This is the BEST POEM EVER.

Oct 22, 2002 16:44

panjandrum (pan-'jan-dr&m), n.
plural: -drums also panjandra

A powerful personage or pretentious official.

From the poem "The Great Panjandrum," by Samuel Foote.

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anonymous November 12 2002, 19:29:44 UTC
...which I used in a sentence a day ago. "And all of the annoying panjandrums up in the office can just go cart themselves off to a cliff and take a dive over the edge."
Thank you for such a...useful word. :o]

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