pumpkins:

(dedicated to the one-year anniversary celebration of one milum, since this phrase may have survived in some places as something of a Southernism...and is apt to the gentleman in question)

Here, now, belatedly, is the second installment of my "Bring "Em Back Alive!" series of obsolete (or semi-obsolete) 19th Century words and phrases I am on a mission to revive in usage, 'cause I like 'em! This now takes its place next to absquatulate and kerfuffle (thank ya kindly, sjm) in the Resurrectionist Lexicon! (Rhuby, are you with me on this one?) And since there's also a Kentucky connection here, one can't help but see how it was tailor-made for a certain friend...'cause, that Jackie, she's some pumpkins!

from The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800's by Marc McCutcheon:

some pumpkins: someone or something impressive

1846: One of them thinks he's got a scrub [horse] that's some pumpkins.
--A Quarter Race in Kentucky, p. 118

1851: We went on until the third or fourth set, and I thought I was some pumpkins at dancing.
--An Arkansas Doctor, p. 97

1853: "Got a smart chunk of pony thar." "Yes, Sir, he is some pumpkins sure; offered ten cows and claves for him; he's death on a quarter."
--Paxton, A Stray Yankee in Texas, p.44