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brain-pan

brain-pan is the alternative form of brainpan.

Meaning of brainpan

Noun

brainpan (plural brainpans)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial) The braincase; the skull.
    • Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial) The brain or mind.
    • ‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’1822, Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel

Forms of brain-pan

pluralbrain-pans

Questions about brain-pan

What is brain-pan the alternative form of?
Brain-pan is the alternative form of brainpan.

Words near brain-pan in the dictionary

  1. brain-gain
  2. brain-gains
  3. brain-melting
  4. brain-meltingly
  5. brain-numbing
  6. brain-pan
  7. brain-pans
  8. brain-picking
  9. brain-rot
  10. brain-rotted
  11. brain-scanner

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