saucepann.
/ˈsɔːspən/, /ˈsɔːspan/, U.S. /ˈsɔsˌpæn/, /ˈsɑsˌpæn/ In early use: a small metal pan or skillet with a long handle, used esp. for cooking and serving sauces. Now more generally: a deep metal pan, typically round with one long handle and a separate lid, used for any of various general purposes in cooking, especially boiling or heating food on a hob.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pan > saucepan or stewpan
goose-pan1420
saucepot1516
stupnet1560
beef-boiler1611
chafern1613
stupan1617
stewpot1629
saucepan1639
stewpan1653
casserole1725
goblet1739
double boiler1879
double saucepan1880
cassolette1898
cassoulet1940
saucier1978
1639 I. W. tr. P. Guybert Charitable Physitian 8 Take two ounces of common honey, boyle it in a little sauce pan upon a cleare fire untill it commeth to the thicknesse of an Electuary solide.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 42 If you have a Silver Sauce-pan; and the Butter smells of Smoak, lay the Fault upon the Coals.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 26 I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire.
1934 M. T. King Mothercraft xiv. 239 Boil thoroughly for 5 minutes in a saucepan with a good fitting lid.
2008 BBC Good Food Sept. 18/2 Heat 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil in a heavy-based saucepan over a medium heat.
Phrases
† your saucepan runs over: used to suggest that a person is very bold, forthright, or impudent. Cf. sauce n. III., saucy adj.1 1a. Obsolete. [With allusion to the biblical phrase my cup runneth over (Psalms 23:5), frequently used to indicate that a person has even more of something than they hoped or believed they could have.]
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > impudent [phrase]
your saucepan runs over1699
as bold as brass1789
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Your Sauce-Pan runs over, you are exceeding bold.
Compounds
saucepan brush n. a small brush with short stiff bristles used for scrubbing food residue from saucepans or other cooking equipment.
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1856 Argus (Melbourne) 16 Jan. 3/3 (advt.) Brushware... Registered saucepan brushes.
1944 C. Milburn Diary 30 Dec. (1979) 260 A few oddments at the ironmonger's..a dish mop, a baking tin, a colander, a saucepan brush.
2012 N. Jackman & T. Quinn Cook's Tale xxxii. 139 There were jug brushes, plate brushes, saucepan brushes.
saucepan crab n. now historical and rare the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus; cf. panfish n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of
king crabc1612
horse-foot1672
Molucca crab1681
sea-louse1681
horse-hoof1699
horseshoe1775
saucepan crab1863
horseshoe-crab1865
fiddle-fish1867
xiphosurid1969
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 645 One living species (Limulus cyclops) is a native of the East Indies, and goes by the popular name of Pan-fish, or Saucepan-crab, because the shell, when the limbs and body have been removed and the tail spine permitted to retain its place, has some resemblance to the useful culinary article.
1960 Estuarine Bull. Summer 4 (caption) These animals, once also called ‘saucepan crabs’, were dried before being coarsely ground into a fertilizer meal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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