different between pandar vs pandal

English

Alternative forms

• pander

Etymology

From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pænd?/

Noun

pandar (plural pandars)

1. (obsolete) A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male.

Verb

pandar (third-person singular simple present pandars, present participle pandaring, simple past and past participle pandared)

1. To pander (assist in the gratification of).
   • 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, page 397,

     That degenerate a??embly even pandared to the libidinous epicuri?m of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of ju?tice, and of nature.

   • 1827, Law of Libel—State of the Press, The Quarterly Review, Volume 35, London, page 608,

     […] not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 2, 1858, page 456,

     He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons.

See also

• demagogism

Anagrams

• PRADAN

Latin

Verb

pandar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of pand?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil ?????? (pantal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pænd?l/

Noun

pandal (plural pandals)

1. A large temporary structure in South Asia erected during various Hindu and Buddhist religious festivals.

Related terms

• shamiana

Kuku-Thaypan

Noun

pandal

1. chin

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner