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pannikin

[ pan-i-kin ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Chiefly British.

pannikin

/ ˈpænɪkɪn /

First recorded in 1815–25; pan ¹ + -i- + -kin

C19: from pan ¹+ -kin

Seeing his prisoner firmly bound, he ventured within with the customary bowl of rice and pannikin of water.

Ulick drew a pannikin of water and offered it to Constans that he might bathe his face, which was badly puffed and marked.

Poetry in cabbage-stalks, eaten with all the mud on, and ditch water scooped up in a dirty pannikin!

I said I could not look at it: and thereupon he gave me some brandy and water in a tin pannikin, and left me once more to myself.

The padre asked Lane if he would like a wad, that is a pannikin, of tea, and Lane said he would.

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