ponyn.¹adj.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊni/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊni/

Forms: 1700s poiny, 1700s–1800s poney, 1700s– pony, 1900s– powny (English regional (Cumberland)); also Scottish pre-1700 pawnie, pre-1700 pounnie, pre-1700 powiny, pre-1700 poynie, pre-1700 1700s pounie, pre-1700 1700s– pownie, pre-1700 1700s– powny, pre-1700 1900s– pouny, 1700s pounny, 1700s powney; also Irish English 1800s powney, 1900s– powny.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French poulenet.

Etymology: Probably < Middle French poulenet a little foal (1444 in an apparently isolated attestation; < poulain poleyn n.² + -et , diminutive suffix (compare -et suffix¹)), although the chronological gap and the absence of early English forms with poul- or pol- make this problematic. Compare French poney (1752; < English).The reason for use in sense A. 3 is unclear. Irish pónaí and Scottish Gaelic pònaidh are < English.

A. n.¹

a. Originally Scottish. A small horse of any breed; spec. one not over a certain height (now usually 14.2 hands).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > defined by size > small

hobbyc1400

tit1548

Galloway1598

hobby-horse1598

bidet1631

pony1659

runt1725

criollo1894

cuddyc1930

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > defined by size > small > pony

nag1336

hobbyc1400

bilder1570

hobby-horse1598

Sheltie1612

pony1659

naggya1700

shalt1813

1659 Diary 18 June in Notes & Queries (1883) 6th Ser. 7 163/1 I caused bring home the powny & stugged him.

1675 W. Cunningham Diary 24 May (1887) 54 Sent to Glasgow for a gang of shoo's to Cuninghamheid's pownie.

1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 19 Union Ponies, a Kind of Horses foaled upon the Borders, and occasionally owning either Country.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 150 The powney that in spring-time grazes, Thrives a' the year.

1789 Bath Jrnl. 22 June (advt.) Stolen or stray'd..A Black Poney, about thirteen hands high.

1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 19 Fops too proud to ride on ponies.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. v. 49 Clive..much preferred poneys to ride.

1902 Badminton Mag. 15 699 I should be inclined to say that in general parlance anything under 14 hands is a pony.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 16 The pony is the one my father harnessed to the trap the night I began to be born.

2004 Herbert River (Austral.) Express (Nexis) 14 Oct. 12 There is also a section for ponies and galloways where the top height is limited.

b. slang (originally and chiefly North American). A racehorse. Usually in plural with the.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse

runnera1500

match horse1607

racehorse1607

racer1629

race naga1635

wagoner1859

neddy1887

pony1896

bang-tail1921

1896 H. M. Blossom Checkers iv. 80 He went down and threw up his job, and started in to play the ponies.

1900 C. L. Cullen Taking Chances 108 They think they are wise to the ponies, hey?

1907 J. London in Cosmopolitan May 17/2 I had been out to the race-track watching the ponies run.

a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) i. 21 If it takes my snoring to make you remember Shakespeare instead of the dope sheet on the ponies, I hope I'll keep on with it.

1961 Dallas Morning News 17 Feb. i. 5 Rep. Berry, an ex-gambler from San Antonio, got elected on his advocacy of betting on the ponies.

1994 T. Boswell Cracking Show ix. ii. 201 Lou loves the ponies. But he's never held a ticket on a long shot.

2. regional. A small glass or measure of alcohol.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink > small amount

nipperkin1619

noggin1648

pony1708

squib1756

finger1820

tot1828

nobbler1842

1708 in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1931) II. 5 July 392 For 2 dozen poiny of wine pd to S^r H. Bunbury [there was paid] £1 5^s 6^d.

1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 81 The game is kept up, mollified now and then by a choice swig at the ‘poney’.

1896 N. Brit. Daily Mail 7 Apr. 2 The pony, another Glasgow beer measure, contained 9-10ths of an imperial gill of beer.

1959 G. Hamilton Summer Glare 155 Os pulled a beer each for me and Tommy, and a pony for himself. He always drank small beers.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 163 In addition Sydney has a pony of five ounces.., Melbourne a pot of ten ounces (but a pot is eleven ounces in Brisbane), Adelaide a butcher (six ounces) and Perth a big pot (fifteen ounces, which would be a schooner in Sydney or a pint in Adelaide).

1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost ii. xvi. 385 A TSS researcher managed to slip a dose of LSD into a pony of Cointreau.

3. British slang. Twenty-five pounds sterling; (also occasionally) twenty-five guineas.

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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > twenty-five pounds

pony1797

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 97 There is no touching her even for a poney. [Note Half a rouleau or twenty-five guineas].

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. v. 117 ‘Done, for a poney,’ said the Squire.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 51 Well done, Jack,..you've saved your master a pony this fine morning.

1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay vii. 318 It would have to be done very carefully,..in ponies and fifties and hundreds.

1966 B. Naughton Alfie xxix. 188 ‘A pony is neither here nor there to me,’ I said. ‘It's just that I want to give somebody something.’

2001 People (Nexis) 5 Aug. 14 I'll pay a pony (£25) for any I publish.

4. U.S. slang. A literal translation or summary of a text used as a short cut or study aid; a crib. Cf. horse n. 13.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > used at school

Latinc1500

version1711

pony1827

crib1828

paving1877

trot1924

1827 Harvard Reg. (1828) Sept. 194 I'll tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits..and stick to the law, Tom, without a Poney.

1893 W. W. Goodwin in Classical Rev. Apr. 162/1 A ‘crib’ or ‘pony’ to help them to learn their Greek lessons without the aid of dictionary and grammar.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xviii. 182 She kept the dates written down in her Latin ‘pony’.

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. iii. 89 The tablets were used not so much for study as for recapitulation and remembrance, like cribs or ponies.

1997 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 6 Oct. 1 e In a famous outburst, he thundered against ‘ponies’, the Cliffs Notes of his era.

5. slang. A (small) dancer in a pony ballet; cf. pony ballet n. at Compounds 2b. Now historical and rare.

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society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun] > female > professional

danceressa1425

dancerc1440

dancing-damsel1606

dancing-wench1698

dancing-girl1762

almeh1786

dancing-woman1810

ronggeng1817

ghazeeyeh1819

hurdy-gurdy girl1865

pony1908

terp1937

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > chorus-girl

monkey1871

follies1874

Gaiety girl1886

chorus-girl1894

pony1908

chorine1922

Ziegfeld girl1932

les girls1936

terp1937

1908 K. McGaffey Sorrows of Show Girl 118 I went into the pony ballet of a LaSalle Theatre show—can you see me as a pony?

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 61 The ponies took last drags at their cigarettes and slumped into place.

1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 3 July 63/2 In the chorus of ponies—the smallest sized dancers—there was a pert redhead named Gracie Barrett.

1992 J. Malnig Dancing till Dawn ii. 35 Pony ballets, teams of six to eight precision dancers, appeared in most musical comedies during the period 1900 to 1911. The ‘ponies’ were the shortest of the chorus dancers.

6. British slang. [Rhyming slang.] Also more fully pony and trap.

a. As a count noun: an act of defecation. As a mass noun: faeces (figurative in quot. 1986). Cf. crap n.¹ 7a.

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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]

gorec725

mixeOE

quedeeOE

turdeOE

dungOE

worthinga1225

dirta1300

drega1300

naturea1325

fen1340

ordurec1390

fimea1475

merd1486

stercory1496

avoidc1503

siegec1530

fex1540

excrement1541

hinder-fallings1561

gong1562

foil1565

voiding1577

pilgrim-salvec1580

egestion1583

shita1585

sir-reverence1592

purgament1597

filinga1622

faecesa1625

exclusion1646

faecality1653

tantadlin1654

surreverence1655

draught1659

excrementitiousness1660

jakes1701

old golda1704

dejection1728

dejecture1731

shitea1733

feculence1733

doll1825

crap1846

excreta1857

excretes1883

hockey1886

dejecta1887

job1899

number two1902

mess1903

ming1923

do1930

tomtit1930

pony1931

No. 21937

dog shit1944

Shinola1944

big job1945

biggie1953

doo-doo1954

doings1957

gick1959

pooh1960

pooh-pooh1962

dooky1965

poopy1970

whoopsie1973

pucky1980

jobbie1981

1931 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 4 Sept. in Compl. Wks. (1998) X. 228 As to new words, here are some... Pony = a shit.

1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 219 ‘Why doesn't he have his pony and trap in their time?’ ‘Maybe he didn't know the time, or maybe he was short taken.’

1986 T. Barling Smoke xxiv. 527 I just don't want to be face down in pony knowing you'll end up smelling of violets.

1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 409 ‘I'm breaking my neck for a pony,’ Micky Dunkerton shouted, hammering on his door.

b. Rubbish, nonsense; = crap n.¹ 8.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1956 ‘C. Raven’ Underworld Nights 24 We know that's a lot of pony-and-trap.

1989 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (2000) II. 6th Ser. Episode 6. 131 You're not gonna believe all that old pony are you?

2004 Trav. Weekly (Nexis) 9 Feb. 83 That always sounded like a load of old pony to us.

7. Usually with capital initial. A dance originating in the United States and popular in the early 1960s.

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun]

mashed potato1747

bunny hug1912

chicken scratch1912

bunny-hugging1916

jazz1919

black bottom1925

shuffle1925

Mess Around1926

snake hips1933

Susie-Q1936

Lambeth Walk1937

bunny hop1938

bop1956

pony1961

Watusi1961

locomotion1962

mash potato1962

frug1964

hully gully1964

dancercise1967

pogo1977

moonwalking1980

slam dance1981

slam dancing1981

body-popping1982

b-boying1984

mosh1985

moshing1987

1961 Billboard Music Week 3 Apr. 30/1 Top market breakouts... Phildelphia—Everybody's doin' the Pony..Fay Simmons, Senca.

1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 84 Dance crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke. There was the Hully Gully, the Madison, the Fly, the Pony, the Popeye, the Mashed Potato, the Dog, the Monkey.

1974 L. Ellfeldt This is Ballroom Dance xi. 96 The pony consists of prancing leg movements, with head and arms bobbing in rhythm.

1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 16/2 They did the Pony and the Stroll and slow-danced and drank Pepsi.

B. adj.

1. U.S. Designating an abstract or abridgement of a news report or a service supplying these to particular news agencies. Now historical.The service was discontinued in the 1950s.

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1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 57/1 Condensed abstracts, known as ‘pony’ reports, are made and forwarded to smaller towns.

1915 G. M. Hyde Newspaper Editing vi. 199 Certain members, too small to be full members [of the Associated Press], receive a daily ‘pony’ service—a condensed version of the world's news to the extent of a few hundred or few thousand words—and pay proportionately.

1931 C. E. Rogers Journalistic Vocations iii. 61 There are shorter leased wire reports, too, and pony reports.

1942 N. J. Radder & J. E. Stempel Newspaper Editing, Make-up & Headlines (ed. 2) vii. 125 The pony service still is used by a number of smaller newspapers, and some rely on a bulletin service or pony service by telegraph.

2001 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 14 Oct. 3 Until then, the paper got national and international news from the United Press' $25-a-week ‘pony’ service, which provided news in bulletin form only.

2. British slang. [Rhyming slang: see sense A. 6.] Worthless, useless; = crap adj. Cf. sense A. 6b.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

sleeveless1551

baggage1553

paltering1553

piddling1559

twopenny1560

paltry1565

rubbish1565

baggagely1573

pelfish1577

halfpenny1579

palting1579

baubling1581

three-halfpenny1581

pitiful1582

triobolar1585

squirting1589

not worth a lousea1592

hedge1596

cheap1597

peddling1597

dribbling1600

mean1600

rascally1600

three-farthingc1600

draughty1602

dilute1605

copper1609

peltry?a1610

threepenny1613

pelsy1631

pimping1640

triobolary1644

pigwidgeon1647

dustya1649

fiddling1652

puddlinga1653

insignificant1658

piteous1667

snotty1681

scrubbed1688

dishonourable1699

scrub1711

footy1720

fouty1722

rubbishing1731

chuck-farthing1748

rubbishy1753

shabby1753

scrubby1754

poxya1758

rubbishly1777

waff-like1808

trinkety1817

meanish1831

one-eyed1843

twiddling1844

measly1847

poking1850

picayunish1852

vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

1964 Guardian 2 Mar. 7/6 Other wrestling slang terms include a ‘pony’ wrestler (Pony-and-trap—crap).

1996 Premiere Feb. 83/1 There's nothing in the world as bad as a bad drunk act—think how pony it could have been!

2002 M. Beaumont Bk., Film, T-shirt (2003) x. 122 We may be mates, but if you want to shoot this pony piece of writing you can find some other prick to point the camera at it.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

(a) (In sense A. 1.)

pony-back n.

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1813 Examiner 26 Apr. 265/1 A well-known quack..appeared on poney-back.

1923 J. B. Harriman From Pinafores to Politics 20 The journey up in the spring we used to make on pony-back.

2001 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Oct. 20 He suffered 12 injuries, including the loss of half a leg, which forced him to trot into battle on pony-back.

pony boy n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager

horse-keeperc1440

horse marshal1508

horse-master?1523

jockey1640

guarda-caballo1808

pony-man1851

pony boy1858

horseman1882

tackman1885

barn-boss1902

1858 Times 19 Aug. 5/5 I am sure you will not consider the postboy overpaid by 2s. 6d., nor the pony boy too liberally recompensed by 1s. 6d.

1909 Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 5/1 Murten..is employed as a pony-boy in the Woolley Colliery, Barnsley.

1958 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dialects: C908) Track 25 [Kent] Of course the pony boys would up the limbers onto the tubs... He'd jump on the back tub and the ponies would take him to the back doors, in the dark.

1995 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 5/2 Mr Major's temporary employment as a ‘pony boy’ involved..bringing the dead deer down the hill on the back of a pony.

pony carriage n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > drawn by pony or ponies

pony carriage1825

1825 Times 14 Sept. 4/2 (advt.) A 4-wheel pony carriage, capital pony, 2 excellent milch cows, a quantity of well-got meadow hay.

1905 ‘P. Pennington’ Woman Rice Planter (1913) iv. 150 I sent Chloe to Gregory in the pony carriage, and she brought back the money.

1998 Renaissance No. 11. 21/1 She did indeed kill her sister, albeit unintentionally, when the two of them were thrown from a pony carriage she was driving at the time.

pony cart n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > drawn by a pony

pony cart1822

1822 Times 23 Dec. 4/6 (advt.) Pony carts, large quantity of ash plank, oak spokes, all the smithstock.

1916 E. S. Sergeant French Perspectives v No sign of life but a solitary pony-cart climbing the one white road that cut the opposite hill.

2005 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 24 Apr. 25 t The transportation exhibit includes a renovated doctor's buggy and pony cart.

pony chaise n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > drawn by pony

pony chair1815

pony chaise1817

1817 Times 5 Aug. 1/4 To be sold, a pony chaise and harness, together or separate.

1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 81 One of those old-fashioned, very low pony-shays, with a seat up behind for the groom.

1971 E. P. Douglass Coming Age Amer. Business i. vi. 79 Wheeled vehicles of every type from huge Conestoga wagons..to pony chaises.

pony girl n.

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1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah vi. i I'm not a horsewoman yet. If I'm anything, I'm a pony-girl.

1991 Sports Illustr. 10 June 70/3 A pony girl reached out a hand and gave Stubbs a high five.

pony horse n.

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1754 W. Ellis Compl. Cyderman 41 The light four-wheel Drill-Plow, that sows..as it is drawn along by a Pony Horse.

1852 Times 28 June 2/1 (advt.) Advertiser would purchase 10 under-duty or small pony horse phaetons.

2003 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 8 Aug. (Sports section) 54 I thought I was going to have to sell him or use him as a pony horse.

pony-man n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager

horse-keeperc1440

horse marshal1508

horse-master?1523

jockey1640

guarda-caballo1808

pony-man1851

pony boy1858

horseman1882

tackman1885

barn-boss1902

1851 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 31 Dec. 1/7 The pony man insisted that the engineer ran over the colt on purpose.

1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 15 563 Group of Astor pony-men at Lob jungle.

1996 S. Robertson & P. Young Daughter of Atholl ii. 8 [The Duke] insisted that all his keepers, stalkers, ponymen and gillies were Gaelic speakers.

pony mare n.

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1786 T. Pierson Misc. Var. Subj. 231 A sheep or two, a kyloe, poney mare, A spotted dog.

1824 Times 21 June 4/5 (advt.) Also a capital pony mare, perfectly sound, rising 5 years old, with saddle and bridle, and a set of gig harness.

1989 Chron. Horse 1 Sept. 63/1 (advt.) Welsh pony mare.., black w/4 white socks.

pony-pack n. rare

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1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 569/1 Each unit was accompanied by a pony-pack train.

pony phaeton n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > four-wheeled

carryall1714

phaeton1740

pony phaeton1790

mail phaeton1852

1790 Times 15 Feb. 4/1 A very handsome cane poney phaeton.

1887 N. Perry Flock of Girls 62 Miss Violet..was standing on the lawn..waiting for her pony phaeton.

2003 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 5 July 92 Four horse-drawn vehicles, ranging from a heavy-duty Clydesdale trolley to a pony phaeton and jinker.

pony race n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race

wild-goose race1594

wild goose chase1597

bell-course1607

Palio1673

stake1696

paddock course1705

handicap1751

by-match1759

pony race1765

give and take plate1769

sweepstake1773

steeplechase1793

mile-heat1802

steeple race1809

welter1820

trotting-race1822

scurry1824

walkover1829

steeple hunt1831

set-to1840

sky race1840

flat race1848

trot1856

grind1857

feeler1858

nursery1860

waiting race1868

horse-trot1882

selling plate1888

flying milea1893

chase1894

flying handicap1894

prep1894

selling race1898

point-to-point1902

seller1922

shoo-in1928

daily double1930

bumper1946

selling chase1965

tiercé1981

1765 J. Woodforde Diary 27 May (1924) I. 47 After dinner Jack went to Wincanton to a Pony Race.

1824 J. Decastro Mem. 155 The pony races were brought out, and they had a more than usual run for a whole season.

2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) xv. 185 They attended the pony races at the Kyaikasan racecourse.

pony ride n.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion > on a pony

pony ride1819

1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 200 She has just come in from her poney ride.

1919 Times 25 Apr. 11/1 A pony ride of a dozen miles or so.

1994 Virginia Gaz. 26 Oct. b5/1 Students could clean up after pony rides.

pony sled n.

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1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xvi. 208 I went to the upper linhay, and took our new light pony-sledd, which had been made almost as much for pleasure as for business.

1985 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 23 Aug. 10/1 Antiques: Household treadle sewing machine;..bucket-a-day stove; pony sled, [etc.].

pony track n.

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1861 J. Tyndall in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 307 Having followed a monotonous pony-track up the ugliest of mountains.

1900 Daily News 11 Jan. 7/3 Then we went to the face, up some of the ‘jig brows’, the roads running off at right angles from this pony track.

1993 D. C. Reece Rich Broth ix. 86 From there Gulmarg was approached by pony track which wound through the pine forest.

pony-trap n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled > drawn by pony

pony-trap1843

1843 Times 11 Aug. 6/5 Our friend stood in the fair till mid-day, and..began..to speculate upon the advisability of taking his pony-trap home again.

1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 85 To sit in my pony-trap.

1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) viii. 250 ‘Adda’ is a word which can mean anything from an airport to a bus or pony-trap stand.

(b) (In sense A. 3.)

† pony point n. Obsolete

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1892 M. Williams Round London ii. xi. 319 He plays whist at his club for pony (twenty-five pounds) points.

b. Objective.

pony-buyer n.

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1907 N.E.D. at Pony sb. Pony-buyer.

1948 Iowa City Press-Citizen 31 May 11/5 (advt.) Attention Pony Buyers. Special saddle horse and pony sale.

2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. (City ed.) 11 In a cautionary note for pony-buyers, he added: ‘They say you should never own something that eats when you're sleeping’.

pony-buying n.

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1902 Western Mag. 3 Feb. 4/2 With hundreds of people it [sc. ‘riding with the children’] is part and parcel of their recollections or of their present every-day life, or of an approaching pony-buying future.

pony-catcher n.

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1907 N.E.D. at Pony sb. Pony-catcher.

pony-catching n. and adj.

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1852 Harper's Mag. Jan. 264/2 Royalty in petto seems to have taken..to the avocations of baking and brewing, pig-tending, poultry-feeding, and pony-catching.

1935 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/5 A pony catching police expert lured the animal from the stand into a squad car with an apple for bait.

† pony-hunting n. Obsolete

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1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) iv. 103 Pony-hunting used to be one of the favourite amusements of the Welsh farmers and peasantry.

pony penning n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > rodeo > [noun] > types of contest

bull-dogging1842

pony penning1877

steer bulldogging1910

steer wrestling1910

1877 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 742/2 Sharing the interest with the pony penning is an occasional camp-meeting in the woods.

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 4/3 Pony-penning has attracted thousands to the island.

2002 Equus Mar. 66/2 Periodic roundups..eventually evolved into the current annual tradition of Pony Penning.

pony racing n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing

steeple-hunting1772

quarter-racing1779

roading1787

pony racing1809

steeplechasing1816

steeple running1818

steeple racing1840

horse-trotting1857

plating1865

trotting1883

chasing1886

flat-racing1886

harness racing1901

flapping1911

flapper1928

point-to-pointing1952

pointing1976

1809 Times 20 May 1/1 The annual sports will commence with Poney Racing.

1943 Sporting Life 12 July 5 Pony racing will have an eager Turf Authority, a second-to-none race course at its disposal, and cash in the bank.

2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Weekend section) 14 All the riders were amateur and the pony racing ceased in 1898.

pony rearer n.

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1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke 198 Stalwart pony rearers and graziers from Bampton.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 31 Jan. 25 Other measures include funds to boost depressed Irish beef exports and Connemara pony rearers.

pony rider n.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > on pony

pony rider1859

1859 N.Y. Times 19 Nov. 7/5 (advt.) Borneo Monkey Jocko, the Pony Rider. In early youth he was trained to feats of horsemanship.

1871 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers 20 Mar. (1967) 62 Stretching our necks and watching for the pony-rider.

1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 393/1 Pony riders will have to keep on to the country lanes.

1998 Australian (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Sport section) 19 ‘This gives me so much pleasure’, Peslier, a former champion pony rider, said.

pony-riding n. and adj.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > on a pony

pony-riding1847

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross iii. 51 The dun-pony riding doctor.]

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiii. 293 She was made to take pony-riding, or piano-exercise, or any other sort of bodily medicament.

1949 R. Colville (title) Pony riding.

1995 Daily Tel. 26 May 12/6 The story of Jemima's pony-riding days.

c. Locative.

pony-mounted adj.

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1854 H. Reed Let. 19 June in L. N. Broughton Wordsworth & Reed (1933) 239 A strenuous remonstrance led them to send a boy, pony-mounted , with my letter.

1953 Independent Record (Helena, Montana) 12 July 8/2 Squared rafts of buffalo hide, with a pony-mounted warrior on each side of the four corners.

2003 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 6 Feb. He [sc. Genghis Khan] and his pony-mounted archers then set out on a whirlwind of conquest and destruction.

C2.

pony chair n. a light carriage drawn by a pony.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > drawn by pony

pony chair1815

pony chaise1817

1815 Times 1 June 1/5 A neat cane-back pony chair and harness nearly new.

1944 Times 22 Aug. 1/2 Gentleman recently lost one leg anxious continue shooting requires pony chair or cart, also quiet pony.

2001 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 5 June 8 In those days, of course, there weren't so many things to do in Weston, and the pony chair was hugely popular.

pony express n. (originally) a postal service using relays of horses to transport mail rapidly over long distances, spec. a service of this sort operating between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California in 1860–1 (now historical); also in extended use.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach

flying post1548

posting1556

postage1566

dāk1727

pony express1847

pony post1892

1847 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 18 Dec. 4/5 By our Pony Express from the South, we have intelligence from New Orleans to the afternoon of the 2d.

1894 Daily News 1 Oct. 5/5 The pony express from Pekin brought the Viceroy many despatches.

1948 Chicago Daily News 26 Aug. 4/1 St. Joseph, Mo... The original Pony Express stable was put up for sale for $442.32 but no one bid on it.

1980 J. Marcus Marsh Blood iii. 46 We all used the postman-drivers as our private pony express.

pony hunter n. (a) a pony trained or bred for hunting (cf. hunter n. 2a); (b) a person who hunts ponies.

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1865 Times 6 Oct. 2/3 (advt.) Pilot, the 10-stone Pony-hunter..is very fast, 14 hands high..and in high condition.

1927 Times 12 Dec. 1/5 (advt.) Child's lovely pony hunter: perfect mouth and manners; cheap to good home.

1929 Econ. Geogr. 5 104/2 The pony-hunters at Solutre, the mammoth hunters at Predmost.

2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. d6 Junior hunters and three sizes of pony hunters make up the Friday and Saturday schedule.

pony post n. = pony express n.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach

flying post1548

posting1556

postage1566

dāk1727

pony express1847

pony post1892

1877 Helena (Montana) Independent 24 Apr. 3/2 Postmaster Deimling has received instructions to place the Pony post office on route 36,102.]

1892 Standard (Ogden, Utah Territory) 26 Mar. 5/2 The telegraph is better than the old pony post.

1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. vii. 178 Three-weeks letters from San Francisco, come by the pony post to Lexington.

2003 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 July 5 The huge leap that has taken place from smoke signals and the pony post to satellite technology.

pony putter n. now historical a person who drives a pony pulling a coal wagon at a colliery.

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1871 Times 16 Nov. 6/3 About 18 or 19 of the pony putters refused to go down the shaft.

1937 Times 13 Sept. 18/2 The new basic rate for pony putters will be 4s 9d.

2003 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 12 Feb. 21 Harry Robinson, of Whitley Bay, was a pony putter in the 50s at Heworth Colliery.

pony skin n. the dressed skin or hide of a pony.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > pony- or horse-skin

horse-skina1400

potro1838

pony skin1900

1900 Times 14 Nov. 13/6 A pony skin upon the inside of which is painted the history of an Indian warrior of the Saultaux tribe.

1960 Times 26 Sept. 17/2 In Mongolian ponyskin..it [sc. a coat] is very hard-wearing.

2001 Drapers Rec. 28 Apr. 28/1 (advt.) Fur fabrics, pony skin, velboas, in exciting fashion shades and animal prints.

pony trekker n. a person who takes part in pony-trekking.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > on pony > travelling a long distance

pony trekker1958

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > pony-trekking > participant

pony trekker1958

1958 Times 27 May 14/2 (headline) Pony trekkers in the Highlands.

1991 Independent 3 Dec. 7/3 A network of paths for walkers, cyclists and pony trekkers.

pony trekking n. pony-riding for long distances across country, esp. as a group holiday activity.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > on a pony > for a long distance

pony trekking1952

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > pony-trekking

pony trekking1952

1952 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 25 May 13/2 (Travel section) (headline) Pony-Trekking New Holiday Idea.

1971 New Yorker 27 Feb. 21/1 (advt.) Come to Ireland. Go pony-trekking through Macgillycuddy's Reeks.

2002 Food & Trav. Oct. 9/3 Go pony trekking, golfing or explore the white sand beaches and archeological remains.

b. With the sense ‘that is small of its kind’.

pony ballet n. chiefly U.S. (now chiefly historical) a dance interlude in a theatrical performance, typically performed by a group of women of similar (usually small) stature and characterized by synchronized movements (esp. high kicks) and elaborate costume and staging; (also) a group that performs such a dance.

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1899 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. 7/4 If twenty-five girls can be secured with hair up to the standard set it is believed that the ‘pony ballet’ can be given without the aid of artificial light.

1916 B. Matthews Bk. about Theater xi. 175 Any effort to spiritualize dancing..should be welcomed by those who have been disgusted by the ugly and vulgar high-kicking of the so-called pony ballets.

1981 C. Smith Musical Comedy in Amer. (1996) xii. 90 A ‘pony ballet’ of sixteen girls wore bells on their fingers, their toes, and ‘elsewhere’.

pony beer n. originally and chiefly U.S. (now rare) a small glass or bottle of beer; cf. sense A. 2.

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1875 Atlanta (Georgia) Daily Constit. 28 Aug. In the Tribune cellar they call a pony beer, a paragraph; and a schooner of beer, a leading editorial.

1905 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Weekly Sentinel 27 Sept. 13/5 Patrolman Junk said Kanne was drunk, but he denied it and said he had had only two pony beers.

2001 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 11 Nov. 75 He was a pony beer off weeping his heart out.

pony bottle n. Diving a small tank of breathing gas with an independent regulator, carried by a diver as a backup to the primary breathing apparatus in case of emergency.

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1969 Skin Diver June 42/3 He ran out of air and just barely made it into a ‘happy ending’. After that we add a safety factor to our diving excursions by using a ‘pony bottle’.

2004 R. Kurson Shadow Divers ii. 36 To ensure a safe dive, he added a third air tank—a small emergency, or ‘pony’ bottle—to his normal set of doubles.

2012 Scuba Apr. 84/2 You could attach it to a single cylinder with or without a pony bottle and dive either with or without integrated weights.

pony engine n. U.S. (a) a small locomotive for shunting (now rare); (b) an auxiliary engine or power generator.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > used for shunting

pony engine1864

pug1872

switching-engine or -locomotive1875

switcher1882

switch-engine1896

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pony-engine, a locomotive used for switching cars from one track to another.

1864 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. 4/6 When out five miles the watercock of the Island Queen's pony engine was broken off, opening a hole in her side, and she was cast off and left to sink.

1877 ‘E. W. Martin’ Hist. Great Riots 344 All was quiet..only an occasional pony engine being allowed to move along the track.

1959 V. W. Brooks Howells xxiii. 274 [The story] was about a Pony engine that played round the Fitchburg station..and that slept in the car-house among the big locomotives.

1998 Fleet Owner (Nexis) Sept. Auxiliary power generators, or ‘pony engines’, have been around for some time.

pony glass n. a small glass for serving alcoholic drinks (see sense A. 2).

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass

glassc888

verrea1382

Venice glass1527

rummer1625

bottle glass1626

Malaga glassa1627

flute1649

flute-glass1668

long glass1680

mum-glass1684

toasting glass1703

wine glass1709

tulip-glass1755

tun-glass1755

water glass1779

tumbler-glass1795

Madeira glass1801

tumbling glass1803

noggin glass1805

champagne glass1815

table glass1815

balloon glass1819

copita1841

firing glass1842

nobbler1842

thimble glass1843

wine1848

liqueur-glass1850

straw-stem1853

pokal1854

goblet1856

mousseline1862

pony glass1862

long-sleever1872

cocktail glass1873

champagne flute1882

yard-glass1882

sleever1896

tea-glass1898

liqueur1907

dock-glass1911

toast-master glass1916

Waterford1916

stem-glass1922

Pilsner glass1923

Amen glass1924

ballon1930

balloon goblet1931

thistle glass1935

snifter1937

balloon1951

shot-glass1955

handle1956

tulip1961

schooner1967

champagne fountain1973

1862 J. Thomas How to mix Drinks 81 Fill the pony-glass with..best brandy.

1902 Times 6 Dec. 5/4 He placed a pony glass of brandy by the side of the bed.

2003 Internat. Trav. News (Nexis) 1 Aug. 115 He had a pony glass full of Armagnac.

pony keg n. U.S. a small or half-sized beer keg.

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1885 Morning Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 18 June The party had their ‘bait’ in a pony keg and he seemed to fear some one might suspect it was beer.

1934 Lima (Ohio) News 22 Apr. 5 (advt.) Make Elk's Brew Beer a going-to-bed habit every night... Order a case or pony keg today.

2002 B. Mezrich Bringing down House (2003) xii. 98 At Caesars, they kept a pony keg of Sam Adams chilled in his bedroom.

pony purse n. U.S. (now rare) a sum of money collected on an informal or impromptu basis.

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1851 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 15 Feb. They have never been called upon to make up a pony purse to establish it, or to contribute from time to time to prolong its existence.

1865 Harper's Mag. Aug. 322/2 A pony purse was made up among the members to buy candles.

1939 T. D. Clark Rampaging Frontier vi. 140 The members bought his fowls by a pony purse.

pony truck n. a two-wheeled leading or trailing truck in some types of locomotive.

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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 16/2 A pony-truck of toys.

1913 Times 3 Dec. 24/6 There are five driving axles, and with two pony trucks the vehicle has 14 wheels altogether.

1984 C. Garratt Brit. Steam Lives! viii. 91 The relative stability of the track in Britain enabled goods engines to work without pony trucks or bogies.

pony-truss n. Building a truss so low that overhead bracing cannot be used.

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1870 O. Chanute & G. Morison Kansas City Bridge 79 A pony truss of wrought-iron..was built, in place of the composite structure proposed by the engineer.

1908 Times 16 Dec. 20/1 75ft. pony truss spans.

2004 Courier News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) (Nexis) 24 Mar. 1 s The river is spanned just below the falls by the Main Street Bridge, a one-lane cast-iron pony-truss bridge dating from 1870.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pony
释义	ponyn.¹adj. Brit. /ˈpəʊni/, U.S. /ˈpoʊni/ Forms: 1700s poiny, 1700s–1800s poney, 1700s– pony, 1900s– powny (English regional (Cumberland)); also Scottish pre-1700 pawnie, pre-1700 pounnie, pre-1700 powiny, pre-1700 poynie, pre-1700 1700s pounie, pre-1700 1700s– pownie, pre-1700 1700s– powny, pre-1700 1900s– pouny, 1700s pounny, 1700s powney; also Irish English 1800s powney, 1900s– powny. Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French poulenet. Etymology: Probably < Middle French poulenet a little foal (1444 in an apparently isolated attestation; < poulain poleyn n.² + -et , diminutive suffix (compare -et suffix¹)), although the chronological gap and the absence of early English forms with poul- or pol- make this problematic. Compare French poney (1752; < English).The reason for use in sense A. 3 is unclear. Irish pónaí and Scottish Gaelic pònaidh are < English. A. n.¹ 1. a. Originally Scottish. A small horse of any breed; spec. one not over a certain height (now usually 14.2 hands). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > defined by size > small hobbyc1400 tit1548 Galloway1598 hobby-horse1598 bidet1631 pony1659 runt1725 criollo1894 cuddyc1930 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > defined by size > small > pony nag1336 hobbyc1400 bilder1570 hobby-horse1598 Sheltie1612 pony1659 naggya1700 shalt1813 1659 Diary 18 June in Notes & Queries (1883) 6th Ser. 7 163/1 I caused bring home the powny & stugged him. 1675 W. Cunningham Diary 24 May (1887) 54 Sent to Glasgow for a gang of shoo's to Cuninghamheid's pownie. 1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 19 Union Ponies, a Kind of Horses foaled upon the Borders, and occasionally owning either Country. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 150 The powney that in spring-time grazes, Thrives a' the year. 1789 Bath Jrnl. 22 June (advt.) Stolen or stray'd..A Black Poney, about thirteen hands high. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 19 Fops too proud to ride on ponies. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. v. 49 Clive..much preferred poneys to ride. 1902 Badminton Mag. 15 699 I should be inclined to say that in general parlance anything under 14 hands is a pony. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 16 The pony is the one my father harnessed to the trap the night I began to be born. 2004 Herbert River (Austral.) Express (Nexis) 14 Oct. 12 There is also a section for ponies and galloways where the top height is limited. b. slang (originally and chiefly North American). A racehorse. Usually in plural with the. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse runnera1500 match horse1607 racehorse1607 racer1629 race naga1635 wagoner1859 neddy1887 pony1896 bang-tail1921 1896 H. M. Blossom Checkers iv. 80 He went down and threw up his job, and started in to play the ponies. 1900 C. L. Cullen Taking Chances 108 They think they are wise to the ponies, hey? 1907 J. London in Cosmopolitan May 17/2 I had been out to the race-track watching the ponies run. a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) i. 21 If it takes my snoring to make you remember Shakespeare instead of the dope sheet on the ponies, I hope I'll keep on with it. 1961 Dallas Morning News 17 Feb. i. 5 Rep. Berry, an ex-gambler from San Antonio, got elected on his advocacy of betting on the ponies. 1994 T. Boswell Cracking Show ix. ii. 201 Lou loves the ponies. But he's never held a ticket on a long shot. 2. regional. A small glass or measure of alcohol. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink > small amount nipperkin1619 noggin1648 pony1708 squib1756 finger1820 tot1828 nobbler1842 1708 in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1931) II. 5 July 392 For 2 dozen poiny of wine pd to S^r H. Bunbury [there was paid] £1 5^s 6^d. 1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 81 The game is kept up, mollified now and then by a choice swig at the ‘poney’. 1896 N. Brit. Daily Mail 7 Apr. 2 The pony, another Glasgow beer measure, contained 9-10ths of an imperial gill of beer. 1959 G. Hamilton Summer Glare 155 Os pulled a beer each for me and Tommy, and a pony for himself. He always drank small beers. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 163 In addition Sydney has a pony of five ounces.., Melbourne a pot of ten ounces (but a pot is eleven ounces in Brisbane), Adelaide a butcher (six ounces) and Perth a big pot (fifteen ounces, which would be a schooner in Sydney or a pint in Adelaide). 1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost ii. xvi. 385 A TSS researcher managed to slip a dose of LSD into a pony of Cointreau. 3. British slang. Twenty-five pounds sterling; (also occasionally) twenty-five guineas. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > twenty-five pounds pony1797 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 97 There is no touching her even for a poney. [Note Half a rouleau or twenty-five guineas]. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. v. 117 ‘Done, for a poney,’ said the Squire. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 51 Well done, Jack,..you've saved your master a pony this fine morning. 1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay vii. 318 It would have to be done very carefully,..in ponies and fifties and hundreds. 1966 B. Naughton Alfie xxix. 188 ‘A pony is neither here nor there to me,’ I said. ‘It's just that I want to give somebody something.’ 2001 People (Nexis) 5 Aug. 14 I'll pay a pony (£25) for any I publish. 4. U.S. slang. A literal translation or summary of a text used as a short cut or study aid; a crib. Cf. horse n. 13. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > used at school Latinc1500 version1711 pony1827 crib1828 paving1877 trot1924 1827 Harvard Reg. (1828) Sept. 194 I'll tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits..and stick to the law, Tom, without a Poney. 1893 W. W. Goodwin in Classical Rev. Apr. 162/1 A ‘crib’ or ‘pony’ to help them to learn their Greek lessons without the aid of dictionary and grammar. 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xviii. 182 She kept the dates written down in her Latin ‘pony’. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. iii. 89 The tablets were used not so much for study as for recapitulation and remembrance, like cribs or ponies. 1997 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 6 Oct. 1 e In a famous outburst, he thundered against ‘ponies’, the Cliffs Notes of his era. 5. slang. A (small) dancer in a pony ballet; cf. pony ballet n. at Compounds 2b. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun] > female > professional danceressa1425 dancerc1440 dancing-damsel1606 dancing-wench1698 dancing-girl1762 almeh1786 dancing-woman1810 ronggeng1817 ghazeeyeh1819 hurdy-gurdy girl1865 pony1908 terp1937 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > chorus-girl monkey1871 follies1874 Gaiety girl1886 chorus-girl1894 pony1908 chorine1922 Ziegfeld girl1932 les girls1936 terp1937 1908 K. McGaffey Sorrows of Show Girl 118 I went into the pony ballet of a LaSalle Theatre show—can you see me as a pony? 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 61 The ponies took last drags at their cigarettes and slumped into place. 1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 3 July 63/2 In the chorus of ponies—the smallest sized dancers—there was a pert redhead named Gracie Barrett. 1992 J. Malnig Dancing till Dawn ii. 35 Pony ballets, teams of six to eight precision dancers, appeared in most musical comedies during the period 1900 to 1911. The ‘ponies’ were the shortest of the chorus dancers. 6. British slang. [Rhyming slang.] Also more fully pony and trap. a. As a count noun: an act of defecation. As a mass noun: faeces (figurative in quot. 1986). Cf. crap n.¹ 7a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] gorec725 mixeOE quedeeOE turdeOE dungOE worthinga1225 dirta1300 drega1300 naturea1325 fen1340 ordurec1390 fimea1475 merd1486 stercory1496 avoidc1503 siegec1530 fex1540 excrement1541 hinder-fallings1561 gong1562 foil1565 voiding1577 pilgrim-salvec1580 egestion1583 shita1585 sir-reverence1592 purgament1597 filinga1622 faecesa1625 exclusion1646 faecality1653 tantadlin1654 surreverence1655 draught1659 excrementitiousness1660 jakes1701 old golda1704 dejection1728 dejecture1731 shitea1733 feculence1733 doll1825 crap1846 excreta1857 excretes1883 hockey1886 dejecta1887 job1899 number two1902 mess1903 ming1923 do1930 tomtit1930 pony1931 No. 21937 dog shit1944 Shinola1944 big job1945 biggie1953 doo-doo1954 doings1957 gick1959 pooh1960 pooh-pooh1962 dooky1965 poopy1970 whoopsie1973 pucky1980 jobbie1981 1931 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 4 Sept. in Compl. Wks. (1998) X. 228 As to new words, here are some... Pony = a shit. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 219 ‘Why doesn't he have his pony and trap in their time?’ ‘Maybe he didn't know the time, or maybe he was short taken.’ 1986 T. Barling Smoke xxiv. 527 I just don't want to be face down in pony knowing you'll end up smelling of violets. 1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 409 ‘I'm breaking my neck for a pony,’ Micky Dunkerton shouted, hammering on his door. b. Rubbish, nonsense; = crap n.¹ 8. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1956 ‘C. Raven’ Underworld Nights 24 We know that's a lot of pony-and-trap. 1989 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (2000) II. 6th Ser. Episode 6. 131 You're not gonna believe all that old pony are you? 2004 Trav. Weekly (Nexis) 9 Feb. 83 That always sounded like a load of old pony to us. 7. Usually with capital initial. A dance originating in the United States and popular in the early 1960s. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun] mashed potato1747 bunny hug1912 chicken scratch1912 bunny-hugging1916 jazz1919 black bottom1925 shuffle1925 Mess Around1926 snake hips1933 Susie-Q1936 Lambeth Walk1937 bunny hop1938 bop1956 pony1961 Watusi1961 locomotion1962 mash potato1962 frug1964 hully gully1964 dancercise1967 pogo1977 moonwalking1980 slam dance1981 slam dancing1981 body-popping1982 b-boying1984 mosh1985 moshing1987 1961 Billboard Music Week 3 Apr. 30/1 Top market breakouts... Phildelphia—Everybody's doin' the Pony..Fay Simmons, Senca. 1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 84 Dance crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke. There was the Hully Gully, the Madison, the Fly, the Pony, the Popeye, the Mashed Potato, the Dog, the Monkey. 1974 L. Ellfeldt This is Ballroom Dance xi. 96 The pony consists of prancing leg movements, with head and arms bobbing in rhythm. 1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 16/2 They did the Pony and the Stroll and slow-danced and drank Pepsi. B. adj. 1. U.S. Designating an abstract or abridgement of a news report or a service supplying these to particular news agencies. Now historical.The service was discontinued in the 1950s. ΚΠ 1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 57/1 Condensed abstracts, known as ‘pony’ reports, are made and forwarded to smaller towns. 1915 G. M. Hyde Newspaper Editing vi. 199 Certain members, too small to be full members [of the Associated Press], receive a daily ‘pony’ service—a condensed version of the world's news to the extent of a few hundred or few thousand words—and pay proportionately. 1931 C. E. Rogers Journalistic Vocations iii. 61 There are shorter leased wire reports, too, and pony reports. 1942 N. J. Radder & J. E. Stempel Newspaper Editing, Make-up & Headlines (ed. 2) vii. 125 The pony service still is used by a number of smaller newspapers, and some rely on a bulletin service or pony service by telegraph. 2001 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 14 Oct. 3 Until then, the paper got national and international news from the United Press' $25-a-week ‘pony’ service, which provided news in bulletin form only. 2. British slang. [Rhyming slang: see sense A. 6.] Worthless, useless; = crap adj. Cf. sense A. 6b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 1964 Guardian 2 Mar. 7/6 Other wrestling slang terms include a ‘pony’ wrestler (Pony-and-trap—crap). 1996 Premiere Feb. 83/1 There's nothing in the world as bad as a bad drunk act—think how pony it could have been! 2002 M. Beaumont Bk., Film, T-shirt (2003) x. 122 We may be mates, but if you want to shoot this pony piece of writing you can find some other prick to point the camera at it. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) (In sense A. 1.) pony-back n. ΚΠ 1813 Examiner 26 Apr. 265/1 A well-known quack..appeared on poney-back. 1923 J. B. Harriman From Pinafores to Politics 20 The journey up in the spring we used to make on pony-back. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Oct. 20 He suffered 12 injuries, including the loss of half a leg, which forced him to trot into battle on pony-back. pony boy n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager horse-keeperc1440 horse marshal1508 horse-master?1523 jockey1640 guarda-caballo1808 pony-man1851 pony boy1858 horseman1882 tackman1885 barn-boss1902 1858 Times 19 Aug. 5/5 I am sure you will not consider the postboy overpaid by 2s. 6d., nor the pony boy too liberally recompensed by 1s. 6d. 1909 Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 5/1 Murten..is employed as a pony-boy in the Woolley Colliery, Barnsley. 1958 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dialects: C908) Track 25 [Kent] Of course the pony boys would up the limbers onto the tubs... He'd jump on the back tub and the ponies would take him to the back doors, in the dark. 1995 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 5/2 Mr Major's temporary employment as a ‘pony boy’ involved..bringing the dead deer down the hill on the back of a pony. pony carriage n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > drawn by pony or ponies pony carriage1825 1825 Times 14 Sept. 4/2 (advt.) A 4-wheel pony carriage, capital pony, 2 excellent milch cows, a quantity of well-got meadow hay. 1905 ‘P. Pennington’ Woman Rice Planter (1913) iv. 150 I sent Chloe to Gregory in the pony carriage, and she brought back the money. 1998 Renaissance No. 11. 21/1 She did indeed kill her sister, albeit unintentionally, when the two of them were thrown from a pony carriage she was driving at the time. pony cart n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > drawn by a pony pony cart1822 1822 Times 23 Dec. 4/6 (advt.) Pony carts, large quantity of ash plank, oak spokes, all the smithstock. 1916 E. S. Sergeant French Perspectives v No sign of life but a solitary pony-cart climbing the one white road that cut the opposite hill. 2005 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 24 Apr. 25 t The transportation exhibit includes a renovated doctor's buggy and pony cart. pony chaise n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > drawn by pony pony chair1815 pony chaise1817 1817 Times 5 Aug. 1/4 To be sold, a pony chaise and harness, together or separate. 1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 81 One of those old-fashioned, very low pony-shays, with a seat up behind for the groom. 1971 E. P. Douglass Coming Age Amer. Business i. vi. 79 Wheeled vehicles of every type from huge Conestoga wagons..to pony chaises. pony girl n. ΚΠ 1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah vi. i I'm not a horsewoman yet. If I'm anything, I'm a pony-girl. 1991 Sports Illustr. 10 June 70/3 A pony girl reached out a hand and gave Stubbs a high five. pony horse n. ΚΠ 1754 W. Ellis Compl. Cyderman 41 The light four-wheel Drill-Plow, that sows..as it is drawn along by a Pony Horse. 1852 Times 28 June 2/1 (advt.) Advertiser would purchase 10 under-duty or small pony horse phaetons. 2003 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 8 Aug. (Sports section) 54 I thought I was going to have to sell him or use him as a pony horse. pony-man n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager horse-keeperc1440 horse marshal1508 horse-master?1523 jockey1640 guarda-caballo1808 pony-man1851 pony boy1858 horseman1882 tackman1885 barn-boss1902 1851 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 31 Dec. 1/7 The pony man insisted that the engineer ran over the colt on purpose. 1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 15 563 Group of Astor pony-men at Lob jungle. 1996 S. Robertson & P. Young Daughter of Atholl ii. 8 [The Duke] insisted that all his keepers, stalkers, ponymen and gillies were Gaelic speakers. pony mare n. ΚΠ 1786 T. Pierson Misc. Var. Subj. 231 A sheep or two, a kyloe, poney mare, A spotted dog. 1824 Times 21 June 4/5 (advt.) Also a capital pony mare, perfectly sound, rising 5 years old, with saddle and bridle, and a set of gig harness. 1989 Chron. Horse 1 Sept. 63/1 (advt.) Welsh pony mare.., black w/4 white socks. pony-pack n. rare ΚΠ 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 569/1 Each unit was accompanied by a pony-pack train. pony phaeton n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > four-wheeled carryall1714 phaeton1740 pony phaeton1790 mail phaeton1852 1790 Times 15 Feb. 4/1 A very handsome cane poney phaeton. 1887 N. Perry Flock of Girls 62 Miss Violet..was standing on the lawn..waiting for her pony phaeton. 2003 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 5 July 92 Four horse-drawn vehicles, ranging from a heavy-duty Clydesdale trolley to a pony phaeton and jinker. pony race n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1765 J. Woodforde Diary 27 May (1924) I. 47 After dinner Jack went to Wincanton to a Pony Race. 1824 J. Decastro Mem. 155 The pony races were brought out, and they had a more than usual run for a whole season. 2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) xv. 185 They attended the pony races at the Kyaikasan racecourse. pony ride n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion > on a pony pony ride1819 1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 200 She has just come in from her poney ride. 1919 Times 25 Apr. 11/1 A pony ride of a dozen miles or so. 1994 Virginia Gaz. 26 Oct. b5/1 Students could clean up after pony rides. pony sled n. ΚΠ 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xvi. 208 I went to the upper linhay, and took our new light pony-sledd, which had been made almost as much for pleasure as for business. 1985 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 23 Aug. 10/1 Antiques: Household treadle sewing machine;..bucket-a-day stove; pony sled, [etc.]. pony track n. ΚΠ 1861 J. Tyndall in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 307 Having followed a monotonous pony-track up the ugliest of mountains. 1900 Daily News 11 Jan. 7/3 Then we went to the face, up some of the ‘jig brows’, the roads running off at right angles from this pony track. 1993 D. C. Reece Rich Broth ix. 86 From there Gulmarg was approached by pony track which wound through the pine forest. pony-trap n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled > drawn by pony pony-trap1843 1843 Times 11 Aug. 6/5 Our friend stood in the fair till mid-day, and..began..to speculate upon the advisability of taking his pony-trap home again. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 85 To sit in my pony-trap. 1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) viii. 250 ‘Adda’ is a word which can mean anything from an airport to a bus or pony-trap stand. (b) (In sense A. 3.) † pony point n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1892 M. Williams Round London ii. xi. 319 He plays whist at his club for pony (twenty-five pounds) points. b. Objective. pony-buyer n. ΚΠ 1907 N.E.D. at Pony sb. Pony-buyer. 1948 Iowa City Press-Citizen 31 May 11/5 (advt.) Attention Pony Buyers. Special saddle horse and pony sale. 2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. (City ed.) 11 In a cautionary note for pony-buyers, he added: ‘They say you should never own something that eats when you're sleeping’. pony-buying n. ΚΠ 1902 Western Mag. 3 Feb. 4/2 With hundreds of people it [sc. ‘riding with the children’] is part and parcel of their recollections or of their present every-day life, or of an approaching pony-buying future. pony-catcher n. ΚΠ 1907 N.E.D. at Pony sb. Pony-catcher. pony-catching n. and adj. ΚΠ 1852 Harper's Mag. Jan. 264/2 Royalty in petto seems to have taken..to the avocations of baking and brewing, pig-tending, poultry-feeding, and pony-catching. 1935 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/5 A pony catching police expert lured the animal from the stand into a squad car with an apple for bait. † pony-hunting n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) iv. 103 Pony-hunting used to be one of the favourite amusements of the Welsh farmers and peasantry. pony penning n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > rodeo > [noun] > types of contest bull-dogging1842 pony penning1877 steer bulldogging1910 steer wrestling1910 1877 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 742/2 Sharing the interest with the pony penning is an occasional camp-meeting in the woods. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 4/3 Pony-penning has attracted thousands to the island. 2002 Equus Mar. 66/2 Periodic roundups..eventually evolved into the current annual tradition of Pony Penning. pony racing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing steeple-hunting1772 quarter-racing1779 roading1787 pony racing1809 steeplechasing1816 steeple running1818 steeple racing1840 horse-trotting1857 plating1865 trotting1883 chasing1886 flat-racing1886 harness racing1901 flapping1911 flapper1928 point-to-pointing1952 pointing1976 1809 Times 20 May 1/1 The annual sports will commence with Poney Racing. 1943 Sporting Life 12 July 5 Pony racing will have an eager Turf Authority, a second-to-none race course at its disposal, and cash in the bank. 2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Weekend section) 14 All the riders were amateur and the pony racing ceased in 1898. pony rearer n. ΚΠ 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke 198 Stalwart pony rearers and graziers from Bampton. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 31 Jan. 25 Other measures include funds to boost depressed Irish beef exports and Connemara pony rearers. pony rider n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > on pony pony rider1859 1859 N.Y. Times 19 Nov. 7/5 (advt.) Borneo Monkey Jocko, the Pony Rider. In early youth he was trained to feats of horsemanship. 1871 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers 20 Mar. (1967) 62 Stretching our necks and watching for the pony-rider. 1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 393/1 Pony riders will have to keep on to the country lanes. 1998 Australian (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Sport section) 19 ‘This gives me so much pleasure’, Peslier, a former champion pony rider, said. pony-riding n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > on a pony pony-riding1847 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross iii. 51 The dun-pony riding doctor.] 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiii. 293 She was made to take pony-riding, or piano-exercise, or any other sort of bodily medicament. 1949 R. Colville (title) Pony riding. 1995 Daily Tel. 26 May 12/6 The story of Jemima's pony-riding days. c. Locative. pony-mounted adj. ΚΠ 1854 H. Reed Let. 19 June in L. N. Broughton Wordsworth & Reed (1933) 239 A strenuous remonstrance led them to send a boy, pony-mounted , with my letter. 1953 Independent Record (Helena, Montana) 12 July 8/2 Squared rafts of buffalo hide, with a pony-mounted warrior on each side of the four corners. 2003 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 6 Feb. He [sc. Genghis Khan] and his pony-mounted archers then set out on a whirlwind of conquest and destruction. C2. a. pony chair n. a light carriage drawn by a pony. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > drawn by pony pony chair1815 pony chaise1817 1815 Times 1 June 1/5 A neat cane-back pony chair and harness nearly new. 1944 Times 22 Aug. 1/2 Gentleman recently lost one leg anxious continue shooting requires pony chair or cart, also quiet pony. 2001 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 5 June 8 In those days, of course, there weren't so many things to do in Weston, and the pony chair was hugely popular. pony express n. (originally) a postal service using relays of horses to transport mail rapidly over long distances, spec. a service of this sort operating between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California in 1860–1 (now historical); also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach flying post1548 posting1556 postage1566 dāk1727 pony express1847 pony post1892 1847 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 18 Dec. 4/5 By our Pony Express from the South, we have intelligence from New Orleans to the afternoon of the 2d. 1894 Daily News 1 Oct. 5/5 The pony express from Pekin brought the Viceroy many despatches. 1948 Chicago Daily News 26 Aug. 4/1 St. Joseph, Mo... The original Pony Express stable was put up for sale for $442.32 but no one bid on it. 1980 J. Marcus Marsh Blood iii. 46 We all used the postman-drivers as our private pony express. pony hunter n. (a) a pony trained or bred for hunting (cf. hunter n. 2a); (b) a person who hunts ponies. ΚΠ 1865 Times 6 Oct. 2/3 (advt.) Pilot, the 10-stone Pony-hunter..is very fast, 14 hands high..and in high condition. 1927 Times 12 Dec. 1/5 (advt.) Child's lovely pony hunter: perfect mouth and manners; cheap to good home. 1929 Econ. Geogr. 5 104/2 The pony-hunters at Solutre, the mammoth hunters at Predmost. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. d6 Junior hunters and three sizes of pony hunters make up the Friday and Saturday schedule. pony post n. = pony express n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by land or sea > by post-rider or coach flying post1548 posting1556 postage1566 dāk1727 pony express1847 pony post1892 1877 Helena (Montana) Independent 24 Apr. 3/2 Postmaster Deimling has received instructions to place the Pony post office on route 36,102.] 1892 Standard (Ogden, Utah Territory) 26 Mar. 5/2 The telegraph is better than the old pony post. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. vii. 178 Three-weeks letters from San Francisco, come by the pony post to Lexington. 2003 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 July 5 The huge leap that has taken place from smoke signals and the pony post to satellite technology. pony putter n. now historical a person who drives a pony pulling a coal wagon at a colliery. ΚΠ 1871 Times 16 Nov. 6/3 About 18 or 19 of the pony putters refused to go down the shaft. 1937 Times 13 Sept. 18/2 The new basic rate for pony putters will be 4s 9d. 2003 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 12 Feb. 21 Harry Robinson, of Whitley Bay, was a pony putter in the 50s at Heworth Colliery. pony skin n. the dressed skin or hide of a pony. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > pony- or horse-skin horse-skina1400 potro1838 pony skin1900 1900 Times 14 Nov. 13/6 A pony skin upon the inside of which is painted the history of an Indian warrior of the Saultaux tribe. 1960 Times 26 Sept. 17/2 In Mongolian ponyskin..it [sc. a coat] is very hard-wearing. 2001 Drapers Rec. 28 Apr. 28/1 (advt.) Fur fabrics, pony skin, velboas, in exciting fashion shades and animal prints. pony trekker n. a person who takes part in pony-trekking. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > on pony > travelling a long distance pony trekker1958 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > pony-trekking > participant pony trekker1958 1958 Times 27 May 14/2 (headline) Pony trekkers in the Highlands. 1991 Independent 3 Dec. 7/3 A network of paths for walkers, cyclists and pony trekkers. pony trekking n. pony-riding for long distances across country, esp. as a group holiday activity. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > on a pony > for a long distance pony trekking1952 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > pony-trekking pony trekking1952 1952 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 25 May 13/2 (Travel section) (headline) Pony-Trekking New Holiday Idea. 1971 New Yorker 27 Feb. 21/1 (advt.) Come to Ireland. Go pony-trekking through Macgillycuddy's Reeks. 2002 Food & Trav. Oct. 9/3 Go pony trekking, golfing or explore the white sand beaches and archeological remains. b. With the sense ‘that is small of its kind’. pony ballet n. chiefly U.S. (now chiefly historical) a dance interlude in a theatrical performance, typically performed by a group of women of similar (usually small) stature and characterized by synchronized movements (esp. high kicks) and elaborate costume and staging; (also) a group that performs such a dance. ΚΠ 1899 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. 7/4 If twenty-five girls can be secured with hair up to the standard set it is believed that the ‘pony ballet’ can be given without the aid of artificial light. 1916 B. Matthews Bk. about Theater xi. 175 Any effort to spiritualize dancing..should be welcomed by those who have been disgusted by the ugly and vulgar high-kicking of the so-called pony ballets. 1981 C. Smith Musical Comedy in Amer. (1996) xii. 90 A ‘pony ballet’ of sixteen girls wore bells on their fingers, their toes, and ‘elsewhere’. pony beer n. originally and chiefly U.S. (now rare) a small glass or bottle of beer; cf. sense A. 2. ΚΠ 1875 Atlanta (Georgia) Daily Constit. 28 Aug. In the Tribune cellar they call a pony beer, a paragraph; and a schooner of beer, a leading editorial. 1905 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Weekly Sentinel 27 Sept. 13/5 Patrolman Junk said Kanne was drunk, but he denied it and said he had had only two pony beers. 2001 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 11 Nov. 75 He was a pony beer off weeping his heart out. pony bottle n. Diving a small tank of breathing gas with an independent regulator, carried by a diver as a backup to the primary breathing apparatus in case of emergency. ΚΠ 1969 Skin Diver June 42/3 He ran out of air and just barely made it into a ‘happy ending’. After that we add a safety factor to our diving excursions by using a ‘pony bottle’. 2004 R. Kurson Shadow Divers ii. 36 To ensure a safe dive, he added a third air tank—a small emergency, or ‘pony’ bottle—to his normal set of doubles. 2012 Scuba Apr. 84/2 You could attach it to a single cylinder with or without a pony bottle and dive either with or without integrated weights. pony engine n. U.S. (a) a small locomotive for shunting (now rare); (b) an auxiliary engine or power generator. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > used for shunting pony engine1864 pug1872 switching-engine or -locomotive1875 switcher1882 switch-engine1896 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pony-engine, a locomotive used for switching cars from one track to another. 1864 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. 4/6 When out five miles the watercock of the Island Queen's pony engine was broken off, opening a hole in her side, and she was cast off and left to sink. 1877 ‘E. W. Martin’ Hist. Great Riots 344 All was quiet..only an occasional pony engine being allowed to move along the track. 1959 V. W. Brooks Howells xxiii. 274 [The story] was about a Pony engine that played round the Fitchburg station..and that slept in the car-house among the big locomotives. 1998 Fleet Owner (Nexis) Sept. Auxiliary power generators, or ‘pony engines’, have been around for some time. pony glass n. a small glass for serving alcoholic drinks (see sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass glassc888 verrea1382 Venice glass1527 rummer1625 bottle glass1626 Malaga glassa1627 flute1649 flute-glass1668 long glass1680 mum-glass1684 toasting glass1703 wine glass1709 tulip-glass1755 tun-glass1755 water glass1779 tumbler-glass1795 Madeira glass1801 tumbling glass1803 noggin glass1805 champagne glass1815 table glass1815 balloon glass1819 copita1841 firing glass1842 nobbler1842 thimble glass1843 wine1848 liqueur-glass1850 straw-stem1853 pokal1854 goblet1856 mousseline1862 pony glass1862 long-sleever1872 cocktail glass1873 champagne flute1882 yard-glass1882 sleever1896 tea-glass1898 liqueur1907 dock-glass1911 toast-master glass1916 Waterford1916 stem-glass1922 Pilsner glass1923 Amen glass1924 ballon1930 balloon goblet1931 thistle glass1935 snifter1937 balloon1951 shot-glass1955 handle1956 tulip1961 schooner1967 champagne fountain1973 1862 J. Thomas How to mix Drinks 81 Fill the pony-glass with..best brandy. 1902 Times 6 Dec. 5/4 He placed a pony glass of brandy by the side of the bed. 2003 Internat. Trav. News (Nexis) 1 Aug. 115 He had a pony glass full of Armagnac. pony keg n. U.S. a small or half-sized beer keg. ΚΠ 1885 Morning Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 18 June The party had their ‘bait’ in a pony keg and he seemed to fear some one might suspect it was beer. 1934 Lima (Ohio) News 22 Apr. 5 (advt.) Make Elk's Brew Beer a going-to-bed habit every night... Order a case or pony keg today. 2002 B. Mezrich Bringing down House (2003) xii. 98 At Caesars, they kept a pony keg of Sam Adams chilled in his bedroom. pony purse n. U.S. (now rare) a sum of money collected on an informal or impromptu basis. ΚΠ 1851 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 15 Feb. They have never been called upon to make up a pony purse to establish it, or to contribute from time to time to prolong its existence. 1865 Harper's Mag. Aug. 322/2 A pony purse was made up among the members to buy candles. 1939 T. D. Clark Rampaging Frontier vi. 140 The members bought his fowls by a pony purse. pony truck n. a two-wheeled leading or trailing truck in some types of locomotive. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 16/2 A pony-truck of toys. 1913 Times 3 Dec. 24/6 There are five driving axles, and with two pony trucks the vehicle has 14 wheels altogether. 1984 C. Garratt Brit. Steam Lives! viii. 91 The relative stability of the track in Britain enabled goods engines to work without pony trucks or bogies. pony-truss n. Building a truss so low that overhead bracing cannot be used. ΚΠ 1870 O. Chanute & G. Morison Kansas City Bridge 79 A pony truss of wrought-iron..was built, in place of the composite structure proposed by the engineer. 1908 Times 16 Dec. 20/1 75ft. pony truss spans. 2004 Courier News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) (Nexis) 24 Mar. 1 s The river is spanned just below the falls by the Main Street Bridge, a one-lane cast-iron pony-truss bridge dating from 1870. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). ponyn.² Probably a misprint for, or misreading of, poui (see poui n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > tecomas trumpet-vine1717 trumpet creeper1818 Tecoma1846 pony1864 devil's shoestring1900 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787 Tecoma serratifolia Pony. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Tecoma serratifolia, ‘Pony’, Saw-leaved Trumpet-flower. 1974 F. N. Howes Dict. Useful & Everyday Plants 205 Pony (W.I.) or yellow poui, Tecoma serratifolia, fl. tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ponyv. Brit. /ˈpəʊni/, U.S. /ˈpoʊni/ Forms: see pony n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pony n.¹ Etymology: < pony n.¹ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. transitive. Chiefly with up. To pay (a sum of money). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out to pay out1438 to pay over1668 to shell down1801 pony1819 tip1829 to fork out, over, or up1831 to stump up1833 to put up1838 stump1841 pungle1851 to ante up1880 cough1894 to peg out1895 brass1898 society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay up or out to shell out1821 dub1823 stump1828 to stump up1836 tip1847 cash1854 to ante up1861 to fund up1888 pony1894 brass1898 cough1920 to pay up1941 to dig down1942 1819 Rural Mag. May 125/2 The afternoon, before the evening, the favoured gentlemen are walking rapidly into the merchant-tailors shops, and very slowly out, unless they ponied up the Spanish [i.e. money]. 1824 Atlantic Mag. 1 343 Every man..vociferously swore that he had ponied up his ‘quarter’. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 298 Pony, to pay. To ‘pony out’ = ‘stump out’; a slang term. 1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 367 ‘Pony up or we will run you in’ is the formula. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 117 Pony up, boys. We'll have just one little smahan more. 1960 Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Oct. 82/1 You should have had this influential group pony up a little more money. 1992 New Republic 1 June 32/2 The State Department and White House again pressured the Agriculture Department to pony up the other half. 2. a. transitive. To prepare (a lesson, text, etc.) by means of a pony or crib. Also: to memorize; plagiarize. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > crib crib1778 pony1847 society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > crib cabbage1773 crib1778 pony1847 1847 W. G. Hammond Jrnl. 24 July in G. F. Whicher Remembrance of Amherst (1946) 153 The others are ponying most unmercifully. 1876 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 29 Dec. 2/1 Two seniors diligently ponying ‘Plato's Apology’. 1908 W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana beneath X-Ray 134 It were a hundred times better to teach the average boy how to build a fence..than to read Euripides or ‘pony’ his way through three or four years of Latin. 2003 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 22 July 1 b Holder..is under state investigation over charges that he ponied a paper he wrote while taking a military course. †b. transitive. To give extra tuition to; to spoon-feed with information. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [verb (transitive)] > tutor or coach tutor1592 teacher1619 tutorize1839 pupillize1840 coach1848 grind1859 pony1865 tute1934 1865 Harper's Mag. July 213/2 A classmate, whom..I had ponied through term after term, in Latin, Greek, and mathematics. 3. transitive. To exercise, lead, or train (a horse) while riding another horse. Also occasionally intransitive. ΚΠ 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 2 July 8/6 Nicholas..had to be ‘ponied’, and so did Display, a very temperamental racer. 1952 A. J. Liebling Chicago i. 24 Few horses are worked under saddle at Sportsman's, for fear they will break down; they are ‘ponied’, which means that a mounted man gets out in front of them and gallops them on a lead line. 1993 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 30 Jan. d1 She quickly got a job ponying thoroughbreds back and forth to the track for morning workouts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.1659n.²1864v.1819
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