brainpan

noun
/ˈbɹeɪnpan/UK

Etymology

From Middle English brayn panne, from Old English bræġnpanne, corresponding to brain + pan.

  1. inherited from bræġnpanne
  2. inherited from brayn panne

Definitions

  1. The braincase

    The braincase; the skull.

    • Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.
    • Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.
    • Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.
  2. The brain or mind.

    • ‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for brainpan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA