单词 | panderous |
释义 | panderousadj. Now rare. Characteristic of or of the nature of a pander. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adjective] > of nature or characteristic of pimp panderly1581 panderous1611 pandarica1713 pimpish1877 1611 Second Maiden's Trag. (1909) iii. i. 38 I set before thee panderous lord this steele. a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) iii. ii. 1036 The same wary-Pandarous dilligence was then bestow'd on her. 1633 Costlie Whore iv. sig. F3 I dare in single combate any knight, Any adventurer, any pandorus hinde. 1916 T. W. H. Crosland War Poems 43 On Turk and Pole and Boer, Bulgar, American, You smile your panderous smile—But for the English—Hate! 1990 Amer. Speech 65 358 Emma Bombeck used the prefix in its mass-market (panderous) sense when she referred to ‘McStory on the paper's front page’ in a column she wrote. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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