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Pinter vs Panter - What's the difference?

pinter | panter |

As nouns the difference between pinter and panter

is that pinter is the drinking of a certain number of pints of beer while panter is one who pants.

pinter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (in combinations, UK, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
  • (in combinations, UK, slang) A container that holds a certain number of pints.
  • * 2006 , Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red (page 262)
    • “Anyway, I'd best get a shuffle on. Got to pick some milk up, you see.” “I've just been too.” Sure enough he showed the hedgehog a four-pinter .
  • (in combinations, UK, slang) Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.
    • She's so ugly, an eight-pinter , I'd say.
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    panter

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who pants.
  • * Congreve
    • 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)
  • (obsolete) A net; a noose.
  • * Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue'' to ''The Legend of Good Women
    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
    • (Tyndale)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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