pannikin

noun

Etymology

From pan + -kin.

  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. suffixed as pannikin — “pan + kin

Definitions

  1. A durable cup or other vessel used for drinking made of metal and coated in enamel.

    • Scarcely had we got things fixed and supper under weigh, when a yell from Boteler, 'He's going to spout!' caused us to drop teapot and pannikin, and tumble out of the tent in half no time.
    • A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
  2. The contents of such a vessel.

    • “[…] Put the billy on the fire, Jimmy, and we’ll drink him a good voyage in half a pannikin of tea before we turn in.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pannikin. 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