different between momager vs pimp

English

Alternative forms

• momanager

Etymology

From blend of mom +? manager.

Noun

momager (plural momagers)

1. (US, slang) A showbusiness manager who is also the performer's mother.
   • 2010, Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood:

     A growing category of “bad” mother is the so-called “momager,” the woman who interferes with her famous children's affairs, exploits them, and contributes to their tarnished reputations—[...]

   • 2012, Sarah Wylie, All These Lives, page 184:

     The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.

   • 2016, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian, 13 December:

     The scope of ambition of the Hadids can be seen in the increased visibility of Yolanda, who accompanied Gigi to the Fashion awards, because you are no one without a momager.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”).

Noun

pimp (plural pimps)

1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A man who can easily attract women.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pimp (third-person singular simple present pimps, present participle pimping, simple past and past participle pimped)

1. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
2. (transitive) To prostitute someone.

   The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.

3. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).

   You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

4. (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
   • 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183

     Only an attending physician can pimp a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can pimp a junior resident; they all three can pimp an intern.

5. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.

   I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.

6. (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

   I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.

Synonyms

• (prostitute someone): hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
• (promote, tout): pitch, promote, tout, spruik

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pimp

1. (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

See also

• pimping (adjective)
• player
• playah
• madam

Further reading

• Double-Tongued Dictionary definition

Etymology 2

From Brythonic numerals. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of five, cinque, punch, and Pompeii.

Numeral

pimp

1. (Cumbria and Old Welsh) five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) , Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number?^[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, ?ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide?^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, ?ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

Anagrams

• impp.