pannikin
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pannikin (plural pannikins)
- A cup or other vessel used for drinking.
- 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
- It is all bound up in my mind with the winter cold, the ragged uniforms of militiamen, the oval Spanish faces, the morse-like tapping of machine-guns, the smells of urine and rotting bread, the tinny taste of bean-stews wolfed hurriedly out of unclean pannikins.
- 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
- The contents of such a vessel.
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- The Oxford English Dictionary
