Word Study
ponce
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ponce has 2 senses
- ponce(n = noun.person) Array - a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses; Array is a kind of adult male, man
- ponce(n = noun.person) fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce); Array is a kind of offender, wrongdoer
has particulars: procuress, whoremaster, whoremonger
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ponce, n. & v. Brit. sl.
--n.
1 a man who lives off a prostitute's earnings; a pimp.
2 offens. a homosexual; an effeminate man.
--v.intr. act as a ponce.
--n.
1 a man who lives off a prostitute's earnings; a pimp.
2 offens. a homosexual; an effeminate man.
--v.intr. act as a ponce.
Idiom
ponce about move about effeminately or ineffectually.
Derivative
poncey adj. (also poncy) (in sense 2 of n.).
Etymology
perh. f. POUNCE(1)
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