单词 | pander |
释义 | pandern. 1. a. A go-between in clandestine love affairs; a person who provides another with the means of sexual gratification; a pimp, a procurer, esp. a male one. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp putourc1390 panderc1450 mitchera1500 apple-squire?1536 squire of dames or ladies1590 apron-squire1593 bed-broker1594 pimp1600 pippin squire1600 petticoat-monger1605 smockster1608 underputter1608 broker-between1609 squire of the placket1611 squire1612 fleshmongera1616 cock bawd1632 whiskin1632 pimp-whiskin1638 bully1675 foot pimp1690 mutton-broker1694 pimp whisk1707 flash-man1789 panderer1826 bludger1856 whoremaster1864 mack1894 lover1904 jelly bean1905 procureur1910 P.I.1928 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 nookie-bookie1943 papasan1970 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress butcheressa1475 stew1552 bawdress1569 brokeress1582 pander1585 abbess1594 aunt1604 panderess1604 hackney womanc1616 bronstrops1617 procuress1638 provincialc1640 fruit-woman1673 flesh-broker1699 broker-woman1723 commode1725 coupleress1864 hack1864 procureuse1930 c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 9 (MED) Ther is no beter pandare, as I trowe, ffor al this londe through out suche be ye knowe. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 390 in Wks. (1931) I Pandaris, pykthankis, custronis, and clatteraris. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 100 He that was the Pandor to procure her. 1585 R. Greene Planetomachia i. sig. E Pasylla smiling at the diligent hast of the old Pandar [sc. Clarista], commaunded she should be brought in. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 165 One Mr Broome,..to whom you should haue bin a Pander. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 2 Ruffian Pandors..are now clothed..and richly rewarded. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Procuration Procuration is also taken in an Ill sence, for the Act of a Baud or Pander. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. vii. 42 Employed as a handmaid..if not as a pandar. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. xiv. 248 He now saw himself the pander of a villain. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. (1851) II. 534 Squandering his wealth on pandars and flatterers. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. iv. 78 Sorceress she was, pander and slave-dealer. 1953 R. Graves Poems 9 Isaac who played the pander with Rebekah. 1988 E. Feinstein Mother's Girl ii. 20 She did not see herself as a pandar, but her soirées were always, in part, aimed at his pleasure. 1997 J. Seabrook Deeper v. 145 On-line, you'd arrange to meet in one of the chat rooms, and there you'd start chatting in a much less inhibited manner... Chat was thus like a pander, a go-between. b. A person who assists the immoral urges or evil designs of others. Also in weakened use: a person who indulges the tastes, whims, or weaknesses of another. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [noun] > ministering to others pandarous1562 pander1603 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > ministering to baseness > one who ministers to baseness pander1603 pimp1649 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 7 One of her Eunuches, whom she purposed to vse as her pander for the circumuenting of the Patriarch. 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 2 They had not employed such a man as would palliardise Lies, and become a pander unto Falshood. 1682 J. Dryden Medall 16 The Pander of the Peoples hearts. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 195. ⁋12 In a place where there are no pandars to folly and extravagance. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. vii. 326 He crowns a torrent of abuse by declaring that Scott has encouraged the lowest panders of a venal press. 1920 R. Fry Vision & Design 37 They want to buy beauty as they want to buy love; and the painter, picture-dealer, and the pander try perennially to persuade them that it is possible. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 261/5 The outstanding Japanese novelists were serious artists, not commercial pandars. 2. figurative. Something which acts as a means to further an end or purpose; a facilitating agency. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > ministering to baseness > that which pander1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 96 Forgerye thee pandar: thee messadge mockrye. 1622 G. Hakewill King David's Vow (new ed.) iii. 113 The Eye beeing as it were the Pandar or Broker. a1704 T. Brown Satire upon Quack in Wks. (1720) I. 70 Thou Church-yard Pimp, and Pander to the Grave. 1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 285 Their affected purity..becomes pander and bawd to the unbridled debauchery and licentious lewdness of usury and extortion. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly 42 These writers make even virtue a pander to vice. 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 127 Nature is a pandar, Time a wrecker, and Death a murderer. 1957 D. Davie Winter Talent 7 Or forced the mind To play the ruffian pandar to the blood. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person tyrant1377 routera1500 termagant1508 ruffy?a1513 ruffiana1525 pander1593 thunderbolt1593 bully1604 ruffiano1611 tearer1633 violentoa1661 boy1662 violent1667 hardhead1774 Arab1788 ring-tailed roarer1828 blood-tub1853 tornado1863 stormer1886 hooligan1898 Apache1902 ned1910 rough-up1911 radge1923 goonda1926 pretty-boy1931 tough baby1932 bad-john1935 hoon1938 shit-kicker1954 tough boy1958 oafo1959 ass-kicker1962 droog1962 trog1983 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 60 He would neuer dare me, like a bold Pandare, with such stout challenges. 1650 T. Vaughan Man-mouse 5 Here thou dost call me a..vanting Mountebank, a Pander, a sworn enemy of Reason. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). panderv.ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > indulge base feeling pamper1576 pandera1616 pleasant1628 a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. iv. 88 Since Frost it selfe, as actiuely doth burne, As Reason panders Will. 1667 M. Medbourne Converted Twins ii. iii. 24 Ah! that a Lady's love should be Thus pandar'd by a Gypsie. 1827 R. H. Dana Buccaneer xlii Lust panders murder—murder panders lust! 2. intransitive. To act as a pander; to minister to the immoral urges or distasteful desires of another, or to gratify a person with such desires. Also in weakened use: to indulge the tastes, whims, or weaknesses of another. Now usually with to. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (intransitive)] > minister to baseness of others pimp1639 pander1641 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 81 Excommunication servs for nothing with them, but to prog, and pandar for fees. 1812 S. T. Coleridge in R. Southey Omniana II. clxxv. 23 These traitors..who lampooned the noblest passions of humanity in order to pandar for its lowest appetites. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 359 He pandered to the king's gross immoralities. 1895 Times 21 Nov. 11/2 He panders either to the morbid egomania of the sitter or to the snobbism of his readers. 1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 170/1 A plague of gaudy hot-dog stands panders to the passing thousands. 1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 43 He had pandered to a fashion he did not understand. 1996 Big Issue 5 Aug. 32/2 He claims not to pander to the whims of his label. 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