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AH020387 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Pander

Can I use the word 'pander' in the following way:

Hi sweety, your sexy tattoo panders to my kink.

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Originally, to "pander" meant to provide someone with sexual partners. More generally, it has come to mean "to indulge someone's desires". Thus if your kink relates to tattoos, the sentence might work.

— MrPedantic

  • Originally, to "pander" meant to provide someone with sexual partners.
  • More generally, it has come to mean "to indulge someone's desires".
  • Thus if your kink relates to tattoos, the sentence might work.
  • If your kink only relates to the subject of the tattoo, on the other hand, your addressee might conceivably be misled by the utterance.
  • ), in conjunction with the second part.
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Originally, to "pander" meant to provide someone with sexual partners.

More generally, it has come to mean "to indulge someone's desires".

Thus if your kink relates to tattoos, the sentence might work. If your kink only relates to the subject of the tattoo, on the other hand, your addressee might conceivably be misled by the utterance.

Possibly too "Hi sweety" is slight
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Hi,
Hi sweety, your **** tattoo panders to my kink.

A great deal also depends on the context in which you choose to say this.
Choose carefully.


Clive
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AH020387your **** tattoo panders to my kink
pander: to provide gratification for others' desires (www.m-w.com)

I don't sense that the meaning of that sentence includes any gratification. It sounds to me more like you're trying to say "arouses my (kinky) curiosity".

CJ
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