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Meanings of panjandrum in English

Portuguese
dignitário
Catalan
personalitat
Spanish
personalidad

An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.

dignitário
Spanish
panjandrum

British experimental weapon of World War II.

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Usage of panjandrum in English
1
Why don't you get some of your friends to go for that wooden-faced panjandrum-eh
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
2
Anthony "Tones" Frobisher, the grand high panjandrum of Discount Electronix (Birch Hill Mall branch).
Mr. Mercedes
3
Are you responsible for this panjandrum to-night?
A Court of Inquiry
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I did not care for all this panjandrum of punctiliousness, but was, I hope, civil and chatty with everybody.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
5
Doreen has balanced the tea tray on the top of her walker and pushes the whole panjandrum into the living.
Masked
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Now, with The Mistress of Lilliput, Alison Fell takes on the great panjandrum of satire himself, and comes up smelling of strawberries.
The Irish Times
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The phrase is accurate, for Mr. Pond appeared to be panjandrum here, and people of all degree were presented to him, as to royalty.
V. V.'s Eyes
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He had somehow got hold of the regalia of the order and drawlingly announced himself as the great panjandrum who had come to take part.
The Last Leaf / Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men ...
9
Do not deceive yourself, General: never again will a Panjandrum reign in Beotia.
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
10
Now, since the Francis report, the panjandrums have nowhere to hide.
The Guardian
11
And I'm coming as chief secretary to the Grand Panjandrum himself.
The Crimson Blind
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Milo got booed, but the red card protest against his fellow panjandrums never materialised.
The Irish Times
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Then the Great Panjandrum seized an axe and struck at the foot of the tree.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
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And that's why the children thought the next story should be about the Great Panjandrum.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
15
I wish to Panjandrum I were more like her.
One of our Thursdays is missing
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Are you, the daughter of a Panjandrum, a Bolshevist?
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Translations for panjandrum
Panjandrum through the time