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View synonyms for pannikin

pannikin

[ pan-i-kin ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
  1. a small pan or metal cup.


pannikin

/ ˈpænɪkɪn /

noun

  1. a small metal cup or pan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pannikin1

First recorded in 1815–25; pan 1 + -i- + -kin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pannikin1

C19: from pan 1+ -kin
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Example Sentences

Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.

Then, as it was yet early, and they were about to prepare their coffee, we boiled up ours, and, passing round the billy, filled our pannikins to the health of the enemy.

It consisted of a pannikin full of cocoa, and the same amount of pemmican with biscuit.

They ate with a relish everything that Yung How placed before them, and washed down their meal with pannikins of crystal-clear water from the mountain spring that flowed past the temple.

They examined his pannikin and found that the inside was wet.

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