pong
See also: Pong
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)
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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