单词	ponce
释义	ponce1 /pɒns / British informal noun 1 derogatory An effeminate man.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. ‘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’. 2A man who lives off a prostitute’s earnings.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 1 [with object] Seek to obtain (something) without paying for it or doing anything in return: I ponced a ciggie off her... 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 ponce cigarettes off Davo. I lost interest when The Bride went to ponce a sword off the Sushi Guy. 2 [no object] Live off a prostitute’s earnings: he was arrested for poncing on the girl... Vice squads have been disbanded all over the country and pimping (or poncing as it was once known) has proliferated. For Phoenix’s interviewees poncing meant being trapped into prostitution and accepting the idea of prostitution as a trap that could not be escaped. Phrasal verbs ponce about/around ponce something up Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from the verb pounce1. Rhymes bonce, ensconce, nonce, response, sconce Ponce2 /ˈpônsā / An industrial port in southern Puerto Rico, on the Caribbean Sea; population 144,500 (est. 2009).
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