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noun
An unoriginal or uninspired idea; a cliché.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, rare
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History
Borrowed from French poncif (“cliché, stereotype”), from French poncif (“stencil”), from poncer (“to copy with pouncing paper”) + -if, from ponce (“pumice”) + -er, from Late Latin pōmex (“pumice”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”).
