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pongy

/ˈpɒŋi/ UK
/ˈpɔŋi/ US

Rhymes with -ɒŋi

adjective pongier · pongiest

Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal Having a bad smell. 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

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@misc{pongy_2026,
  title = {pongy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pongy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}