Pendennis
Proper noun
Meaning
Pendennis
An unincorporated community in Kansas
Examples
"Nigel Lawson used to be known by the sobriquet of 'Smuggins'," Peter Hillmore, Pendennis, The Observer Review, 27 October 1996.
The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel Pendennis (1850) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.