[
US
/ˈpoʊˌni/
]
[ UK /pˈəʊni/ ]
[ UK /pˈəʊni/ ]
NOUN
- any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
-
an informal term for a racehorse
he liked to bet on the ponies - a range horse of the western United States
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
How To Use pony In A Sentence
- She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
- Abbreviation hyponyms that have a plural form ending with ‘s’ can all be put into a single list.
- In many instances, there are abbreviations for the hyponym, but no abbreviation for the more general term.
- Their eponymous album is out now. Times, Sunday Times
- After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
- Naomi was given a pony and taught to ride side-saddle.
- Roger appeared with a plump stubborn Welsh pony, attached to a funny little cart which he gayly informed them was a "gingle. The Spanish Chest
- Griffons were pony-sized, quadrupedal avians with such a reputation for savagery that they had been banned from all the Northern mountain provinces.
- It showed an old Sikh warrior on a pony, glaring at the camera fiercely, a huge spear in his hand.
- Pony-mads will adore it and how strange that books like this are just never but never reviewed in the mainstream press. Fly-By-Night
