Ponder vs Pander - What's the difference?
ponder | pander |
To wonder, to think of deeply.
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
(obsolete) To weigh.
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 ponder and pander
is that ponder is to wonder, to think of deeply while pander is to offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.As a noun pander is
a person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer..ponder
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Verb
(en verb)- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Ponder the path of thy feet.
Synonyms
* chew over * mull over * See alsoExternal links
* *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.
