Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

warming pan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables: warm-ing -pan
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.

noun

A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.

Dated

Example Sentences

"Good Bardolfe / Put thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan."
"[…] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship."
"We used to call him in my parliamentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a young fellow who was in his minority."

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

warming pans (plural)

Synonyms

bedwarmer locum tenens

Questions

What does warming pan mean?: A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.

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