panhandle

See also: Panhandle

English

The panhandle region of US state of Florida.

The panhandle region of US state of Texas.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpænˌhæn.dəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: pan‧han‧dle

Etymology 1

From pan +‎ handle.

Noun

panhandle (plural panhandles)

1. The handle of a pan.
2. (cartography, US) A area within a nation or subnational division that appears to sticks out or projects when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
3. (aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat.
   • 2007, Roger Brooks, Handley Page Victor, volume 2:

     The Captain Keith Handscomb was the occupant of that ejector seat and the only survivor; his narrow escape was by just being able to reach the seat panhandle with his third and fourth fingers of his left hand.

Hypernyms

• (cartography): salient

Translations

handle of a pan

• Bulgarian: дръжка на тенджера (drǎžka na tendžera)
• Finnish: pannun kahva
• German: Pfannenstiel (de) m
• Hungarian: serpenyőnyél, serpenyő nyele
• Icelandic: pönnuskaft n
• Russian: ча́пельник (ru) m (čápelʹnik), сковоро́дник (ru) m (skovoródnik)
• Welsh: coes padell f, coes sosban f

any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan

• Czech: výběžek m
• Finnish: uloke (fi)
• German: Zipfel (de) m, Gebietskorridor m, Landkorridor m, schmaler Landabschnitt m, Landzipfel m, Gebietszipfel m
• Hungarian: kiszögellés (hu), földnyelv (hu)
• Polish: cypel (pl) m, worek (pl) m
• Russian: вы́ступ (ru) m (výstup)
• Slovak: výbežok m
• Ukrainian: виступ m (vystup)
• Welsh: estynwlad f

Etymology 2

Probable back-formation from panhandler.

Verb

panhandle (third-person singular simple present panhandles, present participle panhandling, simple past and past participle panhandled)

1. (US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a bum.
   • 2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     I had a white cane, but I never used it. Once, alone and lost in downtown Washington, I unfolded it, immediately sweating as I felt hundreds of eyes shift onto me. A man who was panhandling grabbed me and showed me the way home.

Translations

beg for money

• Armenian: մուրալ (hy) (mural)
• Bulgarian: прося по улиците (prosja po ulicite)
• Dutch: bedelen (nl)
• French: mendier (fr), faire la manche (fr), demander l’aumône
• German: betteln (de)
• Greek: ζητιανεύω (el) (zitianévo)
• Hungarian: kéreget (hu), koldul (hu)
• Italian: elemosinare (it)
• Russian: попроша́йничать (ru) impf (poprošájničatʹ), христара́дничать (ru) impf (xristarádničatʹ), ни́щенствовать (ru) impf (níščenstvovatʹ), побира́ться (ru) impf (pobirátʹsja)
• Spanish: pordiosear (es)
• Swedish: tigga (sv)
• Welsh: cardota (cy), begera