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Pimping   Listen
adjective
Pimping  adj.  
1.
Little; petty; pitiful. (Obs.)
2.
Puny; sickly. (Local, U.S.)





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"Pimping" Quotes from Famous Books



... the two nobles, the pimping poeticule, Villon manque or (whom shall we call him?) reussi, reappears with a message to Caesar (as the King is pleased to style himself) from "the more than Cleopatra's match" (as he designates the Countess), to intimate that "ere night she will ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... (iii. 252) "because little more than a repetition" of Taj al-Muluk and the Lady Dunya. This is true; but the nice progress of the nurse's pimping is a well-finished picture and the old woman's speech (infra p. 243) is ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... know you. I've seen you on a platform,' cried a fresh-faced man in decent clothes, halting on his way along the pavement; 'and if you were in your uniform, you damned Republican dog! I'd strip you with my own hands, for the disloyal scoundrel you are, with your pimping Republicanism and capsizing everything in a country like Old England. It's the cat-o'-nine-tails you want, and the bosen to lay on; and I'd do it myself. And mind me, when next I catch sight of you in blue and gold lace, I'll compel ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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