panjandrum

noun pan·jan·drum \pan-ˈjan-drəm\

plural pan·jan·drums also pan·jan·dra\-drə\

Definition of PANJANDRUM

: a powerful personage or pretentious official

Grand Panjandrum, burlesque title of an imaginary personage in some nonsense lines by Samuel Foote

First Known Use: 1856

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