different between pimp vs pandar

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.

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?