noun, verb
noun (BrE, informal)
1 a man who controls one or several prostitutes and the money that they earn
SYNPIMP
2 an offensive word for a man whose appearance and behaviour seem similar to a woman's, or who is thought to be HOMOSEXUAL
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
ponce about / around (usually used in the progressive tenses) (BrE, informal) to waste time when you are doing sth so that you achieve nothing; to do silly things in a way that looks ridiculous
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ponce is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ponce a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ponce is tagged as verb.
Does ponce appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ponce appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
