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- noun UK, slang A
pimp . - noun UK, pejorative A
posh oreffeminate person. - verb UK, slang To act as a
pimp . - verb UK, slang Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something.
- verb UK, pejorative To behave in a
posh oreffeminate manner. - verb UK, slang To
borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.
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Examples
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The word "ponce" (which has now come to mean a pimp) and the adjective "poncey" (effeminate) also derive from "pansy".
Hillary Endorser NC Gov Easley uses anti-Gay slur in Endorsement Speech 2008
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As I predicted, a bunch of meat-headed Tory voters are shitting all over this documentary, calling the reporter a "ponce" and various other bits of liberal-bashing.www. arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/... t = 180. html
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The rest of us might have carried on in our customary state of consumer-drone bliss, unaware of the possible benefits of French hegemony, were it not for a new advert by none other than renowned ponce and Francophile Wes Anderson.
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She has no share points, and she is the only one who can get Dryden to actually write instead of just ponce about.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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The only exception to the dress code was that mooning ponce, (the “real”) Zonar.
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The rest of us might have carried on in our customary state of consumer-drone bliss, unaware of the possible benefits of French hegemony, were it not for a new advert by none other than renowned ponce and Francophile Wes Anderson.
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What part of “kiss my ass you nimby little ponce” was not understood?
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She has no share points, and she is the only one who can get Dryden to actually write instead of just ponce about.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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If an architect tries to express ideas, "you're a ponce, arrogant".
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Surely today's 'magnificent' is a 1980s 'doing a good job', a 1960s 'not bad for a fat lad' and a 1930s 'stop showing off you bloody ponce'.
Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report 2012
arby commented on the word ponce
1872, slang term, chiefly British, originally "a pimp, a man supported by women" (pouncey in same sense is attested from 1861), of unknown origin, perhaps from Fr. pensionnaire "boarder, lodger, person living without working." Meaning "male homosexual" first attested 1932 in Auden.
July 27, 2007
dailyword commented on the word ponce
Holmes called Watson this during Watson's bachelor party when he was mad that his other friends didn't show up.
June 26, 2012