or panum, pannam, subs. (old cant).—Bread; food. [Latin panis]. Hence PANNUM-BOUND = (prison) cut of one’s allowance; PANNUM- (or COKEY-) FENCE = a street pastry cook; PANNUM-STRUCK = starving.—HARMAN (1567); B. E. (c. 1696); HALL (1714); COLES (1724); GROSE (1785). For synonyms, see STAFF-OF-LIFE.
1608. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 3].
| The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harmanbeck, | |
| If we mawnd PANNAM, lap, or Ruff-peck. |
1611. MIDDLETON and DEKKER, The Roaring Girle, v. 1. [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 10].
| A gage of ben Rom-bouse, | |
| In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile | |
| Tearcat. Is benar than a Caster, | |
| Peck, PENNAM, lap, or popler. |
1641. R. BROME, A Joviall Crew [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 23].
| Here’s PANNAM and lap, and good poplars of Yarrum, | |
| To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron. |
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. PANUM. “Mat de dem div, me Middery?” asks the gipsey child. Nonarem PANUM.
1837. B. DISRAELI, Venetia, xiv. Beruna, flick the PANAM.
1844. C. SELBY, London by Night, i. 2. As far as an injun, PANNUM, and cheese, and a drop of heavy goes, you are perfectly welcome.
1867. VANCE, The Chickaleary Cove. Some PANNUM for my chest.
