p 3 o 1 n 1 c 3 e 1
5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses
noun someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
originUncertain, but probably an aphetic form of French alphonse (“kept man”), from the male given name Alphonse. Also sometimes connected to pounce or French pensionnaire (“pensioner, person living without working”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0