brainpan
See also: brain-pan
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English brayn panne, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bræġenpanne, corresponding to brain + pan.
Pronunciation
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Noun
brainpan (plural brainpans)
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The skull. [from 10th c.]
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, First Folio 1623, IV.9:
- Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, First Folio 1623, IV.9:
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The brain or mind. [from 17th c.]
- 1822, Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel:
- ‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’