► PANHANDLE n. 1. the act of begging → M19 US sl.
n. 2. West Virginia → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 3. a fool; an unpleasant person → 1990 sl.
n. 4. an erect penis → 1990 sl.
vb. to beg → 1884 US sl.
► PANHANDLE BEAT n. the world of beggary → M19 US sl.
► PANHANDLER n. 1. a beggar → 1897 sl., orig. US
n. 2. a nurse → 1958 US sl.
► PANHANDLE SECTION n. West Virginia → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PANHANDLE STATE n. West Virginia → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PANHARMONIC adj. universally harmonic, harmonizing with all → 1886
► PANHARMONY n. universal or general harmony → 1651 obs.
► PAN-HEAD n. a district constable → 1940 W. Indies sl.
► PANHELLENIC adj. of or representing all men of Greek race → 1847
► PANHELLENISM n. the idea or plan of a political union of all Greeks → 1860
► PAN-HUMAN adj. pert. to all human beings → 1900
► PANI n. 1. water → 1923 Sc.
n. 2. water in the form of rain → 1923 Sc.
n. 3. a sheet of water, a lake → 1923 Sc.
► PANIC adj. universal, general → 1661 obs.
n. 1. a period when drugs are hard to purchase → 1910 drug culture sl.
n. 2. someone or something outstanding, exceptional, or excellent → 1920 African-American sl.
n. 3. someone or something ridiculous or amusing → 1940 Irish sl.
n. 4. a very good time → 1958 US sl.
vb. to please, to delight → 1927 US sl.
► PANICAL adj. of fear, terror, etc.: sudden, wild, or unreasoning → 1600 obs.
► PANIC BUTTON n. any form of switch or button that summons emergency aid, shuts down malfunctioning machinery, etc. → 1950
► PANIC FLIP n. in pinball: the premature activation of a flipper → 1977 US sl.
► PANICFUL adj. full of panic, fearful → 1846
► PANICHTHYOPHAGOUS adj. eating fish of all kinds indiscriminately → 1853
► PANICKED OUT adj. in a complete panic → 1970 US sl.
► PANICKY adj. extremely elated; ecstatically happy; highly excited → 1940 African-American sl.
► PANIC MAN n. a dealer or a drug addict who is desperate for supplies → 1910 drug culture sl.
► PANIC MERCHANT n. a person who habitually panics → 1962 Aust. sl.
► PANIC-MONGER n. one who endeavours to bring about or foster a panic, esp. on a political, social, or financial question; an alarmist; a term of opprobrium → 1849
► PANIC PARTY n. any sudden move → 1940 Aust. sl.
► PANIC STATIONS n. a frenzy; alarm leading to confused action → 1961 sl.
► PANIC TRIP n. an uncomfortable experience with a drug; any dangerous experience → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► PANIFIABLE adj. capable of being made into bread → 1849
► PANIFICATION n. the making into bread → 1779
► PANIFICE n. the craft of baking or making bread; also, bread, or a loaf of bread → 1656 obs.
► PANIOLA n. a cowboy → 1938 Hawaii
► PANIOLO n. a cowboy → 1892 Hawaii
► PANION n. a companion, a mate, a fellow, an associate → 1553 obs.
► PANISIC adj. relating to a social state in which all are equal → 1864
► PANIVOROUS adj. eating bread, living on bread → 1830
► PAN-JAMS n. drawers worn by child, pyjamas → 1890 Ireland
► PANJANDRUM n. 1. a mock title for an imaginary or mysterious person of much power, or one of great pretensions; a pompous pretender; one who is self-important → 1880
n. 2. official and ceremonial fuss or formality → 1883
► PANK vb. 1. to pant, to breathe hard → 1663 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to beat; to beat the branches of an apple tree with a long pole to bring down the fruit → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 3. to pack or tamp down; to flatten; to crush; often said of sand, snow, hair, etc. → 1937 Amer. dial.
► PANKER n. a person or animal short of breath → 1885 Eng. dial.
► PAN KIBBA n. a district constable → 1940 W. Indies sl.
► PANKIN n. a rage, a violent passion → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PAN-LICKER n. a parasite → 1641 obs.
► PAN-LOAF adj. of a superior social status or well-to-do → 1985 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘toff’
► PAN-MEAT n. cooked food → 1000 obs.
► PAN MUSH n. fried cornmeal → 1967 Amer. dial.
► PANNABLE adj. 1. well-adapted, suitable, likely to fit properly → 1889 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. plausible, practicable → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANNACAKE n. a pancake → 1941 Amer. dial.
► PANNAM n. 1. bread → 1567 thieves’ cant
n. 2. any form of food → L19 Aust. sl.
► PANNAM BOUND vb. to stop the issue of rations to a prisoner → M19 UK prison sl.
► PANNAM-FENCER n. a street pastry-seller → M19 UK sl.
► PANNAM-STRUCK adj. very hungry → M19 UK criminals’ sl.
► PANNEL n. 1. a soft saddle; a pillion; the lining of a saddle → 1838 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a pain, hurt → 1889 Eng. dial.
vb. to pain, to hurt → 1889 Eng. dial.
► PANNELING n. a severe beating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANNER n. a worker; one who sets to work well → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANNEY n. 1. the highway → M18 sl.
n. 2. a burglary → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 3. a house → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
► PANNEY-LAY n. burglary, house-breaking → E19 sl.
► PANNICAKE n. a pancake → 1941 Amer. dial.
► PANNIER n. 1. a basket, esp. one of considerable size for carrying provisions, fish, or other commodities; in later use mostly restricted to those carried by a beast of burden, or on the shoulders of a man or woman → 1300
n. 2. the female genitals; the womb → E17 Brit. sl.
n. 3. a frame of whalebone, wire, or other material, used to distend the skirt of woman’s dress at the hips → 1869
► PANNIER-MAN n. 1. a hawker of fish, etc., who carries his goods in panniers over the back of a horse or donkey → 1678 Eng. dial.
n. 2. the person in charge of a pack-saddle laden horse or company of horses → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANNIKIN adj. fretting, ‘taking on’ as a sickly or wearisome child → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 1. a small metal (usually tinned iron) drinking vessel; also, the contents of such a vessel → 1823
n. 2. the head → L19 Aust. sl.
► PANNIKIN BOSS n. a person with a modest amount of authority; a minor boss; a foreman → 1898 Aust. sl.
► PANNING n. very hard criticism, as a very bad review → 1930 sl.
► PANNO n. 1. a minor official, often officious → L19 Aust. sl.
n. 2. a foreman → 1957 Aust. sl.
n. 3. a panel van → 1998 Aust. sl.
► PANNUM n. bread → 1567 thieves’ cant
► PANNY n. 1. the highway → M18 sl.
n. 2. a burglary → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 3. a house → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 4. a fight between two or more women → L19 sl.
n. 5. water → 1923 Sc.
► PANNYCAKE n. a pancake → 1941 Amer. dial.
► PANNY-LAY n. burglary, house-breaking → E19 sl.
► PANNY-MAN n. 1. a hawker of fish, etc., who carries his goods in panniers over the back of a horse or donkey → 1678 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a burglar, a house-breaker → 19C sl.
n. 3. the person in charge of a pack-saddle laden horse or company of horses → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANOLETHRY n. general destruction or slaughter → 1668 obs.
► PANOMPHAEAN ► PANOMPHEAN adj. 1. hearing all → 1623 obs. (Bk.)
adj. 2. understood by all; universally renowned → 1694
► PANOPHOBIA n. a form of melancholia marked by causeless or excessive terror; sudden fear or panic → 1799
► PANOPLIED adj. clad in complete armour → 1877
► PANOPLY n. 1. a complete suit of armour → 1632
n. 2. splendour, magnificence, pomp → 1829
vb. 1. to furnish with a complete suit of armour → 1832
vb. 2. to array with something brilliant → 1895
► PANOPTIC adj. all-seeing; in which all is seen; seeing the whole at one view → 1826
► PANOPTICAL adj. pert. to a view of everything at once → 1879
► PANOPTICON n. 1. a prison of circular shape having cells built round and fully exposed towards a central ‘well’, whence the warders could at all times observes the prisoners → 1791
n. 2. a place where everything is visible; a showroom for novelties → 1851
► PANORAMA n. 1. a complete and comprehensive survey or presentation of a subject → 1801
n. 2. a lover, a paramour → L19 sl.
n. 3. a hammer → L19 rhyming sl. (pronounced with a short ‘a’)
► PANORAMAL adj. passing everything under survey or review → 1808
► PANORAMAS n. pyjamas → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► PAN OUT vb. 1. to work out, to result in → 1871 sl., orig. US
vb. 2. to hand over money → L19 Aust. & US sl.
► PAN-PAN-DO n. French toast → 2000 Amer. dial.
► PANPHARMACAL adj. pert. to a universal medicine → 1657 obs.
► PANPHARMACON n. a remedy against all diseases and poisons; a universal remedy; a medicine for all diseases→ 1661
► PANPHOBIA n. an abnormal fear of everything → 1991 (Bk.)
► PANPOLISM n. equality of civil rights → 1884
► PAN SCRATCHER n. a scouring pad → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PANSE n. a thought → 1500 obs.
vb. 1. to think; to meditate → 1500 obs.
vb. 2. to think of, to consider, to heed → 1560 obs.
vb. 3. to attend to surgically or medically; to dress a wound → 1584 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PANSELENE n. the full moon → 1706 obs.
► PANSEMENT n. the dressing of a wound → 1842 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PANSH n. a state of excitement or fluster → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANSHARD n. a piece of broken crockery → 1851 Eng. dial.
► PANSHEET n. a state of excitement, confusion, sudden passion, etc. → 1895 Eng. dial.
► PANSHINE n. a flurry, a to-do, a state of excitement, a panic or muddle → 1838 Sc.
► PANSHIT n. a flurry, a to-do, a state of excitement, a panic or muddle → 1838 Sc.
► PANSIE n. 1. an admirable person → L19 US sl.
n. 2. an effeminate and/or homosexual man → 1910 sl.
n. 3. a woman; one’s girlfriend → 1920 African-American sl.
► PANSIFIED adj. effeminate; homosexual → 20C US sl.
► PANSING n. 1. thinking → 1500 obs.
n. 2. the dressing of a wound → 1579 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PANSOPHIC adj. embracing all knowledge → 1660
► PANSOPHICAL adj. embracing all knowledge → 1651
► PANSOPHISM n. the possession or profession of universal knowledge → 1868
► PANSOPHIST n. a claimant or pretender to universal knowledge → 1864
► PANSOPHY n. 1. universal or large amount of knowledge → 1642
n. 2. the claim or pretension to universal knowledge → 1792
► PANSPERMATIC adj. that is the seed or seminal principle of all things → 1690 obs.
► PANSY adj. homosexual → 1929 sl., derogatory
n. 1. an admirable person → L19 US sl.
n. 2. an innocent and naive youth → 20C Brit. sl.
n. 3. an effeminate man → E20 sl., derogatory
n. 4. a woman; one’s girlfriend → 1920 African-American sl.
n. 5. a male homosexual → 1929 sl., derogatory
vb. of a homosexual man: to act in an overtly effeminate manner → 1960 US sl.
► PANSY-ASS adj. effeminate, weak → 2002 US sl.
► PANSY-BALL n. a dance attended by homosexual males → M20 US sl.
► PANSY-BOY n. 1. a male homosexual → 1929 sl., derogatory
n. 2. an effeminate man → 1976 Aust. sl., derogatory
► PANSYLAND n. a gathering place for homosexual males → M20 US sl.
► PANSY-MAN n. a male homosexual → 1999 Antigua and Barbuda
► PANSY PATCH n. an area in west Hollywood, California, largely populated by homosexual men since the 1960s → 1971 US sl.
► PANSY PATH n. a gathering place for homosexual males → M20 US sl.
► PANSY POTTERS n. the documents given to someone who is dismissed from employment → 1996 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘jotters’
► PANSY PRATTLE n. the snide remarks and witty insults characteristic of male homosexual banter → 1980 US sl.
► PANSY UP vb. 1. of a homosexual: to flirt → 1930 sl.
vb. 2. to dress or adorn affectedly or effeminately → 1946 sl.
vb. 3. to beautify the person → 1966
► PANT n. 1. a public fountain, cistern, or well; usually a stone or iron erection with a spout, whence water is drawn, a conduit → 1586 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a back stroke → 1721 Sc. obs.
n. 3. a prank, a frolic, a ‘lark’, a piece of fun, a caper, a piece of boyish mischief → 1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. mud, mire → 1895 Eng. dial.
n. 5. trousers → 1979 India sl.
vb. to provide with trousers or pants; to allow (one) to wear long trousers → 1934 Amer. dial.
► PANTAGAMY n. a communistic system of complete marriage, in which all the men and women of a household or community are regarded as married to each other → 1852
► PANTAGRUELION n. a humorous name given to hemp, as the source of the hangman’s rope → 1857
► PANTALETTES n. loose drawers with a frill at the bottom of each leg, worn by young girls c1825-53; later applied euphemistically to drawers, trousers, wide trousers for cycling, or the like, worn by women → 1847
► PANTALOON n. 1. the Venetian character in Italian comedy, represented as a lean and foolish old man, wearing spectacles, pantaloons, and slippers → 1590
n. 2. a term of contempt applied to an enfeebled, tottering old man; a dotard, an old fool → 1596 obs.
n. 3. a nickname for a Scottish courtier → 1660 derogatory
n. 4. in modern pantomime, a character represented as a foolish and vicious old man, the butt of the clown’s jokes, and his abettor in his pranks and tricks → 1781
► PANTALOONS n. 1. a kind of breeches or trousers in fashion for some time after the Restoration → 1661 obs.
n. 2. trousers generally → 1804
► PANTAMORPHIC adj. generally deformed → 1857
► PANTAN n. a soft shoe, a slipper → 1897 Sc.
► PANTAPHOBIA n. total absence of fear → 1893
► PANTAPPLE n. a slipper; formerly applied to every sort of indoor slippers or loose shoes; also to outdoor overshoes or galoshes, and to all manner of Oriental and non-European slippers, sandals, and the like → 1494
► PANTARCHY n. a state in which the rule is vested in the whole people → 1899
► PANTARITE n. all-virtuousness → 1624 obs.
► PANTECHNIC adj. pert. to or comprehending all the arts → 1848
► PANTECHNICON n. a word, invented as the name of a bazaar of all kinds of artistic work, come to be applied to a large warehouse for storing furniture, and also to be colloquially used as short for ‘pantechnicon van’, a furniture, removing van → 1830
► PANTER n. 1. a word originally meaning ‘baker’, but usually applied to the officer of a household who supplied the bread and had charge of the pantry; the controller of the bread in a large establishment → 1297 obs.
n. 2. a fowling net, a fowler’s snare’ a net, a snare, a trap, a noose → 1325 obs. exc., Eng. dial.
n. 3. the heart → 1700 sl.
n. 4. the paunch or belly → 1706 obs.
n. 5. a hart or male deer → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 6. underwear → 1940 sl.
► PANTERER n. a word originally meaning ‘baker’, but usually applied to the officer of a household who supplied the bread and had charge of the pantry; the controller of the bread in a large establishment → 1400 obs.
► PANTERNY n. a pantry → 1870 Eng. dial.
► PANTERS n. the breasts → 19C Brit. sl.
► PANTEYS n. women’s or children’s underpants → 19C colloq.
► PANTHER n. 1. a fierce or savage man → 1868
n. 2. strong home-brewed or cheap liquor, usually gin → 1932 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a condom → 2002 Jamaica sl.
► PANTHER-CAT n. the ocelot → 1895
► PANTHER BREATH n. strong, illegally manufactured whisky → 1999 US sl.
► PANTHERESS n. a fierce or cruel but beautiful woman → 1868
► PANTHER JUICE n. alcohol; esp. applied to spirits distilled illicitly or locally; whisky; moonshine → 1929 sl.
► PANTHER MILK n. strong home-brewed or cheap liquor, usually gin → 1930 sl.
► PANTHER PISS n. alcohol; esp. applied to spirits distilled illicitly or locally; whisky; moonshine → 1929 sl.
► PANTHER-PIZEN n. strong or inferior liquor; moonshine → 1942 Amer. sl.
► PANTHER PURGE n. strong home-brewed or cheap liquor, usually gin → 1930 sl.
► PANTHER’S BREATH n. illegally made liquor; moonshine → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PANTHER’S PISS n. alcohol; esp. applied to spirits distilled illicitly or locally → 1929 sl.
► PANTHER SWEAT n. 1. alcohol; esp. applied to spirits distilled illicitly or locally; whisky; moonshine → 1929 sl.
n. 2 surgical spirit and Italian vermouth mixed as a potent drink → 1984 Brit. sl.
► PANTHER-WATER n. strong or inferior liquor; moonshine → 1940 Amer. sl.
► PANTIES n. 1. women’s or children’s underpants → 19C colloq.
n. 2. trousers → M19 US sl.
n. 3. the underwear worn by a prison homosexual → 1970 US prison & homosexual sl.
► PANTILE adj. dissenting, nonconformist → 1785
n. 1. a religious dissenter → 1785
n. 2. a hat → M19 sl.
n. 3. a sea biscuit → 1873 nautical sl.
► PANTILE-HOUSE n. a dissenter’s meeting house → L18
► PANTILE PARK n. London, as seen from a high window → L19 sl.
► PANTILER n. a religious dissenter → 1785
► PANTILE-SHOP n. a dissenter’s meeting house → L18
► PANTIN n. a soft shoe, a slipper → 1897 Sc.
► PANTINE n. a pasteboard figure of a human being, having the neck, body, and limbs jointed, so as to move when pulled by a thread or wire; a fashionable toy in the middle of the 18th century → 1748 obs.
► PANTIPLE n. a slipper; formerly applied to every sort of indoor slippers or loose shoes; also to outdoor overshoes or galoshes, and to all manner of Oriental and non-European slippers, sandals, and the like → 1494
► PANTISOCRACY n. a form of social organization in which all are equal in rank and social position; a Utopian community in which all are equal and all rule → 1794
► PANTLE vb. 1. to pant → 1652 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to patter about, to walk with quick, soft steps → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANTLER n. the officer of a household who supplied the bread and had charge of the pantry; the controller of the bread in a large establishment → 1330 obs.
► PANTLOAD n. a great deal of something → 1968 US sl.
► PANT MOUSTACHE n. a fringe of pubic hair that escapes the confines of a female’s underwear or swimwear → 2003 Brit. sl.
► PAN TO vb. to begin to work, to set to work with energy → 1790 Eng. dial.
► PANTOCLE n. a slipper; formerly applied to every sort of indoor slippers or loose shoes; also to outdoor overshoes or galoshes, and to all manner of Oriental and non-European slippers, sandals, and the like → 1494
► PANTOD n. a vague or undefined illness; an imaginary illness; a fit; a violent pain → 1901 Amer. dial.
► PANTO-DEVIL n. a complete or entire devil → 1694 obs.
► PANTOFLE n. a slipper; formerly applied to every sort of indoor slippers or loose shoes; also to outdoor overshoes or galoshes, and to all manner of Oriental and non-European slippers, sandals, and the like → 1494
► PANTOGELASTIC adj. all-laughable → 1808
► PANTOGELASTICAL adj. all laughable; laughable throughout → 1808
► PANTOGLOSSICAL adj. belonging to all tongues or languages → 1716 obs.
► PANTOGLOT adj. knowing or speaking all languages → 1895
n. one who speaks many languages → 1895 obs.
► PANTOGRAPHY n. complete description → 1828
► PANTO-IATRICAL adj. universally healing, all-healing → 1716 obs.
► PANTOLOGIC adj. of universal knowledge → 1858
► PANTOLOGICAL adj. of universal knowledge → 1808
► PANTOLOGIST n. one who studies or is versed in universal knowledge → 1840
► PANTOLOGY n. a survey or systematic view of all branches of knowledge; universal knowledge; also, a compendium of universal information → 1810
► PANTOMANCER n. a diviner upon all kinds of things → 1652 obs.
► PANTOMETRY n. universal measurement; a measuring of all things → 1656 obs.
► PANTOMIME n. a mimic actor; one who represents his meaning by gestures and actions without words → 1615
vb. to make an absurd spectacle or display of oneself; to go around behaving as though in a pantomime → 1768
► PANTOMIME COW n. a row; an argument → 1998 UK rhyming sl.
► PANTOMIMIC adj. of the nature of pantomime or mimicry; expressed by dumb show → 1680
n. a mimic actor; one who represents his meaning by gestures and actions without words → 1617
► PANTOMIMICAL adj. of the nature of pantomime → 1644
► PANTOMIMICALLY adv. by way of pantomime → 1839
► PANTOMIMICRY n. significant gesture without speech; mime → 1728 obs.
► PANTOMIMIST n. a mimic actor; one who represents his meaning by gestures and actions without words → 1838
► PANTOMORPH n. that which takes any or all form or shapes → 1841
► PANTOMORPHIC adj. assuming any or all forms or shapes → 1836
► PANTON n. 1. a slipper → 1489 Sc.
n. 2. an idle fellow → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANTONY n. a pantry → 1870 Eng. dial.
► PANTOPELAGIAN adj. frequenting or inhabiting all seas → 1857
► PANTOPHAGIC adj. eating all kinds of food, omnivorous → 1850
► PANTOPHAGIST n. a man or animal that devours things of all kinds; an omnivorous eater → 1822
► PANTOPHAGOUS adj. eating all kinds of food, omnivorous → 1848
► PANTOPHAGY n. the eating of all sorts of food → 1841
► PANTOPHILE n. a lover of all → 1898 obs.
► PANTOPHOBIA n. an irrational fear marked by terror → 1842
► PANTOPHOBIC adj. having irrational fears → 1857
► PANTOPHOBOUS adj. having irrational fears → 1893
► PANTOPHOBY n. an irrational fear marked by terror → 1857
► PANTOPRAGMATIC adj. universally meddling or occupied with everything; officious → 1861
n. a meddling person; a busybody → 1861
► PANTOPRAGMATICS n. the alleged ‘science’ of universal meddling → 1861
► PANTOSCOPIC adj. having a wide range of vision → 1875
► PANTOUFFLE n. a soft shoe for indoor wear, a slipper → 1818 Sc.
► PANTRY n. 1. the stomach → 1910 US sl.
n. 2. the vagina → 1920 African-American sl.
vb. to lay up or store → 1660 Sc. obs.
► PANTRY POLITICS n. servants’ talk → L19 UK society sl.
► PANTRY SHELVES n. the breasts → 19C Brit. colloq.
► PANTS adj. 1. rubbish, second-rate, inferior → 1990 sl.
adj. 2. applied to something that is very easily done → 1996 Sc. sl.
int. nonsense! → 1990 sl.
n. 1. trousers → 1840
n. 2. pantaloons → 1880 colloq.
n. 3. the ponds or sloppy places left by unusually high tides on the foreshore or between the sea embankments → 1891 Eng, dial.
n. 4. nonsense, rubbish → L19 sl.
n. 5. a jocular nickname for any human male → E20 US sl.
n. 6. the buttocks → 1920 sl.
n. 7. sex → 1965 US sl.
n. 8. best bitter beer → 1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘best’ (Pants and Vest)
vb. 1. to provide with trousers or pants; to allow (one) to wear long trousers → 1934 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to remove someone’s trousers whether they like it or not → 1940 US sl., chiefly juvenile usage
vb. 3. to pull someone’s trousers down as part of a prank or practical joke → 1989 sl.
► THE PANTS n. a fit of panting → 1960 Amer. dial.
► PANTS AND VEST n. best bitter beer → 1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘best’
► PANTS AT HALF-MAST phr. said of someone who has been caught serving as a catamite; hence, caught in the act → E20 US sl.
► PANTSFUL n. a great deal, esp. of something bad; a suggestion of a lot of excrement → 1993 US sl.
► PANTS GARTERS n. suspenders → 1970 Amer. dial.
► PANTS HANGERS n. suspenders → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PANTS HOLDER-UPPERS n. suspenders → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PANTS MAN n. a womanizer → 1968 Aust. sl.
► PANTS RABBIT n. a louse or other body vermin, a flear, a parasite → 1918 US sl., chiefly military usage
► PANTS RAT n. a louse or other body vermin. a parasite → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PANTSULA n. a township dandy whose life is dedicated to the purchase of expensive, fashionable clothes → 1970 S. Afr. sl.
► PANTS SUPPORTERS n. suspenders → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PANTUFFLE n. a slipper; formerly applied to every sort of indoor slippers or loose shoes; also to outdoor overshoes or galoshes, and to all manner of Oriental and non-European slippers, sandals, and the like → 1494
► PANT-WELL n. a well that is covered or built up → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► PANT-WORM n. the penis → 1990 US prison sl.
► PANTY adj. short-winded → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANTY-ASSED adj. effeminate; homosexual → 1970 US sl.
► PANTY HAMSTER n. the vagina → 2002 UK sl.
► PANTYMAN n. an effeminate heterosexual man; a homosexual man → 1993 Trinidad and Tobago
► PANTYPOP vb. to fart → 2003 US sl.
► PANTYR n. a pantry → 1475 obs.
► PANTY RAID n. a college fad in which male students invade the dormitories of female students, seizing underwear as trophies → 1952 US sl.
► PANTY-STRETCHER n. a well-built young lady, a heavy woman → 1976 US sl.
► PANTYWAIST adj. timid; weak; effeminate; sissified → 1930 sl.
n. 1. a timid, weak, or effeminate boy or man; a sissy; a cowardly person → 1936 US sl.
n. 2. a homosexual → 1936 Amer. sl.
► PANTZILLA n. Sildenafil citrate marketed as Viagra, an anti-impotence drug taken recreationally for performance enhancement, in combination with other chemicals that stimulate the sexual appetites → 2001 UK sl.
► PAN UP vb. to prepare a powdered drug for heating prior to injection → 1971 US sl.
► PANUPETASTON n. a coat → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► PANURGIC adj. able or ready to do anything → 1873
► PANURGY n. craftiness, cunning, deceit, guile, a meddling in all matters → 1656 obs.
► PANWIT n. a fool → 1990 UK juvenile sl.
► PANYA adj. Spanish → 1940 W. Indies sl.
► PANYAL n. a boggy, marshy, or muddy place; an ill-drained swampy piece of ground → 1920 Sc.
► PANYAR vb. to seize as plunder, to raid, to steal; to kidnap natives as slaves → 1735 W. Afr.
► PAN YEN n. opium; heroin; orig. used of opium only → 1922 US sl.
► PANZER n. a Mercedes-Benz car → 1997 US sl.
► PANZER HEAD n. a term of abuse used of someone who is or resembles a German → 1980 sl.
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