brainpan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 8
/ˈbɹeɪnpan/(UK)
Definition of brainpan
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Canada, US, colloquial)The braincase; the skull.
“Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.”
“Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.”
“Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.”
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noun
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(Canada, US, colloquial)The braincase; the skull.
“Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.”
“Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.”
“Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.”
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(Canada, US, colloquial)The brain or mind.
“‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English brayn panne, from Old English bræġnpanne, corresponding to brain + pan.
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