Talk:latchpan
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Equinox in topic Lower lip? Mouth?
Lower lip? Mouth?
[edit]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), […]