| 正面 | 13064.pimp 英 [pɪmp]美 [pɪmp]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. In U.S. usage, "a lot of land adequate for the maintenance of a family".n. 皮条客；男妓vi. 拉皮条 例句： 1. I bet you anything you like he's a pimp.我敢打包票，他是个皮条客。 pimp 拉皮条，皮条客，帅哥词源不详，可能来自中古法语pimpant,聪明的，英俊的，后用于俚语拉皮条，皮条客，帅哥等。 pimp (n.)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 [French-English Dictionary, 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. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785] pimp (v.)1630s (intransitive) "to act as a pimp," from pimp (n.). Related: Pimped; pimping." |