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Pander

//ˈpændə// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.

    "[…] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders"

  2. 2
    someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) wordnet
  3. 3
    An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
  4. 4
    An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
  5. 5
    One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. broadly

    "Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar: There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne; All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine, Whom I employ'd, was pre-emplot'd"

Verb
  1. 1
    To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification. intransitive

    "His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate."

  2. 2
    arrange for sexual partners for others wordnet
  3. 3
    To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or improper motivations. transitive

    "Who knows what Brill really thought? But he pandered the rumor linking Spear to a whole string of dastardly deeds."

  4. 4
    yield (to); give satisfaction to wordnet
  5. 5
    To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp. intransitive
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  1. 6
    To act as a pander for (somebody). obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros).

Etymology 2

From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros).

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