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pannikin|ˈpænɪkɪn|
Also pannican, panakin, panikin.
[f. pan n.1 + -kin: cf. mannikin.]
a. A small metal (usually tinned iron) drinking vessel; a cannikin; also, the contents of such a vessel.
‘Exceedingly common in Australia’ (Austral Eng.).
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Pannikin, a little vessel or pan for warming children's pap, etc. A diminutive of pan. 1830R. Dawson Pres. St. Australia 101 (Morris) Several tin pannicans. Ibid. 200 He went to the spring and brought me a pannican full. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xxi, Bringing out the bottle and tin pannikins, ready for the promised carouse. 1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. i. 19 If saucers and pannikins are all that we have, let us at least take an inventory of our saucers and pannikins. 1880Sutherland Tales of Goldfields 44 A small pannikin full of gold dust. 1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber ii. i. 280 One day a bucket of milk was brought to the camp at dinner-time and served out with pannikins. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxii. 282 There was a case of pannikins that had come up as freight. 1924Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Pannikin, small drinking vessel, made out of tin, carried by the sundowner, and tied to his billy. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King ii. 14 The boy stared, then snatching his pannikin pushed the reluctant foal away and commenced milking the mare. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. 169 A friendly pannikin, a drink with a companion.
b. The head; in slang phr. off one's pannikin, off one's head.
1895C. Crowe Austral. Slang Dict. 56 Off his pannikin, silly. 1899‘S. Rudd’ in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 110, I seen 'im just now up in your paddick, an' he's clean off he's pannikin. 1916C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 126 Per'aps I'm orf me pannikin wiv' sittin' in the sun. 1934B. Penton Landtakers (1935) iv. vii. 360 He's gone raving off his pannikin in Sydney.
c. = pannikin-boss.
c1926‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 7 My power is such to make or break—I'm a pannikin, get me?
d. Comb. pannikin-boss (see quot. 1898).
1898Morris Austral Eng., Pannikin-boss, or Pannikin-overseer,..applied colloquially to a man on a station, whose position is above that of the ordinary station⁓hand, but who..is only a ‘boss’ or overseer in a small way. 1930L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (ser. 1) v. 105 At ‘smoke-oh’ he used to take a standing jump over a bale of wool and then Brucksaw, the ‘pannikin boss’ (head general hand), used to carry it out of the shed single⁓handed. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad ix. 70 There in the Silver City a telegram awaited me. It contained the offer of a job, that of ‘pannikin-boss’ and book-keeper on a sheep run east of Broken Hill, on the Milparinka Track. 1959D. Hewett Bobbin Up viii. 97 All this unshakable distrust of the pannikin boss, the boss's man..the lowest of the low in a world where dog ate dog. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. vii. 146 The manager of a sheepstation was called a pannikin boss, a term I have heard used..for a foreman on building jobs in New Zealand. 1969D. Niland Dead Men Running iv. 98 Father Vaughan seemed to project himself as no more than the mouthpiece of a pannikin boss of a God who sounded like a brutal and violent pirate. |