brainpan

[ breyn-pan ]

/ ˈbreɪnˌpæn /

the skull or cranium.

Origin of brainpan

before 1000; Middle English brayn panne, Old English brægenpanne. See brain, pan¹

What in the name of Heaven has put such ideas into your brainpan?

The Weird of the Wentworths, Vol. 1 |Johannes Scotus
The post mortem found out that Gustave had died from a rush of words to his brainpan.

You Should Worry Says John Henry |George V. Hobart

brainpan

/ (ˈbreɪnˌpæn) /

informal the skull