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Pant vs Pech - What's the difference?

pant | pech |

As verbs the difference between pant and pech

is that pant is to breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp while pech is to pant, to struggle for breath.

As a noun pant

is a quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

pant

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), whence also English dialectal (m). Possibly from (etyl) (m), a byform or of (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  • (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
    • (Shakespeare)
    References
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    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  • * Dryden
    • Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.
  • * Shelley
    • There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting , dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed}}
  • To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  • * Herbert
    • Then shall our hearts pant thee.
  • To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  • * Bible, Psalms xlii. 1
    • As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
  • Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
    • (Spenser)
  • To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
    Synonyms
    * (breathe quickly or in a labored manner) gasp * (long for) crave, desire, long for, pine for * (long eagerly) crave, desire, long, pine * palpitate, pound, throb

    Etymology 2

    From pants

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  • (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
    • Pant leg
    Derived terms
    * pant cuff * pant leg * pantsuit, pant suit * panty, panties

    Etymology 3

    Unknown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England

    • References

    * PMSA page with several examples * OED 2nd edition

    Anagrams

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    pech

    English

    Alternative forms

    *paich

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.
  • *1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 321:
  • *:Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.
  • *1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 207:
  • *:When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.
  • *1994 , (James Kelman), How Late it Was, How Late :
  • *:If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.
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