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pimp
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)
- Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
- (transitive) To prostitute someone.
- The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
- (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.
- (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.
- 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183
- (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
- I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
- (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
- (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
- (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.
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pimple
English
Etymology
Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipli?ende (“having shingles”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?m'p(?)l
- IPA(key): /?p?mp(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?mp?l
Noun
pimple (plural pimples)
- An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
- I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.
- (slang) An annoying person.
- He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Scotch (whisky)
- Synonym: pimple and blotch
Synonyms
- acker (old Australian slang)
- acne
- pustule
- spot (UK, slang)
- zit (US, slang)
Related terms
- pimpled
- pimply
Translations
See also
- blackhead
- whitehead
Verb
pimple (third-person singular simple present pimples, present participle pimpling, simple past and past participle pimpled)
- To develop pimples
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Spanish
Verb
pimple
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pimplar.
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