different between pandas vs pandar

English

Noun

pandas

1. plural of panda

Danish

Noun

pandas c sg

1. genitive singular indefinite of panda

Latin

Verb

pand?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of pand?

Portuguese

Noun

pandas

1. plural of panda

Spanish

Adjective

pandas

1. feminine plural of pando

Noun 1

pandas f pl

1. plural of panda

Noun 2

pandas m pl

1. plural of panda

Swedish

Noun

pandas

1. indefinite genitive singular of panda

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?