Pandar
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. obsolete
"From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?"
- 2 someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) wordnet
- 1 To pander (assist in the gratification of).
"That degenerate aſſembly even pandared to the libidinous epicuriſm of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of juſtice, and of nature."
Example
More examples"From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?"
Etymology
From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)
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