pony – English noun declension

English noun forms of pony

Noun: pony
Singularpony
Pluralponies

Sample Sentences

  • The pony won three times in one month and as I had backed it on each occasion I collected a ‘bank’ of over £400. [1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 153:]
  • 1879, “Some Queer Interviews: Interview with a Pony of Beer”, Puck, Vol. 5–6, p. 435
  • ‘I’m on the inside track,’ said a pony of beer as it went galloping down a man’s throat. [1885, New York Journal, August]
  • Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length. [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 193:]
  • I did not even know what a ‘pony’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ponies of beer.
  • ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
  • ‘Naw - ponies’ said I. [2010, Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood, page 283:]
  • “You said a pony,” interposed Clavering; “my dear fellow, you said a pony, and I’ll be eternally obliged to you; and I’ll not take it as a gift—only as a loan, and pay you back in six months. I take my oath, I will.”
  • “Well—well—there’s the money, Sir Francis Clavering. […] Here’s five-and-twenty for you. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 61, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]
  • She kept the dates written down in her Latin 'pony', so she didn't have to bother about who it was. [1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 104:]
  • His hair is a semilong dull red and pulled back in a sloppy pony at the base of his neck, and his face is riddled with small freckles and grease, but out here I can see personal hygiene isn't exactly at the top of the priority list. [2012, Amlynn Smith, Lost and Found, page 18:]
  • How many ponies are under the hood?
  • Do the monkey, do the pony / Do the slop, do the boogaloo twist. [1971, “Suicide Song”, in Loudon Wainwright III (lyrics), Album II, performed by Loudon Wainwright III:]
  • He suggested a Rose Ballet in which he would use the G. V. Follies chorus girls, chiefly the ponies and mediums. [1941, Thoda Cocroft, Great Names and how They are Made, page 140:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-
4. Proto-Indo-European *polH-on-
5. Proto-Italic *polnos?
6. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-?
7. Proto-Indo-European *put-der.?
8. Latin pullus
9. Late Latin pullanus
10. Old French poulenetder.?
11. Scots powny
12. English pony
13. From Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus. First attested in 1659. Doublet of foal and pullus.
14. Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

Verbs referencing "pony"

Dutch Nouns pony, German Nouns Pony, Finnish Nouns poni, Irish Nouns pónaí, Hungarian Nouns póni, Portuguese Nouns pónei, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns ponni, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns ponni.