Usually means: Affectedly elegant or pretentious behavior.
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  1. poncy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poncy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. poncy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Poncy, poncy: Wordnik
  5. poncy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. poncy: Wiktionary
  7. poncy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. poncy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. poncy: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  (chiefly British, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, informal) Of, relating to, or (supposedly) characteristic of a ponce.
adjective:  Intended to impress others, particularly in an excessively refined or ostentatious manner; affected, pretentious.
adjective:  Chiefly of a male person: effeminate; gay, homosexual.

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