Pen vs Pants - What's the difference?

pen | pants |

As a symbol pen

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As a noun pants is

As a verb pants is

to pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants or pants can be (pant).

As an adjective pants is

(british|slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.

pen

English

(wikipedia pen)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced by

Noun

(en noun)

An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

There are two steers in the third pen .

A place to confine a person; a prison cell.

They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.

(baseball) The bullpen.

Two righties are up in the pen .

Verb

To enclose in a pen.

* Milton

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (Modern English (m)); note the /p/ ? /f/ Germanic sound change. See feather and for more.

Noun

(en noun)

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

He took notes with a pen .

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

He has a sharp pen .

* Fuller

those learned pens

A light pen.

(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:

And eke the pennes , that did his pineons bynd, / Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, / With which whenas him list the ayre to beat

(poetic) A wing.

(Milton)

Derived terms

* ball pen * ball-point pen * border pen * bull pen * cartridge pen * felt-tip pen * fountain pen * goose pen * lettering pen * pen cancellation * pen feather * pen-mate * penmanship * pen name * pen pal * pen-pusher * poison pen * you don't dip your pen in company ink

Verb

(penn)

To write (an article, a book, etc.).

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

A female swan.

Etymology 4

Shortned form of penalty

Noun

(en noun)

penalty

References

Anagrams

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pants

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from .

Noun

(en-plural noun)

* 1933 , , Rabble in Arms , 1996, page 220:

“But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants': to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, ' pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”

* 1989 , , Penguin (2006), page 427:

Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.

* 2010 , Ronald C. Eng (editor), Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills , 8th Edition, The Mountaineers Books, US, page 24:

Look for pants' with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the ' pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.

* 2005 , , page 12:

I rolled up the legs of the pants , then I went back into the trees.

* {{quote-news, year=2012

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* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:

I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.

* 1976 , Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day , 1988, page 127:

Big girls get candy for dry pants .

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage (2005), page 183:

As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.

(fashion) English plurals

(UK, slang) rubbish; something worthless

You're talking pants !

The film was a load (or pile) of pants .

Synonyms

* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) breeks, britches, hosen, slacks, strides, trousers * (undergarment that covers the genitals and often neighbouring body parts) drawers, underpants, underwear *: (for men) boxers, boxer shorts, BVD's, ginch, gitch, gonch, gotch, jockeys, jockey shorts, shorts, skivvies, undershorts *: (for women) underpants, knickers, panties

Hyponyms

* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) corduroys/cords, jeans

Derived terms

* -pants * all mouth and pants, all mouth and no pants * beat the pants off * ), seat-of-the-pants * * hot pants/hotpants * kick in the pants * overpants * smarty pants * the pants off (with scare, bore, beat, etc.) * wear the pants *

Verb

(es)

To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

* 1948 , University of California, Carolina Quarterly , page 47:

Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.

* 1980 , William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip , Atheneum, page 242:

[T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.

* 1993 , Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories , page 174:

Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.

Synonyms

* depants, de-pants, (British) keg

Adjective

(en adjective)

(British, slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.

Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

Etymology 2

From the verb (term) (from (etyl) panten and (hence) the noun (pant).)

Verb

(head)

(pant)

External links

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