Panter vs Punter - What's the difference?
panter | punter |
One who pants.
* Congreve
(obsolete) A net; a noose.
* Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue'' to ''The Legend of Good Women
One who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).
One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon).
One who punts a football.
(British, slang) one who gambles. See speculator.
(British, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.
A beginner or unskilled climber
As nouns the difference between panter and punter
is that panter is panther while punter is one who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).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.