PROCURE, PROCURED, PROCURER, PROCURING
ADJECTIVES
► OBTENT obtained, procured → 1432-50 obs.
► PARABLE that can be readily prepared, procured, or got; procurable → 1581 obs.
NOUNS
► PARABILITY the quality of being easily procured or prepared → 1654 obs.
► PANDERAGE the practice or trade of pandering; pimping, procuring → 1612 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON (also see PIMP)
► ABBESS a woman in charge of a brothel; a madam; a bawd; a procuress → 1594
► AUNT a female procurer or pimp, esp. the madam of a brothel or bawdy house; also, a female prostitute → 1604 sl.
► BAWDSTROT a bawd, male or female; a pander, a procuress → 1362 obs.
► BAWSTROP a bawd, male or female; a pander, a procuress → 1362 obs.
► BULLY a pimp; a procurer → 1981 Aust. colloq. obs. (Bk.)
► BUTCHERESS a woman who procures prostitutes or illicit sexual partners for others → a1475 obs.
► CADET a pimp or procurer→ 1904 US sl.
► FANCY COVE a pimp, a procurer → 1821 sl.
► FANCY FELLOW a pimp, a procurer → 1842 sl.
► FISHMONGER a pimp or procurer → 16C sl.
► FLESH-BROKER a bawd; a procuress → L17 sl.
► FLESH-MONGER a procurer, a pimp; the male keeper of a brothel → 17C sl.
► HACK a procuress → 1864 (Bk.)
► HOON a pimp; a procurer → 20C Aust. sl.
► MACKEREL ► MACRELL ► MAQUERELL one who ministers to sexual debauchery; a bawd, a pimp, a procurer or procuress → 1426 obs.
► MACQUERELLA a madam, a procuress → 15C UK criminals’ sl.
► MACRIO one who ministers to sexual debauchery; a bawd, a pimp, a procurer or procuress → a1627 obs.
► MINE AUNT a procuress, esp. the madam of a brothel or bawdy-house → 1785 sl.
► MOTHER CUNNY a procuress or bawd → 1660 UK sl.
► MOTHER DAMNABLE a procuress; a madam → 1665 UK sl.
► PANDER a go-between in clandestine amours; one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust; a male bawd, pimp, or procurer → 1530
► PANDERER a go-between in clandestine amours; one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust; a male bawd, pimp, or procurer → 1839
► PANDERESS ► PANDRESS a female pander, a bawd, a pimp, a procuress → 1606
► PUTOUR a pimp or procurer; a fornicator → c1390 obs.
► PUTROUR a pimp or procurer; a fornicator → a1425 obs.
► PUTYER a pimp or procurer; also, a fornicator → 1477 obs.
► WHOREMASTER a pimp; a procurer → 16C
► WOMAN’S BROKER a bawd; a procuress → 1916 sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON – OTHER
► KWAY a man who lives on money taken from a procurer → 1940s Aust. sl.
VERBS
► FANG to get, to obtain, to procure; also, to get together; to collect → 1340-70 obs.
► FURNEY to procure → a1400 obs.
► PALLIARDIZE to be a procurer of → 1644 obs.
► PANDERIZE to act the pander, to procure, to pimp → 1603 obs.
► SCRABBLE to crawl about on hands and knees; to scramble; to climb; to procure with difficulty → 1864 Eng. dial.