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playa
English
Etymology 1
From Spanish playa (“beach”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?pla??/
Noun
playa (plural playas)
- (geology, US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
Hyponyms
- salt flat, salt pan, alkali flat
Derived terms
- playa lake
Etymology 2
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of player
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?ple??/
Noun
playa (plural playas)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).
Aragonese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
playa f (plural playas)
- beach
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “playa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN
Asturian
Noun
playa f (plural playes)
- beach
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Spanish playa.
Noun
playa
- beach
- "the town" (in Aruba)
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga. Compare Portuguese praia, French plage, Italian spiaggia.
Pronunciation
Noun
playa f (plural playas)
- beach
- car park
Derived terms
Adjective
playa
- feminine singular of playo
References
- “playa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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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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