Panurge

[pan-urj, pa-nyrzh]

noun

1. (in Rabelais'Pantagruel ) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.

Other Word Forms

• panurgic adjective

Example Sentences

Panurge himself would have laughed at it.

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Not having Plutarch at hand, I have refreshed my memory from Rabelais, who repeats this well-authenticated story by the mouth of Pantagruel, in the twenty-eighth chapter of the fourth book of his inestimable work, following soon on that tempest of all tempests wherein Friar John and Panurge so variously distinguished themselves.

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Yet Rabelais came from Touraine, and if the creator of Panurge has not humour, who has?

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Panurge is represented as having threescore and three ways of making money, and two hundred and fourteen of spending it, so that he is always poor, and his sovereign Pantagruel remonstrates with him on account of his prodigal habits.

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One of the most prominent figures in the story of Pantagruel is his favourite, Panurge, who is a rogue, a drunkard, a coward, and a malicious scoundrel, but who yet, like Falstaff, in spite of all his moral deficiencies, manages to appear as an amusing personage.

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