According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
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
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
23 May 2025
THOUGHTFULLY
(adverb) showing consideration and thoughtfulness; “he had thoughtfully brought with him some food to share”
Coffee Trivia
