different between pander vs padder

English

Alternative forms

• pandar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pænd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pænd?/
• (non-rhotic accents) Homophone: panda

Noun

pander (plural panders)

1. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.

   Synonyms: panderer; see also Thesaurus:pimp

   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:

     It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.

2. An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
3. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
4. (by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

Derived terms

• panderly
• pandersome

Translations

Verb

pander (third-person singular simple present panders, present participle pandering, simple past and past participle pandered)

1. (intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.
2. (intransitive) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a pander for (somebody).

Synonyms

• (to pimp): prostitute, hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out

Derived terms

• panderer

See also

• demagogism

Translations

Anagrams

• repand

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pan?/, [?p?an?]

Noun

pander c

1. indefinite plural of pande

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pan.der/, [?pän?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pan.der/, [?p?n?d??r]

Verb

pander

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pand?

English

Etymology

pad +? -er

Noun

padder (plural padders)

1. Agent noun of pad; one who pads.

Anagrams

• draped, peddar

Danish

Noun

padder c

1. indefinite plural of padde

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

padder m or f

1. indefinite plural of padde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

padder f

1. indefinite plural of padde