Meaning

noun someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

verb arrange for sexual partners for others

originFrom Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

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