WARMING-PAN

Domain	Definition
Literature	Warming-pan (A). One who keeps a place warm for another, i.e. holds it temporarily for another. The allusion is to the custom in public schools of making a fag warm his "superior's" bed by lying in it till the proper occupant was ready to turn him out. "If Mr. Mellor took a judgeship, Grantham might object to become a warming-pan for ambitious lawyers."- Newspaper paragraph, March 5th, 1886. Warming-pan (See Jacobites .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	WARMING-PAN. A large old-fashioned watch. A Scotch warming-pan; a female bedfellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Usage Frequency: WARMING-PAN

"WARMING-PAN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WARMING-PAN" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: WARMING-PAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-m-n-n-p-r-w"
	-2 letters: parawing, prawning.
	-3 letters: gripman, pangram, pawning, ramping, wanigan, warming, warning, warping, wingman.
	-4 letters: airman, angina, arming, awning, impawn, inwrap, magian, margin, marina, mawing, naming, parang, parian, paring, pawing, pinang, pirana, ragman, raping, wangan, waning, waring.
	-5 letters: again, agria, amain, amiga, amnia, anima, apian, aping, awing, gamin, garni, gnawn, grain, grama, gramp, grana, inarm, mania.
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