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Definition of ponce in English: poncenoun pɒns British informal 1derogatory An effeminate man. Example sentencesExamples - He proudly admits he is from hard-working peasant stock and sees me as lazy, vain and probably as a ponce.
- You know you love prancing around like a ponce with new clothes.
- ‘When I hit my teenage years I said ‘acting's for ponces - I want to be a rock star and sing in a band instead’.
- So everybody knows the British are tea-drinking, snaggle-toothed ponces, and gay to boot.
- There are no nancy girls, cross-dressers, pansies, butches, flip-flops or ponces.
Synonyms coward, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, namby-pamby, crybaby, baby 2A man who lives off a prostitute's earnings. Example sentencesExamples - So a colleague, faced with sentencing a Living on Immoral Earnings charge, whispered to the Clerk ‘How much do you give a ponce?’
- Someone called me a ‘art-ponce’- the meaning of ponce is ‘someone who procures customers for whores’ - look it up.
verb pɒns British informal 1with object Seek to obtain (something) without paying for it or doing anything in return. I ponced a ciggie off her Example sentencesExamples - Although I had resolved that morning to give up the poncing lark, by now it was several hours past the midday cocktail hour so I drove to north-west London and ponced a whopping £200 off a TV producer I know called Roy, a lovely bloke.
- But instead I've just been poncing twenties and fifties off friends, relatives and, finally, acquaintances in the oddest of places: a whole range of car parks, the new malls and basically anywhere near a cashpoint machine.
- I ponce cigarettes off Davo.
- I did start an Amazon wishlist but I kind of think that's the equivalent of hanging around in bars poncing drinks off strangers.
- I lost interest when The Bride went to ponce a sword off the Sushi Guy.
2no object Live off a prostitute's earnings. he was arrested for poncing on the girl Example sentencesExamples - Vice squads have been disbanded all over the country and pimping (or poncing as it was once known) has proliferated.
- For Phoenixs interviewees poncing meant being trapped into prostitution and accepting the idea of prostitution as a trap that could not be escaped.
Phrasal Verbs Behave in an affected or ineffectual way. I ponced around in front of the mirror Example sentencesExamples - The last thing we need is another generation of political committees, poncing around the country.
- Billy is a Mike Tyson-shaped American who runs his class from a gym full of real people - quite unlike the odour-free folk poncing around in front of pastel gazebos that you see in the British videos.
- The idea of him poncing around in everything but doublet and hose in John Byrne's acerbic working-class comedy is hilarious and, showman that he is, Gray tells it with much self-deprecating laughter.
- Ranulf's real name - when he's not poncing around in a Viking costume - is Dave Vale.
- They're all poncing around in aprons with their trousers rolled up and their left breasts exposed.
- Strangely the minute the cameras left the room they all stopped poncing around and ate fairly quietly too.
- I have to admit that at first I was very sceptical and cynical about all these movie people poncing around in Cannes.
- So many people there were just poncing around in rubber outfits.
- The menu was sumptuous and fairly daring (we skipped the ‘calf's snout’ and the ‘jaw with endives’) and the waiters were smarter than the clients, but Spaniards are innately informal so no one was poncing around in cummerbunds and cravats.
- Nothing worse than seeing all those smug Lib Dems poncing around, as if they own the place.
Make overly elaborate and unnecessary changes to something in an attempt to improve it. they would not let the food alone, they had to ponce it up in some way or other Example sentencesExamples - I was expecting it to be all ponced up, but no, the Third World is staging a vigorous comeback.
- NSW's great iconic pubs are all in the bush, the city ones having been long since ponced up.
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from the verb pounce1. Rhymes bonce, ensconce, nonce, response, sconce nounpänspɑns British informal 1derogatory An effeminate man. Example sentencesExamples - So everybody knows the British are tea-drinking, snaggle-toothed ponces, and gay to boot.
- There are no nancy girls, cross-dressers, pansies, butches, flip-flops or ponces.
- He proudly admits he is from hard-working peasant stock and sees me as lazy, vain and probably as a ponce.
- You know you love prancing around like a ponce with new clothes.
- ‘When I hit my teenage years I said ‘acting's for ponces - I want to be a rock star and sing in a band instead’.
Synonyms coward, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, namby-pamby, crybaby, baby 2A man who lives off a prostitute's earnings. Example sentencesExamples - So a colleague, faced with sentencing a Living on Immoral Earnings charge, whispered to the Clerk ‘How much do you give a ponce?’
- Someone called me a ‘art-ponce’- the meaning of ponce is ‘someone who procures customers for whores’ - look it up.
verbpänspɑns British informal 1with object Ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled) I ponced a cigarette off her Example sentencesExamples - I lost interest when The Bride went to ponce a sword off the Sushi Guy.
- But instead I've just been poncing twenties and fifties off friends, relatives and, finally, acquaintances in the oddest of places: a whole range of car parks, the new malls and basically anywhere near a cashpoint machine.
- Although I had resolved that morning to give up the poncing lark, by now it was several hours past the midday cocktail hour so I drove to north-west London and ponced a whopping £200 off a TV producer I know called Roy, a lovely bloke.
- I ponce cigarettes off Davo.
- I did start an Amazon wishlist but I kind of think that's the equivalent of hanging around in bars poncing drinks off strangers.
2no object Live off a prostitute's earnings. Example sentencesExamples - For Phoenixs interviewees poncing meant being trapped into prostitution and accepting the idea of prostitution as a trap that could not be escaped.
- Vice squads have been disbanded all over the country and pimping (or poncing as it was once known) has proliferated.
Phrasal Verbs Make overly elaborate and unnecessary changes to something in an attempt to improve it. Example sentencesExamples - NSW's great iconic pubs are all in the bush, the city ones having been long since ponced up.
- I was expecting it to be all ponced up, but no, the Third World is staging a vigorous comeback.
Behave in a ridiculous, ineffective, or posturing way. I ponced around in front of the mirror Example sentencesExamples - Billy is a Mike Tyson-shaped American who runs his class from a gym full of real people - quite unlike the odour-free folk poncing around in front of pastel gazebos that you see in the British videos.
- So many people there were just poncing around in rubber outfits.
- I have to admit that at first I was very sceptical and cynical about all these movie people poncing around in Cannes.
- The menu was sumptuous and fairly daring (we skipped the ‘calf's snout’ and the ‘jaw with endives’) and the waiters were smarter than the clients, but Spaniards are innately informal so no one was poncing around in cummerbunds and cravats.
- Ranulf's real name - when he's not poncing around in a Viking costume - is Dave Vale.
- They're all poncing around in aprons with their trousers rolled up and their left breasts exposed.
- The last thing we need is another generation of political committees, poncing around the country.
- The idea of him poncing around in everything but doublet and hose in John Byrne's acerbic working-class comedy is hilarious and, showman that he is, Gray tells it with much self-deprecating laughter.
- Nothing worse than seeing all those smug Lib Dems poncing around, as if they own the place.
- Strangely the minute the cameras left the room they all stopped poncing around and ate fairly quietly too.
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from the verb pounce. proper nounˈpônsā An industrial port in southern Puerto Rico, on the Caribbean Sea; population 144,500 (est. 2009).
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