Ponce vs Prince - What's the difference?
ponce | prince |
(British, slang) 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.
(British, pejorative) A posh or effeminate person.
(British, slang) To act as a pimp.
(British, slang) Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something.
(British, pejorative) To behave in a posh or effeminate manner.
(British, slang) To borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.
*, I.42:
*:Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin, 2010, p.600:
*:By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.411:
*:If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
(obsolete) A female monarch.
*Camden
*:Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
:He is a prince among men.
The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
*2011 , Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian , 26 June:
*:He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
:Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
*2011 , Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian , 16 October:
*:Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince ’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.
A common name of the mushroom Agaricus augustus .
A type of court card used in Tarot cards, the equivalent to the Jack.