poncingn.
/ˈpɒnsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɑnsɪŋ/ derogatory slang (chiefly British).
1. Living off another person; spec. pimping.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > living on earnings of prostitute
poncing1936
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iv. 45 Used to say that he'd been done for kites, but everyone reckoned it was for poncing.
1939 D. Thomas Let. Dec. (1987) 433 In the intervals between Fitzrophobia, attempted 19th century dissipation, artgraft, amateur poncing, I condescended to muck provincially about.
1955 ‘C. H. Rolph’ Women of Streets 115 The man was sentenced to two years for his third poncing offence.
1973 K. Giles File on Death vi. 150 Part-time poncing as well, but he thought bookmaking was more honest.
1986 T. Murphy Conversat. on Homecoming 60 This eejit, this bollocks, with his auctioneering and tax-collecting and travel-agenting and property dealing and general greedy unprincipled poncing.
1991 FHM Feb. 140/3 Poncing is also an offence. If legalisation means setting up brothels, where would we do it?
2. Affected, showy, or effeminate behaviour. Frequently with about, around.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun]
affectation1548
affection1570
phantastry1656
stilt1735
fal-lal1775
coxcombality1785
meemaw1790
posture-making1797
attitudinarianism1803
attitudinizing1812
piminy1819
stiltishness1824
niminy-piminyism1840
gyvera1866
notion1866
attitudinization1871
effectism1871
jam1882
chichi1908
poncing1969
pseudery1972
1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning vi. 57 No poncing about, no dressing-up or one-shot gimmicking.
1993 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 25 Apr. 9 In the middle of all this poncing around, you know perfectly well that you're the same bloke.
1998 R. Hill On Beulah Height (1999) iv.x. 349 He was the least likely of the CID hierarchy to authorize her ‘poncing about’..on her own line of enquiry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
poncingadj.
/ˈpɒnsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɑnsɪŋ/ derogatory slang (chiefly British).
That acts like a ponce.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adjective] > living on earnings of prostitute
poncing1977
1977 M. Kenyon Rapist v. 52 Poncing rapist English..thinking they owned the place.
1988 M. Gee Grace iv. 49 Fucking obscene disgusting poncing motherfucking tart.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 154 He was never a ponce, yer man, that was one thing, he wasnay a poncing bastard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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