Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Intended to impress others, particularly in an excessively refined or ostentatious manner; affected, pretentious. · Chiefly of a male person: effeminate; gay, homosexual.
From ponce (“kept man; pimp; effeminate man; homosexual man”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
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