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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAN'DER, n. [L. mango.] A pimp, a procurer; a male bawd; a mean profligate wretch who caters for the lust of others.
PAN'DER, v.t. To pimp; to procure lewd women for others.
PAN'DER, v.i. To act as agent for the lusts of others.
1. To be subservient to lust or passion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce] v
1: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: gratify, pander, indulge]
2: arrange for sexual partners for others [syn: pander, pimp, procure]

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (pandered; pandering) Date: 1523 to act as a pander; especially to provide gratification for others' desires <films that pander to the basest emotions> • panderer noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English Pandare Pandarus, from Latin Pandarus Date: 1530 1. a. a go-between in love intrigues b. pimp 2. someone who caters to or exploits the weaknesses of others

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. (foll. by to) gratify or indulge a person, a desire or weakness, etc. --n. 1 a go-between in illicit love affairs; a procurer. 2 a person who encourages coarse desires. Etymology: Pandare, a character in Boccaccio and in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, f. L Pandarus f. Gk Pandaros

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pander Pan"der, n. [From Pandarus, a leader in the Trojan army, who is represented by Chaucer and Shakespeare as having procured for Troilus the possession of Cressida.] 1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. Thou art the pander to her dishonor. --Shak. 2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. --Burke.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pander Pan"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pandering.] To play the pander for.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pander Pan"der, v. i. To act the part of a pander.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(panders, pandering, pandered) If you pander to someone or to their wishes, you do everything that they want, often to get some advantage for yourself. He has offended the party's traditional base by pandering to the rich and the middle classes. VERB: V to n [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Formerly written Pandar.] Procurer, pimp, male bawd.

Moby Thesaurus

bawd, bow to, bully, cadet, cater to, fancy, fancy man, gigolo, gratify, humor, indulge, madam, maquereau, pander to, panderer, pimp, procure, procurer, procuress, prostitute, satisfy, solicit, solicitor, truckle to, white slaver, whoremonger, yield to