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Pongy

//ˈpɒŋi// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a bad smell. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal

    "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."

Etymology

From pong + -y.

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