Pony vs Unicorn - What's the difference?
pony | unicorn |
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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(rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland.
(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
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Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
The larva of a unicorn moth.
The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
A howitzer.
As nouns the difference between pony and unicorn
is that pony is any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands while unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.As a verb pony
is to lead (a horse) from another horse.As an adjective pony
is of little worth.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)unicorn
English
(wikipedia unicorn)Noun
(en noun)- God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.