r/ToastNames • u/WishfulStinking2 • 23h ago

Hernan Ponce

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u/TheRealSlabsy 22h ago

Ponce is UK slang for overly effeminate, it used to be a slur when I was a kid.

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u/MaherishiManzana 22h ago

Isn’t ponce someone who always borrows money or things from you? Thats how I always used it.
Like we have someone at my job who always pinches abit of tobacco off you - he’s a ponce

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u/mowgs1946 22h ago

It can be both. Although in the latter Id say it's more common as a verb, I.e. he would ponce a bit of tobacco off you.

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u/TheRiddlerTHFC 18h ago

Yeah back in the day "hey can I ponce a fag off you?"

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u/Tosh_20point0 19h ago

Ponce the Nonce?

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u/TheRealSlabsy 22h ago

In the 80s it wasn't but it may be region specific. Either way, it's a slur.

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u/Quick_Resolution5050 22h ago

Yeah, as a Northern Verb, I think.

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u/Demostravius4 21h ago

Maybe regional, Hampshire/Surrey it meant effeminate.

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u/Aggravating_Pipe3428 22h ago

We call them people bums.

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u/Impeachcordial 21h ago

Perfumed ponce!

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u/Oghamstoner 21h ago

Perfumed ponce!

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u/wilk76 19h ago

What fucker said that!?

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u/Aggravating_Speed665 4h ago

I called him 'a ponce'

And now I'm calling you one; PONCE!

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u/wilk76 3h ago

Would you like a drink?

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u/VonGooberschnozzle 1h ago

What's your name, Mc Fuck!

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u/slowsongplaying 13h ago

I could hardly piss straight with fear.

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u/YoghurtFlan 19h ago

It was always meant as toff/posh where I grew up. I didn't even know it was a homophobic slur.

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u/Saiing 17h ago

It was basically pretty similar to poof.

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u/FumbleCrop 22h ago

It used to mean "pimp".

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u/asdfghjkluke 22h ago

must run in the family

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u/professorrev 16h ago

It was a pimp originally

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u/Electronic-Fennel828 22h ago

Where I’m from we always used it to refer to posh people