Pannikin

Origin

pan + -kin

Full definition of pannikin

Noun

1. A cup or other vessel used for drinking.
• 1938, George Orwell, It is all bound up in my mind with the winter cold, the ragged uniforms of militiamen, the oval Spanish faces, the morse-like tapping of machine-guns, the smells of urine and rotting bread, the tinny taste of bean-stews wolfed hurriedly out of unclean pannikins.
2. The contents of such a vessel.