pannikin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A durable cup or other vessel used for drinking made of metal and coated in enamel.
    — 1852, Ellen Clacy (diarist), cited in Susan Lawrence, "Households on Australian goldfields" in Penelope M. Allison (ed.), The Archaeology of Household Activities, London: Routledge, 1999, ‘a block of wood forms a table, and this is the only furniture; many dispense with that. The bedding, which is laid on the ground, serves to sit upon. Tin plates and pannikins… compose the tea service.’
  2. The contents of such a vessel.
    — “[…] Put the billy on the fire, Jimmy, and we’ll drink him a good voyage in half a pannikin of tea before we turn in.”

词形变化

pannikins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pannikin boss pannikinful
相关词
cup mug

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *pannǭ
Proto-West Germanic *pannā
Old English panne
Middle English panne
English pan
English -kin
English pannikin
From pan + -kin.
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