panjandrum

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Noun
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pan=jan=drum

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun panjandrum has 1 sense

OXFORD DICTIONARY

panjandrum, n.
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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