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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ponce

slang term, chiefly British, 1872, originally "a pimp, a man supported by women" (pouncey in same sense is attested from 1861), of unknown origin, perhaps from French pensionnaire "boarder, lodger, person living without working." Meaning "male homosexual" first attested 1932 in Auden [OED]. Also as a verb. Related: Poncey.

Wiktionary
ponce

n. 1 (context British slang English) A man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard and driver. A ponce is different from a pimp in being the prostitute's employee, not the employer. 2 (context British pejorative English) A posh or effeminate person. vb. 1 (context British slang English) To act as a pimp. 2 (context British slang English) Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. 3 (context British pejorative English) To behave in a posh or effeminate manner. 4 (context British slang English) To borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.

WordNet
ponce

n. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man]

Gazetteer
Ponce -- U.S. Municipio in Puerto Rico
Population (2000): 186475
Housing Units (2000): 66471
Land area (2000): 114.721196 sq. miles (297.126521 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 78.884559 sq. miles (204.310060 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 193.605755 sq. miles (501.436581 sq. km)
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.022451 N, 66.611756 W
Headwords:
Ponce
Ponce, PR
Ponce Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR
Wikipedia
Ponce

Ponce may refer to:

  • Ponce (surname)
  • Ponce, Puerto Rico, a city in Puerto Rico
  • USS Ponce, several ships of the US Navy
  • Chaudin, a Cajun meat dish prepared in a pig's stomach
Ponce (surname)

Ponce is a surname or part of a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Usage examples of "ponce".

It was fifty years ago that I encountered these marvelous people, when I sailed with his excellency the illustrious Don Juan Ponce de Leon on his famous and disastrous voyage in quest of what is wrongly called the Fountain of Youth.

Island of Boriquena, Juan Ponce de Leon, sent forth two caravels to seek the Islands of Boyuca in which the Indians affirmed there to be a fountain or spring whose water is of such marvelous virtue, that when it is drunk it makes old men young again.

But I tell you that what Don Juan Ponce was seeking was not strictly speaking a Fountain of Youth at all, but rather a Fountain that offered a benefit of a very much more intimate kind.

It was when we were in the island of Hispaniola that we first heard of this wonderful Fountain, Don Juan Ponce and I.

Don Juan Ponce, a true nobleman and a man of high and elegant thoughts, was governor then in the province of Higuey of that island, which was ruled at that time by Don Nicolas de ovando, successor to the great Admiral Cristobal Colon.

Don Juan Ponce was curious about the great virility of this cacique, and one day he sent a certain Aurelio Herrera to visit him in his village.

Nor was Don Juan Ponce in need of any such cure for himself, I assure you, for in the year 1504 he was just thirty years old, a lusty and aggressive man of fiery and restless spirit, and red-haired as well, and you know what is said about the virility of red-haired men.

So it was not to heal our own debilities that Don Juan Ponce and I longed to find this wonderful Fountain, for of such shameful debilities we had none at all, he and I.

We did not go at once in search of the Fountain because word came to Don Juan Ponce in Hispaniola that the neighboring island of Borinquen was rich in gold, and thereupon he applied to Governor Ovando for permission to go there and conquer it.

Don Juan Ponce already somewhat knew that island, having seen its western coast briefly in 1493 when he was a gentleman volunteer in the fleet of Cristobal Colon, and its beauty had so moved him that he had resolved someday to return and make himself master of the place.

Don Juan Ponce was made governor of Borinquen by royal appointment and for several years the natives remained peaceful and we were able to obtain a great quantity of gold indeed.

Don Juan Ponce fought with all the great valor for which he was renowned, doing tremendous destruction against our pagan enemies.

Don Juan Ponce thereupon returned to Spain and presented himself before King Ferdinand, and told him the tale of the fabulous Fountain that restores manly power.

Swiftly Don Juan Ponce returned to Puerto Rico with the good news of his royal appointment, and on the third day of March of the year of our Lord 1513 we set forth from the Port of San German in three caravels to search for Bimini and its extraordinary Fountain.

I should say at this point that it was a matter of course that Don Juan Ponce should have asked me to take part in the quest for this Fountain.