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This is a rude British word, not a classroom word. In its harsher use, people throw it at men, or at clothes and manners, that they mock as “typical of gay men.” That use is offensive, and you should not copy it. Though actually, many British speakers now also stick it on anything they find too fancy, too pretty, or too carefully styled — a poncy restaurant, poncy language, poncy décor — without always meaning a gay insult. It is still , still very informal, and still easy to hurt with. It comes from ponce plus -y.
娘砲的(英式粗話,帶歧視;有時只是嫌東西太矯情、太華麗)
組成From ponce + -y (an ending that means ‘having that quality’).
同家族的字
- poncethe older British noun this adjective is built from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Poncyname
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A surname.
poncyadj/ˈpɒnsi/
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derogatoryinformalOf, relating to, or characteristic of a ponce.
- I mean, you could tell he was a Pom all right, but he was trying, he didn't sound so poncy any more, […]
- And in his ponciest voice he said, 'I do most humbly apologise.'
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derogatoryinformalOf, relating to, or characteristic of a ponce.
- With sudden interest Morse turned up the volume [of the radio]: the voice was donnish, slightly effeminate. […] 'Shert erp, you poncy twit!' he said aloud, got out of bed, pulled on his clothes, walked downstairs and dialled the speaking clock.
- It was Johannesburg's only regular gay bar in those days, and not even a proper bar. […] Since apartheid was a way of life, only the ponciest of African queens, only the butchest of Indian dykes could appear—noncitizens acceptable, in this underworld that was deviant but uncourageous, so long as they were no more than bedding material.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。