Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. · A man who can easily attract women.
To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. · To prostitute someone. · To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle. · To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“a boy, a youth, a young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “a solicitor”).
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- Derivation mentionpimpantfr · smart, sparkish
- Borrowed-form mentionPimpfde · a boy, a youth, a young squirt
- Non-cognate comparisonforspennendang
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