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PONCE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ponce" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ponce"):

procuress (a woman pimp)

whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ponce" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

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