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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).
Noun[edit]
pong (plural pongs)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
- 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,
- She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’
- 2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,
- ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn′t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
- 2009, Martin Fine, The Devil′s Fragrance, page 109:
- If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.
- 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
bad smell
Verb[edit]
pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
- 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,
- On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
- 2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
- The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.
- 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 63:
- “ […] That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn′t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”
- 2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,
- […] and this evening, Eileen Perkins′s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.
- 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,
- (slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
- (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
- 2016, Jim Davis, European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900:
- […] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as "ponging."
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Etymology 2[edit]
From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.
Noun[edit]
pong (plural pongs)
- (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
pong (plural pongs)
See also[edit]
Garo[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
pong
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Hokkien 碰 (phòng). Compare English pung, Japanese 碰 (pon), Mandarin 碰 (pèng), Cantonese 碰 (pung3).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pong (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜅ᜔)
- (mahjong) pung (a set of three identical tiles)
- (playground games) the word that the tagged it says when catching a playmate, as in the game of hide and seek
Further reading[edit]
- “pong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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