pannikin

English

Etymology

pan +‎ -kin

Noun

pannikin (plural pannikins)

1. A cup or other vessel used for drinking.
   • 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

     It is all bound up in my mind with the winter cold, the ragged uniforms of militiamen, the oval Spanish faces, the morse-like tapping of machine-guns, the smells of urine and rotting bread, the tinny taste of bean-stews wolfed hurriedly out of unclean pannikins.

2. The contents of such a vessel.

Translations

See also

• cup
• mug

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary