different between panter vs punter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pænt?(?)/

Etymology 1

pant +? -er

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. One who pants.
   • c. 1700, William Congreve, On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing

     Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.

   • 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (volume 60, page 492)

     Reputation—a mere barren reputation, that brings nothing with it, save a post obit bond on posterity—has lost its ancient value: and the panters after posthumous reputation are now closely confined to a few wrongheaded enthusiasts, […]

Etymology 2

From Middle English panter (“noose for fowl”), from Old French pantiere, from Latin panth?ra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (panth?ra).

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. (obsolete) A net; a noose.

Etymology 3

From Middle English panter (“pantler”), paneter, from Old French panetier.

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.

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Etymology 4

Noun

panter (plural panters)

1. Obsolete form of panther.

Anagrams

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, trepan

Czech

Alternative forms

• panther

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pant?r]

Noun

panter m

1. panther

Derived terms

• pante?í

See also

• levhart
• pardál

Further reading

• panter in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• panter in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

panter c (singular definite panteren, plural indefinite pantere)

1. Panther.

Inflection

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1934) panther

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pan?ter

Noun

panter m (plural panters, diminutive pantertje n)

1. panther, leopard, Panthera pardus

   Synonyms: luipaard, pardel

Derived terms

• sneeuwpanter

Anagrams

• parten
• praten

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French pantere, from Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (pánth?r).

Alternative forms

• pantere, panther

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pant??r(?)/, /?pant?r(?)/

Noun

panter (plural panteres or panteren)

2. A panther (leopard or any wild cat)
3. (rare, alchemy) An alchemical solution.

Descendants

• English: panther

References

• “pant??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French panetier, penetier.

Alternative forms

• pantre, paniter, paneter, pantere, panytere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pan(?)te?r/, /?pan(?)t?r/

Noun

panter (plural panters)

2. A pantler (manager of the pantry and food)

Descendants

• English: panter

References

• “panet??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French pantiere, from Latin panth?ra (“entire catch”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (panth?ra).

Alternative forms

• paunter, pantere, pantire, pantyr, panteere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pante?r(?)/, /?pant?r(?)/

Noun

panter (plural panters)

2. A noose for trapping fowl.
   • c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women/Prologe

     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.

3. (figuratively) That which ensnares; a lure.

Descendants

• English: panter (obsolete)

References

• “paunt??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural pantere or pantre or pantrer, definite plural panterne or pantrene)

1. a panther (black leopard)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

panter m (definite singular panteren, indefinite plural panterar, definite plural panterane)

1. a panther (black leopard)

Swedish

Noun

panter c

1. a panther
2. indefinite plural of pant

Declension

Anagrams

• parten

Turkish

Etymology

From French panthère.

Noun

panter (definite accusative panteri, plural panterler)

1. panther

   Synonyms: pars, pelenk

Declension

References

• panter in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Etymology

punt +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?/, [p???????]
• Rhymes: -?nt?(?)

Noun

punter (plural punters)

1. One who bets (punts) against the bank.
2. One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon).
3. One who punts a football.
4. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, slang) One who gambles. See speculator.
5. (Britain, Australia, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.
6. (climbing) A beginner or unskilled climber.
7. The person who keeps score in basset or ombre.
8. (Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.
   • 2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed

     He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross.

9. (Internet slang) A program used to forcibly disconnect another user from a chat room.
   • 2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows (page 236)

     Punters generate hundreds of information inquiries to a legitimate user's client, such as invitations to chat. […] The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access.

Synonyms

• (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

Translations

Anagrams

• Turpen, turnep