PONCE

pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce

(noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

ponce

(noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

ponce (plural ponces)

(UK, pejorative slang) A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.

synonym of kept man. [1859]

synonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver. [1872]

(British, Australian, Irish, pejorative slang) synonym of poof: an effeminate male homosexual; any similarly effeminate man. [1932]

Synonyms

• (kept man): cicisbeo, sugar baby

• (pimp): fleshmonger, hustler, mack; see also pimp

• (effeminate male homosexual): fairy, nelly; see also male homosexual

• (effeminate man): cockney, girlyman, quiche-eater; see also effeminate man

Verb

ponce (third-person singular simple present ponces, present participle poncing, simple past and past participle ponced)

(British, slang) To act as a pimp.

(British, slang) Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something.

(British, pejorative) To behave in a posh or effeminate manner.

(British, slang) To borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.

Synonyms

• (to act as a pimp): hustle, whore out; see also pimp out

Anagrams

• Copen, NOPEC

Proper noun

Ponce

a city and municipality in the south of Puerto Rico.

Anagrams

• Copen, NOPEC

Source: Wiktionary



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