PANNIKIN

pannikin

(noun) a small pan or cup (usually of tin)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

pannikin (plural pannikins)

A durable cup or other vessel used for drinking made of metal and coated in enamel.

The contents of such a vessel.

Source: Wiktionary


Pan"ni*kin, n. Etym: [Dim. of pan a dish.]

Definition: A small pan or cup. Marryat. Thackeray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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