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panjandrum

[pan-jan-druhm]

noun

  1. a self-important or pretentious official.



panjandrum

/ æˈæԻə /

noun

  1. a pompous self-important official or person of rank

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of panjandrum1

1745–55; pseudo-Latin word (based on pan- ) coined by Samuel Foote (1720–77), English dramatist and actor
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of panjandrum1

C18: after a character, the Grand Panjandrum, in a nonsense work (1755) by Samuel Foote, English playwright and actor
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Roberts’ smoldering, high-beam intensity caught the attention of Joe Papp, a panjandrum of New York theater who cast Roberts in a Public Theater production of the Civil War drama “Rebel Women.”

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But you don’t have to see exact moral equivalence between Nazi Germany and Communist China to wonder whether today’s international Olympic panjandrums are capable of learning anything from their predecessors’ experience.

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That’s the date by which Trump, the panjandrum of the White House podium, has said he would like to start reopening the shuttered US economy.

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Two UK Tory panjandrums - architects of the PM's surprise victory - flew to Washington eight weeks before the US election and advised the Bush team to focus attacks on Clinton's character.

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“Do you remember what all the panjandrums had to say?”

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