ponce
IPA: pˈoʊnseɪ
noun
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, derogatory, slang) A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.
- Synonym of kept man.
- Synonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, derogatory, slang) Synonym of poof: an effeminate male homosexual; any similarly effeminate man.
- (Louisiana) The stomach of a pig, especially when stuffed as chaudin (a Louisianan food).
- A city and municipality in the south of Puerto Rico, United States.
verb
- To act as a pimp.
- (by extension) To try to get rid of or sell something.
- To borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.
- To cadge.
- (derogatory) To behave in a posh or effeminate manner.
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Examples of "ponce" in Sentences
- If an architect tries to express ideas, "you're a ponce, arrogant".
- What part of “kiss my ass you nimby little ponce” was not understood?
- The only exception to the dress code was that mooning ponce, (the “real”) Zonar.
- She has no share points, and she is the only one who can get Dryden to actually write instead of just ponce about.
- The word "ponce" (which has now come to mean a pimp) and the adjective "poncey" (effeminate) also derive from "pansy".
- Surely today's 'magnificent' is a 1980s 'doing a good job', a 1960s 'not bad for a fat lad' and a 1930s 'stop showing off you bloody ponce'.
- As I predicted, a bunch of meat-headed Tory voters are shitting all over this documentary, calling the reporter a "ponce" and various other bits of liberal-bashing.www. arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/... t = 180. html
- The rest of us might have carried on in our customary state of consumer-drone bliss, unaware of the possible benefits of French hegemony, were it not for a new advert by none other than renowned ponce and Francophile Wes Anderson.
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