Definitions For Poncy

Adjective

(chiefly, Britain, derogatory, informal) Of, relating to, or (supposedly) characteristic of a ponce. from 19th c. intend, intended to impress others, particularly in an excessively refined#adjective, refined or ostentatious manner; affected#adjective, affected, pretentious. , year=1988, year_published=2003, section=part I (Charade), page=100, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOYti0ieAKYC&pg=PA100, isbn=978-0-7022-3388-3, passage=I mean, you could tell he was a Pom all right, but he was trying, he didn't sound so poncy any more, [...] , year2=1997, page2=32, pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=3s7nAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32, isbn2=978-0-7475-3387-0, passage=And in his ponciest voice he said, 'I do most humbly apologise.' , year=2004, page=42, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTGxX_4gNb8C&pg=PA42, isbn=978-0-595-33718-7, passage=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!) , location=London, publisher=Fourth Estate, , year=2006, isbn=978-0-00-723175-1, location2=New York, N.Y., publisher2=, year2=2007, pages2=20–21, pageurl2=https://archive.org/details/londonstani00malk/page/20/mode/1up, isbn2=978-0-14-311228-0, passage=You could tell from his long hair, grungy clothes, the poncey novel an newspaper on his dashboard an 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. , year=2014, page=39, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TV_2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39, isbn=978-1-101-88291-7, passage=I'm not a person who finds meditation a doddle or to whom yoga comes naturally. To tell you the truth, I find the whole business a bit poncey and contrary to the way I used to see myself. Chiefly of a male#adjective, male person: effeminate; gay#adjective, gay, homosexual#adjective, homosexual. : : , month=April, year=1976, isbn=978-0-330-25148-8, edition2=paperback, location2=London, publisher2=Pan Books, year2=2016, isbn2=978-1-4472-9908-0, passage=With sudden interest Morse turned up the volume [of the radio]: the voice was donnish, slightly effeminate. [...] 'Shert erp, you poncy twit!' he said aloud, got out of bed, pulled on his clothes, walked downstairs and dialled the speaking clock. , title=The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction, location=New York, N.Y., publisher=, year=1990, year_published=1999 (2010 printing), page=86, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=19HCbA7a-dcC&pg=PT103, isbn=978-0-307-56101-5, passage=It was Johannesburg's only regular gay bar in those days, and not even a proper bar. [...] Since apartheid was a way of life, only the ponciest of African queens, only the butchest of Indian dykes could appear—noncitizens acceptable, in this underworld that was deviant but uncourageous, so long as they were no more than bedding material. , year2=2011, isbn2=978-1-4091-3714-6, passage=After lunch, Her mother suddenly produced a poncy lace dress out of her bag and announced, 'This is the family christening dress, which you were christened in,' etc., etc. [...] Looking at it close to, I saw that it was even poncier than the other one. ’s Killer, location=Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicester, publisher=Matador, year=2009, page=1, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnOgwMBmdakC&pg=PA1, isbn=978-1-84876-131-5, passage=None of the gallery staff took any notice of a gangly, stick-thin, nose-picking, acne-faced youth wearing a plastic imitation leather jacket, winkle-picker shoes and a greasy hairstyle. We all looked like that in those days, except those poncey Mods.

Alternative forms

poncey

Derived terms

poncified poncily ponciness

Translations

intended to impress others, particularly in an ostentatious way, affected, pretentious effeminate gay, homosexual, gay, homosexual

Etymology

From ponce + y + adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’''.<ref>R:OED Online

Anagrams

pycno-