What is "punkins"

Usage examples of "punkins".

The rats started squeaking at me and the zartyls from Centauri started screeching at me and the punkins from Polaris made an unholy racket, because the punkins are hungry all the time.

Instead, I found five of the fattest punkins you ever laid your eyes on.

Here I am being beat on one minute and all my punkins gone, then next thing the gov'ner hisself is on the phone saying I'm gonna be protected.

And the gov'ner hisself even said he was sorry about what happened, even if it wasn't his fault, and I wasn't going to be in no kind of trouble for all them punkins clogging up the river.

All I did after trying to shoot him was help dump the punkins in the river.