Pannier. To fill a woman's pannier, verb. phr. (common).—See quot. 1611.—Halliwell (1847).
1611. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Emplir une femelle, to fill her panniers to get her with yong.
See Wear.
Pannier-man, subs. phr. (old).—A
servant of an inn of court: his
office is to announce dinner.—Grose
(1785).
1654. Witts Recreation [Nares]. On T. H. the Pannier man of the Temple. [Title.]
1712. Great Britans Honycombe, MSS. [Nares]. The panyer man, whose office is to lay the cloths on the tables in the hall, set saltsellers, cut bred, whet the knifes, and wait on the gentlemen, and fetch them beer and other necessaries when they are in commons in term time. He also blows the great horn between twelve and one of the clock at noon at most of the corners in the Temple three times presently one after another to call the gentlemen that are in commons to dinner.
Pannikin. To roll one's pannikin
into another shed (Australian).
To leave one man's
service for another.
Pannum (panum, or pannam),
subs. (Old Cant).—Bread; food.
[Latin panis]. Hence pannum-bound
= (prison) cut of one's
allowance; pannum- (or cokey-)
fence = a street pastry cook;
pannum-struck = starving.—Harman
(1567); B. E. (c.1696);
Hall (1714); Coles (1724);
Grose (1785). For synonyms
see Staff-of-life.
1608. Dekker, Lanthorne and Candlelight [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 3]. The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harmanbeck, If we mawnd Pannam, lap, or Ruff-peck.
1611. Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, v. 1. [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 10]. A gage of ben Rombouse . . . Is benar than a Caster, Peck, pennam, lap, or popler.
1641. Brome, Jovial Crew [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 23]. Here's Pannam . . . To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Panum. "Mat de dem div, me Middery?" asks the gipsey child. Nonarem panum.
1837. Disraeli, Venetia, xiv. Beruna flick the panem.
1844. Selby, London by Night, i. 2. As far as an injun, pannum, and cheese, and a drop of heavy goes, you are perfectly welcome.
1867. Vance, Chickaleary Cove. Some pannum for my chest.
Panny, subs. (old).—1. The highway.
1754. Discoveries of John Poulter, 42. I'll scamp on the panney.
2. (Old Cant).—A house, public or otherwise; also apartments, rooms, lodgings. Hence flash-panny = (1) a brothel; and (2) a public-house used by thieves.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Panny. The pigs frisked my panney and nailed my screws.
1819. Vaux, Memoirs, s.v.
1821. Egan, Life in London, 11. ii. To send them to their pannies full of spirits.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Panny—a small house, or low apartment; a dwelling-shed, or gipsey building without stairs.
1827. Egan, Anec. of Turf, 183. He never called at her panny now without invitation.
3. (thieves').—A burglary: also panny-lay. Hence, panny-man = a housebreaker; to do a panny = to rob a house.—Grose (1785); Snowden (1857).
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, ii. Ranting Rob, poor fellow, was lagged for doing a panny.
c.1838. Reynolds, Pickwick Abroad [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 122]. The reg'lars came Whenever a pannie was done.
