Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponking
Literary usage of Ponking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"Bat, somehow, I can never make her laugh os ponking does. As we are constantly
meeting him about, I appeal to him privately to brighten up a little. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw, John White Masters (1887)
"Poon [puon], v. to strike or beat. Pouk [pouk], s. a sty on the eye (lit. a pock).
ponking, s. a weak, sickly person. Cf. puking in Shakespeare. ..."
3. A Manual of Modern History ...: With a History of the Colonies Founded by by William Cooke Taylor (1851)
"How did the feudal lords treat the ponking ? tiffs? 38. To what are the vices of
this period attributable ? 39. The great error of the pontiffs ? ..."
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