Usually means: Clever, cunning character from Rabelais.
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  5. Panurge (opera), Panurge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Panurge: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Panurge)

noun:  (from / panoûrgos meaning "knave, rogue") one of the principal characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of five novels by François Rabelais.
noun:  an opera (titled 'Haulte farce musicale') in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Georges Spitzmuller and Maurice Boukay, after Pantagruel by Rabelais.


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