pimp

(Anglais)

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɪmp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à gallois: pump

Appartenant à cornique: pymp

Appartenant à breton: 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”).

Concepts

souteneur

proxénète

maquereau

mac

barbeau

jules

ruffian

prostituer

maquereller

Jules

maquerelle

alphonse

personne qui procure

maquereauter

entremetteur

procurer

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Zuhälter

magnaccia

sutener

proxeneta

pooier

chulo

pezevenk

protettore

cafetão

alfons

pappone

قواد

σωματέμπορος

safado

chulo