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Where does “pimp” come from?

Pimp comes from French pimpant and German Pumpf, though the original meaning and sense development remain uncertain.

pimp (English): Someone who solicits customers for prostitution...

Definitions

  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution...

Ancestry of “pimp”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Brythonicpɨmpfive
2Proto-Celtickʷenkʷefive
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “pimp”

  • sympathetic
  • sympathetically
  • unsympathetic
  • parasympathetic
  • pimping
  • unsympathetically
  • simp
  • sympathetical
  • oculosympathetic
  • parasympathetically
  • vagosympathetic
  • simpy
  • nonsympathetic
  • pimpish
  • orthosympathetic
  • pimpdom
  • pimpology
  • antisympathetic
  • pimpy
  • pimplike
  • superpimp
  • pimpless
  • pimpship
  • pimpness
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →