pannikin

[ pan-i-kin ]
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nounChiefly British.
  1. a small pan or metal cup.

Origin of pannikin

1
First recorded in 1815–25; pan1 + -i- + -kin

Words Nearby pannikin

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How to use pannikin in a sentence

  • Seeing his prisoner firmly bound, he ventured within with the customary bowl of rice and pannikin of water.

    The Argus Pheasant | John Charles Beecham
  • Ulick drew a pannikin of water and offered it to Constans that he might bathe his face, which was badly puffed and marked.

    The Doomsman | Van Tassel Sutphen
  • Poetry in cabbage-stalks, eaten with all the mud on, and ditch water scooped up in a dirty pannikin!

    Out in the Forty-Five | Emily Sarah Holt
  • I said I could not look at it: and thereupon he gave me some brandy and water in a tin pannikin, and left me once more to myself.

    Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The padre asked Lane if he would like a wad, that is a pannikin, of tea, and Lane said he would.

British Dictionary definitions for pannikin

pannikin

/ (ˈpænɪkɪn) /


noun
  1. mainly British a small metal cup or pan

Origin of pannikin

1
C19: from pan 1 + -kin

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