pong
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)A stench, a bad smell.
1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109, She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’
2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page, ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn′t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
- 2.
(networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
- 3.
(alt of, alternative)(mahjong) Alternative form of pung.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)To stink, to smell bad.
1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97, On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page, The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.
2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page, […] and this evening, Eileen Perkins′s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.
- 2.
(derogatory, slang)(slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
- 3.
(intransitive, slang)(slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
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Probably from rom pan to stink.