poncy
/ˈpɑnsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "I mean, you could tell he was a Pom all right, but he was trying, he didn't sound so poncy any more, […]"
- "And in his ponciest voice he said, 'I do most humbly apologise.'"
- "Get off my land. Don't come back without a search warrant and by God it had better be signed by someone in authority, not your poncy boss."
- "He even helps make eggs Benedict, his namesake. Well, he's called Benedict, Anna's slightly poncey choice, but no one's ever called him that."
- "We found a decent guesthouse to stay in and then went to a poncey restaurant for food (‘poncey’ meaning that meals and drinks for two cost 3 dollars instead of 2!)"
- "You could tell from his long hair, grungy clothes, the poncey novel an newspaper on his dashboard an Coldplay album playin in his car that he was a muthafuckin coconut. So white he was inside his brown skin, he probably talked like those gorafied desis who read the news on TV. Probably even more poncier than the way how I used to talk. An think. Probly."
Etymology
From ponce (“kept man; pimp; effeminate man; homosexual man”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɑnsi/
- British English: /ˈpɒnsi/
Usage
- British usage
- Derogatory
- Informal