pong

«pong» in Mova's school dictionary: a strong, unpleasant smell — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pong — UK, Australia, NZ, informal; Pong — a game); verb (pong, pongs, ponged, ponging)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, informal) A pong is a strong, unpleasant smell. tree →

2) (UK, informal) To pong is to smell bad. tree →

3) Pong is one of the first video games, a simple tennis-like game from the early days of computers. tree →

4) «Ping-pong» is table tennis. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday British and Australian talk, «What a pong!» or «Your trainers pong!» is a jokey way to say something stinks; adjective «pongy». In history-of-computers lessons, Pong was an early arcade game with two paddles and a ball. In PE, ping-pong is another name for table tennis.

examples

• What a pong! Who left the bin open? tree →
• Your football socks pong. tree →
• The fish market had a terrible pong. tree →
• The cheese ponged out the whole fridge. tree →
• Pong was one of the first video games. tree →
• We played ping-pong at the youth club. tree →
• The changing room is a bit pongy. tree →

note

Informal, not rude, mostly UK, Australia and NZ; Americans say «stink». Regular verb: ponged. Adjective: pongy.

In the corpora

• Fresh sweat hardly smells; it is the tiny bacteria that eat it that make the pong.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pong» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.