panjandrum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An important, powerful or influential person; muckamuck.

   “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.”

2. isim A self-important or pretentious person.

   “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.”

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

   “The Panjandrum lurched and overturned, the crash dislodging several of the rockets, which flew low over the beach in all directions […].”