2 June 2014

pander

[pan-der]

noun Also, pan·der·er.
1. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.
2. a go-between in amorous intrigues.

verb (used without object)
3. to act as a pander; cater basely: to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.
verb (used with object)
4. to act as a pander for.

Origin:
1325–75; earlier pandar ( e ), generalized use of Middle English name Pandare Pandarus

Related forms
pan·der·age, noun
pan·der·ing·ly, adverb
pan·der·ism, noun
pan·der·ly, adjective

Can be confused: panda, pander.

Anagram

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Today’s aphorism

Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.

– William S. Burroughs

On this day

2 June 1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, England.

2 June 1965 – the first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in Saigon to assist the American military in the Vietnam War.

2 June 1966 – The ‘Surveyor 1′ space probe lands on the moon. It is the first US space probe to do so. The Soviet Union had successfully landed a space probe, the Lunix 9, on the moon 5 months earlier, on 3 February 1966.