pongy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈpɔŋi/ (General-American)
- /ˈpɒŋi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From pong + -y.
Meanings
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(Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal) Having a bad smell.
Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
2005, James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children!, page 2:2001, Ken Campbell, Home, in John O′Connor, Scripts and Sketches, Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79, Look, they′ve even put a pair of old pongy socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit pongier than I remembered. But mind you, they would get pongier over the week.
In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.
2010, Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent, page 57:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pongiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| pongier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |