Poncey definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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But nowhere is the food at elBulli anything like the poncey abomination of "fine dining", in which the chef mucks about with incompatible ingredients and serves up something pretentious and disgusting, and whose nauseating and pretentious concoctions are then described at length in a menu as off-putting as the food itself.

—Life and style | guardian.co.uk

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Examples (20)

But I will never forget that I didnâ€ ™ t used to be a poncey tosser. — Dave's Part
It wasn't like I was that involved in it that I was like [puts on poncey voice] "I'm gona change this". — Drowned In Sound // Feed
Having been awarded this evening off and had time to think about all the things I could have, or should have said, and at the risk of sounding poncey, the intercambio is to the language class what Georges Seurat is to Rolph Harris. — Notes from Spain: Travel, Living in Spain, Podcasts, Forum and Photos
Fancy furniture stores are for poncey brats except for when our buddies run them. — Vice Magazine
And then I read your commentary and it made me laugh and I wondered why a post of yours making sport of such poncey commentary should cheer me up so much? — problemchildbride.com Blog