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panjandrum
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun panjandrum has 1 sense
- panjandrum(n = noun.person) dignitary, high muckamuck, high-up, very important person, vip - an important or influential (and often overbearing) person; Array is a kind of important person, influential person, personage
OXFORD DICTIONARY
panjandrum, n.
1 a mock title for an important person.
2 a pompous or pretentious official etc.
1 a mock title for an important person.
2 a pompous or pretentious official etc.
Etymology
app. invented in nonsense verse by S. Foote 1755
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