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PANDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
Synonyms:
fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pander" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pander"):
procuress (a woman pimp)
whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)
Derivation:
pander (arrange for sexual partners for others)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pander
... he / she / it panders
Past simple: pandered
-ing form: pandering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Arrange for sexual partners for others
Synonyms:
pander; pimp; procure
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "pander" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
pander; panderer (someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Yield (to); give satisfaction to
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "pander" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pander"):
humor; humour (put into a good mood)
spree (engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping)
sow one's oats; sow one's wild oats (live promiscuously and self-indulgently)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
panderer (a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money))