panjandrum

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panjandrum

tärkeä henkilö, vaikutusvaltainen henkilö, arvohenkilö, hyvin tärkeä henkilö, VIP, korkea-arvoinen henkilö, suuri herra, tärkeilijä, merkkihenkilö.

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panjandrum (englanti > suomi)

1. kiho, vaikuttaja

2. lesottaja

panjandrum englanniksi

1. An important, powerful or influential person.

2. 1755, w:Samuel Foote|Samuel Foote, s:The Grand Panjandrum|The Grand Panjandrum (a nonsense poem written to test actor w:Charles Macklin|Charles Macklin's claim that he could accurately recite any paragraph of text after a single reading),

So he died, / and she very imprudently married the Barber: / and there were present / the Picninnies, / and the Joblillies, / and the Garyulies, / and the great Panjandrum himself, / with the little round button at top;

3. 1910, w:Eliakim Littell|Eliakim Littell, Making of America Project, Robert S. Littell, Living age ... (Littells Living Age''), Volume 265, http://books.google.com/books?id=RnvmaOiv8RoC&q=%22panjandrum panjandrums%22&dq=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&hl=en&ei=m0uATpK3POXbmAX7pfCiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCTgo page 809,

I think it's an excellent thing that the Great Panjandrum is coming for the week-end. Have you ever met him in private?"

I ought to explain that the Great Panjandrum was the nickname for Lord Elkindale, the then Foreign Secretary.

4. 1917, w:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw, s:Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress|Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress,

But my family has served the Panjandrums of Beotia faithfully for seven centuries. The Panjandrums have kept our place for us at their courts, honored us, promoted us, shed their glory on us, made us what we are.

5. 1976, (w), w:Slapstick (novel)|Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 49, p. 228,

The territory I had sold him was largely occupied by the Duke of Oklahoma, and, no doubt, by other potentates and panjandrums unknown to me.

6. A self-important or pretentious person.

7. 1910, w:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw, s:Misalliance Misalliance,

You can never imagine how delighted I was to find that instead of being the correct sort of big panjandrum you were supposed to be, you were really an old rip like papa.

8. puhekieltä A massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II.

9. 1967, John Winton, The War At Sea, 1939-1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience, http://books.google.com/books?id=yNI_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22panjandrum panjandrums%22&dq=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&hl=en&ei=4E6ATsCCBojNmAXbud2iBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCTg8 page 304,

The Panjandrum lurched and overturned, the crash dislodging several of the rockets, which flew low over the beach in all directions (..).

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