Gandered vs Pandered - What's the difference?
gandered | pandered |
(gander)
A male goose.
* 1916 , Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose
A fool, simpleton
A glance, look.
(pander)
A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
* 1992 , Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
(by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
* Burke
To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
As verbs the difference between gandered and pandered
is that gandered is (gander) while pandered is (pander).gandered
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(head)Anagrams
* * *gander
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Noun
(en noun)- Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander .
- Have a gander at what he’s written.
Synonyms
* (sense) butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")Derived terms
* Michigander * what's good for the goose is good for the gander * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the ganderAnagrams
* * * * ----pandered
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(head)pander
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Alternative forms
* pandarNoun
(en noun)- It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders .
- Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Verb
(en verb)- His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.