pimp

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
2. (slang) A man who can easily attract women.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
2. (transitive) To prostitute someone.
3. (slang, transitive) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
4. (slang, transitive) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
5. (US, slang, transitive) To promote, to tout.
6. (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

Adj

Excellent, fashionable, stylish.

Num

Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Έννοιες

σωματέμπορος

νταβατζής

προστάτης

μαστροπός

εκπορνεύω

μαστροπεύω

προαγωγός

προστάτης γυναικών

ρουφιάνος

Συνώνυμα

pander

procurer

panderer

souteneur

procure

whoremonger

procuress

whoremaster

ponce

pandar

bawd

fancy man

tout

wencher

bludge

bludger

con-man

brothel tout

horsekeeper

white slaver

whoremonger

agent

ponce

ambassador

broker

gobetween

go-between

mac

mackerel

matchmaker

mate

🧉

pair

producer

swindler

Μεταφράσεις

Zuhälter

souteneur

magnaccia

chulo

pooier

proxeneta

protettore

pezevenk

pappone

cafetão

قواد

maquereau

proxénète

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/pɪmp/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Ουαλικά: pump

Συγγενές με Κορνουαλικά: pymp

Συγγενές με Βρετονικά: pemp

In summary

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).