Meaning of PANDER
| Pronunciation: | | 'pandur
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- [n] someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
- [v] arrange for sexual partners for others
- [v] yield (to); give satisfaction to
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| | Synonyms: | | fancy man, gratify, indulge, pandar, panderer, pimp, pimp, ponce, procure, procurer |
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| | See Also: | | cater, humor, humour, offender, ply, procuress, provide, sow one's oats, sow one's wild oats, spree, supply, whoremaster, whoremonger, wrongdoer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pan"der\, n. [From Pandarus, a leader in the Trojan
army, who is represented by Chaucer and Shakespeare as having
procured for Troilus the possession of Cressida.]
1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
Thou art the pander to her dishonor. --Shak.
2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions
of another.
Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
--Burke.
\Pan"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pandered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Pandering}.]
To play the pander for.
\Pan"der\, v. i.
To act the part of a pander.
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| | Related Terms: | | bawd, bow to, bully, cadet, cater to, fancy, fancy man, gigolo, gratify, humor, indulge, madam, maquereau, pander to, panderer, pimp, procure, procurer, procuress, prostitute, satisfy, solicit, solicitor, truckle to, white slaver, whoremonger, yield to |
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