Pony

Ellipsis of My Little Pony, a cartoon media-franchise based on anthropomorphic equines.


alicorn

Term already associated with unicorns and reinterpreted as a blend of Latin āla (“wing”) with unicorn, popularized by Bearing an Hourglass (1984) and other fantasy novels by Piers Anthony.

The Alicorn. He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden. For that steed I would give anything.

1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171:

A silver portal opens in the sky and a^([sic]) ebony alicorn stallion gallops from it the silver tips on his black wings shine in the sun's light.

1999 May 15, Twyligtsky <twyligtsky@aol.comSKYMAGE>, “Re: RP: First appearence!^([sic])”, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals (Usenet), message-ID <19990515145319.05236.00000939@ng-fs1.aol.com>:

Rarity: Why, you've become an alicorn! I didn't even know that was possible.
Pinkie Pie: [wearing a costume horn and wings] Alicorn party!

2013 February 16, M.A. Larson, “Magical Mystery Cure” (16:32), in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, season 3, episode 13, spoken by Rarity and Pinkie Pie (Tabitha St. Germain and Andrea Libman):

(nonstandard) A mythological creature, a mixture of pegasus and unicorn: a winged horse with a single horn on its head.


clopping

en-noun

clopping (countable and uncountable, plural cloppings)

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According to an internal study undertaken by bronies themselves, 19.05 per cent of respondents engaged in clopping.

2013 September 9, Thomas Raethel, “The Mysterious World of Bronies”, in Critic, number 22, University of Otago, page 33:

You prove your ability to procreate by tastefully introducing your Mother to your My Little Pony collection and your fervent love of clopping (Urban Dictionary it) and your amazing fedora hat rack!

2014 May, Brian R., “Top 5: Mother's Day Gifts”, in Desire Magazine, page 19:

And the most uncomfortable question bronies get is about “clopping,” that is, masturbating to pony porn.

2015 March 10, Terrence Smith, “Galloping With the Bronies”, in Valley Advocate:

(My Little Pony fandom slang) The act of masturbating to erotic fanart of My Little Pony characters.


clop

Perhaps from German or Dutch kloppen (“to hit, knock”), from Middle Dutch cloppen (“to make a clopping sound”), of onomatopoeic origin. See also clap.

der

(slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.


brony

Blend of bro + pony, the earliest documented use dates to the 25th of October 2010 on the 4chan image boards.

But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."

2011 September 7, Jaime Weinman, “Men who love ‘My Little Pony’”, in Maclean's, →ISSN:

(fandom slang) A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult male.

ব্রনি

fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic


pegasister

"Bronies" and "pegasisters," as some fans are called, point to the quality of animation and humor as what makes the series enjoyable.

2011, Christina Belisle, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic review, Reporter, 30 September 2011, page 9

The group included four "Pegasisters," as the small minority of female bronies sometimes call themselves in this male-dominated world.

2011 November 5, Vauhni Vara, Ann Zimmerman, “Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! Guys' Interest Mounts in Girly TV Show”, in The Wall Street Journal:

“I’d say 80 percent of my friends are into it,” says the “pegasister,” slang for a female fan. “My dorm loves it. We get together to watch the shows, and we eat and laugh.”

2012 January 11, Reed Tucker, “Horsing around!”, in New York Post:

(slang) A female fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult.


brohoof

From bro + hoof, by analogy with brofist.

R.S. wears the gear to signal that he’s into ponies, he says. When he’s on campus, he’ll meet other fans and maybe even receive “a random brohoof on the street,” he says. (A brohoof is like a fist bump. A fist bump is like . . . oh, forget it.)

2012 April 6, Melody Wilson, “D.C. ‘bronies’ feel the love and friendship of ‘My Little Pony’”, in The Washington Post:

While other people look on with confused and strange looks, bronies are free to talk about a great show and brohoof all day long (A brohoof is a fist pump between bronies and/or pegasistahs).

2012, David C. Benson, "It's Okay to be a Brony", The Clock (Plymouth State University), Volume 57, Issue 20, Volume 57, 27 April 2012, page 11

My Little Pony is redefining manhood and that deserves a brohoof.

2014 March 19, Hugh Johnson, “Of bronies and men: Rethinking manliness”, in The Denver Post:

(My Little Pony fandom slang) A fist bump shared between fellow bronies to represent pony hooves.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Generation Five (“the fifth generation of the My Little Pony toy franchise, known as A New Generation”).


bronydom

Over the past two years the rising tide of adult male fans of the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" cartoon has swept upon the shores of the internet. Forums, Facebook, YouTube and pop culture conventions alike have been caught up by bronydom.

2013, Sean Gleason, "Bronies: Who Are They?!", The Pinion (McKinley High School, Honolulu, Hawaii), Volume 92, Number 4, February 2013, page 4

Like many other subcultures considered perverse by much of the general public, bronydom has its roots in the infamous website 4chan.org.

Though there are some female bronies (some call themselves “pegasisters”), bronydom — at its core — is simply about just being kind and having fun.

2014, Leah Sottile, "Imaginary Friends", Inlander, Volume 21, Number 43, 14 August 2014 - 20 August 2014, page 26

(fandom slang) The community or culture of bronies.


anypony

From any + pony, by analogy with anybody.

As I said, I'm writing a fanfic. I need to know if anypony in particular ~doesn't~ want to be in it.

1998 October 1, Jennifer McMichael, “I'm writing a fanfic....”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

As stated before, if anypony would like one, the cost is $15 plus shipping.

1999 August 17, luv...@geocities.com [username], “My MLP T-shirt”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

Heyas, I finally got around to drawing a pic of my unicorn self, if anypony wants to see it and let me know if it could use some changes before I get to the coloring of it.

1999 October 29, Pouncer [username], “Pouncer Drawing, not colored yet”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):


everypony

From every + pony, by analogy with everybody.

Hi everypony! I'm back from Germany and my luck held out! You'd never believe what I found!

1998 July 13, Buckbuddy [username], “Back from Germany”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

why don't a^([sic]) draw a picture of everypony on the newsgroup, in their pony selves!

1998 September 6, Glory, “say cheese!”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

Thanks so very much EVERYPONY! I really appreciate this! I was so stumped!!

1999 September 14, Michelle, “Re: Wanna help name a custom?”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

(My Little Pony fandom slang) Everybody.


clopper

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Considering that a significant percentage of bronies are closeted, and taking into account the stigma attached to such practices, it is fair to assume that the real "clopper" population is likely far larger.

2013 September 9, Thomas Raethel, “The Mysterious World of Bronies”, in Critic, number 22, University of Otago, page 33:

One clopper recently gained quite a bit of notoriety on the Internet by revealing just how far his obsession with the show had gone.

2013, Katrina Gardner, "Big Boys, Little Ponies", The Express (Las Positas College), Volume 24, Number 19, 5 April 2013, page 4

Alexander Carlsson, 25, was jailed in Sanford, Florida, in August on federal child pornography charges, but also told agents that he is a "clopper," which identifies him, he said, as one who masturbates while gazing at figurines and pictures depicting Hasbro's My Little Pony toys.

2015 September 18, Chuck Shepard, “News Of The Weird”, in Santa Monica Daily Press, volume 14, number 266, page 13:

(My Little Pony fandom slang) One who engages in clopping.


From MLP (abbreviation of My Little Pony).

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
w:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Abbreviation of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.


bronyism

Tens of thousands of adults around the globe have been drawn into the land of Equetria—into bronyism.

2013, Drew McLachlan, "Nothing phony behind bronies", The Navigator (Vancouver Island University), Volume 44, Issue 12, 6 March 2013 - 19 March 2013, page 9

My introduction to Bronyism brought me out of, as mentioned prior, a very dark place.

2013, Will Martin, "Proud To Be A Brony: How My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Changed My Life", Summer/Fall 2013, page 10

The Bronies like to challenge their skeptics to just watch one episode – you never know when your Bronyism might come out.

2013 August 15, Audra Stamp, “Pony Tales: An unexpected fandom”, in North Texas Daily, University of North Texas:

(fandom slang) The community, culture, or philosophy of bronies.


MLP

abbreviation of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic


Mane Six

(fandom slang) A fan nickname for the six main characters in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Mane Five

My Little Pony: A New Generation or G5 main characters


PMV

en-noun

PMV (countable and uncountable, plural PMVs)

On the other side, there are thousands of pony videos on sites like Youtube,^([sic]) including mashups with movies, fan-made show-quality animations with original voice acting, and Pony Music Videos or “PMVs” which sync up clips from the show with popular music.

2013 April, Peter Berg, “My Little Pony takes Internet by storm”, in Young D.C., archived from the original on 2013-12-09, page 7:

For Chris, this problem was not resolved through disassociating from fandom, but rather through fan content itself. Browsing pony music videos (PMVs) on YouTube, he recalled that ‘one of the PMVs actually had a Christian song under it, which literally had the message: ‘“Even if you can’t . . . Even if you can’t bring me anything thenI still don’t look down on you and love you”. And I could only hear that because I was watching PMVs.’

2019, Andrew Crome, “Cosplay in the pulpit and ponies at prayer: Christian faith and lived religion in wider fan culture”, in Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal, volume 20, number 2, page 139:

I am a PMV artist that has won several PMV contests from various conventions such as BronyCon, contributed in many ways to the PMV sub-community, and have worked with the likes of Sawtooth Waves and Ponies the Anthology.

2021, Daspacepony, Midair Pony Fair: Con Book:

Initialism of pony music video. (A fan-made music video of clips from My Little Pony animated cartoon TV shows).


anti-pegasister

(fandom slang) An adult female anti-fan of the animated television series, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.


anti-brony

(fandom slang) An anti-fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult male.


clopfic

‘Shipping’ (imagined romantic entanglements between characters) and ‘clop-fic’ (erotic narratives) are two common genres in the fan fiction of the Brony community.

2013, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, “Of ponies and men: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Brony fandom”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 1:

For example, some members of the MLP: FiM fandom create fan works that sexualize the ponies, such as clopfic fanfiction and fanart.

2018, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities, page 46:

Pony fanfiction is common, with “clop-fic” delving into erotic tales.

2018 April, Dale Peeples, Jennifer Yen, Paul Weigle, “Geeks, Fandoms, and Social Engagement”, in Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clincs, volume 27, number 2, page 264:

(My Little Pony fandom slang) Erotic fanfiction based on My Little Pony.


ponysona

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My ponysona is Heartbeat Bubbles, and she is red and green and follows Fluttershy around and is kind to all animals.

2013, "Naked As A Jaybird", "Brony Porn 4 Lyfe", The Muffington Post (satirical newspaper of the University of Alberta), 17 April 2013, page 13

Forty-six per cent of Bronies have an OC, 39 per cent have a Ponysona, which is typically the first OC they create.

2016, Pavol Kosnáč, “The development of spirituality in the Brony community”, in Carole M. Cusack, Pavol Kosnáč, editors, Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From Popular Culture to Religion, unnumbered page:

An interactive session into learning how to create your own ponysona with LilyScribbles; […]

(My Little Pony fandom slang) A pony alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan.


facehoof

From face + hoof, by analogy with facepalm.

(My Little Pony fandom slang) A facepalm.


facehoof

en-verb

facehoof (third-person singular simple present facehoofs, present participle facehoofing, simple past and past participle facehoofed)

facehoofs (present singular third-person)
facehoofing (participle present)
facehoofed (participle past)
facehoofed (past)

(My Little Pony fandom slang) to facepalm.


bronyspeak

Brony communities invented ‘bronyspeak’ and use codes of community-enforced niceness so that ‘nopony’ has to suffer social rejection.

2013 April 7, Jon Coumes, “What Do Men's Rights Activists and Bronies Have in Common?”, in The American Prospect:

This playful "ponyspeak" is innocent and easy to decode, but it inspired the much more vernacular "bronyspeak," a hybrid of this official wordplay with oral urban slang.

2015, Bill Ellis, "What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet", Journal of American Folklore, Volume 128, Number 509, Summer 2015

In the Brony fandom, despite referencing phrases and catch phrases from the show, the bronies have created a separate language, Bronyspeak.

2016, Nicolai Puggaard Hansen, "Fandom In The Digita; Age: An Exploration of Value Co-Creation in Online Fan Communities", thesis submitted to Copenhagen Business School, page 53

(fandom slang) The special slang used within the brony community.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Generation Four (“the fourth generation of the My Little Pony toy franchise, sometimes known as Friendship is Magic”).


somepony

From some + pony, by analogy with somebody.

I messaged somepony over Tumblr last night / She said "RAWR X3" so it's true love at first sight

2021, Vylet Pony (lyrics and music), “ANTONYMPH”, in CUTIEMARKS (And The Things That Bind Us):


Mordetwi

(fandom slang) The crackship of characters Mordecai from Regular Show and Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.


My Little Pony

The original My Little Pony toys were smaller versions of an earlier series of toys, My Pretty Pony.

An American toy and cartoon media-franchise based on anthropomorphic equines.


ponify

ponify (third-person singular simple present ponifies, present participle ponifying, simple past and past participle ponified)

ponifies (present singular third-person)
ponifying (participle present)
ponified (participle past)
ponified (past)

(transitive, Internet slang) to turn an existing character into a My Little Pony-style cartoon equine.