brainpan
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbɹeɪnpan/
brainpan (plural brainpans)
- (now chiefly North American, colloquial) The skull. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, First Folio 1623, IV.9:
- Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, First Folio 1623, IV.9:
- (now chiefly North American, colloquial) The brain or mind. [from 17th c.]
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