Spot the Frippet: pony.

 Here's a nice hard-working word: pony.

You might be able to find one of these:

Shetland pony (though this one iss on Dartmoor, confusingly). Photo by Miles Wolstenholme

in a field near you, but if not there are other kinds.

In Britain, a pony is the sum of £25, especially if it's being used as a bet.

Or it can be a small drinking glass, the small kind often used for liqueurs:

Or, a pony can be a literal translation of a foreign text, used by cheating (or lazy) students.

If you can't find any of these ponies then you'll almost certainly be able to spot the back end of a pony, at least, namely its tail:

photo by nerissa's ring

In fact, with so many hairdressers locked down, you can probably make one of your own.

Spot the Frippet: pony. This word is Scottish. Where it came from before that is a bit of a mystery, but there's a French word poulenet, which means a little colt, from poulain, colt, from the Latin word pullus, which means a young animal.