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Word entry · 8 letters

pannikin

Best crossword clue

"Small tin cup"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aiiknnnpStarts with PEnds with N2 clues
1P2A3N4N5I6K7I8N

Definitions

  1. a small pan or cup (usually of tin)

Word origin

From pan + -kin.

Used in a sentence

  • Scarcely had we got things fixed and supper under weigh, when a yell from Boteler, 'He's going to spout!' caused us to drop teapot and pannikin, and tumble out of the tent in half no time.
  • A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
  • The peasants and their wives came to the doors of their cottages. Some brought out pannikins of water to the fleeing Jews; others laughed and jeered.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Small tin cup8 letters
02Tin vessel8 letters

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