Are you a nobody or are you a PANJANDRUM?

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's...

PANJANDRUM [pan-JAN-drum] (noun)

A very important person (VIP) -- or someone who thinks he or she is (sometimes capitalized).

"Panjandrum" is sometimes used as a metaphorical synonym for other things, such as an explosive weapon used by the British military in World War II, and even for the Supreme Being. (I prefer to refer to the latter as The Cosmic Muffin.)

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