Antonyms for panjandrum

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pan-jan-druh m

Phonetic Transcription : pænˈdʒæn drəm

employee

Definition of panjandrum

Origin : mock name for a pompous personage, 1755, invented by Samuel Foote (1720-1777) in a long passage full of nonsense written to test the memory of actor Charles Macklin (1697-1797), who said he could repeat anything after hearing it once.

As in official : noun person representing organization
As in big name : noun somebody famous

Example sentences :

Same thing, I reckon, by all that you tell about that Panjandrum and his goin's on!
Extract from : « The Faith Healer » by William Vaughn Moody

My Panjandrum is deposed and transported to herd with convicts.
Extract from : « Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress » by George Bernard Shaw

I would have died for my Panjandrum as my father died for his father.
Extract from : « Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress » by George Bernard Shaw

I should as soon have expected to meet the great Panjandrum himself!
Extract from : « In the Days of My Youth » by Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

One player is chosen to be the Panjandrum, an important personage requiring a body guard.
Extract from : « Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium » by Jessie H. Bancroft

The object of the game is for the players at large to touch or tantalize the Panjandrum without being tagged by his guard.
Extract from : « Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium » by Jessie H. Bancroft

Panjandrum, pan-jan′drum, n. an imaginary figure of great power and importance, a burlesque potentate.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various

All the ladies (only ten with the whole army) came to breakfast at half-past seven, and so did the great Panjandrum himself.
Extract from : « Up the Country » by Emily Eden

I live now for three objects only: to defeat the enemy, to restore the Panjandrum, and to hang my solicitor.
Extract from : « Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress » by George Bernard Shaw

The Republic of Beotia has been compelled to confine the Panjandrum and his family, for their own safety, within certain bounds.
Extract from : « Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress » by George Bernard Shaw

Synonyms for panjandrum

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