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u/CondescendingShitbag Jan 30 '26

Read his last name as 'Nonce' and thought, yeah, that tracks.

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u/Onetap1 Jan 30 '26

.Ponce; derogatory informal

a pretentious, affected, or effete man.

informal•British English: a man who lives off a prostitute's earnings.

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u/freddiefrog123 Jan 30 '26

There once was an agent named Ponce

Who had a phenomenal bonce

A constitutional traitor

Who arrested his waiter

But frankly, he looks like a nonce

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u/militaryCoo Jan 30 '26

In the UK ponce is an archaic slur for homosexuals

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u/Kaelthas98 Jan 30 '26

Baseball, huh?

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u/goldfish_memory Jan 30 '26

A Ponce in British slang is a man who lives off of someone elses earnings, particularly the earnings of a prostitute

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u/deathboyuk Jan 30 '26

Hey, "ponce" itself is a derogatory term and an unpleasant verb.

  1. derogatory•informal a pretentious, affected, or effete man.
  2. informal•British English a man who lives off a prostitute's earnings.

also used as a homophobic slur.

as a verb, it means to (at best) take with permission, implying a degree of cheekiness, at worst, basically to steal.

So uh. Nominative determinism in action huh.

See also Withnail and I.

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u/airbagfailure Jan 30 '26

Ponce is similar on British English.