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I ran across the word pongy, which is apparently a Briticism. Among one-look dictionaries, it's mentioned only in the ever-reliable Wikipedia. Can any of you east-ponders comment on the meaning and prevalence? | ||
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Well pong is smell and is used as a noun or a verb. There's a right pong in here. That pongs a bit. Pongy, the adjectival form, is less common but is nevertheless still quite widely used in certain parts of the country. Cor, that's a bit pongy. Is that the meaning you gleaned from wikipedia? "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I've never heard the word before, but I like it. From the OED Online:
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I love it! I'll have to find a use for it tomorrow. As far as I knew, Pong was simply the first TV video game. Did anyone else have one of those Pong sets? We used to play for hours. My parents have a picture of my sister and I, with bad "shag" haircuts, slack-jawed, staring at the television with the pong controls in our hands. LOL ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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I wanted to use this word the other day and suddenly realized I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Is it a soft g like a j, or a hard g like at the end of pig? ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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It's a hard g as in piggy or singer. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Pong and pongy are common slang terms in NZ/Oz -always with a soft 'ng' sound. I have an English friend who pronounces the g in lots of words that we don't. She almost says son-ga. | |||
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