vonce
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something or someone small and annoying. Used more as a term of endearment than a criticism.
Countable; Uncountable
adv
Pronunciation spelling of once, imitative of German-accented or non-native English.
Example Sentences
- "Last week, I was coming home in the secluded dark of the just-post-solstice Hudson River Greenway. I vaguely make out a... well, a vonce would be the correct term. A little annoying thing in my mirror."
- "“Promise you'll come and visit your tanteh soon or I won't let you go, my little vonce!” said his aunt, tightening her hold."
- "Like we first met' and Checking in a lot of Hotels with those Twin Beds, my my how Lucille + I suffered every time that we did the Vonce (sex) you know?"
- "When you ain't sharin' sex with the one you love, you jest havin' sex, or, like the young folk say, you doin' the nasty. Doin' the vonce, what they called it back in my day."
- "... Soldiers, but whatever it stood for, it was a place where we could drink our rum, smoke our cigarettes, and “do the vonce”—a nickname for making love."
- "Re-hearing the Curtis Mayfield-avant soul of "Judgment", the proto-acid jazz groove vonce of "Tune Up", the neo-soul slow drag prophecy of "Rosemary Blue" (penned by Neil Sedaka!) 25 years later, I know now that I totally slept on a most seminal pop vocal album."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: וואַנץ, Schwanz, שוואַנץ
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable