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panjandrum

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pan·jan·drum  (pn-jndrm)
n.
An important or self-important person: "a panjandrum of the publishing business" Nat Hentoff.
[After the Grand Panjandrum, a character in a nonsense farrago written by Samuel Foote (1720-1777).]
panjandrum
Noun
a pompous self-important official [after a character in a nonsense work]
panjandrum
designation for a pompous official, taken from a story by Samuel Foote(1755).
See also: Bureaucracy
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Noun1.panjandrumpanjandrum - an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
dignitary, high muckamuck, high-up, very important person, VIP
important person, influential person, personage - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
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