单词 | pani |
释义 | panin. British slang (originally Anglo-Indian), British regional, and South Asian. Water. Also occasionally (now rare): spec. rain.In Anglo-Indian use originally and chiefly as the second element in compounds, esp. in the names of drinks: see brandy-pawnee n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] watereOE aquaa1398 breec1540 Mother Bunch1600 lympha1630 pani1816 fisherman's daughter1880 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master Pref. And died at last with brandy pauny. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/2 ‘Parni’ is rain [in the slang of strolling actors], and ‘toba’ is ground. 1912 P. Collier West in East from Amer. Point of View 300 The government that brought Pani to India's fields..brought salvation. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 228 A drink o' pani. 1933 Border Mag. Apr. 64 ‘Panee’, meaning rain, also in everyday use in Yetholm, is pure Hindustani. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 114 Why doan't we put t'pills in oor gobs, an' dissolve boogers that way! Then we can wesh 'em doon wid the pani, easy! 1999 Times of India (Nexis) 27 Aug. To make the paani for his golgappas, he still uses mineral water. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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