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Pongy means (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Having a bad smell..
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/ˈpɒŋi/ · adjective
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, 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, they would get pongier over the week.
Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.
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Pongy means (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Having a bad smell..
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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.
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