poonce n.
1. (Aus.) a procurer; thus a general insult.
Register (Adelaide) 11 Oct. 8/3: My cheese ran into punse Bell the ither [sic] day, and the first thing he said was I had a fellow who would go bail for your husband, but I did not know where to find you. | ||
Sport (Adelaide) 10 July 4/4: Herb McA didn’t look a big poonce at all when Eric K beat him for his girl . | ||
Front Room Boys Scene xi: Shut your big gob, you pie-faced poonce. | ||
Rooted III iii: Hey poonce features! Are you there? | ||
Signs of Crime 197: Punce Variation, by pronunciation of, ‘ponce’. | ||
Lingo 104: The following general terms of insult were in common use among [...] Sydney schoolgirls in the late 1970s: trog, dapto, mang, poonce (continuing an earlier usage) and nerd, the last being still in use with this age group. |
2. (Aus.) a catamite; a male homosexual prostitute.
Williamstown Advertiser (Vic.) 5 Jan. 3/4: They went into the billiard room where they saw John Edward Hewitt, who said they were a pair of ‘b—— poonces’. | ||
Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 57: PUNCE (pronounced with a short vowel as in ‘book’): An effeminate man, a homosexual. | ||
Words: The New Dict. 645/2: punce n. An effeminate male. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular 111: a male prostitute [...] poonce (pej, Brit). [Ibid.] 165: homosexual [...] ponce [punce] (Aus & Brit sl). | ||
Cop It Sweet 72: POONCE: Effeminate male homosexual. Sometimes PONCE. | ||
Maledicta III:2 220: The boys are hustlers, models, rent, ponces, though The Queens’ Vernacular may be wrong in more than the spelling poonces because I always thought a ponce was a pimp and not a pee-pee, crack salesman, kid on the game, etc. | ||
Lingo 114: While gay has become the accepted mainstream term, the vernacular is still full of other, less positive terms, such as [...] ponce (also meaning pimp, punce) and the now totally out-moded homo. |
3. the vagina.
Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 57: PUNCE (pronounced with a short vowel as in ‘book’) [...] (2). The female pudend. | ||
5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | ||
Rooted (1973) 89: Poonce features! Are you there? |