pander
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From Chaucer's character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος. (See also Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)
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pander (plural panders)
- A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
- 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.
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
- An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
- An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
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pander (third-person singular simple present panders, present participle pandering, simple past and past participle pandered)
- (intransitive) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
- (intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
- His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.
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offer illicit sex with a third party
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appeal or cater to
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pander c.
- plural indefinite of pande
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pander
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pandō
