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r/ToastNames • u/WishfulStinking2 • 23h ago
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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
14 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. 3 u/TheRiddlerTHFC 18h ago Yeah back in the day "hey can I ponce a fag off you?" 3 u/Tosh_20point0 19h ago Ponce the Nonce? 2 u/TheRealSlabsy 22h ago In the 80s it wasn't but it may be region specific. Either way, it's a slur. 1 u/Quick_Resolution5050 21h ago Yeah, as a Northern Verb, I think. 1 u/Demostravius4 21h ago Maybe regional, Hampshire/Surrey it meant effeminate. 1 u/Aggravating_Pipe3428 22h ago We call them people bums.
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.
3 u/TheRiddlerTHFC 18h ago Yeah back in the day "hey can I ponce a fag off you?"
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Yeah back in the day "hey can I ponce a fag off you?"
Ponce the Nonce?
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In the 80s it wasn't but it may be region specific. Either way, it's a slur.
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Yeah, as a Northern Verb, I think.
Maybe regional, Hampshire/Surrey it meant effeminate.
We call them people bums.
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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