Definition of Cannikin

1. Noun. A wooden bucket.

Generic synonyms: Bucket, Pail

2. Noun. A small can.
Generic synonyms: Can, Tin, Tin Can

Definition of Cannikin

1. n. A small can or drinking vessel.

Definition of Cannikin

1. Noun. (alternative form of canakin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cannikin

1. a small can or cup [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannikin

cannibalism
cannibalisms
cannibalistic
cannibalistically
cannibalization
cannibalizations
cannibalize
cannibalized
cannibalizes
cannibalizing
cannibally
cannibals
cannie
cannier
canniest
cannikin (current term)
cannikins
cannily
canniness
canninesses
canning
cannings
cannister
cannisters
cannit
cannizzarite
cannoli
cannolis
cannon
cannon-bone

Literary usage of Cannikin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"In this case it is termed A CANNIBAL, it having eaten up its own kind, and a fine is enacted from it by the University Boat Club. cannikin or ..."

2. Memoirs of His Own Time: Including the Revolution, the Empire, and the by Mathieu Dumas (1839)
"Dame cannikin, the landlady, her daughter Kate, and her drawer Barnaby, are each capital in their several ways; so is Barnaby ..."

3. La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays by Thomas Oliphant (1837)
"A snatch of an old ditty, sung by lago, in Shakspeare's tragedy of Othello, is in a similar vein : " Then let me the cannikin clink, clink, " And let me the ..."

4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"At length the cavalcade was fairly off, and the O'cannikin turned briskly ... Unable to hear anything less forcible than a shout, Mr. O'cannikin gives vent ..."

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