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deadpan

adj
/ˈdɛdpæn/

Etymology

From dead + pan (“face”).

  1. derived from πατάνη — “kind of flat dish”
  2. derived from patina — “broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”
  3. derived from panna
  4. inherited from *pannǭ✻
  5. inherited from *pannā✻
  6. inherited from panne
  7. inherited from panne
  8. compounded as deadpan — “dead + pan”

Definitions

  1. Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

    • a deadpan face or look
    • deadpan behaviour or speech

  2. Having such a face or look.

    • The comedian remained deadpan.

  3. In a deadpan manner.

    • A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not…

      A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.

      • MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

    2. To express (something) in an impassive or expressionless manner.

      • Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.

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