Swoop vs Ponce - What's the difference?
swoop | ponce |
to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
* Dryden
* Glanvill
To pass with pomp; to sweep.
an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
an act of rushedly doing something
(music) passing quickly from one note to the next
(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.
As verbs the difference between swoop and ponce
is that swoop is to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive while ponce is .As a noun swoop
is an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.swoop
English
Verb
(en-verb) (intransitive)- The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
- The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
- There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
- A hawk swoops a chicken.
- And now at last you came to swoop it all.
- The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
- (Drayton)
Noun
(en noun)- The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
- One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop .
- Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop . – John Webster