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pander
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)
- 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.
- An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
- An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
- (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.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
Derived terms
- panderly
- pandersome
Translations
Verb
pander (third-person singular simple present panders, present participle pandering, simple past and past participle pandered)
- (intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.
- (intransitive) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
- (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
- 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
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pand?
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zander
English
Wikispecies
Alternative forms
- sandre (dated)
Etymology
From German Zander, from German Low German Zander, Sandat, perhaps of Slavic origin.
Noun
zander (plural zanders or zander)
- A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
- Any fish of the genus Sander that live in freshwater.
Synonyms
- (Sander lucioperca): sandari, sander, sandre, sannat, schill, zant
- (fish of the genus Sander): pike-perch
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