Panny

subs. (old).—1.  The highway.

  1754.  POULTER, The Discoveries of John Poulter, 42. I’ll scamp on the PANNEY.

  2.  (old cant).—A house, public or otherwise; also apartments, rooms, lodgings. Hence FLASH-PANNY = (1) a brothel; and (2) a public-house used by thieves.

  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. PANNY. The pigs frisked my PANNEY and nailed my screws.

  1819.  J. H. VAUX, Memoirs, s.v.

  1821.  P. EGAN, Life in London, II. ii. To send them to their PANNIES full of spirits.

  1823.  BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. PANNY—a small house, or low apartment; a dwelling-shed, or gipsey building without stairs.

  1827.  P. EGAN, Anecdotes of the Turf, 183. He never called at her PANNY now without invitation.

  3.  (thieves’).—A burglary: also PANNY-LAY. Hence, PANNY-MAN = a housebreaker; TO DO A PANNY = to rob a house.—GROSE (1785); SNOWDEN (1857).

  1830.  BULWER-LYTTON, Paul Clifford, ii. Ranting Rob, poor fellow, was lagged for DOING A PANNY.

  c. 1838.  G. W. REYNOLDS, Pickwick Abroad [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 122], ‘The House Breaker’s Song.’