pannikin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   chiefly British or Australian: a small metal cup or pan, especially one used outdoors

   The traveler warmed a pannikin of tea beside the fire.

2. 2
   noun

   the amount held by a pannikin

   He poured each guest a pannikin of hot broth.

Formed in the early nineteenth century from pan + the diminutive suffix -kin, with a linking vowel. The word became especially common in British and Australian descriptions of simple metal camp vessels.

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