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Vonce
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- 1 Pronunciation spelling of once, imitative of German-accented or non-native English. alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
"I vonce lov'd a maid, and vished much to tell her / I vanted to make her Mrs. Sam Veller"
- 1 Marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug. US, countable, slang, uncountable
- 2 Sexual activity. slang
"Like we first met' and Checking in a lot of Hotels with those Twin Beds, my my how Lucille + I suffered every time that we did the Vonce (sex) you know?"
- 3 A jerk; an unpleasant person. US, slang
"That "Legs," I hate it and the little vonce knows it, so of course he's hittin me where I live, my lousy bowlegs."
- 4 Something or someone small and annoying. Used more as a term of endearment than a criticism. countable, uncountable
"Last week, I was coming home in the secluded dark of the just-post-solstice Hudson River Greenway. I vaguely make out a... well, a vonce would be the correct term. A little annoying thing in my mirror."
- 5 A state in which the musician produces great improvisation intuitively. slang
"Re-hearing the Curtis Mayfield-avant soul of "Judgment", the proto-acid jazz groove vonce of "Tune Up", the neo-soul slow drag prophecy of "Rosemary Blue" (penned by Neil Sedaka!) 25 years later, I know now that I totally slept on a most seminal pop vocal album."
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish וואַנץ (vants, “bedbug”), by analogy to the English slang term roach. Attested since the 1950s.
Uncertain; possibly from German Schwanz (“tail, slang for penis”) or Yiddish שוואַנץ (shvants, “penis”).
Uncertain; Possibly either of the etymologies listed above. Attested since the 1960s.
See once.
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