panjandrum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of panjandrum
1745–55; pseudo-Latin word (based on pan- ) coined by Samuel Foote (1720–77), English dramatist and actor
Example Sentences
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Roberts’ smoldering, high-beam intensity caught the attention of Joe Papp, a panjandrum of New York theater who cast Roberts in a Public Theater production of the Civil War drama “Rebel Women.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
Even the high panjandrum of Asian neutralism, India's Nehru, showed signs of distress�and the Indian public showed far more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum park commissioner, who has sounded off on just about everything and been righteously rude to just about everybody, let loose his Mosaic thunders at a small-statured victim.
From Time Magazine Archive
You must know George Sterling: he is the high panjandrum and a gorgeously good fellow.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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