pong
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Is pong a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of pong?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A stench, a bad smell.Examples: "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?’"; "I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong. “I can smell gas!” I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely."; "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!’"CommonwealthIrelandUKslang
verb (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) To stink, to smell bad.Examples: "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."; "“[…]That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn′t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”"Synonyms: reek, smell, stinkCommonwealthIrelandUKslang
2. (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.derogatoryslang
3. (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.Examples: "[…] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as "ponging.""intransitiveslang
noun (English)
1. (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
noun (English)
1. (mahjong) Alternative form of pung.alt-ofalternative
name (English)
1. (video games) An early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.Examples: "A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich!"; "If the US invades Iraq, we'll see action all right, much more than we witnessed with the primitive Pong-ish effects delivered during Gulf War 1.0,"; "The paddle controllers are necessary for playing Pong-style contests, and since two paddles share one controller input you can easily play doubles Pong with an extra set of paddles."
Definition source: Wiktionary