Talk:latchpan

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Lower lip? Mouth?

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John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) also gives this as Norfolk slang for the lower lip: "to hang one's latchpan" is to pout, to be sulky. I can't cite it outside of dictionary mentions, but I did find this (for the mouth more generally?):

  • 1939, Punch (volume 197, page 550)
    If any of the persons with whom the rubber nose has failed to keep faith have caught up with him and hung one on his latchpan (smacked him in the kisser), []

Equinox 09:21, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply