Pancake, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
Pan-cake Tuesday, subs. phr.
(colloquial).—Shrove Tuesday.
[By ancient custom pancakes are
then eaten.]
Pandy (or Pandie), subs. (schools' and nursery). A stroke from a cane, strap, or tawse on the palm of the hand by way of punishment. Also (Scots) Paumie. [From the order in Latin 'Pande palmum' (or manum) = 'Hold out your hand.'] Also as verb = to cane or strap.
1832. Scott, Redgauntlet, i. You taught me . . . to . . . obey the stern order of the Pande manum, and endure my pawmies without wincing.
1863. Kingsley, Water-Bables, 187. And she boxed their ears, and thumped them over the head with rulers, and pandied their hands with canes.
Panel (Parnel or Pernel), subs.
(old).—An immodest woman; a
prostitute: see Tart.—Bailey
(1728); Grose (1785).
1362. Langland, P. Plowman's Vision, 2313. Til Parnells purfille be put in hire hucche. Ibid. 2790. Dame Pernele a priestes fyle.
1560. Pilkington, Works, 56. But these tender pernels must have one gown for the day, another for the night.
1560. Becon, Prayers [Parker Soc. Works], 267. Pretty Parnel [= a nickname for a priest's mistress].
Panel-crib (-den, or -house),
subs. phr. (common).—A brothel
specially fitted for robbery. A
woman picking up a stranger
takes him to a panel-house,
known also as a badger or
touch-crib, or a shakedown.
The room has means of secret
ingress—door frames, moveable
panels, and the backs of wardrobes—swinging
noiselessly on oiled
hinges. The woman engages her
victim, an accomplice enters the
room, rifles his pockets, and
retires. Then, coming to the
door he knocks, and demands
admission. The victim hastily
dresses, leaves by another exit,
and discovers that the whole
thing is a plant (q.v.). Hence
panel-game and panel-dodge:
cf. Panny. For syns. see Nanny-shop.—Bartlett
(1848); Farmer (1888).
1882. McCabe, New York, xxx. 187. Many of the street walkers are in the regular employ of the panel-houses.
1885. Burton, Thousand Nights, i. 323. The Panel-dodge is common throughout the East—a man found in the house of another is helpless.
1899. Reynolds, 22 Jan., 8, 3. Panel Robberies. [Title.]
Panjamdrum (The Great), subs.
phr. (common).—A village potententate;
a Brummagem magnate.
[From Foote's nonsense lines,
written to test Macklin's memory:
see quot.].
d.1777. Foote [Quarterly Review, xcv. 516-7]. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heel of their boots.
1883. H. James, in Harper's Mag., lxxvii. 86. 'Well, no, not exactly a nobleman.' 'Well, some kind of a panjandrum. Hasn't he got one of their titles?'
Pannicky, adj. (colloquial).—Given
to panic.
1886. New Princeton Review, v. 206. Our national party conventions have come to be pannicky hordes.
