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Quaerereverum Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Pumpkin

Hi,

I heard in a movie:''You are not dealing with some pumpkins. I'm a man not without influence in your country.''

What does pumpkin mean? Naive?

Thank you.
  

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Hi, The word ' pumpkins ' makes no sense there. Was it perhaps the very old-fashioned word 'bumpkins '? Clive

  • Hi, The word ' pumpkins ' makes no sense there.
  • Was it perhaps the very old-fashioned word 'bumpkins '?
  • Clive
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Hi,

The word 'pumpkins' makes no sense there.

Was it perhaps the very old-fashioned word 'bumpkins'?

Clive
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Thank you.Emotion: smile I thought it means naive or weak. But it means a yokel .

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