Panter vs Pander - What's the difference?
panter | pander |
One who pants.
* Congreve
(obsolete) A net; a noose.
* Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue'' to ''The Legend of Good Women
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 nouns the difference between panter and pander
is that panter is panther while pander is a person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male (later panderer).As a verb pander is
to offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.panter
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter' s Wounds.
Etymology 2
See (painter) a rope.Noun
(en noun)- The smalle fowles, of the season fain,
- That from the panter and the net ben scaped,
- Upon the fowler, that them made a-whaped
- In winter, and destroyed had their brood.
Etymology 3
(etyl) panetier.Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----pander
English
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.
