polo pony
2
5.2
- noun
- /ˈpoʊloʊ ˈpoʊni/
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polo pony
- I can buy polo ponies.
Examples
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If you fellas are ever out in horse country shopping for a polo pony, you'll look me up, right?
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A few members wandered in, but it was a pleasant Saturday afternoon, and most Pelicanites were in pools or the ocean, on fairways and courts, or perhaps astride a polo pony out at Wellington.
Fiction book (1992) -
Your polo pony's in great shape.
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You've fallen off so many polo ponies that your brain is scrambled.
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The club provides excellent facilities for training your polo pony.
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Every player needs a well-bred polo pony to excel on the field.
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She groomed her polo pony carefully before the big match.
How Agile
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally transparent: 'polo' names the sport and 'pony' names a small horse, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a pony used for polo. This head–modifier noun pattern (purpose/type) is common cross-linguistically, making the meaning predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Polo pony comes from the game polo and the word pony, because players used small, quick horses that could turn fast on the field. So polo pony means 'a small, fast horse trained to play polo'.