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ponce about/aroundBritish informal Behave in an affected or ineffectual way: I ponced around in front of the mirror...- 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 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.
- The last thing we need is another generation of political committees, poncing around the country.
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