ponce about/around
— phrasal verb with ponce uk/pɒns/us/pɑːns/verb
(LIKE A WOMAN)
UK offensive If a man ponces about/around, he behaves or dresses more like a woman than like a man:
He was poncing around in a pair of fluffy slippers.
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- fey
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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(NOT HELPFUL)
informal to waste time doing silly things that do not achieve anything or help anyone:
There's no time for poncing around - we need to get these boxes packed by this evening.
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Delaying and wasting time
- ado
- be on ice idiom
- bugger
- bugger about
- bugger sb about
- carry
- hold
- hold sb over
- hold sb/sth back
- hold sb/sth up
- hold up
- ice
- kick
- push
- retardation
- set sth/sb back
- shelve
- sit
- sit on sth
- spin your wheels idiom
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