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pantin

pantin noun: a jumping jack (toy).

Noun

pantin (plural pantins)

  1. A jumping jack (toy)
    • About 1750 the pantins were made in five parts, the body and head, the two arms and the two legs. They were engraved on sheets of paper or card and could be cut out at home or bought ready cut and coloured. Later on they were printed by lithography.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 157

Proper noun capitalized: Pantin

Pantin

  1. A commune in Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France, France.

Forms of pantin

pluralpantins

Origin of pantin

Borrowed from French Pantin.

Questions about pantin

What does pantin mean?
Pantin means a jumping jack (toy).
What part of speech is pantin?
Pantin can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pantin?
The plural of pantin is pantins.

Words near pantin in the dictionary

  1. pantiless
  2. pantilettes
  3. pantiliner
  4. pantiliners
  5. pantiling
  6. pantin
  7. panting
  8. pantingly
  9. pantings
  10. pantisocracies
  11. pantisocracy

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