Pander
['pændə] or ['pændɚ]
Definition
(n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
(n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
(v. t.) To play the pander for.
(v. i.) To act the part of a pander.
Typed by Aldo
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Procurer, pimp, male bawd.
Typist: Shelley
Definition
n. one who procures for another the means of gratifying his passions: a pimp.—v.t. to play the pander for.—v.i. to act as a pander: to minister to the passions.—ns. Pan′derage act employment or vices of a pander; Pan′deress a procuress; Pan′derism the employment or practices of a pander.—adjs. Pan′derly (Shak.) acting as a pander; Pan′derous.
Editor: Timmy
Examples
- But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Dalton, likewise, in Pander and Dalton's work on Fossil Sloths, expressed, in 1821, a similar belief. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typed by Beryl