Brainpan

Quick meaning: Brainpan is a noun meaning (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The braincase; the skull.

Meaning

(now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The braincase; the skull.

More Meanings

1. (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The brain or mind.

Example Sentences

Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.

‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’

Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.

Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.

Word Forms

• brainpans
• brain-pan
• braynepan

Synonyms for brainpan

Depending on context, synonyms include harnpan, skull, cranium, braincase.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include braincase, cranium, brain-pan, pannicle, pannikel, pannikell.

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