Synonyms for pimp
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pimp |
| Phonetic Transcription : pɪmp |
Définition of pimp
Origin :- c.1600, of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle French pimpant "alluring in dress, seductive," present participle of pimper "to dress elegantly" (16c.), from Old French pimpelorer, pipelorer "decorate, color, beautify." Weekley suggests Middle French pimpreneau, defined in Cotgrave (1611) as "a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell," but Liberman is against this.
- Judging by such recorded meanings of pimp as 'helper in mines; servant in logging camps,' this word was originally applied to boys and servants. [Liberman]
- The word also means "informer, stool pigeon" in Australia and New Zealand and in South Africa, where by early 1960s it existed in Swahili form impimpsi. Pimpmobile first recorded 1973 (six years before Popemobile).
- PIMP. A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
- noun procurer
- Such a monstrous Pandarus would have been blackballed at the Pimp.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
- Sir, I have the honour to tell you that you are a pimp, lately escaped from the Fleet.
- Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
- Envy must own, I live among the great, No pimp of pleasure, and no spy of state.
- Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope
- If I am not good enough for a lover perhaps I may do for a pimp.
- Extract from : « Love and Intrigue » by Friedrich Schiller
- A pander, a pimp, a professional reviler of great and good men.
- Extract from : « Quodlibet » by John P. Kennedy
- Why, she shall be at your service in three minutes, as I'm a pimp.
- Extract from : « The Constant Couple » by George Farquhar
- As long as you've been a Pimp, you should fall for that stuff—Screw—get out of my sight.
- Extract from : « Hookers » by Richard F. Mann
- Inmate Nellie says she turns her earnings over to her pimp, X 74.
- Extract from : « Commercialized Prostitution in New York City » by George Jackson Kneeland
- The man whose biography you are writing is no better than a pimp.
- Extract from : « Confessions of a Young Man » by George Moore
- The thief taker had the start of the pimp, and overtook him in a moment.
- Extract from : « Damon and Delia » by William Godwin
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