Ponging
[pong, pawng] /pɒŋ, pɔŋ/ British Informal.
noun
1.
an unpleasant smell; stink.
verb (used without object)
2.
to have a disagreeable smell; stink.
/pɒŋ/
noun
1.
a disagreeable or offensive smell; stink
verb
2.
(intransitive) to give off an unpleasant smell; stink
n.
by late 1960s as an abbreviation of ping-pong. The electronic arcade game (with capital P-) was released 1972.
noun
A Chinese or a person of Chinese extraction (1906+ Australian)
noun
A smell; a stink: when I catch that pong in the air
[1919+; origin unknown; perhaps fr Romany pan, ”stink”]
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