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ponce
noun- a pimp UK, 1872
- Gabriel knew Mavis was a sucker for ponces. She often had several bludging off her at the one time. — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 92, 1979
- A toothpick traversed his mouth in sync with the restless eye gunning the street, identifying in less time than it took to name the hookers, hustlers, thieves, and thugs; pennyweight ponces and flyweight flimflammers; diddyboppers, deadbeats and dopefiends. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, pp. 12–13, 1990
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 89, 1996
- a despised or unpleasant person UK, 1953
- “ [H]ow could you trust a man who’s stupid enough to trust these ponces, you could see it coming.” and Gerald says “Too fucking true, he was a berk.” — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 10, 1974
- [L]essons in political opportunism and commercial exploitation and they were learned by a nouveau-ponce-class[.] — Irvine Welsh, The Naughty Nineties, p. 14, 1999
- the girls upstairs with the ponces who don’t mind dancing to shit music and talking bollocks. — John King, Human Punk, p. 110, 2000
- an effeminate male AUSTRALIA
- He’d reckon you were a bit of a ponce if you got dressed up for him. — John O’Grady, Aussie Etiket, p. 37, 1971
- If any man deserved a medal it was Frank McBee. Why only a corporal? The old story . . . couldn’t stand being given orders by ponces. — Murray Bail, Holden’s Performance, p. 29, 1988
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