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fancy man en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(UK, dated, slang) Synonym of ponce (“a pimp hired by a prostitute”).
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(dated) A man who is fancied: a sweetheart.
DS Gavin Troy: Why was that?
DCI Tom Barnaby: He says he has no idea.
Troy: Bollocks. I bet he found out he was Kitty's fancyman.
1998 March 29, Caroline Graham, “Death of a Hollow Man”, in Midsomer Murders:Alexis was never my fancy-man.
1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter VII, in Have His Carcase:
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(obsolete) A man who fancies something: a fan.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy, man.
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Synonyms
ponce