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pander

noun
/ˈpændə/UK/ˈpændə/

Etymology

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).

  1. derived from Πάνδαρος
  2. derived from Pandarus
  3. derived from Pandaro
  4. inherited from pandare

Definitions

  1. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others

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

    • It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.

  2. An offer of illicit sex with a third party.

  3. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.

      • 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
      • Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
      • Two small Hindu boys were waiting for me outside—small for their years (about fourteen) but infinitely worldly-wise. Hindu boys are, first, panders, and second, remarkably skillful and pertinacious beggars.

    2. To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.)

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

      • His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.
      • [...] both the Conservatives and Labour are guilty of pandering to the road lobby at the time of Beeching's The Reshaping of Britain's Railways report published in 1963.

    3. To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or…

      To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or improper motivations.

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

    4. To offer illicit sex with a third party

      To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.

    5. To act as a pander for (somebody).

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Derived

panderism, panderly, panderous, pandersome, Japandering, micropander, paedopandering, panderage, panderer, panderess, panderingly, pandership, pandress, pandy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pander. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA