ponce

plural ponces

1. A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.
   1. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangSynonym of kept man.First known use 1859

      Synonyms: kept man, cicisbeo, sugar baby

   2. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangSynonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver.First known use 1872

      Synonyms: pimp, fleshmonger

2. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangSynonym of poof: an effeminate gay man; any similarly effeminate man.First known use 1932

   Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce.

   2000, Sexy Beast (motion picture), spoken by Don Logan (Ben Kingsley)

   Synonyms: poof, fairy, cockney

present singular third person ponces · participle present poncing · participle past ponced · past ponced

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangTo act as a pimp.

   Synonyms: hustle

2. CommonwealthIrelandUKbroadlyderogatoryslangTo try to get rid of or sell something.
3. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangTo borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.
4. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangTo cadge.
5. CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangTo behave in a posh or effeminate manner.

   The interior was warm and dim, cluttered with flying brass pigs and poncing felt mannequins.

   1992, Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide

plural ponces

1. CommonwealthIrelandLouisianaUKderogatoryslangThe stomach of a pig, especially when stuffed as chaudin (a Louisianan food).

   STUFFED "PONCE" 1 small hog ponce 3 lbs . ground pork 1 large bell pepper, chopped 1 large onion head chopped […]

   1973, Mercedes Vidrine, Louisiana Lagniappe, Claitor's Law Books and Publishing, →ISBN, page 23

   1 more example

   […] before Escoffier and the five mother sauces, even before Brillat-Savarin, French Acadian cooks in South Louisiana kitchens prepared ponce.

   2016, George Graham, Acadiana Table: Cajun and Creole Home Cooking from the Heart of Louisiana, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 258

1. A city and municipality in the south of Puerto Rico, United States.