pannikinful

English

Etymology

pannikin +‎ -ful

Noun

pannikinful (plural pannikinfuls or pannikinsful)

  1. The quantity a pannikin will hold.
    • 1853, John Sherer, The Gold-Finder of Australia, London: Clarke, Beeton & Co., Chapter 12, p. 117,
      “Never mind,” said Raikes; “sufficient for the day is the evil thereof; therefore let us have a couple of pannikinsful of soup, and trust for better luck to-morrow.”
    • 1898, William Charles Scully, Between Sun and Sand: A Tale of an African Desert, London: Methuen, Chapter 13, p. 190,
      At the bottom is a little hollow, in which is always to be found a few pannikinfuls of beautifully clear, fresh water, which is icy cold.
    • 1918, G. B. Lancaster, “A Nice Girl,” The Windsor Magazine, Volume 48, June-November 1918, pp. 72-73,
      He glanced carelessly at the coin and sipped his tea. “Rotten cheap, isn’t it? Many’s the time I’d have given a pound for a pannikinful. And many’s the cup I’ve got for nothing, too.”
    • 1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Homage to Catalonia‎, London: Secker & Warburg:
      A tall boy of twenty, deeply windburnt, with his clothes in rags, crouched over the fire shovelling a pannikinful of stew into himself at desperate speed […]
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