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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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