noncey

adj

British

affected, pretentious, overly respectable. The word is probably an alteration of ponc(e)y, perhaps influenced by nancy boy or nonce.

► 'There was a time in my life when this sort of noncey Robert Robertson thing would have made me puke, but I must be get-ting old or something.' (Zoe Heller, Sunday Times magazine, 12 November 1995)