Pony vs False - What's the difference?
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Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.
(regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
* 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood ,
(Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.
(UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
(US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
To lead (a horse) from another horse.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun pony
is pony (horse) or pony can be bangs, fringe (haircut ).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.pony
English
(wikipedia pony)Etymology 1
1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).Noun
(ponies)- Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
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- I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.
- ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
- ‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* dog and pony show * play the ponies * polo pony * pony and trap * pony chaise * pony engine * pony express * pony glass * pony keg * pony truck * pony truss * pony up * Shetland ponyVerb
Etymology 2
Shortened from (pony and trap), rhyming with (crap)Adjective
(er)false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}