• PAM
adj. the number 5, esp. used in children’s counting rhymes …1915 Sc.
n. 1. the jack of clubs …1685
n. 2. the knave of any suit in a pack of cards …1824 Sc.
• PAM AND HER FIVE SISTERS
n. the hand as an agency of masturbation …1990s sl.
• PAMBER
vb. to pander …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAMBERADE
vb. to move back and forwards noisily or clumsily; to parade up and down with heavy steps …1930 Sc.
• PAMBRITANNICK
adj. consisting of all the Britons or of all parts of Britain …1709 obs.
► PAM-CHILD n. a ‘knave-child’: a male child → 1760 obs.
• PAME
n. a pane of glass …1790 Eng. dial.
vb. to strike with the open hand; to punch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAMEL
n. an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• PAMMIE
n. a stroke on the palm of the hand, given as a punishment …1785 Sc.
• PAMMY
adj. fat, thick; having thick, swollen legs …1878 Eng. dial.
n. a blow from the ‘tawse’ on the palm of the hand … 1812 Sc.
• PAMP
vb. 1. to feed up, to overfill …a1400 obs. rare
vb. 2. to place or put something somewhere …1990 Sc. sl.
• PAM-PAM
n. 1. a flogging …1940s W. Indies sl.
n. 2. an argument; a fuss; noisy disorder …1940s W. Indies sl.
• PAMPER
vb. 1. to cram with food; to over-indulge with rich food; to feed luxuriously …a1380 obs.
vb. 2. to fret …1887 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to mess about to as to spoil a thing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to feel the sting of a lashing …20C W. Indies sl.
• PAMPERED
adj. 1. over-fed …a1529 obs.
adj. 2. puzzled …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAMPERIZE
vb. to pamper …a1845 nonce word
• PAMPER PIRATE
n. a child molester …1990s US criminals’ sl.
• PAMPER SNIFFER
n. a child molester …1990s US criminals’ sl.
• PAMPHAGOUS
adj. eating both animal and vegetable foods; omnivorous …1702 rare
• PAMPHARMACON
n. a remedy against all diseases and poisons; a universal remedy; a medicine for all diseases…1731 rare
• PAMPHELET
n. a courtesan, a wench …1500-20 obs.
• PAMPHIE
n. the knave of clubs …1825 Sc.
• PAMPHOBIA
n. an irrational fear of everything …1890
• PAMPHYSIC
adj. concerning all nature …1610 nonce word obs.
• PAMPHIL
n. 1. a memorandum or note …1571 obs. rare
n. 2. a small house; a square enclosure made with stakes …Bk1905 Sc.
• PAMPHLET
n. one ounce of a drug …1976 US drug culture sl.
• PAMPINARY
adj. pert. to vine tendrils or vine shoots …c1420 rare
• PAMPINATE
vb. to prune or trim a vine …1745 obs.
• PAMPINATION
n. the pruning or trimming of vines …1398 obs. rare
• PAMPINE
vb. to prune or trim a vine …c1420 obs.
• PAMPING
n. a tendril or young shoot of a vine …1607 obs.
• PAMPINOSE
adj. of untrimmed vines: profuse of twigs and leaves …c1420 obs. rare
• PAMPINULATE
vb. to furnish or deck with minute curling or convoluted threads …1592 nonce word obs.
• PAMPLE
vb. 1. to trample lightly; to toddle about …1879 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to indulge, to pamper …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• PAMPLING
adj. fidgety …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAMPOEN
n. a fool …1940s S. Afr. sl.
• PAMPOOTEE
n. a kind of slipper or sandal of undressed cow-skin sewn together and tied across the instep; used in the Isles of Aran off the west coast of Ireland …1881 Irish
• PAMPOOTER
n. a kind of slipper or sandal of undressed cow-skin sewn together and tied across the instep; used in the Isles of Aran off the west coast of Ireland …1881 Irish
• PAMPOOTIE
n. a kind of slipper or sandal of undressed cow-skin sewn together and tied across the instep; used in the Isles of Aran off the west coast of Ireland …1881 Irish
• PAN
n. 1. the skull, esp. its upper part …c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. the patella or knee-pan …1657 obs.
n. 3. the female genital area …L17 sl.
n. 4. a bed …1708 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 5. a hollow in the hills; a depressed in a field or other land …1836 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a small ice floe …1863
n. 7. money …1847 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 8. the mouth …M19 US sl.
n. 9. the workhouse, esp. the St. Pancras workhouse …1874
n. 10. a person’s face …c1886 US sl.
n. 11. a pond …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 12. a tadpole or frog …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 13. an attempt, an effort …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 14. a woman’s body …20C US sl.
n. 15. severe criticism …20C sl.
n. 16. a heavy pall of mist …1908 Sc.
n. 17. talent …1920s US sl.
n. 18. a police station …1925 US sl.
n. 19. an arrest …1925 US sl.
n. 20 the palm of the hand …1961 Amer. dial.
n. 21. the anus …1970s US homosexual sl.
vb. 1. to fit, to tally, to correspond, to agree …1571 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to agree, to get on well together; to associate with …1721 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to join or unite together …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to yield good results; to show to advantage; to succeed …1871
vb. 5. to speak or write critically or disparagingly of; to criticize; often applied to a film, theatrical performance, etc. …1911 sl.
vb. 6. to defame …1914 US sl.
vb. 7. to beg …c1920 UK tramps’ sl.
vb. 8. to arrest a person …1925 US sl.
vb. 9. to strike, to fight a person …c1930 UK sl.
vb. 10. to catch …L19 US sl.
vb. 11. to hit in the face …1942 sl.
vb. 12. to utterly defeat someone in a fight; to thrash someone …2002 UK sl.
• THE PAN
n. a frying pan of food; a fry-up …20C Ulster sl.
• PANACY
n. panacea, a remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases …a1690 obs. rare
• PANAMA
n. a variety of marijuana supposedly grown in Panama …M20 US drug culture sl.
• PANAMA CUT
. a variety of marijuana grown in Panama …1960s drug culture sl.
• PANAMA GOLD
n. a potent, gold-leafed marijuana cultivated in Panama …1968 US sl.
• PANAMANIAN GOLD
n. a potent, gold-leafed marijuana cultivated in Panama …1968 US sl.
• PANAMANIAN RED
n. a potent variety of marijuana cultivated in Panama …1967 US sl.
• PANAMA RED
n. a potent variety of marijuana cultivated in Panama …1967 US sl.
• PANARCHIC
adj. all-ruling, all-governing …1610 nonce word obs.
• PANARCHY
n. universal realm …1839 rare
• PANARET
n. an all-virtuous one …1609 obs. rare
• PANARY
adj. pert. to bread …1818
n. a storehouse for bread, a pantry …1611 obs. rare
• PANASH
n. a plume worn in the hat …1681 Sc. obs.
• PANATELA
n. a potent type of marijuana …M20 US drug culture sl.
• PANATELLA
n. 1. high-grade marijuana, esp. that imported from South or Central America …1930s drug culture sl.
n. 2. a large marijuana cigarette resembling a cigar …1930s drug culture sl.
• PANATIC
n. a devoted, die-hard fan of steelband music …1988 Trinidad and Tobago
• PAN-BED
n. the game of hopscotch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PANBINDING
n. payment or compensation for an injury …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAN BREAD
adj. dead …1988 Sc. rhyming sl.
• PAN-BRITANNIC
adj. consisting of all the Britons or of all parts of Britain …1709 obs.
• PANCAKE
n. 1. the female genitals …19C sl.
n. 2. a Black person viewed as over-friendly towards, or imitative of, Whites …L19 African-American sl.
n. 3. a woman considered as a sex object …20C sl.
n. 4. an attractive young woman, esp. with overtones of promiscuity …1930s US sl.
n. 5. a masculine lesbian who permits herself to take the passive role …1950s US homosexual sl.
n. 6. a dive in which the front of the body strikes flat against the water …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 7. a heterosexual woman …1970s US homosexual sl.
n. 8. a children’s game: a version of leapfrog where you slap the other player on the rump as you jump over him in the opposite direction as leapfrog …1970 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to flatten …1950s sl.
vb. 2. to knock down and run over …1970s US sl.
vb. 3. to lower the body of an automobile …1980s African-American & teen sl.
• PANCAKE-ICE
n. floating ice in thin flat pieces, forming in the polar seas at the approach of winter …1817
• PANCAKES!
int. used to convey one’s derision for what has just been said …1910s sl.
• PANCAKE SADDLE
n. in western Canada, an English saddle …1987 Can sl.
• PANCAKES AND SYRUP
n. a combination of glutetimide and codeine cough syrup …1990s drug culture sl.
• PANCAKE TURNER
n. a spatula; instrument used to turn over frying food …1847 Amer. dial.
• PANCARPIAL
adj. composed of all kinds of fruits …1592 obs. rare
• PANCART
a placard bearing a public notification …1656 obs.
• PANCE
vb. to dress a wound …1713 Sc. obs.
• PANCH
vb. to prick and work a wound to extract matter, or any foreign substance, such as a bullet or prickle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAN-CHAFTED
adj. having the lower jaw projecting further outward than the upper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PANCHES
n. broken pieces of crockery …1852 Eng. dial.
• PANCHO
adj. pert. to Mexicans or to Mexican lifestyle, fashions, etc. …1940s US sl.
n. 1. a term of address to an anonymous Mexican man …1960s US sl., derogatory
n. 2. a Puerto Rican …1960s US sl.
• PANCHREST
n. a remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases …1727 obs.
• PANCHRESTON
n. a remedy, cure, or medicine reputed to heal all diseases …1632 obs.
• PANCOSMIC
adj. pert. to the whole universe …1853
• PANCRASTICAL
adj. good for all diseases, of the nature of a panacea …1698 obs.
• PANCRIDGE PARSON
n. a term of contempt …E17 sl.
• PANCROCK
n. a skirt or petticoat …1746 Eng. dial.
• PANCROCKED
adj. exhausted …20C Irish sl.
• PANCYCLOPAEDIC
adj. pert. to the whole circle of science …1852
• PAND
n. a flounce or frill draping the legs of a bed and, in earlier times, also the canopy above it; a valance …1703 Sc.
• PANDA
n. a type of police patrol car painted black and white and thus supposedly reminiscent of the markings of the giant panda …1966 sl.
• PANDA CAR
n. a type of police patrol car painted black and white and thus supposedly reminiscent of the markings of the giant panda …1966 sl.
• PAN-DAEDALIAN
adj. of all curious workmanship …1618 obs.
• PANDAIRY
n. a state of excitement; fluster; a fit of temper, rage, a tantrum …1924 Sc.
• PANDARIC
adj. pert. to a pander, characteristic of a pimp …1885 rare
• PANDATION
n. in architecture: a bending, bowing, or warping …1860 rare
• P AND D
n. a castle …c1870 criminals’ sl.
• PANDECT
n. 1. a complete body of the laws of any country or of any system of law; chiefly plural …1553
n. 2. a treatise covering the whole of a subject; a complete treatise or digest …1591
• PANDEMIA
n. a pandemic disease, a disease prevalent over the whole of as country or continent, or over the whole world …1853
• PANDEMIAN
adj. pert. to sexual love …1818
• PANDEMIC
adj. pert. to sexual love …a1822
• PANDEMONIAC
adj. pert. to hell, infernal …1849
n. a devilish or hellish person …1923
• PANDEMONIACAL
adj. pert. to hell, infernal; disorderly, noisy …1862
• PANDEMONIAN
adj. pert. to hell, infernal; disorderly, noisy …1889
n. an inhabitant of hell …1795
• PANDEMONIC
adj. pert. to hell …1879
• PANDEMONIUM
n. 1. hell, or the infernal regions …1667
n. 2. a place or gathering of wild lawless violence, confusion, and uproar …1779
n. 3. a centre of vice or wickedness, a haunt of wickedness …1800
• PANDEMONIUM WORLD SCAREWAYS
n. a nickname for Pan Am airline company …2002 US sl.
• PANDEMY
n. a pandemic disease, a disease prevalent over the whole of as country or continent, or over the whole world …1853
• PANDER
n. 1. a go-between in clandestine amours; one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust; a male bawd, pimp, or procurer …1530
n. 2. one who ministers to the baser passions or evil designs of others …1603
n. 3. an idle, trifling child …a1850 Sc.
vb. 1. to act as a pander to; to minister to the gratification of another’s lust …1602
vb. 2. to wander about aimlessly; to drift around in an idle, purposeless way; …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to waste time at work, to trifle, to ‘play around’ …1825 Sc.
• PANDERAGE
n. the practice or trade of pandering; pimping, procuring …1612 nonce word obs.
• PANDERER
n. a go-between in clandestine amours; one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust; a male bawd, pimp, or procurer …1839
• PANDERESS
n. a female pander, a bawd, a pimp, a procuress …1606 rare
• PANDERING
adj. 1. pimping …1603
adj. 2. trifling, aimless …a1850 Sc.
n. aimlessness, idling …1884 Sc.
• PANDERISM
n. the practice or trade of a pander …1601
• PANDERIZE
vb. to act the pander, to procure, to pimp …1603 obs.
• PANDERLY
adj. of the nature of or befitting a pander or pimp …1581 obs.
• PANDERLYET
n. a late, loitering visitor …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PANDEROUS
adj. of the nature of or characteristic of a pander or pimp …c1575 obs.
• PANDERSHIP
n. the function or trade of a pander …1656 rare
• PAN-DESTRUCTION
n. universal destruction …1884
• PANDICULATED
adj. stretched out, opened, extended …1775 rare
• PANDICULATION
n. an instinctive movement, consisting in the extension of the legs, the raising and stretching of the arms, and the throwing back of the head and trunk, accompanied by yawning; sometimes used loosely for ‘yawning’ …1649
• PANDIE
n. 1. a blow or stroke with a cane, strap, etc., on the palm of the hand; a beating, esp. one administered by a schoolmaster …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. punishment in general, a severe reprimand, censure …1808 Sc.
vb. 1. to beat on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap; usually of a schoolmaster …1883 Sc.
vb. 2. to punish, to chastise …1895 Sc.
• PANDIRT
n. a state of excitement; fluster, a fit of temper, rage, a tantrum …1898 Sc.
• PANDLE
n. 1. the shrimp …1786 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a prawn …1790 Eng. dial.
• PANDOMIE
n. an uproar, chaos, pandemonium, ‘hell let loose’ …1911 Sc.
• PANDOOR
n. a large oyster …1894 Sc.
• PANDORE
n. a large oyster …1894 Sc.
• P AND Q
n. solitary confinement in prison (peace and quiet) …1982 US sl.
• PANDRESS
n. a female pander, a bawd, a pimp, a procuress …1606 rare
• PANDROUS
adj. of the nature of or characteristic of a pander or pimp …c1575 obs.
• PANDUFFLE
n. a soft shoe for indoor wear, a slipper …1818 Sc.
• PANDURIST
n. one who plays on a musical instrument called a rebec, or on a violin …1656 obs. rare
• PANDY
n. 1. a blow or stroke with a cane, strap, etc., on the palm of the hand; a beating, esp. one administered by a schoolmaster …1808 Sc.
n. 2. punishment in general, a severe reprimand, censure …1808 Sc.
vb. 1. to beat or strike on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap; usually of a schoolmaster …1863 Sc.
vb. 2. to punish, to chastise …1895 Sc.
• PANE
n. 1. a cloth; a piece of cloth; any distinct portion of a garment, a lap, a skirt …a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. fur, esp. as used for a lining to a garment; a fell or skin of ermine, sable, or other fur …a1300 obs.
n. 3. a side of a quadrangle, cloister, court, or town …a1300 obs.
n. 4. a section or length of a wall or fence …c1380 obs.
n. 5. a piece, width, or strip of cloth, of which several were joined together side by side, so as to make one cloth, curtain, or garment …1480 obs.
n. 6. a package or bundle of fur containing a hundred skins …1612 obs.
n. 7. a parsnip …1730 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a section or plot of ground in a garden, orchard, etc. …1819 Eng. dial.
n. 9. a dose of LSD on a tiny, clear gelatin chip …1994 US sl.
vb. 1. to border or line with fur …c1330 obs.
vb. 2. to make up a piece of cloth or a garment of pieces or strips of different sorts or colours, joined side by side …1504
• PANEE
n. water in the form of rain …1923 Sc.
• PANEGYRE
n. 1. a eulogy …1603 obs.
n. 2. a general assembly …1757 obs.
• PANEGYRIC
adj. 1. of the nature of a general assembly …1603 obs.
adj. 2. of the nature of a eulogy; publicly or elaborately expressing praise or commendation; eulogistic, laudatory …a1631
n. 1. one who writes or utters a panegyric; one who elaborately praises …1600 obs.
n. 2. a public speech or writing in praise of some person, thing, or achievement; a laudatory discourse, a formal or elaborate encomium or eulogy …1603
n. 3. elaborate praise; eulogy; laudation …1613
vb. to utter or write a panegyric; to praise in an elaborate oration or eulogium …1708 obs.
• PANEGYRICAL
adj. 1. of the nature of a eulogy; publicly or elaborately expressing praise or commendation; eulogistic, laudatory …1592-3
adj. 2. of the nature of a general assembly …a1617 obs.
• PANEGYRICALLY
adv. by way of elaborate eulogy …1680
• PANEGYRICIZE
vb. to pronounce or write an elaborate eulogy upon; to speak or write in praise of; to eulogize …1787 rare
• PANEGYRIS
n. a public speech or writing in praise of some person, thing, or achievement; a laudatory discourse, a formal or elaborate encomium or eulogy …1646 obs.
• PANEGYRISM
n. a composition of a panegyrical character; a formal expression of praise …1894 nonce word
• PANEGYRIST
n. one who writes or utters a panegyric; one who elaborately praises …1605
• PANEGYRIZE
vb. to pronounce or write an elaborate eulogy upon; to speak or write in praise of; to eulogize …1617
• PANEGYRIZER
n. one who utters or composes formal expressions of praise …1823
• PANEGYRY
n. a formal expression of praise …1600 obs.
• PANEITY
n. the quality or condition of being bread …a1687
• PANEL
adj. flat-sided …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a piece of cloth placed under the saddle to protect the horse’s back from being galled; later, the pad or stuffed lining of a saddle employed for his purpose …a1300 obs.
n. 2. a priest’s mistress; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute …14C Brit. sl.
n. 3. an ass’s wooden saddle …1530
n. 4. a prostitute who works in a brothel rather than walking the streets …17C sl.
n. 4. a small piece of anything …1628 obs.
n. 5. a window-pane …1727-41 obs.
n. 6. a thief, usually the accomplice of a prostitute, who takes advantage of her client’s preoccupation to rob him, using a special panel to enter the room …M19 sl.
n. 7. the palm of the hand …c1970 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
vb. 1.to furnish a saddle with a ‘panel’ or pad …1508 obs. rare
vb. 2. to pursue the ‘panel game’ (the robbing of a prostitute’s client by stealing his possessions while he is having sex) …M19 sl.
vb. 3. to attack, to beat up …1990s sl.
• PANEL-BEATER
n. an employee in a car body shop …1984 Aust. sl.
• PANEL CRIB
n. a brothel, esp. one which specializes in robbing the clients …M19 sl.
• PANEL-DEN
n. a brothel in which the walls have sliding panels for the purpose of robbery …1860
• PANEL DODGER
n. a thief, usually the accomplice of a prostitute, who takes advantage of her client’s preoccupation to rob him, using a special panel to enter the room …M19 sl.
• PANEL GAME
n. 1. the robbing of a prostitute’s client by stealing his possessions while he is having sex …1890 sl.
n. 2. a form of confidence trick involving the passing of counterfeit money …L19 sl.
• PANEL HOUSE
n. a brothel with sliding walls through which thieves steal from the clothes of customers …1848 US sl.
• PANEL JOINT
n. a brothel, esp. one which specializes in robbing the clients …M19 sl.
• PANELLATION
n. the empanelling of a jury …a1695
• PANELLING
n. a beating …2000s sl.
• PANELS OF FENCES
n. in horse racing: a long lead …1989 Aust. sl.
• PANEL STORE
n. a brothel, esp. one which specializes in robbing the clients …M19 sl.
• PANEL THIEF
n. a thief, usually the accomplice of a prostitute, who takes advantage of her client’s preoccupation to rob him, using a special panel to enter the room …1860 sl.
• PANEL TRICK
n. a form of confidence trick involving the passing of counterfeit money …L19 sl.
• PANEL WORKER
n. a thief, usually the accomplice of a prostitute, who takes advantage of her client’s preoccupation to rob him, using a special panel to enter the room …M19 sl.
• PANEM
n. bread …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
• PANEULOGISM
n. universal or indiscriminate praise …a1864
• PANFRIVOLIUM
n. a scene of all frivolity …1834 nonce word
• PANG
adj. 1. packed tight, stuffed, crammed …c1560 Sc.
adj. 2. tight, compactly framed …1813 Sc.
adj. 3. of the stomach: crammed with food …1825 Sc.
adj. 4. of persons: crowded together, thronging …1827 Sc.
adj. 5. completely filled; full to overflowing; at bursting point …1923 Sc.
n. strength, vigour, energy, force …1873 Sc.
vb. 1. to pierce or penetrate with acute physical or mental pain; to pain, to hurt, to ache …c1502 rare
vb. 2. to pack a receptacle tight, to cram full, to stuff, to fill to the utmost …1637 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. of the stomach: to cram or gorge with food; to be full or stuffed …1768 Sc.
vb. 4. to squeeze objects together; to press close …1822 Sc.
vb. 5. to push along, to press on, to hurry …1891 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to force an unwanted article on to someone; to palm off on …1923 Sc.
vb. 7. to pile up, to make into a heap …1929 Sc.
• PANGA
n. money …1894 Amer. dial.
• PANGED
adj. stuffed, full to overflowing …1773 Sc.
• PANGER
n. a pannier or wicker basket …1854 Eng. dial. obs.
• PANG-FOU
adj. of the stomach: crammed with food …1847 Sc.
• PANGFUL
adj. full of pangs, sorrowful …1748 rare
• PANG-FULL
adj. full, packed tight, stuffed, crammed …1842 Sc.
• PANGINGI
n. 1905 – a card game similar to rummy: it is played with from five to eight combined Spanish decks (i.e. without the eights, nines, and tens) by six to fifteen players; the object is to meld groupings of cards, with certain melds being more valuable; it became popular in the US West in the late 19th century → Amer. dial.
• PANGINKY
n. 1905 – same as ‘PANGINGI’ → Amer. dial.
• PANGINNY
n. 1905 – same as ‘PANGINGI’ → Amer. dial.
• PANGONADALOT
n. 1977 – heroin → US sl.
• PANGRAPHIC
adj. 1821 – writing on all subjects or in all forms
• PANGSE
vb. 1929 – to walk laboriously and with effort; to struggle along → Sc.
• PANGUINGUE
n. 1905 – same as ‘PANGINGI’→ Amer. dial.
• PANGUTS
n. 1617 – an unwieldy, fat-bellied fellow; a fat, hulky, lazy fellow → colloq., derogatory, obs.
• PANGY
n. 1905 – an affectionate term for a little child → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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