vonce

noun

1. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)Marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.
2. (countable, uncountable)Something or someone small and annoying. Used more as a term of endearment than a criticism.

   “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.”

   ““Promise you'll come and visit your tanteh soon or I won't let you go, my little vonce!” said his aunt, tightening her hold.”

3. (slang)Sexual activity.

   “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?”

   “When you ain't sharin' sex with the one you love, you jest havin' sex, or, like the young folk say, you doin' the nasty. Doin' the vonce, what they called it back in my day.”

   “... Soldiers, but whatever it stood for, it was a place where we could drink our rum, smoke our cigarettes, and “do the vonce”—a nickname for making love.”

4. (slang)A state in which the musician produces great improvisation intuitively.

   “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.”

   “"Man, when I was with Basie," he'd say, "we'd come up on the vonce, and the man would put the ding-ding here."”

   “Blowin' out here would be more like wailing into the heavenly vonce, rather then huffing and puffing changes in a dark cellar.”

   “Feeling his vonce before the soulfully enspirited Baltimore congregation, Gordon counts off the tempo for “Blues Up and Down,” the ritualistic set-closer, “roaring out the blocks hotter than a bowl of three-alarm chili, expatiating inventive verse after verse until the total rings up to an astounding 40,” in the words of Hollis.”

5. (US, slang)A jerk; an unpleasant person.

   “That "Legs," I hate it and the little vonce knows it, so of course he's hittin me where I live, my lousy bowlegs.”

   “Is that strict, you fucking vonce? Sorry to use such language in front of a woman”

   “That little vonce – that cockroach – shouldn't be anywhere near my place.”

adv

1. (alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of once, imitative of German-accented or non-native English.

   “I vonce lov'd a maid, and vished much to tell her / I vanted to make her Mrs. Sam Veller”

   “Shoost tells me vonce, what kind of emigrashun talk you tinks it pe to say, coom now to dis country und vork, und vork, put pe so pig a fool ash to leave your appetite pehint ! Ish dat you tink for vat de revolooshun vas?”

   “The ship it must pe going vonce again now. You vill pe again careful that the bottom of the sea it does not come up to hit her und stick her fast vonce?”