Ponce

Pon·ce  (pns, -s)

A city of southern Puerto Rico southwest of San Juan. It is an agricultural trade and distribution center. Population: 181,000.

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ponce [pɒns] Derogatory slang chiefly Brit

n

1. a man given to ostentatious or effeminate display in manners, speech, dress, etc.

2. another word for pimp¹

vb

(intr; often foll by around or about) to act like a ponce

[from Polari, from Spanish pu(n)to male prostitute or French pront prostitute]

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Ponce (Spanish) [ˈpɔnθe]

n

(Placename) a port in S Puerto Rico, on the Caribbean: the second largest town on the island; settled in the 16th century. Pop.: 155 038 (2000)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ponce - a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 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
	2.	ponce - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer England - a division of the United Kingdom offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law procuress - a woman pimp whoremaster, whoremonger - a pimp who procures whores

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ponce (Offensive slang, chiefly Brit.)

noun

1. pimp, procurer, pander, bawd (archaic) They don't have a `ponce' - the street name for a pimp.

2. fop, dandy, swell, beau, popinjay, coxcomb (archaic) He called him a `perfumed ponce'.

Translations

ponce [pɒns] (Brit) N

1. (= pimp) → proxeneta m, chulo m (Sp)

2. (pej) (= homosexual) → marica m

ponce about ponce around VI + ADV (Brit) → chulear

ponce [ˈpɒns] n (British)

(= pimp) → maquereau m >

→ chochotte f

ponce (Brit inf)

n (= pimp) → Loddel m (inf), → Lude m (sl); (pej: = homosexual) → Tunte f (inf)

vi to ponce for somebody → jds Zuhälter sein

ponce [pɒns] (fam)

1. vi (pimp) → fare il magnaccia

2. n

a. (pimp) → magnaccia m inv

b. (Brit) (pej) (effeminate man) → damerino

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ponce [pɒns] (fam)

1. vi (pimp) → fare il magnaccia

2. n

a. (pimp) → magnaccia m inv

b. (Brit) (pej) (effeminate man) → damerino